Miles Kenney-Lazar

Traditional owners file native title claim over Melbourne and surrounding areas Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung elder says First Nations people want to work with government to ‘look after that country’

Native title for the Wurrundjeri Woi-wurrung in Narrm Melbourne would be such a powerful step forward for the city

Especially now that Treaty has been signed between the Victorian gov't and First Nations people

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Precisely! That didn't seem to occur to them. "Damn journalists..."

I was at a conference where someone working in carbon offsets begrudgingly referred to it as the 'guardianization' of the industry 😅

Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...

Dr. Farhana Sultana is currently on leave from Syracuse University due to political backlash and harassment stemming from her social media posts about Charlie Kirk. Please sign this letter of support for her, and share with your networks: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Thanks to @micahfisher.bsky.social for inviting me to his graduate course, Environmental Conflict: Resolution?, to share my book, Socializing Land. Great group of students with sharp questions! Plus it's always fun to be a disembodied floating head for a while ;)

The press is offering a 30% discount associated with the New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS).

You can use the code NYCAS25 at checkout. It will expire on October 31st

Thanks, Charlie!

Hard copies of the book are now available from the UHP website. E-book versions can be found elsewhere online. A paperback version will be available next year at a lower price. Please do request that your library purchases a copy. And get in touch for seminars, guest lectures, podcasts, etc. 🙂

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I approach land as a web of social relationships that entangle peasant farmers, state officials, civil society groups, and plantation capitalists. The book addresses how and why ties to land are socialized in different orientations, particularly for capital versus the peasantry.

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The book examines the politically contested development of Chinese and Vietnamese pulpwood and rubber plantations on the lands of Indigenous Brou people in Southern Laos. It is based on in-depth ethnographic research during a land rush facilitated by the Lao government.

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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...

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Pls share: Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship competition now open at UBC. Department of Geography deadline is October 9, 2025. Details:
geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...

Thanks, @profjulietlu.bsky.social !

I became very obsessed over cover design at one point, so I'm glad to know it works 🙏

More soon on the book..

'Hunger Games scenario': four ANU lecturers and only three jobs Four lecturers going for three jobs speak out about the stress and the cost.

In Australia too :( Everywhere, really...

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/901572...

This is a great piece on how Melbourne Uni's anti-racism strategy has been captured by elites and used as a tool against pro-Palestine academics and students

We are excited to announce that over 10% of AAG members have signed onto the GJP petition!

We're not done yet -- this week, we're making a final push to make sure we blow past that number. Especially if you've already signed, could you share the petition link with colleagues by April 11?

These travel security notifications that the uni sends us are actually an amazing way to find out about local protests to attend..

The chair of the meeting introduces the speakers while the crowd looks on

The meeting chair Anneke introduces the speakers

The crowd at the event

Launching our federal election launch at Brunswick Town Hall now.

If you haven't left Detroit #AAG2025 yet, come by the two-part session Friday morning on Frontiers of Green Capitalism organized by @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social and Shae Frydenlund. Room 420B - it's gonna be lit..

@geographers.bsky.social

If you're attending #AAG2025, please sign this petition from Geographers for Justice in Palestine that calls for the AAG to hold a special meeting to discuss proposals for taking action on Palestine: geog4pal.org/petition/

@geogboycott.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social

on a green background above images of protest, the slide explains: "We are geographers, faculty, students and people of conscience organizing in response to institutional silence and complicity with the Israeli state’s colonial, discriminatory and oppressive policies towards Palestinians. We come together in the midst of a genocidal war against Palestinians and in the aftermath of massive protests and repression on university campuses across the globe."

Who are Geographers for Justice in Palestine?

Colleagues,

A decade in the making, I’d like to share with you my new book entitled, 'For the Sake of Forests and God: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands'.

From the Cornell University Press webpage: lnkd.in/ghyuxMKT

University to cut 137 academics due to $35m drop in international student enrolments The University of Wollongong has approached staff across 25 disciplines for redundancies in a restructure the union fears could abolish its degrees in history, mathematics, geography and languages.

The very idea of so many incredible geography friends and colleagues at the University of Wollongong being in scope for possible redundancy next month is absolutely gut wrenching www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11... 1/5