Jon Silver

We are launching our GlobalCORRIDOR Atlas today, alongside our project website....as part of our ERC funded project This beta version features dozens of corridors, hundreds of infrastructure projects, nearly a trillion dollars of investment. globalcorridor.eu/atlas

Call for Papers AAG 2027 // NYC Critical Geographies of the Infrastructure Corridor globalcorridor.eu/news/cfp-aag... Alan Wiig + I are excited to bring together a dialogue centring corridors in geographic scholarship + debate. Please do circulate and think about submitting a paper

Call for Expressions of Interest: Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships at the Urban Institute. We invite proposals from postgraduates who wish to pursue rigorous, innovative research in urban studies that aligns with our current research activities. sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

Out now: GlobalCORRIDOR #14 'Mapping the Corridor Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative' The BRI is a world transforming vision but info on its six corridors remains unclear so we've assembled routes + $551.7 billion of infra projects See here: globalcorridor.substack.com/p/globalcorr...

Excited to participate in this GlobalCORRIDOR event organised by Catherine Ngahu in Nairobi. Join us in person/online for some great talks on global infrastructure projects in East Africa on Tues 26th May biea.ac.uk/events/globa...

Today, online lecture. Open to all "Reapproaching extended urbanization in the Brazilian Amazonia" by Roberto Monte-Mor sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

Global Corridor newsletter #12 "Bomb/Blockade/Bypass" is focused on the emerging geographies of the infrastructural blockade and attempts at establishing bypass infrastructures. globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

We've worked with the Geographical Association to develop some school learning materials for A-Level students to think through financialisation, displacement, gentrification etc 'Post-industrial urban change in the UK: A Manchester case study' geography.org.uk/resources/po...

I have a new short piece out in Environment and Planning A journal 'The multipolarity and geo-politics of climate finance' A response to Bryant and Webber's (amazing) book: Climate Finance: Taking a Position on Climate Futures journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Continuing focus on the global infrastructural geographies of the illegal US/Israeli attack on Iran. globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

Global Corridor Newsletter #11 is out Continuing analysis of the infrastructural geographies of the US/Israeli war on Iran... 'A war on water is a war on life, damaged oil and gas infrastructures, the 'blockade', UAE air hub's uncertain future' globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

Last shout out to join us for tomorrow's workshop, from 2pm at Site Gallery, Sheffield 'Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization; sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

Excited to be hosting a book talk by Austin Zeiderman in Sheffield on his book 'Artery: Racial Ecologies on Colombia’s Magdalena River' - 23rd March More details inc link to Open Access copy of his book here 👇 sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

The Infrastructural Geography of the US/Israel War on Iran… …From data centres to logistical bottlenecks, supply chains to real estate markets, shipping to petroleum networks globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

A new phase of warfare / destroy the data centre, destroy the cloud, destroy the capacity of the enemy to operate More on the infrastructural geographies of the Israel/US attack on Iran here: globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

My Global Corridor Newsletter 10 is out now The Infrastructural Geography of the US/Israel War of Iran Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf real estate economy shattered?, Oil and gas crisis, data centre wars, Indian port investors + more globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

My Global Corridor Newsletter 10 is out now The Infrastructural Geography of the US/Israel War of Iran Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf real estate economy shattered?, Oil and gas crisis, data centre wars, Indian port investors + more globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

✒️How do financing models reshape politics and spatial effects of infrastructure? Comparing two projects in Kenya, I show how G2G-PPP redistributes risk and control and essentially, who benefits. Please check out my new article in @urbanstudiesjournal.com: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Israeli and US attack on Iran is morally repugnant. It is calculated only to benefit an elite of racist, Islamophobic warmongers. It will not benefit Iranians or ordinary people anywhere on earth. We must build the grassroots capacity to interrupt the war machine or things will only get darker.

A big wk in beating back the Far Right in Manchester with massive antifascist mobilisation taking on Britain First while a broad left electoral front working with/in Green Party dominate Reform A clear roadmap on the streets + in the polls against the Fascist future in the UK

'Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization' Excited to be involved in this event in Sheffield (12 March) at the Site Gallery inc film screening, book launch + panel discussion w/ @nitin-bathla.bsky.social, Junia Mortimer and more More info here: sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

My GlobalCORRIDOR newsletter 9 is out now Featuring.... New Horn of Africa corridor, the 'Lobito model', Alphabet's digital $15 billion investment in India, EXIM Bank's outstanding $289bn loans, new maritime based readings, data centre film globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come

We have a new paper in @ijurresearch.bsky.social ‘ 'EVERYTHING IS BEING DISTURBED’: Unsettling the Spaces of Global Infrastructure along the Northern Corridor Special economic zones, railway projects + more with Sydney Nsubuga onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Lots of new excitement about the 'Manchester model' but it's built an extractive economy that benefits capital, not labour. Read our data-led report "Centripetal Cities A critique of supply-side urban development" - t.co/Dec4wIkGGe

Catch up on my Global Corridor newsletter #8 featuring... US races for DRC minerals, return of the Trans-Saharan pipeline? JD Vance’s TRIPP, tensions on the Panama canal, Italian tunnels, riding the Mauritania Railway, Silicon Elsewhere + Lunar roads 👉 tinyurl.com/5x64u25w

Global Corridor newsletter #8 is out now featuring... US races for DRC minerals, the return of the Trans-Saharan pipeline? JD Vance’s TRIPP, more tensions on the Panama canal, Italian train tunnels, Mauritania Railway, Silicon Elsewhere and Lunar roads lnkd.in/duf4gE4K

Global Corridor newsletter 7 is out now featuring... New book on the Belt and Road Initiative, Burkina's revolutionary road, Destiny, a new special economic zone in the Caribbean, Foster design transport hub in Poland, Venezuelan oil, Pakistani railways globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

I've joined Caitlin Morrissey and Michele Acuto to record an episode for season 2 of the Urban Studies Journal podcast Walking the City With... You can listen here www.urbanstudiesjournal.com/podcast/8-wa...

New Film/Report on Pakistani Railway Infrastructure/CPEC FILM: "Tarakiyati Kaam Jari Hai/Developmental Work in Progress" by Zainab Farid REPORT: "Navigating Displacement + Inequality along the ML-1 Railway Corridor" by Toheed Mohammed 👉 karachiurbanlab.com/assets/downl... youtu.be/njSGg_OqY5s?...

Launch event at the Karachi Urban Lab for a new film and report on railway led displacements in urban Pakistan as part of our Global Corridor project. Community members, activists, and researchers will discuss how big infrastructure projects hit up against everyday lives. Register via the QR code

The 'Manchester Model' in one story...public money subsidising private profit Renaker borrowed £700+ million from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) + its affiliates to build high end skyscapers... Now it's owner is fleeing with the profits to tax-free Monaco

Global Corridor newsletter 6 is out now covering... BlackRock’s $80bn investment in power/data, Africa's largest mining project, podcast on the global infra race, Dutch semiconductor move, docker struggles in history, special economic zone urbanism... globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

In early 2025, the Israeli military launched an operation that emptied three Palestinian refugee camps. They've blocked their residents from returning and razed many of their homes. In a new report, HRW finds that Israeli forces carried out war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

Publication Day for our Open Access book w/ Bristol Uni Press "The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures + Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road" Edited w/ Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng + Alan Wiig Link here >> bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...

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!

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!

Great to be on the latest episode of the Urban Radar podcast talking about the global infrastructure race, corridors, transforming urban geographies, China and more with Zhengli, Linda and hosted by Tom/Beth Have a listen!

SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share www.change.org/p/save-geogr...

Glad we have such critical journalism in Manchester

Announcing 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

A reminder that Sudanese activists inc in Manchester have been calling to boycott the UAE, now even more vital given the UAE backed RSF militia captures El Fasher War crimes + blood on the hands of Abu Dhabi + the UAE More info: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...