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Penelope Anthias

@penelopeanthias.bsky.social
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Associate Prof. in Human Geography at Durham. Research on territory, extractivism, Indigenous rights in Bolivia (Chaco). New documentary filmmaker

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Guardian will stream NAZA on its website for free >>> www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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Global release announced for acclaimed Gaza documentary NAZA
Theatrical rollout across 56 territories planned for documentary about Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza before film will stream on Guardian website
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Happening tomorrow!
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Of all we do in academia, reviewing important new work is surely one of the joys. It reminds us why we do what we do. Never truer than for this review forum, where I got to discuss Andrea Marston’s exceptional book Subterranean Matters with esteemed colleagues www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Heading to New York tomorrow for this exciting event! as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Guest Lecture, co-organised by our Geographies of Life research cluster: 'Curating Learning Journeys - Transformational Experiences in the Classroom', Dr Erzsébet Strausz, Central European University, Vienna. Thursday, 30th April 2026, 13.00-14.30, room PCL 054 (Palatine Centre)
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Access the introduction and six papers at antipodeonline.org/2026/04/14/q...
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Symposium—“Querying Nature and (Anti-/De-)coloniality” - Antipode Online
Organized by Penelope Anthias, Joel E. Correia, and Kiran Asher This Symposium takes on questions of how actually existing movements contest various forms of “colonial Natures,” from settler property ...
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
We will never know how many students could have got better marks without using AI. I can only say that, in my experience, the quality of student work has declined since ChatGPT.
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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
We are looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Human Geography with expertise in the field of Health Geography that will complement and extend current work in our Geographies of Life research cluster. Application deadline May 10th, further details here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Assistant Professor in Human Geography
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
#decoloniality #anticoloniality #indigeneity #Nature #colonialecologies #politicsofrepresentation #socialmovements #embodiedstruggles
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
"‘Inhabiting Otherwise’: Maasai Pastoralists’ Ontological Struggles Over Land in Tanzania". By Leiyo Singo onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (8/8)
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‘Inhabiting Otherwise’: Maasai Pastoralists’ Ontological Struggles Over Land in Tanzania
In this paper, I take the case of Maasai pastoralists' land struggles as an entry point to demonstrate ontological struggles over how land is known, treated and managed in Tanzania. Engaging politica...
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
"From Colonial Natures to Entangled Ecologies: Making Due and Relational Geographies of Indigenous Resurgence in the Chaco". By Joel E. Correia and Clemente Dermott onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (7/8)
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From Colonial Natures to Entangled Ecologies: Making Due and Relational Geographies of Indigenous Resurgence in the Chaco
This paper offers an alternative reading of decolonial geographies by examining how people make due in the context of colonial natures. Drawing on collaborative ethnographic research, we illustrate h...
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
"Iran as Subaltern Empire: Lake Orumiyeh, Environmental Injustice, and Coloniality in Iranian Azerbaijan". By A. Marie Ranjbar onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (6/8)
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Iran as Subaltern Empire: Lake Orumiyeh, Environmental Injustice, and Coloniality in Iranian Azerbaijan
In recent years, protests have emerged to save Lake Orumiyeh, which has nearly vanished following decades of agricultural development, dam building, and drought. Lake Orumiyeh is located in Iranian A...
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
"Indigenous Natures and the Anthropocene: Racial Capitalism, Violent Materialities, and the Colonial Politics of Representation". By Penelope Anthias and Kiran Asher onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... (5/8)
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Indigenous Natures and the Anthropocene: Racial Capitalism, Violent Materialities, and the Colonial Politics of Representation
Indigenous Peoples are gaining renewed attention within both policy and academia, as examples of “resilience” and of non-humanist, non-modern ways of relating to nature, which might, it is hoped, pro...
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
"When Broken Worlds Churn: The Anti-Caste Fabulations of Du Saraswathi" By Shreyas Sreenath onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... (4/8)
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When Broken Worlds Churn: The Anti‐Caste Fabulations of Du Saraswathi
How can literary fabulation prompt a reflection on caste, colonial, and capitalist lifeworlds? Engaging with two short stories by the Dalit feminist thinker Du Saraswathi, this article considers the ...
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
"Bending Possession: How Detroiters Care for Land by Remediating Settler Property" By Nicholas L. Caverly onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... (3/8)
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Bending Possession: How Detroiters Care for Land by Remediating Settler Property
This article examines how people reconfigure the social, legal, and material claims that settler property relations make to place. It does so through ethnographic and historical attention to small-sc...
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The Symposium explores how colonial ideologies and practices around “Nature” persist and are disrupted by myriad forms of anticolonial and radical justice struggles. It brings together 6 fantastic contributions... (2/8)
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Our Intro to the Antipode Symposium "Querying Nature and (Anti-/De-)coloniality" is finally out! Co-authored with Kiran Asher and Joel Correia @joelecorreia.bsky.social, it has been a long labour of love (1/8) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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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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Rachel Pelletier @fouturachel.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Really excited about this important piece. 🌱
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
New publication! Territories of Life: Equivocations, Entanglements, Endurances, co-edited by Mario Blaser, Sylvie Poirier and myself ualbertapress.ca/978177212825...
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Territories of Life - University of Alberta Press
Territories of Life highlights the multiplicity and heterogeneity of worlds and collectives, some labelled Indigenous, as they struggle to sustain their terr...
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Critical geopolitics lectureship in Human Geography at Leeds
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Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer in Human Geography
Lecturer in Critical Human Geography, Faculty of EnvironmentSalary: Grade 8 (£51,753 – £59,966 p.a. depending on experience) This role will be based on the university campus, with scope for it to be u...
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Wow! Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report. This is a *big* legal win. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule
Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Now Published The Palestine Action judgment www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Many thanks for answering my question!
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Does "American history" here include both North and South America?
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Newcastle Chronicle ran a story yesterday about the government's response to People Against Rafael's petition to investigate Pearson Engineering. It also discusses PAR's research on use of Pearson Engineering's Threat-sense technology in Israeli drones www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
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Government responds to call for investigation into Newcastle arms factory
A petition signed by 5,000 people demanded greater transparency over the operation of Pearson Engineering’s Armstrong Works site on Scotswood Road last year
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
@paullangley.bsky.social and @andrewleyshon.bsky.social, Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance - Zone, July 2026 press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...
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Fintech Capital
A thorough examination of the worldwide digital transformation of people’s everyday monetary and financial relations driven by the emergence of FinTech
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
BREAKING: Massive Crowds of Anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota as we speak. The tide is turning. America is Fed Up. Americans should be fighting back against what is happening in this country. Having masked, secret police shooting people, breaking into homes and cars, is NOT normal.
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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
We are looking forward to welcoming Mark Griffiths (GPS, Newcastle University) to the Department on January 13th (2-4pm, room W010) to speak about his book Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine (University of Minnesota Press, 2025) in conversation with Dr. Lauren Martin from Durham Geography.
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
A sobering reminder of the new political context in Bolivia: support for the US military invasion of Venezuela with purported support for "democracy" but no mention of sovereignty
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Thinking of everyone in Venezuela right now. A reminder to those who aren't Venezuelans or regional specialists that your take isn't required (read and share local commentary instead)
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
In further evidence that our university employers only care about us as exploitable labour, Durham has suspended staff access to free flu vaccines on 30th November - the official start of peak flu season
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life Fellows - Assistant Professor (Research) G7 - G8
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Tonight!
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Sounds like Structural Adjustment 2.0 in Bolivia: "Funds from creditors including the World Bank and the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) will support private sector initiatives in infrastructure, renewable energy, and financial inclusion". www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Bolivia negotiating $9 billion in multilateral loans to spur recovery
Bolivia is negotiating multilateral financing that will exceed $9 billion for public and private projects, Economy Minister Jose Gabriel Espinoza said Tuesday in the first major policy announcement si...
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Looking forward to this tomorrow!
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
The elephant is now the only thing left in the room #COP30
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Let's not forget that appropriating and subverting left agendas has been a key strategy of the far-right. Much easier than winning an argument
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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Our colleague Gavin Bridge has recently co-created a short animation called the ‘Future of UK Oil and Gas’. The film draws on insights from the Fraying Ties project on Networks, Territory and Transformation in the UK oil sector, and was produced by Seed Creativity: youtu.be/8MPHZAhzzLY
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The future of UK oil and gas
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Happy to recommend this Bilingual Audiovisual Roundtable "Urban Futures of Popular Neighbourhoods" curated by @samhalvorsen.bsky.social and Adriana Massidda. It hosts 5 short films from Latin America, inc. my film "Urukurenda: In Search of the Land Without Evil" antipodeonline.org/2025/10/29/u...
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Bilingual Intervention—“Urban Futures of Popular Neighbourhoods: An (Audio)Visual Roundtable” - Antipode Online
Sam Halvorsen (Queen Mary University of London) and Adriana L. Massidda (University of Sheffield) Spanish language version available at: / Versión en español disponible en: https://antipodeonline.org/...
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Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Book launch for The Politics of Feeling with @ajsecor.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social @will-davies.bsky.social on 25.11 at 15.00 in London. Details here, last time I checked there were a couple of tickets left www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I imagine Labour will take it as a cue that they need to be even more racist
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Increasingly seeing PhD proposals containing hallucinated publications I have supposedly authored. Wondering if such hallucinations could ever acquire a life of their own and with what consequences 🤔
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Despite continuously emphasising their societal contributions to health and sustainability, UK universities appear to make zero effort to ensure healthy and sustainable food is available to staff and students. Or is it just Durham?
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
This is what happens when (formerly) centrist parties try to copy the far-right www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Social Democrats in Denmark suffer sweeping election losses
PM Mette Frederiksen’s centre-left party loses control of Copenhagen for first time in more than 100 years
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Laura Loyola-Hernández @wawisloyola.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Sharing a chapter I wrote on de/coloniality, the role geography has in speaking up vs educide including ongoing in Palestine. If you'd like a PDF of it get in touch 😃 It's part of De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography, edited by Sydney Calkin and Cordelia Freeman
Abstract for chapter on de/coloniality
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Could UK universities please stop requesting reference letters from university lecturers for MA/MSc applicants? We do not have time and it does not provide any information that cannot be gleaned from transcripts, CVs and personal statements (which are often the basis for our letters)
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Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
New publication out, “creative political geography” in the De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography, generously and gently edited by Cordelia Freeman and Sydney Calkin. degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1… ( not open access but happy to send a pdf copy)
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