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Political Ecology of Environmental Conflict @criticalpoleco.bsky.social · 24d

New semester, new students, old politics. But never did I think I would introduce Mahmood Mamdhani as "Zohran's dad" 😀

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Political Ecology of Environmental Conflict @criticalpoleco.bsky.social · Aug 26

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor - Technology, Society, and Power at the School of Information, University of Michigan, in the areas of critical study of technology and its relationship to governance, violence, control, surveillance, resistance, and war apply.interfolio.com/171466

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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · Jul 28

We may have the chance to hire an outstanding researcher 3+ years post PhD to join Tarleton Gillespie, Mary Gray and me in Cambridge MA bringing critical sociotechnical perspectives to bear on new technologies.

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Political Ecology of Environmental Conflict @criticalpoleco.bsky.social · Jul 2

Land grabbing through unlivability: Necro-scapes and slow violence in the expansion of conservation regimes in Tanzania journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Land grabbing through unlivability: Necro-scapes and slow violence in the expansion of conservation regimes in Tanzania - Felix Mantz, 2025

Land grabbing is a persistent and highly dynamic global phenomenon whereby people's power over territories are alienated through multiple and ever-changing...

Political Ecology of Environmental Conflict @criticalpoleco.bsky.social · Jun 25

This seems relevant, especially this week - "Raising the temperature: A critical geographical perspective on heat" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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The business of saving cheetahs: Cheetah ecology and the diverse politics at work in human wildlife conflict (HWC) interventions in Namibia - Suzanne Brandon, 2024

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Suzy Brandon Ph.D. @suzywbrandon.bsky.social · Jun 11

I want to share my article where I discuss the #conservationcapitalistclass & how #cheetah #conservation #NGOs, as part of this class, are institutions of global academic, economic, & social power in conservation #politicalecology #humangeography #geography

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This paper is concerned with the intersection of cheetah ecology, human wildlife conflict (HWC), settler colonialism, and private land ownership in Namibia. Che...

The colonial ghosts of Uganda’s ‘Queen Elizabeth’ park

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · Jun 4

Don’t miss this deep dive on #QENP by the brilliant @shokes.bsky.social @mongabay.com #militarisation #conservation #rangers #poaching #HumanRights

Mongabay @mongabay.com · Jun 4

🏞️ What happens when a park protects wildlife—but displaces people?

In Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park, residents still live under restrictions imposed since British rule and tensions persist.

@shokes.bsky.social and Mongabay’s new series, Beyond the Safari, dives deep: buff.ly/FeXcX04.

KATWE, Uganda — In 1889, the British journalist Henry Morton Stanley stumbled out of the forests of Central Africa into the town of Katwe, a settlement on the shore of a sulfurous volcanic lake. The…

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Political Ecology of Environmental Conflict @criticalpoleco.bsky.social · Jun 1

"Coercive animal labour is central to capitalism"...MUST READ... Multispecies slavery–environment nexus in resource extraction and animals' ecological politics: Coercive donkey labour in Indian river sand mining @pollenetwork.bsky.social rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Coercive animal labour is often state sanctioned as an ecologically friendly mode of sand mining, based on anthropocentric environmental ideology that sees animal bodies as solutions or fixes for oft...

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Political Ecology of Environmental Conflict @criticalpoleco.bsky.social · May 3

Putting the digit back in digital: Zero as number and concept in the digitisation of forests journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Contentious plots: Staking durable claims to ethnic belonging in Nairobi - Shakirah E Hudani, 2025

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Sara Smith @geogsara.bsky.social · Apr 23

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Shakirah Hudani @shakirahh.bsky.social · Apr 22

New article in @societyandspace.bsky.social "Contentious Plots: Staking durable claims to ethnic belonging in Nairobi": journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How are ethnicity, citizenship, and social class articulated spatially in the postcolonial African metropolis over time? In this article, I examine the metamorp...

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Political Ecology of Environmental Conflict @criticalpoleco.bsky.social · Feb 12

Ventography and the spatial politics of wind. The article shows "how endeavors to map wind for energy are shaped by specific spatial imaginations, which are in turn making it possible for the UK to advance sovereign claims over volumetric spaces offshore" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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“We Women Are Suffering”: Fragile Water Infrastructure and Gendered Embodied Labor

Political Ecology of Environmental Conflict @criticalpoleco.bsky.social · Feb 6

Fantastic work by Marlotte de Jong "We argue that viewing water infrastructure as “complete” and “durable” hides the inherent fragility of these systems and how they create conditions of water insecurity." www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... @pollenetwork.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social

One of the core tenets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 is the achievement of universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all by 2030. In Kili...

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Political Ecology of Environmental Conflict @criticalpoleco.bsky.social · Feb 3

Digitalizing sewage: The politics of producing, sharing, and operationalizing data from wastewater-based surveillance journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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From Coercive to Carceral Conservation: Reframing Conservation through Abolition Ecologies

Political Ecology of Environmental Conflict @criticalpoleco.bsky.social · Jan 21

Previously posted on that *other* app "From Coercive to Carceral Conservation: Reframing Conservation through Abolition Ecologies" New work by PhD students Marlotte de Jong, Ember McCoy and myself onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social

Critical social science research on conservation practice has long articulated the tactics that emerge out of a history of carcerality, environmental racism, colonialism, and violence against oppress...

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Political Ecology of Environmental Conflict @criticalpoleco.bsky.social · Jan 2

Another great one! "what are the emerging political economic actors, practices, and relations of wastewater surveillance? And how are emergent multi-institutional public-private partnerships and contracts transforming public health governance?" rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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With the outbreak of COVID-19, wastewater surveillance for public health rapidly emerged and expanded globally. In this article we chart the variegated ecosystem of private firms that work closely wi...

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Political Ecology of Environmental Conflict @criticalpoleco.bsky.social · Jan 1

Great new article in @antipodeonline.bsky.social on the intersections between climate finance, windfarms, electric grids and local herders. For those interested in pastoralism, the notion of Aeolian pastoralism is exciting and innovative. Learn more here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Deserts of Wind: Aeolian‐Pastoralism and the Limits of Climate Finance in Jordan

Around the world, a growing cadre of investors are banking on profitability of climate change through the interface of national energy transition programmes. In Jordan, national energy transition ush...

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Political Ecology of Environmental Conflict @criticalpoleco.bsky.social · Dec 5

"..exploring the emergence of anti-racist decolonial themes in Anglo-American geo.. I argue that the whiteness of the discipline, its roots in colonial modernity, as well as the neoliberal production of whiteness in Higher Education stymies decolonizing agendas" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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The 'bison skull mountain' photo that reveals the US's dark history

Political Ecology of Environmental Conflict @criticalpoleco.bsky.social · Dec 4

A good way to get your students to see what colonial control does to indigenous lives..."Native Americans had hunted bison for centuries. For bison nations, it was part of their primarily nomadic culture and the animals provided them with vital sustenance." www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The photo of two men standing on a mountain of bison skulls is well known as a symbol of hunting during colonisation of the US. But there's a more sinister story that lies behind it.

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The Battle For Laikipia I Official Trailer I MetFilm Sales

Political Ecology of Environmental Conflict @criticalpoleco.bsky.social · Dec 2

Teaching a conservation class next term/semester. Consider adding this to the watchlist
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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · Dec 1

An article I didn't want to write:
'On the #politicalontology of making things up in #politicalecology critique: An engagement with Bormpoudakis (2019) and Knudsen (2023)'
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On the political ontology of making things up in political ecology critique: An engagement with Bormpoudakis (2019) and Knudsen (2023)

I engage with two recent articles published in the Journal of Political Ecology, both of which critique political ecology engagements with ontological and epistemological complexities. These complexit...

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Political Ecology of Environmental Conflict @criticalpoleco.bsky.social · Dec 1

Those studying human-animal dialectics, add this to your list. Digital animal deathscapes: The online circulation of animals killed for conservation rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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This paper brings together animal, death, and digital geographies to examine the sharing of dead animal imagery on social media by conservationists in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). It is particularly co...

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Political Ecology of Environmental Conflict @criticalpoleco.bsky.social · Nov 28

This looks so good. Amazing work. Add this to your syllabi. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The gendered forest: Digital surveillance technologies for conservation and gender-environment relationships - Trishant Simlai, Chris Sandbrook, 2024

Forests are critical spaces that shape and enable gendered subjectivities in culturally and historically specific ways. However, scholarly work on forest or bio...