Marcus Power
@marcusjpower.bsky.social
Professor of Human Geography @ Durham University. The geopolitics-development nexus | China-Africa relations | South-South flows | energy & infrastructural geographies
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/marcus-power/
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/marcus-power/
Excited to share a new open access article that provides a critical, policy-relevant & geographically grounded analysis of Mozambique's energy transitions. Written with Lorraine Howe, @joshkirshner.bsky.social & Carlos Shenga, just published in Applied Geography www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Uneven development and the geographies of energy transition in Mozambique
In Mozambique, sustainable energy access is an increasing priority for a diverse range of actors seeking to improve livelihoods and stimulate economic…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Excited to share a new open access article that provides a critical, policy-relevant & geographically grounded analysis of Mozambique's energy transitions. Written with Lorraine Howe, @joshkirshner.bsky.social & Carlos Shenga, just published in Applied Geography www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“If we are honest about Britain’s place in the global strategic landscape today, the idea that it is a prime espionage target stretches credulity”
My analysis of the recent allegations of Chinese #espionage in the UK. The paranoia over people with connections to China tells us less about the scale of any real threat and more about the anxieties shaping Britain’s view of Beijing amp-scmp-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.scmp...
Opinion | Britain’s obsession with ‘Chinese spying’ says more about the UK than China
The paranoia over people with connections to China tells us less about the scale of any real threat and more about the anxieties shaping Britain’s view of Beijing
amp-scmp-com.cdn.ampproject.org
October 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
“If we are honest about Britain’s place in the global strategic landscape today, the idea that it is a prime espionage target stretches credulity”
Further reason to watch this stunning indictment of military homophobia: www.thewrap.com/pentagon-boo...
Pentagon Slams Netflix's 'Woke Garbage' Gay Military Series 'Boots,' Vows to Restore 'Warrior Ethos' to the Military
Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson says the U.S. military does not condone Netflix's "ideological agenda" depicted in "Boots"
www.thewrap.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Further reason to watch this stunning indictment of military homophobia: www.thewrap.com/pentagon-boo...
Interesting article by Anek Rajbhandari on the mental health impacts on survivors of climate induced disasters: nepalitimes.com/news/the-uns...
The unseen wounds of climate disasters
nepalitimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Interesting article by Anek Rajbhandari on the mental health impacts on survivors of climate induced disasters: nepalitimes.com/news/the-uns...
Reposted by Marcus Power
The artist Sana Ginwalla has created an online photo archive based on 1000 uncollected negatives, slides and prints that she found in the attic of Lusaka’s oldest photo studios. What a great initiative:
www.zambiabelonging.com
www.zambiabelonging.com
Zambia Belonging
A counter-archive of found and crowd-sourced photographs from Zambia’s past.
www.zambiabelonging.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
The artist Sana Ginwalla has created an online photo archive based on 1000 uncollected negatives, slides and prints that she found in the attic of Lusaka’s oldest photo studios. What a great initiative:
www.zambiabelonging.com
www.zambiabelonging.com
Reposted by Marcus Power
New in TIBG!
Geography in the World, part 3: Area Studies
Han Cheng & @deensharp.bsky.social's collection draws together authors from Egypt, Singapore, China, South Africa & Russia to explore non-Western geography's relationship with Area Studies.
Read all papers here ⬇️
tinyurl.com/5n72yt46
Geography in the World, part 3: Area Studies
Han Cheng & @deensharp.bsky.social's collection draws together authors from Egypt, Singapore, China, South Africa & Russia to explore non-Western geography's relationship with Area Studies.
Read all papers here ⬇️
tinyurl.com/5n72yt46
September 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
New in TIBG!
Geography in the World, part 3: Area Studies
Han Cheng & @deensharp.bsky.social's collection draws together authors from Egypt, Singapore, China, South Africa & Russia to explore non-Western geography's relationship with Area Studies.
Read all papers here ⬇️
tinyurl.com/5n72yt46
Geography in the World, part 3: Area Studies
Han Cheng & @deensharp.bsky.social's collection draws together authors from Egypt, Singapore, China, South Africa & Russia to explore non-Western geography's relationship with Area Studies.
Read all papers here ⬇️
tinyurl.com/5n72yt46
‘Washington losing primacy, Beijing preparing to take its place. For Africa, however, this framing is unsatisfactory. It risks reducing the continent to a spectator in a drama staged by others’:
The SCO summit in Beijing revealed cracks in Western dominance—but whether they become openings for justice depends on African agency, not new patrons. africasacountry.com/2025/09/beyo...
Beyond multipolarity
The SCO summit in Beijing revealed cracks in Western dominance—but whether they become openings for justice depends on African agency, not new patrons.
africasacountry.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
‘Washington losing primacy, Beijing preparing to take its place. For Africa, however, this framing is unsatisfactory. It risks reducing the continent to a spectator in a drama staged by others’:
Reposted by Marcus Power
📚BOOK LAUNCH 📚
We’re delighted to announce the publication of
🌍Technoscientific Globalisation from Below🌎
Open access&free to download via @matteringpress.bsky.social
www.matteringpress.org/books/techno...
Edited by Mathieu Quet, Koichi Kameda, Jessica Pourraz & Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar
We’re delighted to announce the publication of
🌍Technoscientific Globalisation from Below🌎
Open access&free to download via @matteringpress.bsky.social
www.matteringpress.org/books/techno...
Edited by Mathieu Quet, Koichi Kameda, Jessica Pourraz & Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar
Technoscientific Globalisation from Below
www.matteringpress.org
September 8, 2025 at 6:07 AM
📚BOOK LAUNCH 📚
We’re delighted to announce the publication of
🌍Technoscientific Globalisation from Below🌎
Open access&free to download via @matteringpress.bsky.social
www.matteringpress.org/books/techno...
Edited by Mathieu Quet, Koichi Kameda, Jessica Pourraz & Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar
We’re delighted to announce the publication of
🌍Technoscientific Globalisation from Below🌎
Open access&free to download via @matteringpress.bsky.social
www.matteringpress.org/books/techno...
Edited by Mathieu Quet, Koichi Kameda, Jessica Pourraz & Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar
Reposted by Marcus Power
We welcome much of the #AddisDeclaration, but let’s be clear: “transition fuel” is too often code for gas.
Gas is not a bridge, it’s a dead end.
#ACS2
Gas is not a bridge, it’s a dead end.
#ACS2
September 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
We welcome much of the #AddisDeclaration, but let’s be clear: “transition fuel” is too often code for gas.
Gas is not a bridge, it’s a dead end.
#ACS2
Gas is not a bridge, it’s a dead end.
#ACS2
Pranaya Rana’s excellent explainer on everything that happened this week in Nepal, including the first woman prime minister in its history, and asks important questions for the future of the country:
www.himalmag.com/politics/nep...
www.himalmag.com/politics/nep...
Nepal’s staggering journey from Gen Z protests to new government
Nepal’s staggering journey from Gen Z protests to new government
www.himalmag.com
September 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Pranaya Rana’s excellent explainer on everything that happened this week in Nepal, including the first woman prime minister in its history, and asks important questions for the future of the country:
www.himalmag.com/politics/nep...
www.himalmag.com/politics/nep...
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More from Nepal 🇳🇵👀
September 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
More from Nepal 🇳🇵👀
Interesting claims & counter claims around Nepal’s relations to China’s Global Security Initiative (GSI) following PM’s visit to China: kathmandupost.com/national/202...
Nepal officials reject Chinese claim on GSI
‘Why should we issue a statement when we’ve not even discussed GSI and GCI?’ says a Nepali delegate in China.
kathmandupost.com
September 1, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Interesting claims & counter claims around Nepal’s relations to China’s Global Security Initiative (GSI) following PM’s visit to China: kathmandupost.com/national/202...
Great to attend an event yesterday in Kathmandu on the geopolitical dilemmas created for #Nepal around the Lipulekh pass and the territorial disputes with India. Insightful comments from speakers Sudheer Sharma & Rajib Neupane
August 29, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Great to attend an event yesterday in Kathmandu on the geopolitical dilemmas created for #Nepal around the Lipulekh pass and the territorial disputes with India. Insightful comments from speakers Sudheer Sharma & Rajib Neupane
Good to be engaged in a thoughtful and enriching discussion today with Rupak Sapkota, former Foreign Affairs Adviser to the PM of Nepal. Our conversation focused on the dynamics around Nepal’s co-operation with foreign partners, delving into wider global and regional drivers and dynamics.
August 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Good to be engaged in a thoughtful and enriching discussion today with Rupak Sapkota, former Foreign Affairs Adviser to the PM of Nepal. Our conversation focused on the dynamics around Nepal’s co-operation with foreign partners, delving into wider global and regional drivers and dynamics.
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📣 New article w/ @iliasalami.bsky.social & @tomchodor.bsky.social on the return of industrial policy globally @globalpolicy.bsky.social. Does this signal a 'New Washington Consensus'? And does the return of industrial policy 'rebuild the ladder' of economic development? 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/yk2wvttc 1/12
August 14, 2025 at 9:11 AM
📣 New article w/ @iliasalami.bsky.social & @tomchodor.bsky.social on the return of industrial policy globally @globalpolicy.bsky.social. Does this signal a 'New Washington Consensus'? And does the return of industrial policy 'rebuild the ladder' of economic development? 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/yk2wvttc 1/12
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New article🚨 Demilitarizing Conservation
A labour of love w L Lunstrum @ashavin.bsky.social A Dutta @esthermarijnen.bsky.social T Mushonga F Matose
For a more robustly care-full conservation
Demilitarization based on ethics/politics of care/nonviolence @pollenetwork.bsky.social
shorturl.at/Wsl9m
A labour of love w L Lunstrum @ashavin.bsky.social A Dutta @esthermarijnen.bsky.social T Mushonga F Matose
For a more robustly care-full conservation
Demilitarization based on ethics/politics of care/nonviolence @pollenetwork.bsky.social
shorturl.at/Wsl9m
Demilitarizing Conservation
Many national parks and other protected areas (PAs) are experiencing an intensification of military actors, logics, and partnerships across the globe. This amounts to one of the most consequential ...
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August 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
New article🚨 Demilitarizing Conservation
A labour of love w L Lunstrum @ashavin.bsky.social A Dutta @esthermarijnen.bsky.social T Mushonga F Matose
For a more robustly care-full conservation
Demilitarization based on ethics/politics of care/nonviolence @pollenetwork.bsky.social
shorturl.at/Wsl9m
A labour of love w L Lunstrum @ashavin.bsky.social A Dutta @esthermarijnen.bsky.social T Mushonga F Matose
For a more robustly care-full conservation
Demilitarization based on ethics/politics of care/nonviolence @pollenetwork.bsky.social
shorturl.at/Wsl9m
Reposted by Marcus Power
Over the past 2 decades, China has become Laos’s top investor, main creditor, and 2nd-largest trade partner. In a new report, @profjulietlu.bsky.social and I unpack Chinese investment across four land-intensive sectors: agriculture & plantations, mining, infrastructure & SEZs. tinyurl.com/kw5vteem
August 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Over the past 2 decades, China has become Laos’s top investor, main creditor, and 2nd-largest trade partner. In a new report, @profjulietlu.bsky.social and I unpack Chinese investment across four land-intensive sectors: agriculture & plantations, mining, infrastructure & SEZs. tinyurl.com/kw5vteem
“I call for a decolonial consciousness that interrogates the historical roots of marginalization in order to reconceptualize, reimagine, and rewrite dominant discourses on resilience in Africa”
Development agendas framed around “resilience” promise empowerment but often reproduce colonial power dynamics in the guise of climate adaptation. africasacountry.com/2025/07/agai...
Against climate resilience
Development agendas framed around “resilience” promise empowerment but often reproduce colonial power dynamics in the guise of climate adaptation.
africasacountry.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
“I call for a decolonial consciousness that interrogates the historical roots of marginalization in order to reconceptualize, reimagine, and rewrite dominant discourses on resilience in Africa”
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The UK Alliance for Disaster Research conference will take place 4-5 September 2025. It will be hosted by the @ihrr.bsky.social at Durham Uni and is titled “Pathways to Practice and Resilience: UK Interdisciplinary Hazard and Disaster Research on the National and Global Stage”: tinyurl.com/62mfc7pw
July 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The UK Alliance for Disaster Research conference will take place 4-5 September 2025. It will be hosted by the @ihrr.bsky.social at Durham Uni and is titled “Pathways to Practice and Resilience: UK Interdisciplinary Hazard and Disaster Research on the National and Global Stage”: tinyurl.com/62mfc7pw
As well as some loss of life the severe flooding in Rasuwa in #Nepal has caused damage to a number of key infrastructures of China-Nepal co-operation. Interesting to note the militarised discourse around talk of deploying rescue operations on a ‘war footing’:
kathmandupost.com/national/202...
kathmandupost.com/national/202...
July 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
As well as some loss of life the severe flooding in Rasuwa in #Nepal has caused damage to a number of key infrastructures of China-Nepal co-operation. Interesting to note the militarised discourse around talk of deploying rescue operations on a ‘war footing’:
kathmandupost.com/national/202...
kathmandupost.com/national/202...
River basins of Africa 🌍
A stunning aerial visual showing the continent’s waterways.
According to UNEP, there are 63 transboundary river basins in Africa, covering 64% of the continent’s land area.
#weekendvibes #water #africa #rivers #climatechange
Credit: Grasshopper Geography
A stunning aerial visual showing the continent’s waterways.
According to UNEP, there are 63 transboundary river basins in Africa, covering 64% of the continent’s land area.
#weekendvibes #water #africa #rivers #climatechange
Credit: Grasshopper Geography
July 12, 2025 at 5:57 AM
River basins of Africa 🌍
A stunning aerial visual showing the continent’s waterways.
According to UNEP, there are 63 transboundary river basins in Africa, covering 64% of the continent’s land area.
#weekendvibes #water #africa #rivers #climatechange
Credit: Grasshopper Geography
A stunning aerial visual showing the continent’s waterways.
According to UNEP, there are 63 transboundary river basins in Africa, covering 64% of the continent’s land area.
#weekendvibes #water #africa #rivers #climatechange
Credit: Grasshopper Geography
Reposted by Marcus Power
Just published a new investigation into textile waste on @ecoage.bsky.social with my colleague Arun Karki in Nepal:
Sandwiched between manufacturing powerhouses China and India, Nepal faces a relentless influx of cheap, toxic fast fashion exports: eco-age.com/nepal-the-fr...
Sandwiched between manufacturing powerhouses China and India, Nepal faces a relentless influx of cheap, toxic fast fashion exports: eco-age.com/nepal-the-fr...
Nepal: The Front Line of the Fast Fashion Crisis – Eco Age
eco-age.com
June 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Just published a new investigation into textile waste on @ecoage.bsky.social with my colleague Arun Karki in Nepal:
Sandwiched between manufacturing powerhouses China and India, Nepal faces a relentless influx of cheap, toxic fast fashion exports: eco-age.com/nepal-the-fr...
Sandwiched between manufacturing powerhouses China and India, Nepal faces a relentless influx of cheap, toxic fast fashion exports: eco-age.com/nepal-the-fr...
Reposted by Marcus Power
In Luanda for the launch of this edited volume on #Angola after Dos Santos, produced in record time in Portuguese & English with chapters by Angolan & foreign scholars. Both versions in the link. My chapter is on the politics of public memory 50 years after independence.
www.cmi.no/publications...
www.cmi.no/publications...
Angola after dos Santos: An anthology on continuity and change
As Angola celebrates its 50th anniversary as an independent nation, it is timely to provide an assessment of the state of political, s...
www.cmi.no
June 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
In Luanda for the launch of this edited volume on #Angola after Dos Santos, produced in record time in Portuguese & English with chapters by Angolan & foreign scholars. Both versions in the link. My chapter is on the politics of public memory 50 years after independence.
www.cmi.no/publications...
www.cmi.no/publications...
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Here a short blog sumarising a chapter that Emma Hutchison and I wrote and that has now come out: “Humanitarian Photography” in Allbeson (ed) Picturing Peace (Bloomsbury 2024). This has been in the making since 2018 but we hope it remains relevant.
www.rolandbleiker.com/blog/humanit...
www.rolandbleiker.com/blog/humanit...
Humanitarian Photography: From Mediating Suffering to Visualising Peace — Roland Bleiker
This is a blog summary of an essay that Emma Hutchison and Roland Bleiker wrote and that has now come out after Emma’s passing: a chapter on Humanitarian Photography for Tom Allbeson, Pippa Oldfield a...
www.rolandbleiker.com
June 12, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Here a short blog sumarising a chapter that Emma Hutchison and I wrote and that has now come out: “Humanitarian Photography” in Allbeson (ed) Picturing Peace (Bloomsbury 2024). This has been in the making since 2018 but we hope it remains relevant.
www.rolandbleiker.com/blog/humanit...
www.rolandbleiker.com/blog/humanit...