Miles Kenney-Lazar
@mklaz.bsky.social
political ecologist, human geographer at the university of melbourne (https://shorturl.at/SG30C)
Hot off the Press: Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos (University of Hawai'i Press, 2025) (https://shorturl.at/GxHC4)
Hot off the Press: Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos (University of Hawai'i Press, 2025) (https://shorturl.at/GxHC4)
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Miles Kenney-Lazar
@mklaz.bsky.social
· Sep 5
My first book, Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos (University of Hawai'i Press, 2025), exists in this world!
Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...
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Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...
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Native title for the Wurrundjeri Woi-wurrung in Narrm Melbourne would be such a powerful step forward for the city
Especially now that Treaty has been signed between the Victorian gov't and First Nations people
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Especially now that Treaty has been signed between the Victorian gov't and First Nations people
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Traditional owners file native title claim over Melbourne and surrounding areas
Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung elder says First Nations people want to work with government to ‘look after that country’
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Native title for the Wurrundjeri Woi-wurrung in Narrm Melbourne would be such a powerful step forward for the city
Especially now that Treaty has been signed between the Victorian gov't and First Nations people
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Especially now that Treaty has been signed between the Victorian gov't and First Nations people
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Dr. Farhana Sultana is currently on leave from Syracuse University due to political backlash and harassment stemming from her social media posts about Charlie Kirk. Please sign this letter of support for her, and share with your networks: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
docs.google.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Dr. Farhana Sultana is currently on leave from Syracuse University due to political backlash and harassment stemming from her social media posts about Charlie Kirk. Please sign this letter of support for her, and share with your networks: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thanks to @micahfisher.bsky.social for inviting me to his graduate course, Environmental Conflict: Resolution?, to share my book, Socializing Land. Great group of students with sharp questions! Plus it's always fun to be a disembodied floating head for a while ;)
October 12, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Thanks to @micahfisher.bsky.social for inviting me to his graduate course, Environmental Conflict: Resolution?, to share my book, Socializing Land. Great group of students with sharp questions! Plus it's always fun to be a disembodied floating head for a while ;)
The press is offering a 30% discount associated with the New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS).
You can use the code NYCAS25 at checkout. It will expire on October 31st
You can use the code NYCAS25 at checkout. It will expire on October 31st
My first book, Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos (University of Hawai'i Press, 2025), exists in this world!
Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...
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Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...
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October 2, 2025 at 5:13 AM
The press is offering a 30% discount associated with the New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS).
You can use the code NYCAS25 at checkout. It will expire on October 31st
You can use the code NYCAS25 at checkout. It will expire on October 31st
My first book, Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos (University of Hawai'i Press, 2025), exists in this world!
Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...
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Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...
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September 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
My first book, Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos (University of Hawai'i Press, 2025), exists in this world!
Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...
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Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...
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Pls share: Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship competition now open at UBC. Department of Geography deadline is October 9, 2025. Details:
geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...
geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...
UBC
geog.ubc.ca
August 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Pls share: Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship competition now open at UBC. Department of Geography deadline is October 9, 2025. Details:
geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...
geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...
Thanks, @profjulietlu.bsky.social !
I became very obsessed over cover design at one point, so I'm glad to know it works 🙏
More soon on the book..
I became very obsessed over cover design at one point, so I'm glad to know it works 🙏
More soon on the book..
@mklaz.bsky.social Miles Kenney-Lazar's book is out!! 👏🏼
I have to say the cover is one of the coolest I've seen in awhile...
uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...
I have to say the cover is one of the coolest I've seen in awhile...
uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...
Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos
Since 2008, there has been tremendous public interest in the social and ecological ramifications of the global land rush, a rapid increase of capital investment into land, especially for the establ…
uhpress.hawaii.edu
August 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Thanks, @profjulietlu.bsky.social !
I became very obsessed over cover design at one point, so I'm glad to know it works 🙏
More soon on the book..
I became very obsessed over cover design at one point, so I'm glad to know it works 🙏
More soon on the book..
This is a great piece on how Melbourne Uni's anti-racism strategy has been captured by elites and used as a tool against pro-Palestine academics and students
Shillan Shebly, Natalie Ironfield and Elizabeth Strakosch write about the policing of Palestine solidarity and the intensifying climate of political repression at the University of Melbourne, all “operating in the name of ‘antiracism’.”
Rebranding repression: the University of Melbourne’s elite capture of antiracism - Overland literary journal
Our current climate of political repression at the University of Melbourne reinforces why it is imperative that we continue to build autonomous intellectual homes that are grounded in Indigenous sover...
overland.org.au
June 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
This is a great piece on how Melbourne Uni's anti-racism strategy has been captured by elites and used as a tool against pro-Palestine academics and students
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We are excited to announce that over 10% of AAG members have signed onto the GJP petition!
We're not done yet -- this week, we're making a final push to make sure we blow past that number. Especially if you've already signed, could you share the petition link with colleagues by April 11?
We're not done yet -- this week, we're making a final push to make sure we blow past that number. Especially if you've already signed, could you share the petition link with colleagues by April 11?
April 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
We are excited to announce that over 10% of AAG members have signed onto the GJP petition!
We're not done yet -- this week, we're making a final push to make sure we blow past that number. Especially if you've already signed, could you share the petition link with colleagues by April 11?
We're not done yet -- this week, we're making a final push to make sure we blow past that number. Especially if you've already signed, could you share the petition link with colleagues by April 11?
These travel security notifications that the uni sends us are actually an amazing way to find out about local protests to attend..
April 2, 2025 at 3:30 AM
These travel security notifications that the uni sends us are actually an amazing way to find out about local protests to attend..
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Launching our federal election launch at Brunswick Town Hall now.
March 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Launching our federal election launch at Brunswick Town Hall now.
If you haven't left Detroit #AAG2025 yet, come by the two-part session Friday morning on Frontiers of Green Capitalism organized by @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social and Shae Frydenlund. Room 420B - it's gonna be lit..
@geographers.bsky.social
@geographers.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
If you haven't left Detroit #AAG2025 yet, come by the two-part session Friday morning on Frontiers of Green Capitalism organized by @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social and Shae Frydenlund. Room 420B - it's gonna be lit..
@geographers.bsky.social
@geographers.bsky.social
If you're attending #AAG2025, please sign this petition from Geographers for Justice in Palestine that calls for the AAG to hold a special meeting to discuss proposals for taking action on Palestine: geog4pal.org/petition/
@geogboycott.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social
@geogboycott.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 1:16 AM
If you're attending #AAG2025, please sign this petition from Geographers for Justice in Palestine that calls for the AAG to hold a special meeting to discuss proposals for taking action on Palestine: geog4pal.org/petition/
@geogboycott.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social
@geogboycott.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social
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Who are Geographers for Justice in Palestine?
February 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Who are Geographers for Justice in Palestine?
Reposted by Miles Kenney-Lazar
Colleagues,
A decade in the making, I’d like to share with you my new book entitled, 'For the Sake of Forests and God: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands'.
From the Cornell University Press webpage: lnkd.in/ghyuxMKT
A decade in the making, I’d like to share with you my new book entitled, 'For the Sake of Forests and God: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands'.
From the Cornell University Press webpage: lnkd.in/ghyuxMKT
January 29, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Colleagues,
A decade in the making, I’d like to share with you my new book entitled, 'For the Sake of Forests and God: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands'.
From the Cornell University Press webpage: lnkd.in/ghyuxMKT
A decade in the making, I’d like to share with you my new book entitled, 'For the Sake of Forests and God: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands'.
From the Cornell University Press webpage: lnkd.in/ghyuxMKT
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The very idea of so many incredible geography friends and colleagues at the University of Wollongong being in scope for possible redundancy next month is absolutely gut wrenching www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11... 1/5
University to cut 137 academics due to $35m drop in international student enrolments
The University of Wollongong has approached staff across 25 disciplines for redundancies in a restructure the union fears could abolish its degrees in history, mathematics, geography and languages.
www.abc.net.au
November 15, 2024 at 6:01 AM
The very idea of so many incredible geography friends and colleagues at the University of Wollongong being in scope for possible redundancy next month is absolutely gut wrenching www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11... 1/5