@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/
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 π 190 π 104 π¬ 2 π 7A useful corrective to claims that international students drive up rents. @nteunion.bsky.social
24.07.2025 23:49 β π 16 π 16 π¬ 0 π 1Clouds over CN Tower
Waiting for the storm #Toronto
25.07.2025 00:42 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I hate it so much. Itβs clearly homogenizing us all to the lowest common denominator
13.07.2025 15:33 β π 381 π 33 π¬ 11 π 0Soooo 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 π 7 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Soooo 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 π 7 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0A 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
π’June Issue of Areaπ’
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
POLLEN 2026 is happening in Barcelona π
The call for panels is open and closes on July 31st.
See here for more information: tinyurl.com/5b8c5w7j
Spread the word.
New paper in Geographica Helvetica π¨ 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 π 17 π 3 π¬ 0 π 2Summer solstice apnews.com/article/mahm...
21.06.2025 00:36 β π 252 π 41 π¬ 1 π 0My 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 hereπ
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
βIn the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care.β YES @dansinker.com
04.06.2025 00:29 β π 94 π 19 π¬ 1 π 0Lectureship in Environment and Security www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNH492/l... @qmul.ac.uk @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social
03.06.2025 07:32 β π 6 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0Group gathering with two seated speakers at front
A great turnout!
02.06.2025 16:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 025 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 π 16 π 11 π¬ 0 π 0βWater as Method: Space, Place & the Hydrological Gaze in Moving Images is a two-day symposium (19β20 June 2025 at the Glasgow School of Art) exploring the poetics and politics of water in contemporary artist moving image (AMI) practices and methods.β
31.05.2025 14:25 β π 18 π 10 π¬ 0 π 1Political 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/
π§΅1/ How can armed resistance enableβnot undermineβdemocracy, 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
Look at these #mushrooms ! So beautiful. Glad the Junction Farmers market is open for the season.
24.05.2025 17:39 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Excited to discuss βThe everyday politics of resourcesβ by Nga Dao at her Toronto book launch June 1! #politicalecology Register: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
09.05.2025 11:23 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 2 π 0This is a great example of how Paulo Freire was absolutely right when he argued that the βbanking system of educationβ is ultimately dehumanizing.
fortune.com/2025/05/20/d...
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
20.05.2025 12:19 β π 2369 π 439 π¬ 44 π 34When there is no due process, there can be no justice www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
19.05.2025 23:13 β π 30 π 15 π¬ 0 π 1Social & Cultural Geography is seeking a new Editor. We hope that you might be keen to join our lovely team! π
β° Closing date for applications is Friday 20 June 2025
π¬ Applications should be sent to the journalβs editorial office at scg-jrnl@unimelb.edu.au
π Full details: go.unimelb.edu.au/uy8p
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...
Iβm sure itβs 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 Iβm PRIVILEGED.
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...
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...
Excited to discuss βThe everyday politics of resourcesβ by Nga Dao at her Toronto book launch June 1! #politicalecology Register: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
09.05.2025 11:23 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 2 π 0