Of all we do in academia, reviewing important new work is surely one of the joys. It reminds us why we do what we do. Never truer than for this review forum, where I got to discuss Andrea Marston’s exceptional book Subterranean Matters with esteemed colleagues www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Heading to New York tomorrow for this exciting event! as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

Guest Lecture, co-organised by our Geographies of Life research cluster: 'Curating Learning Journeys - Transformational Experiences in the Classroom', Dr Erzsébet Strausz, Central European University, Vienna. Thursday, 30th April 2026, 13.00-14.30, room PCL 054 (Palatine Centre)

Access the introduction and six papers at antipodeonline.org/2026/04/14/q...

We will never know how many students could have got better marks without using AI. I can only say that, in my experience, the quality of student work has declined since ChatGPT.

We are looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Human Geography with expertise in the field of Health Geography that will complement and extend current work in our Geographies of Life research cluster. Application deadline May 10th, further details here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

#decoloniality #anticoloniality #indigeneity #Nature #colonialecologies #politicsofrepresentation #socialmovements #embodiedstruggles

Our Intro to the Antipode Symposium "Querying Nature and (Anti-/De-)coloniality" is finally out! Co-authored with Kiran Asher and Joel Correia @joelecorreia.bsky.social, it has been a long labour of love (1/8) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Really excited about this important piece. 🌱

New publication! Territories of Life: Equivocations, Entanglements, Endurances, co-edited by Mario Blaser, Sylvie Poirier and myself ualbertapress.ca/978177212825...

jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Critical geopolitics lectureship in Human Geography at Leeds

Newcastle Chronicle ran a story yesterday about the government's response to People Against Rafael's petition to investigate Pearson Engineering. It also discusses PAR's research on use of Pearson Engineering's Threat-sense technology in Israeli drones www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

@paullangley.bsky.social and @andrewleyshon.bsky.social, Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance - Zone, July 2026 press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...

BREAKING: Massive Crowds of Anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota as we speak. The tide is turning. America is Fed Up. Americans should be fighting back against what is happening in this country. Having masked, secret police shooting people, breaking into homes and cars, is NOT normal.

We are looking forward to welcoming Mark Griffiths (GPS, Newcastle University) to the Department on January 13th (2-4pm, room W010) to speak about his book Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine (University of Minnesota Press, 2025) in conversation with Dr. Lauren Martin from Durham Geography.

A sobering reminder of the new political context in Bolivia: support for the US military invasion of Venezuela with purported support for "democracy" but no mention of sovereignty

Thinking of everyone in Venezuela right now. A reminder to those who aren't Venezuelans or regional specialists that your take isn't required (read and share local commentary instead)

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