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POLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social · 5d

🚀 Introducing Rupture Press: breaking free from academic publishing norms to liberate critical, unruly ideas—open access books & radical critique for our times. #OpenAccess #RadicalPublishing #ChangeThroughWords www.rupturepress.org @drxdunlap.bsky.social

RUPTURE PRESS

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POLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social · 5d

October 13, 2pm IST - book presentation in New Delhi "Sheher Mein Gaon" by Ekta Chauhanu - how oral histories reveal hidden layers of urbanization, migration & memory—reshaping how we think about cities, heritage & belonging in South Asia. #UrbanStudies #OralHistory www.google.com/url?q=https:...

[CSH Seminar] Sheher mein gaon: Telling Urban-Rural Histories through Oral Narratives

Speaker: Ekta Chauhan (O.P. Jindal Global University) Date & Time: Monday, 13 October 2025 at 5 PM IST Note: We request you to pre-register by filling the form. Offline seats are limited and will be r...

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POLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 Launch of the North American Center for Post-Growth Research! They are hiring a founding Executive Director to help shape a future beyond profit & growth. Apply or share widely: oficina-degrowth.commonscloud.coop/s/HgPwn9yWyj... #PostGrowth #Hiring

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POLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social · 5d

A report by FIAN international “Land and Power: Inside the Rise of the World’s Transnational Landowners” exposes how corporate land grabs—from pension funds to agribusiness—worsen inequality and climate crisis. #LandJustice #ClimateAction 🌍 institutionallandscapes.org/contribution...

#27 Land and Power: Inside the Rise of the World’s Transnational Landowners | Institutional Landscapes

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POLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social · 5d

🔥 The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late by Malm & Carton exposes the techno-fix fantasies peddled as climate salvation. It argues we can’t outsource responsibility — the climate revolution must be political, not just technical. #ClimateJustice #NoQuickFix

The Long Heat

The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the Paris Agreement, have been passed? In the overshoot era, sc...

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Xander Dunlap @drxdunlap.bsky.social · 12d

I greatly enjoyed this Contention article!

Check it out if you want to get a taste of the Green Hydrogen craze @pollenetwork.bsky.social @squirrelista.bsky.social

Eric Cezne @eric-cezne.bsky.social · 13d

🔋📚What do major events and fairs tell us about energy transitions? In this recently published #OpenAccess article with Human Geography, I offer some insights by critically reflecting upon the #WorldHydrogenSummit, the world's largest event for H2 energy: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....

A social science researcher at the World Hydrogen Summit: Critical reflections - Eric Cezne, 2025

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POLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social · Aug 6

💥 New on InstitutionalLandscapes.org. 💼 Don’t miss political economist Benjamin Braun unpacking the redistributive logic of capital gains in asset manager capitalism.
🔗 institutionallandscapes.org/contribution/26-capital-gains
#LandPolitics #FinanceCapital #AgriInvestment #CapitalGains

Institutional Landscapes | What are the ties in between farming and finance?

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POLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social · Aug 6

💼 Join Cornell University as a Temporary Research Support Specialist, in Ithaca, NY. This is a full-time, one-year term appointment cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...

Temporary Research Support Specialist I

Temporary Research Support Specialist I The Opportunity This full-time research position is located within the Department of Natural Resources and Environment. The project aims to advance a critical i...

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Journal of Political Ecology @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social · Jul 24

Duffy, R., Hutchinson, A., Iordachescu, G. & Lappe-Osthege, T., (2025) “A harms-based political ecology: Understanding harms through the wildlife trade”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1). doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe....

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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...

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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....

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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...

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Xander Dunlap @drxdunlap.bsky.social · Jul 30

Check out this new podcast I did with @exaltresearch.bsky.social

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#climatechange #degrowth #Energy @pollenetwork.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social

Alexander Dunlap - How do we recognize the political occupation facilitating extractivism?

Podcast Episode · EXALT Podcast · 25/07/2025 · 1h 4m

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POLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social · Jul 15

Massimo Paolini critiques the greenwashing behind expanding El Prat airport under the guise of sustainability. A call for real change and not more touristification. @mxmpaolini.bsky.social #Barcelona #Degrowth #Greenwashing #UrbanJustice www.perspectivasanomalas.org/2025/07/08/l...

La insostenible sostenibilidad de Barcelona: instrucciones (en) de(s)uso • Perspectivas anómalas • ciudad arquitectura ideas

Análisis del espacio para entender nuestra época. Crítica radical.

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POLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social · Jul 7

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity 🚨
Project: Cumulative impact assessment of infrastructure in the Xingu River Basin 🌱🛰️
🧭 Experience in spatial data & multidisciplinary research
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#Postdoc #EnvironmentalScience #SpatialAnalysis #Xingu #LandUseChange

Bolsa de Pós-Doutorado

Normas para Apresentação e Seleção de Propostas no Programa de Bolsas de Pós-Doutorado Normas vigentes a partir de 01/06/2025. A Bolsa de Pós-Doutorado da...

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POLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social · Jul 7

REda the book for free here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook-oa/...

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POLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social · Jul 7

🌍 Development and environmental challenges are global—but often discussed vaguely or apolitically. This new book offers a rigorous, politicized concept of the planetary, reshaping how we think about development in the 21st century.

#GlobalDevelopment #PlanetaryPolitics #EnvironmentalJustice

Global Development and Environment

Global Development and Environment; This book develops a theoretically rigorous and politicized concept of the planetary to intervene in contemporary debates on global development, and to enhance our ...

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Lyla Mehta @lylamehta.bsky.social · Jun 8

On #WorldOceanDay, new co-authored paper that calls for rethinking development in coastal spaces, away from extractive models toward approaches that respect local knowledge, ecological interdependence, & justice.

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Xander Dunlap @drxdunlap.bsky.social · Jul 1

New Publication!🎉

Carlos & I have published our new editorial introduction: Towards a pluriverse of transitions!

Check it out, free access:
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@pollenetwork.bsky.social @exaltresearch.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @r-degrowth.bsky.social #Energy #Climate

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Xander Dunlap @drxdunlap.bsky.social · Jul 2

Check it out #Copenhagen & #Malmo August 26!

My last presentation on “The Life of Solar Panels” at The Center for Applied Ecological Thinking (CAPE), University of Copenhagen, DK

➡️ cape.ku.dk/eng/calendar...

@pollenetwork.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social #degrowth #energy #solar

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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · Jul 3

Meet the new 'POLLENators' on the new Featured Pollenator section.

Find out more about Eleonora and Laila here:

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And get in touch to add yourself to this collection of wonderful people

#POLLEN #PoliticalEcology
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Featured POLLENators - POLLEN

To encourage these connections, our website highlights a "Featured POLLENator" each month. We showcase here the work of POLLEN people in whatever domain they are active in academia, arts, policy-makin...

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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · Jun 27

POLLEN 2026 is happening in Barcelona 🌅

The call for panels is open and closes on July 31st.

See here for more information: tinyurl.com/5b8c5w7j

Spread the word.

POLLEN 2026: Open for Panels - POLLEN

When will POLLEN 2026 be launched? IT ALREADY HAS - get ready to come to Barcelona and join us! Panel Submissions are Currently Open (until July 31st) The announcement is here. Or take a look at this ...

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Amelia Hine @ameliahine.bsky.social · Jun 23

3 year postdoc position in my institute for human geographers or related disciplines, working on governance of the Southern Ocean. Let me tell you, @hifmb.de is the loveliest work environment I can imagine in academia, I would really recommend it.

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PostDoc in "Geopolitical dilemmas for management: transfer of governance for the Southern Ocean" (m/f/d) (HIPP26 #1)

Layout AWI HIPP extern, englisch

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Xander Dunlap @drxdunlap.bsky.social · Jun 19

New Book Review @journalofpolit1 !

A Review of JB Fressoz's (2024) More and More and More: An All Consuming History of Energy

➡️https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/id/7640/

@pollenetwork.bsky.social #Climate #Energy #Degrowth @r-degrowth.bsky.social @degrowth.bsky.social

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Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · Jun 20

The QR code on the poster or the link in the reply will take you to a page with full information.

Please forward and share among your networks.
link again: www.cmi.no/projects/292...

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · Jun 20

🚨Job Alert 🚨 🐕‍🦺 🐄🐎🐦‍⬛
Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵) @sheffielduni.bsky.social
📆 deadline 30 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...

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Political Ecology of Environmental Conflict @criticalpoleco.bsky.social · Jun 1

"Coercive animal labour is central to capitalism"...MUST READ... Multispecies slavery–environment nexus in resource extraction and animals' ecological politics: Coercive donkey labour in Indian river sand mining @pollenetwork.bsky.social rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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

Coercive animal labour is often state sanctioned as an ecologically friendly mode of sand mining, based on anthropocentric environmental ideology that sees animal bodies as solutions or fixes for oft...

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