jake w dean

The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.

Cover of Journal of Olympic Studies, Volume 6, Number 1, 2025 Published for the Center for Sociocultural Sport and Olympic Research White background with five semicircles resembling the Olympic rings

In Journal of Olympic Studies @jakewdean.bsky.social argues that the inability of the IOC to effectively amend its host city selection process & recruit suitable hosts for future Winter Olympics has resulted in an increasing reliance on fake snow. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jos/arti...

Collaborative event ethnography of the UNFCCC process: Assessing local-global scales of (in)justice within global climate governance arenas Explore the article collection: Collaborative event ethnography of the UNFCCC process: Assessing local-global scales of (in)justice within global climate governance arenas. Published in Climate and Development.

Now FREE access: Collaborative event ethnography of the UNFCCC process www.tandfonline.com/journals/tcl...
@climdevjournal.bsky.social @jamiehaverkamp.bsky.social @jakewdean.bsky.social @simonchinyee.bsky.social @daniellefalzon.bsky.social @paucastro.bsky.social @finejulia6.bsky.social

Hint to Dems: "they are going to kill you" counts as a kitchen table issue to voters

Sorry, but this is just littered with disinformation. This is an ideology that is responsible for the hollowing out of ecosystem function, resilience, and biodiversity around the world. Thinking like this doesn't solve the problem it (re)creates it.

This amazing collaborative event ethnography is (finally) out now! It was a privilege to collaborate with so many great ethnographers to tackle COP27 from many different perspectives, and I hope folks in environmental social sciences continue to apply the CEE model. OA coming soon!

We would like to announce that a long-awaited special issue is now available in Climate and Development. The entire special issue will be free access for a year (forthcoming). Please access through your institutions for now.

Map showing the number of times a location has burned in SoCal and which kind of fire it was: one burning under Santa Ana winds, or one that was a summer, fuel-driven fire without Santa Ana winds. Malibu area had burned at least 8 times from 1900-2017, and has burned twice now since. Image from Kolden and Abatzoglou (2018): https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/1/2/19

Here's the reality about the #LAFires this week: this isn't the first time ANY of these places have burned. Not even close. In 2018, we mapped CA fire history to look at fire frequency across SoCal. Santa Monica Mtns area burns more than anywhere else -- up to once per decade in a given spot. 🧵

Another thing: in the race to cut fossil fuel use ASAP—which we need to do—be wary of "solutions" that increase emissions from land-use change (2nd-biggest human source of CO2) or of other major greenhouse gases (eg methane, nitrous oxide). This can happen in food/ag due to its reliance on land. 1/

Look at what was taken in “sweeps” of homeless encampments.

projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...

it is amazing how many idiots genuinely seem to believe that the GOP actually want women’s sports to exist in any form

At some point liberals are going to start saying, okay there was a genocide but it’s really the fault of the left for how annoying they were about pointing it out

Very happy to announce the 2025 Wageningen Political Ecology Spring school (7-11 april):

Political Ecologies of the Countryside: agrarian roots, environmental transformations and capitalist conflicts

Please spread the word or consider joining!

www.wur.nl/en/activity/...

I work on food systems + ag across various contexts in Mexico & the US—would love to get added.

Not the point of this thread, but “do you think Trump’s win marks the defeat of identity politics” is SUCH a tell.

His win is an absolute VICTORY for identity politics.

If we accept that “angry white evangelical grievance” is an identity.

Which is ABSOLUTELY is. Thru and thru.

meme showing ma looking at 2145661(1) PDF file while other girl named 2145661.PDF looks on angrily

Not sure who made this & when but fittingly came across it in my downloads folder today:

What's The Matter With Kansas? Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 12/06/2024 · 1h 6m

Episode 35: What’s the Matter with Kansas?

In 2004, Thomas Frank tried to unravel the mystery of poor Kansans who vote Republican. We dig into the great political mystery of our time: what’s up with white people?

Students should study the humanities not because it makes them better workers but because it rips you open and breaks your brain and changes everything you thought you knew. I *promise* you this. I *promise* it has this ability, no matter how smart you think you are. I have seen it countless times.

Bottle of wine meme 1. Thanks for having us at your lovely home. 2. This all tastes great, BTW did you know the food system accounts for 1/3 of global annual GHG emissions? 3. Conventional land use GHG accounting ignores that most agricultural land was cleared long ago, and overlooks the carbon opportunity costs of keeping that land in production,

Happy Thanksgiving!

I'm a sessional lecturer at UBC's School of Population & Public Health. I was recently informed that I would no longer be teaching in the school.

In April, I asked why the school would not sponsor & advertise an event related to Gaza w/ a speaker from the respected NGO Save the Children. 🧵

Hear what Anthros of Latin America are saying at #AAA2024Tampa and beyond! go.bsky.app/LGV4jHn

If you're at #AAA2024Tampa & into climate action, please come by the Climate Change Interest Group's roundtable bright & early Saturday!
A great group: Sarah Strauss, @amandahsanchez.bsky.social, Steven Schwartz, Raka Sen & Anna Willow with @ebhite22.bsky.social chairing & me leading the discussion!

Come learn about the diverse roles and experiences of Latinx communities within U.S. food systems and their impact on knowledge production, labor, and food traditions! Marriott WS - Room 7 at 12:45 today! Including my talk on the socioecological dynamics of mezcal production! #AAA2024Tampa

If you’re headed to #AAA2024, make sure to check out all of the great events sponsored by Culture & Ag! And grad students please join us for our annual mixer with our cohort in SAFN!

It feels quite unreal, but *The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game* is officially out in the world as of today. Half a decade’s work finally on full display.

Please grab a copy, request at your library, and spread the word.

uncpress.org/book/9781469...

https://research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-fables/call-for-papers/

We are thrilled to share our CFP for our final conference (May 22-24, 2025) with Vinciane Despret and Susan McHugh as our keynote speakers. Proposals due by Dec 15. Please spread the word. 🙂🐦

please visit: research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...