POLLEN - Political Ecology Network
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A political ecology network that unites multiple voices in environmental justice and resource struggles.
🌍 2 Fully-funded PhDs in Global Methane Politics at UniofLeeds! Study coal or wastewater methane, join an ERC-funded team, do international fieldwork & shape climate policy research. Start Oct 2026. Apply now! 🔬💨 #ClimateJobs #PhD #Methane phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2341...
Global Methane Politics
Project opportunity - Global Methane Politics at the University of Leeds
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January 14, 2026 at 2:57 PM
🌍 2 Fully-funded PhDs in Global Methane Politics at UniofLeeds! Study coal or wastewater methane, join an ERC-funded team, do international fieldwork & shape climate policy research. Start Oct 2026. Apply now! 🔬💨 #ClimateJobs #PhD #Methane phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2341...
3 Post Doc Fellowship in Global Methane Politics at Leeds Univ! Study methane emissions in livestock, oil & gas, or solid waste, with a political ecology approach across multiple countries. 3-year ERC-funded roles start Sep 2026. Apply Now! 🔬💨 #ClimateJobs #Methane jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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January 14, 2026 at 2:55 PM
3 Post Doc Fellowship in Global Methane Politics at Leeds Univ! Study methane emissions in livestock, oil & gas, or solid waste, with a political ecology approach across multiple countries. 3-year ERC-funded roles start Sep 2026. Apply Now! 🔬💨 #ClimateJobs #Methane jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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REFOREST is recruiting a funded PhD positions in the Forest Sciences for applicants from Ethiopia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. Deadline January 25. Please see further information at: www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz/reforest/
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December 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
REFOREST is recruiting a funded PhD positions in the Forest Sciences for applicants from Ethiopia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. Deadline January 25. Please see further information at: www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz/reforest/
📚 New Research 🌿During COVID‑19, Madagascar’s informal workers, became essential in producing ravintsara oil, a plant with antiviral reputation, producing alternative medicine in pandemic chaos. 🌍💧 #Ethnography #EssentialWorkers anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library
During the COVID-19 pandemic, global demand for ravintsara (Cinnamomum camphora ct 1,8-cineole), an introduced yet naturalized medicinal tree, surged due to its reputed antiviral properties. In Madag...
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January 14, 2026 at 2:44 PM
📚 New Research 🌿During COVID‑19, Madagascar’s informal workers, became essential in producing ravintsara oil, a plant with antiviral reputation, producing alternative medicine in pandemic chaos. 🌍💧 #Ethnography #EssentialWorkers anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🌱 Indian ecologist Madhav Gadgil — renowned for blending science with grassroots environmental advocacy and people’s livelihoods — has passed away at 83. A champion of democratic conservation and ecological justice🕊️ #MadhavGadgil #Environment #Conservation www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/madh...
Madhav Gadgil: Nature’s spokesperson, a scientist of the people
Madhav combined rigour in his research with a deep sensitivity to issues of people’s concerns and livelihoods
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January 14, 2026 at 2:39 PM
🌱 Indian ecologist Madhav Gadgil — renowned for blending science with grassroots environmental advocacy and people’s livelihoods — has passed away at 83. A champion of democratic conservation and ecological justice🕊️ #MadhavGadgil #Environment #Conservation www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/madh...
🗺️ BBC warns Trump’s foreign policy — from Venezuela to a new “Donroe Doctrine” — could push world politics back toward imperial-style power and away from alliance-based cooperation. 🌍💥 #BBCNews #Geopolitics www.bbc.com/news/article...
Bowen: Trump risks pushing world back to age of empires
Donald Trump wants and needs quick victories. Taking Maduro is the decisive win he has craved, writes Jeremy Bowen.
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January 14, 2026 at 2:37 PM
🗺️ BBC warns Trump’s foreign policy — from Venezuela to a new “Donroe Doctrine” — could push world politics back toward imperial-style power and away from alliance-based cooperation. 🌍💥 #BBCNews #Geopolitics www.bbc.com/news/article...
📽️ Bolivia on Fire — a documentary on the destruction of the Bolivian Amazon driven by agribusiness and export interests, with closer ties to Catalonia than we might think. Screening Jan 19, 7pm at Zumzeig Cinema (Barcelona). 🌱🔥 zumzeigcine.coop/es/cine/film...
Bolívia en flames
Documental sobre el ecocidio en la Amazonia boliviana, que ilustra la relación entre el consumo en los países occidentales y la crisis ecológica.
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January 14, 2026 at 2:34 PM
📽️ Bolivia on Fire — a documentary on the destruction of the Bolivian Amazon driven by agribusiness and export interests, with closer ties to Catalonia than we might think. Screening Jan 19, 7pm at Zumzeig Cinema (Barcelona). 🌱🔥 zumzeigcine.coop/es/cine/film...
📍 Greenland is at the center of a new global raw materials race. As climate change melts its ice, vast deposits of rare earths and critical minerals essential for tech, green energy and military systems are becoming more visible. More information below: www.csis.org/analysis/gre...
Greenland, Rare Earths, and Arctic Security
Greenland holds globally significant rare earth resources, but harsh conditions and weak infrastructure have stalled mining. U.S. interests are best advanced not through coercion, but coordinated inve...
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January 14, 2026 at 2:32 PM
📍 Greenland is at the center of a new global raw materials race. As climate change melts its ice, vast deposits of rare earths and critical minerals essential for tech, green energy and military systems are becoming more visible. More information below: www.csis.org/analysis/gre...
📣On May 12-15 in Barcelona the conference The Apocalypse is Not Coming (TANC) invites submissions for paper, to transdisciplinary panels exploring apocalyptic imaginaries, crisis, and regenerative futures across fields. 🌍✨https://webs.uab.cat/apocalypse-conf/call-for-papers/
January 14, 2026 at 12:31 PM
📣On May 12-15 in Barcelona the conference The Apocalypse is Not Coming (TANC) invites submissions for paper, to transdisciplinary panels exploring apocalyptic imaginaries, crisis, and regenerative futures across fields. 🌍✨https://webs.uab.cat/apocalypse-conf/call-for-papers/
A very interesting book to better understand all the complexities of the Wildlife Crime. @geofrancismasse.bsky.social
Check out newly published Handbook of Wildlife Crime with starting premise of taking a critical approach to researching/understanding wildlife crime. With most wonderful coeditors @ahubschle.bsky.social R. Wong L. Gutierrez T. Wyatt & contributors
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Routledge Handbook of Wildlife Crime
The Routledge Handbook of Wildlife Crime provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of wildlife crime in its various forms.
The effects of wildlife crime and overexploitation are contribu...
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January 14, 2026 at 12:23 PM
A very interesting book to better understand all the complexities of the Wildlife Crime. @geofrancismasse.bsky.social
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West, P. & Aini, J., (2026) “Weaving the Sacred Back In: Revitalizing biocultural diversity through Indigenous-led conservation sovereignty in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea”, Journal of Political Ecology 33(1): 10303. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe....
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Weaving the Sacred Back In: Revitalizing biocultural diversity through Indigenous-led conservation sovereignty in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Conservation practices in the twenty-first century are facing a critical reckoning as global biodiversity loss, climate disruption and social inequalities expose the limitations of exclusionary, top-d...
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January 3, 2026 at 12:37 PM
West, P. & Aini, J., (2026) “Weaving the Sacred Back In: Revitalizing biocultural diversity through Indigenous-led conservation sovereignty in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea”, Journal of Political Ecology 33(1): 10303. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe....
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NEW ARTICLE 📖 Restoring former saltpans in France’s Camargue reveals tensions between climate risk, economic precarity, and differing views of nature. These conflicts have limited support for the project and challenged its framing as a nature-based solution. www.revue-mem.com/571
Situating vulnerability in relation to nature(s): the case of a saltpan restoration project in the Camargue – Mutations en Méditerranée
This article discusses the implementation of an ecosystem restoration project on formerly exploited saltpans in the Camargue, France, to interrogate human and non-human types of vulnerability. Using a...
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December 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
NEW ARTICLE 📖 Restoring former saltpans in France’s Camargue reveals tensions between climate risk, economic precarity, and differing views of nature. These conflicts have limited support for the project and challenged its framing as a nature-based solution. www.revue-mem.com/571
REFOREST is recruiting a funded PhD positions in the Forest Sciences for applicants from Ethiopia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. Deadline January 25. Please see further information at: www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz/reforest/
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December 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
REFOREST is recruiting a funded PhD positions in the Forest Sciences for applicants from Ethiopia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. Deadline January 25. Please see further information at: www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz/reforest/
Since 2010 RWM/Rheinmetall produces weapons in Sulcis, Sardegna, expanding to fuel wars in Palestine, Yemen, Ukraine, Kurdistan.They are now pushing for retroactive approval to expand the arms industry at the expense of people & the environment. MORE INFO: www.italiachecambia.org/2025/10/rwm-...
RWM e ampliamento: la fabbrica di bombe del Sulcis e la decisione che attende la Giunta Todde | Sardegna che cambia
Il caso RWM Sardegna: la fabbrica di bombe nel Sulcis e la richiesta alla Giunta Todde di fermarne l’ampliamento.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Since 2010 RWM/Rheinmetall produces weapons in Sulcis, Sardegna, expanding to fuel wars in Palestine, Yemen, Ukraine, Kurdistan.They are now pushing for retroactive approval to expand the arms industry at the expense of people & the environment. MORE INFO: www.italiachecambia.org/2025/10/rwm-...
Important paper exploring how power, pedagogy, and praxis shape inequitable climate knowledge, governance, and policy🌎 📖: Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality. By Farhana Sultana rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality
The material dimensions of loss and damage from climate change are compounded by systemic knowledge-based loss and epistemic injustice from the marginalisation and exclusion of critical voices and kn...
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December 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Important paper exploring how power, pedagogy, and praxis shape inequitable climate knowledge, governance, and policy🌎 📖: Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality. By Farhana Sultana rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Special Issue: 🎇 Introducing Anarchy and Degrowth: Towards rebellious, prefigurative, and insurrectionary degrowth ecologies. www.degrowthjournal.org/publications... @drxdunlap.bsky.social
Editorial: Introducing Anarchy and Degrowth: Towards rebellious, prefigurative, and insurrectionary degrowth ecologies | Degrowth Journal
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December 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Special Issue: 🎇 Introducing Anarchy and Degrowth: Towards rebellious, prefigurative, and insurrectionary degrowth ecologies. www.degrowthjournal.org/publications... @drxdunlap.bsky.social
New paper is out 📖: Nature, rent and the persistence of inequality: A Georgist political ecology. In Human Geography. By @Joe Williams journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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December 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
New paper is out 📖: Nature, rent and the persistence of inequality: A Georgist political ecology. In Human Geography. By @Joe Williams journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
New Blog Post ⌛by @drxdunlap.bsky.social On the Paradox of the Energy Transition and the Lithium Mining extraction in Europe. undisciplinedenvironments.org/2025/12/15/p...
Publicly Funded Mining Propaganda: Europe’s Lithium Paradox (2025) - Undisciplined Environments
by Alexander Dunlap, Mariana Riquito, Bojana Novaković & Darko Lagunas Leon A thorough debunking of the recent documentary Europe’s Lithium Paradox, which leads to broader...
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December 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
New Blog Post ⌛by @drxdunlap.bsky.social On the Paradox of the Energy Transition and the Lithium Mining extraction in Europe. undisciplinedenvironments.org/2025/12/15/p...
New article is out 📖: Under the palm trees: Social and environmental considerations around the expansion of Medjool dates in the Southern Jordan Valley. In Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies. By Livia Perosino link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Under the palm trees: Social and environmental considerations around the expansion of Medjool dates in the Southern Jordan Valley - Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies
The article analyses the agricultural transformation of the Jordan Valley (JV). The specific socio-technical imaginary that has driven this transformation has led to the systematic overexploitation of...
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December 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
New article is out 📖: Under the palm trees: Social and environmental considerations around the expansion of Medjool dates in the Southern Jordan Valley. In Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies. By Livia Perosino link.springer.com/article/10.1...
17/12/2025 in Barcelona, Espai KU. "Historia del Agua de Mendoza" A documentary on people’s struggle to defend water. A story of how protection was lost, resistance began, and water was reclaimed in ten day. espaiku.blogspot.com/2025/12/pase...
Pase del documental: HAM - Historia del Agua de Mendoza
--Documental-- Miércoles 17.12, 19.30 h.-- 2019 : El gobierno local deroga la 7.722 que impide el uso de tóxicos en la minería. El pueblo lo...
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December 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
17/12/2025 in Barcelona, Espai KU. "Historia del Agua de Mendoza" A documentary on people’s struggle to defend water. A story of how protection was lost, resistance began, and water was reclaimed in ten day. espaiku.blogspot.com/2025/12/pase...
📢 Community-led conservation from the ground up: learning, agency, tenacity, and solidarity as key forces shaping environmental governance beyond top-down models. pollenpoliticalecology.network/community-le...
Community-Led Conservation: Learning Agency, Tenacity, and Solidarity from the Ground Up - POLLEN
Johan-Arango Quiroga explains his inspiring journey from engineering towards environmental justice.
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December 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
📢 Community-led conservation from the ground up: learning, agency, tenacity, and solidarity as key forces shaping environmental governance beyond top-down models. pollenpoliticalecology.network/community-le...
E finalmente "Conservation Revolution" in Italiano!! :) Importante testo per capire il legame tra Conservazione della biodiversità, il colonialismo, e l'economia Capitalista. Una chiamata verso la convivialità!
The Conservation Revolution is out in Italian!
Conservation revolution. Idee radicali per salvare la natura oltre l'Antropocene (MiMesis)
Many thanks to Marco Immovilli, Margherita Cisani, Andrea Zinzani & Giacomo Zanolin for their amazing work!
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Conservation revolution. Idee radicali per salvare la natura oltre l'Antropocene (MiMesis)
Many thanks to Marco Immovilli, Margherita Cisani, Andrea Zinzani & Giacomo Zanolin for their amazing work!
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December 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
E finalmente "Conservation Revolution" in Italiano!! :) Importante testo per capire il legame tra Conservazione della biodiversità, il colonialismo, e l'economia Capitalista. Una chiamata verso la convivialità!
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Castillo, C., (2025) “Environmentalities, subjectivities, and adaptation capacities in Costa Rican smallholder farms”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 7082. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social
Environmentalities, subjectivities, and adaptation capacities in Costa Rican smallholder farms
This article explores how different forms of adaptation governance in Costa Rica shape subjectivities and adaptation capacities in smallholder farms. The country presently has a neoliberal-welfare sta...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Castillo, C., (2025) “Environmentalities, subjectivities, and adaptation capacities in Costa Rican smallholder farms”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 7082. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social
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📢New article Undisciplined Environments
debunking the film "Europe's Lithium Paradox."
undisciplinedenvironments.org/2025/12/15/p...
It is disappointing this film was hosted @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
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#climate #energy
debunking the film "Europe's Lithium Paradox."
undisciplinedenvironments.org/2025/12/15/p...
It is disappointing this film was hosted @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
@pollenetwork.bsky.social @r-degrowth.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social
#climate #energy
December 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
📢New article Undisciplined Environments
debunking the film "Europe's Lithium Paradox."
undisciplinedenvironments.org/2025/12/15/p...
It is disappointing this film was hosted @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
@pollenetwork.bsky.social @r-degrowth.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social
#climate #energy
debunking the film "Europe's Lithium Paradox."
undisciplinedenvironments.org/2025/12/15/p...
It is disappointing this film was hosted @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
@pollenetwork.bsky.social @r-degrowth.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social
#climate #energy
New paper 📖: Staddon, S. 2025. The Politics of Care in Coping Well with Change: Conceptualising and Questioning Care to Move beyond ‘Resilience’ in Rural Nepal. Journal of Forest and Livelihood, 25(1): 1-21 nepjol.info/index.php/JF...
The Politics of Care in Coping Well with Change: Conceptualising and Questioning Care to Move beyond ‘Resilience’ in Rural Nepal.
| Journal of Forest and Livelihood
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December 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
New paper 📖: Staddon, S. 2025. The Politics of Care in Coping Well with Change: Conceptualising and Questioning Care to Move beyond ‘Resilience’ in Rural Nepal. Journal of Forest and Livelihood, 25(1): 1-21 nepjol.info/index.php/JF...