My first book, Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos (University of Hawai'i Press, 2025), exists in this world!

Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...

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New article!

'Irrigating the periphery: Hydrology, coloniality and counter-irrigation in the Philippines', by Rhomir S. Yanquiling, Wolfram Dressler & Will Smith.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.003

El pueblo de El Nido, en la isla filipina de Palawan, se ha convertido en un popular destino turístico debido a su intensa promoción en redes sociales. Sin embargo, el turismo ha causado una grave contaminación costera. Esta es la situación.
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I mean, JFC if the FT can say it, so can you @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social

Gorillas to be further endangered: the Democratic Republic of the Congo is opening crucial gorilla habitats and pristine forests to bids for oil and gas drilling, with plans to carve up more than half the country into fossil fuel blocks.
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Innocuous-sounding "active clubs", including near where I grew up in Hamilton.
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An open access paper I wrote on differentiated Suharto nostalgia in rural Java for a Journal of Agrarian Change special issue on land and labour in Indonesia: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
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I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky

Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and fines to participate in the annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed by a law passed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing governing party.

Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years. Article in @theconversation.com by Thorsten Mauritsen @stockholm-uni.bsky.social Steven Sherwood UNSW Sydney & Benoit Meyssignac Université de Toulouse #Climate
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Great to talk with @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social about "For the Sake of Forests and Gods" on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social !

The conceptual terrain addressed by the volume is expansive. By approaching this terrain through fine-grained studies grounded in the histories, ecologies, and inequalities of Southeast Asia, the contributors render the multidimensioned violence of our time palpable.
—Tania Murray Li, UoT

… The book’s interdisciplinary focus on the volumetric brings a new vision to our understandings of resource territorialities and a new conceptual tool for analyzing the productions of sterile bodies and barren landscapes.
—Nancy Lee Peluso, University of California, Berkeley

“Violent Atmospheres brings the political ecology of crisis to bear on atmospheric violence in Southeast Asia. The theoretically innovative and ethnographically grounded chapters address the internal contradictions of capital accumulation and how resource conflict triggers atmospheric crises.”

🚨 On behalf of the contributors, Mary Mostafanezhad and I are delighted to announce the publication of our new book, Violent Atmospheres: Livelihoods and Landscapes in Crisis in Southeast Asia, published by the University of Hawaii Press.

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Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊

Canada, we’re with you!
TRUMPISM IS REPUDIATED IN AUSTRALIA!
#auspol

Israel murdered this beautiful soul. Remember Fatima Hassona. Watch and spread the film "Put your soul on your hand and walk". And never stop fighting the mass murdering death machine that is the Israeli state.

She was 25.

How is it possible U.S. citizens are being held as illegal aliens in America even after they produce their birth certificate? This is intolerable. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

Chilling. They are saying that simply taking action in opposition to US foreign policy is grounds for deportation.

Think of the proud lineage of protests against US-backed wars, coups, torture...

BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, Immigration Judge Rules open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

As Duterte faces justice at the ICC in The Hague, the women activists who suffered under his misogynistic violence continue to defend the environment and human rights in the Philippines. Others couldn’t continue their struggle. #fearlessfilipinaactivists

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A graphic video shows the moment that Israeli troops fired on aid workers in clearly marked vehicles in Gaza, killing 15 people. The footage contradicts Israel’s version of events in an episode that has drawn international scrutiny. Read witness accounts: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/w...

Jagan Chapagain, secretary-general of the IFRC, warns against the normalisation of killing humanitarian aid workers following the killing of 15 medics and aid workers by Israeli forces in Gaza last month.

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