✍️ Gaia Giuliani and Farah Polato, editors of the special issue of the journal 'From the European South' on the theme “On Catastrophe: Visual Reflections and Practices”, are inviting abstract submissions for articles, essays, visual essays and conversations until 15 April.
👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/call-fromeuropeansouth-2026/
#Histodons #CFP #Arts #Cinema #PoliticalEcology #EnvHist #PoliticalPhilosophy #CulturalStudies #GenderStudies #QueerStudies #CriticalRaceStudies
biology & environment nerds!!!!!
care about ecology but pissed off about the way conservation seems to be willfully ignorant of politics and social contexts? Frustrated by the insistence to work with capitalism -- carbon credits, ecotourism, nature-based solutions? About the marginalization of Global South voices, the devaluing of peasants and indigenous people?
about how conservation seems to embrace finance, and separating humans from nature?
then
check this out -> https://www.convivialconservation.com/
#ecology #conservation #socialecology #politicalecology #convivialconservation
✍️ Gaia Giuliani and Farah Polato are editing a special issue of the journal From the European South. The theme is ‘On Catastrophe: Visual Reflections and Practices’.
📅 Proposals for articles/essays/visual essays/conversations must be submitted by 15 April.
👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/call-fromeuropeansouth-2026/
#Histodons #Arts #CFP #Cinema #PoliticalEcology #EnvHist #PoliticalPhilosophy #CulturalStudies #GenderStudies #QueerStudies #CriticalRaceStudies
Might as well do an #introduction post as it has been a while...
Hello there Fediverse! I am an environmental archaeologist interested in how past communities interacted with and shaped their environments (and vice versa). Just finished my #PhD (Physical #Geography at #Plymouth) focusing on the #HumberheadLevels. For my thesis, I combined #pollen analysis, #GIS, and #geoarchaeology to understand relationships between people and #wetland #landscapes. I recently passed my viva, so I am currently looking for work.
My published work thus far includes contributions on land cover reconstruction in complex wetland systems and chapters on #anarchist approaches to #archaeology and #heritage practice. I have a few more pieces in the works, and little time to do them all.
As far as research goes, I have been mostly interested in challenging the 'pristine #nature vs human impact' binary, the politics of how we interpret past landscapes, and unpicking what we actually mean when we talk about 'natural' environments and the messy reality of human-environment coevolution.
Reviving this account to catch up with your lovely faces and to see what's happening in #archaeology #paleoecology #gis #wetlands #politicalecology and related fields. 💗
OnlineFirst - "Eyes on the shoreline: The disciplinary power of the ecological gaze in marine waste governance" by Jie Zhuo and Jingzhou Liu:
#MarineWaste #PlasticPollution #MarineGovernance #EnvironmentalGovernance #PoliticalEcology #HumanGeography #EnvironmentalSociology #WasteGovernance #OceanConservation #CoastalCommunities #ChinaStudies
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486261417105
Just published: "Smart adaptation or data colonialism? Interrogating the role of digital technologies in climate adaptation", with @ggioli
#openaccess
https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486251409982 in @envplane
The paper explores how #ClimateServices shape #ClimateAdaptation through depoliticization, financialization, and experimentation — builds on research with https://www.digitalclimatefutures.org.uk funded by Leverhulme Trust
Mussolini's Nature is now available also in Spanish, sporting the best cover of all the editions
OnlineFirst - "Smart adaptation or data colonialism? Interrogating the role of digital technologies in climate adaptation" by @ggioli and @GioBettini:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486251409982
#ClimateAdaptation
#PoliticalEcology
#ClimateJustice
#DataColonialism
#DigitalGeographies
#ClimateServices
#SmartAdaptation
Ecology is a governance issue. 🌱
When I translate territorial disputes for Mongabay, I don't just translate the 'nature' words. I translate the legal mechanisms of enclosure.
From Rapa Nui to Peru, the fight for the land is a fight for legal definition. We need to audit the laws of conservation as strictly as the laws of finance.
Saha, S., (2026) “Endangered cobras and conservation politics: Exploring multispecies encounters in agrarian landscapes of West Bengal”, Journal of Political Ecology 33(1): 6439. doi: https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.6439
This article challenges dominant conservation discourses that frame nature as pristine and separate from humans, critiquing the wilderness paradigm informing Third World environmental planning. While scientific discourses promote holistic planetary visions, they overlook how environmental politics is entangled with human cultural practices and identities. Drawing on ethnographic research in Musharu, a village in East Bardhaman, West Bengal, India, the article locates the role of culture in shaping environmental struggles and identity politics rooted in Third World ecological concerns. Musharu is known for its unique coexistence with poisonous cobras, revered as manifestations of the village deity. This multispecies relationship is increasingly threatened by recent monsoonal irregularities disrupting snake habitats. This climate vulnerability creates discrepancies among national environmental bodies, local conservationists, and village inhabitants with conflicting narratives about their non-human neighbors. Conservationists advocate scientific protection of these snakes through formal protection and spatial segregation, while inhabitants who see them as protective figures reject such interventionist techniques. For them, conservation premised on the idea of wilderness as an autonomous domain devoid of human involvement impinges on their ways of organic relatedness with these divine snakes. The article concludes that viewing human living as distinct from wildlife conservation may lead to misrecognition of the environmental problem.
IHC
grim
Nika Shilobod
@envplane
Giovanni Bettini
Wilko Hardenberg
Shaun Murdock | Root & Branch
Journal of Political Ecology