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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 40m

New in Area:

'Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?' by @smhall.bsky.social

This piece is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'.

doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Sarah Marie Hall (2025) entitled: 'Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?' with a black banner at the top.

Friendships play a fundamental role in everyday life, offering companionship, mutuality, and care, across multiple and intersecting socio-spatial contexts. Drawing on scholarship and activism across feminist geographies, and contributing to this growing field of geographical interest, this piece brings together considerations of solidaristic friendship with/in everyday academic practice. Turning this critical lens inwards, I argue that everyday relational spaces of friendship within academia have radical potential – a radically ordinary praxis? – and yet are often overlooked or undervalued. I suggest that, in being so very ordinary, friendship has the possibility to be much more widely registered and deployed within academic spaces to engender greater and much needed solidarity in current times.

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 1d

🎯from @petercorkeron.bsky.social conservation efforts have long been a Trojan horse for US strategic/military interests. Now the WH is saying it out loud.

Peter Corkeron @petercorkeron.bsky.social · 1d

So on the one hand, the Trump admin is talking about $50 million for polar bears in Greenland. Greenland only, not Svalbard, Canada, Russia, US.

While Repubs want to gut the MMPA that protects polar bears in the US
apnews.com/article/seal...
US intelligence using conservation as an excuse
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Trump’s new foreign aid plan eyes $50mn for Greenland’s polar bears, $25mn for Nepal's snow leopards

The Trump administration is considering whether to spend up to $50 million in foreign aid to protect polar bears in Greenland and $25 million for snow...

thepeninsulaqatar.com

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Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · 1d

CfP Political Ecology Conference
Beyond the Usual Suspects: The Expanding Cast of Conservation Actors

Submit a contribution on emergence/enrolment of new, unlikely, overlooked actors in conservation! @brocksaglio.bsky.social @charisenns.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/bdehbxsc

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natureandspace.bsky.social @natureandspace.bsky.social · 5d

OnlineFirst - "Dying to breathe: Caste, law and the urban political ecology of manual scavenging in India" by Ambarish Karamchedu:

#caste #sanitation #India #urbanpoliticalecology #law

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social · 4d

Looking forward to chairing this event in just over a week!

#envhist #envhum

Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social · Sep 9

I'll be hosting an online event on encountering extinction in the archives with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social as part of The National Archives' Research Routes series.

Come along to hear about researching animal histories in the archive!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/extinction...

Extinction and hope: Navigating animal encounters in the archive

What hope can be found in encounters with animals in archival documents?

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Hannah D-C @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 5d

Let’s chat more about this! I’ll email you. At the very least we could try and organise some kind of animal social to get us all together ☺️

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 6d

As Germany demilitarized after World War II, it dumped massive amounts of its leftover munitions into the Baltic Sea.

A recent study has found that some of those submerged weapons, which are still releasing toxic compounds, now host more marine organisms than the sediments around them.

Marine life are thriving on Nazi missile debris in the Baltic Sea: Study

As Germany demilitarized after World War II, it dumped massive amounts of its leftover munitions into the Baltic Sea. A recent study has found that some of those submerged weapons, which are still…

news.mongabay.com

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Guillem Rubio-Ramon @guillemrubio.bsky.social · 6d

Really looking forward to co-hosting this panel at #POLLEN2026 with @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social and Larissa Fleischmann - we'd love to see your abstract submissions!

Hannah D-C @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 6d

V excited to see #POLLEN2026 sessions being advertised. Myself, @guillemrubio.bsky.social and Larissa Flesichmann are delighted that our session on 'Political Ecologies of Animal Waste/Waste Animals' has been accepted. And we would like to invite you to submit an abstract (see below!) 🐕‍🦺🐟💩🪶🥚🦴🐚🐌🐖

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Sango Mahanty @sangomahanty.bsky.social · 6d

The call for abstracts for POLLEN 2026 is open 🌟 Leigh-Rutt, Assa Doron & I have a panel on *Political Ecologies of Animal Agriculture* - details are here along with instructions for submitting abstracts. If this is in your zone, consider submitting an abstract!
nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...

P025: Political ecologies of animal agriculture: methods, storytelling, and convergences

We expect 3-5 presentations of apprx 12 mins each plus time for discussion.

nomadit.co.uk

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Hannah D-C @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 6d

Correction - *Larissa Fleischmann. In my excitement I spelt Larissa's name incorrectly!

Hannah D-C @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 6d

V excited to see #POLLEN2026 sessions being advertised. Myself, @guillemrubio.bsky.social and Larissa Flesichmann are delighted that our session on 'Political Ecologies of Animal Waste/Waste Animals' has been accepted. And we would like to invite you to submit an abstract (see below!) 🐕‍🦺🐟💩🪶🥚🦴🐚🐌🐖

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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 6d

The #POLLEN2026 prelim program looks amazing! With that in mind, John Casellas Connors and I are going to be looking for paper submissions for our accepted session "Critical engagements in necropolitical ecologies" -check it out!

pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/...

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In this proposed session, we welcome papers related to present currents and critiques of political ecology's engagements with Achille Mbembe's theory of necropolitics. Necropolitics, the “…contemporary forms of subjugation of life to the power of death” (Mbembe, 2005: 39), powerfully shows how politics becomes "the work of death" (Ibid., pg. 16). Necropolitics is a welcome antidote to Foucault's theory of biopolitics and its relatively anemic approach to race, the postcolony, and active geographies of death-making practices ranging from overt-geographies of violent confinement and killing such as in Palestine, to the spatial logics of the plantation and its ghostly afterlives (Mbembe, 2003). Necropolitics has quickly emerged as a powerful analytical theory embraced by political ecologists examining subjects ranging from spaces of killing in postcolonial landscapes (Cavanaugh and Himmelfarb, 2015), to climate change (deBoom, 2015), to state practices reconfiguring human relations with ecologies and nonhuman life (Adolfi and Fleishmann, 2024; Bluwstein and De Rosa, 2024; Margulies, 2019).

More recently, several critiques have questioned and raised concerns about the theoretical reading of Mbembe's necropolitics within political ecology (Gibson, 2024; Peters et al., 2024), as well as the political and theoretical consequences of a necropolitical turn away from historically more popular engagements with Foucauldian biopolitics and what might be pursued otherwise as a kind of 'anti-necropolitics' (Strange, 2024). With an openness to critique, generous dialogue, and debate in mind, our session proposes to develop a timely discussion around the (mis)uses of necropolitics in political ecology, welcoming both empirically-driven papers that productively engage with necropolitics as framework and mode of analysis, as well as more theoretically-oriented works that critique or demonstrated the place of necropolitical theory in political ecology today.

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 7d

Victor Hensen coined the term "Plankton" in 1887. By 1910 it was an industry (still is)! Steuer's book ran 722 pages!

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7d

'The gleaming palace to the humanities – the single largest building project ever undertaken by the University of Oxford made possible by the largest philanthropic gift it has ever received – stands in stark contrast to the beleaguered, shrinking state of the rest of the sector.'

Oxford’s largest-ever project ‘shows what the humanities can do’

New building which brings together disciplines for the first time will also open its doors to the public to engage with big questions facing the world

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Hannah D-C @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 9d

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human livelihoods

Humans Just Pushed Earth across Another 'Planetary Boundary'

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human livelihoods

www.scientificamerican.com

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RGS Animal Geographies @rgs-agwg.bsky.social · 12d

Interested in learning more about corporate power and industrial chicken production? We have a new blog out from Amby Karamchedu and Ben Coles:

www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/who...

Who Owns Chickens? Corporate Power and Industrial Chicken Production in the Global South — RGS Animal Geographies

Ambarish Karamchedu and Ben Coles Why Chickens? In 2023, 76 billion chickens were slaughtered for meat [i] . This equates to 2,417 birds killed every second (compared to 10 cows and 47 pigs) [ii...

www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk

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Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social · 20d

Announcing the new Animal History Group seminar series for the 2025-26 academic year! - All seminars held online at 8pm UK time. 🎉 The details are here: animalhistorygroup.org/seminar-seri...
And here is a list for your calendar! 🧵💚

Seminar Series

Term One Our Seminar Series is back for 2025/2026. Seminars will be held at 8pm (GMT). Please sign up using the links below. Joining information will be sent shortly before the event. 15 October 20…

animalhistorygroup.org

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Caspar Henderson @casparhenderson.bsky.social · 20d

"The High Seas Treaty has reached the threshold of 60 governments signing it into law, clearing the way for it to enter into force. This is the most important global agreement on the environmental crisis since the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement" www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/histori...

Historic Ocean Treaty set to enter into force, opening path for marine biodiversity recovery - Greenpeace UK

In a landmark moment for ocean protection, the High Seas Treaty has reached the threshold of 60 governments signing it into law, clearing the way for the historic agreement to enter into force. This i...

www.greenpeace.org.uk

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 20d

Gray wolves are making a comeback in the U.S. state of California after a century-long absence. Conservationists say their return is a success, but it’s putting pressure on ranchers and rural communities as wolf attacks on livestock mount, Mongabay wildlife staff writer Spoorthy Raman reported.

Gray wolves’ return to California tests human tolerance for coexistence

Gray wolves are making a comeback in the western U.S. state of California after a century-long absence. Conservationists say their return is a success, but it’s putting pressure on ranchers and rural…

news.mongabay.com

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Kelly Rigg @kellyrigg.bsky.social · 20d

“It’s sobering. And it’s unexpected, not because impacts will be increasing—that is not surprising—but because they will be increasing so much, so fast"

The World’s Oceans Are Hurtling Toward Breaking Point

Climate change, pollution, and fishing are pushing oceans closer to their limits at an unprecedented rate. The pressure of that human impact is expected to double by 2050, according to a new study.

www.wired.com

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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 21d

Does it make sense to apologize for anthropogenic species extinction? This article explores the potential of ecological apologies to help us think and work towards care, justice, and moral repair beyond the human.

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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 21d

New article from @stefcraps.com!

Ecological apologies: reckoning with grief, guilt, and multispecies justice.

doi.org/10.1080/0964...

ABSTRACT
Focusing on British artist Marcus Coates’s Apology to the Great Auk, a short film documenting an official apology to an extinct bird, this article explores the possibility and desirability of political apologies for anthropogenic species extinction. While the apology presented in the film fails to meet key criteria, it nonetheless offers something of political value. Coates’s work constitutes an audacious and innovative attempt to leverage ecological grief and guilt to counteract dominant discourses that devalue more-than-human life; to redraw the boundaries of the moral, legal, and political community; and to imagine a future of multispecies flourishing. By interpreting Apology to the Great Auk through the lenses of environmental transitional justice, bad environmentalism, and ecological prefiguration, the article demonstrates its potential as an artistic project, and the potential of ecological apologies more generally, to help us think and work towards care, justice, and moral repair beyond the human.

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Monica Vasile 🐾 @monicavasile.bsky.social · 24d

2/ On birdsong and sounding extinction @aurorafredriksen.bsky.social, on sturgeon and biobanks @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social & on histories of conservation elites @rafdebont.bsky.social

Aurora Fredriksen's presentation at the Planetary Futures conference at Manchester Museum

Hannah Dickinson's presentation at the Planetary Futures conference at Manchester Museum

Raf de Bont's first presnetation slide at the Planetary Futures conference at Manchester Museum

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Hannah D-C @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 22d

A fantastic few days in Manchester with fellow scholars writing about extinction from various disciplines. Feeling hopeful despite the content! Buoyed by new connections and deepened connections.

Anita Lateano @anitalateano.bsky.social · 23d

Grateful for the opportunity to present my research at the Planetary Futures conference, wonderfully organised by @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social @duncanwilson78.bsky.social.

Inspiring research of the more-than-human worlds that shape how we see extinction, conservation and life in the anthropocene. 🦤

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EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social · Sep 10

#CFP: "Mainsheet: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Maritime Studies"

Deadline for articles: October 1st 2025

Info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

#envhum #envhist #bluehumanities #ecocriticism

CFP for Mainsheet: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Maritime Studies | H-Net

Do you have a research article you've been working on this summer? Please consider submitting it to Mainsheet: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Maritime Studies. We are accepting original research on al...

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