Zali Fung
@zalifung.bsky.social
Political ecologist & feminist geographer • Speculative infrastructure, authoritarianism, & (slow) resistance in Southeast Asia
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Zali Fung
@zalifung.bsky.social
· Jun 25
Who can “slow down” in the neoliberal academy? Reflections on the politics of time as an early-career feminist geographer in Switzerland
Abstract. Feminist geographers' calls for “slow scholarship” as resistance to the neoliberal university raise poignant questions about who can enact slow scholarship and under what conditions. In this...
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New paper in Geographica Helvetica 🚨 I reflect on the (im)possibilities of doing slow scholarship in neoliberal academia as an early-career scholar & how precarity limits collaboration. I outline *collective* strategies to address this & invite further discussion gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...
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New Year's READ: Volunteering While Researching Conflict and Violence by @shonaloong.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Excited that this is part of our special issue on #Decolonising Research #Ethics in Asia Pacific Viewpoint (w/Anne Décobert, Sophia Htwe + @zalifung.bsky.social)
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January 6, 2026 at 4:33 PM
New Year's READ: Volunteering While Researching Conflict and Violence by @shonaloong.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Excited that this is part of our special issue on #Decolonising Research #Ethics in Asia Pacific Viewpoint (w/Anne Décobert, Sophia Htwe + @zalifung.bsky.social)
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This year has been brutal for the #climate movement.
Rollbacks, repression, & outright denial, especially in the US, have made progress feel fragile & uneven.
Which is exactly why it matters to pause & look back at what did move forward in 2025.
Here are 12 real wins 🏆, one for each month 🧵⬇️
Rollbacks, repression, & outright denial, especially in the US, have made progress feel fragile & uneven.
Which is exactly why it matters to pause & look back at what did move forward in 2025.
Here are 12 real wins 🏆, one for each month 🧵⬇️
January 1, 2026 at 9:09 AM
This year has been brutal for the #climate movement.
Rollbacks, repression, & outright denial, especially in the US, have made progress feel fragile & uneven.
Which is exactly why it matters to pause & look back at what did move forward in 2025.
Here are 12 real wins 🏆, one for each month 🧵⬇️
Rollbacks, repression, & outright denial, especially in the US, have made progress feel fragile & uneven.
Which is exactly why it matters to pause & look back at what did move forward in 2025.
Here are 12 real wins 🏆, one for each month 🧵⬇️
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NEW 🇹🇭 For decades, governments have sought to dam and divert rivers in the Salween River Basin—and for decades, communities have resisted under often deeply repressive political conditions. @zalifung.bsky.social explores their repertoire of "slow resistance" in this essay drawing on her PhD research
“Slow resistance” in the Salween River Basin - New Mandala
Grassroots activism gums up the wheels of hydro-development
www.newmandala.org
December 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM
NEW 🇹🇭 For decades, governments have sought to dam and divert rivers in the Salween River Basin—and for decades, communities have resisted under often deeply repressive political conditions. @zalifung.bsky.social explores their repertoire of "slow resistance" in this essay drawing on her PhD research
My essay on “slow resistance” to long-proposed hydropower dams & diversions in the Salween River Basin is out with @newmandala.bsky.social ! It’s based on my PhD research & an article co-authored with @drvanessalamb.bsky.social in Antipode. www.newmandala.org/slow-resista...
“Slow resistance” in the Salween River Basin - New Mandala
Grassroots activism gums up the wheels of hydro-development
www.newmandala.org
December 24, 2025 at 6:42 AM
My essay on “slow resistance” to long-proposed hydropower dams & diversions in the Salween River Basin is out with @newmandala.bsky.social ! It’s based on my PhD research & an article co-authored with @drvanessalamb.bsky.social in Antipode. www.newmandala.org/slow-resista...
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Please consider joining our 2026 Political Ecology spring school!
Planetary Political Ecologies: Environmental disasters, conflicts and possibilities in & beyond capitalism
▶️ 13-17 April 2026
▶️ Wageningen
With Annah Zhu, Erik Swyngedouw, Sumit Vij & others!
wass.crs.wur.nl/courses/deta...
Planetary Political Ecologies: Environmental disasters, conflicts and possibilities in & beyond capitalism
▶️ 13-17 April 2026
▶️ Wageningen
With Annah Zhu, Erik Swyngedouw, Sumit Vij & others!
wass.crs.wur.nl/courses/deta...
WASS Courses
Prof. Bram Büscher (Wageningen University)
Prof. Robert Fletcher (Wageningen University)
Prof. Erik Swyngedouw (Manchester University)
Dr. Annah Zhu (Wageningen University)
Dr. Sumit Vij (Wageningen University)
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December 2, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Please consider joining our 2026 Political Ecology spring school!
Planetary Political Ecologies: Environmental disasters, conflicts and possibilities in & beyond capitalism
▶️ 13-17 April 2026
▶️ Wageningen
With Annah Zhu, Erik Swyngedouw, Sumit Vij & others!
wass.crs.wur.nl/courses/deta...
Planetary Political Ecologies: Environmental disasters, conflicts and possibilities in & beyond capitalism
▶️ 13-17 April 2026
▶️ Wageningen
With Annah Zhu, Erik Swyngedouw, Sumit Vij & others!
wass.crs.wur.nl/courses/deta...
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I wrote about food and the work to create "solidarity infrastructures" in the #Salween, particularly the work by women who provide food for the movement, with @zalifung.bsky.social www.roadsides.net/articles/8234
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I wrote about food and the work to create "solidarity infrastructures" in the #Salween, particularly the work by women who provide food for the movement, with @zalifung.bsky.social www.roadsides.net/articles/8234
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In their contribution to our latest issue, @drvanessalamb.bsky.social and @zalifung.bsky.social show how food preparation by Karen women for anti-dam gatherings is a form of solidarity infrastructure in the Salween River Basin at the Thai–Myanmar border. www.roadsides.net/articles/8234
December 2, 2025 at 8:36 AM
In their contribution to our latest issue, @drvanessalamb.bsky.social and @zalifung.bsky.social show how food preparation by Karen women for anti-dam gatherings is a form of solidarity infrastructure in the Salween River Basin at the Thai–Myanmar border. www.roadsides.net/articles/8234
New paper with @drvanessalamb.bsky.social in @roadsides.bsky.social
We show how food preparation, primarily undertaken by older Karen women, is key to contesting long-proposed hydropower dams & water diversions in the Salween River Basin
Thanks editors @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon
We show how food preparation, primarily undertaken by older Karen women, is key to contesting long-proposed hydropower dams & water diversions in the Salween River Basin
Thanks editors @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon
November 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
New paper with @drvanessalamb.bsky.social in @roadsides.bsky.social
We show how food preparation, primarily undertaken by older Karen women, is key to contesting long-proposed hydropower dams & water diversions in the Salween River Basin
Thanks editors @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon
We show how food preparation, primarily undertaken by older Karen women, is key to contesting long-proposed hydropower dams & water diversions in the Salween River Basin
Thanks editors @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon
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Apply now — Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis”, deadline 20 December 2025 antipodeonline.org/2025/11/13/a...
Apply now—Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis” - Antipode Online
Toronto, Ontario, Canadathe traditional territory of the Huron Wendat, the Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit June 1st – 5th, 2026 The contemporary global landscape is increasingly defined by w...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Apply now — Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis”, deadline 20 December 2025 antipodeonline.org/2025/11/13/a...
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Please join us! I am co-convening 3 Royal Geographical Society panels on Feminist and Gendered Geographies of Resistance with @zalifung.bsky.social and Rebecca Elmhirst at the University of Birmingham next week. A great lineup of presentations. bit.ly/4lgkPnk @rgsibg.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Please join us! I am co-convening 3 Royal Geographical Society panels on Feminist and Gendered Geographies of Resistance with @zalifung.bsky.social and Rebecca Elmhirst at the University of Birmingham next week. A great lineup of presentations. bit.ly/4lgkPnk @rgsibg.bsky.social
Just discovered that @austgeo.bsky.social is on BlueSky! My (relatively) new paper shows how researchers can build trust & collaborate with civil society actors online & across multiple borders (geographic, material, sociocultural, etc). This can build the foundations for in-person fieldwork.
New paper:
Fung, Z. (2024). Navigating research ethics during COVID-19 in authoritarian Southeast Asia: a feminist approach to combining online and in-person qualitative methods. Australian Geographer, 1–21.
Fung, Z. (2024). Navigating research ethics during COVID-19 in authoritarian Southeast Asia: a feminist approach to combining online and in-person qualitative methods. Australian Geographer, 1–21.
Navigating research ethics during COVID-19 in authoritarian Southeast Asia: a feminist approach to combining online and in-person qualitative methods
Australian Geographer
doi.org
July 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Just discovered that @austgeo.bsky.social is on BlueSky! My (relatively) new paper shows how researchers can build trust & collaborate with civil society actors online & across multiple borders (geographic, material, sociocultural, etc). This can build the foundations for in-person fieldwork.
And another honourable mention to Zali Fung for her paper: Fung, Z. (2024). Amorphous infrastructure: Contesting the proposed Yuam River water diversion project in the Salween River Basin. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7(6), 2386-2412. doi.org/10.1177/2514...
Congratulations to all!
Congratulations to all!
July 14, 2025 at 6:22 AM
looking forward to presenting on speculative and “amorphous” unbuilt infrastructures in the Salween River Basin at the upcoming Beyond Infrastructures conference @infranortherc.bsky.social
📢 We are excited to announce the preliminary program for the conference “𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲? (𝗨𝗻-)𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗲”!
🌍 Join us at the University of Vienna (@univie.ac.at), Sept 22–24, for an interdisciplinary dialogue on #infrastructure #research.
🎫 Early bird ends July 6!
🌍 Join us at the University of Vienna (@univie.ac.at), Sept 22–24, for an interdisciplinary dialogue on #infrastructure #research.
🎫 Early bird ends July 6!
Conference program - Beyond Infrastructure? (Un-)built Environments in the Anthropocene - InfraNorth
The conference will open on Monday, September 22, 2025, with a keynote lecture by Alessandro Rippa (University of Oslo), titled Anthropocene Landscapes? Or, a Renewed Anthropology of Infrastructure fo...
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July 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
looking forward to presenting on speculative and “amorphous” unbuilt infrastructures in the Salween River Basin at the upcoming Beyond Infrastructures conference @infranortherc.bsky.social
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a great and much needed piece
New paper in Geographica Helvetica 🚨 I reflect on the (im)possibilities of doing slow scholarship in neoliberal academia as an early-career scholar & how precarity limits collaboration. I outline *collective* strategies to address this & invite further discussion gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...
Who can “slow down” in the neoliberal academy? Reflections on the politics of time as an early-career feminist geographer in Switzerland
Abstract. Feminist geographers' calls for “slow scholarship” as resistance to the neoliberal university raise poignant questions about who can enact slow scholarship and under what conditions. In this...
gh.copernicus.org
June 26, 2025 at 6:27 AM
a great and much needed piece
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"As a geographer and an interdisciplinary scholar, when I look at climate change, I see it essentially about changes in water." Farhana Sultana, The Politics of Water: Climate (In)Justice in Megacities of the Global South #climate #geo #geosky @farhanasultana.com @berlinergazette.bsky.social
The Politics of Water: Climate (In)Justice in Megacities of the Global South · BG · berlinergazette.de · EN|DE
As megacities continue to grow around the world, primarily in the Global South, they are becoming sites of ongoing and future climate and water injustices. Drawing on her research in Dhaka,…
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June 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
"As a geographer and an interdisciplinary scholar, when I look at climate change, I see it essentially about changes in water." Farhana Sultana, The Politics of Water: Climate (In)Justice in Megacities of the Global South #climate #geo #geosky @farhanasultana.com @berlinergazette.bsky.social
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An excellent (& devastatingly true) account on the "leaky pipeline"
New paper in Geographica Helvetica 🚨 I reflect on the (im)possibilities of doing slow scholarship in neoliberal academia as an early-career scholar & how precarity limits collaboration. I outline *collective* strategies to address this & invite further discussion gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...
Who can “slow down” in the neoliberal academy? Reflections on the politics of time as an early-career feminist geographer in Switzerland
Abstract. Feminist geographers' calls for “slow scholarship” as resistance to the neoliberal university raise poignant questions about who can enact slow scholarship and under what conditions. In this...
gh.copernicus.org
June 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
An excellent (& devastatingly true) account on the "leaky pipeline"
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Precarity in the neoliberal university (Swiss edition) and caring scholarship, by @zalifung.bsky.social
gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...
gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...
Who can “slow down” in the neoliberal academy? Reflections on the politics of time as an early-career feminist geographer in Switzerland
Abstract. Feminist geographers' calls for “slow scholarship” as resistance to the neoliberal university raise poignant questions about who can enact slow scholarship and under what conditions. In this...
gh.copernicus.org
June 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Precarity in the neoliberal university (Swiss edition) and caring scholarship, by @zalifung.bsky.social
gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...
gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...
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Excited to be in Barcelona this July and meet the @bcnuej.bsky.social team!
Also happy to give a talk on "Counter-Topographies of Care: Feminist Geographies, Migrant Infrastructures, and Political Subjectification"
💻 In person & online
📆 8 July
@uomseed.bsky.social @urbanstudiesfoundation.org
Also happy to give a talk on "Counter-Topographies of Care: Feminist Geographies, Migrant Infrastructures, and Political Subjectification"
💻 In person & online
📆 8 July
@uomseed.bsky.social @urbanstudiesfoundation.org
📆📢Coming up, Jul 8‼️ @matinakapsali.bsky.social, postdoc researcher at @officialuom.bsky.social will talk at @icta-uab.bsky.social about the political and spatial dynamics of grassroots, feminist-oriented infrastructures emerging in migrant communities. Join us online!💻🔗 www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...
June 18, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Excited to be in Barcelona this July and meet the @bcnuej.bsky.social team!
Also happy to give a talk on "Counter-Topographies of Care: Feminist Geographies, Migrant Infrastructures, and Political Subjectification"
💻 In person & online
📆 8 July
@uomseed.bsky.social @urbanstudiesfoundation.org
Also happy to give a talk on "Counter-Topographies of Care: Feminist Geographies, Migrant Infrastructures, and Political Subjectification"
💻 In person & online
📆 8 July
@uomseed.bsky.social @urbanstudiesfoundation.org
New paper in Geographica Helvetica 🚨 I reflect on the (im)possibilities of doing slow scholarship in neoliberal academia as an early-career scholar & how precarity limits collaboration. I outline *collective* strategies to address this & invite further discussion gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...
Who can “slow down” in the neoliberal academy? Reflections on the politics of time as an early-career feminist geographer in Switzerland
Abstract. Feminist geographers' calls for “slow scholarship” as resistance to the neoliberal university raise poignant questions about who can enact slow scholarship and under what conditions. In this...
gh.copernicus.org
June 25, 2025 at 6:55 AM
New paper in Geographica Helvetica 🚨 I reflect on the (im)possibilities of doing slow scholarship in neoliberal academia as an early-career scholar & how precarity limits collaboration. I outline *collective* strategies to address this & invite further discussion gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...
CfP for a special issue that draws attention to the important but often overlooked gendered elements of ‘global China’
The next Global China Pulse CfP is out!
A Gendered Lens on Global China
@globalchinamap.bsky.social
globalchinapulse.net/calls-for-pa...
A Gendered Lens on Global China
@globalchinamap.bsky.social
globalchinapulse.net/calls-for-pa...
Calls for Papers - Global China Pulse
Calls for Papers Here you can find the call for papers for the journal issues we are currently working on. The initial pitches should be no longer than 300 words and explain the key argument of your p...
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June 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
CfP for a special issue that draws attention to the important but often overlooked gendered elements of ‘global China’
Join us tomorrow @unibe.ch for an event on ‘feminist geographies as socially engaged research’ & our panel on ‘care in academia’ ✨
Excited to discuss ‘feminism as socially engaged research’ in Bern on June 17. I’ll speak on the (im)possibilities & tensions of conducting ‘slow scholarship’ in fast-paced neoliberal academia as a precarious early-career scholar. Join us!
June 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Join us tomorrow @unibe.ch for an event on ‘feminist geographies as socially engaged research’ & our panel on ‘care in academia’ ✨
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Happy to celebrate five years since @antipodeonline.bsky.social released "Geographies of Racial Capitalism w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore."
If you haven't seen or considered it as a teaching or organizing tool: check it out 👇
antipodeonline.org/geographies-...
If you haven't seen or considered it as a teaching or organizing tool: check it out 👇
antipodeonline.org/geographies-...
June 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Happy to celebrate five years since @antipodeonline.bsky.social released "Geographies of Racial Capitalism w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore."
If you haven't seen or considered it as a teaching or organizing tool: check it out 👇
antipodeonline.org/geographies-...
If you haven't seen or considered it as a teaching or organizing tool: check it out 👇
antipodeonline.org/geographies-...
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“When punishment & criminalization threaten public thinking on a matter of shared and urgent concerns, as the situation in Palestine surely
is, then speech on Palestine becomes the litmus test for rights of expression essential to keeping democracy alive.“
is, then speech on Palestine becomes the litmus test for rights of expression essential to keeping democracy alive.“
Academic Freedom in a Time of Destruction: Reconsidering Extramural Speech
Judith Butler
Social Research: An International Quarterly
Johns Hopkins University Press
Volume 92, Number 2, Summer 2025
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Judith Butler
Social Research: An International Quarterly
Johns Hopkins University Press
Volume 92, Number 2, Summer 2025
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE - Academic Freedom in a Time of Destruction: Reconsidering Extramural Speech
muse.jhu.edu
June 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
“When punishment & criminalization threaten public thinking on a matter of shared and urgent concerns, as the situation in Palestine surely
is, then speech on Palestine becomes the litmus test for rights of expression essential to keeping democracy alive.“
is, then speech on Palestine becomes the litmus test for rights of expression essential to keeping democracy alive.“
Reposted by Zali Fung
25 grad students will have accommodation provided (deadline June 9) for this fee-free Summer School, University of Bologna, Italy, Sept 8-12, "Dissonant memories: geographies of migration, colonialism and trauma". centri.unibo.it/memorylab/it... #unibo
May 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
25 grad students will have accommodation provided (deadline June 9) for this fee-free Summer School, University of Bologna, Italy, Sept 8-12, "Dissonant memories: geographies of migration, colonialism and trauma". centri.unibo.it/memorylab/it... #unibo
Excited to discuss ‘feminism as socially engaged research’ in Bern on June 17. I’ll speak on the (im)possibilities & tensions of conducting ‘slow scholarship’ in fast-paced neoliberal academia as a precarious early-career scholar. Join us!
May 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Excited to discuss ‘feminism as socially engaged research’ in Bern on June 17. I’ll speak on the (im)possibilities & tensions of conducting ‘slow scholarship’ in fast-paced neoliberal academia as a precarious early-career scholar. Join us!