This afternoon! www.iag.org.au/index.cfm?mo...

“Nearly four out of five of Australia’s critical mineral projects sit on Indigenous lands”. For @copower.bsky.social, Noa Wynn examines the Yindjibarndi claim for damages to land and how green colonialism is repeating old injustices.

NEW 🇮🇩 Too big to fail, and too big to succeed, Jokowi’s new capital city eventually came to be pushed forward by little more than the former president’s need to justify its existence, writes Anders Kirstein Moeller. www.newmandala.org/nusantara-th...

We finally have an updated website! Some of the activities in the Environment & Energy stream at the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies arts.unimelb.edu.au/centre-for-c...

Private consultants are taking control of how public universities are evaluated and run. My submission to the Senate university governance inquiry raises concerns about the impact of Nous Group and their dodgy UniForum data on our universities. www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor... A thread

OnlineFirst - "Expulsion by suffocation: Soybean plantations, toxicity, and land grabbing in the Brazilian Amazon" by @fabiozuker.bsky.social: #Amazon #EnvironmentalJustice #Anthropology #SlowViolence #toxicity #Deforestation #Agroecology #PlanetaryHealth journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I refuse to teach with it

This is amazing

Working on fresh approaches to infrastructures? If you can imagine editing a special issue with us, send us a proposal! Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2025 Send proposals to our editors-in-chief: Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi [email protected] Tina Harris [email protected]

AAS-in-Asia 2026 to Take Place at Lahore University of Management Sciences—submit your organized panel session or roundtable proposal by November 13! buff.ly/GReizuO

"These codes of neighborliness or of common decency are, in other words, the bare minimum for us to exist peacefully as profoundly different people who nevertheless share the same time and place" www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

This is not enough, not at all in line with 1.5

Xi Jinping announced China's new climate targets personally, a positive gesture, but the targets brought little clarity on China’s future emission pathway. Targeting a 7-10% emission reduction by 2035 from an undefined "peak level" undersells China's current clean energy boom.

China, for First Time, Vows to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", according to the former chair of a senate inquiry examining governance at public universities. ... "There's no other sector in the country where failure is rewarded so handsomely and with so little scrutiny."

New: A deep dive with some alarming new revelations on the silencing of one of the few remaining independent progressive voices in Australian media. Who killed Meanjin?

The combination of bloodless corporate managerialism by uni execs and a do-nothing Albanese govt is killing Australia’s university sector.

It's hard to describe the depths of disillusionment in universities right now. theconversation.com/universities...

Breaking: The value of China’s exports of clean energy technologies hit a new all-time record in July, passing the previous high from March 2023. China exported $18.4 bln worth of solar and wind power equipment, EVs and batteries during the month.

What exactly happened to Meanjin? And why in this manner? Some excellent observations (and questions) from @catrionamp.bsky.social over on @crikey.com.au: www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/08/m...

Pesticide use data, monitoring, residue testing, approvals... it's all loose as hell in Australia. We have no idea what we're eating. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

My first book, Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos (University of Hawai'i Press, 2025), exists in this world! Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social... 1/4

Lmao at this open letter to the Unimelb VC proposing she pay for Meanjin with a 10% salary sacrifice that would still leave her better paid than the VC of the University of Cambridge It was my joy to sign, & I recommend doing so to all in the world of arts & letters

Meanwhile, per the linked article, there are 15 executives at University of Melbourne making more than double what they provide(d) to Meanjin each year. I think we all know where the real value for money is (or was) www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A Chinese-owned mining company has been accused of covering up the extent of a disastrous toxic spill in Zambia that polluted a major river that millions rely on with cyanide and arsenic.

Digital developmentalism as authoritarian developmentalism - Natalie Koch, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Interested in global political economy of the energy transition? Brilliant conversation between @brettchristophers.bsky.social and Adam Tooze, moderated by @katearonoff.bsky.social in NY Our @thepolycrisis.bsky.social Dispatch buttondown.com/polycrisisdi... Youtube: youtube.com/watch?app=de...

We looked this week in class at China's petrochemical industry and the industry reps on China's national delegation. Any treaty must seek to curtail production or it's worthless. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Before we were able to do this, it was a matter of great shame to many Indigenous people that our university had this past and didn’t acknowledge it.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Original draft of syllabus is here - www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-politi... - still in need of a summary piece on the role of capital in shaping the AI economy

Are we living through the dying days of globalization? From the Archives: @triofrancos.bsky.social considers the cruelty of our global supply chain—and the chokepoints that offer workers a chance to demand power.

Bit of a long road this one, but we got there in the end. Amazing team to work with 💫 “Fence culture”: grounding global China in Kalimantan www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Symposium — “Agrarian Modernities: Land Futures and Surprise in the Countryside” — nine articles asking “post-agrarian questions”, available online now and forthcoming in Antipode 57(6) antipodeonline.org/2025/07/21/a...

Your support is needed - sign the petition opposing the Job-ready Graduates Scheme www.openpetition.org/au/petition/... @austhistassoc.bsky.social

“Monash does lots of good things on climate & ecology. We have outstanding researchers here[..]& research centres dedicated to various aspects of climate change. By tying itself up with Woodside, Monash gives it the reputational benefit & the value of this excellent work"[email protected]

An insane amount of rain hit Beijing and surrounding areas this week- basically its average annual rainfall all at once. With devastating impacts. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Over the past few years, our PlastChem team has worked tirelessly to map the chemical complexity of #plastics. Today, we publish the findings in @nature.com. We hope this evidence propels the development of safer plastics to protect human health and environment. 1/4 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So this is what the EU and China were able to agree on climate. Nothing groundbreaking but some positive elements. Promising to align new 2035 emission targets with the 1.5/well below 2 degree temperature goal is good.

It’s almost as though universities have been taken over by a class of soulless executives who loot their public institutions for perks and salaries

SA’s toxic algal bloom is twice the size of the ACT, has killed 12,000 animals and is filling even the experts with dread

Chinese Premier Li Qiang (李强) launched construction of a mega-dam project in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet on Saturday, with a total planned investment of 1.2 trillion yuan ($167 billion), according to the official Xinhua News Agency. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is very good and provides further evidence of glyphosate's "deceptive" toxicity and carcinogenicity (incl. glyphosate formulations). Safer than table salt? Not so much m.youtube.com/watch?v=RbOm...

www.csaa.org.au We are hosting the Chinese Studies Association of Australia conference in December this year. It's going to be fun, lots of geographers 😀 Join us! Abstracts due 30 August

The recently concluded Yoorrook Justice Commission found that the colonization of Victoria, which involved "massacres, disease, sexual violence, child removal, cultural erasure and linguicide," amounted to genocide. This thread provides the report's text on the loss of First Nations' languages.

Adam Calo, Sylvia Kay, Sarah R Sippel, Coline Perrin, and Kirsteen Shields explore how geographically variegated property regimes in the Global North shape the scope of the commodification and assetization of farmland, and discuss radical alternatives to private property. tinyurl.com/2atadp9n

Soooo excited to see #Rivers as #Borders special section all together! Challenges fixed or land-centric ideas of borders by focusing on rivers and all their relations @dajanimuna.bsky.social @chrishackneyggk.bsky.social

Xinhua: "This year, China won 8 Grand Gold, 102 Gold and 124 Silver. In 2014 and 2015, China won five and 14 medals, respectively. Over half of the Chinese awards were from Ningxia's eastern foothill of Helan Mountain." english.news.cn/20250627/33f...

Nature and Space Vol. 8, No. 3 is now out and available online! It features articles on a number of topics, from sewage treatment and tribal sovereignty to pastoral mobility and contested land grabbing. Link and ToC below: journals.sagepub.com/toc/enea/8/3...