Jonathan | terrefej.bsky.social

political ecology, urban greening, displacement | views my own

[Gary Younge @garyyounge]

"When people talk about the need for Black Excellence I counter with an insistence on Black mediocrity: the right for black people to be as average, flawed, compromised & mistaken as any other group of people. The right, ultimately, to be human." R.I.P. Jason Arday

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

Ha-Joon Chang once told me that trying to learn about political economy and economic history in an economics department is like trying to learn about atheism in the Catholic church.

He captured how I had been feeling my entire undergrad, stuck in an economics department.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

Here's my take on this year's Nobel prize in economics.

I highlight that it exposes how the economics discipline fails to ask critical questions about colonialism, imperialism and the universality of western institutions.

https://t.co/PVSHQPwPxM

[Simon Allison @simonallison]

More on Gates and the bitter fight over African farmland: "The most influential figure in this debate is not an African farmer or leader, but a US software engineer who has not worked a field in his life – although he does own quite a few"
https://t.co/4k3PVqCR37

[Biniam Girmay @GrmayeBiniam]

Let me open the door.

[alula pankhurst @alulapan]

Addis Abeba’s urban makeover: Progress or peril for its residents? https://t.co/k1o8ZAYggT via @Addisstandard

[Paul Gilroy @bungatuffie]

I recall his kindness. Ride on King. https://t.co/bsqLEkZueN

[Jonathan | terrefej.bsky.social @TerrefeJ]

London today ⤵️

[Jonathan | terrefej.bsky.social @TerrefeJ]

Yep! ‘Resilience’ has a masking effect and often implies the need for historically marginalised groups to ‘endure’

[Jonathan | terrefej.bsky.social @TerrefeJ]

High rejection rates for African applicants, and now an increase in already absurdly expensive fees. UK visa policy doesn’t drop the ball when it comes to being crooked and exploitative.
https://t.co/nupaPclOMq

[Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa @AfricaAtLSE]

The Schengen visa rejection rate is high for African countries.

How can #Europe make it easier for Africans to get #visas?

https://t.co/1IffwNrGHb

[Jonathan | terrefej.bsky.social @TerrefeJ]

@Okwonga 🤝🏾

[Jonathan | terrefej.bsky.social @TerrefeJ]

Greening as 'planning orthodoxy', indeed. Looking forward to reading this. https://t.co/cmy2XQl99r

[Bola Mosuro @BolaMosuro]

After over 60 yrs #BBCFocusonAfrica 📻 will cease to be live on the airwaves. From Monday it'll be a podcast.
I started in the days of the late greats, Chris Bickerton & Kwabena Mensah and I treasure being part of the teams that lovingly produced Focus for millions over the years

[Jonathan | terrefej.bsky.social @TerrefeJ]

“The Nakba wasn’t a sudden disaster, nor is it a tragic relic from the past. It didn’t begin or end in 1948. Rather, it is a planned, organized, and, most important, an ongoing process of ethnic cleansing.”

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

Though this ongoing catastrophe feels relentless, it's important to note that it is not inevitable. It has a culprit: Zionism, and to talk about the Nakba, one must talk about Zionism.

Read the full essay here:
https://t.co/qbTZ6xiWmi

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

Though this ongoing catastrophe feels relentless, it's important to note that it is not inevitable. It has a culprit: Zionism, and to talk about the Nakba, one must talk about Zionism.

Read the full essay here:
https://t.co/qbTZ6xiWmi

[Jonathan | terrefej.bsky.social @TerrefeJ]

“It’s humiliating to work there. Stealing our land has made us hate Heineken, but we’re even angrier at the government. They evicted us and gave our land away.” https://t.co/HtkHuz5gAq

[Jonathan | terrefej.bsky.social @TerrefeJ]

@marcodinu @AfricaOxfordUni @LeverhulmeTrust @africahubuob Will there also be an online stream?

[Jonathan | terrefej.bsky.social @TerrefeJ]

Nicely captures the discord of many green infrastructure schemes: ‘the creation of a false dichotomy between ecosystems and renewable energy development […] pits environmental protections against social and economic justice.’

[Hillary Angelo @hiangelo]

Is anyone still here? If so, I have an announcement - something new for me - this piece in @Harpers that looks at the use of public lands for renewable energy development and questions whether we should. https://t.co/OPkmAXkBZh

[Jonathan | terrefej.bsky.social @TerrefeJ]

On city schemes like Eko-Atlantic: ‘They suck in all of the available public resource for infrastructure and innovation. And it means that nothing is being attended to, in terms of the ‘real’ cities that already exist where the majority of people live’ https://t.co/Gb5Xz8aQ5z

[IJURR.org @IJURResearch]

We invite you to join IJURR & @LSEGeography for an online forum on 7th Dec at 3pm (GMT) with @LizaCirolia, @dmasafo, @PrinceGuma, @cgastrow, @AY_urbfutures
& Wangui Kimari (@UrbanAfricaACC) to discuss Africa’s Urban Futures. Full info & registration here: https://t.co/H1xcoqgMjl