Wolfram Dressler
@dresslerwolfram.bsky.social
Professor, Human Geography, Agrarian Change and Political Ecology #savepalawan
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Colleagues,
A decade in the making, I’d like to share with you my new book entitled, 'For the Sake of Forests and God: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands'.
From the Cornell University Press webpage: lnkd.in/ghyuxMKT
A decade in the making, I’d like to share with you my new book entitled, 'For the Sake of Forests and God: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands'.
From the Cornell University Press webpage: lnkd.in/ghyuxMKT
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My first book, Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos (University of Hawai'i Press, 2025), exists in this world!
Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...
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Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...
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September 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
My first book, Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos (University of Hawai'i Press, 2025), exists in this world!
Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...
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Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...
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New article!
'Irrigating the periphery: Hydrology, coloniality and counter-irrigation in the Philippines', by Rhomir S. Yanquiling, Wolfram Dressler & Will Smith.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.003
'Irrigating the periphery: Hydrology, coloniality and counter-irrigation in the Philippines', by Rhomir S. Yanquiling, Wolfram Dressler & Will Smith.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.003
August 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New article!
'Irrigating the periphery: Hydrology, coloniality and counter-irrigation in the Philippines', by Rhomir S. Yanquiling, Wolfram Dressler & Will Smith.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.003
'Irrigating the periphery: Hydrology, coloniality and counter-irrigation in the Philippines', by Rhomir S. Yanquiling, Wolfram Dressler & Will Smith.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.003
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El pueblo de El Nido, en la isla filipina de Palawan, se ha convertido en un popular destino turístico debido a su intensa promoción en redes sociales. Sin embargo, el turismo ha causado una grave contaminación costera. Esta es la situación.
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Caos en El Nido: el destino viral de Instagram enfrenta crisis ambiental por turismo masivo
Palawan, la provincia insular occidental de Filipinas, encabeza la lista de deseos de los turistas por su pintoresco destino principal: El Nido. Este pequeño pueblo pesquero de 50 000 habitantes se en...
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July 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
El pueblo de El Nido, en la isla filipina de Palawan, se ha convertido en un popular destino turístico debido a su intensa promoción en redes sociales. Sin embargo, el turismo ha causado una grave contaminación costera. Esta es la situación.
es.mongabay.com/2025/07/los-...
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I mean, JFC if the FT can say it, so can you @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social
The FT View: The longer it has continued, the more it has borne the hallmarks of a vengeful assault by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government to destroy the very fabric of Palestinian society. https://on.ft.com/3UBv3Us
July 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I mean, JFC if the FT can say it, so can you @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social
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Gorillas to be further endangered: the Democratic Republic of the Congo is opening crucial gorilla habitats and pristine forests to bids for oil and gas drilling, with plans to carve up more than half the country into fossil fuel blocks.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Gorilla habitats and pristine forest at risk as DRC opens half of country to oil and gas drilling bids
Government launches licensing round for 52 fossil fuel blocks, potentially undermining a flagship conservation initiative and affecting an estimated 39 million people
www.theguardian.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Gorillas to be further endangered: the Democratic Republic of the Congo is opening crucial gorilla habitats and pristine forests to bids for oil and gas drilling, with plans to carve up more than half the country into fossil fuel blocks.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Innocuous-sounding "active clubs", including near where I grew up in Hamilton.
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July 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Innocuous-sounding "active clubs", including near where I grew up in Hamilton.
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ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...
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An open access paper I wrote on differentiated Suharto nostalgia in rural Java for a Journal of Agrarian Change special issue on land and labour in Indonesia: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Distributive Politics and Class Dynamics in Rural Java
Based on fieldwork in a village I call Lone Teak in East Java, Indonesia, this paper examines emerging patterns of class differentiation and distributive politics. The history of Lone Teak's landhold....
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July 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
An open access paper I wrote on differentiated Suharto nostalgia in rural Java for a Journal of Agrarian Change special issue on land and labour in Indonesia: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky
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I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky
July 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky
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Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and fines to participate in the annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed by a law passed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing governing party.
Around 100,000 march in Budapest Pride event in defiance of Hungary's ban
Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and fines to participate in the annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed by a law passed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing governing party.
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June 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and fines to participate in the annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed by a law passed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing governing party.
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Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years. Article in @theconversation.com by Thorsten Mauritsen @stockholm-uni.bsky.social Steven Sherwood UNSW Sydney & Benoit Meyssignac Université de Toulouse #Climate
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Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years
Real world measurements of how much extra heat the Earth is trapping are well beyond most climate models. That’s a real problem.
theconversation.com
June 27, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years. Article in @theconversation.com by Thorsten Mauritsen @stockholm-uni.bsky.social Steven Sherwood UNSW Sydney & Benoit Meyssignac Université de Toulouse #Climate
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theconversation.com/earth-is-tra...
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Great to talk with @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social about "For the Sake of Forests and Gods" on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social !
Great to talk with @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social about "For the Sake of Forests and Gods" on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social !
Wolfram H. Dressler, "For the Sake of Forests and Gods: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands" (Cornell UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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June 26, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Great to talk with @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social about "For the Sake of Forests and Gods" on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social !
Great to talk with @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social about "For the Sake of Forests and Gods" on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social !
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🚨 On behalf of the contributors, Mary Mostafanezhad and I are delighted to announce the publication of our new book, Violent Atmospheres: Livelihoods and Landscapes in Crisis in Southeast Asia, published by the University of Hawaii Press.
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Violent Atmospheres: Livelihoods and Landscapes in Crisis in Southeast Asia
In Southeast Asia, atmospheric violence emerges from the haze plumes of burning of palm oil plantations, the invisible but powerful spread of viral flows, and the subordination of upland farmers wh…
uhpress.hawaii.edu
May 16, 2025 at 7:13 AM
🚨 On behalf of the contributors, Mary Mostafanezhad and I are delighted to announce the publication of our new book, Violent Atmospheres: Livelihoods and Landscapes in Crisis in Southeast Asia, published by the University of Hawaii Press.
uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/violen...
uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/violen...
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Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊
May 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊
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May 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Israel murdered this beautiful soul. Remember Fatima Hassona. Watch and spread the film "Put your soul on your hand and walk". And never stop fighting the mass murdering death machine that is the Israeli state.
She was 25.
She was 25.
April 18, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Israel murdered this beautiful soul. Remember Fatima Hassona. Watch and spread the film "Put your soul on your hand and walk". And never stop fighting the mass murdering death machine that is the Israeli state.
She was 25.
She was 25.
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How is it possible U.S. citizens are being held as illegal aliens in America even after they produce their birth certificate? This is intolerable. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia
Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate “authentic” and said there wasn’t reason to consider him an “illegal alien.”
www.nbcnews.com
April 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
How is it possible U.S. citizens are being held as illegal aliens in America even after they produce their birth certificate? This is intolerable. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
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Chilling. They are saying that simply taking action in opposition to US foreign policy is grounds for deportation.
Think of the proud lineage of protests against US-backed wars, coups, torture...
BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, Immigration Judge Rules open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
Think of the proud lineage of protests against US-backed wars, coups, torture...
BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, Immigration Judge Rules open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, Immigration Judge Rules
The judge said the Trump administration’s evidence – a two-page letter from Secretary of State Marco Rubio – is sufficient to deport Khalil under an obscure legal provision.
open.substack.com
April 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Chilling. They are saying that simply taking action in opposition to US foreign policy is grounds for deportation.
Think of the proud lineage of protests against US-backed wars, coups, torture...
BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, Immigration Judge Rules open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
Think of the proud lineage of protests against US-backed wars, coups, torture...
BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, Immigration Judge Rules open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
As Duterte faces justice at the ICC in The Hague, the women activists who suffered under his misogynistic violence continue to defend the environment and human rights in the Philippines. Others couldn’t continue their struggle. #fearlessfilipinaactivists
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Defending the Land: Filipina Activists amidst Authoritarian Rule in the Philippines
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April 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
As Duterte faces justice at the ICC in The Hague, the women activists who suffered under his misogynistic violence continue to defend the environment and human rights in the Philippines. Others couldn’t continue their struggle. #fearlessfilipinaactivists
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A graphic video shows the moment that Israeli troops fired on aid workers in clearly marked vehicles in Gaza, killing 15 people. The footage contradicts Israel’s version of events in an episode that has drawn international scrutiny. Read witness accounts: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/w...
April 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
A graphic video shows the moment that Israeli troops fired on aid workers in clearly marked vehicles in Gaza, killing 15 people. The footage contradicts Israel’s version of events in an episode that has drawn international scrutiny. Read witness accounts: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/w...
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Jagan Chapagain, secretary-general of the IFRC, warns against the normalisation of killing humanitarian aid workers following the killing of 15 medics and aid workers by Israeli forces in Gaza last month.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7n8dex
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7n8dex
April 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Jagan Chapagain, secretary-general of the IFRC, warns against the normalisation of killing humanitarian aid workers following the killing of 15 medics and aid workers by Israeli forces in Gaza last month.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7n8dex
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7n8dex
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Priceless.
WATCH: “Ron Vara is an anagram of Navarro.”
@maddow.msnbc.com explains how Trump’s tariffs policy came from his economic advisor Peter Navarro, who invented a fake expert in his books to justify it🤦🏻♂️ 🤦🏼
And now markets are crashing 🎪 #TrumpTradeWar #AmericanBrexit
@maddow.msnbc.com explains how Trump’s tariffs policy came from his economic advisor Peter Navarro, who invented a fake expert in his books to justify it🤦🏻♂️ 🤦🏼
And now markets are crashing 🎪 #TrumpTradeWar #AmericanBrexit
April 6, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Priceless.
Lead by Stasja Koot, this paper explores the intensifying intimidation from powerful conservation actors against social scientists whose findings they see as troubling.
Their threats have not silenced those who work for socio-ecological justice.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Their threats have not silenced those who work for socio-ecological justice.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Intimidation as epistemological violence against social science conservation research
We investigated intimidation of conservation social scientists, which is ongoing and aimed at silencing or discrediting research findings. Although social scientists share with conservation biologist....
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 6, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Lead by Stasja Koot, this paper explores the intensifying intimidation from powerful conservation actors against social scientists whose findings they see as troubling.
Their threats have not silenced those who work for socio-ecological justice.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Their threats have not silenced those who work for socio-ecological justice.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
Absolute BLOODBATH at HHS/NIH/CDC this morning. Generation of scientists, health care officials being wiped out
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April 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.