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Marcus Power

@marcusjpower.bsky.social

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Professor of Human Geography @ Durham University. The geopolitics-development nexus | China-Africa relations | South-South flows | energy & infrastructural geographies https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/marcus-power/

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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 17d

The artist Sana Ginwalla has created an online photo archive based on 1000 uncollected negatives, slides and prints that she found in the attic of Lusaka’s oldest photo studios. What a great initiative:

www.zambiabelonging.com

Zambia Belonging

A counter-archive of found and crowd-sourced photographs from Zambia’s past.

www.zambiabelonging.com

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 23d

New in TIBG!

Geography in the World, part 3: Area Studies

Han Cheng & @deensharp.bsky.social's collection draws together authors from Egypt, Singapore, China, South Africa & Russia to explore non-Western geography's relationship with Area Studies.

Read all papers here ⬇️

tinyurl.com/5n72yt46

Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 23d

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GenZ hopes for an inclusive new Nepal: State of Southasia #32

YouTube video by Himal Southasian

Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 23d

‘Washington losing primacy, Beijing preparing to take its place. For Africa, however, this framing is unsatisfactory. It risks reducing the continent to a spectator in a drama staged by others’:

Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 23d

The SCO summit in Beijing revealed cracks in Western dominance—but whether they become openings for justice depends on African agency, not new patrons. africasacountry.com/2025/09/beyo...

Beyond multipolarity

The SCO summit in Beijing revealed cracks in Western dominance—but whether they become openings for justice depends on African agency, not new patrons.

africasacountry.com

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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 23d

The SCO summit in Beijing revealed cracks in Western dominance—but whether they become openings for justice depends on African agency, not new patrons. africasacountry.com/2025/09/beyo...

Beyond multipolarity

The SCO summit in Beijing revealed cracks in Western dominance—but whether they become openings for justice depends on African agency, not new patrons.

africasacountry.com

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Don't Gas Africa @dontgasafrica.bsky.social · 24d

We welcome much of the #AddisDeclaration, but let’s be clear: “transition fuel” is too often code for gas.

Gas is not a bridge, it’s a dead end.

#ACS2

Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 27d

Pranaya Rana’s excellent explainer on everything that happened this week in Nepal, including the first woman prime minister in its history, and asks important questions for the future of the country:

www.himalmag.com/politics/nep...

Nepal’s staggering journey from Gen Z protests to new government

Nepal’s staggering journey from Gen Z protests to new government

www.himalmag.com

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · Sep 9

More from Nepal 🇳🇵👀

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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · Sep 8

📚BOOK LAUNCH 📚
We’re delighted to announce the publication of

🌍Technoscientific Globalisation from Below🌎

Open access&free to download via @matteringpress.bsky.social

www.matteringpress.org/books/techno...

Edited by Mathieu Quet, Koichi Kameda, Jessica Pourraz & Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar

Technoscientific Globalisation from Below

www.matteringpress.org

Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · Sep 1

Interesting claims & counter claims around Nepal’s relations to China’s Global Security Initiative (GSI) following PM’s visit to China: kathmandupost.com/national/202...

Nepal officials reject Chinese claim on GSI

‘Why should we issue a statement when we’ve not even discussed GSI and GCI?’ says a Nepali delegate in China.

kathmandupost.com

Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · Aug 29

Great to attend an event yesterday in Kathmandu on the geopolitical dilemmas created for #Nepal around the Lipulekh pass and the territorial disputes with India. Insightful comments from speakers Sudheer Sharma & Rajib Neupane

Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · Aug 27

Good to be engaged in a thoughtful and enriching discussion today with Rupak Sapkota, former Foreign Affairs Adviser to the PM of Nepal. Our conversation focused on the dynamics around Nepal’s co-operation with foreign partners, delving into wider global and regional drivers and dynamics.

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Jack Taggart @jacktaggart.bsky.social · Aug 14

📣 New article w/ @iliasalami.bsky.social & @tomchodor.bsky.social on the return of industrial policy globally @globalpolicy.bsky.social. Does this signal a 'New Washington Consensus'? And does the return of industrial policy 'rebuild the ladder' of economic development? 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/yk2wvttc 1/12

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Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · Aug 7

New article🚨 Demilitarizing Conservation
A labour of love w L Lunstrum @ashavin.bsky.social A Dutta @esthermarijnen.bsky.social T Mushonga F Matose

For a more robustly care-full conservation
Demilitarization based on ethics/politics of care/nonviolence @pollenetwork.bsky.social

shorturl.at/Wsl9m

Demilitarizing Conservation

Many national parks and other protected areas (PAs) are experiencing an intensification of military actors, logics, and partnerships across the globe. This amounts to one of the most consequential ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Jessica DiCarlo @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social · Aug 5

Over the past 2 decades, China has become Laos’s top investor, main creditor, and 2nd-largest trade partner. In a new report, @profjulietlu.bsky.social and I unpack Chinese investment across four land-intensive sectors: agriculture & plantations, mining, infrastructure & SEZs. tinyurl.com/kw5vteem

Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · Jul 15

“I call for a decolonial consciousness that interrogates the historical roots of marginalization in order to reconceptualize, reimagine, and rewrite dominant discourses on resilience in Africa”

Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · Jul 15

Development agendas framed around “resilience” promise empowerment but often reproduce colonial power dynamics in the guise of climate adaptation. africasacountry.com/2025/07/agai...

Against climate resilience

Development agendas framed around “resilience” promise empowerment but often reproduce colonial power dynamics in the guise of climate adaptation.

africasacountry.com

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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · Jul 15

Development agendas framed around “resilience” promise empowerment but often reproduce colonial power dynamics in the guise of climate adaptation. africasacountry.com/2025/07/agai...

Against climate resilience

Development agendas framed around “resilience” promise empowerment but often reproduce colonial power dynamics in the guise of climate adaptation.

africasacountry.com

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · Jul 14

The UK Alliance for Disaster Research conference will take place 4-5 September 2025. It will be hosted by the @ihrr.bsky.social at Durham Uni and is titled “Pathways to Practice and Resilience: UK Interdisciplinary Hazard and Disaster Research on the National and Global Stage”: tinyurl.com/62mfc7pw

Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · Jul 13

As well as some loss of life the severe flooding in Rasuwa in #Nepal has caused damage to a number of key infrastructures of China-Nepal co-operation. Interesting to note the militarised discourse around talk of deploying rescue operations on a ‘war footing’:

kathmandupost.com/national/202...

Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · Jul 12

River basins of Africa 🌍

A stunning aerial visual showing the continent’s waterways.

According to UNEP, there are 63 transboundary river basins in Africa, covering 64% of the continent’s land area.

#weekendvibes #water #africa #rivers #climatechange

Credit: Grasshopper Geography

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Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · Jun 15

In Luanda for the launch of this edited volume on #Angola after Dos Santos, produced in record time in Portuguese & English with chapters by Angolan & foreign scholars. Both versions in the link. My chapter is on the politics of public memory 50 years after independence.
www.cmi.no/publications...

Angola after dos Santos: An anthology on continuity and change

As Angola celebrates its 50th anniversary as an independent nation, it is timely to provide an assessment of the state of political, s...

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · Jun 12

Here a short blog sumarising a chapter that Emma Hutchison and I wrote and that has now come out: “Humanitarian Photography” in Allbeson (ed) Picturing Peace (Bloomsbury 2024). This has been in the making since 2018 but we hope it remains relevant.
www.rolandbleiker.com/blog/humanit...

Humanitarian Photography: From Mediating Suffering to Visualising Peace — Roland Bleiker

This is a blog summary of an essay that Emma Hutchison and Roland Bleiker wrote and that has now come out after Emma’s passing: a chapter on Humanitarian Photography for Tom Allbeson, Pippa Oldfield a...

www.rolandbleiker.com

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Tansy Hoskins 🍉 @tansyhoskins.org · Jun 9

Just published a new investigation into textile waste on @ecoage.bsky.social with my colleague Arun Karki in Nepal:

Sandwiched between manufacturing powerhouses China and India, Nepal faces a relentless influx of cheap, toxic fast fashion exports: eco-age.com/nepal-the-fr...

Nepal: The Front Line of the Fast Fashion Crisis – Eco Age

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · Jun 7

Soviet poster, 1986

Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · Jun 6

New CODESRIA bulletin themed around ‘Mozambique: Reflections by Intellectuals on Post-Electoral Violence’: codesria.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?...

No. 2 (2025): CODESRIA Bulletin, No 2, 2025: NÚMERO ESPECIAL MOÇAMBIQUE - Visão de alguns intelectuais moçambicanos sobre a violência pós-eleitoral | CODESRIA Bulletin

codesria.us19.list-manage.com

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Joshua Kirshner @joshkirshner.bsky.social · Jun 4

Happy to share an article on green electrification in Mozambique, just published online today... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Harnessing the sun – addressing sociotechnical barriers to off-grid solar power deployment in Mozambique

Mozambique has substantial solar power potential (23,000GWe) yet only 83MWe of installed capacity (representing 2% of the total 3623MWe generation capacity). Meanwhile, 44% of the population has el...

www.tandfonline.com

Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · Jun 4

Ruth First seminar event at The Lindisfarne centre in Durham on June 25th, 5-7pm, can be watched online too:

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · Jun 4

Can Postdevelopment actually be understood as being within the scope of development theories, or is it something completely different? Aram Ziai explores in our latest blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2245

Is Postdevelopment a Theory of Development? Situating Postdevelopment in Social Theory

By Aram Ziai Four decades after its beginnings, postdevelopment (PD) has become an established approach in development theory. Its core claim that we should ‘reject the entire paradigm of developme…

www.developmentresearch.eu

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · Jun 1

"It has not just been a travel document, but often a declaration of hope in a better future for those who left Ireland’s shores, or a reclaiming of identity by many of those in the Irish diaspora today"
@markhennessy.bsky.social on 100 yrs of the Irish passport
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

The Irish passport at 100: Not just a travel document but a declaration of hope and of reclaiming identity

A new exhibition traces the Irish passport’s journey from independence to biometric holograms

www.irishtimes.com

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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · May 31

Huge win. Ecuadorians have voted in a historic referendum to halt the development of all new oilwells in the Yasuní national park in the Amazon, one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet: buff.ly/UmLwia3

Protect people and the planet. #ActOnClimate