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Maan Barua
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Politics, ontologies and economies of the living and material world | PI: ERC #UrbanEcologies | Lecturer, University of Cambridge | Author: #LivelyCities (University of Minnesota Press, 2023), #PlantationWorlds (Duke University Press, 2024) | Views own
Excited to give the keynote for this timely, fascinating Imagining More-than-human Communities Symposium at
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social: a fuller exposition of my ongoing work on "The Metropolis and Metabolic Life". #metabolism

@camunigeography.bsky.social @infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Looking forward to this wonderful #MESH conference in Kõln, with Kate Rigby, @franzkrause.bsky.social,
@thomvandooren.bsky.social and others.
July 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
A thoughtful review of #PlantationWorlds by Bikash K Bhattacharya in South Asian Review. @dukepress.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Plantation Worlds
Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
June 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Reposted by Maan Barua
The Infrastructural Geographies 2nd Annual Lecture:

Professor Louise Amoore "What Kind of Infrastructure is an Algorithm?"

29th of May, 2025, Univ of Cambridge, Dept of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre

Join us!
May 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Fieldwork for an #Amphious Urbanism. #UrbanEcologies
@erc.europa.eu
May 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM
A review of #PlantationWorlds in the AAG Review of Books: "compelling, well argued and grounded". Thank you @audralmitchell.bsky.social for the thoughtful engagement. @dukepress.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Plantation Worlds
Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
April 28, 2025 at 6:36 AM
How do we engage with a world of material transformation hidden in plain sight? #MetabolicFutures at @akademiesolitude.bsky.social starts today!

With Hannah Landecker, Andrew Barry, Matthew Gandy,
@ulibeisel.bsky.social Víctor Muñoz Sanz and many others!

Full programme: bit.ly/4hLTmbB
April 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Reposted by Maan Barua
Keynote Lecture, Sound Piece & Foodsharing Dinner // Tomorrow we're finally starting the program of »metabolic futures« by inviting you to Akademie Schloss Solitude!

Find the full program here: https://bit.ly/4hLTmbB
April 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Delighted to be speaking on #PlantationWorlds at the #VitalGreenhouse Conference in Amsterdam today! Will include archival film of the Assam plantations! @dukepress.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 5:03 AM
The first launch of #PlantationWorlds at @oxford-anthro.bsky.social, with Thomas Cousins, @lysalcayna.bsky.social and @chihab.bsky.social!

28 February: 16:00 onwards! All welcome! @dukepress.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Wonderful to see this review of #PlantationWorlds by Ambika Aiyadurai! @dukepress.bsky.social
"Maan Barua tells the story of the lives of Adivasi & elephants, which were not only shaped by plantations but also by the large infrastructure, exotic plants & modern conservation." Ambika Aiyadurai reviews 'Plantation Worlds' published by @dukepress.bsky.social
www.theindiaforum.in/book-reviews...
Living with Elephants
Conservation efforts largely ignore landscapes where people and animals share the same habitat and conflict with each other. Making sense of life in such environments and easing tensions requires list...
www.theindiaforum.in
February 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Reposted by Maan Barua
🌍 New paper published in Progress in Human Geography 🌍

'#Metabolic geographies: Work, shifts and politics' by Maan Barua

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Metabolic geographies: Work, shifts and politics - Maan Barua, 2025
This article reinvigorates a pivotal arena of scholarship in human geography and the social sciences: metabolism. It does so by staging an encounter between pol...
journals.sagepub.com
January 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Reposted by Maan Barua
In "Plantation Worlds," Maan Barua explores the fraught politics of dwelling between elephants and villagers on land that once harbored colonial plantations in northeastern India. Read the introduction for free now.
www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMa...
July 8, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Reposted by Maan Barua
New #OpenAccess paper in TIBG:

'Metabolic politics: A comparative synthesis' by Maan Barua

This paper develops the concept of metabolic politics acting on bodies, as distinguished from a biopolitics of populations.

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geo #geosky
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper develops the concept of metabolic politics: a form of power emerging in response to the fraught and unanticipated effects generated by the industrialisation of life. Metabolic politics act....
doi.org
September 3, 2024 at 9:42 AM