Valerio Donfrancesco

A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles with 2 interventions and 6 standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) 'On limit and love in times of environmental crises' by Ihnji Jon 2) 'Geographies of creativity/creative geographies' by Pat Noxolo 3) '‘My body was no longer a problem’: Electric mountain biking, disability, and the cultural politics of green exercise' by Jim Cherrington & James Brighton 4) '‘A wonderful day and a wonderful crossing!’: Internment (im)mobilities, ambivalence, and the residual tourist gaze in Second World War Britain' by Michael Holden & Peter Adey 5) '‘Smartness’ narratives: A critical discourse analysis of smart eldercare in urban China' by Yi Yu 6) 'Critique beyond relation: The stakes of working with the negative, the void and the abyss' by David Chandler & Jonathan Pugh 7) 'Poetics in the work of three urban photographers: Love for the chaotic city from the site of urban rooftops' by Paulina Nordstrom 8) 'Places as refrains: A non-constructive alternative to assemblage thinking' by Peter Merriman

A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Climate change, bodies and diplomacy: Performing watery futures in Tuvalu Liam Saddington 2) Digital animal deathscapes: The online circulation of animals killed for conservation Alexandra Palmer 3) The medium is the message: The geographies of cryptocurrency remittances to Venezuela Daniel Robins 4) ‘One school, two systems’: Navigating the geographies of alternative education in an elite primary school in China Zhenjie Yuan, Huiyu Xie, Hong Zhu 5) Translating India to India: Travelling translations, Patanjali Ayurveda, and the visual language of spiritual consumerism Raksha Pande, Alastair Bonnett 6) Urban political ecologies of sewage surveillance: Creating vital and valuable public health data from wastewater 7) Constructive (in)visibility and the trafficking industrial complex: Leveraging borders for exploitation Audrey Lumley-Sapanski, Katarina Schwarz 8) Translations, translocations, and pluralism: A transnational and multilingual analysis of the circulation of radical geographical knowledge Federico Ferretti 9) From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves Valerio Donfrancesco, Chris Sandbrook

A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles with 6 standard articles and 2 commentaries, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Mining an Anthropocene in Japan: On the making and work of geological imaginaries Deborah P. Dixon, Carina J. Fearnley, Mark Pendleton 2) Uneven ambient futures: Intersecting heat and housing trajectories in England and Wales Caitlin Robinson, Lenka Hasova, Lin Zhang 3) Examining the ‘gendered’ places and spaces of UK doctoral education using multilevel modelling Laura Harriet Sheppard, Jonathan Reades, Richard P. J. Freeman 4) The (non-)performance of the financial frontier: Building investment pipelines for the Sustainable Development Goals in Ghana Abbie Yunita 5) Thinking through an ethnography of infrastructure: Commonsensical reasoning, road sharing, and everyday infrastructural settlements Alan Latham, Russell Hitchings, Michael Nattrass 6) (Re)wilding London: Fabric, politics, and aesthetics Jonathon Turnbull, Tom Fry, Jamie Lorimer 7) Resilient education: The role of digital technology in supporting geographical education in Ukraine Simon M. Hutchinson, Elizabeth R. Hurrell, Kateryna Borysenko, Vladyslav Popov, Dariia Kholiavchuk, Yana Popiuk 8) Imagining post-war futures amid cycles of destruction and efforts of reconstruction Constance Carr, Olga Kryvets

📢New issue of TIBG📢

Transactions' September Issue features two interventions on environmental crisis & geographies of creativity, 21 papers, and two commentaries on the war in Ukraine.

22/25 pieces are #OpenAccess and available to read here⬇️

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🌍 New paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography 🌎

'The Radical Edge of More-Than-Human Political Ecology: A Clarification of Scope and Approach' by Valerio Donfrancesco

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @vdonfrancesco.bsky.social

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What do we mean when we say that carnivores and other wildlife are "habituating" to people? Who actually habituates to whom? Is this bad or god? Who decides? All of this and more in our new paper, expertly led by @ethanddoney.bsky.social, out now in @peopleandnature.bsky.social.

18.09.2025 11:40 — 👍 10    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

Early word we'll have funding to recruit a Post-Doc in the Human Dimensions of Wildlife space - specifically working on hunter behaviors in deer management across several midwestern states. On the ground work, experiments, many academic & agency partners! Spread the word to any potential applicants.

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OnlineFirst - "Agrarian change and predators’ mobilities: A more-than-human political ecology of wolf impacts" by @vdonfrancesco.bsky.social and @csandbrook.bsky.social:

#wolf #agrarianchange

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Wishing I could be there in person. Looking forward to Zooming in to present on "Multispecies Storytelling for Catastrophic Times" (Sat morn in Europe, evening in Australia). Anyone interested can join the zoom! More info here: mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/meshw...

11.07.2025 09:46 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

@lilyvaneeden.bsky.social @drcairns.bsky.social @euanritchie.bsky.social and many others

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Understanding conflict among experts working on controversial species: A case study on the Australian dingo This study entails a social investigation into why experts may disagree about conservation and wildlife management issues, stressing the importance of understanding and emphasizing dissent in current...

📄 Our paper has been recognised as among the 10% most read articles in Conservation Science and Practice in 2023.

Emerging from a collaborative effort of many dingo scholars, it frames 'conflict over values' and 'conflict over evidence' in polarised wildlife management.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Valerio Donfrancesco & Chris Sandbrook (2025) entitled 'From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves' with a red banner at the top.

#OpenAccess paper in TIBG:

'From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves' by @vdonfrancesco.bsky.social & @csandbrook.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geo #geosky

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Open access article: doi.org/10.1111/tran...
Funding: ESRC (UKRI)
#coexistence #wolves #farming #politicalecology

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We argue for embracing affirmative biopolitics rather than biopower. Wolves could be valued beyond their services. Local ways of relating to wolves could be better recognised. Structural drivers of interspecies violence need tackling. Multispecies flourishing depends on this. 8/8

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Caring for wolves is more complex than simply meaning not killing them. We engage with feminist ethics of care to articulate an approach to caring that is attendant to interspecies violence. Coexistence needs to be made a systemic project. 7/8

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Yet, cost-of-living crises and socioeconomic hardships, under neoliberal policies that incentivise competitiveness and economies of scale, make wolf presence and impacts hard to manage locally. This increases the need for wolf culling, undermining coexistence. 6/8

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Local ways of relating to wolves are fraught and embroiled. Depredations can be tolerated. Simultaneously, killing wolves can be a hands-on representation of what it might mean to navigate the intricacies of coexistence, rather than being at odds with caring for wolves. 5/8

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We show how farmers can value wolves beyond the services they may provide, but based on the necessity of learning to live with other beings – a defining experience of being a farmer. We articulate these local ethical propensities as affirmative biopolitics. 4/8

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Wolves are not a uniform category. Their ecological effects are dynamic, not always unfolding as expected. Their assumed economic benefits can be inequitably accessible locally. When wolves are framed by their benefits and these fail to materialise, conflict escalates. 3/8

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Current wolf management approaches frame wolves as bringers of ‘ecological balance’ and economic benefits, seeking to foster greater acceptance of and tolerance for wolves, locally. We articulate these approaches as exercises of biopower. 2/8

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I led this work in Tuscany, Italy exploring human-wolf relations through ethnography, participant observation and interviews. Wildlife is often associated with services, to promote its conservation. We show the limits of this approach and highlight an alternative. 1/8

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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library Exercises of biopower to promote human–wolf coexistence can have limited success. In contrast, affirmative biopolitics grounded in place-based ethics, which recognise wolves as subjects rather than l...

New paper from my PhD, in Transactions (@tibg.bsky.social) coauthored by @csandbrook.bsky.social. On wolves, farmers and interspecies violence.
"From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves"
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A thread below

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