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The Special Report Zine from the Geographers for Justice in Palestine:

Faculty Push Back Against OpenAI Deals As higher ed institutions pay tech companies millions to provide students and faculty access to custom AI-powered tools, some faculty in Colorado and California are pushing back.

happy to have a small part/quote in this hugely important conversation. ai is just the most recent shiny object the neoliberal university is using to gut higher ed’s mission as a social, public good.

cutting educators and researchers is not the way 👎🏻

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Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession and Resistance in Laos Friday, March 27, 2026 1:00 PM 2:00 PM Northern Illinois University – Peters Campus Life Building, Room 100 545 Lucinda AvenueDeKalb, IL, 60115United States Organizer: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University Type/Location: Hybrid / DeKalb, IL Description: Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a book talk by Dr. Miles Kenney-Lazar, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Melbourne. Dr. Kenney-Lazar’s book investigates the development of Chinese and Vietnamese pulpwood and rubber plantations on the lands of the ethnic minority Brou people in eastern Savannakhet of southern Laos.

New event!
📆27th March
🕔1:00pm Eastern

Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University Hold book talk by @mklaz.bsky.social
“Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession and Resistance in Laos”

Details:
calendar.niu.edu/event/cseas-...

Victoria teachers strike: warning of further action as 35,000 rally and hundreds of schools cancel classes Union leaders say Tuesday’s protest in Melbourne’s CBD was among state’s ‘biggest’ in years

We love to see our Vic teachers taking action for better pay and conditions!

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Interested in Socializing Land but have too much to read already? Check out this podcast interview with the New Books Network @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/socializing-...

Thank you to Dr Miranda Melcher for being an amazing host. NBN is serious public education!

AMAZING NEWS:

REDD+ at risk: Emerging ten questions that REDD+ must answer As an important initiative of climate action, REDD+ has been increasingly discussed in global policy arena. But delay in wider scale yet full-fledged …

@elsevierconnect.bsky.social

Considering how massively profitable you are, please pay for articles published in your journals to be professionally copy edited!

This article is riddled with grammatical errors: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I see it all the time

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

Check it out. Half of the articles are open access.

journals.sagepub.com/toc/epna/57/8

The issue includes five contributions by Oliver Hunt, Joachim Tilsted, Julia Wagner, Audrey Irvine-Broque, Kirstine Lund Christiansen, and Vanessa Koh on diverse topics: carbon markets, mangrove conservation, agri-tech, hydrogen economies, and urban housing.

This special issue focuses on investments in climate transitions and how private climate finance functions as a socioecological fix, stabilising capital accumulation and alleviating some harms while reproducing or displacing others.

In our first special issue on 'sustainability capitalism', W. Nathan Green and I conceptualise how sustainability principles are being subsumed within capitalist logics, and to what contradictory social-ecological effects.

Sustainability capitalism: Investing in climate transitions - W Nathan Green, Miles Kenney-Lazar, 2025 Private finance has become the dominant monetary response to climate change, growing nearly twice as fast as public finance between 2018 and 2023 and surpassing...

Could capitalism ever be sustainable? No. But it will sure as hell try! And it's important to understand how, why, and with what implications.

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

Traditional owners file native title claim over Melbourne and surrounding areas Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung elder says First Nations people want to work with government to ‘look after that country’

Native title for the Wurrundjeri Woi-wurrung in Narrm Melbourne would be such a powerful step forward for the city

Especially now that Treaty has been signed between the Victorian gov't and First Nations people

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Precisely! That didn't seem to occur to them. "Damn journalists..."

I was at a conference where someone working in carbon offsets begrudgingly referred to it as the 'guardianization' of the industry 😅

Thanks to @micahfisher.bsky.social for inviting me to his graduate course, Environmental Conflict: Resolution?, to share my book, Socializing Land. Great group of students with sharp questions! Plus it's always fun to be a disembodied floating head for a while ;)

The press is offering a 30% discount associated with the New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS).

You can use the code NYCAS25 at checkout. It will expire on October 31st

Thanks, Charlie!

Hard copies of the book are now available from the UHP website. E-book versions can be found elsewhere online. A paperback version will be available next year at a lower price. Please do request that your library purchases a copy. And get in touch for seminars, guest lectures, podcasts, etc. 🙂

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I approach land as a web of social relationships that entangle peasant farmers, state officials, civil society groups, and plantation capitalists. The book addresses how and why ties to land are socialized in different orientations, particularly for capital versus the peasantry.

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The book examines the politically contested development of Chinese and Vietnamese pulpwood and rubber plantations on the lands of Indigenous Brou people in Southern Laos. It is based on in-depth ethnographic research during a land rush facilitated by the Lao government.

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My first book, Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos (University of Hawai'i Press, 2025), exists in this world!

Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...

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Pls share: Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship competition now open at UBC. Department of Geography deadline is October 9, 2025. Details:
geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...

Thanks, @profjulietlu.bsky.social !

I became very obsessed over cover design at one point, so I'm glad to know it works 🙏

More soon on the book..

'Hunger Games scenario': four ANU lecturers and only three jobs Four lecturers going for three jobs speak out about the stress and the cost.

In Australia too :( Everywhere, really...

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/901572...

This is a great piece on how Melbourne Uni's anti-racism strategy has been captured by elites and used as a tool against pro-Palestine academics and students

We are excited to announce that over 10% of AAG members have signed onto the GJP petition!

We're not done yet -- this week, we're making a final push to make sure we blow past that number. Especially if you've already signed, could you share the petition link with colleagues by April 11?

These travel security notifications that the uni sends us are actually an amazing way to find out about local protests to attend..

The chair of the meeting introduces the speakers while the crowd looks on

The meeting chair Anneke introduces the speakers

The crowd at the event

Launching our federal election launch at Brunswick Town Hall now.