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Abbie Yunita 🍉
@ayunita.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Utrecht University. I research the politics, ecologies and aesthetics of finance and water heritage in Indonesia and the Netherlands. She/her, Indonesian Australian.

https://www.uu.nl/staff/ACYunita
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Abbie Yunita 🍉 @ayunita.bsky.social · Jun 16
My paper "Rendering transparent and opaque: the materiality of green, social and sustainability bonds" is now out (open access 😊) in the Journal of Cultural Economy! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Rendering transparent and opaque: the materiality of green, social and sustainability bonds
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are increasingly seen as financially material or relevant to investments. In this paper, I explore how the SDGs come to be, or shape what becomes, financial...
www.tandfonline.com
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jamiepeck.bsky.social
Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026

Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma

Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026
Toronto 2026 | Summer Institute in Economic Geography
www.econgeog.net
October 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
ayunita.bsky.social
My paper on SDG investment pipelines in Ghana is now in the latest @tibg.bsky.social issue, in great company with other excellent works!
tibg.bsky.social TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · Oct 1
📢New issue of TIBG📢

Transactions' September Issue features two interventions on environmental crisis & geographies of creativity, 21 papers, and two commentaries on the war in Ukraine.

22/25 pieces are #OpenAccess and available to read here⬇️

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A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles with 2 interventions and 6 standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) 'On limit and love in times of environmental crises' by Ihnji Jon 2) 'Geographies of creativity/creative geographies' by Pat Noxolo 3) '‘My body was no longer a problem’: Electric mountain biking, disability, and the cultural politics of green exercise' by Jim Cherrington & James Brighton 4) '‘A wonderful day and a wonderful crossing!’: Internment (im)mobilities, ambivalence, and the residual tourist gaze in Second World War Britain' by Michael Holden & Peter Adey 5) '‘Smartness’ narratives: A critical discourse analysis of smart eldercare in urban China' by Yi Yu 6) 'Critique beyond relation: The stakes of working with the negative, the void and the abyss' by David Chandler & Jonathan Pugh 7) 'Poetics in the work of three urban photographers: Love for the chaotic city from the site of urban rooftops' by Paulina Nordstrom 8) 'Places as refrains: A non-constructive alternative to assemblage thinking' by Peter Merriman A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Climate change, bodies and diplomacy: Performing watery futures in Tuvalu Liam Saddington 2) Digital animal deathscapes: The online circulation of animals killed for conservation Alexandra Palmer 3) The medium is the message: The geographies of cryptocurrency remittances to Venezuela Daniel Robins 4) ‘One school, two systems’: Navigating the geographies of alternative education in an elite primary school in China Zhenjie Yuan, Huiyu Xie, Hong Zhu 5) Translating India to India: Travelling translations, Patanjali Ayurveda, and the visual language of spiritual consumerism Raksha Pande, Alastair Bonnett 6) Urban political ecologies of sewage surveillance: Creating vital and valuable public health data from wastewater 7) Constructive (in)visibility and the trafficking industrial complex: Leveraging borders for exploitation Audrey Lumley-Sapanski, Katarina Schwarz 8) Translations, translocations, and pluralism: A transnational and multilingual analysis of the circulation of radical geographical knowledge Federico Ferretti 9) From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves Valerio Donfrancesco, Chris Sandbrook A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles with 6 standard articles and 2 commentaries, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Mining an Anthropocene in Japan: On the making and work of geological imaginaries Deborah P. Dixon, Carina J. Fearnley, Mark Pendleton 2) Uneven ambient futures: Intersecting heat and housing trajectories in England and Wales Caitlin Robinson, Lenka Hasova, Lin Zhang 3) Examining the ‘gendered’ places and spaces of UK doctoral education using multilevel modelling Laura Harriet Sheppard, Jonathan Reades, Richard P. J. Freeman 4) The (non-)performance of the financial frontier: Building investment pipelines for the Sustainable Development Goals in Ghana Abbie Yunita 5) Thinking through an ethnography of infrastructure: Commonsensical reasoning, road sharing, and everyday infrastructural settlements Alan Latham, Russell Hitchings, Michael Nattrass 6) (Re)wilding London: Fabric, politics, and aesthetics Jonathon Turnbull, Tom Fry, Jamie Lorimer 7) Resilient education: The role of digital technology in supporting geographical education in Ukraine Simon M. Hutchinson, Elizabeth R. Hurrell, Kateryna Borysenko, Vladyslav Popov, Dariia Kholiavchuk, Yana Popiuk 8) Imagining post-war futures amid cycles of destruction and efforts of reconstruction Constance Carr, Olga Kryvets
October 3, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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azarja.bsky.social
Inspiring inaugural lecture by @susieprotschky.bsky.social today at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social with the captivating title "A monument to Westerling, and other possible futures"
October 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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framerframed.nl
Tonight opening at Framer Framed, #Amsterdam presenting new work by the Udeido Artist collective from West-Papua.
September 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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susieprotschky.bsky.social
New article! Susie Protschky and Pepijn Brandon, ‘ON “EXTREME VIOLENCE” AND “IMPUNITY’ in #Indonesia 1945-9 🇮🇩

Open access 👇

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July 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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zalifung.bsky.social
CfP for a special issue that draws attention to the important but often overlooked gendered elements of ‘global China’
June 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
ayunita.bsky.social
My paper "Rendering transparent and opaque: the materiality of green, social and sustainability bonds" is now out (open access 😊) in the Journal of Cultural Economy! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Rendering transparent and opaque: the materiality of green, social and sustainability bonds
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are increasingly seen as financially material or relevant to investments. In this paper, I explore how the SDGs come to be, or shape what becomes, financial...
www.tandfonline.com
June 16, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
“Water as Method: Space, Place & the Hydrological Gaze in Moving Images is a two-day symposium (19–20 June 2025 at the Glasgow School of Art) exploring the poetics and politics of water in contemporary artist moving image (AMI) practices and methods.”
Water As Method Symposium
'Water as Method: Space, Place & the Hydrological Gaze in Moving Images'
waterasmethod.cargo.site
May 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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jessaloomis.bsky.social
Consumers defer payments on 'Buy Now Pay Later' purchases, suggesting an affordability crunch www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...

In our new article @dcockayne.bsky.social & I explore how fintech affects relations to payment, wages & debt. Check it out!
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Geographies of Fintech and Everyday Life: Reconfiguring Spaces, Practices, and Scales of Digital Money and Finance
Financial and monetary technologies, understood both through their digital platforms and the materiality of mobile devices, are increasingly pervasive, and now shape the economic practices of individ...
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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getsea.bsky.social
Learn about the power of a map in the Dutch East Indies at KITLV’s seminar “Ghost from the past: The Grondkaart and politics of transforming railway land assets in Indonesia” with Dianto Bachriadi, researcher at the Agrarian Resource Center. Details below!

May 27 @ 4 pm CET
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May 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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fsysling.bsky.social
Postdoc positions (one in Environmental Heritage and another in Identity and Popular Culture) at Tilburg
Job opening: Two postdoctoral fellows (22786)
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May 26, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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nickbernards.bsky.social
Really excited to see this massive collection of work on financial infrastructures ed. by @c-westermeier.bsky.social, Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Barbara Brandl, finally out! 30+ chapters and an incredible list of contributors. And it's all open access.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
Cambridge Core - Finance and Accountancy - The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
www.cambridge.org
May 23, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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icta-uab.bsky.social
Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Conference in Barcelona, June 2026.

Our ICTA-UAB researchers are actively involved—help them spread the word and submit your articles!

@pollenetwork.bsky.social

More info: ➡️pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/
May 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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rosiecollington.bsky.social
Wall Street won’t rewild the planet. Or decarbonize mining. Or defossilize agriculture.

For @phenomenalworld.bsky.social I unpack why chasing investability harms climate goals in sectors beyond energy & transport - & what states can do with derisking failures www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/unb...
Unbankable Transitions | Rosie Collington
How the politics of investability determine climate financing
www.phenomenalworld.org
May 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
ayunita.bsky.social
Join us in Leiden on May 16th for a workshop on heritage reparations! My contribution asks what Dutch water heritage looks like when viewed from Jakarta.
May 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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museumofbc.bsky.social
Starting this week, MBC's website will host an online exhibition exploring the afterlives of colonial incarceration sites in Africa.
Poster image displaying an image of Ussher Fort with information on the exhibition below
May 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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jonschu.bsky.social
#LiquidUrbanisms 12-13 June in Basel urbanstudies.philhist.unibas.ch/en/studies/e.... Register at: forms.gle/6JDL4sN4qeZ9....
Conference poster for the Liquid Urbanisms Conference, 12-13 June. Register at: https://forms.gle/6JDL4sN4qeZ9ZztK6.
April 30, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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susieprotschky.bsky.social
Dutton, Abbott and Howard in a game of musical chairs. Called by Antony Green. Fantasy ABC broadcast.
kilderbenhauser.bsky.social Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social · May 3
For me Antony Green announcing Dutton is set to lose his seat will be the image of the night.
Antony Green announcing Dutton will lose his seat.
May 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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nickbernards.bsky.social
Pluto has a whole bunch of great books on political economy (including mine) 40 percent off for a couple more days:

www.plutobooks.com/978074534889...
Fictions of Financialization
For decades, many people on the left have decried the finance sector as the main culprit for the toxic effects of capitalism. Financialization is commonly in...
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April 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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financeandspace.bsky.social
📣 Finance & Space's Annual Lecture 2024 'The Waterworks of Money' from Martijn van der Linden, Thomas Bollen and Carlijn Kingma, online now:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
April 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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stsvienna.bsky.social
📆‼️‼️Join the cohosted #ViennaSTSTalk & #IPWLecutres by Kean Birch (York University) on Do Artefacts Have Political Economy? @univie.ac.at‼️‼️
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Invitation Vienna STS Talks x IPW Talks by Kean Birch on May 08, 2025, 17:00-18:30
April 24, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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framerframed.nl
#booklaunch "Legacies of colonialism in museum collections". What are the structural patterns inherited from colonialism that result in silences today? The book addresses the enduring impacts of colonialism and offers pathways for the decolonization of museums today.

www.kitlv.nl/event-shatan...
Book presentation | Legacies of colonialism in museum collections: The (un)making of Indonesian I...
www.kitlv.nl
April 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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ctemenos.bsky.social
📣 Workshop CFP: Spatialising Urban Crisis
📍 University of Manchester, UK
📅 June 26–27, 2025
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April 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM