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Maan Barua @maanbarua.bsky.social · Jul 11

Looking forward to this wonderful #MESH conference in Kõln, with Kate Rigby, @franzkrause.bsky.social,
@thomvandooren.bsky.social and others.

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Maan Barua @maanbarua.bsky.social · Jun 21

A thoughtful review of #PlantationWorlds by Bikash K Bhattacharya in South Asian Review. @dukepress.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Plantation Worlds

Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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Infrastructural Geographies @infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social · May 24

The Infrastructural Geographies 2nd Annual Lecture:

Professor Louise Amoore "What Kind of Infrastructure is an Algorithm?"

29th of May, 2025, Univ of Cambridge, Dept of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre

Join us!

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Maan Barua @maanbarua.bsky.social · May 4

Fieldwork for an #Amphious Urbanism. #UrbanEcologies
@erc.europa.eu

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Maan Barua @maanbarua.bsky.social · May 3

#Metabolic #politics: article now out in @tibg.bsky.social Vol 50. #Metabolism

Open access:
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library

This paper develops the concept of metabolic politics: a form of power emerging in response to the fraught and unanticipated effects generated by the industrialisation of life. Metabolic politics act....

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Maan Barua @maanbarua.bsky.social · Apr 28

A review of #PlantationWorlds in the AAG Review of Books: "compelling, well argued and grounded". Thank you @audralmitchell.bsky.social for the thoughtful engagement. @dukepress.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Plantation Worlds

Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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Maan Barua @maanbarua.bsky.social · Apr 13

#PlantationWorlds - thanks @stuartelden.bsky.social for featuring it on your favourite books of 2024-2025! @dukepress.bsky.social

progressivegeographies.com/2024/12/31/m...

My favourite academic books of 2024

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked. The criteria was that they were published in that year (or late the previous one), and that I read and liked them. Many of the …

progressivegeographies.com

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Maan Barua @maanbarua.bsky.social · Apr 4

How do we engage with a world of material transformation hidden in plain sight? #MetabolicFutures at @akademiesolitude.bsky.social starts today!

With Hannah Landecker, Andrew Barry, Matthew Gandy,
@ulibeisel.bsky.social Víctor Muñoz Sanz and many others!

Full programme: bit.ly/4hLTmbB

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Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · Apr 3

Keynote Lecture, Sound Piece & Foodsharing Dinner // Tomorrow we're finally starting the program of »metabolic futures« by inviting you to Akademie Schloss Solitude!

Find the full program here: https://bit.ly/4hLTmbB

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Maan Barua @maanbarua.bsky.social · Mar 26

Thanks for sharing @visualplague.bsky.social!

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Maan Barua @maanbarua.bsky.social · Mar 25

Delighted to be speaking on #PlantationWorlds at the #VitalGreenhouse Conference in Amsterdam today! Will include archival film of the Assam plantations! @dukepress.bsky.social

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Maan Barua @maanbarua.bsky.social · Feb 24

The first launch of #PlantationWorlds at @oxford-anthro.bsky.social, with Thomas Cousins, @lysalcayna.bsky.social and @chihab.bsky.social!

28 February: 16:00 onwards! All welcome! @dukepress.bsky.social

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Maan Barua @maanbarua.bsky.social · Feb 16

Wonderful to see this review of #PlantationWorlds by Ambika Aiyadurai! @dukepress.bsky.social

The India Forum @theindiaforum.bsky.social · Jan 13

"Maan Barua tells the story of the lives of Adivasi & elephants, which were not only shaped by plantations but also by the large infrastructure, exotic plants & modern conservation." Ambika Aiyadurai reviews 'Plantation Worlds' published by @dukepress.bsky.social
www.theindiaforum.in/book-reviews...

Living with Elephants

Conservation efforts largely ignore landscapes where people and animals share the same habitat and conflict with each other. Making sense of life in such environments and easing tensions requires list...

www.theindiaforum.in

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Maan Barua @maanbarua.bsky.social · Feb 3

A recent review of #LivelyCities by Judith Keller published in @geographicalreview.bsky.social! @uminnpress.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FWMWH...

LIVELY CITIES. Reconfiguring Urban Ecology

Published in Geographical Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)

www.tandfonline.com

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Maan Barua @maanbarua.bsky.social · Jan 25

Wonderful @nitin-bathla.bsky.social !

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Progress in Human Geography @proghumgeog.bsky.social · Jan 21

🌍 New paper published in Progress in Human Geography 🌍

'#Metabolic geographies: Work, shifts and politics' by Maan Barua

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Metabolic geographies: Work, shifts and politics - Maan Barua, 2025

This article reinvigorates a pivotal arena of scholarship in human geography and the social sciences: metabolism. It does so by staging an encounter between pol...

journals.sagepub.com

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Jul 8

In "Plantation Worlds," Maan Barua explores the fraught politics of dwelling between elephants and villagers on land that once harbored colonial plantations in northeastern India. Read the introduction for free now.
www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMa...

Cover of Plantation Worlds by Maan Barua. Cover features a multi-media work of abstract art incorporating watercolors, acrylics, and geometric line drawings. The art is pink with blue and green accents.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · Sep 3

New #OpenAccess paper in TIBG:

'Metabolic politics: A comparative synthesis' by Maan Barua

This paper develops the concept of metabolic politics acting on bodies, as distinguished from a biopolitics of populations.

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geo #geosky

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library

This paper develops the concept of metabolic politics: a form of power emerging in response to the fraught and unanticipated effects generated by the industrialisation of life. Metabolic politics act....

doi.org

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