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Penelope Anthias

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Geographer, ethnographer, new filmmaker. Work on extractivism, territory, indigeneity, rights, anti-coloniality, Bolivia (Chaco). Activism in NE UK. Assoc.Prof. at Durham. penelopeanthias.com

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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · Jul 17

📢New paper alert! With Kiran Asher, "Indigenous Natures and the Anthropocene: Racial Capitalism, Violent Materialities, and the Colonial Politics of Representation". Part of our forthcoming @antipodeonline
Special Issue Querying Nature and Decolonialism onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Indigenous Natures and the Anthropocene: Racial Capitalism, Violent Materialities, and the Colonial Politics of Representation

Indigenous Peoples are gaining renewed attention within both policy and academia, as examples of “resilience” and of non-humanist, non-modern ways of relating to nature, which might, it is hoped, pro....

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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 1d

It's the season of teaching anxiety dreams. Last night, I had to give my first land conflicts lecture in a rural setting with a faulty generator and computer equipment from the 1980s. Some students offered to help with set up but it turned out they had an entirely different agenda

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It's official: we're all Marxists. But thankfully the OfS is on alert to stamp out any radical speech or behaviour

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Day 1 of term and they are literally already brainwashing our students

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 5d

"Mischaracterised by university leaders as financial ‘saving’, austerity is in truth vandalism. It ravages decades of training, accrued and accredited knowledge, and publicly funded research."

UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance

by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 8d

Labour's messaging has never been more toxic. Exploiting a tragic terrorist incident to demonise Palestine solidarity and peaceful protest as "unBritish" signals a further descent into full-blown fascist discourse. We reject your version of Britishness, Shabana

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8d

"I'm here to talk about what others won’t. To tell the truth about what makes our country great and what makes it not so great. While others thrive on creating scapegoats, I am here to tell you a different story."

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Migration is Britain’s superpower. Our future depends on embracing that truth, not denying it | Zack Polanski

Labour has lost its nerve. At our party conference this weekend, we’re gathering to set things right, says Green party leader Zack Polanski

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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 11d

Looking forward to this! Extractive Economies/Insurgent Ecologies: The Contested Politics of Sustainability in Latin America and the Caribbean
📅Wednesday, October 22
🕙10:30am - 6:30pm
📌Queens' Building, 215, Mile End Campus, QMUL
For more info and free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crolac-the...

CRoLAC Thematic Workshop

Extractive Economies/Insurgent Ecologies

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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 18d

Today is publication day!

EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 19d

Too fucking late Keir Starmer

Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 19d

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Kafka-land at UC Berkeley

The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them.

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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 22d

Mass forced displacement, happening now

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 22d

A million civilians are fleeing for their lives from the violent devastating Israeli invasion of Gaza.

Not a peep from our leaders, not even ‘urgings from afar’.

After the UN determines this a genicide, our leaders shrug and say nothing 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔🤬🇮🇱

Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 23d

The relationship between imperialism, capitalism and fascism is continually evolving into monstrous new formations www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Trump and Starmer address business leaders as PM claims new US-UK investments ‘break all records’ – UK politics live

Starmer says deals worth £250bn are ‘flowing both ways across the Atlantic’

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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 23d

Ever wondered what you'd have done in 1930s Germany? Or what you'd do faced with the rise of Fascism in your lifetime? This is it. Whatever you're doing now (or not) is what you'd do

Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · Sep 11

My chapter, on the gas conflict in Bolivia's Tariquía Reserve, considers resource frontiers as key sites of juristocratic reckoning, where discourses of rights are invoked and undermined, and the state’s monopoly on legal authority is called into question www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

Plurinational Juristocracy and Rights from Below at Bolivia’s Gas Frontier (Chapter 8) - Reckoning with Law in Excess

Reckoning with Law in Excess - September 2025

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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · Sep 11

I'm delighted to share this new open access book: Reckoning with Law in Excess: Mobilization, Confrontation, Refusal (Mark Goodale & Olaf Zenker eds.). It was a real pleasure to be part of this project, which shaped my thinking on law and rights. Please share widely www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

Reckoning with Law in Excess

Cambridge Core - International Relations and International Organisations - Reckoning with Law in Excess

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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · Sep 9

It's official: I am going to #LASA2026! For once, possible by train from the UK. Looking forward to a great panel on Institucionalización y legalización del despojo de los Territorios Indígenas, and being discussant for Environmental Counter Histories and Territorial Solidarities

Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · Sep 5

Today I was threatened with arrest by Northumbria Police for holding a placard on public land outside the Israeli-owned Rafael weapons factory (aka Armstrong Works, Pearson Engineering, Responsive Engineering) in Newcastle, in violation of my right to freedom of speech and public assembly

Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · Sep 5

Tomorrow in Newcastle

Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · Sep 5

I always forget LASA only allows you to give one paper per conference. Probably a good thing, including for our own sanity

Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · Sep 1

Policy Exchange is a dark money junktank. No idea why journalists help them publicise their reports

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · Aug 10

RELEASED

We can now confirm that every arrestee from the Lift The Ban sign-holding action has been released. None have been charged.

Hundreds of the arrestees were taken to police cells. Hundreds were processed in pop-up gazebos after queuing for hours.

www.wedonotcomply.org

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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · Aug 9

Strong turnout for the anti-fascist counter-protest in Newcastle today. Covered here www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e... Seems this may be a weekly thing for a while

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Aug 9

NEW: Parliament Square, London right now.

Thousands in a silent, peaceful protest against both the genocide in Gaza and the UK Government prescribing protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

Police now making arrests.

(📸 Saul Staniforth)

Thousands seen sitting with placards that all read “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine action.” Big Ben is seen in the background

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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · Aug 7

When I published this in 2022, I was expecting an explosion of new work looking at how territorial autonomy claims are linked to struggles over the subsoil in Bolivia. This hasn't happened, unless I've missed something. Would appreciate any recommendations though www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Pluri-Extractivist State: Regional Autonomy and the Limits of Indigenous Representation in Bolivia's Gran Chaco Province | Journal of Latin American Studies | Cambridge Core

The Pluri-Extractivist State: Regional Autonomy and the Limits of Indigenous Representation in Bolivia's Gran Chaco Province - Volume 54 Issue 1