Recently shared my ongoing PhD research at ICCCA25. Through a place-based lens, I critique "development" around World Heritage sites in The Gambia & center local communities’ everyday experiences towards resilience and undoing historic inequities. TYSM @lbnaylor.bsky.social for your support always!

A remarkable project by journalist and activist Sylvia Arthur, that brings women's perspectives and lived experiences to the forefront in telling stories about the gap between local and global development efforts in West Africa.
Read: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Creating a pinned post for our first ever lab paper, out in the January issue from @acme-geography.bsky.social

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We argue that the Lab serves as a counter-practice within the academy by prioritizing our individual and collective well-being over productivity metrics.

Yet another example of how conservation mechanisms exclude and ignore the very stewards of the land, neglecting the ancestrally and historically rooted livelihoods of communities living within these newly drawn fortresses of protection.
Read: ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/...

This fight of Bangladeshi citizens is no longer about job quotas. It is against a fascist regime; against a government that has declared war on its very own people!

“We were protesting for a legitimate cause and were shot at for it. There is no justice here."

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

A beautiful piece on revolutionary contributions by Thapar - who insists that there was no basis for labeling ancient India as “Hindu" & questioned divisions of the past into “ancient,” “medieval,” and “modern,” a Eurocentric approach that long remained influential.
jacobin.com/2024/07/romi...

"Around twenty years ago, every farmer used an irla while working in the paddy fields ..over the years, the vagaries of rain have forced most villagers to migrate to cities..where they work...as daily wage labourers, and street vendors..."
ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/...