Joel E. Correia

Reality: Mars sucks. No one can live there.

Also reality: the Moon sucks. We can’t live there either.

More reality: Earth is the only place we can thrive.

Come work with us in beautiful Santa Barbara!

Now more than ever, it’s important to understand how energy, climate, and environment are inextricably linked to finance and geopolitics. It’s a great time to follow some awesome journalists focused on those topics here. It’s free!

Canada Impact+ Research Chairs, University of Calgary in Calgary, AB, ... Canada Impact+ Research Chairs, University of Calgary in Calgary, AB, ...

Perhaps a late Xmas/Chanukah/Festivus/Kwanzaa present for some research hot shot currently not in Canada but who might like to move here - the new Impact+ Research Chairs. Note the strategic areas in Arctic, environment, climate resilience and water security. 🧪⚒️

careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1717054...

Assistant Professor of Landscape Ecology

In what could plausibly represent a Christmas miracle* SFU Geography has two (2) new tenure track hires. One is urban/climate, which I will repost below. The other is a Landscape Ecologist. Please share ... #academicsky

*actually just the good decisions of our new Dean
www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...

For those interested, I’ll giving a departmental colloquium on “Nine months in the federal assault on climate science” on 10/29 at 11:30am EDT

Register here:

SUPERVISIÓN DE CUMPLIMIENTO | 🇵🇾

Resolución de supervisión de cumplimiento de sentencia del 28 de agosto de 2025 en el Caso Comunidad Indígena Xákmok Kásek Vs. Paraguay.

Consulta la Resolución en: bit.ly/3HRSDd9

#CorteIDH
#DerechosHumanos
#SupervisiónCumplimiento

Cover art by Thais Trindade. The title "NACLA REPORT ON THE AMERICAS" is listed on top. The illustration is like a board game, where communities stand in the way of capitalist and extractivist powers going through the board with tractors and other machinery, commodifying forests, removing people, even as they place wind turbines and other symbols of "sustainable development". The arrow points to the endgame: Green capitalism in the americas.

The latest issue of the NACLA Report was co-edited by Breno Bringel and myself. NACLA is deeply committed to socio-environmental justice in the Americas, so we wanted this issue to provide insights into the state of ecological imperialism in the region, including its green capitalist facades.

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La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos abre su cuenta oficial en Bluesky, un nuevo espacio para compartir información relacionada con su mandato de aplicar e interpretar la Convención Americana sobre Derechos Humanos.

#CorteIDH

the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education

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Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.

It doesn't have to be this way.

Assistant Professor - Global Black Geographies - Department of Geography University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

My department is hiring! We seek to hire an Assistant Professor in Global Black Geographies whose work engages "with the spatial dimensions of life in African and/or Black diasporic communities in the Global South". Job ad with more details: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05026

Sincere condolences, wishing you and your relations strength.

Motherfucking wind farms…

🚨 My next book, EXTRACTION: THE FRONTIERS OF GREEN CAPITALISM is out 9/23 with @wwnorton.com

Today and tomorrow, you can pre-order it at 25% off 😊 Use code PREORDER25 at www.barnesandnoble.com/w/extraction...

Amazonian conservation across archipelagos of Indigenous territories Indigenous stewardship is essential to the conservation of biocultural diversity, yet conventional conservation models often treat Indigenous territories (ITs) as homogeneous or isolated units. We pr...

"Amazonian conservation across archipelagos of Indigenous territories" with lead author Michael Esbach & other amazing colleagues. Published in Conservation Biology. doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Anti-colonial environmental justice in, of, and from Abya Yala: an introduction Across Abya Yala, environmental justice (EJ) is not just a demand for cleaner air or equitable policies; it embodies a struggle intertwined with centuries of resistance to colonization, racial viol...

"Anti-colonial environmental justice in, of, and from Abya Yala: an introduction" with Fernando Galeana. Published in Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies. doi.org/10.1080/1744.... *Note, there are several citational errors that were introduced after copy-editing that we are working to fix.

Biocultural Geographies: Stewardship, Indigenous Territories, and Conservation in Ecuador’s Amazon This article advances geographic scholarship about conservation and protected areas (PAs) through a focus on biocultural geographies. Biocultural geographies derive from relationships between heter...

"Biocultural Geographies: Stewardship, Indigenous Territories, and Conservation in Ecuador’s Amazon" co-authored with an outstanding team of collaborators. Published in Annals of the American Association of Geographers. doi.org/10.1080/2469...

From Colonial Natures to Entangled Ecologies: Making Due and Relational Geographies of Indigenous Resurgence in the Chaco This paper offers an alternative reading of decolonial geographies by examining how people make due in the context of colonial natures. Drawing on collaborative ethnographic research, we illustrate h...

"From Colonial Natures to Entangled Ecologies: Making Due and Relational Geographies of Indigenous Resurgence in the Chaco" co-authored with a close collaborator, Clemente Dermott. Published in Antipode. doi.org/10.1111/anti....

Human–nature relationships through the lens of reciprocity: Insights from Indigenous and local knowledge systems In the context of climate change, biodiversity decline and social injustice, reciprocity emerges as a way of living and being in this world that holds transformative potential. Concepts of recipro...

"Human–nature relationships through the lens of reciprocity: Insights from Indigenous and local knowledge systems" by lead author Irene Teixidor-Toneu & with many amazing colleagues and collaborators. Published in People and Nature. doi.org/10.1002/pan3...

Stimulating reciprocity: How human–plant relations support Indigenous cultural revitalization and stewardship in the Ecuadorian Amazon Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

"Stimulating reciprocity: How human–plant relations support Indigenous cultural revitalization and stewardship in the Ecuadorian Amazon" published in People and Nature. doi.org/10.1002/pan3...

Demo-Cartographic Imaginaries: Dilemmas of Data, Erasure, and the Threat of Latent Authoritarianism to Indigenous Land Rights in Paraguay - Joel E. Correia, 2025 This article assesses the state of Indigenous rights in Paraguay through the year 2022 to show how latent authoritarianism and agrarian oligarchies threaten to ...

"Demo-Cartographic Imaginaries: Dilemmas of Data, Erasure, and the Threat of Latent Authoritarianism to Indigenous Land Rights in Paraguay" published in Latin American Perspectives. doi.org/10.1177/0094... DM for copy if you don't have access.

👋 New Publications! I've had 7 publications come out so far in 2025. So, I thought that I would share a thread with links to each of them for those who may be interested. Topics include: #Indigenousrights #environmentaljustice #decoloniality #bioculturalconservation #reciprocity #geography

🌵 If anyone, or any funders, have ideas for opportunities to fund climate change adaptation and mitigation research conducted in collaboration with affected Indigenous communities and local organization partners in the Chaco—please let me know!

Thanks for reading.

Onward!

NSF considers CAREER the "Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research & education." Having been selected, then lose it after 6 months of waiting on edge was heartbreaking news for me & my collaborators.

Moreover, we must demand that the overt politicization of scientific funding immediately stop to ensure that the damage already inflicted at the NSF, NIH, NOAA and so many sources other federal funding and cutting-edge research does not become irreparable.

As many others before me have already said, these are unprecedented times. If you have not done so already, please consider calling 📞 your senators and congressional representatives to demand that science funding in the U.S. be maintained if not expanded in the future.

This project was the result of ~15 years of relations & previous work to say nothing of the time that I & colleagues invested to craft the proposal.