Van Troi Tran
@vtroitran.bsky.social
Professor of Urban Studies and Tourism at UQAM | Anthropology, food and bears
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Matthew Beaumont, Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London - @versobooks.bsky.social, July 2025
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Nightwalking
In this brilliant work of literary investigation, Matthew Beaumont shines a light on the shadowy perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers: the fetid, treacherous streets known to Chaucer and Sh...
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August 5, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Matthew Beaumont, Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London - @versobooks.bsky.social, July 2025
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“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.”
― Octavia Butler
#WritingSky #AcademicSky
― Octavia Butler
#WritingSky #AcademicSky
June 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.”
― Octavia Butler
#WritingSky #AcademicSky
― Octavia Butler
#WritingSky #AcademicSky
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If you want to understand how we ended up in this mess, you go to an expert.
The Common Table talked to political economist @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social about her banging new book: "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters".
The Common Table talked to political economist @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social about her banging new book: "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters".
A Game Of Monopoly — The Common Table
We talk to Canadian political economist Jennifer Clapp about her latest book, “Titans of Industrial Agriculture” and the evolution of an extreme concentration of power that has allowed 12 companies to...
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April 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
If you want to understand how we ended up in this mess, you go to an expert.
The Common Table talked to political economist @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social about her banging new book: "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters".
The Common Table talked to political economist @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social about her banging new book: "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters".
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Feels wrong to celebrate while academia is on 🔥, but this week I got the lovely cover for my long overdue book *The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean* forthcoming from UPenn Press!
#RaceB4Race
#RenSA2025
#RSA2025
#Shax2025
#RaceB4Race
#RenSA2025
#RSA2025
#Shax2025
March 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Feels wrong to celebrate while academia is on 🔥, but this week I got the lovely cover for my long overdue book *The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean* forthcoming from UPenn Press!
#RaceB4Race
#RenSA2025
#RSA2025
#Shax2025
#RaceB4Race
#RenSA2025
#RSA2025
#Shax2025
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"Ice Geographies" by Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social centers ice to critically study racialization, land dispossession, and Indigenous knowledge production about icy places, both historically and in the modern moment of climate change. Read the intro for free now! #Environment
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March 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"Ice Geographies" by Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social centers ice to critically study racialization, land dispossession, and Indigenous knowledge production about icy places, both historically and in the modern moment of climate change. Read the intro for free now! #Environment
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Free Mahmoud Khalil
March 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Free Mahmoud Khalil
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after a fantastic talk this week, we have another scheduled in 2 weeks as part of our regular seminar series
Tania Murray Li - Thursday March 20
register here - forms.office.com/e/rfKrvjTnE2
Tania Murray Li - Thursday March 20
register here - forms.office.com/e/rfKrvjTnE2
March 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
after a fantastic talk this week, we have another scheduled in 2 weeks as part of our regular seminar series
Tania Murray Li - Thursday March 20
register here - forms.office.com/e/rfKrvjTnE2
Tania Murray Li - Thursday March 20
register here - forms.office.com/e/rfKrvjTnE2
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Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed?
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed?
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
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"Artery" by @azeiderman.bsky.social is one of the great new titles we have coming out this March! #Anthropology #Geography
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March 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"Artery" by @azeiderman.bsky.social is one of the great new titles we have coming out this March! #Anthropology #Geography
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New review is up for Soylandia:
It looks boring but it's kinda cool that you wrote a whole book.
-- Arlo Ofstehage (8)
It looks boring but it's kinda cool that you wrote a whole book.
-- Arlo Ofstehage (8)
February 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
New review is up for Soylandia:
It looks boring but it's kinda cool that you wrote a whole book.
-- Arlo Ofstehage (8)
It looks boring but it's kinda cool that you wrote a whole book.
-- Arlo Ofstehage (8)
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Today is publication day! I explain how agricultural inputs - which weren't even widely traded market goods 200 years ago - have become giant industries dominated by just a handful of transnational firms today.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255170...
Many thanks to those who helped me along the way!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255170...
Many thanks to those who helped me along the way!
February 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Today is publication day! I explain how agricultural inputs - which weren't even widely traded market goods 200 years ago - have become giant industries dominated by just a handful of transnational firms today.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255170...
Many thanks to those who helped me along the way!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255170...
Many thanks to those who helped me along the way!
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"Cet ouvrage mêle carnets d’exploration, récits de découverte, interludes théoriques et méthodologiques et représentations cartographiques afin de constituer un nouvel outil de visualisation de la zone critique … de ses dynamiques et des cycles qui rendent la Terre habitable."
GAÏAGRAPHIE - éditions B42
Disponible en précommande. En librairie le 5 mars. Gaïagraphie est une immersion dans les sciences de la Terre ayant pour vocation de nous faire redécouvrir des paysages que nous pensons familiers, m...
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February 12, 2025 at 10:38 PM
"Cet ouvrage mêle carnets d’exploration, récits de découverte, interludes théoriques et méthodologiques et représentations cartographiques afin de constituer un nouvel outil de visualisation de la zone critique … de ses dynamiques et des cycles qui rendent la Terre habitable."
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Wild how the category of “women” must both be ruthlessly defended by the right but also stripped from all direct research, support, or institutional funding.
February 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Wild how the category of “women” must both be ruthlessly defended by the right but also stripped from all direct research, support, or institutional funding.
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It is publication day for THE CINEMA OF EXTRACTIONS (@columbiaup.bsky.social), a book about the materials that make movies possible and how to read between the raw materials and the screen worlds they create.
February 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
It is publication day for THE CINEMA OF EXTRACTIONS (@columbiaup.bsky.social), a book about the materials that make movies possible and how to read between the raw materials and the screen worlds they create.
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I find myself unexpectedly writing about Foucault. This is yesterdays meme, but it made me laugh.
January 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I find myself unexpectedly writing about Foucault. This is yesterdays meme, but it made me laugh.
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Plato was made for social media. First tries to mansplain about how Homer didn’t write the Odyssey right, and is so wrong that he eventually doubles down until he’s arguing that poets don’t belong in society 😅
January 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Plato was made for social media. First tries to mansplain about how Homer didn’t write the Odyssey right, and is so wrong that he eventually doubles down until he’s arguing that poets don’t belong in society 😅
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Let's make this a thing! Folks researching the political economy of food and agriculture. Let me know if you should be added to this list!
go.bsky.app/GykU1LD
go.bsky.app/GykU1LD
December 3, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Let's make this a thing! Folks researching the political economy of food and agriculture. Let me know if you should be added to this list!
go.bsky.app/GykU1LD
go.bsky.app/GykU1LD
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Comment la production et la circulation des céréales et du blé en particulier a participé au développement et à l’évolution des grandes puissances modernes ? 🌾
C'est le sujet des "Guerres du blé" d'Alessandro Stanziani, à réécouter dans La Terre au carré : www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
C'est le sujet des "Guerres du blé" d'Alessandro Stanziani, à réécouter dans La Terre au carré : www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
Le blé : le nerf de la guerre
Comment la production et la circulation des céréales et du blé en particulier a participé au développement des Etats ? L'historien Alessandro Stanziani propose une relecture de l'histoire à partir de ...
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December 26, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Comment la production et la circulation des céréales et du blé en particulier a participé au développement et à l’évolution des grandes puissances modernes ? 🌾
C'est le sujet des "Guerres du blé" d'Alessandro Stanziani, à réécouter dans La Terre au carré : www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
C'est le sujet des "Guerres du blé" d'Alessandro Stanziani, à réécouter dans La Terre au carré : www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
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#ListedeNoël
👉🏼 « Attachements » de Charles Stépanoff
C’est quoi ? Un voyage qui explore nos relations avec notre environnement à l’heure où nos rapports avec le vivant se sont énormément appauvris.
Pour qui ? Les amateur.ices d’anthropologie et les urbain.es en quête de sens.
👉🏼 « Attachements » de Charles Stépanoff
C’est quoi ? Un voyage qui explore nos relations avec notre environnement à l’heure où nos rapports avec le vivant se sont énormément appauvris.
Pour qui ? Les amateur.ices d’anthropologie et les urbain.es en quête de sens.
December 22, 2024 at 9:15 AM
#ListedeNoël
👉🏼 « Attachements » de Charles Stépanoff
C’est quoi ? Un voyage qui explore nos relations avec notre environnement à l’heure où nos rapports avec le vivant se sont énormément appauvris.
Pour qui ? Les amateur.ices d’anthropologie et les urbain.es en quête de sens.
👉🏼 « Attachements » de Charles Stépanoff
C’est quoi ? Un voyage qui explore nos relations avec notre environnement à l’heure où nos rapports avec le vivant se sont énormément appauvris.
Pour qui ? Les amateur.ices d’anthropologie et les urbain.es en quête de sens.
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📚 Sous la direction de Julia Csergo et @vtroitran.bsky.social (CELAT), le dernier numéro d’𝐸𝑡ℎ𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑒𝑠, consacré aux «Identités alimentaires au Québec», a pour sa part été mis en ligne en octobre sur Érudit. Bonne lecture!
→ tinyurl.com/3yhyk5xr
#nourriture #aliment #foodstudies
→ tinyurl.com/3yhyk5xr
#nourriture #aliment #foodstudies
December 17, 2024 at 4:03 PM
📚 Sous la direction de Julia Csergo et @vtroitran.bsky.social (CELAT), le dernier numéro d’𝐸𝑡ℎ𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑒𝑠, consacré aux «Identités alimentaires au Québec», a pour sa part été mis en ligne en octobre sur Érudit. Bonne lecture!
→ tinyurl.com/3yhyk5xr
#nourriture #aliment #foodstudies
→ tinyurl.com/3yhyk5xr
#nourriture #aliment #foodstudies
Forthcoming in 2025, The Quinoa Bust by Emma McDonell
The Quinoa Bust by Emma McDonell - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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December 11, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Forthcoming in 2025, The Quinoa Bust by Emma McDonell
Ce lundi à 14 heures, pour le cycle Villes terrestres, la philosophe Joelle Zask, spécialiste de la philosophie pragmatiste et traductrice de John Dewey, discutera virtuellement de son livre Zoocities: des animaux sauvages dans la ville.
celat.ca/activites/20...
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December 8, 2024 at 3:26 AM
Ce lundi à 14 heures, pour le cycle Villes terrestres, la philosophe Joelle Zask, spécialiste de la philosophie pragmatiste et traductrice de John Dewey, discutera virtuellement de son livre Zoocities: des animaux sauvages dans la ville.
celat.ca/activites/20...
celat.ca/activites/20...