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Chair @SDC_WUR & Prof @go2uj Books: Environmentalism under digital capitalism: truthaboutnature.com The Conservation Revolution: convivialconservation.com ∞

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Progress in Environmental Geography @progenvgeog.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🌐 New paper published in Progress In Environmental Geography 🌐 'Saving the Planet with Class: Professional-Managerial Virtue and the Emergence of Neoliberal Conservation' by Jim Igoe and Bram Büscher journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... @brambuscher.bsky.social
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Opinie: basisinkomen zou een uitkomst zijn voor boeren! Margriet Goris en ik hebben vandaag een opinie stuk in de Trouw waarin we een natuur basisinkomen voor boeren bepleiten om meerdere urgente vliegen in één klap te slaan Zie: www.trouw.nl/opinie/opini...
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Opinie: Basisinkomen zou een uitkomst zijn voor boeren
Boeren leveren met natuurbeheer een belangrijke publieke dienst. Daar moet een stabiel leefbaar inkomen tegenover staan, stellen Margriet Goris en Bram Büscher van de Wageningen Universiteit.
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Very honoured and excited to join @ieadeparis.bsky.social next academic year!
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Paulus @paulwainwright89.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m.... Great listening to @brambuscher.bsky.social deconstruct the challenges faced by environmental activists in a post truth world. Definitely worth a listen. #climatecrisis #politics #capitalism #environment #change #convivialconservation
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The conservation sector must speak truth to power, says political ecologist
Podcast Episode · Mongabay Newscast · 31 March · 1hr 1min
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 02/04/2026
This week on Mongabay’s Newscast, host @mikedigirolamo.bsky.social is joined by political ecologist @brambuscher.bsky.social to discuss why conservation efforts must understand and "challenge the power structures" to succeed. Listen to this new episode! 🎧️ mongabay.cc/q3Sh2g 🎧️
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Meaningful conservation demands truth, not just facts, says political ecologist
The people and policies that control how humans treat the natural world are increasingly dominated by a small class of elite political entities and corporations, argues our guest, political ecologist…
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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!
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POLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
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!
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Han Wiskerke @hanwiskerke.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
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...
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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.'
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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...
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Prof. Bram Büscher (Wageningen University) Prof. Robert Fletcher (Wageningen University) Prof. Erik Swyngedouw (Manchester University) Dr. Annah Zhu (Wageningen University)  Dr. Sumit Vij (Wageningen University)
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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...
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WASS Courses
Prof. Bram Büscher (Wageningen University) Prof. Robert Fletcher (Wageningen University) Prof. Erik Swyngedouw (Manchester University) Dr. Annah Zhu (Wageningen University)  Dr. Sumit Vij (Wageningen University)
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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!
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Some more days before submission deadline on 5 December - please join us if you can!
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Haroon Akram-Lodhi @ahakram-lodhi.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
"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/...
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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%
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
For those in Roskilde, Denmark next week - please join!
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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!
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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
#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
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Call for presentations & posters - POLLEN
The call for presentations and posters is now open until 23:59 CET on Friday 5th December. Before proposing anything, please read the conference rationale & purpose, the rules below, and then browse t...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.
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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
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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 ?
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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...
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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.
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Herman Lambers @herman61.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
We are in the middle of it.
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
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/...
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‘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
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Han Wiskerke @hanwiskerke.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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
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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...
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
📣 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...
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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…
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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...
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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
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Journal of Political Ecology @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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
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POLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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/...
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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...
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POLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The UN’s new biodiversity deal aims to protect 30% of Earth by 2030—but does it tackle the root causes of nature’s destruction? Without addressing economic expansion, pollution & systemic issues, conservation alone won’t be enough. #Biodiversity #NatureCrisis theconversation.com/biodiversity...
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Biodiversity treaty: UN deal fails to address the root causes of nature’s destruction
Global summits to arrest Earth’s deteriorating health look increasingly farcical.
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Right, one of the biggest 'free' market capitalists believes that 'free-market thinking' is under threat and must become the official opinion of his newspaper Seems Bezos is hellbent on ensuring his newspaper's creed 'democracy dies in darkness' becomes reality. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...
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Washington Post opinion editor departs as Bezos pushes to promote ‘personal liberties and free markets’
Opinion editor leaves as Amazon executive and newspaper owner says ‘viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others’
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Rest in Peace James Ferguson. @pollenetwork.bsky.social brambuscher.com/2025/02/21/r...
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RIP James Ferguson: a tribute
Very sad news. Jim Ferguson was a brilliant scholar, a leading light in Anthropology, development studies and the social sciences and an allround amazing intellectual. He profoundly influenced my t…
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"Another approach to conservation is needed, one that takes seriously our economic system’s structural pressures, violent socio-ecological realities, cascading extinctions and increasingly authoritarian politics" We wrote this 5 years ago. Could have been yesterday. www.jstor.org/stable/26677...
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Of course not. If you deliberately do not address root causes you will never meet your targets. theconversation.com/biodiversity...
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Biodiversity treaty: UN deal fails to address the root causes of nature’s destruction
Global summits to arrest Earth’s deteriorating health look increasingly farcical.
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Another 'groundbreaking' conservation approach full of nice-sounding virtue-signals (innovation, livelihoods, prosperit, etc) without going to the roots of the problem Nothing critical about capitalism, authoritarianism or growth. What we need is an actual CONVIVIAL conservation revolution.
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...
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Politieke bemoeienis met academische vrijheid is geen aanmoediging - Joop - BNNVARA
Door Joost Jongerden.
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This is so frightening - authoritarian fascism in full frontal attack mode. As prof. Pagel emphasises, we must acknowledge we are in a full-blown democratic crisis, call it out for what it is and fight it with every means possible. @sierra-deutsch.bsky.social @esthermarijnen.bsky.social
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Led by @sierra-deutsch.bsky.social and co-authored with Rob Coates&Laila Sandroni, this paper seems all too prescient right now.. Sierra's apt phrasing of 'brazen political antics and mystifying logics accompanying authoritarianism' are in full display Resisting fascism is more important than ever
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Sierra Deutsch @sierra-deutsch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Wondering where all this fascism is coming from? In this new article @brambuscher.bsky.social, Robert Coates, Laila Sandroni & I use Bolsonaro as a case study & look to Karl Polanyi & literature on authoritarian neoliberalism & the elite for some answers. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Zapiro is very sharp, as usual..
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POLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
POLLEN 2026 will take place in Barcelona next June 💫, and we warmly welcome you all to join us. Stay tuned for updates on exact dates, costs, and scheduling ⌛—details will be available soon on our new website! 🖥️🙂
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Researchers make the case for shift from economic growth to human well-being within planetary limits news.mongabay.com/2025/02/rese...
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Researchers make the case for shift from economic growth to human well-being within planetary limits
For more than a century, nations have measured societal gains in terms of economic growth. But a new review published in the journal Lancet Planetary Health in January 2025 questions that convention. ...
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Wolfram Dressler @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Colleagues, A decade in the making, I’d like to share with you my new book entitled, 'For the Sake of Forests and God: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands'. From the Cornell University Press webpage: lnkd.in/ghyuxMKT
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Greenwashing at Elsevier: A political ecology of corporate publishing Important OA article in J. of Political Ecology by Lyall, Ortiz & Billo "The largest science publishing corporations are key partners for the oil, gas, and coal industries" journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/...
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Greenwashing at Elsevier: A political ecology of corporate publishing
The largest science publishing corporations, including Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Springer, and Sage, are key partners for the oil, gas, and coal industries insofar as they distribute scie...
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Great start - hope the @ec.europa.eu will now ban Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok in Europe and we can start to reign in out-of-control post-truth politics. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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TikTok goes dark in the US ahead of ban
App no longer available on US Apple and Google stores after supreme court upholds lawmakers’ ban
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Exactly. Basic income for everyone also means maximum income for everyone - especially such dangerous maniacs as Musk. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Elon Musk is becoming a one-man rogue state – it’s time we reined him in | Alexander Hurst
He has bankrolled elections, stoked riots and ignored laws. We mustn’t make the mistake of playing nice with the world’s richest bully, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Very happy to announce the 2025 Wageningen Political Ecology Spring school (7-11 april): Political Ecologies of the Countryside: agrarian roots, environmental transformations and capitalist conflicts Please spread the word or consider joining! www.wur.nl/en/activity/...
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Political Ecologies of the Countryside: agrarian roots, environmental transformations and capitalist conflicts - 4 ECTS
The five-day intensive PhD spring school ‘Political Ecologies of the Countryside: agrarian roots, environmental transformations and capitalist conflicts’ will be held from 7-11 April 2025 in Wageninge...
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Bernhard Gissibl @bgissibl.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Shoutout and congratulations to the Convivial Conservation Centre and its website, initiated by the untiring @brambuscher.bsky.social and his team! Now featuring a brand new contribution by Reinhard Loske on "The Socioeconomics of Biodiversity", see www.convivialconservation.com/2024/12/13/t...
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The socioeconomics of biodiversity. - Convivial Conservation
The value of nature for a sustainable economy and a just society
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Environmental Internationalism Is in Its Flop Era. Every major international negotiation failed to meet its goals Interesting piece - similar to what @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social and I wrote 2 years ago (theconversation.com/biodiversity...). Time for change! www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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Environmental Internationalism Is in Its Flop Era
Every major international negotiation—over biodiversity, plastics, and climate—failed to meet its goals.
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
New paper! Toward a planetary ethnography? From “frictions” to “tensions” in understanding post-truth capitalist power Argues it is time for anthropology to reclaim truth and speak it to capitalist power more forcefully. And shows how we can do so. www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
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