Political Ecology of Environmental Conflict

NEW PAPER - When “conflict free” minerals go to war, by Kali Rubaii, Mohamed El-Shewy, and Mark Griffiths www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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This looks fantastic "Mapping signal territory: Undersea cable disruptions, affective nationalism and turbulent ecologies" nice to see new ways to expand the concept of territory journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Episode 21: Conservation and Violence in Kenya's Maasai Mara with Bilal Butt Podcast Episode · The Rift · 10/20/2025 · 51m

the recording of yesterday’s episode of THE RIFT, a conversation with @criticalpoleco.bsky.social about the political ecology of conservation in kenya’s maasai mara, is now online: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

this sunday on THE RIFT on WEFT: i speak with @criticalpoleco.bsky.social, professor at the University of Michigan, about conservation and colonialism in Kenya’s Maasai Mara and the politics of knowledge production. 3pm CT, listen live or later: linktr.ee/theriftradio

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Assistant/Associate Professor of Global Environmental Policy with a focus on the interface of environmental change and policy (e.g. land transformation, biodiversity loss, international resource governance). University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability apply.interfolio.com/173947

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New semester, new students, old politics. But never did I think I would introduce Mahmood Mamdhani as "Zohran's dad" 😀

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor - Technology, Society, and Power at the School of Information, University of Michigan, in the areas of critical study of technology and its relationship to governance, violence, control, surveillance, resistance, and war apply.interfolio.com/171466

We may have the chance to hire an outstanding researcher 3+ years post PhD to join Tarleton Gillespie, Mary Gray and me in Cambridge MA bringing critical sociotechnical perspectives to bear on new technologies.

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Land grabbing through unlivability: Necro-scapes and slow violence in the expansion of conservation regimes in Tanzania - Felix Mantz, 2025 Land grabbing is a persistent and highly dynamic global phenomenon whereby people's power over territories are alienated through multiple and ever-changing...

Land grabbing through unlivability: Necro-scapes and slow violence in the expansion of conservation regimes in Tanzania journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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This seems relevant, especially this week - "Raising the temperature: A critical geographical perspective on heat" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The business of saving cheetahs: Cheetah ecology and the diverse politics at work in human wildlife conflict (HWC) interventions in Namibia - Suzanne Brandon, 2024 This paper is concerned with the intersection of cheetah ecology, human wildlife conflict (HWC), settler colonialism, and private land ownership in Namibia. Che...

I want to share my article where I discuss the #conservationcapitalistclass & how #cheetah #conservation #NGOs, as part of this class, are institutions of global academic, economic, & social power in conservation #politicalecology #humangeography #geography

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Don’t miss this deep dive on #QENP by the brilliant @shokes.bsky.social @mongabay.com #militarisation #conservation #rangers #poaching #HumanRights

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library Coercive animal labour is often state sanctioned as an ecologically friendly mode of sand mining, based on anthropocentric environmental ideology that sees animal bodies as solutions or fixes for oft...

"Coercive animal labour is central to capitalism"...MUST READ... Multispecies slavery–environment nexus in resource extraction and animals' ecological politics: Coercive donkey labour in Indian river sand mining @pollenetwork.bsky.social rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Putting the digit back in digital: Zero as number and concept in the digitisation of forests journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Ventography and the spatial politics of wind. The article shows "how endeavors to map wind for energy are shaped by specific spatial imaginations, which are in turn making it possible for the UK to advance sovereign claims over volumetric spaces offshore" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

“We Women Are Suffering”: Fragile Water Infrastructure and Gendered Embodied Labor One of the core tenets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 is the achievement of universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all by 2030. In Kili...

Fantastic work by Marlotte de Jong "We argue that viewing water infrastructure as “complete” and “durable” hides the inherent fragility of these systems and how they create conditions of water insecurity." www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... @pollenetwork.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social

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Digitalizing sewage: The politics of producing, sharing, and operationalizing data from wastewater-based surveillance journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From Coercive to Carceral Conservation: Reframing Conservation through Abolition Ecologies Critical social science research on conservation practice has long articulated the tactics that emerge out of a history of carcerality, environmental racism, colonialism, and violence against oppress...

Previously posted on that *other* app "From Coercive to Carceral Conservation: Reframing Conservation through Abolition Ecologies" New work by PhD students Marlotte de Jong, Ember McCoy and myself onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library With the outbreak of COVID-19, wastewater surveillance for public health rapidly emerged and expanded globally. In this article we chart the variegated ecosystem of private firms that work closely wi...

Another great one! "what are the emerging political economic actors, practices, and relations of wastewater surveillance? And how are emergent multi-institutional public-private partnerships and contracts transforming public health governance?" rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Deserts of Wind: Aeolian‐Pastoralism and the Limits of Climate Finance in Jordan Around the world, a growing cadre of investors are banking on profitability of climate change through the interface of national energy transition programmes. In Jordan, national energy transition ush...

Great new article in @antipodeonline.bsky.social on the intersections between climate finance, windfarms, electric grids and local herders. For those interested in pastoralism, the notion of Aeolian pastoralism is exciting and innovative. Learn more here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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"..exploring the emergence of anti-racist decolonial themes in Anglo-American geo.. I argue that the whiteness of the discipline, its roots in colonial modernity, as well as the neoliberal production of whiteness in Higher Education stymies decolonizing agendas" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The 'bison skull mountain' photo that reveals the US's dark history The photo of two men standing on a mountain of bison skulls is well known as a symbol of hunting during colonisation of the US. But there's a more sinister story that lies behind it.

A good way to get your students to see what colonial control does to indigenous lives..."Native Americans had hunted bison for centuries. For bison nations, it was part of their primarily nomadic culture and the animals provided them with vital sustenance." www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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Teaching a conservation class next term/semester. Consider adding this to the watchlist
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An article I didn't want to write:
'On the #politicalontology of making things up in #politicalecology critique: An engagement with Bormpoudakis (2019) and Knudsen (2023)'
J. of Political Ecology ⬇️
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library This paper brings together animal, death, and digital geographies to examine the sharing of dead animal imagery on social media by conservationists in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). It is particularly co...

Those studying human-animal dialectics, add this to your list. Digital animal deathscapes: The online circulation of animals killed for conservation rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The gendered forest: Digital surveillance technologies for conservation and gender-environment relationships - Trishant Simlai, Chris Sandbrook, 2024 Forests are critical spaces that shape and enable gendered subjectivities in culturally and historically specific ways. However, scholarly work on forest or bio...

This looks so good. Amazing work. Add this to your syllabi. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Geopolitics of Problematic Information: Epistemic Territorialization and Wildlife Conservation Volunteering in Namibia This article describes how power—socioeconomic, epistemic, and political—is harnessed and maintained through information exchanged under the aegis of private property. What was “real” in conservati...

To celebrate #GeographyAwarenessWeek, I’m sharing my new article on the epistemic territorialization of wildlife conservation volunteering in Namibia #geosky #geography #politicalecology #politicalepistemology @geographers.bsky.social @criticalpoleco.bsky.social

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Incredible lecture by Judith Butler on Academic Freedom, Encampments, and the Disciplining of Students and Faculty at Universities www.youtube.com/live/0tWzSXQ...