Wonderful prose and a complex political ecology of rising lake levels in a climate-changed present. africasacountry.com/2026/04/the-...

NEW PAPER - When “conflict free” minerals go to war, by Kali Rubaii, Mohamed El-Shewy, and Mark Griffiths www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This looks fantastic "Mapping signal territory: Undersea cable disruptions, affective nationalism and turbulent ecologies" nice to see new ways to expand the concept of territory journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

the recording of yesterday’s episode of THE RIFT, a conversation with @criticalpoleco.bsky.social about the political ecology of conservation in kenya’s maasai mara, is now online: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

this sunday on THE RIFT on WEFT: i speak with @criticalpoleco.bsky.social, professor at the University of Michigan, about conservation and colonialism in Kenya’s Maasai Mara and the politics of knowledge production. 3pm CT, listen live or later: linktr.ee/theriftradio

PhD Position in AI for the Global Majority: from Commodity to Commons www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Assistant/Associate Professor of Global Environmental Policy with a focus on the interface of environmental change and policy (e.g. land transformation, biodiversity loss, international resource governance). University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability apply.interfolio.com/173947

New semester, new students, old politics. But never did I think I would introduce Mahmood Mamdhani as "Zohran's dad" 😀

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor - Technology, Society, and Power at the School of Information, University of Michigan, in the areas of critical study of technology and its relationship to governance, violence, control, surveillance, resistance, and war apply.interfolio.com/171466

We may have the chance to hire an outstanding researcher 3+ years post PhD to join Tarleton Gillespie, Mary Gray and me in Cambridge MA bringing critical sociotechnical perspectives to bear on new technologies. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

Land grabbing through unlivability: Necro-scapes and slow violence in the expansion of conservation regimes in Tanzania journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

This seems relevant, especially this week - "Raising the temperature: A critical geographical perspective on heat" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I want to share my article where I discuss the #conservationcapitalistclass & how #cheetah #conservation #NGOs, as part of this class, are institutions of global academic, economic, & social power in conservation #politicalecology #humangeography #geography journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Don’t miss this deep dive on #QENP by the brilliant @shokes.bsky.social @mongabay.com #militarisation #conservation #rangers #poaching #HumanRights

"Coercive animal labour is central to capitalism"...MUST READ... Multispecies slavery–environment nexus in resource extraction and animals' ecological politics: Coercive donkey labour in Indian river sand mining @pollenetwork.bsky.social rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Putting the digit back in digital: Zero as number and concept in the digitisation of forests journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Ventography and the spatial politics of wind. The article shows "how endeavors to map wind for energy are shaped by specific spatial imaginations, which are in turn making it possible for the UK to advance sovereign claims over volumetric spaces offshore" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Fantastic work by Marlotte de Jong "We argue that viewing water infrastructure as “complete” and “durable” hides the inherent fragility of these systems and how they create conditions of water insecurity." www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... @pollenetwork.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social

Digitalizing sewage: The politics of producing, sharing, and operationalizing data from wastewater-based surveillance journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Previously posted on that *other* app "From Coercive to Carceral Conservation: Reframing Conservation through Abolition Ecologies" New work by PhD students Marlotte de Jong, Ember McCoy and myself onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social

Another great one! "what are the emerging political economic actors, practices, and relations of wastewater surveillance? And how are emergent multi-institutional public-private partnerships and contracts transforming public health governance?" rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Great new article in @antipodeonline.bsky.social on the intersections between climate finance, windfarms, electric grids and local herders. For those interested in pastoralism, the notion of Aeolian pastoralism is exciting and innovative. Learn more here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

"..exploring the emergence of anti-racist decolonial themes in Anglo-American geo.. I argue that the whiteness of the discipline, its roots in colonial modernity, as well as the neoliberal production of whiteness in Higher Education stymies decolonizing agendas" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

A good way to get your students to see what colonial control does to indigenous lives..."Native Americans had hunted bison for centuries. For bison nations, it was part of their primarily nomadic culture and the animals provided them with vital sustenance." www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Teaching a conservation class next term/semester. Consider adding this to the watchlist youtu.be/cKrmAEDC5fc?...

An article I didn't want to write: 'On the #politicalontology of making things up in #politicalecology critique: An engagement with Bormpoudakis (2019) and Knudsen (2023)' J. of Political Ecology ⬇️ journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/...

Those studying human-animal dialectics, add this to your list. Digital animal deathscapes: The online circulation of animals killed for conservation rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

This looks so good. Amazing work. Add this to your syllabi. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

To celebrate #GeographyAwarenessWeek, I’m sharing my new article on the epistemic territorialization of wildlife conservation volunteering in Namibia #geosky #geography #politicalecology #politicalepistemology @geographers.bsky.social @criticalpoleco.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Incredible lecture by Judith Butler on Academic Freedom, Encampments, and the Disciplining of Students and Faculty at Universities www.youtube.com/live/0tWzSXQ...