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Iva Pesa

@ivapesa.bsky.social
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environmental historian of mining & oil (www.rug.nl/let/AFREXTRACT/) University of Groningen

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Iva Pesa @ivapesa.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Check out the evolving special issue of Grassroots: Journal of Political Ecology titled 'African AnthropoScenes: Lived Experiences of Planetary Transformations', co-edited with Sara de Wit, Joseph Mujere, Ismay Milford, and Timo Makori grassrootsjpe.org
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Journal of Political Ecology - Grassroots
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Iva Pesa @ivapesa.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Call for papers: 'Beyond the Blue: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Water in Africa'. A conference organised by the Netherlands Association for African Studies (NVAS) in Delft on 11-12 September 2026! Join us and send in your abstract: www.afrikastudies.nl #envhum #envhist #AfricanStudies
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Nederlandse Vereniging voor Afrika Studies
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Iva Pesa @ivapesa.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Extremely excited to announce the AFREXTRACT conference 'Rethinking Environmentalism: Perspectives from Africa' 17-18 September 2026 in Groningen! If you study environmental thought, activism, and environmental lifeworlds anywhere in Africa, please send us your abstract! www.rug.nl/research/ico...
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Call for Abstracts for the 'Rethinking Environmentalism: Perspectives from Africa' Conference
Please find the call for abstracts for the conference 'Rethinking Environmentalism: Perspectives from Africa' attached. The conference, organised by the...
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Iva Pesa @ivapesa.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Join us for a book talk of African Climate Futures with Carl Death on 2 December from 15.00-16.30 (CET) The book is excellent! #AfricanStudies #EnvHums #AfricanLiterature
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Iva Pesa @ivapesa.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
In August 2026, I'll organise a panel with Julia Tischler and Mucha Musemwa on 'A Spirited Environmental History' for the VAD 2026 conference (African Studies, Germany) in beautiful Basel - please apply: africanperspectives.ch/call-for-pap...
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Call for Papers – SGAS-VAD-2026 conference | Basel, 26-28 August 2026
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Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
The deadline for submitting a paper, panel or round table for the Biannual CRG African History is nearing. This year it's at Ghent University, and we'll be happy to welcome you! aegis-eu.org/collaborativ...
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CRG African History | AEGIS - African studies in Europe
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Iva Pesa @ivapesa.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Jabulani Shaba and Henrique Brenner Gasperin will be co-organising a panel at POLLEN 2026 in wonderful Barcelona on 'Extraction and Plural Environmentalisms in the Global South'! APPLY!! pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/... #envhums #extraction
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Iva Pesa @ivapesa.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Happy to be involved in the new RUG University Minor 'Climate Change and Inequality' - here's a little piece in the Wubbo Ockels' newsletter about us: www.rug.nl/wubbo-ockels... The students are amazing! They come from all of our different faculties!!
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New Minor on Climate Change and Inequality kicks off at University of Groningen
On September 3rd, the University of Groningen launched its new minor programme, ‘Climate Change and Inequality’, with an inaugural cohort of 11 students.
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Iva Pesa @ivapesa.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Check out our article Just food transitions: a plurality of framings and repertoires from below www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... with Lidia Cabral, matias Volonterio, Gearoid Millar, and Melanie Levick-Parkin
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Just food transitions: a plurality of framings and repertoires from below
In this paper we apply the concept of just transition to food systems, a domain central to environmental sustainability and social justice. We broaden and democratise the just transition debate by ...
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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Reframing the Anthropocene through an African lens, our podcast of the week argues that colonial resource extraction created the very environmental crises now disproportionately harming the continent. With @ivapesa.bsky.social, Jabulani Shaba & Tholithemba Ndaba buff.ly/a1qityd
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Sabine Pitteloud @sabinepitteloud.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Special issue on "Business and activists"🚨 co-edited with @phvandam.bsky.social With @alexh33.bsky.social @hiskearts.bsky.social @ivapesa.bsky.social @acontestataires.bsky.social #BizHis #activism #CSR #DEI #vegetarianism #labor #RSE #greenwashing #sustainability shs.cairn.info/revue-entrep...
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Businesses, Activists, and the Quest for Legitimacy
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Iva Pesa @ivapesa.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Want to learn about values in the Anthropocene? Check out this open web resource: rethinkingvalue.github.io/anthropocene/ With entries on Lake Titicaca, the Carribean, Georgia, India, and Marseille! It was a pleasure to work on this with Simone Schleper, Paul Merchant, Dan Finch-Race and Leo Steeds
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Iva Pesa @ivapesa.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
www.scmp.com/news/china/d... Apparently a casual email is enough to be cited as a source in a newspaper article - still good that this issue is receiving coverage!
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Will Zambian mine disaster spill over to destroy relations with China?
A 50-million-litre acid spill from a Chinese-owned copper mine in Zambia is now threatening to kill ties with Beijing, experts say.
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Iva Pesa @ivapesa.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I reviewed Gabrielle Hecht's Residual Governance for the American Historical Review, academic.oup.com/ahr/article-... This book really bridges environmental humanities, African studies, and it shows why we should all care about South African mine dumps!
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Gabrielle Hecht. Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures.
The toxicity of Johannesburg’s gold mines is hidden in plain sight. In Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures, Gabrielle Hecht f
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