Maan Barua
@maanbarua.bsky.social
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
@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
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
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social: a fuller exposition of my ongoing work on "The Metropolis and Metabolic Life". #metabolism
@camunigeography.bsky.social @infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social
Looking forward to this wonderful #MESH conference in Kõln, with Kate Rigby, @franzkrause.bsky.social,
@thomvandooren.bsky.social and others.
@thomvandooren.bsky.social and others.
July 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Looking forward to this wonderful #MESH conference in Kõln, with Kate Rigby, @franzkrause.bsky.social,
@thomvandooren.bsky.social and others.
@thomvandooren.bsky.social and others.
A thoughtful review of #PlantationWorlds by Bikash K Bhattacharya in South Asian Review. @dukepress.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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
A thoughtful review of #PlantationWorlds by Bikash K Bhattacharya in South Asian Review. @dukepress.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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!
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
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!
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 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM
#Metabolic #politics: article now out in @tibg.bsky.social Vol 50. #Metabolism
Open access:
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Open access:
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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....
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
#Metabolic #politics: article now out in @tibg.bsky.social Vol 50. #Metabolism
Open access:
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Open access:
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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....
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
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....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#PlantationWorlds - thanks @stuartelden.bsky.social for featuring it on your favourite books of 2024-2025! @dukepress.bsky.social
progressivegeographies.com/2024/12/31/m...
progressivegeographies.com/2024/12/31/m...
My favourite academic books of 2024
At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked. The criteria was that they were published in that year (or late the previous one), and that I read and liked them. Many of the …
progressivegeographies.com
April 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
#PlantationWorlds - thanks @stuartelden.bsky.social for featuring it on your favourite books of 2024-2025! @dukepress.bsky.social
progressivegeographies.com/2024/12/31/m...
progressivegeographies.com/2024/12/31/m...
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
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
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
With Hannah Landecker, Andrew Barry, Matthew Gandy,
@ulibeisel.bsky.social Víctor Muñoz Sanz and many others!
Full programme: bit.ly/4hLTmbB
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
Find the full program here: https://bit.ly/4hLTmbB
April 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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
Find the full program here: https://bit.ly/4hLTmbB
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
Delighted to be speaking on #PlantationWorlds at the #VitalGreenhouse Conference in Amsterdam today! Will include archival film of the Assam plantations! @dukepress.bsky.social
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
28 February: 16:00 onwards! All welcome! @dukepress.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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
28 February: 16:00 onwards! All welcome! @dukepress.bsky.social
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
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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...
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February 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Wonderful to see this review of #PlantationWorlds by Ambika Aiyadurai! @dukepress.bsky.social
A recent review of #LivelyCities by Judith Keller published in @geographicalreview.bsky.social! @uminnpress.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FWMWH...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FWMWH...
LIVELY CITIES. Reconfiguring Urban Ecology
Published in Geographical Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
www.tandfonline.com
February 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
A recent review of #LivelyCities by Judith Keller published in @geographicalreview.bsky.social! @uminnpress.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FWMWH...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FWMWH...
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' 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
🌍 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' by Maan Barua
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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.
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July 8, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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...
www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMa...
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
'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
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
'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