dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 12/09/2026i led a deep listening hike this morning, threaded through with sonic meditations from pauline oliveros. at the end, one of the participants said he heard the sound of a single pine needle hitting the ground for the very first time. maybe one of the best compliments i’ve received as an educator 🥹 030
dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 05/09/2026dusting off this account to see if anyone might be willing to share their favorite methods papers on interviews and document analysis 👀 000
dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 17/06/2026this article is a few things: it outlines what i mean by palliative political ecology; it's processing grief through writing (and sharing it); and it's an attempt to write in a way that ai cannot (easily) replicate. i am proud to share it! liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... 192
Reposted by dylan m. harrisDialogues in Human Geography @dialogueshg.bsky.social · 25/05/2026New Online 1st Article “Making the case for public geographies of student debt abolition” by Rae Baker, Dylan M Harris, Britain Hopkins, Esra Alkim Karaagac, Guillaume Proulx, Denise Goerisch, Galen Murton, and John McKendrick doi.org/10.1177/2043...doi.orgSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 031
dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 22/05/2026new! this article is the result of several conversations, tons of effort and time, and deep reflections about my-and our-relationship to the political economy of higher ed. student debt shouldn't exist, and college should be free ✊ @dialogueshg.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 120
dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 28/03/2026it's me, some faculty in Colorado pushing back ✊ 020
dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 28/03/2026happy to have a small part/quote in this hugely important conversation. ai is just the most recent shiny object the neoliberal university is using to gut higher ed’s mission as a social, public good. cutting educators and researchers is not the way 👎🏻 www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...insidehighered.comFaculty Push Back Against OpenAI DealsAs higher ed institutions pay tech companies millions to provide students and faculty access to custom AI-powered tools, some faculty in Colorado and California are pushing back. 0289
Reposted by dylan m. harrisCAPE AAG @cape-aag.bsky.social · 29/01/2026📢🚨👉 AAG Unruly Natures 2026!! Thursday 3/19, 7:30-10pm @ Standard Deviant Brewing 166
dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 29/10/2025for some reason, my new article is open-access at the moment! sharing it in case that is useful to folks! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comAccumulation by transition or genuine transformation? Speculative political ecologies of Central Appalachia’s emerging forest carbon economy - Dylan M. Harris, 2025As trust in the validity of forest carbon credits decreases, a market for high integrity forest carbon credits is emerging in Central Appalachia, a region known... 020
dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 28/10/2025new article! how might the emergence of the 'new' carbon economy be disrupted, shifted in favor of communities rather than serving as another round of capitalist accumulation? thanks to @landpolicy.bsky.social for supporting this work! here's a link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 172
dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 18/10/2025saw the new tron, and my takeaway is that ai-death likely won’t be explosive and shiny. instead, it’ll be slow violence. enough humans will be convinced its existence is more worthwhile than planetary health (happening), and ai chat bots will convince kids to kill themselves (happening). 110
dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 16/10/2025what does it mean that small landowners are being asked to lease their land, or at least the carbon inside their trees, to corporations like amazon for 20-year contracts? i am super excited to share this work and grateful to the @landpolicy.bsky.social for supporting it! ✊ tinyurl.com/mw2zx9fe 052
dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 03/09/2025what does it meant to affirm life, to ease suffering, when there is no cure? what does grief teach about the art of life, about solidarity despite devastation? is grief a lens through which to assuage planetary harm? thanks to the @carsoncenter.bsky.social 🌱 seeingthewoods.org/2025/09/02/l... 141
Reposted by dylan m. harrisRachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Is #grief inherently political? In this deeply personal essay author @dylanmharris.bsky.social explores the connections between global #foodproduction and the health—and related grief—of the individual. This essay is a contribution to the #planetaryhealth series featured on 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴. 182
dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 14/02/2025research funding cuts will impact whole universities, but, importantly, those costs are going to be passed onto our most vulnerable colleagues and our students through tuition increases. it's time to organize WITH - not against - your students to fight these cuts. ✊ @debtcollective.bsky.social 020
dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 09/02/2025just gave a talk on palliative political ecology to a church that recently voted to become a ‘creation justice’ congregation, and you could feel tendrils of solidarity forming between folks. the way forward is community. 🌱✊🏻 030
dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 29/01/2025my nature/society course, at its heart, is about understanding how the seemingly intractable, primordial division between humans and nature informs so much of the binary thinking that informs (and inflames) so much of society. 130
dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 27/01/2025to universities - one of the last slivers of a functional civil society in the US (shout out to public libraries as well) 030
dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 25/01/2025four days into the semester, i have seen universities, not just mine, 'get in line' with what is 'coming down the pipeline' rather than standing on their mission, to educate all, with integrity. this timely @aaup.bsky.social report is a critical read. ✊ www.aaup.org/report/again...aaup.orgAgainst Anticipatory ObedienceThe statement that follows, prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee on College and University Governance and Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved for public... 030
dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 20/12/2024while the end of the semester is always busy, it is my favorite for final projects, which, this year, have included: a personal piano concert of studio ghibli songs, a handmade bleaching coral reef made from recycled fabric, and a student writing a poem they yodeled from a mountain top on video 😀 030
Reposted by dylan m. harrisThea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Staggering growth of US oil & gas production and record profits was sold by GOP and Dem presidents as American “energy security”. But this isn’t security for ordinary people. Dividends flow to the 1% as more households struggle with utility bills. New paper by @isabellamweber.bsky.social + coauthors 415160
dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 10/12/2024~ 🥹 proud advisor 🥹 ~ one of my graduate students *just* successfully defended her thesis on ozone non-attainment best practices in colorado, operationalizing concepts like agrawal's 'environmentality' and pulido's 'geographies of pollution' into actionable and clear policy guidelines 🥹 190
dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 05/12/2024new open access article! i am proud of this one! we brought many ideas and thinkers - a hero, eve k sedgwick - into conversation with political ecology to expand it's scope, to envision/imagine how emancipatory nature-society scholarship can and should be! ✊🌱 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 2213
Reposted by dylan m. harrisProgress in Environmental Geography @progenvgeog.bsky.social · 05/12/2024🌍 New paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography 🌍 'Experimental and #speculative #political #ecologies for an age of crisis, hope, and action' by Maria Rusca, Dylan M Harris, and Dan Santos journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @mariarusca.bsky.social @dylanmharris.bsky.socialjournals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 0125
dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 20/11/2024v happy to share this article on the power of storytelling to elucidate, clarify, and realize the often-abstract scenarios of climate models! thanks to @mariarusca.bsky.social specifically for bringing this dream team together! if you'd like a pdf, just me know! =) www.nature.com/articles/s44... 161
dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 14/11/2024last sept, i was invited to give a talk for dartmouth's irving institute for energy & society, and it is now live on youtube! in it, i discuss what i see as the 'transit' of transition, looking to my work in western colorado to see what is working well there =) www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNm8...youtube.comNew Energy: Challenges & Lessons from the 'Transit' of Colorado's Just Transition, Dylan HarrisYouTube video by Irving Institute for Energy and Society 010
Reposted by dylan m. harrisjosh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 08/02/2024More than four years after @dylanmharris.bsky.social and I started talking about ruins, editing a shared GDoc in a haphazard way, the fruits of our labor are finally in the world. Read our introduction to Ruins and Ruination in Political Ecology now out in CNS: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RWBRI... 151
dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 08/02/2024new! "In this short article, we theorize with the concepts of ruin and ruination to consider how capitalism both depends upon and is held hostage by its own making." www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RWBRI... 120
dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 24/01/2024new! we articulate how the student debt crisis drives, and is driven by, socioecological crises - e.g., climate change - with the aim of expanding the parameters of student debt activism. 👊 as always, we are inspired by @debtcollective.bsky.social 🖤 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1125
dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 29/12/2023this new (open access) article aims to provide research pathways that complement the ongoing activism, from folks like @debtcollective.bsky.social, to abolish student debt 👊 student debt is killing higher ed, harming us, our students, and their families. enough! acme-journal.org/index.php/ac... 1155
dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 07/11/2023new! i was asked to write an article on how i teach climate change, which pivots around what i see as tension between 'understanding' and 'knowing' climate change. this article is really *for* teachers, but i hope it is relevant to anyone teaching cc! ✊ www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UQNJF... 030
dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 14/10/2023new! when 'transition' comes at the cost of those who stand to benefit the most, we ask: who is the transition serving? who CAN it serve and benefit? i find this work vital because it is happening NOW, and we, critical folks, can still intervene www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comA just transition to what, for whom, and by what means? Transition technology, carbon markets, and a...The promise of a just transition is not only that of a large-scale transition away from carbon-intensive energy production and consumption, but of one… 060