The #Salween as well as the #Mekong River (2 major rivers in Southeast Asia) are now contaminated with arsenic etc likely from mining upstream in #Myanmar. Thai scholars have already deemed this a crisis and many locals are doing the best they can to draw attention to the issue. bit.ly/48hhHEk

Latest for @mongabay.com dives into the poisoning of the Salween River, Asia's longest free-flowing river. Unregulated mines in Myanmar have seen arsenic contamination reach dangerous levels on the Salween, leaving Indigenous Karen communities with no fish, no water and no solutions from governments

This afternoon, @drjchambers.bsky.social & I will co-present on women’s care labour at the Thai-Myanmar border for the University of Melbourne’s Geography seminar series. Join us! I’ll present a paper co-authored with @drvanessalamb.bsky.social on women’s food preparation for anti-dam protests

New Publication Alert! Go read @zalifung.bsky.social's piece in Political Geography on pursuing accountability under authoritarian rule to learn more about how authoritarianism unfolds and is challenged in specific places and times www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Damming indictment of the managerialist infiltration of Australia’s universities resulting in job cuts #auspol #4corners youtu.be/quc24Ot9Qwg?...

@zalifung.bsky.social writes thoughtfully and carefully about the process of doing research in collaboration with human rights lawyer Mueda during the PhD and the key ways this shaped the work. A great paper as part of our Asia Pacific Viewpoint Special Issue! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 New paper in Asia Pacific Viewpoint Reflecting on my collaboration with Mueda Nawanat, I show how collaboration between foreign researchers and local RAs can enable research to support the goals of communities and social movements in the Salween River Basin onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Exciting New Paper: The Community Ethics Advisory Board's insights into how to 'ground' research ethics in communities of research at the Thai–Burma border. Part of a special issue coming soon, edited by Anne Décobert, Sophia Htwe + @zalifung.bsky.social). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper in @politicalgeography.bsky.social 🚨 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I show how authoritarianism not only erodes civil and political rights, but undermines the organisations designed to protect those rights and hold state and corporate actors accountable 1/3

New Year's READ: Volunteering While Researching Conflict and Violence by @shonaloong.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Excited that this is part of our special issue on #Decolonising Research #Ethics in Asia Pacific Viewpoint (w/Anne Décobert, Sophia Htwe + @zalifung.bsky.social)

This year has been brutal for the #climate movement. Rollbacks, repression, & outright denial, especially in the US, have made progress feel fragile & uneven. Which is exactly why it matters to pause & look back at what did move forward in 2025. Here are 12 real wins 🏆, one for each month 🧵⬇️

NEW 🇹🇭 For decades, governments have sought to dam and divert rivers in the Salween River Basin—and for decades, communities have resisted under often deeply repressive political conditions. @zalifung.bsky.social explores their repertoire of "slow resistance" in this essay drawing on her PhD research

My essay on “slow resistance” to long-proposed hydropower dams & diversions in the Salween River Basin is out with @newmandala.bsky.social ! It’s based on my PhD research & an article co-authored with @drvanessalamb.bsky.social in Antipode. www.newmandala.org/slow-resista...

Please consider joining our 2026 Political Ecology spring school! Planetary Political Ecologies: Environmental disasters, conflicts and possibilities in & beyond capitalism ▶️ 13-17 April 2026 ▶️ Wageningen With Annah Zhu, Erik Swyngedouw, Sumit Vij & others! wass.crs.wur.nl/courses/deta...

I wrote about food and the work to create "solidarity infrastructures" in the #Salween, particularly the work by women who provide food for the movement, with @zalifung.bsky.social www.roadsides.net/articles/8234

In their contribution to our latest issue, @drvanessalamb.bsky.social and @zalifung.bsky.social show how food preparation by Karen women for anti-dam gatherings is a form of solidarity infrastructure in the Salween River Basin at the Thai–Myanmar border. www.roadsides.net/articles/8234

New paper with @drvanessalamb.bsky.social in @roadsides.bsky.social We show how food preparation, primarily undertaken by older Karen women, is key to contesting long-proposed hydropower dams & water diversions in the Salween River Basin Thanks editors @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon

Apply now — Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis”, deadline 20 December 2025 antipodeonline.org/2025/11/13/a...

Please join us! I am co-convening 3 Royal Geographical Society panels on Feminist and Gendered Geographies of Resistance with @zalifung.bsky.social and Rebecca Elmhirst at the University of Birmingham next week. A great lineup of presentations. bit.ly/4lgkPnk @rgsibg.bsky.social

Just discovered that @austgeo.bsky.social is on BlueSky! My (relatively) new paper shows how researchers can build trust & collaborate with civil society actors online & across multiple borders (geographic, material, sociocultural, etc). This can build the foundations for in-person fieldwork.

Thanks @polgeographygroup.bsky.social

looking forward to presenting on speculative and “amorphous” unbuilt infrastructures in the Salween River Basin at the upcoming Beyond Infrastructures conference @infranortherc.bsky.social

a great and much needed piece

"As a geographer and an interdisciplinary scholar, when I look at climate change, I see it essentially about changes in water." Farhana Sultana, The Politics of Water: Climate (In)Justice in Megacities of the Global South #climate #geo #geosky @farhanasultana.com ‪@berlinergazette.bsky.social‬

An excellent (& devastatingly true) account on the "leaky pipeline"

Precarity in the neoliberal university (Swiss edition) and caring scholarship, by @zalifung.bsky.social gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...

Excited to be in Barcelona this July and meet the @bcnuej.bsky.social team! Also happy to give a talk on "Counter-Topographies of Care: Feminist Geographies, Migrant Infrastructures, and Political Subjectification" 💻 In person & online 📆 8 July @uomseed.bsky.social @urbanstudiesfoundation.org

New paper in Geographica Helvetica 🚨 I reflect on the (im)possibilities of doing slow scholarship in neoliberal academia as an early-career scholar & how precarity limits collaboration. I outline *collective* strategies to address this & invite further discussion gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...

CfP for a special issue that draws attention to the important but often overlooked gendered elements of ‘global China’

Join us tomorrow @unibe.ch for an event on ‘feminist geographies as socially engaged research’ & our panel on ‘care in academia’ ✨

Happy to celebrate five years since @antipodeonline.bsky.social released "Geographies of Racial Capitalism w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore." If you haven't seen or considered it as a teaching or organizing tool: check it out 👇 antipodeonline.org/geographies-...

“When punishment & criminalization threaten public thinking on a matter of shared and urgent concerns, as the situation in Palestine surely is, then speech on Palestine becomes the litmus test for rights of expression essential to keeping democracy alive.“

25 grad students will have accommodation provided (deadline June 9) for this fee-free Summer School, University of Bologna, Italy, Sept 8-12, "Dissonant memories: geographies of migration, colonialism and trauma". centri.unibo.it/memorylab/it... #unibo

Excited to discuss ‘feminism as socially engaged research’ in Bern on June 17. I’ll speak on the (im)possibilities & tensions of conducting ‘slow scholarship’ in fast-paced neoliberal academia as a precarious early-career scholar. Join us!

🧵1/ How can armed resistance enable—not undermine—democracy, peacebuilding, and the revitalisation of Indigenous socio-ecological relations? In the Annals of the AAG, I write about post/decolonial approaches to territory & the #SalweenPeacePark doi.org/10.1080/2469... @geographers.bsky.social

We have extended the deadline for our ECR/HDR Paper Award to Friday 30th May! Please reach out if you would like to submit. Note that you can be 7 years post-PhD and forthcoming works will also be considered. Thanks 🥳

what happens when long-proposed dams finally materialise? looking forward to this paper on the ruptures created by Indonesia’s Jatigede Dam, by @china-geographies.bsky.social & colleagues in @waalternatives.bsky.social

The Social Properties of #Concrete, a book on the ways that concrete shapes our lives, is out (and Free to download)! @punctumbooks.bsky.social punctumbooks.com/titles/the-s...

My colleagues at The Anthropocene Laboratory at Swedish Royal Academy in Stockholm are hiring: 3 postdocs www.anthropocenelab.se/news/the-ant... and 2 researchers www.anthropocenelab.se/news/the-ant...

As part of the @acme-geography.bsky.social 20+ Anniversary celebration @rikjaz.bsky.social and I had a chat about decolonizing geography. Published here in the just released volume! #geosky #geogchat acme-journal.org/index.php/ac...

With Kate Dawson, Nzinga B. Mboup, Dany Tiwa, Semhar Haile, Brenda Chalfin, Armelle Choplin, Kenny Cupers, Carole Diop, Anna Mazzolini, Juliette Reflé, Fanny Voélin, Maren Larsen, 1/2

stellar collection on rivers as borders in @areajournal.bsky.social, congrats editors @drvanessalamb.bsky.social & colleagues

This conference looks like just the ticket: A Feminist Politics of Radical Hope in Times of Oppression. And it's in Liverpool! See you there? X

Sydney people: Next Monday the Sydney Environment Institute kicks off a new panel series on Climate Justice. We'll talk about climate turbulence, heat inequity, the housing crisis, Indigenous leadership, community engagement, and more, with a great set of speakers. Register below.

This workshop will interrogate how the neoliberal university leaves us simultaneously enlightened and illiterate, and explores ways of resisting this trend. Call for position papers open to HE workers and beyond until 2 May www.drdomdavies.com/blog-1/knowi...

Glad that this work is out in Transactions @tibg.bsky.social :). On the making of a Ghanaian SDG investment pipeline (an intervention 'incubated' in Geneva), its 'failure', and the important work this 'failure' does in extending financialisation: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣 USF International Fellowships 2025 - apply now! This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte... Deadline 16th July 2025

Nikolaos Olma and Janine Hauer ask how infrastructures become instruments of slow violence in their introduction to the latest issue of roadsides. Out now!

The other huge problem is how long they take. How can ECRs meet the essential criteria if they're spending all their time burning out writing job applications? Jobs now just seem to be passing between established researchers who move institutions for better working conditions.

📢 Applications are open for the Pathways Autumn School 2025! 🗓️ Oct 13–17 | 🏔️ Aussois, French Alps Theme: Towards Sustainable & Just Futures 🌍 For early-career researchers in Europe. Apply by 12 May: www.google.com/url?q=https:... #SustainabilityScience #Pathways2025 #JustFutures