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Theo @theobromin.bsky.social · 6d

Call for Abstracts - AAG 2026 | SF
Deadline: October 23rd

Join my Panel at next year's AAG conference on "Infrastructure Monsters and the Specter of Sabotage". We talkin' horror stories, queer geography, ghosts, Marx' specters, ruination, sabotage, and much more!

@geographers.bsky.social #GeoSky

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Arne Rieber @arnerieber.bsky.social · 8d

First day in my new position 🎉 Excited to join the economic geography group at @giubresearch.bsky.social as a postdoctoral researcher. Moving from political ecology to political economy, in the next years I will focus on the role of the state in the geoeconomy and industry policy.

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Department of Geography Bonn @giubresearch.bsky.social · 22d

Congrats to @arnerieber.bsky.social who completed his dissertation this summer! 🎉 Arne worked in @crctrr228.bsky.social on on future-making in large-scale hydraulic infrastructure projects in East Africa.
Read more: bonndoc.ulb.uni-bonn.de/xmlui/handle...
#geosky #PoliticalEcology #geography

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Jannis J Grimm @jannisgrimm.bsky.social · 22d

A thread🧵 on our new study "German Academia since October 7" was released yesterday.

The study, coauthored with Sven Chojnacki, Iman El Ghoubashy, @thaddaea.bsky.social and Nina Moya Schreieder systematically examines how October 7 and the genocide in Gaza have affected researchers in Germany /1

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Arne Rieber @arnerieber.bsky.social · Sep 6

Unfortunately, this view of the GGW is rather outdated. It was never implemented on a large scale, nor did it ever fulfil its promise of being participatory or adapted to the needs of local ecosystems. The green jobs narrative in particular has been debunked

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Great Green Walls: Hype, Myth, and Science | Annual Reviews

Visions of planting walls of trees to block the expansion of the desert have long been promoted but never realized. The green wall myth persists today even though it is premised on outdated understand...

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · Sep 2

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

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Arne Rieber @arnerieber.bsky.social · Sep 3

Long version on LinkedIn

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In late 2022, the Kenyan newspaper Daily Nation reported that the new High Grand Falls Dam would soon irrigate around 400,000 hectares of land and generate 1 GW of electricity for the Kenyan… | Dr. Ar...

In late 2022, the Kenyan newspaper Daily Nation reported that the new High Grand Falls Dam would soon irrigate around 400,000 hectares of land and generate 1 GW of electricity for the Kenyan grid. How...

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Arne Rieber @arnerieber.bsky.social · Sep 3

The case highlights the immense power and violence of infrastructural promises made on large poltical stages. This practice must be challenged and called out, as the harm caused by these political stunts has severe material and immaterial consequences through altering future visions, fears and hope

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Arne Rieber @arnerieber.bsky.social · Sep 3

In 2022 the High Grand Falls Dam was announced by UK and Kenyan governements, to irrigate 400,000ha and produce 1 GW. By 2025 it was cancelled again. What remained in the region was no material change, but the violence of broken promises impacting future-making and everyday actions of those affected

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · Jul 23

"The Government of Israel’s restrictions, delays, and fragmentation under its total siege have created chaos, starvation, and death."

Israel blocking aid from Gaza is creating ‘chaos and death’, say 111 humanitarian groups

Letter signed by agencies including Doctors Without Borders condemn Israeli military attacks on Palestinians

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Arne Rieber @arnerieber.bsky.social · Jun 30

Very happy and proud to share that today I’ve successfully defended my dissertation. So grateful to the @unibonn.bsky.social @giubresearch.bsky.social @crctrr228.bsky.social, my supervisors, reviewers and wonderful colleagues in Bonn who guided and supported me over the last three years!

Photo of myself holding my dissertation in front of a screen that shows the title page of my Defense presentation. Title: „The political ecology of hydraulic infrastructure in Kenya: claim-making and contestations in hydrosocial spaces“

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · Jun 30

📢June Issue of Area📢

This latest issue pulls together the fully #OpenAccess 'Rivers as Borders' Special Section alongside papers on topics including de-development, AI, and diary methods.

Read all the papers here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762... #geosky

A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are seven tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Rivers as Borders'. The papers are:
1) Rivers as borders? Navigating in-between the tensions of water-state-society geographies
Rebekka Kanesu, Vanessa Lamb, Eva McGrath
2) Median line: A century of border violence and the alluvial geopolitics of the Evros/Meriç/Maritsa River border
Ifor Duncan, Stefanos Levidis
3) Slow violence on the Yarmouk River: Encounters from the river-border environments
Muna Dajani
4) Migrating sands: Refocusing transboundary flows from water to sediment
C. R. Hackney
5) Crossing riverborderscapes and a view from in-between: Passenger ferries in South West England
Eva McGrath, Richard Yarwood, Nichola Harmer
6) Liquid lines: Exploring the Moselle River between France, Luxembourg and Germany
Rebekka Kanesu
7) Caring for the river-border: Struggles and opportunities along the Salween River-border
Vanessa Lamb

A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles with the names of papers in the issue. The papers are:
1) On undevelopment and de-development: A geographical critique on perpetual growth and resource-based accumulation
Gertjan Wijburg
2) Place, institutional spatiality, and the localisation of financial calculative practices
Leqian Yu
3) Claim-making in hydrosocial spaces: The temporality of displacement around Kenya's Masinga Dam reservoir
Arne Rieber, Benson Nyaga
4) Deliberative approaches to the climate crisis: Adapting Climathons for rural communities
Philippa Simmonds, Damian Maye, Julie Ingram, Abigail Gardner, Sofia Raseta
5) Ethnographic fingerprints: Examining co-participation, positionality, and interpersonal relationships in diary method
Julius Baker
6) A whole island approach to scoping renewable energy sites and yields
Ben Watt, Robert L. Wilby
7) Past, present, future: The RGS-IBG political geography research group within British political geography
Daniel Hammett
8) Visualising an undergraduate geography field class using generative AI: Intent, expectations and surprises about the racial depiction of students
Terence Day, James Esson

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Theo @theobromin.bsky.social · Jun 17

Can sabotage be an act of care? A way to build the future?

In our new @antipodeonline.bsky.social article, Eric Kioko & I introduce the Sabotage Matrix, a tool to rethink infrastructure sabotage as both destructive and constructive.

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A 2x2 matrix titled "Sabotage Matrix", showing the material and immaterial effects of infrastructure sabotage, divided into destructive (left) and constructive (right) axes.

Top-left (Q1): Labeled "Destructive material effects" with a photo of a partially dismantled dam.

Top-right (Q2): Labeled "Constructive material effects" with a photo of a dislodged water pipe on dry earth.

Bottom-left (Q3): Labeled "Destructive ideational effects", with the quote: "We are saying [sabotage] is good, because it has made the things that were in darkness to come into the light."

Bottom-right (Q4): Labeled "Constructive ideational effects", with the quote: "The reason for us being included, it is because of the destructions they have seen."

The vertical axis is labeled "Material" (top) and "Immaterial" (bottom), and the horizontal axis is labeled "Destructive" (left) and "Constructive" (right).

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Esteve Corbera @estevecorbera.bsky.social · May 19

Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Conference in Barcelona, June 2026. Help us disseminate the event and submit your articles, please! @icta-uab.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social

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POLLEN Conference 2026 - POLLEN

To learn more about our rational and purposes, then please look at this page , or download this document. If would like to participate then the first step is to propose a panel, or some other contribu...

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Arne Rieber @arnerieber.bsky.social · May 14

Vielen Dank super spannend! Ich fände es teilweise noch interessant besser zu beleuchten was die Motive der Teams sind. Also die etwas übergeordnete Taktik. Warum war (nur als Beispiel) ein Visma Fahrer ewig lange vorne im Wind (3-4km vor Ziel) obwohl Yates bestenfalls an 20. Position war?

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Arne Rieber @arnerieber.bsky.social · May 14

Hey Bonn/Cologne people. The KritGeo group at our department is hosting an event next week that speaks for itself in terms of urgency or relevance.

Climate (In-)Justice: The Coloniality of the Climate Crisis. panel discussion with Rose Wanjiku, Lakshmi Thevasagayam & Sara Bahadori. 22 May 2025, 05.30 pm. Geographisches Institut Bonn, Alfred-Philippson Lecture Hall, Meckenheimer Alee 166, 53115 Bonn

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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · May 4

Over the past weeks I've had 2 major grants terminated, from EPA and NSF. Over $1 million of funding for human-enviro geography research lost. These terminations have negative impacts for myself, my graduate students, my university, community partners, and society. #withoutNSF #geosky 1/9 🧪

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · Apr 1

#OA paper in Area:

'Claim-making in hydrosocial spaces: The temporality of displacement around Kenya's Masinga Dam reservoir' by @arnerieber.bsky.social & Benson Nyaga

This paper explores how historical injustices shape contemporary contestations over land & water rights.

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Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library

The article examines the contested hydrosocial territory of the Masinga Dam reservoir in Kenya, focusing on how historical injustices, infrastructural temporalities, and spatial reconfigurations shap...

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CRC-TRR 228 Future Rural Africa @crctrr228.bsky.social · Mar 26

Future Rural Africa Public Lecture:

How does wealth accumulate in African cities & beyond? Who owns what, who gets what, and why?

@econgeo.bsky.social unpacks these questions, linking local & global economies.

📅 7 April 2025
🕓 16:00 - 17:30 (CEST)

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CRC-TRR Public Lecture: Stefan Ouma - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

Mon | April 7th, 2025 | 16:00 – 17:30 (CEST)

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CRC-TRR 228 Future Rural Africa @crctrr228.bsky.social · Mar 12

New Publication!

@theobromin.bsky.social & Detlef Müller-Mahn explore how labor shapes future-making in East African infrastructure projects.

📰➡️https://crc-trr228.de/new-publication-how-labour-has-the-potential-to-make-marginalised-futures-visible-and-real/

New Publication: How Labour has the Potential to Make Marginalised Futures Visible and Real - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

In this recent publication, researchers Theo Aalders and Detlef Müller-Mahn (Project C03 Green Futures) explore how labor shapes future-making in East African

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Arne Rieber @arnerieber.bsky.social · Mar 17

cc/ @crctrr228.bsky.social @giubresearch.bsky.social @theobromin.bsky.social

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Arne Rieber @arnerieber.bsky.social · Mar 17

Really happy to see our article in JPE! In it, we discuss the 'non-economy of anticipation', a double vision in the construction phase of infrastructure, where future promises collide with the actual realities of implementation. We show how this leads to apathy and infrastructural violence.

Screenshot of the article page on the website of Journal of Political Ecology

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Hanna Kienzler @hannakienzler.bsky.social · Feb 13

Politicians in Berlin, @kaiwegner.bsky.social & Ina Czyborra have pressured the FU Berlin to cancel Albanese's & Weizman's lecture. @christinebinzel.bsky.social, @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social and I condemn this in the strongest terms. Below our letters to the politicians in EN & DE, plus a 🧵 1/4

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CRC-TRR 228 Future Rural Africa @crctrr228.bsky.social · Feb 3

Thank you @sebhaug.bsky.social from @idos-research.bsky.social for your contributions in our public lecture series today!

Stay tuned for more lectures:

➡️ crc-trr228.de/crc-lecture-...

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Josh Budlender @joshbudlender.bsky.social · Feb 8

So obvious that it feels absurd to even engage with this, but some statistics re the extreme economic position of white South Africans, in one of the most unequal countries in the world:

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