Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 21/03/2026#openaccess #extractivism #sociallicense #ecuador #goldmining #USA #fracking 000
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Social licence consists in a globalized and standardized form of soft power enacted through performative governance thanks to complacent governments and extractive companies using economic tactics and intimidation to divide communities and force extractive projects onto them. 000
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 21/03/2026In this article just out on the journal of Resources Policy, using data from both the USA and Ecuador, I reveal how corporate social licence tactics enable a model of corporate-community manipulation which is similar across different geographical contexts. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comDivide to conquer. A transnational analysis of extractive industries'performative governance tactics to gain social licenseNatural resource extraction often takes place in locations where communities are not financially well-off and where historically marginalized groups r… 210
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Finally out with Vasna Ramasar and Muriel Cote! We find that the motivations for gendered resistance and the strategies of resisting are nuanced and leading to sophisticated analysis of the challenges of extractivism . #OA #extractivism #gender www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comWomen´s organized resistance against extractivism: A systematic reviewIn parallel with the exponential increase in extractivism around the world, comes social movements resisting such processes and advocating for alterna… 110
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Finally out! Agroextractivism relies on gendered labor dynamics that limit women's political participation and collective agency. Dairy farming is extractivist, consuming women's time, depleting their bodies and impeding them from organizing against gold mining, which receives state concessions. 031
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Although I am on parental leave, the year begins for me with a publication I have been meaning to get out for a while with @sofiazaragocin.bsky.social Vasna Ramasar and Kamila Torres. It is open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comCuerpo-Territorio. Lessons Learnt on a Method to Study Embodied Emotions - Martina Angela Caretta, Vasna Ramasar, Sofia Zaragocin, Kamila Torres, 2026Qualitative researchers have strived to recenter epistemic authority and knowledge creation by increasingly engaging with Indigenous methodologies. Such effort ... 031
Reposted by Dr. Martina Angela CarettaShobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Happy to share with @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org of the @carbonbrief.org some of our preprint’s messages. Now at the end of LAM 1 - it’s clear that the IPCC has made tremendous effort to increase it’s inclusive practices - interested to see if the right BALANCE will ultimately be achieved 122
Reposted by Dr. Martina Angela CarettaShobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Overshoot is here. Uncertainty is the new normal. We can’t wait for perfect models before we act. Adaptation must evolve—especially 4 the most exposed. EQUITY isn’t charity; it’s the foundation Deeper question: Who gets left behind—& whose knowledge counts—as we find our way back below 1.5deg C? 164
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 03/10/2025My piece in @theconversation.com just came out! I discuss how the promise of the #justtransition at #northvolt did not come true for neurodivergent workers and how #lyten can do better! theconversation.com/why-the-gree...theconversation.comWhy the green transition must be just and inclusive for neurodivergent peopleNeurodivergent people can remain invisible and undervalued in a booming job market. 000
Reposted by Dr. Martina Angela CarettaShobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Our new paper, “Adverse Climate,” reveals how systemic barriers limit Global South, POC, & women’s voices in #IPCC AR6. As a Global South woman of color & AR7 CLA, I’m proud to lead this call for #ClimateEquity. Read it: doi.org/10.31223/X59... FAQs in comment 👇🏽 #DEIinScience #ClimateJusticedoi.orgAdverse Climate: Addressing Inclusion and Diversity Issues in the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment and beyond 3125
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 27/08/2025contribute to advance the understanding of how knowledge creation is also rooted in colonial, extractivist structures and the establishment of epistemic authoritarian systems that define the boundaries that designate what/who should and should not be seen. #openaccess #academia 010
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Departing from our position of feminist scholars based in Chile and Sweden and conducting research within the fields of education and geography, Ana Luisa Munoz and I ..... www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....tandfonline.comEcofeminist-inspired Reflections on Scholarly Reciprocity to Avoid Academic ExtractivismYou have to enable JavaScript in your browser's settings in order to use the eReader. 123
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 07/08/2025On August 19th @VasnaRamasar and I have the pleasure to host @sofiazaragocin at the @lund-university.bsky.social Department of Human Geography for her talk Follow the link and register! www.keg.lu.se/en/calendar/...keg.lu.seDecolonial Translations and Embodied Methodologies: Thinking through Agua-Cuerpo-Territorio/Water-Body-TerritoryLund University. Sofía Zaragocin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to this, she was a... 010
Reposted by Dr. Martina Angela CarettaLisa Pelling @lisapelling.bsky.social · 21/07/2025De senaste veckorna har en person drunknat varje dag. Den bristande och tyvärr sjunkande simkunnigheten hotas av den svenska simhallsdöden. En 🧵om varför kommunerna inte kan lämnas ensamma med de miljardinvesteringar som krävs. 097
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Och har du sett detta? bsky.app/profile/drma... 110
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Om man vill läsa hela artikeln lu.box.com/s/7d7lk88vt7...lu.box.comSvD_Konspirationsteorier sprids efter översvämningarna i Texas.pdf | Powered by Box 000
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Vädret manipuleras och de över hundra dödsfallen i Texas översvämningar kan jämställas med mord. Det hävdar några republikanska politiker. ”Det är del av en större strategi”, säger forskaren Martina Angela Caretta. www.svd.se/a/LMrAL4/kon....svd.seKonspirationer efter katastrofen: ”Är mord”Vädret manipuleras och de över hundra dödsfallen i Texas översvämningar kan jämställas med mord. Det hävdar några republikanska politiker. ”Det är del av en större strategi”, säger forskaren Martina A... 154
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Just out #openaccess! MariasolePepa, Edmond Totin and I in chapt 3 focus on how #Climate causes #waterinsecurity and its implication for irrigation in the Sahel www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...taylorfrancis.comWater and Land in the Sahel | Mapping the Flow | Andrea Pase, Angela KDrawing on over thirty years of research, this book investigates the intermingling of land and water in the Sahel, analysing landscapes defined by the ebb and 010
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Join us at @lund-university.bsky.social ! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...lu.varbi.comAssistant professor in human geography with focus on (Geo)AI, regional development and spatial planningWe are looking for an up-and-coming researcher who wants to conduct pioneering research to take up a position as assistant Professor in human geography with focus on (Geo)AI, regional development and 020
Reposted by Dr. Martina Angela CarettaAmerican Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Gaining access to interviewees when conducting qualitative research is time-consuming and challenging. @drmacaretta.bsky.social explores how, based on fieldwork on hydraulic fracturing in Appalachia, positionality shifts while being vouched for by funders & industry representatives. buff.ly/3k3R66S 041
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 03/06/2025and highlight future avenues of feminist research by making a call for a momentous focus on labor and social reproduction 010
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 03/06/2025New publications alert! @dianavelaalmeida.bsky.social and I critically examine peer-reviewed evidence on the often-overlooked gender dimensions of the just energy transition ....https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629625002191sciencedirect.comJust energy transition and gender. A systematic review for feminist researchThrough a systematic review this study critically examines existing peer-reviewed evidence on the often-overlooked gender dimensions of the just energ… 130
Reposted by Dr. Martina Angela CarettaShobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Happy to share my thoughts on gender & GS/GN inequity within climate science for the Caribbean Climate Justice Project @lisaschipper.bsky.social @rbeznerkerr.bsky.social @drmacaretta.bsky.social @farhanasultana.com @charliejgardner.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2a1p...open.spotify.comWOMEN IN CLIMATE LEADERSHIPVOICES OF CHANGE · Episode 371
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 27/05/2025I am part of an exciting project looking at willingness to transition in Swedish agriculture – we now have a PhD position advertised that will be based at SLU in Ultuna. Deadline 3rd of June! www.slu.se/en/about-slu...slu.seJobs and vacancies at SLU. | slu.seJobs and vacancies at SLU. Read more about each job by clicking the job title. Please, follow the instructions closely when applying. 000
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Panel "The green transition: is sustainable and fair extraction of critical minerals possible?" with experts from @Lundsuni happening tomorrow between 14.30 and 15.30. No need to register! Just show up!hallbarhetsveckan.event.lu.seThe green transition: is sustainable and fair extraction of critical minerals possible?Lunds universitet. Welcome to a panel discussion reflecting on the possibilities of extracting critical metals and minerals fairly and sustainably. Researchers and experts will discuss topics such as ... 010
Reposted by Dr. Martina Angela CarettaAmina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 24/04/2025🧪science.orgExclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy“I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020 063
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 24/04/2025@dianavelaalmeida.bsky.social will give the inaugural talk of the Extractivist Research Group at Lund University Human Geography Department on May 12th between 15-17. Please share! "Re-imagining care: women’s everyday struggles against extractivism in Latin America" www.keg.lu.se/evenemang/re...keg.lu.seRe-imagining care: women’s everyday struggles against extractivism in Latin America – Diana Vela-AlmeidaLunds universitet. This presentation draws attention to the everyday, ordinary, often invisible and undervalued care practices carried out by women—practices that are fundamental to sustaining life in... 000
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Having Cindi Katz deliver the inaugural Hägerstrand lecture at our department was an honor and a treat! Powerful talk on the topographies of hope. 040
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 22/04/2025You are finally giving me a reason to follow along a forestry conference! 010
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 22/04/2025You deserve it. Period. I know someone who one day would love to see that redwood! 120
Reposted by Dr. Martina Angela CarettaJason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 07/04/2025“Good economics” means periodically throwing millions of people out of work in order to keep wages down. “Good economics” means forcing global South countries to operate as subordinate suppliers in commodity chains rather than producing for national development. Etc. 117340
Reposted by Dr. Martina Angela CarettaJason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 07/04/2025People need to understand that, in mainstream Western institutions, “good economics” does not mean what’s best for meeting the needs of working people, but what’s best for ensuring capital accumulation and imperial hegemony. That’s it. 10528159
Reposted by Dr. Martina Angela CarettaShobha Maharaj @shobha-maharaj.bsky.social · 02/04/2025The scientific colonialism of past centuries continue to this day - when global South scientists are chronically and pervasively sidelined from global research & policy agenda … This is MUST read material! 101
Reposted by Dr. Martina Angela CarettaKay Guccione @kayguccione.bsky.social · 02/04/2025“The absence of care during doctoral education in neoliberalised academia is a form of violence (Castelao-Huerta, 2025).” Here’s a new 5min read by Isaura Castelao-Huerta bringing a number of her recent papers together. supervisingphds.wordpress.com/2025/04/02/f...supervisingphds.wordpress.comFostering care within neoliberalised doctoral educationThis is a guest post by Isaura Castelao-Huerta, PhD Researcher, Centre for Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav), Department of Educational Research (DIE), Mexico. There is nothing new in sayin… 0114
Reposted by Dr. Martina Angela CarettaDr Slaughter-Acey @drslaughter99.bsky.social · 22/03/2025🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies 53773422
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Fantastic day at Zurich university discussing the ramifications of the neoliberal university and how a care centered approach is crucial in these times. 050
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 14/03/2025CFP - Cuerpo territorio. A methodological workshop to reflect upon and explore embodied feelings on extractivism at @lund-university.bsky.social on Aug 20th lu.box.com/s/21wgp4dand... @geographers.bsky.social @culturalgeography.bsky.social @politicalgeography.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.sociallu.box.comCuerpo territorio Lund Workshop 250314.pdf | Powered by Box 032
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 14/03/2025We have met regularly since 2023, but we finally are also visibile on the web! We are a group of @lund-university.bsky.social researchers focusing on extractivism. Keep an eye on the webpage for future events! www.keg.lu.se/en/research/...keg.lu.seExtractivism Research GroupLund University. Meeting regularly since 2023, participants of the group conduct research in different geographical contexts and scales, using a range of methods and analytical framings. This rich poo... 142
Reposted by Dr. Martina Angela CarettaOla Spännar @olaspannar.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Nu börjar regeringens brutala nedskärningar i civilsamhället få effekt. Sveriges största och äldsta miljöorganisation Naturskyddsföreningen tvingas lägga ner hela skolverksamheten, som bidragit till barns lärande för hållbar utveckling www.sverigesnatur.org/aktuellt/nat... 1012061
Reposted by Dr. Martina Angela CarettaProf Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 01/03/2025This is an unusual opportunity in Germany where the idea of Tenure track is relatively new. A 'W1' is basically an Assistant Professor, (although the Germans translate it to the sad-sounding 'Junior Professor'). haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.deW1 Professorship in Human Geography and Global Transitions (with tenure track to W3) 14130
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Saturday in Malmö! #feministfestival 030
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Sweden, it seems, has no vocabulary to talk about its problem with xenophobia www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comWill any Swedish politician defend the group most terrorised by the Örebro gun massacre?In one generation, Sweden has become polyglot and cosmopolitan – but denial has met the wave of white supremacism sweeping the country 010
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Our recent article goes in that direction too... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comDisrupted place attachments and emotional energy geography in fracked AppalachiaTo date, there has been limited analysis at the intersection of extractive industry and emotional geography. Our research addresses this intersection … 022
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · 11/02/2025My reads today. Fantastic. Complementary. Enraging. 030
Reposted by Dr. Martina Angela CarettaThe Lancet @thelancet.com · 10/02/2025Read our latest issue in full ➡️ tinyurl.com/2rz7b357 bsky.app/profile/thel... 414861
Reposted by Dr. Martina Angela CarettaUnearthed @unearthednews.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Just 10 of the 195 countries signed up to the landmark Paris Agreement have published their new emissions-cutting plans. Those missing the 10th Feb deadline represent 83% of global emissions and nearly 80% of the world’s economy, according to @carbonbrief.org @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org analysis.carbonbrief.orgAnalysis: 95% of countries miss UN deadline to submit 2035 climate pledges - Carbon BriefAround 95% of countries have missed a UN deadline to submit new climate pledges for 2035, Carbon Brief analysis shows. 01714