If you’re having trouble accessing my book The Taliban Courts: War through Law, feel free to contact me. It’s been unavailable and, since OUP won’t do a paperback, the hardback is very expensive for individuals. I’m happy to help you find a way to read it.

It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Seven German journalism students tracked Russian-crewed freighters lurking off the Dutch and German coast—and connected them to drone swarms over military bases. (Hank Van Ess)

fondly recalling when Bill Nordhaus got the econ Nobel for his model that assumed economic damages from climate change would be modest and far in the future heatmap.news/economy/clim...

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...

Call for Conference Papers: International Conference on the Political Economy of Energy Transitions and Inequality in Africa. Join us at this conference, which will take place 30-31 March 2026, University of Ghana, Accra. Please see the full Call via: www.ug.edu.gh/announcement...

[COMMENTARY] Congolese traditional medicine, rooted in cultural heritage, is disappearing due to the dominance of modern medicine. In rural areas, traditional healers remain essential, yet their knowledge is largely undocumented and often undervalued. ** The views expressed are the author's.

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/...

Statement of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor on the situation in El-Fasher, North Darfur www.icc-cpi.int/news/stateme...

"The wealthiest 0.1% emit an average of 2.2 tonnes of CO2 every day, equivalent to the weight of a rhinoceros or an SUV. A citizen of Somalia burns off just 82 grams of CO2 each day, barely the mass of a single tomato or half a cup of rice." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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':

Inspired by the fabulous work of @gillianmathys.bsky.social @kasperhoffmann.bsky.social @denistull.bsky.social @judithverweijen.bsky.social @rogermacginty.bsky.social and many others not on here

Well, this is reassuring. Light at the end of the tunnel?

I've written about the difficulties challenges in the various #DRC peace initiatives, and the bleak outlook.

🌍Proud to share our new article in Land Use Policy: “Everyday Property-Making: Negotiating Land Rights, Precarity and Public Authority in Urban Congo” 📎 doi.org/10.1016/j.la... #Property #Land #DRCongo #PublicAuthority #Precarity @crg-ugent.bsky.social @roskildeuni.bsky.social @ucph.bsky.social

AFP | One of Myanmar’s most conflict-ravaged states has witnessed a “dramatic rise in hunger” after United States aid cuts pushed by President Donald Trump during a punishing civil war, the World Food Programme said Tuesday.

So sad, Callon was such an important figure in STS. Who can forget those scallops? I met him once at the École des Mines, Bruno Latour introduced us, around 1990 - that was it. I wish I'd gotten to know him, too late now - yet the scallops and ANT live on #STS @4sweb.bsky.social @aussts.bsky.social

Funny piece. It's actually stunning how incompetent people can end up influencing African policy just because they cultivate proximity with decision-making circles. Paris has its Phams, too

And now the book is officially out!

Fishing is an important food production system that's most vulnerable to climate change, and yet governments lack data to help fishers adapt. To address that gap, the global research partnership CGIAR recently launched its Asia Digital Hub.

My book Fractured Pasts @universitypress.cambridge.org was officially launched today. Grateful for everyone who attended, and thanks to everyone who contributed in big and small ways. You can order it here www.cambridge.org/core/books/f... and you can get a 20% discount at checkout using FPLKB2025.

In Luanda for the launch of this edited volume on #Angola after Dos Santos, produced in record time in Portuguese & English with chapters by Angolan & foreign scholars. Both versions in the link. My chapter is on the politics of public memory 50 years after independence. www.cmi.no/publications...

This is your once in a life time chance to work with top scholars on a super important topic!

Very important, this. News do not show up naturally, they are allowed (or disallowed) by a variety of social processes. When it comes to violence in the Lake Chad Basin, there is good reason to suspect it is seriously underestimated even in the best data bases.

Aung Naing Soe, a journalist and documentary filmmaker from Burma living and working in exile, joined the DVB Newsroom to discuss the new book he co-authored with Joe Freeman called Frontline Poets: The literary rebels taking on Myanmar’s military. Read more: english.dvb.no/resistance-a...

'The DRC – born under Belgian colonial rule, remade as a Cold War theatre, now shaped by external financial flows – remains deprived of anything resembling real sovereignty.' Ben Radley & Nicholas Fairwood contextualise the conflict in the Congo: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

[1/8] @justinebrabant.bsky.social et Joseph Confavreux s'entretiennent avec Gilles Dorronsoro (Université Paris 1/CESSP), politiste spécialiste des guerres civiles. Dans Le Plus Grand des Maux, il analyse les logiques politiques, sociales et internationales de ces conflits. #HGGSP #civilwar

A much more complicated history than most people imagine. A piece of mine following an interview with him: www.nytimes.com/1996/06/02/w...

Are Indigenous peoples always forest guardians? Or can they also become forest destroyers? Fergus O'Leary Simpson #UAntwerp explores the nuanced reality through the case study of the Batwa community in the Democratic Republic of Congo. @iobua.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Check out this fantastic post doc opportunity working with @judithverweijen.bsky.social ⬇️

Roberto Casati, The Cognitive Life of Maps - @mitpress.bsky.social, 2024 (print and open access) direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... review at NDPR by Ben Blumson ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/the-...

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

On the Ukraine model. www.ft.com/content/8b62...

We've got a big book coming out on carbon removal and geoengineering in October. If you're interested in doing a review (hence in getting an advance copy) - send me a dm! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790847...

Tyrkiets demokratiske deroute? "Man har arresteret præsidentens største politiske rival – en taktik, som gør, at der lige nu tales om en russificering af tyrkisk politik," siger @hetavrojan.bsky.social på dagens forside af @kristeligt-dagblad.dk: www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/udland/trods...

Vi er så heldige at have en ekstremt vidende kapacitet om en af verdens mest oversete, men dramatiske konflikter lige nu. Så hvis du vil vide mere om hvad der sker i DR Congo lige nu, og hvorfor det sker. Lyt til Kasper her 👇

At det lille Rwanda fører krig i det store naboland DR Congo, hænger sammen med det rwandiske folkemord i 1994. Men at Rwandas allierede, M23, turde erobre to storbyer, hænger nok sammen med mere aktuelle begivenheder, mener Congo-ekspert @kasperhoffmann.bsky.social globalnyt.dk/forsker-nok-...

Landets skarpeste studerende må da være på Bluesky? :) Kom i praktik på den lille globale og Københavns hyggeligste redaktion på Pile Allé

Jeg har forsket i konflikterne i DR Congo i omkring 20 år. Derfor var jeg meget interesseret, da @globalnyt.dk inviterede mig til at lave en podcast om emnet. I sidste uge var jeg derinde for at diskutere emnet. Vi kom godt omkring det. Lyt med her: globalnyt.dk/forsker-nok-...

My latest article in @thecontinent.org on the robust negotiations between the Sahel's new military rulers and international mining companies:

Some comments in @nytimes.com on Rwanda cutting ties with Belgium: "“Rwanda has flexed its muscles at any criticism and signaled, ‘We’re not afraid by sanctions; they’re not having any effect (..) But that strong reaction actually shows that it might have some effect” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/w...

New postdoc position on political economy with state-business relations in Ukraine as a case. It is a shared position between DIIS and Copenhagen Business School www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa...

4 fully-funded PhD positions to work on climate resilience among at-risk populations in #Uganda and #Mozambique (smallholders & refugees) at @w-u-r.bsky.social and @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social: climares.nl/vacancies/

Great to see this finally out: a fine-grained, place and terrain-sensitive eventful process account of insurgency in the Donbas in 2014 based on in-depth research before 2022 in places now occupied & partially destroyed.

Great news from the amazing @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social and colleagues and watch out for brilliant positions on her project to come.

We've made it to this platform too! Follow us to get the latest cutting-edge political ecology contributions (all OA with ZERO corporate profit)- and occasional rants against corporate publishing : journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/ @pollenetwork.bsky.social

Poverty is on the rise across the African continent. The pain, however, is not evenly distributed. On average, lived poverty is at its worst level in a quarter-century of Afrobarometer surveys.

With the arrival of the #M23 in the city of Goma, the Congo crisis has entered a next stage and level of intensification. Many wonder why this could happen. In an analysis written a few months ago @ethuin.bsky.social and I provide some background.