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James A. Fraser

@jfraser.bsky.social
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Critical human geographer and anthropologist whose scholarship explores the political and historical ecology of tropical forests, agrarian change, and struggles for recognition bit.ly/4mf1rsM

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Defector @defector.com · 23/09/2026
Nicholas Russell interviews China Miéville about his new epic 'The Rouse' defector.com/china-mievil...
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China Miéville On The “Completely Defining” Book It Took 20 Years To Write | Defector
It takes an open mind to engage with China Miéville’s work. A writer for whom the already cliched phrase “genre-bending” is even more banal, Miéville has never opposed the designation of genre…
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John Richmond @johnprichmond.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Loved this book from @versobooks.bsky.social this revies nails it. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/why-...
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Why atomised anger without organisation suits capital
Hyperpolitics – Extreme Politicization without Political Consequencesby Anton Jager, Verso, £11.99THIS slim book, by Belgian-born, Oxford University Politics lecturer Anton Jager provides a significan...
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Typebar Magazine (Issue 11 Out 10/26) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
NEW: The scariest part of Backrooms is how eerily well it maps onto our capitalist world of hostile liminality, argues @rsbenedict.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/hostile-arch...
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Hostile Architecture: Late Capitalism and Backrooms
The scariest thing about Backrooms is that we already live there.
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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This is a brilliant –– and horribly timely –– interview with Daniel Trilling about the rise of the British far right
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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
New W. E. B. Du Bois American Masters is excellent.
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With A Cause | Full Documentary | American Masters | PBS
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Moira Birss @moira.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Leaked audio recordings appear to indicate a high-level conspiracy by US, Israeli & Latin American far-right leaders to destabilize leftist governments in Mexico, Brazil & Colombia. english.elpais.com/internationa...
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‘Hondurasgate,’ the alleged US and Israeli interference plot to destabilize Mexico and other progressive governments
A leaked audio recording points to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, Javier Milei, and Donald Trump as attempting to create a platform to spread fake news about the administrations of ...
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Revista Palavras! @revistapalavras.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Milton Santos, 100 anos: geógrafo negro teorizou sobre desigualdades revistapalavras.com.br/2026/05/04/m...
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Milton Santos, 100 anos: geógrafo negro teorizou sobre desigualdades - Palavras!
Rafael Cardoso – Repórter da Agência Brasil Em meio às grandes redes de supermercados em São…
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Xander Dunlap @drxdunlap.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
An excellent article with Corinne Lamain, @nicosananes.bsky.social, @esthermarijnen.bsky.social & Thijis Jeursen! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Versión en español — Intervención: “¿Revertir o reafirmar la dependencia? La importancia histórico-mundial de las elecciones del 2026 en Colombia” — disponible aquí antipodeonline.org/wp-content/u...
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Stefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
As usual, @antipodeonline.bsky.social sets a standard for radical scholarship. #geosky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Great SI on Nature and Anti-/decoloniality
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Querying Nature and (Anti‐/De‐)coloniality: Introduction to the Symposium
The introduction to this Symposium outlines how actually existing movements contest various forms of “colonial Natures,” from settler property regimes to extractive frontiers and conservation landsca...
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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Intervention — “Reversing or Reinscribing Dependency? The World-Historical Significance of Colombia’s 2026 Elections” @jfraser.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/2026/04/16/r...
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Intervention — “Reversing or Reinscribing Dependency? The World-Historical Significance of Colombia’s 2026 Elections” - Antipode Online
James A. Fraser (Honorary Researcher, Lancaster Environment Centre) ***Versión en español disponible aquí*** As Colombia gears up for Presidential elections this May 2026, Iván Cepeda, the presidentia...
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natureandspace.bsky.social @natureandspace.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
OnlineFirst - "Conservation-by-alienation: Koliwadi forest estrangement in Maharashtra, India" by Annie James, James Angus Fraser, and Sergio Villamayor-Tomas: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
“Geophagic attunement encourages a temporary turn away from summing up Black people’s relationship to terra as defined solely by alienated labor. This momentary respite from exploitation — of both humans and the land — enables a focus on Black desire for and knowledge of the earth.”
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
"The lurch from declaring fears abt Iran to be mere media exaggerations to invoking imminent threat, from demanding the Nobel to luxuriating in lethality, is the essence of the autocrat’s monopoly on unpredictability... When the leader can make up a war as it goes along, his whims have become law."
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Signifying Absolutely Nothing | Fintan O’Toole
Trump’s war of choice in Iran is a performance of horrific military strength that betrays a stark political weakness.
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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
ICYMI - historian @ngeorge00.bsky.social on the background to the latest round of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, the current situation in the country, and the history of Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty.
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Israel's forever war in Lebanon w/ Nathaniel George
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · March 12 · 1h 3m
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Bluesky is mostly a blow-by-blow account of right wing settlers dismantling the liberal settler civilizational infrastructure, and liberal settlers glimpsing (mostly without realizing it) the beginnings of a destruction endured by first nations to make this culturally evangelical & rapacious state.
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Grist @grist.org · 12/03/2026
The secret superpower of Brazil’s vast savanna
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The secret superpower of Brazil’s vast savanna
The Amazon rainforest gets all the attention, but the neighboring cerrado stores massive amounts of carbon in its peaty soils.
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Keir Milburn @kmilb.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Radical Abundance in Manchester this Thursday (March 5th). @kaiheron.bsky.social and I will be discussing our book and examining how a radical abundance strategy can be put into place in Manchester. Get yourself to Partisan and join in.
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Paulo Aranã @pauloarana.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Vitória contra a privatização dos rios na Amazônia, mas não dá nem tempo de comemorar: no sul da Bahia a terra indígena Comexatibá sob ataque de pistoleiros e pressão de fazendeiros e da especulação imobiliária, mesmo tendo sido declarada como posse permanente dos Pataxó no final do ano passado.
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🌍🌾 ViaCampesinaBE ⁂ :mastodon: @viacampesinabe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026
🌍 Land for Life, Livelihood and a Liveable Future for All 🌱 👉 www.foodsovereignty.org/icarrd20-mu… 📢 POLITICAL DECLARATION by the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
🌍 Land for Life, Livelihood and a Liveable Future for All 🌱
👉 https://www.foodsovereignty.org/icarrd20-must-move-beyond-technocratic-fixes-to-implement-real-integral-agrarian-reform-global-social-movements-in-cartagena
📢 POLITICAL DECLARATION by the International Planning Committee for #FoodSovereignty - ICARRD+20 Forum - Cartagena, Colombia, 23 February 2026
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Peoples’ control over land, water, and territories, NOW! 
Popular Agrarian Reform, Now!
#ICARRD20 #LandForLife #land #water #territories #PopularAgrarianReform #PopularAgrarianReformNOW #LaViaCampesina #ViaCampesina #UNDROP #UNDRIP
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Ingo D. Wetrust 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @iptamenos3.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Must read on upcoming Colombian presidential elections, brought to us by @murosinvisibles.bsky.social and the incredible Pirate Ware Services team. #kudos open.substack.com/pub/piratewi...
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Colombia enters election year amid record violence
Colombians will go to the polls to elect a new president and congressmen amidst the highest number of attacks by armed groups since the civil war
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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Teaser here: soundcloud.com/deathpanel/t...
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Teaser - Late Fascism w/ Alberto Toscano (02/16/26)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/150947880 Beatrice speaks with Alberto Toscano about what characteristics second Trump term
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about
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Journal of Peasant Studies @peasantjournal.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Why does climate action so often take socially regressive and ecologically destructive forms? In a new #OpenAccess article, Michael Levien and @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social challenge the reductive articulation of climate solutions solely through the lens of carbon www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Against the planetary: carbon fetishism and the politics of false solutions
Why does climate action so often take socially regressive and ecologically destructive forms? Building on Stuart Hall, we argue that regressive climate change solutions are enabled by an articulati...
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 16/02/2026
“Nothing can carry people into politics but people themselves. In the process, they bring their own ideas with them. ‘People think,’ Asad liked to remind his readers.” —Ben Tarnoff on Asad Haider
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People Think | Ben Tarnoff
Asad Haider, the foremost socialist thinker of his generation, staked his philosophy on the principle that everyone should be fundamentally free.
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InfoAmazonia @infoamazonia.org · 05/02/2026
A reportagem acompanha desde 2021 a luta dessas mulheres que transformaram a defesa do território em modo de vida. No final de 2025, o retorno a Manicoré revelou um cenário de invasões e desmatamento, registrado pelo Varadouro. infoamazonia.org/2026/02/05/c...
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Criadoras do primeiro Território de Uso Comum, mulheres do rio Manicoré resistem em meio à destruição no Amazonas
A reportagem acompanha desde 2021 a luta dessas mulheres que transformaram a defesa do território em modo de vida. No final de 2025, o retorno a Manicoré revelou um cenário de invasões e desmatamento.
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James A. Fraser @jfraser.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Comunidades do Rio Manicoré lançam plano que vai orientar o futuro do primeiro Território de Uso Comum do Amazonas www.tnc.org.br/conecte-se/c...
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Comunidades do Rio Manicoré lançam plano que vai orientar o futuro do primeiro Território de Uso Comum do Amazonas
Com o apoio da TNC Brasil, o documento marca uma nova etapa na proteção de florestas públicas no estado e fortalece a autonomia das comunidades
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James A. Fraser @jfraser.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality? doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
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The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality?
This article analyses Brazil's first Território de Uso Comum (TUC) in the Amazon as an experiment in insurgent universality—a women-led, grassroots struggle advancing collective rights through shared...
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James A. Fraser @jfraser.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Comunidades do Rio Manicoré lançam plano que vai orientar o futuro do primeiro Território de Uso Comum do Amazonas www.tnc.org.br/conecte-se/c...
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Comunidades do Rio Manicoré lançam plano que vai orientar o futuro do primeiro Território de Uso Comum do Amazonas
Com o apoio da TNC Brasil, o documento marca uma nova etapa na proteção de florestas públicas no estado e fortalece a autonomia das comunidades
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Enrique Castañón Ballivián @enriquecb.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
My piece on @uk.theconversation.com on how Bolivia's new government revived the entreguista state - and its opposition. @uclamericas.bsky.social
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What's Left of Philosophy @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
new episode out now! we kick off our new series on Marxism & Religion with a discussion of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose universalist ethos and principled nonviolence shine a light on the righteous path to liberation in these dark times www.patreon.com/posts/128-in...
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128 | Introducing: Marxism & Religion, Part I: Martin Luther King, Jr. | What's Left of Philosophy
Get more from What's Left of Philosophy on Patreon
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
“We, the delegates at the inaugural convening of Nuestra América in Bogotá, Colombia, affirm the shared horizon of: a hemisphere that governs itself, defends its peoples, and speaks in its own voice." Read more from Nuestra América in @Venezuelanalysis.
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Progressive Activists, Officials Condemn Venezuela Attacks, Call for Joint Action Against Monroe Doctrine - Venezuelanalysis
The "Nuestra América" summit in Bogotá laid out a unified front to defend regional sovereignty and oppose foreign intervention.
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Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Interesting book, especially for those of us working on the Global South, and book launch 👇
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/01/2026
it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”
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JD Pirtle @jdpirtle.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
The analysis in this episode is evergreen and *extremely* right now, especially because we need to get real about where we are, where we must go, and what it will take to get there.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 14/01/2026
‘Psychoanalysis can help us better understand how the world, including our oppressors, works, and so what we might do about it, and them; and what wishes we might have for collective life, and which of these the reality principle demands we set aside.’ Amia Srinivasan: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious
What has returned of late is not the unconscious itself, but the felt need, in some quarters, for the unconscious and...
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Metaphor Man @metaphorman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Chris Hedges: I have seen the masked goons who terrorize our streets before I have been a prisoner in their jails and spent hours in their interrogation rooms I have been beaten by them I have been deported, and in several cases banned, from their countries I know what is coming
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The Machinery of Terror
The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be too late.
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Tony Wood excellent on Venezuela www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Tony Wood · On Venezuela
The choice of narco-trafficking as the pretext is partly motivated by a desire to skirt even the feeble murmurs that...
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Corn before it domesticated us
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
"...the more one relies on vice signaling as a style of action and communication, the less relevant and powerful the in-group’s moral compass is as a practical constraint on anyone’s behavior." latest for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/emp...
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Empire of Vice
In a perverse twist on virtue signaling, the Trump administration is training Americans in the politics of raw domination.
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InfoAmazonia @infoamazonia.org · 06/01/2026
Em entrevista exclusiva para a InfoAmazonia, o filósofo Ailton Krenak, refletiu sobre os ataques à Constituição Federal, a troca de nomes no Ministério dos Povos Indígenas e a tensão política eleitoral de 2026.
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Ailton Krenak, sobre marco temporal: ‘nunca engoliram as nossas conquistas na Constituinte’
Nesta entrevista exclusiva, o filósofo reflete sobre a passagem do tempo, os ataques à Constituição Federal, a troca de nomes no Ministério dos Povos Indígenas e a tensão política eleitoral de 2026.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/01/2026
Trump in a single gaggle on Air Force One just threatened: -- a second strike against Venezuela -- Cuba -- Mexico -- Colombia -- Iran -- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)
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natureandspace.bsky.social @natureandspace.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
OnlineFirst - "Forging territorial justice: Afro-Colombian legal mobilization and the prefiguration of territorial authority in northern Cauca" by Zabrina Welter and Cristina Espinosa: uni-freiburg.de/enr-sugov/te... uni-freiburg.de/enr-sugov/te... journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥 👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN 💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal. #Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
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julián gómez-delgado @juliangomezdelgado.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Is infrastructure sabotage always a destructive act led by seditious individuals? no my new article in Human Geography studies Colombian public sector workers ‘breaking’ infrastructure to oppose privatization in 1992, and argues sabotage can reshape policies, politicize society & more
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 22/12/2025
‘The real question is whether psychoanalysis can liberate us, not just from the violent divisions of our individual psyches, but from the violent divisions and resulting despair of our political moment.’ Amia Srinivasan’s Winter Lecture: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious
You may not wish to commit yourself ontologically to some thing called the ‘unconscious’, and you may reasonably...
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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org · 19/12/2025
How does Brazil’s Território de Uso Comum embody Fanon’s concept of insurgent universality? James A. Fraser🍉 (Lancaster University) discusses this in a new Geography Directions blog post. Check it out here 👉https://ow.ly/E6HV50XHqaF
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Common use and collective freedom: Amazonian Forest Peoples reimagine the commons
By James A. Fraser, Lancaster University When sixteen forest communities along Brazil’s River Manicoré won legal recognition of their Território de Uso Comum (TUC, the country’s first territory bas…
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Kai Heron @kaiheron.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Our special issue of Labor and Society on the ecomodernist features of imperialism is now online in full. The issue makes a stronger contribution to theorising contemporary imperialist dynamics than I could have ever hoped for. Here's a thread introducing each contribution. 🧵
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