Iva Pesa
@ivapesa.bsky.social
environmental historian of mining & oil (www.rug.nl/let/AFREXTRACT/) University of Groningen
Join us for a book talk of African Climate Futures with Carl Death on 2 December from 15.00-16.30 (CET)
The book is excellent! #AfricanStudies #EnvHums #AfricanLiterature
The book is excellent! #AfricanStudies #EnvHums #AfricanLiterature
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Join us for a book talk of African Climate Futures with Carl Death on 2 December from 15.00-16.30 (CET)
The book is excellent! #AfricanStudies #EnvHums #AfricanLiterature
The book is excellent! #AfricanStudies #EnvHums #AfricanLiterature
In August 2026, I'll organise a panel with Julia Tischler and Mucha Musemwa on 'A Spirited Environmental History' for the VAD 2026 conference (African Studies, Germany) in beautiful Basel - please apply: africanperspectives.ch/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers – SGAS-VAD-2026 conference | Basel, 26-28 August 2026
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October 18, 2025 at 9:37 AM
In August 2026, I'll organise a panel with Julia Tischler and Mucha Musemwa on 'A Spirited Environmental History' for the VAD 2026 conference (African Studies, Germany) in beautiful Basel - please apply: africanperspectives.ch/call-for-pap...
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The deadline for submitting a paper, panel or round table for the Biannual CRG African History is nearing. This year it's at Ghent University, and we'll be happy to welcome you!
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CRG African History | AEGIS - African studies in Europe
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October 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The deadline for submitting a paper, panel or round table for the Biannual CRG African History is nearing. This year it's at Ghent University, and we'll be happy to welcome you!
aegis-eu.org/collaborativ...
aegis-eu.org/collaborativ...
Jabulani Shaba and Henrique Brenner Gasperin will be co-organising a panel at POLLEN 2026 in wonderful Barcelona on 'Extraction and Plural Environmentalisms in the Global South'! APPLY!! pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/... #envhums #extraction
October 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Jabulani Shaba and Henrique Brenner Gasperin will be co-organising a panel at POLLEN 2026 in wonderful Barcelona on 'Extraction and Plural Environmentalisms in the Global South'! APPLY!! pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/... #envhums #extraction
Happy to be involved in the new RUG University Minor 'Climate Change and Inequality' - here's a little piece in the Wubbo Ockels' newsletter about us: www.rug.nl/wubbo-ockels...
The students are amazing! They come from all of our different faculties!!
The students are amazing! They come from all of our different faculties!!
New Minor on Climate Change and Inequality kicks off at University of Groningen
On September 3rd, the University of Groningen launched its new minor programme, ‘Climate Change and Inequality’, with an inaugural cohort of 11 students.
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September 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Happy to be involved in the new RUG University Minor 'Climate Change and Inequality' - here's a little piece in the Wubbo Ockels' newsletter about us: www.rug.nl/wubbo-ockels...
The students are amazing! They come from all of our different faculties!!
The students are amazing! They come from all of our different faculties!!
Check out our article Just food transitions: a plurality of framings and repertoires from below www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... with Lidia Cabral, matias Volonterio, Gearoid Millar, and Melanie Levick-Parkin
Just food transitions: a plurality of framings and repertoires from below
In this paper we apply the concept of just transition to food systems, a domain central to environmental sustainability and social justice. We broaden and democratise the just transition debate by ...
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May 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Check out our article Just food transitions: a plurality of framings and repertoires from below www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... with Lidia Cabral, matias Volonterio, Gearoid Millar, and Melanie Levick-Parkin
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Reframing the Anthropocene through an African lens, our podcast of the week argues that colonial resource extraction created the very environmental crises now disproportionately harming the continent.
With @ivapesa.bsky.social, Jabulani Shaba & Tholithemba Ndaba
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With @ivapesa.bsky.social, Jabulani Shaba & Tholithemba Ndaba
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April 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Reframing the Anthropocene through an African lens, our podcast of the week argues that colonial resource extraction created the very environmental crises now disproportionately harming the continent.
With @ivapesa.bsky.social, Jabulani Shaba & Tholithemba Ndaba
buff.ly/a1qityd
With @ivapesa.bsky.social, Jabulani Shaba & Tholithemba Ndaba
buff.ly/a1qityd
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Special issue on "Business and activists"🚨
co-edited with @phvandam.bsky.social
With @alexh33.bsky.social
@hiskearts.bsky.social @ivapesa.bsky.social @acontestataires.bsky.social
#BizHis #activism #CSR #DEI #vegetarianism #labor #RSE #greenwashing #sustainability
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co-edited with @phvandam.bsky.social
With @alexh33.bsky.social
@hiskearts.bsky.social @ivapesa.bsky.social @acontestataires.bsky.social
#BizHis #activism #CSR #DEI #vegetarianism #labor #RSE #greenwashing #sustainability
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Businesses, Activists, and the Quest for Legitimacy
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April 4, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Special issue on "Business and activists"🚨
co-edited with @phvandam.bsky.social
With @alexh33.bsky.social
@hiskearts.bsky.social @ivapesa.bsky.social @acontestataires.bsky.social
#BizHis #activism #CSR #DEI #vegetarianism #labor #RSE #greenwashing #sustainability
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co-edited with @phvandam.bsky.social
With @alexh33.bsky.social
@hiskearts.bsky.social @ivapesa.bsky.social @acontestataires.bsky.social
#BizHis #activism #CSR #DEI #vegetarianism #labor #RSE #greenwashing #sustainability
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Want to learn about values in the Anthropocene? Check out this open web resource: rethinkingvalue.github.io/anthropocene/ With entries on Lake Titicaca, the Carribean, Georgia, India, and Marseille! It was a pleasure to work on this with Simone Schleper, Paul Merchant, Dan Finch-Race and Leo Steeds
rethinking value
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March 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Want to learn about values in the Anthropocene? Check out this open web resource: rethinkingvalue.github.io/anthropocene/ With entries on Lake Titicaca, the Carribean, Georgia, India, and Marseille! It was a pleasure to work on this with Simone Schleper, Paul Merchant, Dan Finch-Race and Leo Steeds
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Apparently a casual email is enough to be cited as a source in a newspaper article - still good that this issue is receiving coverage!
Apparently a casual email is enough to be cited as a source in a newspaper article - still good that this issue is receiving coverage!
Will Zambian mine disaster spill over to destroy relations with China?
A 50-million-litre acid spill from a Chinese-owned copper mine in Zambia is now threatening to kill ties with Beijing, experts say.
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March 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Apparently a casual email is enough to be cited as a source in a newspaper article - still good that this issue is receiving coverage!
Apparently a casual email is enough to be cited as a source in a newspaper article - still good that this issue is receiving coverage!
I reviewed Gabrielle Hecht's Residual Governance for the American Historical Review, academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
This book really bridges environmental humanities, African studies, and it shows why we should all care about South African mine dumps!
This book really bridges environmental humanities, African studies, and it shows why we should all care about South African mine dumps!
Gabrielle Hecht. Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures.
The toxicity of Johannesburg’s gold mines is hidden in plain sight. In Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures, Gabrielle Hecht f
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March 15, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I reviewed Gabrielle Hecht's Residual Governance for the American Historical Review, academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
This book really bridges environmental humanities, African studies, and it shows why we should all care about South African mine dumps!
This book really bridges environmental humanities, African studies, and it shows why we should all care about South African mine dumps!