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)

When I published this in 2022, I was expecting an explosion of new work looking at how territorial autonomy claims are linked to struggles over the subsoil in Bolivia. This hasn't happened, unless I've missed something. Would appreciate any recommendations though www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Looks like #POLLEN26 is going to be terrific 😀 thanks to the dedicated organising team - it requires a huge amount of volunteer time & effort.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

I've had enough run ins with middle managers who've been caught out to know when they're lying and boy is this a great example.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Not especially surprised to hear that corporate corruption within our already undemocratic governing institutions (House of Lords) played a role here

I wish I could be in London exercising my right to peaceful protest in defence of the right to peaceful protest www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Raging forest fires in the Sama Reserve visible from Tarija city. Some Bolivians wondering if they were started intentionally by land grabbers/traffickers - a reflection of current land politics against backdrop of climate change

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi

A reminder of the coloniality of the internet and hence ai. Just tried to look up an Aymara concept and the only results are "this does not exist" and "Do the Aymara still exist?"

Once again, Starmer reveals his total incapacity to lead. A tepid, fudged, ineffectual performative pivot in place of the action - sanctions, ending UK military support for Israel, recognising a Palestinian state - that is required

Suspending Israel from Horizon is well overdue. The EU has bankrolled this genocide in various ways

#Gaza is starving to death. The #UK's response has been disgraceful, offering words of condemnation without any meaningful action to end its own complicity in #Israel’s genocide. Please demand that #DavidLammy implements sanctions against Israel now. palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/demandsancti...

Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Indonesia, Iraq, Libya, Malaysia, Namibia, Nicaragua, Oman, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and South Africa showing moral leadership where the UK and EU have failed thehaguegroup.org/meetings-bog...

I don't think a lot of people realize how undemocratic U.S. universities actually are, especially compared to those in Latin America. A 🧵

UK police arrested dozens of people in London and Manchester as protests continue in support of the banned Palestine Action group and in condemnation of Israel's genocide in Gaza.

By framing authoritarian states as the problem, this article overlooks how private Western oil companies have kept such states in power, in the face of democratic movements, to secure their own interests. See Hannah Appel's The Licit Life of Capitalism www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Incredibly harrowing testimony from British surgeon in Gaza Nick Maynard on BBCR4Today (7:34:36) this morning. IDF soldiers targeting a different body part each day of teenage boys collecting food for families - abdomen, chest, testicles, limbs, head. All bullet wounds from guns or flying drones

The perversity of senior white Labour politicians accusing the party's first Black woman MP of racism for insisting on the particularity of anti-Blackness is comparable only with peaceful defenders of international law being criminalised as terrorists

I am thinking of proposing a panel at #POLLEN2026 on the extraction-conservation nexus, broadly defined. I will share a blurb soon. Feel free to DM me if you might be interested in participating. #extraction #conservation