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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 22m

The #POLLEN2026 prelim program looks amazing! With that in mind, John Casellas Connors and I are going to be looking for paper submissions for our accepted session "Critical engagements in necropolitical ecologies" -check it out!

pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/...

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In this proposed session, we welcome papers related to present currents and critiques of political ecology's engagements with Achille Mbembe's theory of necropolitics. Necropolitics, the “…contemporary forms of subjugation of life to the power of death” (Mbembe, 2005: 39), powerfully shows how politics becomes "the work of death" (Ibid., pg. 16). Necropolitics is a welcome antidote to Foucault's theory of biopolitics and its relatively anemic approach to race, the postcolony, and active geographies of death-making practices ranging from overt-geographies of violent confinement and killing such as in Palestine, to the spatial logics of the plantation and its ghostly afterlives (Mbembe, 2003). Necropolitics has quickly emerged as a powerful analytical theory embraced by political ecologists examining subjects ranging from spaces of killing in postcolonial landscapes (Cavanaugh and Himmelfarb, 2015), to climate change (deBoom, 2015), to state practices reconfiguring human relations with ecologies and nonhuman life (Adolfi and Fleishmann, 2024; Bluwstein and De Rosa, 2024; Margulies, 2019).

More recently, several critiques have questioned and raised concerns about the theoretical reading of Mbembe's necropolitics within political ecology (Gibson, 2024; Peters et al., 2024), as well as the political and theoretical consequences of a necropolitical turn away from historically more popular engagements with Foucauldian biopolitics and what might be pursued otherwise as a kind of 'anti-necropolitics' (Strange, 2024). With an openness to critique, generous dialogue, and debate in mind, our session proposes to develop a timely discussion around the (mis)uses of necropolitics in political ecology, welcoming both empirically-driven papers that productively engage with necropolitics as framework and mode of analysis, as well as more theoretically-oriented works that critique or demonstrated the place of necropolitical theory in political ecology today.

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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · 1d

🌅 How are digital technologies refashioning ecological aesthetics? 🌅

Join us for the next Digital Ecologies conference in February 2026 - CFP now open!

We're delighted to welcome Joanna Zylinska and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg as our keynotes!

Any questions, get in touch.

Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social · 1d

🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp

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Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · 3d

This is fantastic news! Congrats, Jules!

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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 6d

New book review -- Christian Lund reads "The Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean" by Timothy Raeymaekers @cornellupress.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/category/boo...

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 14d

Very much looking forward to this - I’ll be talking about the job search in academia, with key insights from some very generous ECRs about their own journeys in to academia. Sign up is in the link ⬇️

Environment and Climate Politics Working Group @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social · 14d

Our next event! 17th October, 1pm-2.30pm. Online, and free to attend.

'Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy' with speakers Professor Rosaleen Duffy, Dr Kai Heron and Dr Jane Clarke.

@kaiheron.bsky.social @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social

www.bisa.ac.uk/events/pathw...

Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy- Environment and Climate Politics | BISA

- Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

www.bisa.ac.uk

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Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · 14d

Will be spending the next few months at the @eui-eu.bsky.social as a visiting fellow working on the history of #conservation #frontiers in Europe. Hit me up if you are around! #GreenFrontier #conservationjustice

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Monica Pons Hernandez @monicapons.bsky.social · 14d

🍂 Just like autumn, the new issue of the GREEN Working Group newsletter has arrived! 🍁

This edition is packed with updates and insights!

Whether you're deep into #greencriminology or just curious about the latest developments, this issue has something for you.

🔗 www.uu.nl/en/research/...

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Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · 22d

Emmy @researchrestore.bsky.social · 22d

Great to see our new guerilla #rewilding #paper out in Oryx
Available #openaccess here 👉🔗

doi.org/10.1017/S003...

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Can we learn from the UK’s guerrilla rewilding movement? | Oryx | Cambridge Core

Can we learn from the UK’s guerrilla rewilding movement?

doi.org

Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · 26d

This is outrageous 😳

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Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · 27d

Got a permanent contract!
Now that's official it's time for a celebratory cake 🎂

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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · 28d

Really pleased to share my new paper—"Making sense of nuclear natures"—which is available open access in Progress in Environmental Geography!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @progenvgeog.bsky.social @technatures.bsky.social #NuclearNatures

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

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Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · 29d

3 weeks left until the deadline!
#ecojustice #envJustice #greyzone #greenTransition

Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · Jul 22

Working on #EnvironmentalJustice topics in Central and Eastern Europe? Then you might want to send an abstract for the conference 'The Greyzone of the Green Transition' that I'm co-organizing with my colleagues from Sibiu next year in Romania (18-19 May 2026).
Participation is free of charge!

International Conference: The Greyzone of the Green Transition – ecoJust home

grants.ulbsibiu.ro

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Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · Sep 5

This sounds extremely exciting! Congrats, and very much looking for updates as the research goes on!

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Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · Sep 4

Much deserved, Masha! I am extremely happy for you, hope you have a nice celebration!

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · Aug 29

📣3 more sleeps until ….so very excited to get going on this with a terrific team.
📆 we officially start 1 Sept
👀 look out for 4 x 3 year post docs to be advertised in early 2026
🥂🐦‍⬛🐄 🐕‍🦺🐎🥂

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · Feb 27

1/ 📣 Big news! For the next 5 years I’ll be working with this amazing team @evahaifa.bsky.social Alasdair Cochrane & Bob McKay on the @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded Multispecies Mutualisms project wellcome.org/grant-fundin...

Photo of From r-l Alasdair Cochrane Rosaleen Duffy Bob McKay and Eva Haifa Giraud

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Paul Keil @paulgkeil.bsky.social · Aug 19

Looking forward to opening up the new academic year with a talk by Fenna Smits

Register (in person or online) here:

forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

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Paul Keil @paulgkeil.bsky.social · Aug 4

I had a paper published in Humanimalia last week, called the "Feral at Home". I'm chuffed about the timing because it joins a great selection of other papers

I'll add a few more details about the paper below, but shoutout to all the great & hard work of the journal editors. And for keeping it OA

Humanimalia @humanimalia.bsky.social · Jul 30

Out Now: Humanimalia 15.2!
Featuring timely essays on human–animal entanglements, including 🐴 a taxidermied horse in London, 🐗 a feral pig in Australia, 🐐 “happy” goats in Italy, 🐾 robot dogs in Gaza, 🐦 pheasants in NL, and 🐑 sheepdogs in the UK.
🔓 OA here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...

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Monica Vasile 🐾 @monicavasile.bsky.social · Aug 2

1/ Happy to share that my article “Beyond Homecoming: The Reintroduction of Seven Przewalski’s Mares in the Gobi Desert” has been published in Environmental Humanities.

It is the story of seven mares flown from Australian zoos to Mongolia’s Gobi Desert in the 1990s
doi.org/10.1215/2201... #envhist

Reintroduction of Przewalski's horses in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, 1990s. Transported by aircraft, arriving in crates. Photo by ITG, Ruth Baumgartner.

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · Jul 25

#OpenAccess in Area:

'The politics of rewilding through an ecofeminist lens' by @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social

This short commentary is part of a forthcoming Special Section on 'Gender and Rewilding'.

doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library

In this short commentary for the Gender and Rewilding Special Section, I look through an ecofeminist lens to focus on two themes in the special issue—reproductive labour and epistemic injustice—that ...

doi.org

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Journal of Political Ecology @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social · Jul 27

Chapman, K. & Tait, M., (2025) “Commodification, labor, abstraction: Three key concepts to understand the many-headed hydra of biodiversity offsetting”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 6186. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe....

@pollenetwork.bsky.social

Commodification, labor, abstraction: Three key concepts to understand the many-headed hydra of biodiversity offsetting

Natural capital approaches to mitigating the impacts of construction projects, in which environmental harms and mitigations are calculated and then traded, have become dominant features of contemporar...

doi.org

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Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · Jul 24

Direct link to pdf journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/...

A harms-based political ecology: Understanding harms through the wildlife trade

In this article, we examine how political ecology can benefit from greater engagement with green criminology's focus on harms. We do so by developing a harms-based political ecology, which is a useful...

journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu

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Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · Jul 24

Direct link to the article's PDF journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/...

A harms-based political ecology: Understanding harms through the wildlife trade

In this article, we examine how political ecology can benefit from greater engagement with green criminology's focus on harms. We do so by developing a harms-based political ecology, which is a useful...

journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu

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Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · Jul 24

New paper just out in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social proposing a harms-based approach to #politicalecology. Rosaleen wrote a full thread about it, so go check it out!

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · Jul 24

1/ 📄New paper! Alison Hutchinson @georgeiorda.bsky.social Teresa Lappe-Osthege & myself have developed a new harms-based #PoliticalEcology as a way of understanding the #WildlifeTrade published in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social ⬇️
beastlybusiness.org/2025/07/23/n...

New paper on harms-based political ecology - Beastly Business

Our team members Alison Hutchinson, Rosaleen Duffy, George Iordachescu and Teresa Lappe-Osthege developed an idea of bringing together debates on harms from green criminology with political ecology co...

beastlybusiness.org

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Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · Jul 22

Thanks a million for sharing in the group, too! We look forward to welcoming you, if you consider participating 😀

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Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · Jul 22

Proposals should include a title, abstract (up to 300 words), and a brief biography of the author(s) (up to 200 words). Please specify in your proposal which thematic cluster you opted for.

Please submit your proposals to [email protected] by September 30th, 2025!

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