Dorina Damsa
@dorinadamsa.bsky.social
🍉 Global inequality regimes (incl. citizenship), multispecies justice, politics of climate change adaptation, non/knowledge production.
📍 Senior research fellow at ISF Oslo https://www.samfunnsforskning.no/english/people/res/dorinada/
📍 Senior research fellow at ISF Oslo https://www.samfunnsforskning.no/english/people/res/dorinada/
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We are excited to announce the Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography at the University of Concepción, Chile, 17-20 March 2026. The call is now live @ www.clg.place on our conference page. Deadline for submissions 10 November 2025.
September 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
We are excited to announce the Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography at the University of Concepción, Chile, 17-20 March 2026. The call is now live @ www.clg.place on our conference page. Deadline for submissions 10 November 2025.
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Our special issue on the constitution and contestability of borders is out now in Geopolitics!
@nikostrand.bsky.social @dorinadamsa.bsky.social
Read here: Geopolitics: Vol 30, No 5 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fgeo20/3...
@nikostrand.bsky.social @dorinadamsa.bsky.social
Read here: Geopolitics: Vol 30, No 5 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fgeo20/3...
Geopolitics
The Constitution and Contestablity of Borders. Volume 30, Issue 5 of Geopolitics
www.tandfonline.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Our special issue on the constitution and contestability of borders is out now in Geopolitics!
@nikostrand.bsky.social @dorinadamsa.bsky.social
Read here: Geopolitics: Vol 30, No 5 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fgeo20/3...
@nikostrand.bsky.social @dorinadamsa.bsky.social
Read here: Geopolitics: Vol 30, No 5 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fgeo20/3...
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Sydney Environment Institute celebrates the International Court of Justice's historic ruling on states’ climate obligations. The ICJ's much-anticipated Advisory Opinion on climate change is the clearest legal affirmation to date that states have a legally binding obligation to address climate change
July 30, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Sydney Environment Institute celebrates the International Court of Justice's historic ruling on states’ climate obligations. The ICJ's much-anticipated Advisory Opinion on climate change is the clearest legal affirmation to date that states have a legally binding obligation to address climate change
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Happy to share our new paper: we show that human-caused climate change is raising the odds of extreme climate-driven fire years across forested regions of the globe
@climate-guy.bsky.social @pyrogeog.bsky.social
rdcu.be/evJkX
#ClimateChange #Wildfires
@climate-guy.bsky.social @pyrogeog.bsky.social
rdcu.be/evJkX
#ClimateChange #Wildfires
Climate change has increased the odds of extreme regional forest fire years globally
Nature Communications - The authors show that extreme fire years in global forests align with rare fire weather extremes. Climate change has made such extremes 88-152% more probable. These findings...
rdcu.be
July 11, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Happy to share our new paper: we show that human-caused climate change is raising the odds of extreme climate-driven fire years across forested regions of the globe
@climate-guy.bsky.social @pyrogeog.bsky.social
rdcu.be/evJkX
#ClimateChange #Wildfires
@climate-guy.bsky.social @pyrogeog.bsky.social
rdcu.be/evJkX
#ClimateChange #Wildfires
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📢 "There can be no real sustainability at all without global justice."
🗣️Miriam Lang, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador
#GreenSacrifice2025
📍 @politiquesupf.bsky.social
🗣️Miriam Lang, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador
#GreenSacrifice2025
📍 @politiquesupf.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
📢 "There can be no real sustainability at all without global justice."
🗣️Miriam Lang, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador
#GreenSacrifice2025
📍 @politiquesupf.bsky.social
🗣️Miriam Lang, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador
#GreenSacrifice2025
📍 @politiquesupf.bsky.social
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DEMIG Online Talk: Join @nikostrand.bsky.social as she explores how deportation in Europe is shaped by both knowledge and ignorance. Learn about the overlooked harms of routine procedures and the role of "not knowing" in justifying state actions.
📅 24 June, 2-3pm
www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...
📅 24 June, 2-3pm
www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...
June 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
DEMIG Online Talk: Join @nikostrand.bsky.social as she explores how deportation in Europe is shaped by both knowledge and ignorance. Learn about the overlooked harms of routine procedures and the role of "not knowing" in justifying state actions.
📅 24 June, 2-3pm
www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...
📅 24 June, 2-3pm
www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...
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In the final @bordercrim.bsky.social post on methodology and immigration detention, Francesca Esposito describes the collaborative work with @aviddetention.bsky.social, the unchained collective, and many others in creating wonderful animated film 'Removed': blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Creating counternarratives on immigration detention: from individual academic research to community-engaged participatory processes
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk
May 30, 2025 at 9:06 AM
In the final @bordercrim.bsky.social post on methodology and immigration detention, Francesca Esposito describes the collaborative work with @aviddetention.bsky.social, the unchained collective, and many others in creating wonderful animated film 'Removed': blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Excited to have a new OA paper out with the amazing @dorinadamsa.bsky.social on the fluidity of non/knowledge production, drawing on our empirical work on deportation from EUrope. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@demigkrems.bsky.social @scmrjems.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social
@demigkrems.bsky.social @scmrjems.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social
May 30, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Excited to have a new OA paper out with the amazing @dorinadamsa.bsky.social on the fluidity of non/knowledge production, drawing on our empirical work on deportation from EUrope. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@demigkrems.bsky.social @scmrjems.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social
@demigkrems.bsky.social @scmrjems.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social
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Thankfully, the village was evacuated already, but one person is missing and everyone else’s homes are destroyed.
Make no mistake: this is a climate disaster.
Make no mistake: this is a climate disaster.
Swiss village almost entirely destroyed after collapse of glacier buries it in mud
One person missing and Blatten devastated after huge cloud of ice and rubble inundates evacuated town
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Thankfully, the village was evacuated already, but one person is missing and everyone else’s homes are destroyed.
Make no mistake: this is a climate disaster.
Make no mistake: this is a climate disaster.
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[Members' News] New publication by @dorinadamsa.bsky.social & @nikostrand.bsky.social on the epistemologies & methodologies of non/knowledge production in deportation from Europe, focusing on its fluid, i.e., co-constitutive, relational & contextual dimensions: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
States of Un/Knowing: The Un/Making of the European Deportation Regime
Migration governance in Europe is continuously shaped by various rationalities and actors, including those from state, supra/international, civil society and academic institutions. This article con...
www.tandfonline.com
May 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
[Members' News] New publication by @dorinadamsa.bsky.social & @nikostrand.bsky.social on the epistemologies & methodologies of non/knowledge production in deportation from Europe, focusing on its fluid, i.e., co-constitutive, relational & contextual dimensions: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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🚨NEW | Israel Approves Plan to ‘Capture’ and Occupy All of Gaza and Control Humanitarian Aid
Israel has approved a sweeping plan to seize all of Gaza, to occupy it indefinitely, and displace its people south—advancing what rights groups warn is a military-engineered campaign of ethnic cleansing. 🧵
Israel has approved a sweeping plan to seize all of Gaza, to occupy it indefinitely, and displace its people south—advancing what rights groups warn is a military-engineered campaign of ethnic cleansing. 🧵
May 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
🚨NEW | Israel Approves Plan to ‘Capture’ and Occupy All of Gaza and Control Humanitarian Aid
Israel has approved a sweeping plan to seize all of Gaza, to occupy it indefinitely, and displace its people south—advancing what rights groups warn is a military-engineered campaign of ethnic cleansing. 🧵
Israel has approved a sweeping plan to seize all of Gaza, to occupy it indefinitely, and displace its people south—advancing what rights groups warn is a military-engineered campaign of ethnic cleansing. 🧵
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Et vilkår for at noe skal være et folkemord er et forsett om å begå folkemord. Det kan være vanskelig å bevise. Vanligvis sier man jo ikke noe sånt rett ut. Men, og dette glatter folk som Hellestveit for ofte rett over i min mening: Israel sier det rett ut.
May 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Et vilkår for at noe skal være et folkemord er et forsett om å begå folkemord. Det kan være vanskelig å bevise. Vanligvis sier man jo ikke noe sånt rett ut. Men, og dette glatter folk som Hellestveit for ofte rett over i min mening: Israel sier det rett ut.
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An Apothecary of poems. As so many of us reach for some salve for the fears, anxieties, sense of loss, and terrors of the moment - from social media, techno-solutions, substances.. does poetry offer a true alternative? A nonsolution solution that enables us to remain with ambiguity? poetryclinic.org
Poetry Clinic
Ask us a question or describe the predicament that you're in; our poet-in-residence will select a couple of letters and prescribe a healing poem.
poetryclinic.org
November 23, 2024 at 6:01 AM
An Apothecary of poems. As so many of us reach for some salve for the fears, anxieties, sense of loss, and terrors of the moment - from social media, techno-solutions, substances.. does poetry offer a true alternative? A nonsolution solution that enables us to remain with ambiguity? poetryclinic.org
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Very excited that the Multispecies Justice Collective has a new book out and it is Open Access! www.cambridge.org/core/books/i... - I hope this might be helpful/useful for all of us committed to justice for all Earth beings.
Institutionalising Multispecies Justice
Cambridge Core - Environmental Policy, Economics and Law - Institutionalising Multispecies Justice
www.cambridge.org
January 29, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Very excited that the Multispecies Justice Collective has a new book out and it is Open Access! www.cambridge.org/core/books/i... - I hope this might be helpful/useful for all of us committed to justice for all Earth beings.
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🐌 Upcoming events and opportunities 🐌
1. Postdoctoral fellow Just and Sustainable Transformations at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences: shorturl.at/EOYwm
2. Just GLOBE Project Conference: Multispecies engagements and the more-than-human lens in environmental politics: shorturl.at/ukrht
1. Postdoctoral fellow Just and Sustainable Transformations at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences: shorturl.at/EOYwm
2. Just GLOBE Project Conference: Multispecies engagements and the more-than-human lens in environmental politics: shorturl.at/ukrht
April 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
🐌 Upcoming events and opportunities 🐌
1. Postdoctoral fellow Just and Sustainable Transformations at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences: shorturl.at/EOYwm
2. Just GLOBE Project Conference: Multispecies engagements and the more-than-human lens in environmental politics: shorturl.at/ukrht
1. Postdoctoral fellow Just and Sustainable Transformations at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences: shorturl.at/EOYwm
2. Just GLOBE Project Conference: Multispecies engagements and the more-than-human lens in environmental politics: shorturl.at/ukrht
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Call for Papers: 'Mobilising Imperial History: Crime, Policing and Control in the British Empire' bit.ly/3Ye0Pco
Dr Aparajita Mukhopadhyay (Kent) will host a workshop on 15 July. Calls for papers are now invited. This event is supported by the Society's Workshop Grants scheme for 24-25 #skystorians
Dr Aparajita Mukhopadhyay (Kent) will host a workshop on 15 July. Calls for papers are now invited. This event is supported by the Society's Workshop Grants scheme for 24-25 #skystorians
April 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Call for Papers: 'Mobilising Imperial History: Crime, Policing and Control in the British Empire' bit.ly/3Ye0Pco
Dr Aparajita Mukhopadhyay (Kent) will host a workshop on 15 July. Calls for papers are now invited. This event is supported by the Society's Workshop Grants scheme for 24-25 #skystorians
Dr Aparajita Mukhopadhyay (Kent) will host a workshop on 15 July. Calls for papers are now invited. This event is supported by the Society's Workshop Grants scheme for 24-25 #skystorians
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📢 Call for Papers!
Lund University 🇸🇪 will host the 3rd International Queer(y)ing Asylum Symposium on 30–31 Oct 2025. They are now inviting contributions on queer asylum, resistance, decoloniality, & more. Submit your abstract by 15 May & spread the word!
Contact: queeryingasylumsymposium@gmail.com
Lund University 🇸🇪 will host the 3rd International Queer(y)ing Asylum Symposium on 30–31 Oct 2025. They are now inviting contributions on queer asylum, resistance, decoloniality, & more. Submit your abstract by 15 May & spread the word!
Contact: queeryingasylumsymposium@gmail.com
April 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
📢 Call for Papers!
Lund University 🇸🇪 will host the 3rd International Queer(y)ing Asylum Symposium on 30–31 Oct 2025. They are now inviting contributions on queer asylum, resistance, decoloniality, & more. Submit your abstract by 15 May & spread the word!
Contact: queeryingasylumsymposium@gmail.com
Lund University 🇸🇪 will host the 3rd International Queer(y)ing Asylum Symposium on 30–31 Oct 2025. They are now inviting contributions on queer asylum, resistance, decoloniality, & more. Submit your abstract by 15 May & spread the word!
Contact: queeryingasylumsymposium@gmail.com
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This could be a big deal for the hundreds of climate lawsuits underway around the world. @jsmankin.bsky.social and @ccallahan45.bsky.social link emissions from specific fossil fuel companies to trillions of dollars in damages.
“I think this is going to be the future of climate litigation." 🧪🔌💡
“I think this is going to be the future of climate litigation." 🧪🔌💡
Can climate science attribute economic damage to major polluters?
Climate researchers argue their science has advanced enough to directly link emissions from particular companies to damages from specific extreme weather events
www.newscientist.com
April 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This could be a big deal for the hundreds of climate lawsuits underway around the world. @jsmankin.bsky.social and @ccallahan45.bsky.social link emissions from specific fossil fuel companies to trillions of dollars in damages.
“I think this is going to be the future of climate litigation." 🧪🔌💡
“I think this is going to be the future of climate litigation." 🧪🔌💡
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Read @aviddetention.bsky.social's review of @mfbosworth.bsky.social's Supply Chain Justice: "[I]t is people who are the 'product' — people who arrive or stay in the UK and are subject to detention, people who are sorted, managed, moved, and monetised."
www.aviddetention.org.uk/article/refl...
www.aviddetention.org.uk/article/refl...
Reflections on
This is a book review, reflection and summary of Mary Bosworth's (Professor of Criminology at Border Criminologies) recently published book,
www.aviddetention.org.uk
March 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Read @aviddetention.bsky.social's review of @mfbosworth.bsky.social's Supply Chain Justice: "[I]t is people who are the 'product' — people who arrive or stay in the UK and are subject to detention, people who are sorted, managed, moved, and monetised."
www.aviddetention.org.uk/article/refl...
www.aviddetention.org.uk/article/refl...
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Climate change litigation is gaining momentum – but does it deliver real change?
@matigre.bsky.social and I have organized a small webinar with fantastic speakers on the implementation and impact of landmark climate change cases.
📅 April 24
📝 Do sign up here:
events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...
@matigre.bsky.social and I have organized a small webinar with fantastic speakers on the implementation and impact of landmark climate change cases.
📅 April 24
📝 Do sign up here:
events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...
April 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Climate change litigation is gaining momentum – but does it deliver real change?
@matigre.bsky.social and I have organized a small webinar with fantastic speakers on the implementation and impact of landmark climate change cases.
📅 April 24
📝 Do sign up here:
events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...
@matigre.bsky.social and I have organized a small webinar with fantastic speakers on the implementation and impact of landmark climate change cases.
📅 April 24
📝 Do sign up here:
events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...
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One of the greatest conceits of #CriminalJustice is that the #police (and other policing agencies) serve and protect the public. They don't, and never have.
They serve the State by policing the public.
What you're seeing in the US right now, is that policing stripped of its conceit.
#Criminology
They serve the State by policing the public.
What you're seeing in the US right now, is that policing stripped of its conceit.
#Criminology
April 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
One of the greatest conceits of #CriminalJustice is that the #police (and other policing agencies) serve and protect the public. They don't, and never have.
They serve the State by policing the public.
What you're seeing in the US right now, is that policing stripped of its conceit.
#Criminology
They serve the State by policing the public.
What you're seeing in the US right now, is that policing stripped of its conceit.
#Criminology
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If you're interested in Racialised #Zemiology, and want to see the harms of the US's neo-eugenicist movement that now dominates the Trump administration, then this is a good example.
As the #racist logics of US policy begins to bite we will see more of these downstream harms emerging
#Criminology
As the #racist logics of US policy begins to bite we will see more of these downstream harms emerging
#Criminology
"The researchers from Oxford University and elsewhere found that half a million additional children will die of AIDS in the next 5 years in sub-Saharan Africa and nearly 3 million more African children will be orphaned by AIDS." www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out
Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.
www.npr.org
April 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
If you're interested in Racialised #Zemiology, and want to see the harms of the US's neo-eugenicist movement that now dominates the Trump administration, then this is a good example.
As the #racist logics of US policy begins to bite we will see more of these downstream harms emerging
#Criminology
As the #racist logics of US policy begins to bite we will see more of these downstream harms emerging
#Criminology
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Wow. The International Criminal Court has opened proceedings against Hungary for failing to comply with the Court's request to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu and surrender him to the Court, and invited Hungary to provide submissions by 23 May 2025.
April 18, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Wow. The International Criminal Court has opened proceedings against Hungary for failing to comply with the Court's request to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu and surrender him to the Court, and invited Hungary to provide submissions by 23 May 2025.
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The EU placed a strategic bet on Serbian lithium to fuel its shift to electric vehicles.
But it's resulted in dirty politics and an environmental backlash so severe it is poisoning the Balkan nation’s relations with Brussels.
But it's resulted in dirty politics and an environmental backlash so severe it is poisoning the Balkan nation’s relations with Brussels.
Is Serbia turning into an EU mining colony?
A Brussels-backed project to develop the lithium reserves needed to power electric vehicles is fueling political instability on the European Union’s doorstep.
www.politico.eu
April 18, 2025 at 6:57 AM
The EU placed a strategic bet on Serbian lithium to fuel its shift to electric vehicles.
But it's resulted in dirty politics and an environmental backlash so severe it is poisoning the Balkan nation’s relations with Brussels.
But it's resulted in dirty politics and an environmental backlash so severe it is poisoning the Balkan nation’s relations with Brussels.
"Palestine is, in short, the symptom of the world system, the point where all its putative norms are openly inverted, where its racist violence, exploitation, and hatred of democracy exists in concentrated form – and ..."
salvage.zone/from-aparthe...
salvage.zone/from-aparthe...
From Apartheid to Genocide: Salvage Perspectives 14 - Salvage
It is no small offence to our piscine friends to say that the punditry and political class has the collective memory of a solitary goldfish in a tiny bowl that it mistakes for the wide ocean.
salvage.zone
April 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"Palestine is, in short, the symptom of the world system, the point where all its putative norms are openly inverted, where its racist violence, exploitation, and hatred of democracy exists in concentrated form – and ..."
salvage.zone/from-aparthe...
salvage.zone/from-aparthe...