Good morning! I got an alert that my new book is 50% off right now at this site…
All Geographers Should Be Feminist Geographers: Creating Care-Full Academic Spaces (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation) a.co/d/0bFsKbjj
📣 Fully-funded PhD position on Methane Politics on the ERC funded METHPOL project @ Leeds Uni w/Prof Jan Selby. Open to home (UK) applicants (international studentships have been filled) to start October 2026. Deadline 22 April. #ClimateChange.
Full details ⬇️ phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/427-...
Male White rhinoceros walking in the Kalahari Desert of Namibia Photo by Giles Laurent
🚨FUNDED PHD🚨'Economic carrying capacity & the future of rhinos in privately governed OECMs' @dice-kent.bsky.social, UK & International applications welcome - closing date 14th May🦏 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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I think the fact that @sicilyfiennes.bsky.social etc latest paper has the phrase "a more than human political ecology" in its title neatly demonstrates the shift towards interdisciplinary in @conbiology.bsky.social in recent years.
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As someone painfully gullible to cute animal stories, I am glad you flagged this as an April fools joke or I would have been done for...they got me with 'drop bears' years ago haha
Lists of Jews never goes anywhere good!
Do you have an ethnobotany student in your life who wants to hear a little too much about Lacan? Send them along for this online seminar tomorrow!
🚨Editor-in-Chief position🚨
The @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social is looking for anew Editor-in-Chief.
For more information please follow the link below.
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I truly enjoyed reading your book so much, thank you for your scholarship!
I found a lot to love in @v-mance.bsky.social's Wild and wonderful: An ethnography of English naturalists, now available in English. Open access link to my review in American Ethnologist. Highly recommended!
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As a Jew who left the US for London in part bc my family and I felt increasingly vulnerable because of my vocal support for Palestine on the antizionist Jewish left, I am simply left reminded that safety for minority groups will always be conditional and precarious, and bound up with one another.
I have nothing to add today to the discourse other than the London attack on the Jewish ambulance service is just despicable and so hateful.
Utkarsh's whole PhD project from start to finish is brilliant, and his work will be extremely relevant to anyone working on hydrosocial territories, environmental politics, more-than-human political ecology, and political animal geography.
In an era of escalating ecological crises, dominant approaches to river conservation in India continue to exclude the very nonhuman life they claim to protect. This paper investigates this puzzle through a critical analysis of the Namami Gange program, India’s flagship mission for rejuvenating the Ganga River. I argue that this nonhuman erasure is not an accidental byproduct, but a direct consequence of a political logic rooted in environmental performativity. Drawing on insights from the political ecology of water, the sociology of quantification, and political animal geographies, this paper shows how a self-reinforcing cycle of quantification and infrastructural investment constitutes the Ganga River as a simplified, anthropocentric “governance object” whose problems are defined almost exclusively in relation to human utility. Employing a qualitative multi-method approach that includes analysis of policy documents, semi-structured interviews, financial records, and participant observation at national policy forums, the study reveals how the program’s calculative logics marginalize the river’s ecological complexity. Financial flows overwhelmingly prioritize engineering solutions like sewage treatment plants over ecological restoration, while governance frameworks rely on a “measurementality” that renders the river’s multispecies world invisible. This analysis demonstrates how the modern state’s governance tools produce a simplified, human-centered nature, revealing the structural limitations of current environmental policy and laying the groundwork for a more inclusive and just multispecies river politics.
From the abstract: "In an era of escalating ecological crises, dominant approaches to river conservation in India continue to exclude the very nonhuman life they claim to protect. This paper investigates this puzzle through a critical analysis of the Namami Gange program..."
I am so proud to share DR. Utkarsh Choudhury's first paper from his recently defended PhD dissertation has just been published!
"The politics of invisibilization: environmental performativity and the erasure of nonhuman life in India’s Namami Gange Program"
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Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia
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Our Multispecies Mutualisms post doc roles are now also on jobs.ac.uk
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www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS438/4...
Thanks, @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social -I should say for shameless promotion, I write about how and why Czechia emerged as an epicentre of cactus trade in my book (chapter 3). It's a good yarn, even if you skip the rest!
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I got a lot of hassling from the Czech cactus community over their treatment in my book (which I stand by as both honest, sensitive, reflexive, and fair), but the proof is in the pudding, my guys.
And in the most on brand Czech move of all, they hid the plants inside beer cans, and seeds inside soles of their shoes, and luggage.
Have I ever seen these guys before? Who could say.
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Really worth pulling up google translate for this one. A group of Czech men arrested in Brazil for trying to illegally smuggle out hundreds of Brazilian cacti and thousands seeds -
So in roughly three days of this war the US spent more on munitions than the combined annual budgets of the national science foundation, national endowment for the arts, and national endowment for the humanities (and the latter two's budgets were spent in about the first few hours of the war).
Incredible opportunity for *4* #postdocs, *3 years each* to work with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, @evahaifa.bsky.social, Alasdair Cochrane and Bob McKay on their wonderful new "#multispecies #mutualisms" project at the University of of Sheffield #EnvHumanities
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Is there an equivalent of an oil change for the brain? I’ve hit 100,000 miles.
Oh this is really dispiriting as a new comer, I was so excited to find ways of engagement there. Really disappointing and frustrating news :(
My uncontroversial opinion having moved back to the UK is that estate agencies shouldn’t be allowed to exist 🧛🏻👻🧟🧟♂️🧟♀️🧛🏻🧛🏻🧛🏻👻
A valuable read from my (new!) colleague @rikjaz.bsky.social and other great geographers about the importance of our discipline now more than ever amidst widespread cuts across the sector in the UK
Making America full of smog, asthma, and shorter life spans again, to say nothing of the climate, what a win. Just dystopian stuff.
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