Political Ecology of Environmental Conflict
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The Critical Environmental Geopolitics Research Lab at the University of Michigan, led by Dr. Bilal Butt
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___________ describes "unique forms of social existence in which vast populations are subjected to living conditions that confer upon them the status of the living dead" Fill in the blank, expand & submit to elected representatives POLLEN CAPE AAG American Association of Geographers #CeaseFirelnGaza
Delighted to have Ahab Chopra joining our team with Akbar Waljee, MD MSc and Aga Khan University to examine Anthrax transmissions among people, livestock and wildlife in Kenya
FLASH: The Kenyan parliament has just ERUPTED IN FLAMES as protests against the $2.7 BILLION TAX HIKE turn violent. The hikes were spurred by Kenya's latest IMF DEAL. As Harvard Prof. Robert Barro puts it, "THE IMF DOESN'T PUT OUT FIRES, IT STARTS THEM." x.com/citizentvkenya…
Acclaimed new book. Princeton University University Press. Preview: press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac…
I haven't been able to stop thinking about this for 2 days- an amazing piece of economic geography journalism linking structural forces like financialization and automobility to lived experiences that are changing the nature of places - through car washes! bloomberg.com/news/features/…
Read a brilliant anchor paper & commentary, which was an insightful & important rebuttal. By Noura Alkhalili, @muna_d, Yahia Mahmoud in Political Geography "Claiming space for decolonial scholarship: Confronting epistemic exclusion in green energy colonialism" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Do livestock *necessarily* cause conflicts with wildlife? Political Ecology of Environmental Conflict and I showed that this is not the case in #MaasaiMara. Rather, the conflict framing is rooted in & perpetuates sociopolitical #inequality. Out today in PNAS PNASNews U-M SEAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…