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The Global Extractivisms and Alternatives Initiative (EXALT), is a research programme focusing on political ecology & economic aspects of global extractivisms and associated socio-environmental crises, including climate change.
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This Monday, @UFP
at 17:30-19:00 come check out Exploring the Life of Solar Panels. @upf.edu

More here: upf.edu/web/jhu-ppc/...

No online option. #degrowth #Academic #climatesciences @IGS_BU
@pollenetwork.bsky.social
Upcoming Seminar on Exploring the Life of Solar Panels
Join us for a seminar with Alexander Dunlap on Exploring the Life of Solar Panels, Or Why J-B Fressoz is Right
upf.edu
March 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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🚨New 🔓 Article! @Globalizations w/ Benjamin Sovacool & Bojana Novakovic @IGS_BU

Though the lens of extractive subjectivities, we explore the Kennecott mines social impact & decarbonization strategies.

➡️https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2025.2465069

#degrowth #climate @pollenetwork.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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🚨NEW ARTICLE @journalofpolit1 !

@BenjaminSovaco1 & I delve into solar panel manufacturing, finding unexpected challenges, harms & ways to improve the process.

➡️https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/id/6222/

#energy #degrowth #climate @politicalecology.bsky.social
January 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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NEW BLOG POST!

Al Gedicks takes us on a deep dive into 50 years of powerful anti-mining struggles, indigenous resistance & luke-warm NGO (in)activities in Wisconsin.

www.rupturepress.org/blog/al-gedi...

@eadi.bsky.social @petergelderloos.bsky.social #indigenousresistance #extractivism
“The Proposed Mine Was Inevitable:” A Conversation with Dr. Al Gedicks on NGOisation, Indigenous Resistance & Successful Struggles against mining in Wisconsin, USA — RUPTURE PRESS
This interview with professor Al Gedicks discusses their research, highlighting connections between Latin America and Wisconsin, USA, anti-mining and Indigenous struggles.
www.rupturepress.org
December 3, 2024 at 8:13 AM
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NEW BLOG POST!
Check out this dialogue between
Andrea Brock & @drxdunlap.bsky.social on the Hambach coal mine, academia & political struggle.

➡️https://www.rupturepress.org/blog/facing-world-eating-machines-axfhk

ENJOY!
#ClimateActionNow #degrowth #anarchy #academia #openaccess @eadi.bsky.social
November 27, 2024 at 4:03 PM
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In September I had the chance to travel to East Serbia and join the Zbor camp and speak to anti-mining activists, see my blogpost!
December 20, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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--> This interview with 2 environmental activists provides an account of the current situation, recalling fear, hopes, and resistance strategies in Zbor.

2/2

Read here: rupturepress.org/blog/ecodefe...

#antimining #resistance #ecodefense
Ecodefense against mining in East Serbia — RUPTURE PRESS
The “Zbor network”, a transnational collaboration of Balkan and West European activists has organized the first ever anti-mining camp in September 2024. Named after partisan assemblies in former Yug...
rupturepress.org
December 7, 2024 at 12:38 PM
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🚨New Publication!

Here is a stimulating dialogue I remember fondly @SAJS_Official
about "Speaking Evidence to Power?"

I put my hat in the ring for #politicalecology

➡️https://sajs.co.za/article/view/19128

🙏 4 the conversation & insights
#climate #research
December 18, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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On 3 April, I am giving a talk on the conflict in eastern DRC for Studium Generale Groningen-a timely event as the humanitarian conditions continue to deteriorate and diplomatic and political action is far from sufficient to move towards even de-escalation sggroningen.nl/nl/evenement...
Unpacking the Conflict in Eastern DR Congo
Eastern DR Congo has been mired in violence for over three decades. Despite the dire humanitarian consequences, this violence rarely makes it to the headlines.
sggroningen.nl
March 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Please join us this August in Bologna at the EISA @europeanisa.bsky.social conference. Where we organise in total 5 panels on "Green(ing) War: Military-build up, Warfare and Socio-Ecological Wounds". Please see for more info section 30 at the EISA website; eisa-net.org/section-list/
January 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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We've made it to this platform too! Follow us to get the latest cutting-edge political ecology contributions (all OA with ZERO corporate profit)- and occasional rants against corporate publishing : journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/ @pollenetwork.bsky.social
Journal of Political Ecology
journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu
February 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Check out this great review by Carlos Tornel of Lang et al.'s (2024.) The geopolitics of green colonialism: Global justice and ecosocial transitions in : Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/...
Review of Lang et al. (Eds.). 2024. The geopolitics of green colonialism: Global justice and ecosocial transitions
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journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu
February 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Lassila, M. M., (2025) “Reindeer herders in the green sacrifice zone: The cumulative impacts of past extractivist dispossessions and recent mining expansion in Sodankylä, Finland”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 5696. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe....

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Reindeer herders in the green sacrifice zone: The cumulative impacts of past extractivist dispossessions and recent mining expansion in Sodankylä, Finland
The European Union is pushing for critical mineral self-sufficiency to meet its goal of transitioning to a low-carbon society, and also supporting strategic defense objectives. The raw materials neede...
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February 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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POLLEN 2026 will take place in Barcelona next June 💫, and we warmly welcome you all to join us. Stay tuned for updates on exact dates, costs, and scheduling ⌛—details will be available soon on our new website! 🖥️🙂
February 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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This new #rupturepress conversation w/ Henning Melber, one of the first white members of SWAPO, touches upon many aspects of anticolonial liberation & its visions & challenges in the Namibian context + topics such as liberation pedagogy & consciousness-raising.

www.rupturepress.org/blog/liberat...
Liberation struggles, solidarity, and failing utopias. A conversation with Henning Melber, anticolonial activist and SWAPO member — RUPTURE PRESS
Henning Melber (born 1950) is a renowned expert on German-African colonial relations and on memory cultures. In 1974 he became one of the first white members of Namibia's liberation movement, the Sout...
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January 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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New podcast from @beautifulidea.bsky.social and @drxdunlap.bsky.social, author of "The System Is Killing Us: Land Grabbing, the Green Economy, and Ecological Conflict," just dropped. itsgoingdown.org/permanent-ec...
Permanent Ecological Conflict: A Conversation With Xander Dunlap
Welcome back to The Beautiful Idea, a new project from a collective of several anarchist and autonomous media producers scattered around the world. We’re bringing you interviews and stories from the f...
itsgoingdown.org
January 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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📢 #CallforPapers! Join @infranortherc.bsky.social at the international #conference “Beyond #Infrastructure? (Un-)built Environments in the #Anthropocene,” Sep. 22–24, 2025, at University of Vienna. 🏛️
📅 Submit your proposals by April 6, 2025. 📝
More information: ⤵️
Call for Papers “Beyond Infrastructure? (Un-)built Environments in the Anthropocene” - InfraNorth
International Conference, September 22 - 24, 2025, at the University of Vienna. Deadline for submissions: April 6, 2025. Infrastructure is often seen as solid, fixed, and inevitable while shaping the ...
infranorth.eu
March 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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New article with Vinzenz Bäumer Escobar examining the role of port authorities in the production of the green hydrogen frontier in the global South, open access in @politicalgeography.bsky.social

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Speculative connections: Port authorities, littoral territories and the assembling of the green hydrogen frontier
This article examines the role of European port authorities in assembling the green hydrogen frontier through the production of speculative connection…
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February 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM