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Kasia Paprocki @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is a great piece!

Tanya Matthan @tanyamatthan.bsky.social · Aug 29

My first post is (unfortunately) self-promotional but... this piece on agricultural insurance and political claim-making in rural India has been a long time in the making.

Available open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · Jun 24

New article! Climate Change and Urban-Agrarian Solidarities. @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social and Hillary Angelo and I look across the fields of urban studies and agrarian studies to explore material entanglements and political solidarities. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Climate change and urban-agrarian solidarities

As climate change has heightened the significance of urban-agrarian material entanglements and intellectual and political oppositions, the need to speak across them has become more urgent. Scholars...

www.tandfonline.com

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Asia Society India Centre @india.asiasociety.org · Jun 5

In 'Climate Justice in South Asia,' our panelists, @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social and @harjeet11.bsky.social, and moderator Tushar Shetty will explore the term 'climate justice' and its historical significance, post-colonial legacies of development, and much more.

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Kasia Paprocki @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social · Mar 4

This is today!

The Social Life of Climate Change @slcc-lse.bsky.social · Jan 22

On 4 March, along with @lsehumanrights.bsky.social, we'll be co-hosting @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social of @huntercollege.bsky.social

More info on the seminar here: www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/ev...

And check out this review to get excited with us: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/b...

Cover of Tao Leigh Goffe's book: Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, The Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis.

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Kasia Paprocki @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social · Feb 27

Please share this post widely!

Our human geography collective is a really collegial and dynamic group. I’d be very happy to answer questions about the department from anyone who might be interested.

Claire Mercer @clairemercer.bsky.social · Feb 27

Come and join us at LSE!

Job ad for Asst Prof in Urban Environmental Geography

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Assistant Professor in Urban Environmental Geography

Assistant Professor in Urban Environmental Geography, , As an equal opportunities employer strongly committed to diversity and inclusion, we encourage app...

jobs.lse.ac.uk

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Kasia Paprocki @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social · Jan 31

New forum up @societyandspace.bsky.social magazine organized by @saraheknuth.bsky.social, with contributions by @nithyaaa.bsky.social, Alex Loftus and Jason Cons

Thrilling to have the chance to think with such generous engagements - thanks to them all!

www.societyandspace.org/book-review-...

Threatening Dystopias by Kasia Paprocki

Threatening Dystopias engages the problem of climate change and the highly charged politics of how climate futures are being defined, foreclosed, and contested across an increasing number of sites tod...

www.societyandspace.org

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Dyfrig Jones @dyfrigjones.bsky.social · Jan 22

Ballots for the next round of UCU NEC elections will be posted out next week. The Campaign for UCU Democracy has published a list of voting recommendations. It’s a cross-factional list, made up of the more pragmatic, strategic candidates campaignforucudemocracy.com/2025/01/22/2...

2025 NEC Voting Recommendations

Below is a list of candidates who are standing for election to UCU’s NEC. Some are members of the Campaign for UCU Democracy, some are independents, and some are members of UCU Commons. We be…

campaignforucudemocracy.com

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · Jan 28

🚨 If you're a grad student interested in the intersections of climate, economy, and social justice, please apply to work with us!

Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · Jan 28

We are hiring Junior Research Fellows for the summer of 2025! We are looking for outstanding graduate students to join us for the summer to make meaningful contributions to our transformative research and policy work across geographies and economic sectors. Applications due March 3.

Work With Us - Climate & Community Institute

There are currently no open positions at Climate & Community Institute.

climateandcommunity.org

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Kasia Paprocki @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social · Jan 28

Omg I’m so sorry 😳

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Kasia Paprocki @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social · Jan 28

This piece is so good and so helpful! Literally citing it immediately.

David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · Jan 28

Hot off the digital press, my article in @antipodeonline.bsky.social on Social Reproduction and the Housing Question onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Social Reproduction and the Housing Question

There is broad recognition today that there is a link between the crisis of social reproduction and the housing problem. But their precise relationship is not always clear. This paper is an attempt t...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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The Social Life of Climate Change @slcc-lse.bsky.social · Jan 22

Then on 13 March, we'll close out the term with Jessica Lehman of @geogdurham.bsky.social

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The Social Life of Climate Change @slcc-lse.bsky.social · Jan 22

On 4 March, along with @lsehumanrights.bsky.social, we'll be co-hosting @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social of @huntercollege.bsky.social

More info on the seminar here: www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/ev...

And check out this review to get excited with us: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/b...

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The Social Life of Climate Change @slcc-lse.bsky.social · Jan 22

First up is @professorsud.bsky.social on January 30th

Image for Nikita Sud Social Life of Climate Change seminar

Thursday 30 January 2025, 3-4:30pm
OLD 3.24

Unjust energy transition: Vignettes from the COPs, climate finance, and a coal hotspot

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The Social Life of Climate Change @slcc-lse.bsky.social · Jan 22

Thrilled to announce our upcoming seminars for this term, starting next week!

All seminars co-hosted by the LSE Departments of Geography and Environment, @lsesociology.bsky.social, and the Global School of Sustainability.

Open to all and held in the LSE's Old Building (room 3.24)

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · Jan 21

My book DARK LAB is out today!! And I’m featured in the @nytimes.com book review!!

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Kasia Paprocki @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social · Jan 20

This piece gave me SO much to think about, highly recommended

Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · Jan 14

Rangan, Haripriya & Carney, Judy, (2025) “Towards a buoyant political ecology: Rethinking marginalization for coastal climate change adaptation in the tropics”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 5860. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... [ rolling out the big authors!]

Towards a buoyant political ecology: Rethinking marginalization for coastal climate change adaptation in the tropics

The land-water dichotomy plays a key role in the prevailing global climate change adaptation (CCA) policy discourse for tropical coastal areas. This dichotomy is implicitly informed by a land centered...

doi.org

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Kasia Paprocki @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social · Jan 19

This is the most thoughtful piece I’ve read on these fires since they began.

Here’s a gift link as well:
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/o...

Opinion | There Is No Way to Retreat From the Risk of Wildfires (Gift Article)

Some more realistic ways to think about the challenges ahead.

www.nytimes.com

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Kasia Paprocki @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social · Jan 19

Essential reading on LA wildfire risk from @koslov.bsky.social + Kathryn McConnell

“Managed retreat that is not accompanied by substantial investment in creating safe, sustainable and affordable sources of housing could worsen an already monumental housing crisis.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/o...

Opinion | There Is No Way to Retreat From the Risk of Wildfires

Some more realistic ways to think about the challenges ahead.

www.nytimes.com

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · Jan 9

I can't stop thinking about these people risking their lives to save this city and the people in it who voted just a few months ago to keep them working in these unimaginable conditions

Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · Jan 8

These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

In California, Incarcerated Teenagers Help Fight Wildfires

"You’re put in danger every time you’re on the fire line.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Kasia Paprocki @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social · Dec 28

Annie Shattuck would be great at this.

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Kasia Paprocki @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social · Dec 16

Apply for this job! In an excellent program, with the most wonderful colleagues.

LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · Dec 16

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in the field of #UrbanSociology, who can demonstrate expertise in the social and spatial life of the city, and how planning and/or design impacts urban life.

Applications close Sunday 19th January 2025 (23.59 UK time).

Assistant Professor in Sociology

Assistant Professor in Sociology, , As an equal opportunities employer strongly committed to diversity and inclusion, we encourage applications from women and…

jobs.lse.ac.uk

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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · Dec 14

Several faculty and students were given this designation with no explanation of why other than “violation of university policy.”

In my case, the violation could only have been filming interactions between campus cops, administrators and students during a peaceful sit in.

This is where we are.

Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · Dec 14

NYU Campus Security and Administration is totally out of control.

On Wednesday - I filmed a peaceful protest in Bobst library for two hours.

Yesterday at 2pm while at home,
I received an email explaining that I’ve been designated “persona non grata” and banned from several buildings on campus.

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Kasia Paprocki @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social · Dec 13

New forum in Contemporary South Asia on Threatening Dystopias with reviews by several scholars I've learned so much from (Andrea Nightingale, Ambarish Karamchedu, @mills-novoa.bsky.social, David Ludden) + my response

So honored by the chance to engage with them 🙏 www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccsa20/3...

Contemporary South Asia

Volume 32, Issue 4 of Contemporary South Asia

www.tandfonline.com

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Kasia Paprocki @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social · Dec 10

This looks excellent, congratulations! Can’t wait to read!

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Nikhil Anand @liquidperson2.bsky.social · Dec 5

For those preparing PhD applications to Geography + Anthropology programs in the US in this application cycle,

This guide, prepared by two members of Penn EnviroLab, might be helpful.

upenn.app.box.com/s/a2xbf7xg31...

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