Political Ecology of Environmental Conflict
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Bilal Butt's Critical Environmental Geopolitics Research Group at the University of Michigan
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/...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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/...
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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...
Episode 21: Conservation and Violence in Kenya's Maasai Mara with Bilal Butt
Podcast Episode · The Rift · 10/20/2025 · 51m
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October 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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...
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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
October 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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
PhD Position in AI for the Global Majority: from Commodity to Commons www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] AI for the Global Majority: from Commodity to Commons at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] AI for the Global Majority: from Commodity to Commons at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
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October 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
PhD Position in AI for the Global Majority: from Commodity to Commons www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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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September 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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
New semester, new students, old politics. But never did I think I would introduce Mahmood Mamdhani as "Zohran's dad" 😀
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September 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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
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August 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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
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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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July 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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...
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July 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Land grabbing through unlivability: Necro-scapes and slow violence in the expansion of conservation regimes in Tanzania journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
This seems relevant, especially this week - "Raising the temperature: A critical geographical perspective on heat" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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June 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
This seems relevant, especially this week - "Raising the temperature: A critical geographical perspective on heat" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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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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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...
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June 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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
🏞️ What happens when a park protects wildlife—but displaces people?
In Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park, residents still live under restrictions imposed since British rule and tensions persist.
@shokes.bsky.social and Mongabay’s new series, Beyond the Safari, dives deep: buff.ly/FeXcX04.
In Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park, residents still live under restrictions imposed since British rule and tensions persist.
@shokes.bsky.social and Mongabay’s new series, Beyond the Safari, dives deep: buff.ly/FeXcX04.
The colonial ghosts of Uganda’s ‘Queen Elizabeth’ park
KATWE, Uganda — In 1889, the British journalist Henry Morton Stanley stumbled out of the forests of Central Africa into the town of Katwe, a settlement on the shore of a sulfurous volcanic lake. The…
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June 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Don’t miss this deep dive on #QENP by the brilliant @shokes.bsky.social @mongabay.com #militarisation #conservation #rangers #poaching #HumanRights
"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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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...
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June 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"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....
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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May 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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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New article in @societyandspace.bsky.social "Contentious Plots: Staking durable claims to ethnic belonging in Nairobi": journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Contentious plots: Staking durable claims to ethnic belonging in Nairobi - Shakirah E Hudani, 2025
How are ethnicity, citizenship, and social class articulated spatially in the postcolonial African metropolis over time? In this article, I examine the metamorp...
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April 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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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....
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February 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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....
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
“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...
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February 6, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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
Digitalizing sewage: The politics of producing, sharing, and operationalizing data from wastewater-based surveillance journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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February 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Digitalizing sewage: The politics of producing, sharing, and operationalizing data from wastewater-based surveillance journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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
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...
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January 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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
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....
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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...
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January 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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....
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....
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...
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January 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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....
"..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....
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December 5, 2024 at 2:38 PM
"..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....
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...
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.
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December 4, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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...
Teaching a conservation class next term/semester. Consider adding this to the watchlist
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The Battle For Laikipia I Official Trailer I MetFilm Sales
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December 2, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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)'
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On the political ontology of making things up in political ecology critique: An engagement with Bormpoudakis (2019) and Knudsen (2023)
I engage with two recent articles published in the Journal of Political Ecology, both of which critique political ecology engagements with ontological and epistemological complexities. These complexit...
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December 1, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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 ⬇️
journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/...