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Vanessa Lamb

@drvanessalamb.bsky.social

Geographer. Associate Professor @ York University, Toronto. previously University of Melbourne. Political Ecology. Rivers, Borders, Sand, Dams, Climate, Justice, Southeast Asia. https://www.yorku.ca/professor/vanessa-lamb/

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Journalists In Gaza Are Documenting Their Own Starvation As hunger tightens its grip on Gaza, local journalists documenting the crisis are now starving alongside the people they cover.
27.07.2025 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 97    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water **With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks**

Feeling just absolutely helpless and devastated about starvation in Gaza. I'm donating to the Sameer Project and calling my representatives and talking to my offline friends. chuffed.org/project/1132...

26.07.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 190    πŸ” 104    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 7
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International students have not driven rents and inflation higher, RBA says An RBA paper suggests the rapid growth in foreign students post-pandemic did not play a big role in pushing rents higher.

A useful corrective to claims that international students drive up rents. @nteunion.bsky.social

24.07.2025 23:49 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Clouds over CN Tower

Clouds over CN Tower

Waiting for the storm #Toronto

25.07.2025 00:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I hate it so much. It’s clearly homogenizing us all to the lowest common denominator

13.07.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 381    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 0

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

01.07.2025 01:37 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

01.07.2025 01:37 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are seven tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Rivers as Borders'. The papers are: 
1) Rivers as borders? Navigating in-between the tensions of water-state-society geographies
Rebekka Kanesu,  Vanessa Lamb,  Eva McGrath
2) Median line: A century of border violence and the alluvial geopolitics of the Evros/MeriΓ§/Maritsa River border
Ifor Duncan,  Stefanos Levidis
3) Slow violence on the Yarmouk River: Encounters from the river-border environments
Muna Dajani
4) Migrating sands: Refocusing transboundary flows from water to sediment
C. R. Hackney
5) Crossing riverborderscapes and a view from in-between: Passenger ferries in South West England
Eva McGrath,  Richard Yarwood,  Nichola Harmer
6) Liquid lines: Exploring the Moselle River between France, Luxembourg and Germany
Rebekka Kanesu
7) Caring for the river-border: Struggles and opportunities along the Salween River-border
Vanessa Lamb

A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are seven tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Rivers as Borders'. The papers are: 1) Rivers as borders? Navigating in-between the tensions of water-state-society geographies Rebekka Kanesu, Vanessa Lamb, Eva McGrath 2) Median line: A century of border violence and the alluvial geopolitics of the Evros/MeriΓ§/Maritsa River border Ifor Duncan, Stefanos Levidis 3) Slow violence on the Yarmouk River: Encounters from the river-border environments Muna Dajani 4) Migrating sands: Refocusing transboundary flows from water to sediment C. R. Hackney 5) Crossing riverborderscapes and a view from in-between: Passenger ferries in South West England Eva McGrath, Richard Yarwood, Nichola Harmer 6) Liquid lines: Exploring the Moselle River between France, Luxembourg and Germany Rebekka Kanesu 7) Caring for the river-border: Struggles and opportunities along the Salween River-border Vanessa Lamb

A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles with the names of papers in the issue. The papers are: 
1) On undevelopment and de-development: A geographical critique on perpetual growth and resource-based accumulation
Gertjan Wijburg
2) Place, institutional spatiality, and the localisation of financial calculative practices
Leqian Yu
3) Claim-making in hydrosocial spaces: The temporality of displacement around Kenya's Masinga Dam reservoir
Arne Rieber,  Benson Nyaga
4) Deliberative approaches to the climate crisis: Adapting Climathons for rural communities
Philippa Simmonds,  Damian Maye,  Julie Ingram,  Abigail Gardner,  Sofia Raseta
5) Ethnographic fingerprints: Examining co-participation, positionality, and interpersonal relationships in diary method
Julius Baker
6) A whole island approach to scoping renewable energy sites and yields
Ben Watt,  Robert L. Wilby
7) Past, present, future: The RGS-IBG political geography research group within British political geography
Daniel Hammett
8) Visualising an undergraduate geography field class using generative AI: Intent, expectations and surprises about the racial depiction of students
Terence Day,  James Esson

A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles with the names of papers in the issue. The papers are: 1) On undevelopment and de-development: A geographical critique on perpetual growth and resource-based accumulation Gertjan Wijburg 2) Place, institutional spatiality, and the localisation of financial calculative practices Leqian Yu 3) Claim-making in hydrosocial spaces: The temporality of displacement around Kenya's Masinga Dam reservoir Arne Rieber, Benson Nyaga 4) Deliberative approaches to the climate crisis: Adapting Climathons for rural communities Philippa Simmonds, Damian Maye, Julie Ingram, Abigail Gardner, Sofia Raseta 5) Ethnographic fingerprints: Examining co-participation, positionality, and interpersonal relationships in diary method Julius Baker 6) A whole island approach to scoping renewable energy sites and yields Ben Watt, Robert L. Wilby 7) Past, present, future: The RGS-IBG political geography research group within British political geography Daniel Hammett 8) Visualising an undergraduate geography field class using generative AI: Intent, expectations and surprises about the racial depiction of students Terence Day, James Esson

πŸ“’June Issue of AreaπŸ“’

This latest issue pulls together the fully #OpenAccess 'Rivers as Borders' Special Section alongside papers on topics including de-development, AI, and diary methods.

Read all the papers here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762... #geosky

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POLLEN 2026: Open for Panels - POLLEN When will POLLEN 2026 be launched? IT ALREADY HAS - get ready to come to Barcelona and join us! Panel Submissions are Currently Open (until July 31st) The announcement is here. Or take a look at this ...

POLLEN 2026 is happening in Barcelona πŸŒ…

The call for panels is open and closes on July 31st.

See here for more information: tinyurl.com/5b8c5w7j

Spread the word.

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Who can β€œslow down” in the neoliberal academy? Reflections on the politics of time as an early-career feminist geographer in Switzerland Abstract. Feminist geographers' calls for β€œslow scholarship” as resistance to the neoliberal university raise poignant questions about who can enact slow scholarship and under what conditions. In this...

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/...

25.06.2025 06:55 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Columbia protester Mahmoud Khalil freed from immigration detention Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil has been released from federal immigration detention. The former Columbia University graduate student left a federal facility in Louisiana on Friday after 104 days ...

Summer solstice apnews.com/article/mahm...

21.06.2025 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 252    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Queen’s Special U.S. Doctoral Recruitment Initiative | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral AffairsDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown... Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found hereπŸ‘‡

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

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The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com

β€œIn the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care.” YES @dansinker.com

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Lecturer in Environment and Security at Queen Mary University of London Discover Lecturer in Environment and Security jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

Lectureship in Environment and Security www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNH492/l... @qmul.ac.uk @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social

03.06.2025 07:32 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Group gathering with two seated speakers at front

Group gathering with two seated speakers at front

A great turnout!

02.06.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

19.05.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Water As Method Symposium 'Water as Method: Space, Place & the Hydrological Gaze in Moving Images'

β€œWater as Method: Space, Place & the Hydrological Gaze in Moving Images is a two-day symposium (19–20 June 2025 at the Glasgow School of Art) exploring the poetics and politics of water in contemporary artist moving image (AMI) practices and methods.”

31.05.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
POLLEN Conference 2026 - POLLEN To learn more about our rational and purposes, then please look at this page , or download this document. If would like to participate then the first step is to propose a panel, or some other contribu...

Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Conference in Barcelona, June 2026. Help us disseminate the event and submit your articles, please! @icta-uab.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social

pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/

19.05.2025 07:56 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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🧡1/ How can armed resistance enableβ€”not undermineβ€”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

17.04.2025 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3
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Look at these #mushrooms ! So beautiful. Glad the Junction Farmers market is open for the season.

24.05.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Excited to discuss β€œThe everyday politics of resources” by Nga Dao at her Toronto book launch June 1! #politicalecology Register: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

09.05.2025 11:23 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humansβ€”but schools will exist β€˜because you still need childcare’ Duolingo replaced its contract workers with AI. Now its eyes are set on schools.

This is a great example of how Paulo Freire was absolutely right when he argued that the β€œbanking system of education” is ultimately dehumanizing.

fortune.com/2025/05/20/d...

20.05.2025 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I encounter more and more people in real life lately who think AI genuinely is some kind of truth machine and it feels like they are living on a different planet in a way that is just incredibly distressing

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Lawyer for Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison arrested Ruth LΓ³pez held without access to lawyers at secret location accused of β€˜embezzlement’ a decade ago

When there is no due process, there can be no justice www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Social & Cultural Geography is seeking a new Editor. We hope that you might be keen to join our lovely team! πŸ™

⏰ Closing date for applications is Friday 20 June 2025

πŸ“¬ Applications should be sent to the journal’s editorial office at scg-jrnl@unimelb.edu.au

πŸ“„ Full details: go.unimelb.edu.au/uy8p

19.05.2025 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Everyone please please please read my latest book: Corporate Control. It explains how government has been completely captured by corporations and corporate logic and demonstrates how obtuse this comment from Long is.

www.dundurn.com/books_/t2211...

14.05.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 84    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

I’m sure it’s been commented upon but everything takes me so much more time to accomplish now than it did even seven years ago.

The information ecosystem has been sufficiently trashed to the point that every basic task of writing and publishing takes twice as long to complete. And I’m PRIVILEGED.

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The Social Properties of Concrete – punctum books

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...

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The Social Properties of Concrete – punctum books

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...

12.05.2025 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Excited to discuss β€œThe everyday politics of resources” by Nga Dao at her Toronto book launch June 1! #politicalecology Register: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

09.05.2025 11:23 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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