Penelope Anthias
@penelopeanthias.bsky.social
Geographer, ethnographer, new filmmaker. Land, extractivism, Indigenous rights, anti-coloniality, Bolivia (Chaco). Activism in NE UK. Assoc. Prof. at Durham. penelopeanthias.com
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Urukurenda: In Search of the Land Without Evil (Ĩvĩ Maraëï)
YouTube video by Penelope Anthias
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Urukurenda is available open access (free) with a choice of English or Spanish subtitles: youtube.com/watch?v=6OsK... (ENG SUBS)
youtube.com/watch?v=62lX... (ESP SUBS). Feel free to make use of it for teaching! Please share!
youtube.com/watch?v=62lX... (ESP SUBS). Feel free to make use of it for teaching! Please share!
Let's not forget that appropriating and subverting left agendas has been a key strategy of the far-right. Much easier than winning an argument
November 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Let's not forget that appropriating and subverting left agendas has been a key strategy of the far-right. Much easier than winning an argument
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Our colleague Gavin Bridge has recently co-created a short animation called the ‘Future of UK Oil and Gas’. The film draws on insights from the Fraying Ties project on Networks, Territory and Transformation in the UK oil sector, and was produced by Seed Creativity: youtu.be/8MPHZAhzzLY
The future of UK oil and gas
YouTube video by DurhamUniversity
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November 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Our colleague Gavin Bridge has recently co-created a short animation called the ‘Future of UK Oil and Gas’. The film draws on insights from the Fraying Ties project on Networks, Territory and Transformation in the UK oil sector, and was produced by Seed Creativity: youtu.be/8MPHZAhzzLY
Happy to recommend this Bilingual Audiovisual Roundtable "Urban Futures of Popular Neighbourhoods" curated by @samhalvorsen.bsky.social and Adriana Massidda. It hosts 5 short films from Latin America, inc. my film "Urukurenda: In Search of the Land Without Evil" antipodeonline.org/2025/10/29/u...
Bilingual Intervention—“Urban Futures of Popular Neighbourhoods: An (Audio)Visual Roundtable” - Antipode Online
Sam Halvorsen (Queen Mary University of London) and Adriana L. Massidda (University of Sheffield) Spanish language version available at: / Versión en español disponible en: https://antipodeonline.org/...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Happy to recommend this Bilingual Audiovisual Roundtable "Urban Futures of Popular Neighbourhoods" curated by @samhalvorsen.bsky.social and Adriana Massidda. It hosts 5 short films from Latin America, inc. my film "Urukurenda: In Search of the Land Without Evil" antipodeonline.org/2025/10/29/u...
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Book launch for The Politics of Feeling with @ajsecor.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social @will-davies.bsky.social on 25.11 at 15.00 in London. Details here, last time I checked there were a couple of tickets left
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Book launch for The Politics of Feeling with @ajsecor.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social @will-davies.bsky.social on 25.11 at 15.00 in London. Details here, last time I checked there were a couple of tickets left
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
Increasingly seeing PhD proposals containing hallucinated publications I have supposedly authored. Wondering if such hallucinations could ever acquire a life of their own and with what consequences 🤔
November 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Increasingly seeing PhD proposals containing hallucinated publications I have supposedly authored. Wondering if such hallucinations could ever acquire a life of their own and with what consequences 🤔
Despite continuously emphasising their societal contributions to health and sustainability, UK universities appear to make zero effort to ensure healthy and sustainable food is available to staff and students. Or is it just Durham?
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Despite continuously emphasising their societal contributions to health and sustainability, UK universities appear to make zero effort to ensure healthy and sustainable food is available to staff and students. Or is it just Durham?
This is what happens when (formerly) centrist parties try to copy the far-right www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Social Democrats in Denmark suffer sweeping election losses
PM Mette Frederiksen’s centre-left party loses control of Copenhagen for first time in more than 100 years
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This is what happens when (formerly) centrist parties try to copy the far-right www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Sharing a chapter I wrote on de/coloniality, the role geography has in speaking up vs educide including ongoing in Palestine.
If you'd like a PDF of it get in touch 😃
It's part of De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography, edited by Sydney Calkin and Cordelia Freeman
If you'd like a PDF of it get in touch 😃
It's part of De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography, edited by Sydney Calkin and Cordelia Freeman
November 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Sharing a chapter I wrote on de/coloniality, the role geography has in speaking up vs educide including ongoing in Palestine.
If you'd like a PDF of it get in touch 😃
It's part of De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography, edited by Sydney Calkin and Cordelia Freeman
If you'd like a PDF of it get in touch 😃
It's part of De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography, edited by Sydney Calkin and Cordelia Freeman
Could UK universities please stop requesting reference letters from university lecturers for MA/MSc applicants? We do not have time and it does not provide any information that cannot be gleaned from transcripts, CVs and personal statements (which are often the basis for our letters)
November 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Could UK universities please stop requesting reference letters from university lecturers for MA/MSc applicants? We do not have time and it does not provide any information that cannot be gleaned from transcripts, CVs and personal statements (which are often the basis for our letters)
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New publication out, “creative political geography” in the De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography, generously and gently edited by Cordelia Freeman and Sydney Calkin.
degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…
( not open access but happy to send a pdf copy)
degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…
( not open access but happy to send a pdf copy)
https://degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
New publication out, “creative political geography” in the De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography, generously and gently edited by Cordelia Freeman and Sydney Calkin.
degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…
( not open access but happy to send a pdf copy)
degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…
( not open access but happy to send a pdf copy)
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Let communities own rivers, woods and moors!
Write to your MP about the upcoming Community Right to Buy laws.
See our template letter here - www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you...
"Approaching Hartington via Sheen, Derbyshire" by Caff, released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0.
Write to your MP about the upcoming Community Right to Buy laws.
See our template letter here - www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you...
"Approaching Hartington via Sheen, Derbyshire" by Caff, released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0.
November 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Let communities own rivers, woods and moors!
Write to your MP about the upcoming Community Right to Buy laws.
See our template letter here - www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you...
"Approaching Hartington via Sheen, Derbyshire" by Caff, released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0.
Write to your MP about the upcoming Community Right to Buy laws.
See our template letter here - www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you...
"Approaching Hartington via Sheen, Derbyshire" by Caff, released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0.
land-reform-futures.hutton.ac.uk I was excited to contribute to this Symposium today, reflecting on lessons from Bolivia for Scottish land reform futures and legislative progress on community land rights. Looking forward to continuing this conversation! #landreform #communityrights
Scotland's Land Reform Futures | Scotland's Land Reform Futures project
land-reform-futures.hutton.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
land-reform-futures.hutton.ac.uk I was excited to contribute to this Symposium today, reflecting on lessons from Bolivia for Scottish land reform futures and legislative progress on community land rights. Looking forward to continuing this conversation! #landreform #communityrights
A trailer for La Sonora Boreal! Come and get some cumbia vibes at our upcoming gigs in November
21st November / 7.30pm / single launch / Lubber Fiend, Newcastle
29th November / World Headquarters, Newcastle
#musicatropical #lubberfiendnewcastle #cumbianewcastle #goodvibes
21st November / 7.30pm / single launch / Lubber Fiend, Newcastle
29th November / World Headquarters, Newcastle
#musicatropical #lubberfiendnewcastle #cumbianewcastle #goodvibes
November 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
A trailer for La Sonora Boreal! Come and get some cumbia vibes at our upcoming gigs in November
21st November / 7.30pm / single launch / Lubber Fiend, Newcastle
29th November / World Headquarters, Newcastle
#musicatropical #lubberfiendnewcastle #cumbianewcastle #goodvibes
21st November / 7.30pm / single launch / Lubber Fiend, Newcastle
29th November / World Headquarters, Newcastle
#musicatropical #lubberfiendnewcastle #cumbianewcastle #goodvibes
Earlier this year I made a 34-min documentary film (open access, links below) in collaboration with residents of Urukurenda community, located at the edge of the Astillero gas field in Bolivia's Tariquía National Reserve of Flora and Fauna (1/5) #documentary #extractivism #conservation #Indigenous
November 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Earlier this year I made a 34-min documentary film (open access, links below) in collaboration with residents of Urukurenda community, located at the edge of the Astillero gas field in Bolivia's Tariquía National Reserve of Flora and Fauna (1/5) #documentary #extractivism #conservation #Indigenous
Really enjoyed acting as discussant for Durham Anthropology's 2025 Layton Dialogue today on Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, with brilliant speakers Prof. Beth Rose Middleton Manning and Prof. Jay Mistry www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change Layton Dialogue - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Really enjoyed acting as discussant for Durham Anthropology's 2025 Layton Dialogue today on Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, with brilliant speakers Prof. Beth Rose Middleton Manning and Prof. Jay Mistry www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Joined the Greens. A bit late to the party
November 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Joined the Greens. A bit late to the party
This is a deeply shocking attack on a leading political ecology scholar. Please sign in support of Farhana Sultana below
As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her 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...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:35 AM
This is a deeply shocking attack on a leading political ecology scholar. Please sign in support of Farhana Sultana below
I'll be speaking at this event tomorrow in a panel on "Blood of the Earth: Life, Death, and Resistance on the Mining Frontier". Sign up for a free ticket using the link below
Looking forward to this! Extractive Economies/Insurgent Ecologies: The Contested Politics of Sustainability in Latin America and the Caribbean
📅Wednesday, October 22
🕙10:30am - 6:30pm
📌Queens' Building, 215, Mile End Campus, QMUL
For more info and free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crolac-the...
📅Wednesday, October 22
🕙10:30am - 6:30pm
📌Queens' Building, 215, Mile End Campus, QMUL
For more info and free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crolac-the...
CRoLAC Thematic Workshop
Extractive Economies/Insurgent Ecologies
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I'll be speaking at this event tomorrow in a panel on "Blood of the Earth: Life, Death, and Resistance on the Mining Frontier". Sign up for a free ticket using the link below
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Our colleague @penelopeanthias.bsky.social will be speaking next month @camunigeography.bsky.social on the topic of 'Infrastructural affects and (contested) hydrocarbon futures in Bolivia':
October 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Our colleague @penelopeanthias.bsky.social will be speaking next month @camunigeography.bsky.social on the topic of 'Infrastructural affects and (contested) hydrocarbon futures in Bolivia':
Yesterday in Newcastle. Or the UK 2025
October 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Yesterday in Newcastle. Or the UK 2025
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Four exciting talks for the Infrastructural Geographies Michaelmas Term 2025 Seminar Series
See @kbrickell.bsky.social and Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes), Beth Greenhough (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social), @penelopeanthias.bsky.social, and Pratyush Shankar (Navrachana University).
All welcome!
See @kbrickell.bsky.social and Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes), Beth Greenhough (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social), @penelopeanthias.bsky.social, and Pratyush Shankar (Navrachana University).
All welcome!
October 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Four exciting talks for the Infrastructural Geographies Michaelmas Term 2025 Seminar Series
See @kbrickell.bsky.social and Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes), Beth Greenhough (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social), @penelopeanthias.bsky.social, and Pratyush Shankar (Navrachana University).
All welcome!
See @kbrickell.bsky.social and Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes), Beth Greenhough (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social), @penelopeanthias.bsky.social, and Pratyush Shankar (Navrachana University).
All welcome!
It's the season of teaching anxiety dreams. Last night, I had to give my first land conflicts lecture in a rural setting with a faulty generator and computer equipment from the 1980s. Some students offered to help with set up but it turned out they had an entirely different agenda
October 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
It's the season of teaching anxiety dreams. Last night, I had to give my first land conflicts lecture in a rural setting with a faulty generator and computer equipment from the 1980s. Some students offered to help with set up but it turned out they had an entirely different agenda
It's official: we're all Marxists. But thankfully the OfS is on alert to stamp out any radical speech or behaviour
October 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
It's official: we're all Marxists. But thankfully the OfS is on alert to stamp out any radical speech or behaviour
