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The Commons w/ Peter Linebaugh Featuring Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below.

Loved this two-part Dig on the commons and commoning 🤩

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China prepares landmark law curtailing minority language rights Bill to ‘promote ethnic unity’ by mandating Mandarin use would hasten decline of other cultures, critics say

Happy to be quoted by Joe Leahy of @financialtimes.com for this article about the new law in China that would further erode the language (and other) rights of non-Han people. Probably paywalled but happy to share.

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Pilot projects aim to break Indonesia’s habit of burning household waste JAKARTA — When old mattresses and broken chairs are dumped by the roadside in his neighborhood, Erwinsyah faces a choice: leave them there and risk accidents, or set them on fire. The head of a…

More than half of households in Indonesia still burn trash, driven by weak waste collection and safety concerns.

The practice releases toxic particles and black carbon, harming health and warming the climate — prompting pilot projects focused on better waste systems and community action.

Farmers fear displacement, drought, flooding tied to Cambodia’s Funan Techo Canal This is the second of two stories about the potential impact of Cambodia’s planned Funan Techo Canal. Read part one, about consequences for coastal communities and wildlife, here. TAKEO, Cambodia…

Cambodia is set to build the $1.2B Funan Techo Canal linking the Mekong to the sea.

Residents along the route say they’ve received little information and fear land loss and disruption to floodplain farms and fisheries.

Sinohydro-built floating solar panels on Indonesia's Cirata Dam (funded by the World Bank in the 1980s).

Today, under the cover of the Liberals tearing each other down, Labor has approved another coal mine extension.

Extending Middlemount to 2044 means Labor has now approved 35 fossil fuel projects.

In the middle of the climate crisis, they're approving more coal & gas.

Hoping the containment lines hold overnight and the cooler weather brings a reprieve. Climate change fucking sucks.

Help us make hope normal again.

Join the Green Party now.

MAGA Empire w/ Aslı Bâli and Greg Grandin Featuring Aslı Bâli and Greg Grandin on the MAGA model of US imperialism.

Trump is clearly not the isolationist many believed he was. From the wreckage of bipartisan imperialist consensus, Trump's creating a new MAGA model empire. New Dig episode analyzing MAGA Empire and the history that made it with Aslı Bâli and Greg Grandin www.thedigradio.com/podcast/maga...

Black text on white background. Screenshot of ARC’s Network Message regarding delays to grant announcements because of new security arrangements.

⁉️The ARC has delayed outcomes of ALL grants 1–4 months & increased scheduled outcome windows from 2 weeks to 3 months!

This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis.

Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇

a red banner in rural Hebei that reads: Arrest anyone who burns coal

the cost of clean air in Beijing: people in rural Hebei suffer from not being able to afford heating for the 8th winter.
gas is too expensive, coal is banned. rural Hebei's plight has recently drawn widespread attention and gone viral on social media
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Partners and rivals? The AIIB’s cooperation with preexisting multilateral development banks The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is often seen as a challenger to established Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) like the World Bank (WB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), whi...

Partners and rivals? The AIIB’s cooperation with preexisting multilateral development banks, by Benjamin Daßler, Angelo Gerber-Helm & @mirkoheinzel.bsky.social

Dashed dreams and land grabs: The rise of rural protests in China Exclusive: Clashes over rural plots are increasing, as people whose big-city plans have evaporated return home to face local governments groaning under huge debt

Dashed dreams and land grabs: The rise of rural protests in China

🔔 New #OpenAccess Analysis in #JCCA Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

@giga-hamburg.de @sagepub.com

Harlan et al. call for new approaches to engaging China’s aspiration to become a global environmental leader, while asserting clear expectations and responsibilities.

doi.org/10.1177/1868...

I wrote about food and the work to create "solidarity infrastructures" in the #Salween, particularly the work by women who provide food for the movement, with @zalifung.bsky.social www.roadsides.net/articles/8234

‘Silent epidemic of chemical pollution’ demands radical regulatory redo, say scientists An international team of scientists has issued a stark warning that current toxicology and chemical regulatory regimes are failing to protect public health and the environment from a host of toxins…

A team of 43 scientists says pesticide and plastic regulation needs a major overhaul. Full commercial formulations—often containing petrochemical waste and heavy metals—can be far more toxic than the tested active ingredients.

They call for stricter limits, full-formulation testing, & public data.

Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply The demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade

Sydney Water has estimated up to 250 megalitres a day will be needed to service datacentres planned by 2035, more than Canberra's entire drinking water.

Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Epic 3 days at the Chinese Studies Association of Australia. Thanks to everyone who came and supported us, our fantastic keynotes, and our amazing support team. Time to hand CSAA over to Deakin/Monash!

@china-geographies.bsky.social examines the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia and what they tell us about the global production of food. www.roadsides.net/articles/8236

China’s Low Rights Model Goes Global China achieved manufacturing dominance thanks to its weaker protections for workers, communities, and the environment. Now it’s exporting that model.

Unjust transition is under way

"Western carmakers and battery giants... have become willing participants in this model, often turning a blind eye to the labor and environmental shortcuts that make their net-zero targets affordable."

Pesticide Infrastructures: From China to Australia (Roadsides Journal Article)

Really pleased to be part of the new issue of @roadsides.bsky.social

Short piece on the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia

www.roadsides.net/articles/8236

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

The new @roadsides.bsky.social collection is out, on Foodways! An excellent issue, edited by the fab @dollykikon.bsky.social and @mattrest.bsky.social

www.roadsides.net/collections/...

OnlineFirst - "Living space and the struggle against geothermal energy projects in Flores, Indonesia" by @mleyeh.bsky.social, @cypripajudale.bsky.social, @afiomagr.bsky.social, and Shae Frydenlund:

@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp @cugeography.bsky.social

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Publication Day for our Open Access book w/ Bristol Uni Press

"The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures + Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road"

Edited w/ Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng + Alan Wiig

Link here >> bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...

Just finished reading 👏🙌

"The result is a treadmill of constant activity...whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging
with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks
intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision"

REGISTER NOW: WEBINAR: “Earth as element - Petrochemicals and Australian farming”, Tuesday 4 November 2025, 4.00 to 5.30 pm AEDT by Zoom Please register in advance at: https://bit.ly/4ituMNh...

This afternoon!

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Colonialism's new Gold Rush: how 80 per cent of Australia's critical mineral mines exploit Aboriginal land without true consent - Overland literary journal This fight over the Pilbara mine is not an isolated spat — it hints at a much larger problem. A new study finds that nearly four out of five of Australia’s critical mineral projects sit on Indigenous ...

“Nearly four out of five of Australia’s critical mineral projects sit on Indigenous lands”.

For @copower.bsky.social, Noa Wynn examines the Yindjibarndi claim for damages to land and how green colonialism is repeating old injustices.

Nusantara: the city that never was - New Mandala What political project did Jokowi’s new capital embody?

NEW 🇮🇩 Too big to fail, and too big to succeed, Jokowi’s new capital city eventually came to be pushed forward by little more than the former president’s need to justify its existence, writes Anders Kirstein Moeller. www.newmandala.org/nusantara-th...