Penelope Anthias
@penelopeanthias.bsky.social
Geographer, ethnographer, new filmmaker. Land, extractivism, Indigenous rights, anti-coloniality, Bolivia (Chaco). Activism in NE UK. Assoc. Prof. at Durham. penelopeanthias.com
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Urukurenda: In Search of the Land Without Evil (Ĩvĩ Maraëï)
YouTube video by Penelope Anthias
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Urukurenda is available open access (free) with a choice of English or Spanish subtitles: youtube.com/watch?v=6OsK... (ENG SUBS)
youtube.com/watch?v=62lX... (ESP SUBS). Feel free to make use of it for teaching! Please share!
youtube.com/watch?v=62lX... (ESP SUBS). Feel free to make use of it for teaching! Please share!
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Wow!
Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report.
This is a *big* legal win.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report.
This is a *big* legal win.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule
Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Wow!
Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report.
This is a *big* legal win.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report.
This is a *big* legal win.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Many thanks for answering my question!
February 12, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Many thanks for answering my question!
Does "American history" here include both North and South America?
February 10, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Does "American history" here include both North and South America?
Newcastle Chronicle ran a story yesterday about the government's response to People Against Rafael's petition to investigate Pearson Engineering. It also discusses PAR's research on use of Pearson Engineering's Threat-sense technology in Israeli drones
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
Government responds to call for investigation into Newcastle arms factory
A petition signed by 5,000 people demanded greater transparency over the operation of Pearson Engineering’s Armstrong Works site on Scotswood Road last year
www.chroniclelive.co.uk
January 31, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Newcastle Chronicle ran a story yesterday about the government's response to People Against Rafael's petition to investigate Pearson Engineering. It also discusses PAR's research on use of Pearson Engineering's Threat-sense technology in Israeli drones
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
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@paullangley.bsky.social and @andrewleyshon.bsky.social, Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance - Zone, July 2026
press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...
press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...
Fintech Capital
A thorough examination of the worldwide digital transformation of people’s everyday monetary and financial relations driven by the emergence of FinTech
press.princeton.edu
January 28, 2026 at 8:05 AM
@paullangley.bsky.social and @andrewleyshon.bsky.social, Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance - Zone, July 2026
press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...
press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...
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BREAKING: Massive Crowds of Anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota as we speak. The tide is turning. America is Fed Up.
Americans should be fighting back against what is happening in this country. Having masked, secret police shooting people, breaking into homes and cars, is NOT normal.
Americans should be fighting back against what is happening in this country. Having masked, secret police shooting people, breaking into homes and cars, is NOT normal.
January 10, 2026 at 8:23 PM
BREAKING: Massive Crowds of Anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota as we speak. The tide is turning. America is Fed Up.
Americans should be fighting back against what is happening in this country. Having masked, secret police shooting people, breaking into homes and cars, is NOT normal.
Americans should be fighting back against what is happening in this country. Having masked, secret police shooting people, breaking into homes and cars, is NOT normal.
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We are looking forward to welcoming Mark Griffiths (GPS, Newcastle University) to the Department on January 13th (2-4pm, room W010) to speak about his book Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine (University of Minnesota Press, 2025) in conversation with Dr. Lauren Martin from Durham Geography.
January 6, 2026 at 8:43 PM
We are looking forward to welcoming Mark Griffiths (GPS, Newcastle University) to the Department on January 13th (2-4pm, room W010) to speak about his book Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine (University of Minnesota Press, 2025) in conversation with Dr. Lauren Martin from Durham Geography.
A sobering reminder of the new political context in Bolivia: support for the US military invasion of Venezuela with purported support for "democracy" but no mention of sovereignty
January 4, 2026 at 9:34 AM
A sobering reminder of the new political context in Bolivia: support for the US military invasion of Venezuela with purported support for "democracy" but no mention of sovereignty
Thinking of everyone in Venezuela right now. A reminder to those who aren't Venezuelans or regional specialists that your take isn't required (read and share local commentary instead)
January 3, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Thinking of everyone in Venezuela right now. A reminder to those who aren't Venezuelans or regional specialists that your take isn't required (read and share local commentary instead)
In further evidence that our university employers only care about us as exploitable labour, Durham has suspended staff access to free flu vaccines on 30th November - the official start of peak flu season
December 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
In further evidence that our university employers only care about us as exploitable labour, Durham has suspended staff access to free flu vaccines on 30th November - the official start of peak flu season
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Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life Fellows - Assistant Professor (Research) G7 - G8
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
December 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Sounds like Structural Adjustment 2.0 in Bolivia: "Funds from creditors including the World Bank and the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) will support private sector initiatives in infrastructure, renewable energy, and financial inclusion". www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Bolivia negotiating $9 billion in multilateral loans to spur recovery
Bolivia is negotiating multilateral financing that will exceed $9 billion for public and private projects, Economy Minister Jose Gabriel Espinoza said Tuesday in the first major policy announcement si...
www.reuters.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Sounds like Structural Adjustment 2.0 in Bolivia: "Funds from creditors including the World Bank and the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) will support private sector initiatives in infrastructure, renewable energy, and financial inclusion". www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Looking forward to this tomorrow!
Our colleague @penelopeanthias.bsky.social will be speaking next month @camunigeography.bsky.social on the topic of 'Infrastructural affects and (contested) hydrocarbon futures in Bolivia':
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Looking forward to this tomorrow!
Let's not forget that appropriating and subverting left agendas has been a key strategy of the far-right. Much easier than winning an argument
November 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Let's not forget that appropriating and subverting left agendas has been a key strategy of the far-right. Much easier than winning an argument
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Our colleague Gavin Bridge has recently co-created a short animation called the ‘Future of UK Oil and Gas’. The film draws on insights from the Fraying Ties project on Networks, Territory and Transformation in the UK oil sector, and was produced by Seed Creativity: youtu.be/8MPHZAhzzLY
The future of UK oil and gas
YouTube video by DurhamUniversity
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November 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Our colleague Gavin Bridge has recently co-created a short animation called the ‘Future of UK Oil and Gas’. The film draws on insights from the Fraying Ties project on Networks, Territory and Transformation in the UK oil sector, and was produced by Seed Creativity: youtu.be/8MPHZAhzzLY
Happy to recommend this Bilingual Audiovisual Roundtable "Urban Futures of Popular Neighbourhoods" curated by @samhalvorsen.bsky.social and Adriana Massidda. It hosts 5 short films from Latin America, inc. my film "Urukurenda: In Search of the Land Without Evil" antipodeonline.org/2025/10/29/u...
Bilingual Intervention—“Urban Futures of Popular Neighbourhoods: An (Audio)Visual Roundtable” - Antipode Online
Sam Halvorsen (Queen Mary University of London) and Adriana L. Massidda (University of Sheffield) Spanish language version available at: / Versión en español disponible en: https://antipodeonline.org/...
antipodeonline.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Happy to recommend this Bilingual Audiovisual Roundtable "Urban Futures of Popular Neighbourhoods" curated by @samhalvorsen.bsky.social and Adriana Massidda. It hosts 5 short films from Latin America, inc. my film "Urukurenda: In Search of the Land Without Evil" antipodeonline.org/2025/10/29/u...
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Book launch for The Politics of Feeling with @ajsecor.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social @will-davies.bsky.social on 25.11 at 15.00 in London. Details here, last time I checked there were a couple of tickets left
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Book launch for The Politics of Feeling with @ajsecor.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social @will-davies.bsky.social on 25.11 at 15.00 in London. Details here, last time I checked there were a couple of tickets left
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
I imagine Labour will take it as a cue that they need to be even more racist
November 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I imagine Labour will take it as a cue that they need to be even more racist
Increasingly seeing PhD proposals containing hallucinated publications I have supposedly authored. Wondering if such hallucinations could ever acquire a life of their own and with what consequences 🤔
November 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Increasingly seeing PhD proposals containing hallucinated publications I have supposedly authored. Wondering if such hallucinations could ever acquire a life of their own and with what consequences 🤔
Despite continuously emphasising their societal contributions to health and sustainability, UK universities appear to make zero effort to ensure healthy and sustainable food is available to staff and students. Or is it just Durham?
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Despite continuously emphasising their societal contributions to health and sustainability, UK universities appear to make zero effort to ensure healthy and sustainable food is available to staff and students. Or is it just Durham?
This is what happens when (formerly) centrist parties try to copy the far-right www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Social Democrats in Denmark suffer sweeping election losses
PM Mette Frederiksen’s centre-left party loses control of Copenhagen for first time in more than 100 years
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This is what happens when (formerly) centrist parties try to copy the far-right www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...