Heading to New York tomorrow for this exciting event! as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

Guest Lecture, co-organised by our Geographies of Life research cluster:

'Curating Learning Journeys - Transformational Experiences in the Classroom', Dr Erzsébet Strausz, Central European University, Vienna.

Thursday, 30th April 2026, 13.00-14.30, room PCL 054 (Palatine Centre)

@geogdurham.bsky.social

Symposium—“Querying Nature and (Anti-/De-)coloniality” - Antipode Online Organized by Penelope Anthias, Joel E. Correia, and Kiran Asher This Symposium takes on questions of how actually existing movements contest various forms of “colonial Natures,” from settler property ...

Access the introduction and six papers at antipodeonline.org/2026/04/14/q...

We will never know how many students could have got better marks without using AI. I can only say that, in my experience, the quality of student work has declined since ChatGPT.

We are looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Human Geography with expertise in the field of Health Geography that will complement and extend current work in our Geographies of Life research cluster. Application deadline May 10th, further details here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

#decoloniality #anticoloniality #indigeneity #Nature #colonialecologies #politicsofrepresentation #socialmovements #embodiedstruggles

‘Inhabiting Otherwise’: Maasai Pastoralists’ Ontological Struggles Over Land in Tanzania In this paper, I take the case of Maasai pastoralists' land struggles as an entry point to demonstrate ontological struggles over how land is known, treated and managed in Tanzania. Engaging politica...

"‘Inhabiting Otherwise’: Maasai Pastoralists’ Ontological Struggles Over Land in Tanzania". By Leiyo Singo onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (8/8)

From Colonial Natures to Entangled Ecologies: Making Due and Relational Geographies of Indigenous Resurgence in the Chaco This paper offers an alternative reading of decolonial geographies by examining how people make due in the context of colonial natures. Drawing on collaborative ethnographic research, we illustrate h...

"From Colonial Natures to Entangled Ecologies: Making Due and Relational Geographies of Indigenous Resurgence in the Chaco". By Joel E. Correia and Clemente Dermott onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (7/8)

Iran as Subaltern Empire: Lake Orumiyeh, Environmental Injustice, and Coloniality in Iranian Azerbaijan In recent years, protests have emerged to save Lake Orumiyeh, which has nearly vanished following decades of agricultural development, dam building, and drought. Lake Orumiyeh is located in Iranian A...

"Iran as Subaltern Empire: Lake Orumiyeh, Environmental Injustice, and Coloniality in Iranian Azerbaijan". By A. Marie Ranjbar onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (6/8)

Indigenous Natures and the Anthropocene: Racial Capitalism, Violent Materialities, and the Colonial Politics of Representation Indigenous Peoples are gaining renewed attention within both policy and academia, as examples of “resilience” and of non-humanist, non-modern ways of relating to nature, which might, it is hoped, pro...

"Indigenous Natures and the Anthropocene: Racial Capitalism, Violent Materialities, and the Colonial Politics of Representation". By Penelope Anthias and Kiran Asher onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... (5/8)

When Broken Worlds Churn: The Anti‐Caste Fabulations of Du Saraswathi How can literary fabulation prompt a reflection on caste, colonial, and capitalist lifeworlds? Engaging with two short stories by the Dalit feminist thinker Du Saraswathi, this article considers the ...

"When Broken Worlds Churn: The Anti-Caste Fabulations of Du Saraswathi" By Shreyas Sreenath onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... (4/8)

Bending Possession: How Detroiters Care for Land by Remediating Settler Property This article examines how people reconfigure the social, legal, and material claims that settler property relations make to place. It does so through ethnographic and historical attention to small-sc...

"Bending Possession: How Detroiters Care for Land by Remediating Settler Property" By Nicholas L. Caverly onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... (3/8)

The Symposium explores how colonial ideologies and practices around “Nature” persist and are disrupted by myriad forms of anticolonial and radical justice struggles. It brings together 6 fantastic contributions... (2/8)

Querying Nature and (Anti‐/De‐)coloniality: Introduction to the Symposium The introduction to this Symposium outlines how actually existing movements contest various forms of “colonial Natures,” from settler property regimes to extractive frontiers and conservation landsca...

Our Intro to the Antipode Symposium "Querying Nature and (Anti-/De-)coloniality" is finally out! Co-authored with Kiran Asher and Joel Correia @joelecorreia.bsky.social, it has been a long labour of love (1/8) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Really excited about this important piece. 🌱

Territories of Life - University of Alberta Press Territories of Life highlights the multiplicity and heterogeneity of worlds and collectives, some labelled Indigenous, as they struggle to sustain their terr...

New publication! Territories of Life: Equivocations, Entanglements, Endurances, co-edited by Mario Blaser, Sylvie Poirier and myself ualbertapress.ca/978177212825...

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer in Human Geography Lecturer in Critical Human Geography, Faculty of EnvironmentSalary: Grade 8 (£51,753 – £59,966 p.a. depending on experience) This role will be based on the university campus, with scope for it to be u...

jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Critical geopolitics lectureship in Human Geography at Leeds

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

Wow!

Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report.

This is a *big* legal win.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Now Published

The Palestine Action judgment

www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

Many thanks for answering my question!

Does "American history" here include both North and South America?

Government responds to call for investigation into Newcastle arms factory A petition signed by 5,000 people demanded greater transparency over the operation of Pearson Engineering’s Armstrong Works site on Scotswood Road last year

Newcastle Chronicle ran a story yesterday about the government's response to People Against Rafael's petition to investigate Pearson Engineering. It also discusses PAR's research on use of Pearson Engineering's Threat-sense technology in Israeli drones
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

Fintech Capital A thorough examination of the worldwide digital transformation of people’s everyday monetary and financial relations driven by the emergence of FinTech

@paullangley.bsky.social and @andrewleyshon.bsky.social, Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance - Zone, July 2026
press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...

BREAKING: Massive Crowds of Anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota as we speak. The tide is turning. America is Fed Up.

Americans should be fighting back against what is happening in this country. Having masked, secret police shooting people, breaking into homes and cars, is NOT normal.

We are looking forward to welcoming Mark Griffiths (GPS, Newcastle University) to the Department on January 13th (2-4pm, room W010) to speak about his book Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine (University of Minnesota Press, 2025) in conversation with Dr. Lauren Martin from Durham Geography.

A sobering reminder of the new political context in Bolivia: support for the US military invasion of Venezuela with purported support for "democracy" but no mention of sovereignty

Thinking of everyone in Venezuela right now. A reminder to those who aren't Venezuelans or regional specialists that your take isn't required (read and share local commentary instead)

In further evidence that our university employers only care about us as exploitable labour, Durham has suspended staff access to free flu vaccines on 30th November - the official start of peak flu season