Carolyn Prouse
Associate Professor, Geography and Planning, Queen's University. Anti-colonial urbanist and economic geographer. Lover of food, fiction, wine, and sport.
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- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseBIAD is baaaaaaack! And this #MilanoCortina2026 Winter Olympics preview is pure🔥. Great to hear the entire team back in action: @shireenahmed.bsky.social @amirarose.bsky.social @brendaelsey.bsky.social @jessicawluther.com & @lindsaygibbs.bsky.social They haven't missed a beat.
- Destination #MilanoCortina2026 ✨🏔️ Part 1 of Burn It All Down’s 2026 Winter Olympics preview is out! The fab five dive into the key storylines you might have missed ahead of the Games. Also, some updates about the future of the show (the Kickstarter is now live!). www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jlZ...
- Reposted by Carolyn Prousei had imposter syndrome trying to talk about fascism alongside Alberto Toscano, but i'm glad i did coz it was an incredibly generative conversation that helped distill & crystallize my own thoughts about fascism worldwide today & it's differentiations from the past. www.tni.org/en/article/l...
- Reposted by Carolyn Prousewww.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/... “ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is supporting the US Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service and host nation to vet and mitigate risks from transnational criminal organisations,” the agency said in a statement.' The IOC's militarised spectacle
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseSince so many people are fangirling over Carney's supposed "historic" speech in Davos, I want to offer an alternative reading. This is not left cynicism, but a sober reading of imperial positioning in this moment. 1) Carney squarely positioned Canada as a middle power.
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseEp. 171: Trump and the FIFA Clusterf*uck We are joined by @privaricate.bsky.social to discuss the absurd FIFA Peace Prize and the political economy and geopolitics of how the FIFA World Cup will unfold against the backdrop of US depravity at home and abroad. open.spotify.com/episode/6vYt...
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseA great opportunity for those doing co-production work with urban communities.
- ⏰ Reminder: Urban Urgencies funding call now open There’s still time to apply for the Urban Urgencies grant from the Urban Studies Foundation — supporting rapid, collaborative research on pressing urban challenges worldwide. 🗓️ Deadline: 23 March 2026 (23:59 UTC). 🔗 ow.ly/FUIn50XGtgz
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseThrilled to share this new article co-authored w/ Abbie Hardcastle on 'The Everyday Geographies of Cryptocurrency: crypto-masculinities, crypto-futures, and gendered financial subjectivities.' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseBe our colleague… Hiring an Assistant Prof of Urban Geography & Climate Crisis. www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseAnother "plan" for Gaza with the same visual aesthetic as all Network State dystopias. Beware tech fascist billionaires bearing promises of AI-enhanced abundance. Gift Link: U.S Pitches Project Sunrise to Turn Gaza Into High-Tech Metropolis www.wsj.com/world/middle...
- Yesterday, QUFA members voted in favour of divesting our pension from weapons!! This is a HUGE victory and testament to months of organizing. It’s just a first step - we’re only one union in the larger multi-institutional University Pension Plan - but it’s a massive one. 🍉 ✨
- Very excited for Queen’s FA to join University of Toronto and Trent University’s FAs, alongside multiple CUPE and USW locals at UofT, to push for UPP divestment. More on the Workers’ Campaign for Divestment here: divestmyupp.ca
- Reposted by Carolyn Prousethe university is not too broke for this i guess www.newswire.ca/news-release...
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseWhat a great piece! This just gets better and better as you read. prospect.org/2025/12/11/s...
- Reposted by Carolyn Prouse"GIS, Policing and Us" -- a brilliant resource (partly funded by the Antipode Foundation) for investigating the entanglement of Geographic Information Systems and urban policing in North America gispolicingandus.com
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseDigital sovereignty requires ripping Microsoft out of essential systems and ending reliance on its infrastructure, not allowing it to rebrand dependence as sovereignty.
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseI don't normally post FT content, but, wow, this article is excellent! Surveys a range of actors, initiatives, and critics active in this space. It can feel niche teaching about this so great to see it covered in a single article. #startupcities #blockchain #cryptobros #neoreaction #chartercities
- Reposted by Carolyn Prousewww.thenation.com/article/soci... Co-wrote with @julesboykoff.bsky.social about today's nonsense
- Reposted by Carolyn Prouse“This seems like a perfect metaphor for Queen’s. We still look like a university and act like a university, but we have lost our sense of purpose, our “soul,” our mission…
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseFaculty unions should absolutely advocate for anti-racism and decolonization, including in Palestine. To argue otherwise is to be a collaborator. (I am agreeing with this article.) www.speechaxe.com/say-it-aint-...
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseTrazendo o Lefebvre antifascista para 2025 (em português em breve). Bringing the antifascist Lefebvre to 2025. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Carolyn Prouse💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥 We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseNew essay, written for the excellent @transitionsec.bsky.social Propelled by the climatic and hegemonic transitions, military-imperial forms of state capitalism are confiscating our collective right to a safe, green, tech-powered future. transitionsecurity.org/imperial-sta... @campolis.bsky.social
- Reposted by Carolyn ProusePlease listen to this amazing episode with Stefanie Felsberger @flsbrgr.bsky.social shows.acast.com/the-data-fix...
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseOmar El Akkad, winner of the 2025 National Book Award for non-fiction for his book “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” about the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza, speaking tonight at the awards gala in New York City where he accepted the award. #NationalBookAwards
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseThoughts on #COP30: 1/ This is the first time in years delegates have been brought face to face with those on the frontline. The indigenous communities are the heroes of this COP. They refused to be silenced. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseI know people are closely following what's going on the US and the horrors of ICE, but do you know how Canada is quickly and quietly is growing its deportation machinery? Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!! Here are 5 other things to know:
- “FIFA president Gianni Infantino, who has scored more Oval Office visits with Trump this year than any world leader, came to one of his meetings bearing a 24-carat gold trophy that Infantino allowed Trump to keep. FIFA went back to Tiffany & Co. to have a replica made for the team that actually won”
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseReading this article, I am still none the wiser about what this #AI city project would actually do... #Rio has been the subject of all kinds of #smartcity experiments in the last 15 years, and none of them seem to have been of any benefit to ordinary people. www.latitudemedia.com/news/can-goo...
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseSolidarity to all colleagues @sheffielducu.bsky.social who are back on the picket lines fighting the destruction of UK higher ed!
- Yet again Sheffield University management are forcing sheffielducu.bsky.social members out on strike f/ Monday to protect staff jobs, student educ, + research progress which are under threat by major (and financially unnecessary) change management processes. Another university has to be possible!
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseAlice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseThis is pretty significant and that it’s been 11 years since they tried to build on Maunakea and Kanaka Maoli protectors have successfully impeded them is a major victory for traditional knowledge keepers and people fighting for Kanaka sovereignty. 🔭🧪 www.tmt.org/news/708
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseBreaking! Port of Vancouver being shut down. Join us! No more genocide. Shut it down.
- New article out in Annals of the American Association of Geographers! In my latest (likely last) from my human milk markets project, I tease out the conjunctural crises that have led to human milk banking as social reproductive infrastructure in South Africa. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Carolyn Prouse“Fifa is a parastate that acts like a parasite, treating World Cup hosts like its own private Vegas buffet.” 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- My latest @theguardian.com: As a genuine soccer fan & generational political talent, freshly elected NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani might be able to achieve the unthinkable: force the FIFA behemoth to share its lucre by targeting its tax exemptions & extreme privilege www.theguardian.com/football/202...
- Reposted by Carolyn Prouse🚨 NEW: The majority holder of the world's genetic sequence data is a bad actor who can cut off access to critics and competing services. We've tolerated this for years, and now it threatens the pandemic treaty. Time for WHO to step in. With @ctrlalttim.com: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/to-f...
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseLooking for a budget summary and you aren't an oligarch or the owner of a mid-sized company? Check out what the @ccpa has put together: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseThis should be the biggest news story in the world right now
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseThe Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding. As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseCan't wait to welcome surveillance scholars in Lille for #SSN2026! It will be held for the first time in 🇫🇷, hosted by @univcatholille.bsky.social with @istc.bsky.social as partner. 🌍 Planetary Surveillance 📍 Lille | 🗓️ 9–12 June 2026 📝 CfP deadline: Jan 10 🔗 lnkd.in/dacsjrgB Submit and join us!
- Reposted by Carolyn Prouse📣 Next GCSJ Seminar 🗓️ Fri 14 Nov 2025 | 12–1PM | online 🔎Rearticulating archives: still thinking with Doreen Massey — exploring how Doreen Massey’s archive invites new questions about our troubled present. Register to join the critical and creative dialogue: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rearticula...
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- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseAgainst imperialist, anti-Black narratives of “civil war” and “failed state” in Sudan, a movement resource on imperialism & counter-revolutionary war in Sudan, and how we can act in engaged solidarity with people in El-Fasher, in Darfur, and across Sudan. www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseThe government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm
- Reposted by Carolyn Prouse👇From An Ojibwe speaker, Dominic HK Beaudry @DhkBeau In Ojibwe our word for blue jay is gwiingwiish (pronounced gweeng-gweesh). Haida art by Glen Rabena.
- Reposted by Carolyn Prouse“Sonneborn + KKR appear to be typical of an investment strategy whereby donors, aided by university administrators + regents, circumvent faculty governance in order to treat uni’s like incubators or, worse, as click-farms to inflate the user data seemingly keeping the AI investment machine humming.”
- Reposted by Carolyn Prouse🌍 Between the Lines of Everyday Public Spaces Join an immersive event exploring memory, displacement & belonging in urban life — from Chennai to Istanbul. 👉 Led by Dr Nian Paul, a 2025 #USFInternationalFellow. 📅 6–7 Nov 2025 📍 UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, London 🔗 ow.ly/i6lc50XgAnF
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseCome work with me at the wonderful Center for Critical Computational Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt! You will define your own PhD project within the field of critical data and surveillance studies, with a focus on countries of the Majority World. azadeh-akbari.com/come-work-wi...
- It’s sunrise in Cape Town and, I cannot emphasize this enough, the BLUE JAYS ARE HEADED TO THE WORLD SERIES
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseAnnouncing Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ), "Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis", Toronto, 1-5 June 2026 antipodeonline.org/institute-fo... -- submit your application by 20 December 2025
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseIn solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we put together an extensive reading list about border and police abolition.
- Reposted by Carolyn ProusePls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026 Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseFinal reminder for anyone in #Ottawa, Wednesday October 15th... We have this fabulous event on rethinking our futures with Quinn Slobodian, @ohalpern.bsky.social, @ayonadatta.bsky.social and Nick Couldry. Registration is still open and we have a few places left! www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...
- Watching Jays demolish Yankees in the postseason is my current favourite pastime ⚾️ 🙌🏻 💙
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseAmnesty International sent a letter this morning calling on FIFA and UEFA to suspend Israel from football competitions. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
- Reposted by Carolyn ProuseA recording of the Long Arc of Fascism panel discussion on "Fascism as Capitalist Counter-Revolution" with Brenna Bhandar, Avery Everhart, Gastón Gordillo and Alberto Toscano, chaired by Naomi Klein (April 19, 2025). www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCK1...
- Excellent piece in the National Post on university consultation firms and their insidious templates for austerity in higher ed. For more from our ‘well-organized anti-austerity movement at Queen’s’ check out qcaa.ca
- Great long-form journalism on how Nous consultants have hawked their standardized, corporate model of universities to a willing class of managerial administrators: "You can’t just blame the vampire. Their victims invited their own fate and paid handsomely for it." nationalpost.com/feature/how-...
- New piece in here on AI, infectious disease surveillance, and technofascism. It covers Palantir in the NHS, Alphabet’s mosquito sex sorting, and BlueDot’s disease forecasting, arguing for a dialectical approach to these companies’ logics. Looking forward to seeing the full issue later this year!
- If you would like a sneak peek at our special issue on Authoritarianism in the Digital Age, have a look at some of the commentaries that have come out already in OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/home/DDS
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