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Wolfram Dressler
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Professor, Human Geography, Agrarian Change and Political Ecology #savepalawan

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Wolfram Dressler @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social · Jan 29
Colleagues,

A decade in the making, I’d like to share with you my new book entitled, 'For the Sake of Forests and God: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands'.

From the Cornell University Press webpage: lnkd.in/ghyuxMKT

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15d
ICE uses extrajudicial violence and intimidation for political ends. It's unconstrained by the law, unaccountable to the public. Its crimes are endorsed at the highest levels. What does this tell us? That it's the force of paramilitary thugs all fascist movements & governments use. It is Trump’s SS.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 18d
Message from a convicted criminal and sexual offender to Canada.
I'll take that as Team Canada for the win.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 20d
Speaking with folks in the UK about how Canada is resisting the Trump threat.
It was an honour to be on the Petrie Hosken show.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXTH...
Charlie Angus Talks With the UK About Trump: The Petrie Hosken Show
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22d
this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities
We are open: please wait for us to unlock the door. Thank you for your understanding

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Wolfram Dressler @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social · Nov 6
Fantastic work!

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Miles Kenney-Lazar @mklaz.bsky.social · Sep 5
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...

1/4

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · Aug 15
New article!

'Irrigating the periphery: Hydrology, coloniality and counter-irrigation in the Philippines', by Rhomir S. Yanquiling, Wolfram Dressler & Will Smith.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.003

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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · Jul 29
Gorillas to be further endangered: the Democratic Republic of the Congo is opening crucial gorilla habitats and pristine forests to bids for oil and gas drilling, with plans to carve up more than half the country into fossil fuel blocks.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Gorilla habitats and pristine forest at risk as DRC opens half of country to oil and gas drilling bids
Government launches licensing round for 52 fossil fuel blocks, potentially undermining a flagship conservation initiative and affecting an estimated 39 million people
www.theguardian.com

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Jul 29
The FT View: The longer it has continued, the more it has borne the hallmarks of a vengeful assault by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government to destroy the very fabric of Palestinian society. https://on.ft.com/3UBv3Us

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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · Jan 10
“Democracy is fragile. You have to fight for every bit, every law, every safeguard, every institution, every story. You must know how dangerous it is to suffer even the tiniest cut. This is why I say to us all: we must hold the line.”

• @mariaressa.bsky.social •

#NoHate #NoRacism #StrongerTogether

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Feb 8
Leaders of far-right parties in Europe came to Madrid for what, on the surface at least, amounted to a rally for a new Trump era. They set aside any trepidation they might have about his threats, and instead focused on a common enemy — the EU.
Far-Right Leaders Rally in Spain to ‘Make Europe Great Again’
At a gathering in Madrid, members of Europe’s far-right parties set aside any trepidation they might have about President Trump’s threats, and instead focused on a common enemy — the European Union.
www.nytimes.com

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · Jul 20
Innocuous-sounding "active clubs", including near where I grew up in Hamilton.
ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...

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Mongabay Latam @mongabaylatam.bsky.social · Jul 19
El pueblo de El Nido, en la isla filipina de Palawan, se ha convertido en un popular destino turístico debido a su intensa promoción en redes sociales. Sin embargo, el turismo ha causado una grave contaminación costera. Esta es la situación.
es.mongabay.com/2025/07/los-...
Caos en El Nido: el destino viral de Instagram enfrenta crisis ambiental por turismo masivo
Palawan, la provincia insular occidental de Filipinas, encabeza la lista de deseos de los turistas por su pintoresco destino principal: El Nido. Este pequeño pueblo pesquero de 50 000 habitantes se en...
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Colum Graham @clmgrhm.bsky.social · Jul 18
An open access paper I wrote on differentiated Suharto nostalgia in rural Java for a Journal of Agrarian Change special issue on land and labour in Indonesia: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Distributive Politics and Class Dynamics in Rural Java
Based on fieldwork in a village I call Lone Teak in East Java, Indonesia, this paper examines emerging patterns of class differentiation and distributive politics. The history of Lone Teak's landhold....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Leafia Ye @leafiaye.bsky.social · Jul 16
🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky
A picture of the toronto skyline

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NPR @npr.org · Jun 28
Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and fines to participate in the annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed by a law passed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing governing party.
Around 100,000 march in Budapest Pride event in defiance of Hungary's ban
Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and fines to participate in the annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed by a law passed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing governing party.
n.pr

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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · Jun 27
Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years. Article in @theconversation.com by Thorsten Mauritsen @stockholm-uni.bsky.social Steven Sherwood UNSW Sydney & Benoit Meyssignac Université de Toulouse #Climate
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Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years
Real world measurements of how much extra heat the Earth is trapping are well beyond most climate models. That’s a real problem.
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Colum Graham @clmgrhm.bsky.social · Jun 26
newbooksnetwork.com/for-the-sake...

Great to talk with @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social about "For the Sake of Forests and Gods" on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social !
Wolfram H. Dressler, "For the Sake of Forests and Gods: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands" (Cornell UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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Wolfram Dressler @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social · May 16
The conceptual terrain addressed by the volume is expansive. By approaching this terrain through fine-grained studies grounded in the histories, ecologies, and inequalities of Southeast Asia, the contributors render the multidimensioned violence of our time palpable.
—Tania Murray Li, UoT

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Wolfram Dressler @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social · May 16
… The book’s interdisciplinary focus on the volumetric brings a new vision to our understandings of resource territorialities and a new conceptual tool for analyzing the productions of sterile bodies and barren landscapes.
—Nancy Lee Peluso, University of California, Berkeley

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Wolfram Dressler @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social · May 16
“Violent Atmospheres brings the political ecology of crisis to bear on atmospheric violence in Southeast Asia. The theoretically innovative and ethnographically grounded chapters address the internal contradictions of capital accumulation and how resource conflict triggers atmospheric crises.”

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Wolfram Dressler @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social · May 16
🚨 On behalf of the contributors, Mary Mostafanezhad and I are delighted to announce the publication of our new book, Violent Atmospheres: Livelihoods and Landscapes in Crisis in Southeast Asia, published by the University of Hawaii Press.

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Violent Atmospheres: Livelihoods and Landscapes in Crisis in Southeast Asia
In Southeast Asia, atmospheric violence emerges from the haze plumes of burning of palm oil plantations, the invisible but powerful spread of viral flows, and the subordination of upland farmers wh…
uhpress.hawaii.edu

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · May 10
Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊

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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · May 3
Canada, we’re with you!
TRUMPISM IS REPUDIATED IN AUSTRALIA!
#auspol

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · Apr 18
Israel murdered this beautiful soul. Remember Fatima Hassona. Watch and spread the film "Put your soul on your hand and walk". And never stop fighting the mass murdering death machine that is the Israeli state.

She was 25.
Fatima Hassona with her camera

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · Apr 18
How is it possible U.S. citizens are being held as illegal aliens in America even after they produce their birth certificate? This is intolerable. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia
Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate “authentic” and said there wasn’t reason to consider him an “illegal alien.”
www.nbcnews.com

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · Apr 11
Chilling. They are saying that simply taking action in opposition to US foreign policy is grounds for deportation.

Think of the proud lineage of protests against US-backed wars, coups, torture...

BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, Immigration Judge Rules open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, Immigration Judge Rules
The judge said the Trump administration’s evidence – a two-page letter from Secretary of State Marco Rubio – is sufficient to deport Khalil under an obscure legal provision.
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Wolfram Dressler @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social · Apr 11
As Duterte faces justice at the ICC in The Hague, the women activists who suffered under his misogynistic violence continue to defend the environment and human rights in the Philippines. Others couldn’t continue their struggle. #fearlessfilipinaactivists

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Defending the Land: Filipina Activists amidst Authoritarian Rule in the Philippines
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Apr 6
A graphic video shows the moment that Israeli troops fired on aid workers in clearly marked vehicles in Gaza, killing 15 people. The footage contradicts Israel’s version of events in an episode that has drawn international scrutiny. Read witness accounts: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/w...

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Wolfram Dressler @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social · Apr 6
Lead by Stasja Koot, this paper explores the intensifying intimidation from powerful conservation actors against social scientists whose findings they see as troubling.

Their threats have not silenced those who work for socio-ecological justice.

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Intimidation as epistemological violence against social science conservation research
We investigated intimidation of conservation social scientists, which is ongoing and aimed at silencing or discrediting research findings. Although social scientists share with conservation biologist....
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