James A. Fraser🍉
@jfraser.bsky.social
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James A. Fraser🍉
@jfraser.bsky.social
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The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality?
This article analyses Brazil's first Território de Uso Comum (TUC) in the Amazon as an experiment in insurgent universality—a women-led, grassroots struggle advancing collective rights through shared...
doi.org
The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality? doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
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new episode out now! we kick off our new series on Marxism & Religion with a discussion of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose universalist ethos and principled nonviolence shine a light on the righteous path to liberation in these dark times www.patreon.com/posts/128-in...
128 | Introducing: Marxism & Religion, Part I: Martin Luther King, Jr. | What's Left of Philosophy
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January 28, 2026 at 5:15 PM
new episode out now! we kick off our new series on Marxism & Religion with a discussion of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose universalist ethos and principled nonviolence shine a light on the righteous path to liberation in these dark times www.patreon.com/posts/128-in...
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“We, the delegates at the inaugural convening of Nuestra América in Bogotá, Colombia, affirm the shared horizon of: a hemisphere that governs itself, defends its peoples, and speaks in its own voice."
Read more from Nuestra América in @Venezuelanalysis.
Read more from Nuestra América in @Venezuelanalysis.
Progressive Activists, Officials Condemn Venezuela Attacks, Call for Joint Action Against Monroe Doctrine - Venezuelanalysis
The "Nuestra América" summit in Bogotá laid out a unified front to defend regional sovereignty and oppose foreign intervention.
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January 28, 2026 at 5:56 PM
“We, the delegates at the inaugural convening of Nuestra América in Bogotá, Colombia, affirm the shared horizon of: a hemisphere that governs itself, defends its peoples, and speaks in its own voice."
Read more from Nuestra América in @Venezuelanalysis.
Read more from Nuestra América in @Venezuelanalysis.
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Interesting book, especially for those of us working on the Global South, and book launch 👇
Upcoming launch events for Southern Anthropocenes.
First, Chulalongkorn University on Friday January 30, 14.30-16.30 Bangkok time. (chula.zoom.us/j/6722783718)
Then: University of Bonn, Feb. 26, 14-16 German time
ANU, March 12, 16-17.30 Canberra time and
Tokyo University, May 11, 13-15 JP time
First, Chulalongkorn University on Friday January 30, 14.30-16.30 Bangkok time. (chula.zoom.us/j/6722783718)
Then: University of Bonn, Feb. 26, 14-16 German time
ANU, March 12, 16-17.30 Canberra time and
Tokyo University, May 11, 13-15 JP time
January 28, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Interesting book, especially for those of us working on the Global South, and book launch 👇
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it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
January 28, 2026 at 12:23 AM
it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”
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The analysis in this episode is evergreen and *extremely* right now, especially because we need to get real about where we are, where we must go, and what it will take to get there.
Trump is clearly not the isolationist many believed he was. From the wreckage of bipartisan imperialist consensus, Trump's creating a new MAGA model empire. New Dig episode analyzing MAGA Empire and the history that made it with Aslı Bâli and Greg Grandin www.thedigradio.com/podcast/maga...
MAGA Empire w/ Aslı Bâli and Greg Grandin
Featuring Aslı Bâli and Greg Grandin on the MAGA model of US imperialism.
www.thedigradio.com
January 18, 2026 at 11:41 PM
The analysis in this episode is evergreen and *extremely* right now, especially because we need to get real about where we are, where we must go, and what it will take to get there.
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‘Psychoanalysis can help us better understand how the world, including our oppressors, works, and so what we might do about it, and them; and what wishes we might have for collective life, and which of these the reality principle demands we set aside.’
Amia Srinivasan:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Amia Srinivasan:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious
What has returned of late is not the unconscious itself, but the felt need, in some quarters, for the unconscious and...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 14, 2026 at 10:40 AM
‘Psychoanalysis can help us better understand how the world, including our oppressors, works, and so what we might do about it, and them; and what wishes we might have for collective life, and which of these the reality principle demands we set aside.’
Amia Srinivasan:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Amia Srinivasan:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Chris Hedges:
I have seen the masked goons who terrorize our streets before
I have been a prisoner in their jails and spent hours in their interrogation rooms
I have been beaten by them
I have been deported, and in several cases banned, from their countries
I know what is coming
I have seen the masked goons who terrorize our streets before
I have been a prisoner in their jails and spent hours in their interrogation rooms
I have been beaten by them
I have been deported, and in several cases banned, from their countries
I know what is coming
The Machinery of Terror
The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be too late.
open.substack.com
January 12, 2026 at 7:56 AM
Chris Hedges:
I have seen the masked goons who terrorize our streets before
I have been a prisoner in their jails and spent hours in their interrogation rooms
I have been beaten by them
I have been deported, and in several cases banned, from their countries
I know what is coming
I have seen the masked goons who terrorize our streets before
I have been a prisoner in their jails and spent hours in their interrogation rooms
I have been beaten by them
I have been deported, and in several cases banned, from their countries
I know what is coming
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Tony Wood excellent on Venezuela www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tony Wood · On Venezuela
The choice of narco-trafficking as the pretext is partly motivated by a desire to skirt even the feeble murmurs that...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Tony Wood excellent on Venezuela www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Corn before it domesticated us
January 9, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Corn before it domesticated us
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"...the more one relies on vice signaling as a style of action and communication, the less relevant and powerful the in-group’s moral compass is as a practical constraint on anyone’s behavior."
latest for @bostonreview.bsky.social
www.bostonreview.net/articles/emp...
latest for @bostonreview.bsky.social
www.bostonreview.net/articles/emp...
Empire of Vice
In a perverse twist on virtue signaling, the Trump administration is training Americans in the politics of raw domination.
www.bostonreview.net
January 8, 2026 at 4:15 PM
"...the more one relies on vice signaling as a style of action and communication, the less relevant and powerful the in-group’s moral compass is as a practical constraint on anyone’s behavior."
latest for @bostonreview.bsky.social
www.bostonreview.net/articles/emp...
latest for @bostonreview.bsky.social
www.bostonreview.net/articles/emp...
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Em entrevista exclusiva para a InfoAmazonia, o filósofo Ailton Krenak, refletiu sobre os ataques à Constituição Federal, a troca de nomes no Ministério dos Povos Indígenas e a tensão política eleitoral de 2026.
Ailton Krenak, sobre marco temporal: ‘nunca engoliram as nossas conquistas na Constituinte’
Nesta entrevista exclusiva, o filósofo reflete sobre a passagem do tempo, os ataques à Constituição Federal, a troca de nomes no Ministério dos Povos Indígenas e a tensão política eleitoral de 2026.
infoamazonia.org
January 6, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Em entrevista exclusiva para a InfoAmazonia, o filósofo Ailton Krenak, refletiu sobre os ataques à Constituição Federal, a troca de nomes no Ministério dos Povos Indígenas e a tensão política eleitoral de 2026.
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Trump in a single gaggle on Air Force One just threatened:
-- a second strike against Venezuela
-- Cuba
-- Mexico
-- Colombia
-- Iran
-- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)
-- a second strike against Venezuela
-- Cuba
-- Mexico
-- Colombia
-- Iran
-- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)
January 5, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Trump in a single gaggle on Air Force One just threatened:
-- a second strike against Venezuela
-- Cuba
-- Mexico
-- Colombia
-- Iran
-- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)
-- a second strike against Venezuela
-- Cuba
-- Mexico
-- Colombia
-- Iran
-- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)
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OnlineFirst - "Forging territorial justice: Afro-Colombian legal mobilization and the prefiguration of territorial authority in northern Cauca" by Zabrina Welter and Cristina Espinosa:
uni-freiburg.de/enr-sugov/te...
uni-freiburg.de/enr-sugov/te...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
uni-freiburg.de/enr-sugov/te...
uni-freiburg.de/enr-sugov/te...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
December 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
OnlineFirst - "Forging territorial justice: Afro-Colombian legal mobilization and the prefiguration of territorial authority in northern Cauca" by Zabrina Welter and Cristina Espinosa:
uni-freiburg.de/enr-sugov/te...
uni-freiburg.de/enr-sugov/te...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
uni-freiburg.de/enr-sugov/te...
uni-freiburg.de/enr-sugov/te...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥
👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN
💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.
#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN
💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.
#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
December 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥
👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN
💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.
#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN
💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.
#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
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Is infrastructure sabotage always a destructive act led by seditious individuals? no
my new article in Human Geography studies Colombian public sector workers ‘breaking’ infrastructure to oppose privatization in 1992, and argues sabotage can reshape policies, politicize society & more
my new article in Human Geography studies Colombian public sector workers ‘breaking’ infrastructure to oppose privatization in 1992, and argues sabotage can reshape policies, politicize society & more
December 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Is infrastructure sabotage always a destructive act led by seditious individuals? no
my new article in Human Geography studies Colombian public sector workers ‘breaking’ infrastructure to oppose privatization in 1992, and argues sabotage can reshape policies, politicize society & more
my new article in Human Geography studies Colombian public sector workers ‘breaking’ infrastructure to oppose privatization in 1992, and argues sabotage can reshape policies, politicize society & more
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‘The real question is whether psychoanalysis can liberate us, not just from the violent divisions of our individual psyches, but from the violent divisions and resulting despair of our political moment.’
Amia Srinivasan’s Winter Lecture:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Amia Srinivasan’s Winter Lecture:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious
You may not wish to commit yourself ontologically to some thing called the ‘unconscious’, and you may reasonably...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
‘The real question is whether psychoanalysis can liberate us, not just from the violent divisions of our individual psyches, but from the violent divisions and resulting despair of our political moment.’
Amia Srinivasan’s Winter Lecture:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Amia Srinivasan’s Winter Lecture:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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How does Brazil’s Território de Uso Comum embody Fanon’s concept of insurgent universality?
James A. Fraser🍉 (Lancaster University) discusses this in a new Geography Directions blog post.
Check it out here 👉https://ow.ly/E6HV50XHqaF
James A. Fraser🍉 (Lancaster University) discusses this in a new Geography Directions blog post.
Check it out here 👉https://ow.ly/E6HV50XHqaF
Common use and collective freedom: Amazonian Forest Peoples reimagine the commons
By James A. Fraser, Lancaster University When sixteen forest communities along Brazil’s River Manicoré won legal recognition of their Território de Uso Comum (TUC, the country’s first territory bas…
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December 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
How does Brazil’s Território de Uso Comum embody Fanon’s concept of insurgent universality?
James A. Fraser🍉 (Lancaster University) discusses this in a new Geography Directions blog post.
Check it out here 👉https://ow.ly/E6HV50XHqaF
James A. Fraser🍉 (Lancaster University) discusses this in a new Geography Directions blog post.
Check it out here 👉https://ow.ly/E6HV50XHqaF
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Our special issue of Labor and Society on the ecomodernist features of imperialism is now online in full. The issue makes a stronger contribution to theorising contemporary imperialist dynamics than I could have ever hoped for. Here's a thread introducing each contribution. 🧵
December 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Our special issue of Labor and Society on the ecomodernist features of imperialism is now online in full. The issue makes a stronger contribution to theorising contemporary imperialist dynamics than I could have ever hoped for. Here's a thread introducing each contribution. 🧵
Reposted by James A. Fraser🍉
New in Geo:
'The Amazonian common use territory: Pluriverse or insurgent universality?' by @jfraser.bsky.social et al.
This paper analyses Brazil's first Território de Uso Comum, drawing on Karen Ng's interpretation of Fanon's concept of concrete universal humanity.
doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
'The Amazonian common use territory: Pluriverse or insurgent universality?' by @jfraser.bsky.social et al.
This paper analyses Brazil's first Território de Uso Comum, drawing on Karen Ng's interpretation of Fanon's concept of concrete universal humanity.
doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
December 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
New in Geo:
'The Amazonian common use territory: Pluriverse or insurgent universality?' by @jfraser.bsky.social et al.
This paper analyses Brazil's first Território de Uso Comum, drawing on Karen Ng's interpretation of Fanon's concept of concrete universal humanity.
doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
'The Amazonian common use territory: Pluriverse or insurgent universality?' by @jfraser.bsky.social et al.
This paper analyses Brazil's first Território de Uso Comum, drawing on Karen Ng's interpretation of Fanon's concept of concrete universal humanity.
doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
Reposted by James A. Fraser🍉
The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality? doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality?
This article analyses Brazil's first Território de Uso Comum (TUC) in the Amazon as an experiment in insurgent universality—a women-led, grassroots struggle advancing collective rights through shared...
doi.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality? doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality? doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality?
This article analyses Brazil's first Território de Uso Comum (TUC) in the Amazon as an experiment in insurgent universality—a women-led, grassroots struggle advancing collective rights through shared...
doi.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality? doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
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now available for preorder!
PARAPRAXIS issue 7: ROMANCE
The heart can be fickle, indulgent. But in the heavy boots of our undesirable present, seized by colliding catastrophes, we ask: how do we get out of here? Can the math of desire break us free?
www.parapraxismagazine.com/store/p/para...
PARAPRAXIS issue 7: ROMANCE
The heart can be fickle, indulgent. But in the heavy boots of our undesirable present, seized by colliding catastrophes, we ask: how do we get out of here? Can the math of desire break us free?
www.parapraxismagazine.com/store/p/para...
Parapraxis Issue 07: Romance — Parapraxis
Now available for pre-order. Copies will ship in December It is a particularly unlovely time to be thinking about romance. The heart can be fickle, indulgent, its matters distracting, impractical. ...
www.parapraxismagazine.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
now available for preorder!
PARAPRAXIS issue 7: ROMANCE
The heart can be fickle, indulgent. But in the heavy boots of our undesirable present, seized by colliding catastrophes, we ask: how do we get out of here? Can the math of desire break us free?
www.parapraxismagazine.com/store/p/para...
PARAPRAXIS issue 7: ROMANCE
The heart can be fickle, indulgent. But in the heavy boots of our undesirable present, seized by colliding catastrophes, we ask: how do we get out of here? Can the math of desire break us free?
www.parapraxismagazine.com/store/p/para...
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This looks interesting journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Reification, value, and emancipation: Revisiting the normative core of Marx’s critique of capitalism - Nikolaos Nikolakakis, 2025
This article reexamines the normative dimension of Marx’s critique of capitalism, arguing that value theory and reification carry intrinsic ethical implications...
journals.sagepub.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This looks interesting journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Take away all synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and crop yields... stay roughly the same, at least in Andhra Pradesh. But bird populations shoot up. Pretty remarkable. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
India’s agroecology programme, ‘Zero Budget Natural Farming’, delivers biodiversity and economic benefits without lowering yields - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Analysis of crop yields, farmer income and bird species abundances identifies multiple positive outcomes of a large-scale Indian government-incentivized agroecology initiative.
www.nature.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Take away all synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and crop yields... stay roughly the same, at least in Andhra Pradesh. But bird populations shoot up. Pretty remarkable. www.nature.com/articles/s41...