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Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social · 1d

The deadline for submitting a paper, panel or round table for the Biannual CRG African History is nearing. This year it's at Ghent University, and we'll be happy to welcome you!
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CRG African History | AEGIS - African studies in Europe

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Iva Pesa @ivapesa.bsky.social · 4d

Jabulani Shaba and Henrique Brenner Gasperin will be co-organising a panel at POLLEN 2026 in wonderful Barcelona on 'Extraction and Plural Environmentalisms in the Global South'! APPLY!! pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/... #envhums #extraction

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Iva Pesa @ivapesa.bsky.social · 20d

Happy to be involved in the new RUG University Minor 'Climate Change and Inequality' - here's a little piece in the Wubbo Ockels' newsletter about us: www.rug.nl/wubbo-ockels...
The students are amazing! They come from all of our different faculties!!

New Minor on Climate Change and Inequality kicks off at University of Groningen

On September 3rd, the University of Groningen launched its new minor programme, ‘Climate Change and Inequality’, with an inaugural cohort of 11 students.

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Iva Pesa @ivapesa.bsky.social · May 12

Check out our article Just food transitions: a plurality of framings and repertoires from below www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... with Lidia Cabral, matias Volonterio, Gearoid Millar, and Melanie Levick-Parkin

Just food transitions: a plurality of framings and repertoires from below

In this paper we apply the concept of just transition to food systems, a domain central to environmental sustainability and social justice. We broaden and democratise the just transition debate by ...

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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · Apr 24

Reframing the Anthropocene through an African lens, our podcast of the week argues that colonial resource extraction created the very environmental crises now disproportionately harming the continent.

With @ivapesa.bsky.social, Jabulani Shaba & Tholithemba Ndaba

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Sabine Pitteloud @sabinepitteloud.bsky.social · Apr 4

Special issue on "Business and activists"🚨
co-edited with @phvandam.bsky.social

With @alexh33.bsky.social
@hiskearts.bsky.social @ivapesa.bsky.social @acontestataires.bsky.social

#BizHis #activism #CSR #DEI #vegetarianism #labor #RSE #greenwashing #sustainability
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Businesses, Activists, and the Quest for Legitimacy

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Iva Pesa @ivapesa.bsky.social · Mar 31

Want to learn about values in the Anthropocene? Check out this open web resource: rethinkingvalue.github.io/anthropocene/ With entries on Lake Titicaca, the Carribean, Georgia, India, and Marseille! It was a pleasure to work on this with Simone Schleper, Paul Merchant, Dan Finch-Race and Leo Steeds

rethinking value

rethinkingvalue.github.io

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Iva Pesa @ivapesa.bsky.social · Mar 24

www.scmp.com/news/china/d...
Apparently a casual email is enough to be cited as a source in a newspaper article - still good that this issue is receiving coverage!

Will Zambian mine disaster spill over to destroy relations with China?

A 50-million-litre acid spill from a Chinese-owned copper mine in Zambia is now threatening to kill ties with Beijing, experts say.

www.scmp.com

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Iva Pesa @ivapesa.bsky.social · Mar 15

I reviewed Gabrielle Hecht's Residual Governance for the American Historical Review, academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
This book really bridges environmental humanities, African studies, and it shows why we should all care about South African mine dumps!

Gabrielle Hecht. Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures.

The toxicity of Johannesburg’s gold mines is hidden in plain sight. In Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures, Gabrielle Hecht f

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Iva Pesa @ivapesa.bsky.social · Feb 25

Sorry to miss this!!

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