Tiina Järvi writes about Lebanon and ”failed state” as a political demand, expectation and care. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@mikkojorge.bsky.social and @dader-khalid.bsky.social participate in the discussion around Lubna Abu Sitta’s commentary on Gaza: ”Holding space open: Wor(l)ding the ruins of Gaza” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... See other commentaries and the original piece ⬇️

New piece with Mark Griffiths on white phosphorus as environmental warfare—how it targets environments and inhabitability, focusing on recent destruction in Lebanon along with other contexts.

OnlineFirst - "The wandering frontier: Geographies of colonial herding in Palestine" by @dmasad.bsky.social and @wassim-gh.bsky.social: @gocep.bsky.social @sparg-tuni.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Abdalrahman Kittana writes about families and social endurance in Gaza in al-Shakaba: ’The Families of Gaza: Sumud as Collective Endurance’. #sumud #gaza #socialendurance al-shabaka.org/commentaries...

Pastoral communities in the West Bank are facing an unseen wave of settler colonial violence, including weaponisation of animals for appropriating space.

Text by Tiina Järvi on South Lebanon. ‘Libanonilaiset kärsivät jälleen, kun Israel ja Hizbollah ottavat yhteen Iranin pommitusten varjossa’ blogs.tuni.fi/alustalehti/...

My response to 4 generous commentaries by Sidaway, Machold, Fregonese and Clark&Henig (see below) on my original paper in @dialogueshg.bsky.social. Further opening ontology, frontiering, and ungovernability of colonial pollution and its malevolent weathering: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Our paper (with @mikkojorge.bsky.social and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian) on the colonial weaponization of smell, boomeranging, and atmospheric policing through the Israeli invented Skunk Water technology is out at @secdialogue.bsky.social academic.oup.com/sd/advance-a...

Sharing my new article at @antipodeonline.bsky.social which suggests a novel framing for enquiring the deep entanglement between Israel and global centers of domination. doi.org/10.1111/anti...

Great paper with interesting theorisation of Israel as a global frontier - waves and homological correspondence.

Important commentary on how to write about Gaza and Palestine.

Khalid from our GOCEP group published a great paper about everyday scarcity, entrapment and erasure of time in Gaza: ‘Temporal ruination: Scarcity, entrapment, and the affective intensities of time in Gaza’

’Breathing atmospheres of failure: the mattet of pollution in Beirut’ out in @politicsandspace.bsky.social

Tiina Järvi and @mikkojorge.bsky.social write about infrastructure, generators, and atmospheric politics of pollution in Lebanon: ’Breathing atmospheres of failure: The matter of pollution in Beirut’ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

OnlineFirst - "Colonial pyrotechniques in Palestine: Arboricide and fiery dispossessions" by Marijn Nieuwenhuis and @mikkojorge.bsky.social: @geogdurham.bsky.social #Pyropolitics #Pyrotechniques #Palestine #Arboricide journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to our colleague Marijn Nieuwenhuis on the publication of his co-authored article with @mikkojorge.bsky.social in @natureandspace.bsky.social entitled “Colonial pyrotechniques in Palestine: Arboricide and fiery dispossessions” which is now available at: doi.org/10.1177/2514...

Wrote this with Marijn Nieuwenhuis; out today: fire, pyroterror, Palestine, arboricide.

New Online 1st Article “Polluting appropriations: Malevolent weathering of settler colonisation in Palestine” by Mikko Joronen doi.org/10.1177/2043...

Very happy to see this out this week: “Polluting appropriations: Malevolent weathering of settler colonisation in Palestine” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Tiina Järvi writes about atmospheres of everyday violence in West Bank. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fresh out paper on ‘fitful infrastructures’ of survival in Gaza amid infrastructural elimination in Antipode by two GOCEP researchers, Khalid Dader and Mikko Joronen. @antipodeonline.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Must read indeed!

To give context for Trump’s cleansing plan in Gaza, a must read by our group member Wassim Ghantous. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...

If you are at Tampere, come to listen two interesting talks on current situation in Lebanon.

On destroying the conditions of living in Lebanon by our research group member dr.Tiina Järvi (in Finnish). www.tuni.fi/alustalehti/...

In BBC coverage, mentions of Israeli and Palestinians deaths competed for space since 7th October. That's despite far more Palestinian deaths. There's one exception - a huge spike in the mentions of Palestinian deaths in early April. The reason for this should disturb you.

Solidarity with colleagues at the University of Wollongong in geography, history, language, maths, environmental science, physics and public health. Entire units being cut, short sighted and devastating. Petition here: betteruniversities.work/uow-petition...

📢Join the TIBG team!📢 We are looking for four new mid-career geographers to join our Editorial Board. We are seeking expertise in environmental, historical and quantitative geography, sustainable development, geopolitics, Africa & Latin America. Deadline: 4 December www.rgs.org/about-us/our...

Our editorial ’Topologies of scholasticide in Gaza: education in spaces of elimination’ is out in Fennia journal. fennia.journal.fi/article/down...

’Encountering Palestine’ is out, discount code 🔽. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... #Palestine

Read our new commentary on Gaza:

Our paper on skunk water spraying in Palestine is out in Environment and Planning E. 'Weathering violence: Atmospheric materialities and olfactory durations of ‘skunk water’ in Palestine’ doi.org/10.1177/2514...

Finally accepted to TiBG: Gaza: A decolonial geography #Gaza #colonialism #decolonialpolitics www.researchgate.net/publication/...

79 civil servants in the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a letter in Nov to the Minister calling for ceasefire and Israel to halt excessive use of force. Exceptional as these kinds of letters are not often sent in Finland. www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...

Great article by Antti Tarvainen and Benoit Challand fresh out in TiBG. Focus on #Palestine, #innovation as erasure and the role of #Gulfstates. “Innovation as erasure: Palestine and the new regional alliances of technology” rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Christmas celebrations are cancelled, but not Christmas A Palestinian Christian pastor reflects on the message of Christmas during a time of loss and devastation.

Open letter to the Columbia administration A statement by 18 Columbia University deans amounts to a new norm prohibiting Palestinian political aspirations in favor of privileging a politics of feeling to protect those who feel threatened by Palestinian freedom.

New Online 1st Article “Working through our differences: Limits of ontology in the ordinary lives of critical geographical theory” by Shawn Bodden doi.org/10.1177/2043...

’Atmospheric negations: Weaponising breathing, attuning irreducible bodies’ out in Society&Space. Focus on #Palestine, #breathing, #materiality, #violence, #embodiment. Thinks #NegativeGeographies, #ontology, #air-dwelling. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

We are hiring in Human Geography at Durham! We are seeking to fill two positions at the assistant professor (grade 8) level. The closing date for applications is 14/01/2024. Areas of specific interest are environment, urban, and critical development studies.

’Encountering Palestine’ is out, discount code 🔽. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... #Palestine