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Zali Fung @zalifung.bsky.social · 14d

Really enjoyed presenting my work on unbuilt “amorphous” dams and diversions in the Salween River Basin today at the ‘Beyond Infrastructure’ conference & vibrant discussions on infrastructural politics, thanks @infranortherc.bsky.social

Alessandro Rippa @alessandrorippa.bsky.social · 15d

Great listening to @zalifung.bsky.social speaking about her work on the Salween river basin at the @infranortherc.bsky.social conference in Vienna!

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Zali Fung @zalifung.bsky.social · Aug 19

Fellow presenters include @giviben.bsky.social @sabrinahartoto.bsky.social @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social

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Vanessa Lamb @drvanessalamb.bsky.social · Aug 18

Please join us! I am co-convening 3 Royal Geographical Society panels on Feminist and Gendered Geographies of Resistance with @zalifung.bsky.social and Rebecca Elmhirst at the University of Birmingham next week. A great lineup of presentations. bit.ly/4lgkPnk @rgsibg.bsky.social

Panel description feminist and gendered geographies of resistance

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Zali Fung @zalifung.bsky.social · Aug 13

haha that’s great and I really want to read this book too!

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Ari Jerrems @arijerrems.bsky.social · Aug 8

We have an ongoing Lecturer (International Relations) position open at UWA

We encourage interdisciplinary applicants, including political geography, political sociology, political psychology, and critical security studies.

Full description and details here: external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...

Prospective staff : Jobs at UWA : The University Of Western Australia

external.jobs.uwa.edu.au

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Zali Fung @zalifung.bsky.social · Jul 22

Just discovered that @austgeo.bsky.social is on BlueSky! My (relatively) new paper shows how researchers can build trust & collaborate with civil society actors online & across multiple borders (geographic, material, sociocultural, etc). This can build the foundations for in-person fieldwork.

Australian Geographer @austgeo.bsky.social · Nov 23

New paper:
Fung, Z. (2024). Navigating research ethics during COVID-19 in authoritarian Southeast Asia: a feminist approach to combining online and in-person qualitative methods. Australian Geographer, 1–21.

Navigating research ethics during COVID-19 in authoritarian Southeast Asia: a feminist approach to combining online and in-person qualitative methods

Australian Geographer

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Zali Fung @zalifung.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thanks @polgeographygroup.bsky.social

polgeographygroup.bsky.social @polgeographygroup.bsky.social · Jul 13

And another honourable mention to Zali Fung for her paper: Fung, Z. (2024). Amorphous infrastructure: Contesting the proposed Yuam River water diversion project in the Salween River Basin. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7(6), 2386-2412. doi.org/10.1177/2514...
Congratulations to all!

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Zali Fung @zalifung.bsky.social · Jul 3

looking forward to presenting on speculative and “amorphous” unbuilt infrastructures in the Salween River Basin at the upcoming Beyond Infrastructures conference @infranortherc.bsky.social

InfraNorth: Building Arctic Futures @infranortherc.bsky.social · Jul 3

📢 We are excited to announce the preliminary program for the conference “𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲? (𝗨𝗻-)𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗲”!

🌍 Join us at the University of Vienna (@univie.ac.at), Sept 22–24, for an interdisciplinary dialogue on #infrastructure #research.

🎫 Early bird ends July 6!

Conference program - Beyond Infrastructure? (Un-)built Environments in the Anthropocene - InfraNorth

The conference will open on Monday, September 22, 2025, with a keynote lecture by Alessandro Rippa (University of Oslo), titled Anthropocene Landscapes? Or, a Renewed Anthropology of Infrastructure fo...

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Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · Jun 26

a great and much needed piece

Zali Fung @zalifung.bsky.social · Jun 25

New paper in Geographica Helvetica 🚨 I reflect on the (im)possibilities of doing slow scholarship in neoliberal academia as an early-career scholar & how precarity limits collaboration. I outline *collective* strategies to address this & invite further discussion gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...

Who can “slow down” in the neoliberal academy? Reflections on the politics of time as an early-career feminist geographer in Switzerland

Abstract. Feminist geographers' calls for “slow scholarship” as resistance to the neoliberal university raise poignant questions about who can enact slow scholarship and under what conditions. In this...

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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · Jun 26

"As a geographer and an interdisciplinary scholar, when I look at climate change, I see it essentially about changes in water." Farhana Sultana, The Politics of Water: Climate (In)Justice in Megacities of the Global South #climate #geo #geosky @farhanasultana.com ‪@berlinergazette.bsky.social‬

The Politics of Water: Climate (In)Justice in Megacities of the Global South · BG · berlinergazette.de · EN|DE

As megacities continue to grow around the world, primarily in the Global South, they are becoming sites of ongoing and future climate and water injustices. Drawing on her research in Dhaka,…

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Anna Antonova @asantonova.bsky.social · Jun 25

An excellent (& devastatingly true) account on the "leaky pipeline"

Zali Fung @zalifung.bsky.social · Jun 25

New paper in Geographica Helvetica 🚨 I reflect on the (im)possibilities of doing slow scholarship in neoliberal academia as an early-career scholar & how precarity limits collaboration. I outline *collective* strategies to address this & invite further discussion gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...

Who can “slow down” in the neoliberal academy? Reflections on the politics of time as an early-career feminist geographer in Switzerland

Abstract. Feminist geographers' calls for “slow scholarship” as resistance to the neoliberal university raise poignant questions about who can enact slow scholarship and under what conditions. In this...

gh.copernicus.org

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MHoussayH @mhoussayh.cpesr.fr · Jun 26

Precarity in the neoliberal university (Swiss edition) and caring scholarship, by @zalifung.bsky.social

gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...

Who can “slow down” in the neoliberal academy? Reflections on the politics of time as an early-career feminist geographer in Switzerland

Abstract. Feminist geographers' calls for “slow scholarship” as resistance to the neoliberal university raise poignant questions about who can enact slow scholarship and under what conditions. In this...

gh.copernicus.org

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Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · Jun 18

Excited to be in Barcelona this July and meet the @bcnuej.bsky.social team!

Also happy to give a talk on "Counter-Topographies of Care: Feminist Geographies, Migrant Infrastructures, and Political Subjectification"

💻 In person & online
📆 8 July

@uomseed.bsky.social @urbanstudiesfoundation.org

BCNUEJ @bcnuej.bsky.social · Jun 17

📆📢Coming up, Jul 8‼️ @matinakapsali.bsky.social, postdoc researcher at @officialuom.bsky.social will talk at @icta-uab.bsky.social about the political and spatial dynamics of grassroots, feminist-oriented infrastructures emerging in migrant communities. Join us online!💻🔗 www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

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Zali Fung @zalifung.bsky.social · Jun 25

Thanks for sharing @asantonova.bsky.social !

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Zali Fung @zalifung.bsky.social · Jun 25

New paper in Geographica Helvetica 🚨 I reflect on the (im)possibilities of doing slow scholarship in neoliberal academia as an early-career scholar & how precarity limits collaboration. I outline *collective* strategies to address this & invite further discussion gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...

Who can “slow down” in the neoliberal academy? Reflections on the politics of time as an early-career feminist geographer in Switzerland

Abstract. Feminist geographers' calls for “slow scholarship” as resistance to the neoliberal university raise poignant questions about who can enact slow scholarship and under what conditions. In this...

gh.copernicus.org

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Zali Fung @zalifung.bsky.social · Jun 19

CfP for a special issue that draws attention to the important but often overlooked gendered elements of ‘global China’

Jessica DiCarlo @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social · Jun 19

The next Global China Pulse CfP is out!
A Gendered Lens on Global China
@globalchinamap.bsky.social

globalchinapulse.net/calls-for-pa...

Calls for Papers - Global China Pulse

Calls for Papers Here you can find the call for papers for the journal issues we are currently working on. The initial pitches should be no longer than 300 words and explain the key argument of your p...

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Zali Fung @zalifung.bsky.social · Jun 16

Join us tomorrow @unibe.ch for an event on ‘feminist geographies as socially engaged research’ & our panel on ‘care in academia’ ✨

Zali Fung @zalifung.bsky.social · May 30

Excited to discuss ‘feminism as socially engaged research’ in Bern on June 17. I’ll speak on the (im)possibilities & tensions of conducting ‘slow scholarship’ in fast-paced neoliberal academia as a precarious early-career scholar. Join us!

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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · Jun 4

Happy to celebrate five years since @antipodeonline.bsky.social released "Geographies of Racial Capitalism w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore."

If you haven't seen or considered it as a teaching or organizing tool: check it out 👇
antipodeonline.org/geographies-...

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · Jun 3

“When punishment & criminalization threaten public thinking on a matter of shared and urgent concerns, as the situation in Palestine surely
is, then speech on Palestine becomes the litmus test for rights of expression essential to keeping democracy alive.“

Philipp Hölzing @philipphoelzing.bsky.social · Jun 3

Academic Freedom in a Time of Destruction: Reconsidering Extramural Speech
Judith Butler
Social Research: An International Quarterly
Johns Hopkins University Press
Volume 92, Number 2, Summer 2025
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Project MUSE - Academic Freedom in a Time of Destruction: Reconsidering Extramural Speech

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Stephen Legg @stephenlegg11.bsky.social · May 19

25 grad students will have accommodation provided (deadline June 9) for this fee-free Summer School, University of Bologna, Italy, Sept 8-12, "Dissonant memories: geographies of migration, colonialism and trauma". centri.unibo.it/memorylab/it... #unibo

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Zali Fung @zalifung.bsky.social · May 30

Excited to discuss ‘feminism as socially engaged research’ in Bern on June 17. I’ll speak on the (im)possibilities & tensions of conducting ‘slow scholarship’ in fast-paced neoliberal academia as a precarious early-career scholar. Join us!

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Dr Shona Loong @shonaloong.bsky.social · Apr 17

🧵1/ How can armed resistance enable—not undermine—democracy, peacebuilding, and the revitalisation of Indigenous socio-ecological relations?

In the Annals of the AAG, I write about post/decolonial approaches to territory & the #SalweenPeacePark
doi.org/10.1080/2469... @geographers.bsky.social

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polgeographygroup.bsky.social @polgeographygroup.bsky.social · May 26

We have extended the deadline for our ECR/HDR Paper Award to Friday 30th May! Please reach out if you would like to submit. Note that you can be 7 years post-PhD and forthcoming works will also be considered. Thanks 🥳

polgeographygroup.bsky.social @polgeographygroup.bsky.social · Mar 3

Award alert! For the best paper on a political geography topic published by an ECR/HDR candidate that is an active member of the IAG Political Geography Group. The winner will be awarded AUD500
Deadline: 23rd May 2025 (COB AEDT)
All details: politicalgeographyaus.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/i...

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Zali Fung @zalifung.bsky.social · May 20

what happens when long-proposed dams finally materialise? looking forward to this paper on the ruptures created by Indonesia’s Jatigede Dam, by @china-geographies.bsky.social & colleagues in @waalternatives.bsky.social

Water Alternatives @waalternatives.bsky.social · May 10

Read latest paper at WaA:
"Rupture and its temporalities at Indonesia’s Jatigede Dam", by B. Wilmsen, Ardhitya Eduard Yeremia, Sarah Rogers and Suraya Abdulwahab Afiff
www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/al...

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Vanessa Lamb @drvanessalamb.bsky.social · May 12

The Social Properties of #Concrete, a book on the ways that concrete shapes our lives, is out (and Free to download)! @punctumbooks.bsky.social
punctumbooks.com/titles/the-s...

The Social Properties of Concrete – punctum books

punctumbooks.com

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