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PhD candidate Indigenous Studies University of Saskatchewan (he/him). Anthropocene, political ontology, race, Indigenous data sovereignty.

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Matt Gravlin @mattgravlin.bsky.social · Apr 5

My new article on critical Indigenous theory in the Anthropocene is published in @millennjournal.bsky.social.

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All My. . . Non-Relation: Critical Indigenous Theory in the Anthropocene - Matthew Gravlin, 2025

This article emerges from dissatisfaction with Indigenous responses to the Anthropocene – a geological epoch that, after centuries of seeking industrial mastery...

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anastasia c. wilson @abolisheconomics.bsky.social · 10d

"Using Marx’s theory of commodity fetishism, it thus contends that care ethics risks treating care as a fetish, obscuring the systemic inequalities and inherent contradictions embedded in caregiving." doi.org/10.1177/1464...

Towards a critique of care fetishism: Social reproduction feminism and the ethics of care - Sara R Farris, 2025

Recently, there has been a notable rise in scholarly publications, research projects and public discussions engaging with care ethics and social reproduction fe...

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Polity @politybooks.bsky.social · May 23

“Anti-technology extremism possesses a remarkable quality: flexibility. This characteristic enables it to unite disparate actors – such as anarchists and white supremacists – under a common banner.”
'Stop the Machines' by @maurolubrano.bsky.social‬ is out today in the UK.

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prairiepolisci.bsky.social @prairiepolisci.bsky.social · 13d

Still buzzing after the largest PPSA/IRW in the organization's history - 230 participants! - held at the beautiful Banff Centre from 19-21 Sept. 2025.
We'll be sharing highlights from the weekend's events on our brand new Instagram, @prairiepolisci! Follow us and keep updated for 2026!

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Alyosha Goldstein @alyoshagoldstein.bsky.social · Aug 21

Jodi Byrd's introduction🔥 to their forthcoming book Indigenomicon now available to download!!! (Full book available in November!) www.dukeupress.edu/indigenomicon

Indigenomicon

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Anna Luisa @anlumaves.bsky.social · Jul 27

I was invited onto my friend Mylan's epic Radicle Narrative podcast to speak on German 'Indianthusiasm,' its ties to ethnonationalism, settler/national identity re/construction and Indigeneity as political currency in Europe: open.spotify.com/episode/11rh...

6.6: The German Fetish for Nativeness: Pretendians, Settler Identity, and Far-right Nationalism

Radicle Narrative · Episode

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Sarah Hunt / Tłaliłila’ogwa @coastaljustice.bsky.social · Jul 14

Excited to share that my article "(Re)Making Native Space: Locating Gendered Geographies of Law, Territoriality, and Dispossession in the Colonial Archive" is out today with the Annals of the AAG @geographers.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

(Re)Making Native Space: Locating Gendered Geographies of Law, Territoriality, and Dispossession in the Colonial Archive

Revisiting Cole Harris’s Making Native Space, this article responds to Harris’s assertion that settler attitudes toward Indigenous people were not gendered but that, rather, it was the civilization...

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Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · Jun 29

I think part why we're seeing an infestation of scientific racism right now is that the obsession with value, metrics, and rankings has bled from business culture into popular culture and everyday life.

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · Jun 29

Icymi last month: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into a national criminal database originally built for people convicted of sex offenses and violent crimes

The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database

Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

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Matt Gravlin @mattgravlin.bsky.social · Jun 20

Great discussion of Anthony Pinn’s Deathlife for #BlackAnthropoceneWorkingGroup.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Jun 4

More than 212 active fires were burning as of Tuesday, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre.

Canadian wildfire smoke spreads across a third of United States

More than 212 active fires were burning as of Tuesday, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre.

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Millennium Journal @millennjournal.bsky.social · May 21

📣 Millennium is excited to announce the Vol. 54's Call for Abstracts for the 2025 Symposium! This year's theme is "After International Relations." We hope to engage with scholars from across the discipline and beyond. 🔗 Read the full call here ⤵️ millenniumjournal.org/call-for-abs...

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Ontario Man (autumnal) @barrhavenist.bsky.social · May 18

Not so long ago. “Despite guarantees of food aid in times of famine in Treaty No. 6, Canadian officials used food, or rather denied food, as a means to ethnically cleanse a vast region from Regina to the Alberta border as the Canadian Pacific Railway took shape.”

Book cover. CLEARING THE PLAINS:
DISEASE, POLITICS OF STARVATION, AND THE LOSS OF INDIGENOUS LIFE.
by JAMES DASCHUK.
WINNER:
Sir John A. Macdonald Prize,
Aboriginal History Prize,
Clio Prize.
OPENING BY NIIGAANWEWIDAM JAMES SINCLAIR.
FOREWORD BY ELIZABETH A. FENN.

Sir John A. Macdonald, acting as both prime minister and minister of Indian affairs during the darkest days of the famine, even boasted that the indigenous population was kept on the
"verge of actual starvation," in an attempt to deflect criticism that he was squandering public funds.
Within a generation, aboriginal bison hunters went from being the "tallest in the world," due to the quality of their nutrition, to a population so sick, they were believed to be racially more susceptible to disease. With this belief that aboriginal people were inherently unwell, their marginalization from mainstream Canada was, in a sense, complete.

What we didn't know at the time was that a key aspect of preparing the land was the subjugation and forced removal of indigenous communities from their traditional territories, essentially clearing the plains of aboriginal people to make way for railway construction and settlement. Despite guarantees of food aid in times of famine in Treaty No. 6, Canadian officials used food, or rather denied food, as a means to ethnically cleanse a vast region from Regina to the Alberta border as the Canadian Pacific Railway took shape.
For years, government officials withheld food from aboriginal people until they moved to their appointed reserves, forcing them to trade freedom for rations. Once on reserves, food placed in ration houses was withheld for so long that much of it rotted while the people it was intended to feed fell into a decades-long cycle of malnutrition, suppressed immunity and sickness from tuberculosis and other diseases. Thousands died.

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Lucas Pohl @lucaspohl.bsky.social · Apr 25

"In defence of maladaptation and its emancipatory promises" has just been published in the European Journal of Social Theory - a paper exploring the limits of adaptation and the promise of maladaptation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In defence of maladaptation and its emancipatory promises - Lucas Pohl, Erik Swyngedouw, 2025

The eco-emancipatory project is hegemonically predicated upon the signifier of socioecological “adaptation.” Given the importance of adaptation, maladaptation u...

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Yoav Galai @yoavgalai.bsky.social · Apr 22

My new open-access article in International Political Sociology is about “visual politics”, a growing subfield of International Relations. It considers how visual politics is structured to ignore race and racism and why it shouldn’t. academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

The Racial Visual Imaginary of International Relations

Abstract. Visual politics is a thriving subfield of international relations (IR) that traces its origin to the “visual turn” at the turn of the century. Ho

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Millennium Journal @millennjournal.bsky.social · Apr 23

📝 Out now from Vol. 53, Issue 2 is a new article "Privileged and Other Civilians: Hierarchies of Credibility, Security, and Compensation in Afghanistan and Iraq" by @christianew.bsky.social, Helyeh Doutaghi, Hijaab Yahya, Abdul Basir Yosufi, and Leah Wilson ⤵️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · Apr 21

It’s Earth Week! In this new series, members of our research network explore how communities have addressed the unequal power dynamics between tech production and deployment, and how tech impacts people’s everyday lives and the environment around them. datasociety.net/points/the-c...

A green, blue, and yellow promotional graphic for the new Points series, “The Cloud is Dead: A Series on Living with Legacies of Resource Extraction,” with essays by Zane Griffin Talley Cooper, Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes, Tamara Kneese, Jen Liu, and Xiaowei Want.

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Sara Cannon, PhD @surlyscientist.bsky.social · Oct 29

📚 Are you working in biodiversity conservation? This reading list is a starting point for non-Indigenous & settler folks to learn about colonial roots in conservation and why supporting Indigenous leadership is essential. Explore topics & resources to dive in: bit.ly/decolonizing... 🧪🦑🌍🦤

Decolonizing Conservation Reading List (Version 2.0)

I’ve decided to migrate the Reading List to a new platform, and I will no longer be updating the original google document (although I will keep the previous version publicly available online)…

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · Apr 18

Centrists are beginning to call for an uprising against Donald Trump.

Yet they helped create this situation by working to suppress the powerful social movements of the past decade.

To involve enough people, any movement against Trump will have to address the material needs of the oppressed.

A screenshot from the New York Times, reading

Opinion
David Brooks

What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.

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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · Apr 16

Why shouldn't the ocean be considered the common heritage of the animals that actually live there, and not just the human beings who (mainly) don't? What would follow from this?

New article 'The common heritage of Animalkind' from Chris Armstrong.

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ABSTRACT
The idea that certain parts of the planet should be treated as the common heritage of humankind is familiar, especially within international law. One implication of that idea is that many non-human animals count as objects of our species’ common heritage, that we all have a stake in. This paper, however, argues that animals should be seen as subjects of common heritage, and not just as objects. Recognising them as subjects means treating them as entities who have interests in common heritage spaces in their own right. The paper explores that idea specifically in relation to the ocean, which is the only home for trillions of animals, and investigates how it might transform the governance of the blue part of our planet.

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The Sanders Institute @sandersinstitute.bsky.social · Apr 15

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor offer hope through understanding, allowing us to counter their narratives with a far better story. @naomiaklein.bsky.social @astra.bsky.social

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Sara Hill @sara-hill.bsky.social · Apr 15

It's here! After a great Q&A with the co-authors, and a particularly excellent and nourishing conversation with @rita-abrahamsen.bsky.social post event, this went straight to the top of my tbr.

Important work examining the radical Right as a global phenomenon.

#AcademicSky
💙📚💡

A paperback book with a cover in shades of red showing the title 'World of the Right: Radical Conservativism and Global Order' and the list of co-authors Rita Abrahamsen, Jean-François Drolet, Michael C. Williams, Srdjan Vucetic, Karin Narita, Alexandra Gheciu.

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Millennium Journal @millennjournal.bsky.social · Apr 15

📝 This new article from Vol. 53, Issue 2 by
@ijreynolds.bsky.social interrogates the link between speed and warfare in American military thought. Read "Speed and War in US Military Thought: Mapping the Conditions for AI–Enabled Decision-Making" below ⤵️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Keith Lewis @drkeith11lewis.bsky.social · Nov 18

Article out in Cultural Politics if anyone wants to read
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Mysticism and the Postanarchist Symbolic

Abstract. This article engages with Meister Eckhart's mystical theology and Lacanian psychoanalysis to explore the role that mysticism can play in the production of an alternative symbolic order that ...

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Cagdas Dedeoglu @cagdasdedeoglu.bsky.social · Apr 12

İnsan ötesi yurttaşlık kavramı çerçevesinde posthümanizmin imkanlarını ve politik alternatifleri konuştuğumuz podcastin kaydına open.spotify.com/episode/2Tg4... linkinden ulaşabilirsiniz.

"Posthuman citizenship" başlıklı makalem ise www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... linkinde açık erişimde.

The abstract of the article "Posthuman citizenship"

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ACME International Journal for Critical Geographies @acme-geography.bsky.social · Apr 9

#Eco-anarchy anyone?

In Francisco J. Toro's "Stateless Environmentalism," Toro looks at the contributions of eco-anarchists in promoting a "non-statist balanced and fair relationship between societies and nature."

From Vol. 20 No. 2: "Anarchist Geographies and the Epistemologies of the State"

Stateless Environmentalism: The Criticism of State by Eco-Anarchist Perspectives | ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies

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