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Wolfram Dressler

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Professor, Human Geography, Agrarian Change and Political Ecology #savepalawan

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Wolfram Dressler @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social · Jan 29

Colleagues,

A decade in the making, I’d like to share with you my new book entitled, 'For the Sake of Forests and God: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands'.

From the Cornell University Press webpage: lnkd.in/ghyuxMKT

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Miles Kenney-Lazar @mklaz.bsky.social · Sep 5

My first book, Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos (University of Hawai'i Press, 2025), exists in this world!

Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · Aug 15

New article!

'Irrigating the periphery: Hydrology, coloniality and counter-irrigation in the Philippines', by Rhomir S. Yanquiling, Wolfram Dressler & Will Smith.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.003

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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · Jul 29

Gorillas to be further endangered: the Democratic Republic of the Congo is opening crucial gorilla habitats and pristine forests to bids for oil and gas drilling, with plans to carve up more than half the country into fossil fuel blocks.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Gorilla habitats and pristine forest at risk as DRC opens half of country to oil and gas drilling bids

Government launches licensing round for 52 fossil fuel blocks, potentially undermining a flagship conservation initiative and affecting an estimated 39 million people

www.theguardian.com

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Jul 29

The FT View: The longer it has continued, the more it has borne the hallmarks of a vengeful assault by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government to destroy the very fabric of Palestinian society. https://on.ft.com/3UBv3Us

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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · Jan 10

“Democracy is fragile. You have to fight for every bit, every law, every safeguard, every institution, every story. You must know how dangerous it is to suffer even the tiniest cut. This is why I say to us all: we must hold the line.”

• @mariaressa.bsky.social •

#NoHate #NoRacism #StrongerTogether

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Feb 8

Leaders of far-right parties in Europe came to Madrid for what, on the surface at least, amounted to a rally for a new Trump era. They set aside any trepidation they might have about his threats, and instead focused on a common enemy — the EU.

Far-Right Leaders Rally in Spain to ‘Make Europe Great Again’

At a gathering in Madrid, members of Europe’s far-right parties set aside any trepidation they might have about President Trump’s threats, and instead focused on a common enemy — the European Union.

www.nytimes.com

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · Jul 20

Innocuous-sounding "active clubs", including near where I grew up in Hamilton.
ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...

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Mongabay Latam @mongabaylatam.bsky.social · Jul 19

El pueblo de El Nido, en la isla filipina de Palawan, se ha convertido en un popular destino turístico debido a su intensa promoción en redes sociales. Sin embargo, el turismo ha causado una grave contaminación costera. Esta es la situación.
es.mongabay.com/2025/07/los-...

Caos en El Nido: el destino viral de Instagram enfrenta crisis ambiental por turismo masivo

Palawan, la provincia insular occidental de Filipinas, encabeza la lista de deseos de los turistas por su pintoresco destino principal: El Nido. Este pequeño pueblo pesquero de 50 000 habitantes se en...

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Colum Graham @clmgrhm.bsky.social · Jul 18

An open access paper I wrote on differentiated Suharto nostalgia in rural Java for a Journal of Agrarian Change special issue on land and labour in Indonesia: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Distributive Politics and Class Dynamics in Rural Java

Based on fieldwork in a village I call Lone Teak in East Java, Indonesia, this paper examines emerging patterns of class differentiation and distributive politics. The history of Lone Teak's landhold....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Leafia Ye @leafiaye.bsky.social · Jul 16

🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky

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NPR @npr.org · Jun 28

Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and fines to participate in the annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed by a law passed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing governing party.

Around 100,000 march in Budapest Pride event in defiance of Hungary's ban

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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · Jun 27

Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years. Article in @theconversation.com by Thorsten Mauritsen @stockholm-uni.bsky.social Steven Sherwood UNSW Sydney & Benoit Meyssignac Université de Toulouse #Climate
theconversation.com/earth-is-tra...

Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years

Real world measurements of how much extra heat the Earth is trapping are well beyond most climate models. That’s a real problem.

theconversation.com

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Colum Graham @clmgrhm.bsky.social · Jun 26

newbooksnetwork.com/for-the-sake...

Great to talk with @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social about "For the Sake of Forests and Gods" on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social !

Wolfram H. Dressler, "For the Sake of Forests and Gods: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands" (Cornell UP, 2025) - New Books Network

newbooksnetwork.com

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Wolfram Dressler @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social · May 16

The conceptual terrain addressed by the volume is expansive. By approaching this terrain through fine-grained studies grounded in the histories, ecologies, and inequalities of Southeast Asia, the contributors render the multidimensioned violence of our time palpable.
—Tania Murray Li, UoT

Wolfram Dressler @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social · May 16

… The book’s interdisciplinary focus on the volumetric brings a new vision to our understandings of resource territorialities and a new conceptual tool for analyzing the productions of sterile bodies and barren landscapes.
—Nancy Lee Peluso, University of California, Berkeley

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Wolfram Dressler @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social · May 16

“Violent Atmospheres brings the political ecology of crisis to bear on atmospheric violence in Southeast Asia. The theoretically innovative and ethnographically grounded chapters address the internal contradictions of capital accumulation and how resource conflict triggers atmospheric crises.”

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Wolfram Dressler @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social · May 16

🚨 On behalf of the contributors, Mary Mostafanezhad and I are delighted to announce the publication of our new book, Violent Atmospheres: Livelihoods and Landscapes in Crisis in Southeast Asia, published by the University of Hawaii Press.

uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/violen...

Violent Atmospheres: Livelihoods and Landscapes in Crisis in Southeast Asia

In Southeast Asia, atmospheric violence emerges from the haze plumes of burning of palm oil plantations, the invisible but powerful spread of viral flows, and the subordination of upland farmers wh…

uhpress.hawaii.edu

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · May 10

Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊

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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · May 3

Canada, we’re with you!
TRUMPISM IS REPUDIATED IN AUSTRALIA!
#auspol

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · Apr 18

Israel murdered this beautiful soul. Remember Fatima Hassona. Watch and spread the film "Put your soul on your hand and walk". And never stop fighting the mass murdering death machine that is the Israeli state.

She was 25.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · Apr 18

How is it possible U.S. citizens are being held as illegal aliens in America even after they produce their birth certificate? This is intolerable. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia

Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate “authentic” and said there wasn’t reason to consider him an “illegal alien.”

www.nbcnews.com

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · Apr 11

Chilling. They are saying that simply taking action in opposition to US foreign policy is grounds for deportation.

Think of the proud lineage of protests against US-backed wars, coups, torture...

BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, Immigration Judge Rules open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, Immigration Judge Rules

The judge said the Trump administration’s evidence – a two-page letter from Secretary of State Marco Rubio – is sufficient to deport Khalil under an obscure legal provision.

open.substack.com

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Wolfram Dressler @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social · Apr 11

As Duterte faces justice at the ICC in The Hague, the women activists who suffered under his misogynistic violence continue to defend the environment and human rights in the Philippines. Others couldn’t continue their struggle. #fearlessfilipinaactivists

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/DPWD9R...

Defending the Land: Filipina Activists amidst Authoritarian Rule in the Philippines

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Apr 6

A graphic video shows the moment that Israeli troops fired on aid workers in clearly marked vehicles in Gaza, killing 15 people. The footage contradicts Israel’s version of events in an episode that has drawn international scrutiny. Read witness accounts: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/w...

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Wolfram Dressler @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social · Apr 6

Lead by Stasja Koot, this paper explores the intensifying intimidation from powerful conservation actors against social scientists whose findings they see as troubling.

Their threats have not silenced those who work for socio-ecological justice.

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Intimidation as epistemological violence against social science conservation research

We investigated intimidation of conservation social scientists, which is ongoing and aimed at silencing or discrediting research findings. Although social scientists share with conservation biologist....

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Apr 6

WATCH: “Ron Vara is an anagram of Navarro.”

@maddow.msnbc.com explains how Trump’s tariffs policy came from his economic advisor Peter Navarro, who invented a fake expert in his books to justify it🤦🏻‍♂️ 🤦🏼

And now markets are crashing 🎪 #TrumpTradeWar #AmericanBrexit

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Apr 5

Jagan Chapagain, secretary-general of the IFRC, warns against the normalisation of killing humanitarian aid workers following the killing of 15 medics and aid workers by Israeli forces in Gaza last month.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7n8dex

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · Apr 1

Absolute BLOODBATH at HHS/NIH/CDC this morning. Generation of scientists, health care officials being wiped out

t.co/LeABrGqDei

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ChooseKindness @kindauthors.bsky.social · Mar 30

#AltText

Dustin West
1d.
I was just detained by and my dog was assaulted by
plainclothed ICE agents, along with undercover
members of the NYPD I believe; while trying to
intervene in an ICE abduction on my block. They
refused to identify themselves, were masked,
produced no signed warrant, and they were in an
unmarked van. They literally snatched a family walking
their kids home from school off the street, and then
kicked my dog and cuffed me and my neighbors for
asking questions. They illegally went through my
phone, violated multiple Constitutional rights, and then
sped off with a family and screaming kids in the back
of a van to God knows where. If this can happen on a
corner in Harlem at 5:30 in the afternoon, we are in big
trouble guys. Protect yourselves and your neighbors
any way you know how. I am absolutely heartbroken,
enraged, and disgusted at what my country has
become and if you don't feel the same; you either
aren't paying attention or you are part of the problem.

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Wolfram Dressler @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social · Mar 27

Stay calm and Carney on 🇨🇦👌