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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 13/09/2025

Enjoyed visiting the University of Luxembourg campus this past week! When the steel mill there was shut down in the late 90's, it was converted into a new campus and integrated into the university's architecture. Gives a bit of a sci-fi/steampunk vibe🏭

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 07/09/2025

Exploring the mountains around Bergen a bit with a much more energetic hiking buddy

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 06/09/2025

reading today!📚🤖 Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination, by Webb Keane. Nicely engages with a lot of old and new work in (linguistic) anthropology on human-animal interaction!🐢 also just learned what a 'deodand' is too

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 05/09/2025

reading today!📚 "Econarrative: Ethics, Ecology and the search for New Narratives to Live by"

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 01/09/2025

Sunday walk up the mountain⛰️😅

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 25/04/2025

Interesting essays in this book!📚☀️: "Solarities: Elemental Encounters and Refractions is a transdiciplinary essay collection that explores the physical, conceptual, and political possibilities materialized by “solarity”— a form of relation to the sun and its elemental force upon planetary life."

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 24/01/2025

reading today📚 Creating constellations of coexistence through connections between people in human–wildlife conflict areas. Interesting new essay in a recent special issue of conservation biology on diversifying voices in conservation: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 24/01/2025

Misrepresentation of invasive species in the mass media with images of unrelated organisms📚🐜 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 14/01/2025

📚🦙"Camelids are vital to the cultures and economies of the Andes. The animals have also been at the heart of ecological and social catastrophe...Llamas beyond the Andes tells the five-hundred-year history of animals removed from their native habitats and transported overseas."

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 18/12/2024

Conference: EELC10 Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication, University of Copenhagen, 18-19 Aug. 2025 (call for abstracts extended to Jan 18). nors.ku.dk/english/cale...

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 04/12/2024

interesting new book! 📚🐿️ Animating Central Park: A multispecies history. "Dawn Day Biehler examines the vibrant and intimately connected lives of humans and nonhuman animals in the park...grazing sheep, teeming fish, nesting swans, migrating warblers, and escaped bison as well as human New Yorkers"

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 04/12/2024

Looking forward to reading all the fascinating contributions in here, and happy to co-author this chapter with Bal Krishna Sharma on ecotourism!

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 04/12/2024

Great to finally get a copy of the new Bloomsbury Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes in the mail today, edited by Robert Blackwood, Stefania Tufi and Will Amos!😊📚

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 27/11/2024

listening today🎧 An interesting interview with Sunaura Taylor @sunaura.bsky.social on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about her new book, Disabled Ecologies: Lessons From a Wounded Desert.

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 22/11/2024

The energy I’m bringing into 2025

A sea turtle floats blissfully underwater giving photographer stink eye and also appearing to flip them off.

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 22/11/2024

The Three Ethologies: A Positive Vision for Rebuilding Human-Animal Relationships by Matthew Calarco

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 22/11/2024

reading today!📚🦭🐢

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 16/11/2024

thanks for sharing this! For my first (and only) book, one of the resources I found helpful was Kristen Ghodsee’s From notes to narrative. Step 9 having Word read my chapters back to me was an interesting experience!

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 14/11/2024

"fossil fuel subsidies remain at an all-time high and funding for fossil fuel-prolonging projects quadrupled between 2021 and 2022. Unsurprisingly, this means that our emission projections expect an emissions peak by the end of the decade" climateactiontracker.org/publications...

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 13/11/2024

recommended reading!📚 Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation, by Juno Salazar Parreñas @youknowjuno.bsky.social "Decolonizing extinction requires a serious reconsideration of the current norms and practices around how we share this planet..."

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 28/10/2024

If you're in Oslo tomorrow, always a fun event to check out! "The Oslo School of Environmental Humanities invites you to the Knowing Natures Eco-Slam, where students of the Environmental Humanities and Sciences Honours certificate (EHS) present their final projects" www.hf.uio.no/english/rese...

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 24/10/2024

If you're in Honolulu Nov 21 this looks great: "This year’s Piʻo Summit will bring together community organizers, scholars, activists, and survivors to explore how communities rise to demonstrate resilience and leadership in the wake of devastating events." www.kamanabeamer.com/summits/pio-...

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 23/10/2024

recommended reading!📚 Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century. by Neel Ahuja uncpress.org/book/9781469...

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 23/10/2024

fall is glowing up here

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 10/10/2024

Aurora in Bergen tonight!🤗

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 07/10/2024

Looking forward to attending the American Association of Applied Linguistics in Colorado next March! www.aaal.org/events/aaal-...

The Denver city skyline with mountains in the background

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 04/10/2024

New book coming out soon!📚looks great! #sociolinguistics

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 04/10/2024

Looking forward to this today!🌊🐢

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 28/09/2024

New book📚Voice and Nation in Plurinational Bolivia: Aymara Radio and Song in an Age of Pachakuti. "...draws on research conducted among Aymara language radio broadcasters, hip hop artists, and community members during a period of radical social change and Indigenous political resurgence (pachakuti)"

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 28/09/2024

📚🦐 Maria Luz Cruz Torres' new book is winner of the Sara A. Whaley Honorable Mention 2024 Book Prize! 'The "shrimp ladies," locally known as changueras in southern Sinaloa, Mexico, sell seafood in open-air markets, forming an extralegal but key part of the economy built around this "pink gold.”

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 23/09/2024

Reading this week📚: Animal Traffic by Rosemary-Claire Collard. "Of all the forms that animal capital takes, an exotic pet is especially peculiar. Anything from a bird to an alligator, a turtle to a tiger, its defining characteristic is that it is out of place."

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 21/09/2024

Ocean Photographer of the year: 1st place Conservation (Hope) category, Green sea turtle released, Seychelles by Shane Gross

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 20/09/2024

Nice view of Bergen from the top of Stoltzekleiven hike😊

View of Bergen looking west from the top of Stoltzekleiven hike

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 18/09/2024

I’m teaching a graduate academic writing course this fall and coming back to a lot of the writing books I’ve collected over the years. This was one has lots of great tips, especially for writing up a book manuscript! If you have and recommendations for similar books I should check out please share😊

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 17/09/2024

Some photos from my visit to the Bishop Museum this summer. This was an exhibit called Corned Beef (Pisupo lua afe) and KALO. "Together, Pisupo lua afe and KALO invite viewers to reflect on the intersections of art, culture, and ecology..." www.bishopmuseum.org/corned-beef-...

Taro plant art display at Bishop Museum, small paper plant in middle of room with its enlarged shadow painted on the wall behind in green.

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 29/06/2024

"....what is called for first and foremost is not persuasion, education, and deliberation (though none of these will lose in importance), but kind and compassionate human support. Not conversion but respect and dignity. Not a battle of the minds, but a meeting of the hearts.” Susanne C. Moser

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 28/06/2024

Looks like an interesting conference coming up next year 18-19 August 2025 on language, communication and ethnography at the University of Copenhagen!

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 23/06/2024

"I examine the ontology of oil palm by cross-pollinating classic environmental anthropological literature with in- sights derived from the plant turn, a budding interdisciplinary current that foregrounds the role of plants as communicative, sentient, and worldmaking actors." – Sophie Chao

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 22/06/2024

I recently finished reading Naomi Klein's new book 'Doppelganger' it's a fascinating read and I wrote some thoughts about its relevance for environmental communication here: wildones.substack.com/p/wild-ones-...

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 04/03/2024

reading about 'blue governance' and whale 'snot bots' today in: Oceaning: Governing Marine Life with Drones by Adam Fish.

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