As the planet gets warmer and the rains fall harder, the future of flood control is looking less like a wall and something more like a park. Eric Klinenberg considers infrastructure that doesn’t just displace water but soaks it in. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/dzBOHH
New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! We talk energy democracy and the politics of dealing with recalcitrant utilities together w/ Nikki Luke! Listen & enjoy to this, the 250th episode of this humble podcast. @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social
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Book cover of pink book titled Electric Life: Utility Regulation and the Fight for Energy Democracy
How do electricity and regulation of this vital infrastructure contribute to inequality in Atlanta? How have consumer, EJ, and labor movements strived over generations to democratize the utility?
I consider these questions in my book Electric Life out today open access with @mitpress.bsky.social
Our fourth episode features Ernest McIntosh Sr. who has long known the value of hard work. In this episode, Ernest speaks about his connection with the Georgia coast, his experiences working on the water, and the significance that Georgia's oceans still hold in his life.
Join us at the @geographers.bsky.social annual meeting on March 18th for the Antipode Lecture, “Knowing the World through the Politics of Invitation and Trespass: Letters to Mrs. Cornelia” by @nik-heynen.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/2026/03/11/2...
For decades, @davidharvey.org has been teaching Marx's work. This new book opens up the mental universe of that work for a general reader.
New chapter drop: "White Masculinist Pasts→Black Feminist Futures: Lessons from Spelman College’s Victory Garden as Black World-Making" by Whitney Barr and Nik Heynen in the important new book edited by @alisonhopealkon.bsky.social and @julianagyeman.bsky.social
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Looks like I’m getting into the podcast game. If you are interested in coastal issues, oysters, restoration, and other related things, Shell to Shore’s new Shell Cast might be for you. First episode features Pete Malinowski talking about his work with the Billion Oyster Project based in NYC.
The Honey Drippers were a band of Black high school kids from Queens brought together by Georgia-born songwriter Roy C. Hammond. When all record labels were scared to put this anti-Nixon jam out, Hammond released it himself. It’s been sampled by many hip hop artists. Rest in Power Mr. Hammond.
New Black owned bookstore alert in ATL:
“This year, it felt necessary,” Hallmon said. “When books are banned, and stories are erased, especially Black and brown stories, we have to build safety within our community.”
“Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others—the empires and their native overseers.”
-Eduardo Galeano
“There’s a famous quote from author Tony Cade Bambara that often gets repeated in activist circles, that it’s the role of the artist to “make the revolution irresistible.” For over six decades, Emory Douglas has been showing creatives how to do just that.”
“An expansive follow-up to the field-defining Cultivating Food Justice, this edited volume provides an overview of food justice scholar-activism, redefining the field and looking to future theoretical and political futures.” Available now for preorder! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255369...
In very good company here in @proghumgeog.bsky.social with Pavithra Vasudevan and Laura Pulido reflecting on the importance of Laura’s 2000 “Rethinking Environmental Racism” published in Annals of @geographers.bsky.social
Apply now -- deadline December 20th
Please consider joining our 2026 Political Ecology spring school!
Planetary Political Ecologies: Environmental disasters, conflicts and possibilities in & beyond capitalism
▶️ 13-17 April 2026
▶️ Wageningen
With Annah Zhu, Erik Swyngedouw, Sumit Vij & others!
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@geographers.bsky.social - if this is true there is almost no external social science funding left in the U.S. for graduate students.
Apply now — Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis”, deadline 20 December 2025 antipodeonline.org/2025/11/13/a...
Snippet from the work we are doing on the Georgia coast.
Announcing Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ), "Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis", Toronto, 1-5 June 2026 antipodeonline.org/institute-fo... -- submit your application by 20 December 2025
Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026
Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma
Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026
Taught Ntozake Shange’s “If I can Cook / You Know God Can” and “Bocas: A Daughter’s Geography” today. Felt worth sharing for folks who might not yet know this poem or haven’t read it in a while.
Illustrated cover with two women in front of a window, one thoughtful and the other with a defiant look. Text: "Toni Morrison on Fascism and Censorship."
Text describing June Jordan and Toni Morrison's involvement in a group of Black women writers in NYC, addressing oppression and liberation.
Illustration of a hand writing in a notebook, which appears to be on fire, set against a red background. The image is overlaid on fiery flames, conveying urgency and intensity. Text below discusses the erosion of public spaces and services, highlighting the struggle for freedom and resistance against silence.
Text titled "Peril" by Toni Morrison discusses authoritarian regimes suppressing dissenting writers through control, censorship, and fear. In the background, blurred barbed wire conveys restriction and oppression. The tone is critical and thought-provoking.
“Fascism is not new. It wears a new dress, buys new boots—but it can only reproduce fear, denial, and the loss of will to fight.”
Toni Morrison’s timeless warning on fascism & censorship still rings out today.
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“Setting forms of identity, such as race, against class as fundamentally opposed bases of politics misrepresents how building working-class power works on the ground, both today and throughout history.”
Proposals to “repair” or “restore” the planet therefore must answer the questions: Which ecosystems—and whose—will we repair and restore? Which—and whose—flourishings will we enable? What planet are we making, and for whom? @alybatt.bsky.social
In the tradition of “can’t stop, won’t stop”….
”In these cities, climate justice is more than a policy priority – it’s a survival strategy…. As federal funding evaporates, many cities are strengthening ties with frontline organizations — the local experts who’ve been leading the fight for decades.”
“Memphis history is full of destructive alliances between local government and major industry, forcing working-class Black neighborhoods to accept ecological and corporal violence in order to boost the region's economy…But AI data centers also represent a troubling new frontier…..”
“We’ve asked…the CEOs of banks like Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, insurance companies like Chubb and AIG — we’ve asked them to come to our communities, breathe the air, drink the water and get a taste of what we live every day. And they’ve refused to come. So we brought our community here to them.”
"They call us terrorists. We are being terrorised! Our doors are kicked open at four in the morning and our families dragged off to prison, never to be seen again....We are the ones who suffer all these horrors. They are the terrorists."
#Apartheid then, Apartheid now.
