Bram Büscher

I appreciate much of @ipbesfr.bsky.social but this business and biodiversity nonsense goes beyond 'missing the point'. It is simplistic, ineffective & dangerous

As long as we continue to talk about 'business' when the issue is 'capitalism', nothing will change. It only creates empty virtue signals

Update on the 2026 PE Spring school:

I am extremely pleased that Prof Emma Mawdsley (University of Cambridge) and Prof. Iva Peša (University of Groningen) have agreed to join the spring school as instructors

Together with Annah Zhu, Sumit Vij and Erik Swyngedouw, this makes for a stellar line-up!

E finalmente "Conservation Revolution" in Italiano!! :) Importante testo per capire il legame tra Conservazione della biodiversità, il colonialismo, e l'economia Capitalista. Una chiamata verso la convivialità!

Reorganizing education: What’s at stake? - Resource online Letter to the editor: 'Increasingly, we are governed as if the university were a firm: steered by measurable outputs.'

What do market thinking and centralized governance mean for academic freedom, public values, and the position of the social sciences? In this Letter to the editor, more than a hundred employees of @w-u-r.bsky.social argue for a pause and fundamental reflection. www.resource-online.nl/index.php/20...

Please consider joining our 2026 Political Ecology spring school!

Planetary Political Ecologies: Environmental disasters, conflicts and possibilities in & beyond capitalism

▶️ 13-17 April 2026
▶️ Wageningen

With Annah Zhu, Erik Swyngedouw, Sumit Vij & others!

wass.crs.wur.nl/courses/deta...

The Conservation Revolution is out in Italian!

Conservation revolution. Idee radicali per salvare la natura oltre l'Antropocene (MiMesis)

Many thanks to Marco Immovilli, Margherita Cisani, Andrea Zinzani & Giacomo Zanolin for their amazing work!

@pollenetwork.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social

Unfortunately not - its in person only...

@pollenetwork.bsky.social @danbrockington.bsky.social @judithekrauss.bsky.social @estherturnhout.bsky.social @esthermarijnen.bsky.social @giorgoskallis.bsky.social @criticalpoleco.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social @yalee360.bsky.social

Please consider joining our 2026 Political Ecology spring school!

Planetary Political Ecologies: Environmental disasters, conflicts and possibilities in & beyond capitalism

▶️ 13-17 April 2026
▶️ Wageningen

With Annah Zhu, Erik Swyngedouw, Sumit Vij & others!

wass.crs.wur.nl/courses/deta...

CfP @pollenetwork.bsky.social 2026:

Conservation without Liberal Reason: Unsustainable Virtues, Illiberal Technopolitics, and Residual Histories.

Organizers: Jim Igoe & Bram Büscher

More info: pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/...

We look forward to proposals & meeting in Barcelona!

Some more days before submission deadline on 5 December - please join us if you can!

America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%

"The wealthiest 0.1% emit an average of 2.2 tonnes of CO2 every day, equivalent to the weight of a rhinoceros or an SUV.

A citizen of Somalia burns off just 82 grams of CO2 each day, barely the mass of a single tomato or half a cup of rice."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

For those in Roskilde, Denmark next week - please join!

CfP @pollenetwork.bsky.social 2026:

Conservation without Liberal Reason: Unsustainable Virtues, Illiberal Technopolitics, and Residual Histories.

Organizers: Jim Igoe & Bram Büscher

More info: pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/...

We look forward to proposals & meeting in Barcelona!

#POLLEN"2026 panels are now live.

What happens now is a vital part of the preparation

Hundreds of potential participants will be sending in their ideas to the hundreds of different convenors. It is a rich moment of exchange and interaction.

Please spread the word.

shorturl.at/fCGhB

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Thanks for all the hard work, Dan and Barcelona team! This will certainly be another POLLEN to remember.

ohhh! intriguing.. you coming to NL?!

Was great indeed to do this piece on The Value of Political Ecology in Biodiversity Conservation for Nature Reviews biodiversity with a great group of colleagues. Next time in person @jaredmargulies.bsky.social ?

From Kyiv to the Suwałki Gap, bogs return as Europe’s defensive shield Restoring the EU’s drained bogs would stop both Russian tanks and planet-warming pollution.

2012 #ivory - Al Shabab vibes here when naive conservationists jumped on the idea environmental protection = global security. It doesn’t - just take one look at the Military Emissions Gap project. #Militarisation harms the environment

www.politico.eu/article/russ...

We are in the middle of it.

‘Climate is our biggest war’, warns CEO of Cop30 ahead of UN summit in Brazil Negotiators doubt countries’ financial and environmental commitment as military and trade wars divert attention

Another year, another "crucial global summit".

Except that no summit before has actually gone to the roots of the climate crisis and have altogether had near-zero impact.

We need to drastically rethink global environmental governance.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Opinie: Universiteiten, jullie beperken ook zelf de academische vrijheid De rectoren negeren hun eigen rol in de aantasting van de academische vrijheid. Zo zijn marktprincipes de universiteit in toenemende mate gaan regeren, schrijven Joost Jongerden, Bram Büscher en Han W...

Een paar kritische kanttekeningen bij het recente pleidooi van de rectoren van de Nederlandse universiteiten over academische vrijheid: www.trouw.nl/opinie/opini...
@brambuscher.bsky.social @woinactie.bsky.social @remcobreuker.bsky.social @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social @rensbod.bsky.social

Coexistence beyond disciplinary silos: Five dimensions of analysis for more convivial human-predator interactions Understanding human-predator interactions has been a central goal of conservation for decades, yet many previous efforts have approached this challeng…

📣 New Paper on #ConvivialConservation in Biological Conservation, brilliantly led by @judithekrauss.bsky.social We argue for greater transdisciplinary research to develop convivial forms of human-predator #coexistence. It’s #OA and you can read it here ⬇️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Trump’s ambush of South Africa’s president shows how low the US has fallen | Justice Malala Instead of embarrassing Cyril Ramaphosa, the US president’s ‘gotcha’ moment illuminates the fact-free reality show that is Trump’s America

This was horrible, but I'm afraid we havent seen close to rock bottom yet. If post-truth becomes the norm, nothing is out of limits.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Koot, S 2025 Book review of Van Beemen, O. Ondernemers in het wild: Het ontluisterende verhaal van een club witte weldoeners in Afrika. J of Political Ecology 32(1). journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/ @pollenetwork.bsky.social @brambuscher.bsky.social Book is in Dutch German & French

Ha - interesting! fences play a big part of the problems of this world, but the main problems are deeper - curious what you think of this:

Convivial fences? Property, ‘right to wildlife’ and the need for redistributive justice in South African conservation

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Upsetting the Double Movement? Elite Schisms and Bolsonaro's Brazil in the Context of Global Authoritarian Capitalism The brazen political antics and mystifying logics accompanying the contemporary rise of authoritarianism have garnered much interest in academic and popular media. A key question is how to make sense...

New article: Authoritarianism isn’t just chaos—it’s a power reshuffle. Under Bolsonaro, a “new elite” tore down protections, fueling socioecological crises while hiding their own downfall. 🔥🌍 #Brazil #Authoritarianism onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...