Johan Pries

Hey, it’s the official release day for Seeing Like a Supply Chain! And of course I’m swamped with grading and lesson-planning, but maybe I can say a little about the book and the process of researching it. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Be that guy.

"I agree with all that... "

On Tuesday 6 October, Jamie Peck, University Killam Professor in the Department of Geography, University of British Columbia and fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, will hold a seminar in our dept on "Conjunctural geographies?". More info: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

great stuff happening in Lund tomorrow: a public lecture at the Faculty of Humanities, by Sciences Po professor Jonathan Levy, on his ongoing book project on the history of money! www.lusem.lu.se/calendar/lec...

On the evening that Elif Eralp won the Berlin mayoral race with a Mamdani-style campaign, I arrive in NYC for an event hosted by Mayor Mamdani and am welcomed at the hotel by my first review copy of «Anti-fascist Economics». 🌹

Ben Anderson will present recent work with the title "Unfeeling the climate crisis: Disaffection and the politics of intensity" at Human Geography in Lund in a few weeks. Don't miss out if you are in the neighbourhood an interested in affect and politics. Oct 8th, "världen" room 14.15-16.00

This (Open Access) article is finally published: "EPISTEMIC EXTRACTIVISM IN ENGAGED URBAN AND HOUSING RESEARCH: Implications and Counter-measures" International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 50(5): 1366-1383. doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Just read Felicity James' "Wild Essay" intervention, and I'm adding this to the assigned materials for all my classes. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

After years of bureaucratic manoeuvres, The Lund University Dept of Human Geography Social Theory and Space Network is here www.keg.lu.se/en/social-th... This fall we will read Trevor Paglen's How to see like a Machine and Polanyi's The Great Transformation. Reading groups open to students and staff

As ever I would point out that this is good landscape management and there is nothing 'wild' about it and until we stop calling it 'rewilding' people will continue to operate with the ludicrous romantic assumption that 'nature' is self-healing and that human intervention is bad.

Swedish interwar Co-operative movement posters, from a time when co-ops were a key pillar of social democracy and the labor movement. Photographs from ongoing auction at "Wickmans". Was going to make a bid for the urban development one, but they are not looking like they will be cheap...

Unsere neuen Michel-Foucault-Badeschlappen (shrk.vg/Badeschlappe...) haben es in die FAZ geschafft!

Came across this stunning photograph of Lund's 1938 public baths in goodwill bargain book from 1950. Quite the milestone in the local spatial politics of public luxury that was rolled out as social democratic welfare planing in the postwar era. The architects were Hans Westman with Tor Andersson.

Taking a break from taking to discuss antifascist geography tomorrow, in this @rgs.org pre-conference webinar hosted by the political geography research group and organized by Ichamati Mousamputri. Signup still free and open, for those interested in the topic: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

🚨Emergency podcast🚨

The Coca Cola-Palestine Cola dialectics. (Malmö, 2026)

Edman brutalism/People's Park/Queer theory cross-over book chapter with incredible smart postdoc Alva Zalar just published and available open access, if that's not too niche... In TU Wien crew book called "Unvoiced Heritage Queerfeminist: Care for Tabooed Spaces" repositum.tuwien.at/bitstream/20...

#DataCenters You know what to do.

Infrastructure and sustainable urban transitions nerds look this way! Two salaried PhD positions just opened at KEG in Lund. Come and geek out with us. cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1...

Just stumbled on this very interesting 1984 David Harvey lecture recorded by the Torsten Hägerstrand-Anne Buttimer Dialogues project. They recorded hundreds of these with people they considered relevant to human geography and distributed internationally as VHS tapes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC5_...

MARC BLOCH COMIC BOOK. This is not a drill. MARC BLOCH COMIC BOOK!!! www.tallandier.com/livre/marc-b... #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Sweden, SCB poll: S-S&D: 34% (-2) SD-ECR: 18% M-EPP: 17% (-1) V-LEFT: 9% (+2) MP-G/EFA: 7% C-RE: 6% KD-EPP: 5% (+2) L-RE: 3% +/- vs. 29 April 2025 - 28 May 2025 Fieldwork: 28 April - 28 May 2026 Sample size: 9,260 ➤ europeelects.eu/sweden

Don't miss this incredibly interesting and detailed three hour podcast ep on the legendary scholar/activist/educator Stuart Hall's life and work over on the Culture, Power, Politics feed: culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/05/29/s...

A right-wing slogan in the Swedish election is that the left wants to "force mix" the forms of tenure (=introduce migrant renters to suburbia). This 1976 interview with future conservative housing minister calling for MORE mixing of tenure within housing areas, shows how hard they have moved right.

Är du intresserad av elektrifieringens politiska historia? Vill du doktorera i humanekologi i Lund? Missa inte denna tjänsten. lu.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Slite Cement works and lime quarry, Gotland, Sweden. Sweden's only real remaining cement industry of any scale. Deceptive, in that the real damage is elsewhere. About two thirds of the unknown number of tonnes of mined limestone's mass will circulate as CO2 in the atmosphere for a very long time...

New paper on Swedish housing markets with important implication! Upgrading rental stock is often understood as means to attract high income residents, but create "difficult situation in which low-income households face rising rents, as their ability to move to more affordable areas is constrained."

We have a new publication out!

Today, we’re launching our first paper from the Green Planning Commission — Economic Coordination and the Limits of Markets — as an analytical foundation for why the next progressive agenda must be built around public coordination. 🧵 www.common-wealth.org/publications...

Used the public holiday to take the kids to say goodbye to the last section of Malmö Stadion. This 1958 masterpiece by local modernist outfit Janaecke & Samuelsson has seen Zlatan Ibrahamovic + Pelé not to mention a World Cup and countless league victories and is being torn down for no good reason.

"The rate at which Trump's war on Iran is fulfilling UN and Obama/Biden energy policy goals is just breathtaking. " - Eric Roston of Bloomberg www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...

Giving a public talk based old empirical work, but with some new thoughts, on squatting in Sweden since the 1960s. Tomorrow at Smålands Nation in Lund.

I am sorry that G.M. Tamás is not here to see the deserved fall of Orbán. I hope the incoming government chokes off the vast funding network propping up various petty Lord Haw-Haws across Europe. Exemplary prosecutions for corruption would be salutary well beyond Hungary's borders.

📚 @corinnepainter.bsky.social on Claire Morelon's Streetscapes of War and Revolution 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... 📚 @johanpries.bsky.social on Kenny Cuper's The Earth that Modernism Built 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096...

🔥 The new Urban Theory Lab website is live! Featuring current research, publications, and projects on planetary urbanization, critical spatial theory, and environmental transformation from our expanded global network of scholars. Explore: urbantheorylab.net Follow: @urbantheorylab.bsky.social

Going to start a new Electro-Yuan thread since its 1 catchy replacement to petrodollar choking at Hormuz 2 China's role in electrotech is about to surge. "China’s cross border payment system hit an all time high in volume yesterday..over 100% growth compared to the Feb data" x.com/joshualipsky...

The video recording of the panel with @triofrancos.bsky.social, Adam Hanieh, and myself, is now available on Youtube Who Owns the Energy Transition Climate, Imperialism, and the Geopolitics of Energy Frontiers www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1_h...

Mamdani nails it again. As @triofrancos.bsky.social & I argued in NYT, green economic populism means tackling the climate crisis & working people's cost of living at the same time. We need better transit, better EV infrastructure, better rideshare options. Many needs ➡️ many policies.