dylan m. harris
@dylanmharris.bsky.social
* geographer/asst prof * -- in co, from ms --
| stories | climate change/justice | energy | political ecology | labor | debt |
🌱🔮🛠✨🌈🖤 // https://www.dylanmharris.com/
| stories | climate change/justice | energy | political ecology | labor | debt |
🌱🔮🛠✨🌈🖤 // https://www.dylanmharris.com/
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new book is out! alex and i are proud of it, and of the stories it tells. it was gift to work on this with him, and the contributions are stellar.
we offer different engagements on how the past influences the future and vice versa, and how to resist what prevents us from seeing the future.
we offer different engagements on how the past influences the future and vice versa, and how to resist what prevents us from seeing the future.
new book is out! alex and i are proud of it, and of the stories it tells. it was gift to work on this with him, and the contributions are stellar.
we offer different engagements on how the past influences the future and vice versa, and how to resist what prevents us from seeing the future.
we offer different engagements on how the past influences the future and vice versa, and how to resist what prevents us from seeing the future.
January 17, 2026 at 6:31 PM
new book is out! alex and i are proud of it, and of the stories it tells. it was gift to work on this with him, and the contributions are stellar.
we offer different engagements on how the past influences the future and vice versa, and how to resist what prevents us from seeing the future.
we offer different engagements on how the past influences the future and vice versa, and how to resist what prevents us from seeing the future.
for some reason, my new article is open-access at the moment! sharing it in case that is useful to folks!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Accumulation by transition or genuine transformation? Speculative political ecologies of Central Appalachia’s emerging forest carbon economy - Dylan M. Harris, 2025
As trust in the validity of forest carbon credits decreases, a market for high integrity forest carbon credits is emerging in Central Appalachia, a region known...
journals.sagepub.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
for some reason, my new article is open-access at the moment! sharing it in case that is useful to folks!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
new article! how might the emergence of the 'new' carbon economy be disrupted, shifted in favor of communities rather than serving as another round of capitalist accumulation?
thanks to @landpolicy.bsky.social for supporting this work!
here's a link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
thanks to @landpolicy.bsky.social for supporting this work!
here's a link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
new article! how might the emergence of the 'new' carbon economy be disrupted, shifted in favor of communities rather than serving as another round of capitalist accumulation?
thanks to @landpolicy.bsky.social for supporting this work!
here's a link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
thanks to @landpolicy.bsky.social for supporting this work!
here's a link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
saw the new tron, and my takeaway is that ai-death likely won’t be explosive and shiny. instead, it’ll be slow violence. enough humans will be convinced its existence is more worthwhile than planetary health (happening), and ai chat bots will convince kids to kill themselves (happening).
October 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM
saw the new tron, and my takeaway is that ai-death likely won’t be explosive and shiny. instead, it’ll be slow violence. enough humans will be convinced its existence is more worthwhile than planetary health (happening), and ai chat bots will convince kids to kill themselves (happening).
what does it mean that small landowners are being asked to lease their land, or at least the carbon inside their trees, to corporations like amazon for 20-year contracts?
i am super excited to share this work and grateful to the @landpolicy.bsky.social for supporting it! ✊
tinyurl.com/mw2zx9fe
i am super excited to share this work and grateful to the @landpolicy.bsky.social for supporting it! ✊
tinyurl.com/mw2zx9fe
October 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
what does it mean that small landowners are being asked to lease their land, or at least the carbon inside their trees, to corporations like amazon for 20-year contracts?
i am super excited to share this work and grateful to the @landpolicy.bsky.social for supporting it! ✊
tinyurl.com/mw2zx9fe
i am super excited to share this work and grateful to the @landpolicy.bsky.social for supporting it! ✊
tinyurl.com/mw2zx9fe
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In the newest addition to 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴, Pollyanna Rhee portrays the perennial wheatgrass Kernza, challenging its promise of endless abundance and environmental responsibility:
seeingthewoods.org/2025/10/08/f...
#perennials #wheat #envhum #envhist #planetaryhealth @parhee.bsky.social
seeingthewoods.org/2025/10/08/f...
#perennials #wheat #envhum #envhist #planetaryhealth @parhee.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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what does it meant to affirm life, to ease suffering, when there is no cure? what does grief teach about the art of life, about solidarity despite devastation? is grief a lens through which to assuage planetary harm?
thanks to the @carsoncenter.bsky.social 🌱
seeingthewoods.org/2025/09/02/l...
thanks to the @carsoncenter.bsky.social 🌱
seeingthewoods.org/2025/09/02/l...
September 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
what does it meant to affirm life, to ease suffering, when there is no cure? what does grief teach about the art of life, about solidarity despite devastation? is grief a lens through which to assuage planetary harm?
thanks to the @carsoncenter.bsky.social 🌱
seeingthewoods.org/2025/09/02/l...
thanks to the @carsoncenter.bsky.social 🌱
seeingthewoods.org/2025/09/02/l...
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Is #grief inherently political?
In this deeply personal essay author @dylanmharris.bsky.social explores the connections between global #foodproduction and the health—and related grief—of the individual.
This essay is a contribution to the #planetaryhealth series featured on 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴.
In this deeply personal essay author @dylanmharris.bsky.social explores the connections between global #foodproduction and the health—and related grief—of the individual.
This essay is a contribution to the #planetaryhealth series featured on 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴.
September 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Is #grief inherently political?
In this deeply personal essay author @dylanmharris.bsky.social explores the connections between global #foodproduction and the health—and related grief—of the individual.
This essay is a contribution to the #planetaryhealth series featured on 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴.
In this deeply personal essay author @dylanmharris.bsky.social explores the connections between global #foodproduction and the health—and related grief—of the individual.
This essay is a contribution to the #planetaryhealth series featured on 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴.
vvv excited to be able to keep doing this!
July 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
vvv excited to be able to keep doing this!
just sending this into the ether -- if anyone comes across any jobs - research, organizing, etc. - in/around appalachia/the southeast, keep me in mind! not in a crisis situation, but sending out feelers. =)
June 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
just sending this into the ether -- if anyone comes across any jobs - research, organizing, etc. - in/around appalachia/the southeast, keep me in mind! not in a crisis situation, but sending out feelers. =)
not me encouraging my students to organize a tuition strike 😬🙊
April 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
not me encouraging my students to organize a tuition strike 😬🙊
lol a crimestoppers platform for dei work - enddei.ed.gov.
time to flood this with tons of ‘tips’ about how hiring your unqualified friends is dei 👀
time to flood this with tons of ‘tips’ about how hiring your unqualified friends is dei 👀
February 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
lol a crimestoppers platform for dei work - enddei.ed.gov.
time to flood this with tons of ‘tips’ about how hiring your unqualified friends is dei 👀
time to flood this with tons of ‘tips’ about how hiring your unqualified friends is dei 👀
research funding cuts will impact whole universities, but, importantly, those costs are going to be passed onto our most vulnerable colleagues and our students through tuition increases. it's time to organize WITH - not against - your students to fight these cuts. ✊ @debtcollective.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
research funding cuts will impact whole universities, but, importantly, those costs are going to be passed onto our most vulnerable colleagues and our students through tuition increases. it's time to organize WITH - not against - your students to fight these cuts. ✊ @debtcollective.bsky.social
just gave a talk on palliative political ecology to a church that recently voted to become a ‘creation justice’ congregation, and you could feel tendrils of solidarity forming between folks. the way forward is community. 🌱✊🏻
February 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
just gave a talk on palliative political ecology to a church that recently voted to become a ‘creation justice’ congregation, and you could feel tendrils of solidarity forming between folks. the way forward is community. 🌱✊🏻
my nature/society course, at its heart, is about understanding how the seemingly intractable, primordial division between humans and nature informs so much of the binary thinking that informs (and inflames) so much of society.
January 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
my nature/society course, at its heart, is about understanding how the seemingly intractable, primordial division between humans and nature informs so much of the binary thinking that informs (and inflames) so much of society.
to universities - one of the last slivers of a functional civil society in the US (shout out to public libraries as well)
January 27, 2025 at 1:08 AM
to universities - one of the last slivers of a functional civil society in the US (shout out to public libraries as well)
four days into the semester, i have seen universities, not just mine, 'get in line' with what is 'coming down the pipeline' rather than standing on their mission, to educate all, with integrity. this timely @aaup.bsky.social report is a critical read. ✊
www.aaup.org/report/again...
www.aaup.org/report/again...
Against Anticipatory Obedience
The statement that follows, prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee on College and University Governance and Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved for public...
www.aaup.org
January 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
four days into the semester, i have seen universities, not just mine, 'get in line' with what is 'coming down the pipeline' rather than standing on their mission, to educate all, with integrity. this timely @aaup.bsky.social report is a critical read. ✊
www.aaup.org/report/again...
www.aaup.org/report/again...
while the end of the semester is always busy, it is my favorite for final projects, which, this year, have included: a personal piano concert of studio ghibli songs, a handmade bleaching coral reef made from recycled fabric, and a student writing a poem they yodeled from a mountain top on video 😀
December 20, 2024 at 4:06 PM
while the end of the semester is always busy, it is my favorite for final projects, which, this year, have included: a personal piano concert of studio ghibli songs, a handmade bleaching coral reef made from recycled fabric, and a student writing a poem they yodeled from a mountain top on video 😀
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On the scene of the Amazon strike in Maspeth, the NYPD is trying to break the picket, engaging in arrests of union members and engaging in physical confrontations with workers and their supporters.
December 19, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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Staggering growth of US oil & gas production and record profits was sold by GOP and Dem presidents as American “energy security”. But this isn’t security for ordinary people. Dividends flow to the 1% as more households struggle with utility bills. New paper by @isabellamweber.bsky.social + coauthors
NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵
December 13, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Staggering growth of US oil & gas production and record profits was sold by GOP and Dem presidents as American “energy security”. But this isn’t security for ordinary people. Dividends flow to the 1% as more households struggle with utility bills. New paper by @isabellamweber.bsky.social + coauthors
~ 🥹 proud advisor 🥹 ~ one of my graduate students *just* successfully defended her thesis on ozone non-attainment best practices in colorado, operationalizing concepts like agrawal's 'environmentality' and pulido's 'geographies of pollution' into actionable and clear policy guidelines 🥹
December 10, 2024 at 9:09 PM
~ 🥹 proud advisor 🥹 ~ one of my graduate students *just* successfully defended her thesis on ozone non-attainment best practices in colorado, operationalizing concepts like agrawal's 'environmentality' and pulido's 'geographies of pollution' into actionable and clear policy guidelines 🥹
new open access article! i am proud of this one! we brought many ideas and thinkers - a hero, eve k sedgwick - into conversation with political ecology to expand it's scope, to envision/imagine how emancipatory nature-society scholarship can and should be! ✊🌱
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 5, 2024 at 6:18 PM
new open access article! i am proud of this one! we brought many ideas and thinkers - a hero, eve k sedgwick - into conversation with political ecology to expand it's scope, to envision/imagine how emancipatory nature-society scholarship can and should be! ✊🌱
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by dylan m. harris
🌍 New paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography 🌍
'Experimental and #speculative #political #ecologies for an age of crisis, hope, and action' by Maria Rusca, Dylan M Harris, and Dan Santos
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@mariarusca.bsky.social @dylanmharris.bsky.social
'Experimental and #speculative #political #ecologies for an age of crisis, hope, and action' by Maria Rusca, Dylan M Harris, and Dan Santos
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@mariarusca.bsky.social @dylanmharris.bsky.social
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December 5, 2024 at 4:55 PM
🌍 New paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography 🌍
'Experimental and #speculative #political #ecologies for an age of crisis, hope, and action' by Maria Rusca, Dylan M Harris, and Dan Santos
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@mariarusca.bsky.social @dylanmharris.bsky.social
'Experimental and #speculative #political #ecologies for an age of crisis, hope, and action' by Maria Rusca, Dylan M Harris, and Dan Santos
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@mariarusca.bsky.social @dylanmharris.bsky.social