dylan m. harris
@dylanmharris.bsky.social
* geographer/asst prof * -- in co, from ms --
| stories | climate change/justice | energy | political ecology | labor | debt |
🌱🔮🛠✨🌈🖤 // https://www.dylanmharris.com/
| stories | climate change/justice | energy | political ecology | labor | debt |
🌱🔮🛠✨🌈🖤 // https://www.dylanmharris.com/
new article! how might the emergence of the 'new' carbon economy be disrupted, shifted in favor of communities rather than serving as another round of capitalist accumulation?
thanks to @landpolicy.bsky.social for supporting this work!
here's a link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
thanks to @landpolicy.bsky.social for supporting this work!
here's a link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
new article! how might the emergence of the 'new' carbon economy be disrupted, shifted in favor of communities rather than serving as another round of capitalist accumulation?
thanks to @landpolicy.bsky.social for supporting this work!
here's a link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
thanks to @landpolicy.bsky.social for supporting this work!
here's a link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
what does it mean that small landowners are being asked to lease their land, or at least the carbon inside their trees, to corporations like amazon for 20-year contracts?
i am super excited to share this work and grateful to the @landpolicy.bsky.social for supporting it! ✊
tinyurl.com/mw2zx9fe
i am super excited to share this work and grateful to the @landpolicy.bsky.social for supporting it! ✊
tinyurl.com/mw2zx9fe
October 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
what does it mean that small landowners are being asked to lease their land, or at least the carbon inside their trees, to corporations like amazon for 20-year contracts?
i am super excited to share this work and grateful to the @landpolicy.bsky.social for supporting it! ✊
tinyurl.com/mw2zx9fe
i am super excited to share this work and grateful to the @landpolicy.bsky.social for supporting it! ✊
tinyurl.com/mw2zx9fe
what does it meant to affirm life, to ease suffering, when there is no cure? what does grief teach about the art of life, about solidarity despite devastation? is grief a lens through which to assuage planetary harm?
thanks to the @carsoncenter.bsky.social 🌱
seeingthewoods.org/2025/09/02/l...
thanks to the @carsoncenter.bsky.social 🌱
seeingthewoods.org/2025/09/02/l...
September 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
what does it meant to affirm life, to ease suffering, when there is no cure? what does grief teach about the art of life, about solidarity despite devastation? is grief a lens through which to assuage planetary harm?
thanks to the @carsoncenter.bsky.social 🌱
seeingthewoods.org/2025/09/02/l...
thanks to the @carsoncenter.bsky.social 🌱
seeingthewoods.org/2025/09/02/l...
vvv excited to be able to keep doing this!
July 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
vvv excited to be able to keep doing this!
to universities - one of the last slivers of a functional civil society in the US (shout out to public libraries as well)
January 27, 2025 at 1:08 AM
to universities - one of the last slivers of a functional civil society in the US (shout out to public libraries as well)
new open access article! i am proud of this one! we brought many ideas and thinkers - a hero, eve k sedgwick - into conversation with political ecology to expand it's scope, to envision/imagine how emancipatory nature-society scholarship can and should be! ✊🌱
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 5, 2024 at 6:18 PM
new open access article! i am proud of this one! we brought many ideas and thinkers - a hero, eve k sedgwick - into conversation with political ecology to expand it's scope, to envision/imagine how emancipatory nature-society scholarship can and should be! ✊🌱
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
by centering storylines that are drawn specifically from our collective understanding of climate justice work, we hope to expand the small window of possibility afforded by metrics like SSCPs and RCPs... there is so much more to an equitable future than a line on a graph.
November 20, 2024 at 6:32 PM
by centering storylines that are drawn specifically from our collective understanding of climate justice work, we hope to expand the small window of possibility afforded by metrics like SSCPs and RCPs... there is so much more to an equitable future than a line on a graph.
how and why 'human activity' is factored into climate models, often as a flattened variable among many other variables, is not consistent with climate justice literature that highlights the unequal contributions to and disproportionate impact from climate change. stories help make sense of this!
November 20, 2024 at 6:30 PM
how and why 'human activity' is factored into climate models, often as a flattened variable among many other variables, is not consistent with climate justice literature that highlights the unequal contributions to and disproportionate impact from climate change. stories help make sense of this!
v happy to share this article on the power of storytelling to elucidate, clarify, and realize the often-abstract scenarios of climate models!
thanks to @mariarusca.bsky.social specifically for bringing this dream team together! if you'd like a pdf, just me know! =)
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
thanks to @mariarusca.bsky.social specifically for bringing this dream team together! if you'd like a pdf, just me know! =)
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 20, 2024 at 6:28 PM
v happy to share this article on the power of storytelling to elucidate, clarify, and realize the often-abstract scenarios of climate models!
thanks to @mariarusca.bsky.social specifically for bringing this dream team together! if you'd like a pdf, just me know! =)
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
thanks to @mariarusca.bsky.social specifically for bringing this dream team together! if you'd like a pdf, just me know! =)
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
finally, we are witnessing the horrendous outcome of settler capitalist development, seeing settlers gnash their teeth at the destruction of a state, of the palestinian people, who refuse to give in. the struggle, and the possibility in it, is why capitalism will never win. ✊
February 8, 2024 at 4:30 PM
finally, we are witnessing the horrendous outcome of settler capitalist development, seeing settlers gnash their teeth at the destruction of a state, of the palestinian people, who refuse to give in. the struggle, and the possibility in it, is why capitalism will never win. ✊
considering climate change, and all the disaster capitalist 'opportunities' it entails (e.g., socioecological fixes), you can see how ruins are created through capitalist production, exploited as a wasteland, only to be re-circulated as a commodity. and yet, it's never complete.
February 8, 2024 at 4:30 PM
considering climate change, and all the disaster capitalist 'opportunities' it entails (e.g., socioecological fixes), you can see how ruins are created through capitalist production, exploited as a wasteland, only to be re-circulated as a commodity. and yet, it's never complete.
new!
"In this short article, we theorize with the concepts of ruin and ruination to consider how capitalism both depends upon and is held hostage by its own making."
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RWBRI...
"In this short article, we theorize with the concepts of ruin and ruination to consider how capitalism both depends upon and is held hostage by its own making."
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RWBRI...
February 8, 2024 at 4:29 PM
new!
"In this short article, we theorize with the concepts of ruin and ruination to consider how capitalism both depends upon and is held hostage by its own making."
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RWBRI...
"In this short article, we theorize with the concepts of ruin and ruination to consider how capitalism both depends upon and is held hostage by its own making."
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RWBRI...
we take a dual approach-using legal geographies and political ecology-to discuss how, for example, student debt is linked to fossil fuels, and, by extension, the way students' futures are being mortgaged as sites of capitalist fixity in the atmosphere.
student debt has to go 👊
student debt has to go 👊
January 24, 2024 at 4:35 PM
we take a dual approach-using legal geographies and political ecology-to discuss how, for example, student debt is linked to fossil fuels, and, by extension, the way students' futures are being mortgaged as sites of capitalist fixity in the atmosphere.
student debt has to go 👊
student debt has to go 👊
so much of student debt research (rightly) focuses on the economics driving the crisis, but, as geographers, we feel compelled to point towards the way economic drivers are never *just* that... and that economics are intimately tied to the ways we organize ourselves politically.
January 24, 2024 at 4:34 PM
so much of student debt research (rightly) focuses on the economics driving the crisis, but, as geographers, we feel compelled to point towards the way economic drivers are never *just* that... and that economics are intimately tied to the ways we organize ourselves politically.
the student debt crisis is a corrosive, pervasive extension of the financialization of everyday life, one that puts into stark perspective the ways we have to forfeit personal, communal, and planetary well-being just to get by...
January 24, 2024 at 4:34 PM
the student debt crisis is a corrosive, pervasive extension of the financialization of everyday life, one that puts into stark perspective the ways we have to forfeit personal, communal, and planetary well-being just to get by...
new! we articulate how the student debt crisis drives, and is driven by, socioecological crises - e.g., climate change - with the aim of expanding the parameters of student debt activism. 👊
as always, we are inspired by @debtcollective.bsky.social 🖤
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
as always, we are inspired by @debtcollective.bsky.social 🖤
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
January 24, 2024 at 4:33 PM
new! we articulate how the student debt crisis drives, and is driven by, socioecological crises - e.g., climate change - with the aim of expanding the parameters of student debt activism. 👊
as always, we are inspired by @debtcollective.bsky.social 🖤
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
as always, we are inspired by @debtcollective.bsky.social 🖤
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
i also wanted to bring attention to moral economy of student debt, and the way it underpins the myth that going to college is the only route to a 'good life.' turns out, college is more affirming and useful when students can learn without the threat of debt and its afterlives.
December 29, 2023 at 5:23 PM
i also wanted to bring attention to moral economy of student debt, and the way it underpins the myth that going to college is the only route to a 'good life.' turns out, college is more affirming and useful when students can learn without the threat of debt and its afterlives.
by sharing my story of student debt - as a debtor and faculty member - i hope, more than anything, others can understand debt is not a personal failure but a structural failure. we need to talk more about our experiences, especially as faculty, to shift the national narrative ✊
December 29, 2023 at 5:22 PM
by sharing my story of student debt - as a debtor and faculty member - i hope, more than anything, others can understand debt is not a personal failure but a structural failure. we need to talk more about our experiences, especially as faculty, to shift the national narrative ✊
"...the student debt crisis is a behemoth, but it is not monolithic, meaning that there are ways of understanding how the crisis developed, why its persistence is experienced differentially and unequally, and, importantly, that it does not have to exist at all." ✊
December 29, 2023 at 4:48 PM
"...the student debt crisis is a behemoth, but it is not monolithic, meaning that there are ways of understanding how the crisis developed, why its persistence is experienced differentially and unequally, and, importantly, that it does not have to exist at all." ✊
this new (open access) article aims to provide research pathways that complement the ongoing activism, from folks like @debtcollective.bsky.social, to abolish student debt 👊
student debt is killing higher ed, harming us, our students, and their families. enough!
acme-journal.org/index.php/ac...
student debt is killing higher ed, harming us, our students, and their families. enough!
acme-journal.org/index.php/ac...
December 29, 2023 at 4:47 PM
this new (open access) article aims to provide research pathways that complement the ongoing activism, from folks like @debtcollective.bsky.social, to abolish student debt 👊
student debt is killing higher ed, harming us, our students, and their families. enough!
acme-journal.org/index.php/ac...
student debt is killing higher ed, harming us, our students, and their families. enough!
acme-journal.org/index.php/ac...