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Lisa Tilley
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Political Ecologist/Economist at SOAS
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Lisa Tilley @tilley101.bsky.social · Mar 22
I hope this article is useful for those interested in ecology, racism, extraction & West Papua.
Deep gratitude to the Papuan activists I've worked with over the years 🙏
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Opening Frontiers, Cheapening Nature: The Economic Functions and Socioecological Effects of Racism in West Papua | Oxford Intersections: Racism by Context | Oxford Academic
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bdsatisa.bsky.social
Ahead of ISA 2026, join us to organise for academic boycott for Palestine! Tues 3rd Feb online 🍉
#BDSatISA #FreePalestine #NoConferencingAsUsual
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
January 27, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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purepapua.bsky.social
West Papua is being erased at gunpoint.
Indonesian National Armed Forces are deployed not to protect forests or people, but to clear rainforests, secure bulldozers, silence Indigenous resistance, and turn one of Earth’s last intact ecosystems into sugar, rice, and biofuel fields.
ecowarriorss.bsky.social Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · Dec 28
West Papua Indonesia Earth's oldest living eco system existing for at least 70 million years

Look at the 292 square Kilometers of ancient forest cleared in just 21 months

Now army brought in to fast track 5 million more acres

www.ft.com/content/27a6...
December 28, 2025 at 6:26 AM
tilley101.bsky.social
Happy to be back at Warwick with wonderful people today! 🌱
October 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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ayanassar.bsky.social
Just out paper which might be of interest to those who work on Urban Geograpy, Geographies of Home, and affective thinking (especially ambivalence).

It is a paper that considers the wonderful Iman Mersal's poetic oeuvre as a form of geography.

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“Giving up the Idea of Home”: Ambivalent Geographies, Geopoetics, and Resisting Capture in the Cities of the Middle East
Abstract. This paper sits with the geopoetics of the Egyptian poet and writer Iman Mersal to grapple with affective ambivalence towards common objects of d
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October 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
tilley101.bsky.social
Our wonderful seminar series starts today at SOAS with Esmat Elhalaby, also Mai Taha & Nivi Manchanda as discussants 🫶
October 9, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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soashistory.bsky.social
A big Thank You to Sarah El-Kazaz, Hengameh Ziai, @tilley101.bsky.social, and Samia Khatun from @soaspolitics.bsky.social, @soasdevelopment.bsky.social and @soashistory.bsky.social for putting this fantastic programme together.

For more info go to
www.soas-walter-rodney-collective.com/events
Histories of Capitalism and Race in the Middle East and Indian Ocean seminar series, Autumn 2022 — Walter Rodney Collective for Historical Research
Nada Moumtaz, God's Property; Alden Young, Transforming Sudan; Muriam Haleh Davis, Markets of Civilization; Aaron Jakes, Egypt's Occupation; Nurfadzilah Yahaya, Fluid Jurisdictions; Johan Mathew, Marg...
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September 24, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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purepapua.bsky.social
Nothing opens markets and flattens forests like racism — West Papua: where plunder meets profit, and human lives are just another resource.

#WestPapua #colonialism #imperialism #enviroment #racism #mining #palmoil #ecology #deforestation

Must read by @tilley101.bsky.social
Opening Frontiers, Cheapening Nature: The Economic Functions and Socioecological Effects of Racism in West Papua
Abstract. European colonialism in the Pacific brought racial taxonomies and hierarchies to the shores of West Papua and the wider Melanesian region. Since
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July 15, 2025 at 9:21 AM
tilley101.bsky.social
Selamat Idul Adha dari Sulawesi 🙏 may Eid bring justice & liberation to Palestine & beyond 🙏
June 6, 2025 at 5:34 AM
tilley101.bsky.social
🎓So proud of our amazing PhD student Dr Irna Nurlina for passing her Viva today 😭 With huge thanks to @maranogueira.bsky.social & Rita Padawangi for being generous & thoughtful examiners 🙏 (& Joel for being a great chair & @melissa-geog.bsky.social as ace co-sup!)
May 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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vidyakumar.bsky.social
Fantastic book launch for #HayaksBastards co-organised by @parvathimenon.bsky.social Co- Director of CCEIL & by Eco Dept @SOAS - @quinnslobodian.com ablely unpacked race, neoliberalism & science w brilliant & provocative discussants @brosef-stalin.bsky.social @tilley101.bsky.social & @EmilHuth.
May 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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parvathimenon.bsky.social
Come listen to @quinnslobodian.com discuss his latest book with @tilley101.bsky.social @brosef-stalin.bsky.social and @emilhth.bsky.social on Wednesday, May 7th, at KLT, SOAS from 12-13:30 Please register here: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right, with Quinn Slobodian
Book Launch with author, Quinn Slobodian and discussants, Lisa Tilley (SOAS), Ashok Kumar (Birkbeck) and Emil Huth (SOAS).
www.soas.ac.uk
May 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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tilley101.bsky.social
📚 Please nominate your *brilliant* books for the Global Development Section Book Award! ("Development" very broadly defined)
Deadline June 30 🙏 📚

www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa...
Global Development Studies Book Award The International Studies Association (ISA) Global Development Studies (GDS) section is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the GDS Book Prize. Books should meet the goals of the section, including a scholarly concern “with development and global justice working across a number of fields, for example, postcolonial studies, development studies, critical political economy, critical security studies, social and political theory, history, sociology, gender studies, and public policy.”
April 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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stoffelalex.bsky.social
I got to join Miranda Melcher @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for an interview about Eros and Empire last week:

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Alexander Stoffel, "Eros and Empire: The Transnational Struggle for Sexual Freedom in the United States" (Stanford UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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April 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
tilley101.bsky.social
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50 years later, Vietnam’s environment still bears the scars of war – and signals a dark future for Gaza and Ukraine
Harmful dioxins in Agent Orange, used to strip forests of their leaves, still linger in soil. Restoration work has been slow, and upheaval at USAID may slow it more.
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April 30, 2025 at 7:48 AM
tilley101.bsky.social
📚 Please nominate your *brilliant* books for the Global Development Section Book Award! ("Development" very broadly defined)
Deadline June 30 🙏 📚

www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa...
Global Development Studies Book Award The International Studies Association (ISA) Global Development Studies (GDS) section is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the GDS Book Prize. Books should meet the goals of the section, including a scholarly concern “with development and global justice working across a number of fields, for example, postcolonial studies, development studies, critical political economy, critical security studies, social and political theory, history, sociology, gender studies, and public policy.”
April 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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dissentmag.bsky.social
New online: Nick Serpe interviews @quinnslobodian.com about the new fusionism of the MAGA right.

www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Blood-and-Soil Neoliberalism - Dissent Magazine
An interview with Quinn Slobodian, the author of Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right.
www.dissentmagazine.org
April 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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sarahkeenan.bsky.social
From Zara Dinnen, a brilliant co-chair of my UCU branch, on the realities of UKHE and life for students and staff
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...
Zara Dinnen | A Sector in Freefall
The Queen Mary University of London branch of the University and College Union, of which I am co-chair, hosts a webpage...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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nisrinelamin.bsky.social
We are proud to introduce our next Workshop4Sudan w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore on May 5 at 12 pm (EDT). This wkshp will among other things allow 4 reflections on what internationalism frm below might look like, given abolition requires it + how we apply it to diff. contexts.
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Image of a beautiful Black woman with black glasses and long grey locs head titled towards the camera and smiling, wearing cowry shell earrings. In yellow against black background the poster reads Workshops4Sudan The Soviets and Abolition, Monday, May 5th, 12-2 pm EDT. Virtual (via Zoom) Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a Writer, Abolitionist and Scholar from New Haven, Connecticut. Workshops4Sudan.
April 23, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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ccptleeds.bsky.social
Join us for the Race and Global Capitalism roundtable, which will take place at 4-5.30pm on 12 May! With four exciting speakers: Ilias Alami, Lisa Tilley, John Narayan and Charles des Portes. @iliasalami.bsky.social @tilley101.bsky.social @chdesportes.bsky.social
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April 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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bjpir.bsky.social
💡 There will be a roundtable discussion of the contribution and significance of this insightful article, featuring Dr Lisa Tilley (SOAS, London - @tilley101.bsky.social) and Dr Aurelien Mondon (University of Bath - @aurelmondon.bsky.social ). 

⬇️ Find the full paper here:
buff.ly/gLFGti2

(2/3)
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April 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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ulasince.bsky.social
Join us on 11 April at SOAS for the workshop, "Globalizing Political Economy."

Details and registration here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/globalizin...
April 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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rafeefz.bsky.social
🚨 DOCKWORKERS IN SOLIDARITY – ORGANISING LESSONS FROM WORKERS TAKING ACTION FOR PALESTINE 🚨

Speakers from @SDU_Sverige, @CGT_France, @ILWU & more.

🔗 Register now: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#WorkersInPalestine #UnionSolidarity
Webinar poster announcing an event titled 'Dockworkers in Solidarity – Organising Lessons from Workers Taking Action for Palestine.' The event is scheduled for Wednesday, 16 April 2025, at 6:30 pm (GMT). The speakers listed include Erik Helgeson (National Vice-Chair, Swedish Dockworkers Union), Anthony Tetard (Coordinator, European Dockworkers Council and CGT Docks and Ports Federation member), a representative from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10, and Workers in Palestine representatives. A QR code is present at the bottom for registration. The background image is a faded photograph of cranes and shipping containers at a dock.
March 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
tilley101.bsky.social
I hope this article is useful for those interested in ecology, racism, extraction & West Papua.
Deep gratitude to the Papuan activists I've worked with over the years 🙏
academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
Opening Frontiers, Cheapening Nature: The Economic Functions and Socioecological Effects of Racism in West Papua | Oxford Intersections: Racism by Context | Oxford Academic
academic.oup.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM
tilley101.bsky.social
A disastrous ruling for Greenpeace, for Indigenous protectors, for the planet as a whole. A terrible precedent.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...
Greenpeace must pay $660m to oil company over pipeline protests, jury says
Environmental group found to have defamed Energy Transfer through protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
www.aljazeera.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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antoniofdo.bsky.social
Job alert!
Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world.

Please help spread the word among interested candidates!

Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...
March 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM