Happy to announce @anabuchadas.bsky.social last phd chapter is out! Together with an amazing team, @tkuemmerle.bsky.social, @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social, @profjulietlu.bsky.social, @arnimscheidel.bsky.social & many more - read the paper here: ecologyandsociety.org/vol31/iss2/a...
"Six months after a ceasefire was announced in Gaza, conditions remain dire. And serious reconstruction has yet to begin."
theworld.org/segments/202...
Is backsliding into the vice economy in the face of flagging health in more fundamenta, socially beneficial sectors on your bingo sheet of "declining US imperialism" today? If so, you're in luck!
Happy to have been a very small contributor to Ana's paper on Failed Land Investments, it's a great baseline for a potential broad set of explorations of the post-land grabs moment (if we can call it that). Check it out! Email for access if needed.
doi.org/10.5751/ES-1...
Today is day 125 of the ICE occupation of MN.
Today, as rapid responders stood watch outside Easter services, we’re thinking of the thousands of families wrenched apart by the immigration surge.
Many of our neighbors have already been deported, creating huge holes in the fabric of our communities.
I don't know how to say this or what the point is, but I feel the need to be on the record saying I'm absolutely against my country's actions in Iran.
There are plenty of reactionaries online. Some have been harmed themselves and are lashing out in easy ways. Think of it as drawing on a position of privilege and strength if you can ignore them and keep doing good work if you think it's important and others do too. (they do)
Trump is just making all the classic authoritarian mistakes. First fucking with the winter people in Minnesota. Now this.
Depends are you starting a land war in Asia? Cause no.
Here’s that Princess Bride quote you were grasping for today: “You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is, ‘Never get involved in a land war in Asia,’”
youtu.be/7LUUk6wVNrY?...
"Enough IS abundance"
I think about this, the email signature of Louise Fortmann, all the time and thought maybe you would like to as well.
certainly! The pseudo-theories of Malthus and Ehrlich are like zombies, they never die and require steady pushback
land tenure security is simply formalizing inequality."
www.tni.org/en/article/i...
or restitution, and without regulation on how much land an individual or corporation can accumulate. When this happens, land tenure security is essentially ratifying what exists, and in most societies today, what exists is extreme land-based inequality. In this context, the practice of
Reading for a conference panel paper Jun Borras's TNI piece on ICARRD+20 (recommended by co-organizer) comments on land tenure programs: "There is nothing inherently good or bad with this process. The problem comes in when formalization of land tenure is pursued without the policy of redistribution
Please refer to the field of political ecology ;)
especially prescient this year
competition, politicising economic relations, and intensifying geoeconomic tensions. This anxiety underwrites the current re-articulation of Development, one which embraces the state as promoter, supervisor, and owner of capital; even as it critiques China’s use of similar instruments." Seems
this article State Capitalism and the New Global D/development Regime, which reads "There is anxiety regarding the direction the political form of global capital accumulation is heading: with the unchecked proliferation of state capitalism possibly blunting
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
I've been reminded by a few events bring @aasasianstudies.bsky.social and @sppga.ubc.ca experts together this week of the longer historical tail of our current political moment.
Taomo Zhou recommended the audience at our Indo-Pacific Symposium consult 'Trade Wars are Class Wars' and I am rereading
I tried so hard to work with the development office when we were in school... this was the general response
This was just shared with me, and it's a very cool source:
lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/cag/research...
Next Thursday March 12, UBC's Institute for Asian Research w/ @sppga.ubc.ca & @asiapacificfdn.bsky.social present our 2nd "Indo-Pacific Symposium: Shifting fault lines?" featuring regional specialists in town for @aasasianstudies.bsky.social conference.
Join us!
sppga.ubc.ca/events/event...
Tomorrow! Join us!
Helen Siu is visiting UBC next week for this Hong Kong symposium - please join if available! This event takes advantage of the lead-up to the Association for Asian Studies Conference in Vancouver March 12-14.
hksi.ubc.ca/events/event...
Somehow all roads lead to Charles Mann when I'm compiling teaching materials. Love this article...
www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/b...
China adopted the circular economy
as a national priority since 2009 recognising it can generate growth decoupled from resource use. This case study covers growth in the vehicle remanufacturing sector. www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/circular-exa...
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Late notice but China PhD Students and recent PhDs: consider applying to one of these excellent Global Affairs Canada positions!
emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...
emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.
We mustn’t let this war do so.
