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A political ecology network that unites multiple voices in environmental justice and resource struggles.

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From hosts to hostages: how colonialism is turning our seas into graveyards of humanity - POLLEN Rebecca Borges writes about The Mediterranean, Palestine, and the Intersection between Ecocide and Genocide.

From ancient custodians of the seas to unwilling hostages of colonial capital - centuries of empire have turned oceans into graveyards of people, tying the Mediterranean to settler violence & blockade. Time to reclaim our waters 🌊✊🏽 #Decolonize #EnvironmentalJustice by @rebeccaborges.bsky.social

25.02.2026 10:04 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
[Opportunity] PhD Student Scholarship in Social Sciences– Deadline – 20 March 2026 – CSH Delhi

📣 Opportunity alert! Apply for a PhD Student Scholarship in Social Sciences at the Centre de Sciences Humaines in Delhi 🇮🇳 — full-time, 1-year (renewable), great support for data collection & thesis work💡 Deadline 20 March 2026 📅 More details: www.csh-delhi.com/news/opportu...

25.02.2026 09:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Very interesting podcast coming from Sheffield on the link between green transition and winter tourism! Check it out 🧐

25.02.2026 09:54 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Publication Spotlight: Disentangling the drivers of vegetation change in a mobility-constrained pastoral landscape in Laikipia Kenya - POLLEN This research challenges the common narrative that pastoralist livestock degrade land in Kenya's Laikipia County. The study found vegetation changes were driven not by grazing, but by climate change, ...

New research in Laikipia, Kenya shows vegetation change isn’t just about livestock — it’s driven by climate, elephants, fire suppression & mobility-restricting conservation policies. Time to rethink assumptions about pastoralism & dryland change. 🌱🦣 #Pastoralism #Drylands by Ryan Unks

25.02.2026 09:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gelasenheit in Goiás: A Mennonite political ecology In 1968 a group of nine U.S.-born Holdeman Mennonites purchased Cerrado land and later became some of the first farmers to produce high yields of corn and soybeans in Southwestern Goiás, Brazil. This ...

Ofstehage, A. L., (2026) “Gelasenheit in Goiás: A Mennonite political ecology”, Journal of Political Ecology 33(1): 6032. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe....

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21.02.2026 12:42 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Beyond fear and conflict: A new framework exploring wildlife, environment, interactions, institutions & justice to make human-predator relations more convivial. 🐻🌿🤝#HumanWildlifeCoexistence pollenpoliticalecology.network/coexistence-...

25.02.2026 09:45 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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@danbrockington.bsky.social this might be of your interest

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African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation Antipode has become a key platform for engaging with decolonial and anticolonial scholarship, as well as adjacent fields such as Black geographies, Indigenous studies, Latin American feminism, and wo...

📢 New in Antipode: African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation — interdisciplinary reflections on decolonial thought in African contexts. A must‑read for scholars of geography, politics & social theory. 🔍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

20.02.2026 11:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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¡Ven a visitarnos!

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12.02.2026 21:20 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Care workers are essential to a “just transition” - POLLEN Just Transition and Care explains how care work is a central aspect of socioecological transition.

📢 Care workers — paid and unpaid — are central to a just transition that sustains people, communities & the planet 🌍❤️. Recognising, valuing & investing in care work isn’t just social justice — it’s climate justice too. #JustTransition #CareWork #ClimateJustice #PoliticalEcology

20.02.2026 11:01 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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20.02.2026 10:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

🤩 Don't miss this opportunity to be part of the Summer School on Degrowth this summer in Barcelona! :) Below more info 👇

20.02.2026 10:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Materials - ResisTerra Beyond its own research, ResisTerra collects, comments on and recommends a variety of materials on the subject, from films and books to studies and courses.

📣 Call for proposals! Join an interdisciplinary symposium on other-than-human & more-than-human struggles — from unruly animals and resistant landscapes to multispecies coalitions. 🗓 Deadline: 15 May 2026
#MoreThanHuman #PoliticalEcology #Anthropology #CFP #EnvironmentalHumanitie

20.02.2026 10:52 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

New research explores why major airport projects in Kenya 🇰🇪, Tanzania 🇹🇿 & Germany 🇩🇪 stall or become “ghost airports” — revealing how promises of progress can turn into stagnation and reshaped local futures. ✈️👻 @bicc.de #airport #environmentaljustice

20.02.2026 10:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Essential Oils and Essential Work: The Labor Behind Pandemic Wellness Commodities - POLLEN Chanelle Adams writes about the relationships between essential oils and essential work, under a political ecology lens and in the context of Madagascar.

In a new blog post for the Political Ecology Network, @chanelle.bsky.social reflects on how his fieldwork in Madagascar’s Central Highlands led him rethink the category of “essential work” pollenpoliticalecology.network/essential-oi...

20.02.2026 10:38 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Los Frailejones y el Poder: Participación de las plantas en conflictos por la delimitación de páramos en Colombia El objetivo de esta investigación es comprender la manera en que las plantas productoras de agua participan en los conflictos socioambientales. De manera particular, se centra en estudiar el papel que...

Arias-Henao, J. D. & Jaramillo, J. P., (2026) “Los Frailejones y el Poder: Participación de las plantas en conflictos por la delimitación de páramos en Colombia”, Journal of Political Ecology 33(1): 6418. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social

13.02.2026 23:42 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Energy colonialism: Wind farms in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico The deployment of 29 wind farms in the indigenous territories of Ikoots and Zapotecs in the Isthmus of Tetuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico is analyzed based on six dimensions: geopolitical; economic and finan...

Contreras, J. S., Deniau, Y., Velázquez Quesada, S. I., Pérez Macías, L. F. & Manzo Matus, A. G., (2026) “Energy colonialism: Wind farms in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico”, Journal of Political Ecology 33(1): 6430. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe....

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13.02.2026 23:43 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Check out this new article lead by Ksenija Hanacek on the Poler Silk Road intersections!

Great work to all the co-authors on the article!

➡️https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S2214-6296(26)00071-X

@pollenetwork.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @yalee360.bsky.social #climate #energy #Arctic

17.02.2026 18:07 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies CONDITIONS, DYNAMICS,              AND CONSEQUENCES OF                 VIOLENT CONFLICTS

New insights from the Violent Futures? project: exploring how large-scale infrastructure & development corridors in Kenya & Tanzania shape conflict dynamics and local futures. 🌍📊 #ViolentFutures #ConflictStudies #Development #AfricaResearch bicc.de/Projects/Vio...

20.02.2026 10:35 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Can forest conservation create new conflicts?
In this journal article, Marie Müller-Koné and Kennedy Mkutu examine how state-led conservation efforts and forest evictions in Kenya’s Mau Forest have intensified intercommunal violence.
Read the journal article➡️https://shorturl.at/9BKnH

22.01.2026 14:03 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Degrowth Desires – degrowth.org

📣 Anti-Imperialisme and Degrowth - ⛳ 21-27 June, Barcelona. Applications will open on March 9th for the 12th edition of the summer school! Set the date on your calendar and tell all your friends, family, pets and snails!🍃📚 #degrowth #justfuture summerschool.degrowth.org @degrowth.bsky.social

10.02.2026 15:17 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Escuela de Verano 2026 Del 15 al 18 de junio de 2026 organizamos la quinta edición de la Escuela de Verano de Alba Sud con el objetivo de pensar críticamente el turismo y su transformación. Tendrá lugar de forma presencial ...

La Escola d’Estiu 2026 de @alba_sud llega para pensar críticamente el turismo, sus transformaciones y los retos sociales y ambientales que plantea. Un espacio de debate, aprendizaje y reflexión junto a profesionales y activistas.
#EscolaDEstiu #TurismeCrític www.albasud.org/noticia/es/1...

06.02.2026 09:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Degrowth Online Courses – degrowth.org

🥸 The fifth edition of the online “introduction to degrowth” course will run from March to April 📆 Save the date! Applications open from February 10th to February 23rd. 🫡To check the program and apply, click here: degrowth.org/projects/deg... #degrowth @degrowth.bsky.social @r-degrowth.bsky.social

05.02.2026 15:20 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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"Enough with delays, cancellations, and excuses: the railway is an essential service and it must work". This Saturday, we march for a Just and Reliable Railway service in Spain.
📅 Saturday, February 7, 5:00 PM 📍 Estació de França, Barcelona #SenseTrensNoHiHaFutur

05.02.2026 15:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

📖 Nuevo Policy Brief “Geografías del Sacrificio Verde” 🍃: la transición energética en España concentra proyectos renovables en territorios rurales y frágiles, generando desigualdades ambientales y sociales. 🤔 Mas info: www.upf.edu/documents/d/...

05.02.2026 15:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Foc tendre —grup de conversa sobre arts sensibles – La Lleialtat Santsenca

In Barcelona. 📍 La Lleiltat - Sants. Today #Foctendre begins — a space for slow, thoughtful reflection on issues of our contemporary world, approached through a poetic, (trans)feminist, degrowth, libertarian, and decolonial lens.
Is the conversation helpful so far? lleialtat.cat/foctendre/

05.02.2026 14:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Vall de Can Masdéu on Instagram: "🫒 ENTRE OLIVERES I KEFFIEHS: ARRELS, MEMÒRIA I RESISTÈNCIA 🗓️ 7 de febrer de 2026 📍 Can Masdeu – L3 Canyelles Jornada que uneix terra, teixit i lluita amb dos símbo... 197 likes, 2 comments - canmasdeu on January 26, 2026: "🫒 ENTRE OLIVERES I KEFFIEHS: ARRELS, MEMÒRIA I RESISTÈNCIA 🗓️ 7 de febrer de 2026 📍 Can Masdeu – L3 Canyelles Jornada que uneix terra, teixit ...

In Barcelona 🗓️ February 7, 2026📍 Can Masdeu – L3 Canyelles
A day bringing together land, fabric, and struggle through two Palestinian symbols: the olive tree and the keffiyeh. www.instagram.com/p/DT_YAeUjO9...

05.02.2026 14:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rencontres africaines sur la justice environnementale - Sciencesconf.org

🌍📢 Announcing the 1st African Conference on Environmental Justice. Bringing together researchers, activists, artists & citizens to center African knowledge, experiences & action on environmental justice.📍 Dakar, Senegal 🗓️ Nov 24–26, 2026.
🔎 CHECK 👉 dakar2026.sciencesconf.org #envjustice #africa

05.02.2026 14:25 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0