In further evidence that our university employers only care about us as exploitable labour, Durham has suspended staff access to free flu vaccines on 30th November - the official start of peak flu season

Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Tonight!

Sounds like Structural Adjustment 2.0 in Bolivia: "Funds from creditors including the World Bank and the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) will support private sector initiatives in infrastructure, renewable energy, and financial inclusion". www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Looking forward to this tomorrow!

The elephant is now the only thing left in the room #COP30

Let's not forget that appropriating and subverting left agendas has been a key strategy of the far-right. Much easier than winning an argument

Our colleague Gavin Bridge has recently co-created a short animation called the ‘Future of UK Oil and Gas’. The film draws on insights from the Fraying Ties project on Networks, Territory and Transformation in the UK oil sector, and was produced by Seed Creativity: youtu.be/8MPHZAhzzLY

Happy to recommend this Bilingual Audiovisual Roundtable "Urban Futures of Popular Neighbourhoods" curated by @samhalvorsen.bsky.social and Adriana Massidda. It hosts 5 short films from Latin America, inc. my film "Urukurenda: In Search of the Land Without Evil" antipodeonline.org/2025/10/29/u...

Book launch for The Politics of Feeling with @ajsecor.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social @will-davies.bsky.social on 25.11 at 15.00 in London. Details here, last time I checked there were a couple of tickets left www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...

Increasingly seeing PhD proposals containing hallucinated publications I have supposedly authored. Wondering if such hallucinations could ever acquire a life of their own and with what consequences 🤔

Despite continuously emphasising their societal contributions to health and sustainability, UK universities appear to make zero effort to ensure healthy and sustainable food is available to staff and students. Or is it just Durham?

This is what happens when (formerly) centrist parties try to copy the far-right www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Sharing a chapter I wrote on de/coloniality, the role geography has in speaking up vs educide including ongoing in Palestine. If you'd like a PDF of it get in touch 😃 It's part of De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography, edited by Sydney Calkin and Cordelia Freeman

Could UK universities please stop requesting reference letters from university lecturers for MA/MSc applicants? We do not have time and it does not provide any information that cannot be gleaned from transcripts, CVs and personal statements (which are often the basis for our letters)

New publication out, “creative political geography” in the De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography, generously and gently edited by Cordelia Freeman and Sydney Calkin. degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1… ( not open access but happy to send a pdf copy)

Let communities own rivers, woods and moors! Write to your MP about the upcoming Community Right to Buy laws. See our template letter here - www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... "Approaching Hartington via Sheen, Derbyshire" by Caff, released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0.

land-reform-futures.hutton.ac.uk I was excited to contribute to this Symposium today, reflecting on lessons from Bolivia for Scottish land reform futures and legislative progress on community land rights. Looking forward to continuing this conversation! #landreform #communityrights

A trailer for La Sonora Boreal! Come and get some cumbia vibes at our upcoming gigs in November 21st November / 7.30pm / single launch / Lubber Fiend, Newcastle 29th November / World Headquarters, Newcastle #musicatropical #lubberfiendnewcastle #cumbianewcastle #goodvibes

Earlier this year I made a 34-min documentary film (open access, links below) in collaboration with residents of Urukurenda community, located at the edge of the Astillero gas field in Bolivia's Tariquía National Reserve of Flora and Fauna (1/5) #documentary #extractivism #conservation #Indigenous

Really enjoyed acting as discussant for Durham Anthropology's 2025 Layton Dialogue today on Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, with brilliant speakers Prof. Beth Rose Middleton Manning and Prof. Jay Mistry www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Joined the Greens. A bit late to the party

This is a deeply shocking attack on a leading political ecology scholar. Please sign in support of Farhana Sultana below

I'll be speaking at this event tomorrow in a panel on "Blood of the Earth: Life, Death, and Resistance on the Mining Frontier". Sign up for a free ticket using the link below

Our colleague @penelopeanthias.bsky.social will be speaking next month @camunigeography.bsky.social on the topic of 'Infrastructural affects and (contested) hydrocarbon futures in Bolivia':

Yesterday in Newcastle. Or the UK 2025

Four exciting talks for the Infrastructural Geographies Michaelmas Term 2025 Seminar Series See @kbrickell.bsky.social and Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes), Beth Greenhough (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social), @penelopeanthias.bsky.social, and Pratyush Shankar (Navrachana University). All welcome!

It's the season of teaching anxiety dreams. Last night, I had to give my first land conflicts lecture in a rural setting with a faulty generator and computer equipment from the 1980s. Some students offered to help with set up but it turned out they had an entirely different agenda

It's official: we're all Marxists. But thankfully the OfS is on alert to stamp out any radical speech or behaviour

Day 1 of term and they are literally already brainwashing our students

"Mischaracterised by university leaders as financial ‘saving’, austerity is in truth vandalism. It ravages decades of training, accrued and accredited knowledge, and publicly funded research."

Labour's messaging has never been more toxic. Exploiting a tragic terrorist incident to demonise Palestine solidarity and peaceful protest as "unBritish" signals a further descent into full-blown fascist discourse. We reject your version of Britishness, Shabana

"I'm here to talk about what others won’t. To tell the truth about what makes our country great and what makes it not so great. While others thrive on creating scapegoats, I am here to tell you a different story." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Looking forward to this! Extractive Economies/Insurgent Ecologies: The Contested Politics of Sustainability in Latin America and the Caribbean 📅Wednesday, October 22 🕙10:30am - 6:30pm 📌Queens' Building, 215, Mile End Campus, QMUL For more info and free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crolac-the...

Today is publication day! EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Too fucking late Keir Starmer

Mass forced displacement, happening now

The relationship between imperialism, capitalism and fascism is continually evolving into monstrous new formations www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Ever wondered what you'd have done in 1930s Germany? Or what you'd do faced with the rise of Fascism in your lifetime? This is it. Whatever you're doing now (or not) is what you'd do

I'm delighted to share this new open access book: Reckoning with Law in Excess: Mobilization, Confrontation, Refusal (Mark Goodale & Olaf Zenker eds.). It was a real pleasure to be part of this project, which shaped my thinking on law and rights. Please share widely www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

It's official: I am going to #LASA2026! For once, possible by train from the UK. Looking forward to a great panel on Institucionalización y legalización del despojo de los Territorios Indígenas, and being discussant for Environmental Counter Histories and Territorial Solidarities

Today I was threatened with arrest by Northumbria Police for holding a placard on public land outside the Israeli-owned Rafael weapons factory (aka Armstrong Works, Pearson Engineering, Responsive Engineering) in Newcastle, in violation of my right to freedom of speech and public assembly

Tomorrow in Newcastle

I always forget LASA only allows you to give one paper per conference. Probably a good thing, including for our own sanity

Policy Exchange is a dark money junktank. No idea why journalists help them publicise their reports

RELEASED We can now confirm that every arrestee from the Lift The Ban sign-holding action has been released. None have been charged. Hundreds of the arrestees were taken to police cells. Hundreds were processed in pop-up gazebos after queuing for hours. www.wedonotcomply.org

Strong turnout for the anti-fascist counter-protest in Newcastle today. Covered here www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e... Seems this may be a weekly thing for a while

NEW: Parliament Square, London right now. Thousands in a silent, peaceful protest against both the genocide in Gaza and the UK Government prescribing protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Police now making arrests. (📸 Saul Staniforth)