Stefan Ouma

Fictions of Financialization For decades, many people on the left have decried the finance sector as the main culprit for the toxic effects of capitalism. Financialization is commonly in...

Getting into this by @nickbernards.bsky.social ...Interesting stuff!

www.plutobooks.com/978074534889...

Delighted to be part of this starter pack on financialization!
Thank you Stefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social for putting it together!

Vertrauen ist nicht nur wegen der Fördergeldaffäre kaputt gegangen, sondern auch wegen tendenzösen Posts wie diesem, die einem von den anderen Seite des Atlantiks bekannt vorkommen. Insgesamt ein Beitrag zur Delegitimierung nicht genehmer Wissenschaft.

Our Genocide Since October 2023, Israel has shifted its policy toward the Palestinians. Its military onslaught on Gaza, underway for more than 21 months, has included mass killing, both directly and through creating unlivable conditions, serious bodily or mental harm to an entire population, decimation of basic infrastructure throughout the Strip, and forcible displacement on a huge scale, with ethnic cleansing added to the list of official war objectives.

"Blutvergießen" ist wohl der falsche Begriff (aber vermutlich bewusst so gewählt), wie mittlerweile auch viele Stimmen aus Israel selbst bestätigen. Insofern liegt ihr Original-Tweet einem Irrtum auf, mit Konsequenzen für alle weiteren Schlüsse:
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Planetary Futures: On Life in Critical Times Based upon the opening keynote address at the German Congress of Geography held in Frankfurt am Main in 2023, this article traces the current debate on the planetary in the humanities, social science...

Our #dkg2023 keynote on Planetary Futures is now available in both German and English.
Written in 2023, so we only touch upon the threat of Techfascism and rise of in your-face-white supremacy
ENGL: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
GER: biblioscout.net/content/10.2...

"We see the same thing happening in the U.S., Italy, and everywhere fascism is rearing its head," geographer @camillahawth.bsky.social tells me in the new episode of Conjuncture. Produced with @cheatherton.bsky.social + co-sponsored by @antipodeonline.bsky.social: youtu.be/jG_X1wOqVdY. 1/2

Happy to celebrate five years since @antipodeonline.bsky.social released "Geographies of Racial Capitalism w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore."

If you haven't seen or considered it as a teaching or organizing tool: check it out 👇
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Nicht nur das. Mittendrin auf Orbans Gipfel und dann gibt es auch noch immer diesen Post. @bpb.de ein Skandal!
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Und die Orbaniten loten mit Rödder schon mal CDU-Afd connections aus. Man trifft natürlich auch Schröter.
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MCC Students in Frankfurt Between June 23 and 27, 2025, eight MCC students took part in a five-day study trip to Frankfurt, organized by the German-Hungarian Institute for European Cooperation.

Was zusammenpasst kommt zusammen. Orbanites go Rhein-Main:
"the students explored J. G. University in Mainz, where they had the opportunity to speak with Prof. Andreas Rödder about Germany’s future, the potential for cooperation between the CDU &AfD, and energy policy"
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Mittendrin: auch ein Beiratsmitglied der @bpb.de ?
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Die Langversion in Englisch.
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Sitzt auch im Beirat der @bpb.de und weilte gerade nebst A. Weidel, P.
Thiel auf Orbans Gipfel. Warum sich die @goetheuni.bsky.social immer noch pseudoforschungszentrum FZGI leistet? Ironie: Hauptfigur Netzwerk Wissfreiheit wird von Wissfeind Orban gehostet
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Capital gains represent a major black box in research on the finance-driven land rush. They are also at the center of the redistributive dynamics of asset manager capitalism. @benbraun.bsky.social tells us more. institutionallandscapes.org/contribution....
#geosky @financialization.bsky.social

Labour, Efficiency, Critique: writing the plantation into the technological present-future - Stefan Ouma, Saumya Premchander, 2022 In this commentary, we call upon critical labour scholars, including labour geographers, to feature what sociologist Palmer called the ‘thrust of efficiency’ mo...

With rapid advancements in AI and Silicon Valley bros now embracing open in your face white supremacy/tech facism, these two look a bit dated but they still go together pretty well. @meredithmeredith.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Relationships between rural migration and perceptions of environmental change: Insights from Bushbuckridge, South Africa Environmental change is increasingly threatening rural livelihoods across the globe. Yet rural communities possess valuable knowledge that could infor…

New paper out with Farirai Rusere, @csamimi.bsky.social & colleagues. Minor contribution of mine, but was a great learning experience to work with physical geographers/ environmental science & population studies and sociology colleagues. Open access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excellent new symposium on Land Futures @antipodeonline.bsky.social
#geosky
@plaasuwc.bsky.social @ipes-food.org @landstuff.bsky.social @roapejournal.bsky.social

The issue contains a seven-article Symposium, "Political Ecologies of Storage for the 21st Century", organised by @saydrandle.bsky.social and @matthewarcher.bsky.social

B'Tselem accuses Israeli gov't of genocide in latest report | The Jerusalem Post The report outlines what the organization calls a deliberate state-led effort to dismantle Palestinian civil infrastructure and social cohesion in Gaza.

Es bleibt zu hoffen, dass mit der kritischen Berichterstattung aus Israel selbst nun ein Umdenken bei deutschen Poltiker*innen, Medienschaffenden und Leuten aus Bildung und Forschung einsetzt. Und dann geht es auch um die Aufarbeitung der complicity.
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B'Tselem accuses Israeli gov't of genocide in latest report | The Jerusalem Post The report outlines what the organization calls a deliberate state-led effort to dismantle Palestinian civil infrastructure and social cohesion in Gaza.

Meanwhile, the media debate in Israel. German politicians and journalists, and higher education leaders finally start to listen and act? www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise Aid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people.

WASH POST: “Mass starvation stalks Gaza… Nearly 1 in 3 people are going multiple days without eating… rising deaths from malnutrition and starvation… Their small bodies are shutting down…”

# afrika/ globale rechte: Mein Beitrag in der TAZ taz.de/Im-Schatten-...
ist eine gekürzte und revidierte Version meines @pambazukanews.bsky.socialBeitrags
pambazuka.org/Africa-in-th...
Für eine Diskussion per Podcadt, siehe www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...

# afrika/ globale rechte: Mein Beitrag in der TAZ taz.de/Im-Schatten-...
ist eine gekürzte und revidierte Version meines @pambazukanews.bsky.socialBeitrags
pambazuka.org/Africa-in-th...
Für eine Diskussion per Podcadt, siehe www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...

taz.de/Im-Schatten-...

Dispersed Dispossession This book provides a nuanced analysis of rural change in Russia during the 2010s, a crucial and formative phase marked by the consolidation of giant agricult...

If you haven't gotten yours yet, now get a a copy of @alexvorbrugg.bsky.social 's brilliant book on dispersed dispossession in rural Russia.
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#geosky

"My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one."

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YouTube video by InIIS InIIS InSIGHTS - Afrika und die globale Rechte

In der neuen Ausgabe von #InIIS_InSIGHTS geht es um die Rolle Afrikas in heutigen rechten Diskursen. Das Gespräch mit Stefan Ouma (@econgeo.bsky.social) basiert auf seinem Artikel "Africa in the Shadow of the Global Far-Right" vom März 2025.
Viel Spaß beim Reinhören!
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If you are interested in land politics, check out @econgeo.bsky.social 's Institutional Landscapes webpage. They are graciously hosting this guest post:

Adam Calo, Sylvia Kay, Sarah R Sippel, Coline Perrin, and Kirsteen Shields explore how geographically variegated property regimes in the Global North shape the scope of the commodification and assetization of farmland, and discuss radical alternatives to private property.
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