Wolfram Dressler
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Professor, Human Geography, Agrarian Change and Political Ecology
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Colleagues, A decade in the making, I’d like to share with you my new book entitled, 'For the Sake of Forests and God: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands'. From the Cornell University Press webpage:
lnkd.in/ghyuxMKT
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Miles Kenney-Lazar
3 months ago
My first book, Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos (University of Hawai'i Press, 2025), exists in this world! Check it out at:
uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...
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Journal of Historical Geography
4 months ago
New article! 'Irrigating the periphery: Hydrology, coloniality and counter-irrigation in the Philippines', by Rhomir S. Yanquiling, Wolfram Dressler & Will Smith. Read it here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.003
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Mongabay Latam
5 months ago
El pueblo de El Nido, en la isla filipina de Palawan, se ha convertido en un popular destino turístico debido a su intensa promoción en redes sociales. Sin embargo, el turismo ha causado una grave contaminación costera. Esta es la situación.
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Caos en El Nido: el destino viral de Instagram enfrenta crisis ambiental por turismo masivo
Palawan, la provincia insular occidental de Filipinas, encabeza la lista de deseos de los turistas por su pintoresco destino principal: El Nido. Este pequeño pueblo pesquero de 50 000 habitantes se en...
https://es.mongabay.com/2025/07/los-turistas-regresaron-a-esta-ciudad-instagrameable-pero-podra-su-sistema-de-alcantarillado-mantener-el-ritmo/
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Arn Keeling
5 months ago
I mean, JFC if the FT can say it, so can you
@markcarneyforpm.bsky.social
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anthropologyworks
5 months ago
Gorillas to be further endangered: the Democratic Republic of the Congo is opening crucial gorilla habitats and pristine forests to bids for oil and gas drilling, with plans to carve up more than half the country into fossil fuel blocks.
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Gorilla habitats and pristine forest at risk as DRC opens half of country to oil and gas drilling bids
Government launches licensing round for 52 fossil fuel blocks, potentially undermining a flagship conservation initiative and affecting an estimated 39 million people
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/29/gorilla-habitats-pristine-forest-at-risk-as-drc-opens-half-of-country-to-oil-and-gas-drilling-bids-aoe?CMP=share_btn_url
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Lisa Kadonaga
5 months ago
Innocuous-sounding "active clubs", including near where I grew up in Hamilton.
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Colum Graham
5 months ago
An open access paper I wrote on differentiated Suharto nostalgia in rural Java for a Journal of Agrarian Change special issue on land and labour in Indonesia:
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Distributive Politics and Class Dynamics in Rural Java
Based on fieldwork in a village I call Lone Teak in East Java, Indonesia, this paper examines emerging patterns of class differentiation and distributive politics. The history of Lone Teak's landhold....
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joac.70030
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Leafia Ye
5 months ago
🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely!
#Socsky
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NPR
6 months ago
Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and fines to participate in the annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed by a law passed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing governing party.
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Around 100,000 march in Budapest Pride event in defiance of Hungary's ban
Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and fines to participate in the annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed by a law passed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing governing party.
https://n.pr/4kk4Jc6
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Stockholm University
6 months ago
Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years. Article in
@theconversation.com
by Thorsten Mauritsen
@stockholm-uni.bsky.social
Steven Sherwood UNSW Sydney & Benoit Meyssignac Université de Toulouse
#Climate
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Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years
Real world measurements of how much extra heat the Earth is trapping are well beyond most climate models. That’s a real problem.
https://theconversation.com/earth-is-trapping-much-more-heat-than-climate-models-forecast-and-the-rate-has-doubled-in-20-years-258822
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Colum Graham
6 months ago
newbooksnetwork.com/for-the-sake...
Great to talk with
@dresslerwolfram.bsky.social
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
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Wolfram H. Dressler, "For the Sake of Forests and Gods: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands" (Cornell UP, 2025) - New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/for-the-sake-of-forests-and-gods/
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🚨 On behalf of the contributors, Mary Mostafanezhad and I are delighted to announce the publication of our new book, Violent Atmospheres: Livelihoods and Landscapes in Crisis in Southeast Asia, published by the University of Hawaii Press.
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Violent Atmospheres: Livelihoods and Landscapes in Crisis in Southeast Asia
In Southeast Asia, atmospheric violence emerges from the haze plumes of burning of palm oil plantations, the invisible but powerful spread of viral flows, and the subordination of upland farmers wh…
https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/violent-atmospheres-livelihoods-and-landscapes-in-crisis-in-southeast-asia/
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David Ho
7 months ago
Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean.
#OceanFilm
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Van Badham
7 months ago
Canada, we’re with you! TRUMPISM IS REPUDIATED IN AUSTRALIA!
#auspol
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elia ayoub
8 months ago
Israel murdered this beautiful soul. Remember Fatima Hassona. Watch and spread the film "Put your soul on your hand and walk". And never stop fighting the mass murdering death machine that is the Israeli state. She was 25.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin
8 months ago
How is it possible U.S. citizens are being held as illegal aliens in America even after they produce their birth certificate? This is intolerable.
www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
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U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia
Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate “authentic” and said there wasn’t reason to consider him an “illegal alien.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-born-citizen-detained-ice-immigration-florida-rcna201800
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Naomi Klein
8 months ago
Chilling. They are saying that simply taking action in opposition to US foreign policy is grounds for deportation. Think of the proud lineage of protests against US-backed wars, coups, torture... BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, Immigration Judge Rules
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BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, Immigration Judge Rules
The judge said the Trump administration’s evidence – a two-page letter from Secretary of State Marco Rubio – is sufficient to deport Khalil under an obscure legal provision.
https://open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/breaking-mahmoud-khalil-can-be-deported?r=etq7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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As Duterte faces justice at the ICC in The Hague, the women activists who suffered under his misogynistic violence continue to defend the environment and human rights in the Philippines. Others couldn’t continue their struggle.
#fearlessfilipinaactivists
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/DPWD9R...
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Defending the Land: Filipina Activists amidst Authoritarian Rule in the Philippines
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/DPWD9RTUQGIH2CV5MU8J?target=10.1111/dech.12872
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The New York Times
8 months ago
A graphic video shows the moment that Israeli troops fired on aid workers in clearly marked vehicles in Gaza, killing 15 people. The footage contradicts Israel’s version of events in an episode that has drawn international scrutiny. Read witness accounts:
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/w...
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Al Jazeera English
8 months ago
Jagan Chapagain, secretary-general of the IFRC, warns against the normalisation of killing humanitarian aid workers following the killing of 15 medics and aid workers by Israeli forces in Gaza last month. 🔴 LIVE updates:
aje.io/7n8dex
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Stefan Ouma
8 months ago
Priceless.
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Lead by Stasja Koot, this paper explores the intensifying intimidation from powerful conservation actors against social scientists whose findings they see as troubling. Their threats have not silenced those who work for socio-ecological justice.
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Intimidation as epistemological violence against social science conservation research
We investigated intimidation of conservation social scientists, which is ongoing and aimed at silencing or discrediting research findings. Although social scientists share with conservation biologist....
https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cobi.14454
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Naomi Klein
9 months ago
This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
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Adam McKay
9 months ago
There must be people who have been illegally seized by ICE we don’t know about. The question is how many?
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Gina Murrell
9 months ago
There’s a great
#documentary
on this, Agents of Change, about campus
#activism
in 1968-69 at SF State and Cornell to create a Black studies program—a movement that paved the way for ethnic studies programs and ultimately women’s and queer studies programs.
www.agentsofchangefilmnational.com/synopsis
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Naomi Klein
9 months ago
We are deep in a war on activism and political speech
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/c...
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Jury Finds Greenpeace Liable for Hundreds of Millions in Damages
A lawsuit by pipeline giant Energy Transfer claimed Greenpeace had played a major, costly role in protests nearly a decade ago. Greenpeace has said a loss could put it out of business.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/climate/greenpeace-energy-transfer-dakota-access-verdict.html
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Acyn
9 months ago
Canadian MP Charlie Angus: I think Marco Rubio probably needs to be sent back to school.. When you arbitrarily rip up trade agreements, threaten a country, and say you’re going to break it, that’s an act of war. And Canadians have responded in kind.
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Sara Geven
9 months ago
Today we are striking against the planned budget cuts in higher education at the University of Amsterdam! This is part of a larger relay strike. 🟥 For more info see:
www.uva.nl/en/current/b...
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woinactie.blogspot.com/2025/02/aank...
#doehetniet
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Budget cuts in higher education. Now what?
The coalition agreement includes the largest budget cuts in higher education since the 1980s. What does this mean for the University of Amsterdam (UvA)? What is the process? What actions are being tak...
https://www.uva.nl/en/current/budget-cuts/budget-cuts.html
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Timothy Snyder
9 months ago
You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.
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Anonymous
9 months ago
Massive protests in Belgrade, Serbia call for the resignation of the pro-Kremlin president Vucic.
#3E
#EndImpunity
#SerbiaProtests
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD
9 months ago
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
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Barb McQuade
9 months ago
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
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The Australian tariff slayer is on guard for thee 🤘🇨🇦 🇦🇺
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Brent Toderian
9 months ago
IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath
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Adam Schwarz
9 months ago
French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
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Christopher Webb
9 months ago
Damn! Canadians aren’t messing around—they’re even pulling already imported alcohol off the shelves. We’re being erased, and I don’t blame them.
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Kye
10 months ago
Vermont understood the assignment. Take notes, America.
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The New York Times
10 months ago
“The unknown was not as scary as being complicit and not speaking up.” Some federal employees, both in public and behind closed doors, are resisting Elon Musk’s orders using whatever means they have.
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Darby Saxbe
10 months ago
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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George Monbiot
10 months ago
Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening.
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Raj Patel
10 months ago
Thrilled about the release of Jason Cons' latest book, Delta Futures. Come join us at Alienated Majesty on Tuesday, March 4th, 2025, at 6:00 PM. Check out the details at
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The Lincoln Project
10 months ago
Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.
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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦
10 months ago
Today is publication day! I explain how agricultural inputs - which weren't even widely traded market goods 200 years ago - have become giant industries dominated by just a handful of transnational firms today.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255170...
Many thanks to those who helped me along the way!
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Zali Fung
10 months ago
CfP ‘Feminist and Gendered Geographies of Resistance’ - RGS 2025. We are interested in a range of gendered resistance practices, whether on the frontlines or ‘everyday,’ to the social reproductive and care practices that enable movements. Pls submit abstracts to myself &
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Gerald Butts
10 months ago
Putin is popping a special bottle of Champagne from a cellar in St Petersburg.
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Antonia Juhasz
10 months ago
Erasure. At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by
@ivancalcantara.bsky.social
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The New York Times
10 months ago
In
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How Americans and the world handle Donald Trump "will determine much about the next four years, and it will ask much from all of us," the New York Times editorial board writes. "We must meet the moment." Read more here:
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Opinion | Now Is Not the Time to Tune Out
Trump’s presidency demands your attention.
https://nyti.ms/4hrd4Kd
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