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James Tyner

@tynergeog.bsky.social
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Professor of Geography, Kent State University and AAG Fellow. Interests in Political Geography, Political Economy, Violence, Genocide, demonology, and the persecution of witchcraft

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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Excited this piece with excellent colleagues is now out! We examine implications of geopolitical turbulence in the world for the GEP research agenda @yixiansun.bsky.social @matpaterson.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/glep/article...
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Global Environmental Politics amid Geopolitical Turbulence
Abstract. Over the past decade, three overlapping trends have fundamentally reshaped and now characterize the global geopolitical order: the rise of emerging powers, increasing military conflicts, and...
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 23/10/2025
College faculty are self-censoring in classrooms to avoid controversy, according to a scholar of education, health and behavior studies. Over half of surveyed professors have altered course materials or emails to avoid expressing potentially controversial opinions. buff.ly/57704Yi
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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Via @publisherswkly.bsky.social: "Creature feature buffs will be thrilled." 🦋 www.publishersweekly.com/9781517920012
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The Luminous Fairies and Mothra by Takehiko Fukunaga, Yoshie Hotta, Shin'ichiro Nakamura
In the afterword to the first English-language edition of this wonderfully weird 1961 novella that inspired the classic kaiju fi...
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Witches of Massachusetts Bay @witchesmassbay.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Looking for talks on 17th century, in Boston & New England? @historicbostons.bsky.social has covered many topics, including Salem witch trials, Puritanism, war, slavery, indigenous people, Anne Bradstreet, money, & more, all by top speakers. historicbostons.org/events
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Events — Partnership of Historic Bostons
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
"The species is named after Inazuma, a character from the Japanese manga ‘One Piece,’ known for the ability to change sex between male and female"
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Half Male-Half Female Spider Discovered In Thailand Is New To Science
Not only is this species new to science, but this remarkable individual is the first record of a rare biological phenomenon in this previously unknown species.
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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
'as a rich and fascinating overview and introduction to British folklore this book is really essential reading for anyone interested in the subject. I know I’ll be returning to my copy again and again' - a lovely review of #Folklore on @shinynewbooks.bsky.social shinynewbooks.co.uk/folklore-a-j...
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I’m sad to hear the news that the wonderful Jane Goodall is no longer in the world. Her work with chimpanzees at Gombe in Tanzania taught us to look at other apes - and ourselves - differently. I was privileged to meet her later in life and tell her what an inspiration she was to me.
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pennstategeography.bsky.social @pennstategeography.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Professor Joshua Inwood (@geogjosh.bsky.social) is recruiting graduate students for Fall 2026! Prospective students are invited to connect by email & attend our graduate information session on Oct. 23 to learn more about opportunities in our M.S. and Ph.D. programs. Registration 🔗 lnkd.in/gEWHi4NK
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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
New article from @stefcraps.com! Ecological apologies: reckoning with grief, guilt, and multispecies justice. doi.org/10.1080/0964...
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Focusing on British artist Marcus Coates’s Apology to the Great Auk, a short film documenting an official apology to an extinct bird, this article explores the possibility and desirability of political apologies for anthropogenic species extinction. While the apology presented in the film fails to meet key criteria, it nonetheless offers something of political value. Coates’s work constitutes an audacious and innovative attempt to leverage ecological grief and guilt to counteract dominant discourses that devalue more-than-human life; to redraw the boundaries of the moral, legal, and political community; and to imagine a future of multispecies flourishing. By interpreting Apology to the Great Auk through the lenses of environmental transitional justice, bad environmentalism, and ecological prefiguration, the article demonstrates its potential as an artistic project, and the potential of ecological apologies more generally, to help us think and work towards care, justice, and moral repair beyond the human.
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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I'm honoured by the invitation from the FAO Right to Food team to present in this upcoming webinar on Unpacking Corporate Power in Agrifood Systems - with insights from my new book Titans of Industrial Agriculture. Sept 24 - 14:00-15:30CET Link to register: fao.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Laurie Parsons @laurieparsons.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Just 6 days to go! Don't forget to sign up for this incredible upcoming CCRG/ RGS event: What does the rise of far right politics in Europe + the US means for climate policy? 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐦 Tuesday September 30th @ 7pm 👇 www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
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Climate change under political extremism
As far-right movements rise in Europe and the US, what’s at stake for environmental policy? Experts will discuss sustaining action amid political shifts.
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Publishing today! From village rituals and fairytales to UFOs and fanfiction, witches, wizards and wickermen, British folklore is a living tradition that continues on. Available from all good bookshops and online now. @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social @odavies9.bsky.social #folklore #booksky
Folklore front coverFolklore back cover
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Witches of Massachusetts Bay @witchesmassbay.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Tonight. 7 pm @emersonwbaker.bsky.social on Stopping the Witch Hunts. Free. @historicbostons.bsky.social Will be recorded in case you didn't see this in time. www.eventbrite.com/x/resistance...
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Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Coming soon. The Citizen and the Vagabond. A Politics of Mobility.
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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Beautiful #Ediacaran fossil light on the E surface at Mistaken Point 🤩
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Hester Parr @hesterparr.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
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Girls just want to be in our history textbooks
Women are still largely missing from the history we teach in classrooms. If we want a fairer future, we must stop erasing half the past
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British Cartographic Society @bcsmaps.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Call for applications - The J.B. Harley Research Fellowships in the History of Cartography Awards range up to £2000. The closing date for applications is 1st NOVEMBER.  Apply here:  www.maphistory.info/harley.html Please forward to others who might be interested.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Offering an alternative to both futurism and communism, Russian Cosmism imagined a world where science and technology could conquer death and unite humanity.
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Cosmism: The 19th-century movement to reach space and immortality
Russian Cosmism predicted the end of the world, and foreshadowed mankind's desire to colonize outer space.
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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Though little documentation survives capturing women's contributions to #cartography, @tynergeog.bsky.social & Judith Tyner highlight the significance of unknown legacies to the foundational "beginnings" of cartography as a #geographic profession during #WWII. Read on: buff.ly/wqWMGY8
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Prof Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
📣 I'M HIRING! Please spread the word 📣 🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation. 🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/09/2025
"The U.S. agricultural workforce fell by 155,000 — about 7 percent — between March and July, according to an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. That tracks with Pew Research Center data that shows total immigrant labor fell by 750,000 from January through July."
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'The whole thing is screwed up': Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania struggle to find workers
They're pushing lawmakers to move faster on a farm labor solution, even as the president cracks down on immigration.
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Lindsay Naylor @lbnaylor.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Come work with us!! The Department of Geography & Spatial Sciences (GEOG) is seeking applications and nominations for the position of Department Chair at the rank of full professor with tenure--human geography specialization. #geosky #geogchat
group photo of department under 100 years of geography banner.
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
CFP AAG 2026 - Geography and civil war. @geographers.bsky.social Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 17-21, 2026. Paper session organized by Olivier Walther and David Russell. Proposed titles and abstracts and/or expressions of interest due October 15, 2025 anl.geog.ufl.edu/aag-2026/
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CFP AAG 2026 – Geography and civil war
The goal of this session of the American Association of Geographers is to examine how space shapes civil wars.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 12/09/2025
“Political assassinations come in waves…political assassinations create a process of escalation that encourages others on the extreme political spectrum to feel the need to retaliate.” An expert on extremism what can be done to de-escalate:
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‘This will not end here’: A scholar explains why Charlie Kirk’s killing could embolden political violence
Kirk’s killing reflects a broader political impasse in the US, where a significant percentage of the population supports political violence of some form.
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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Come work with us! The University of Nevada, Reno is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human-Environment Geography, with a focus on energy and/or water sustainability, and environmental justice. Details at this link nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UNR-ex...
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Assistant Professor, Human-Environment Geography
The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) appreciates your interest in employment at our growing institution. We want your application process to go smoothly and quickly. Final applications must be submitt...
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Witches of Massachusetts Bay @witchesmassbay.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
In case you missed it! Conversation with @emersonwbaker.bsky.social, Sara, Josh, & @historicbostons.bsky.social on 1692 Salem Witch Hunts & others. 6yb7kqsab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001...
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The Other: Understanding Witch Hunts, Part I, with Emerson Baker, Sarah Jack, and Josh Hutchinson
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Desiree Fields @desireefields.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
My department is hiring! We seek to hire an Assistant Professor in Global Black Geographies whose work engages "with the spatial dimensions of life in African and/or Black diasporic communities in the Global South". Job ad with more details: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05026
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Assistant Professor - Global Black Geographies - Department of Geography
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 09/09/2025
Infant mortality rises in states with restrictive abortion laws – new research
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Infant mortality rises in states with restrictive abortion laws – new research
A new study found that, on average, infant deaths increased by more than 7% in states with laws that limited abortions.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Save 30% on #NewBook "Concrete Colonialism" by Diana Jean S. Martinez, which argues that the pervasive use of reinforced concrete technologies revolutionized techniques of imperial conquest in the Philippines. buff.ly/r9T7WCE
Cover of Concrete Colonialism: Architecture, Urbanism, and the US Imperial Project in the Philippines by Diana Jean S. Martinez. The design is minimalist with a black background that covers about 80% of the space. In the top-right corner, there is a fragment of a black-and-white image resembling a torn document or film negative, showing a neoclassical building and handwritten notes.
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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Antipode volume 57, number 5 -- our September 2025 issue -- out now, including a seven-article Symposium, "A Global Era of Disposability: The Anthropocene, The Apotheosis of Waste" antipodeonline.org/2025/09/08/v...
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Witches of Massachusetts Bay @witchesmassbay.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Have you been to the House of the Seven Gables in Salem, Massachusetts? It's #1 for a historical home tour. www.boston.com/travel/trave...
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A Mass. historical home tour just ranked the best in the U.S.
A Mass. historical home tour just ranked the best in the U.S. according to Newsweek's Readers' Choice Awards.
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Emerson W. Baker @emersonwbaker.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I'll be discussing "The Other: Understanding Witch Hunts" with Sarah Jack & Josh Hutchinson of End Witch Hunts, tomorrow, Sept. 8, at 7pm, Eastern Time. What made the victims the 'other', how did they become the enemy? Free talk, sponsored by the Partnership for Historic Bostons tinyurl.com/mw6mtjb4
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Witches of Massachusetts Bay @witchesmassbay.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Sept. 8: Understanding Witch Hunts part 1 with @emersonwbaker.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/the-other-...
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The Other: Understanding Witch Hunts, Part I
Renowned historian Emerson Baker and podcasters Sarah Jack and Josh Hutchinson explore Salem and more in this freewheeling conversation.
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James Tyner @tynergeog.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Early morning walk
Standing in a meadow Standing in a meadow
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Scholastica @scholasticahq.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
🎊 New user spotlight: We welcome Music and Data, published by @ucpress.bsky.social, to the Scholastica community (now using our peer review system)! The journal is led by EICs @thomashodgson.org and Rujing Stacy Huang. Learn more: buff.ly/UmPYRK3
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James Tyner @tynergeog.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Thinking about Albert Schweitzer and this little European garden spider on my deck… the ghastly drama of life
European garden spider
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Jen Mapes @mapesgeog.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Inspiration was an elem principal and local historian who who pointed out that our neighborhood isn't on any tour of Kent history. Let's fix this, they said. So I started brainstorming how I could help and 350 houses and 400 LEDs later, this is what I came up with. I also just like making big maps.
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Jen Mapes @mapesgeog.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The Big Map is up in the Kent Free Library! This is a project highlighting the history of our South End, a neighborhood of immigrants, Black southern migrants, and railroad workers. communitygeography.kent.edu/index.php/20...
A 60"x60" map of Kent's South End with 350 little transparent 3D printed hollow houses, displayed on a public library wall. Here, I'm pressing the button for "born outside the U.S. on 1920 Census" and nearly all houses are lit up.A close up of the four buttons for the map, Born outside the US (1920, Railroad worker (1920), Radio in House (1930) and Black southern-born resident (1950).
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John Holmes @jhaue.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Data centres consume massive amounts of water – companies rarely tell the public exactly how much theconversation.com/data-centers...
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Data centers consume massive amounts of water – companies rarely tell the public exactly how much
In 2024, one data center in Iowa consumed 1 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the state’s residences with water for five days.
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Michael Allen @mjallen176.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
With a recent family cancer diagnosis, one is reminded that most people just live their lives, ignorant of gerrymandering, the latest tweet, or how much the planet has warmed. Most people just want to live their lives.
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James Tyner @tynergeog.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
A wonderful afternoon with Carter
A photo of Carter and me
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Jen Mapes @mapesgeog.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
This is the first fold-out map I’ve made, for a book for the historical society. It turned out great! Looking forward to reading the book, too, esp the interurban chapter.
Map based on Sanborn map of one of three Kent railroad yards in the 1930s. Steel Rails, Small Town: The Railroad History of Kent Ohio by Bruce Dzeda et al. 2025
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 09/08/2025
🐻🎉 In celebration of Smokey Bear's birthday today, here's how his official site has evolved over the years. The message? Still the same: "Only YOU." See Smokey's web history with the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19961229... #wildfireprevention
Image with text at the top that reads: Wayback Machine Then and Now. 
Below is a Wayback Machine capture of the SmokeyBear.com website from December 29, 1996, alongside a capture of the same site from August 5, 2025.
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James Tyner @tynergeog.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Sturgeon moon over Munroe Falls
Photo of full moon
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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Although recent headlines have drawn attention to naming conventions, #maps have always been #political. Derek Alderman, professor at @utkgeography.bsky.social, says: Maps are... shaped by decisions about what matters, who gets to be seen, and how the world should be understood. buff.ly/Tea3gJd
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James Tyner @tynergeog.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Thrilled to conduct archival work at the Phillips Library outside of Salem, Massachusetts. Thanks to the staff for all their support
Cover page of manuscript by John Webster, refuting witchcraft
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
This is rich—humans took over the entire planet. We’ve annihilated biodiversity everywhere. Now one species tries to bounce back, and we’re the victims? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Ground squirrels are taking over a North Dakota city and officials are not amused
Squirrels are exasperating the people of Minot, burrowing everywhere from vacant lots to the middle of town.
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Hester Parr @hesterparr.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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UofG academics elected new Fellows by The British Academy
Leading academics from the University of Glasgow have achieved the distinction of being elected to The British Academy Fellowship
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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 18/07/2025
The Orwellian myth at the heart of industrial agriculture? That environmental destruction is actually conservation. This must-read essay traces how productivism – the obsession with yield – fuels ecocide & colonialism, while failing to 'feed the world'. 📖 spectrejournal.com/the-enduring...
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The Enduring Fantasy of “Feeding the World” – Spectre Journal
Members of the Agroecology Research-Action Collective argue against the productivist logic underlying the "feed-the-world" approaches to feed security.
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James Tyner @tynergeog.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Excited to see the publication of my paper on geo-demonology, appearing in the Scottish Geographical Journal
Cover page of article on geo-demonology
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