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Valerio Donfrancesco

@vdonfrancesco.bsky.social
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Research interest in political ecology, more-than-human studies, nature conservation

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Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers! Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025 Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills! Please share widely!
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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
📢New issue of TIBG📢 Transactions' September Issue features two interventions on environmental crisis & geographies of creativity, 21 papers, and two commentaries on the war in Ukraine. 22/25 pieces are #OpenAccess and available to read here⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...
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1) 'On limit and love in times of environmental crises' by Ihnji Jon
2) 'Geographies of creativity/creative geographies' by Pat Noxolo
3) '‘My body was no longer a problem’: Electric mountain biking, disability, and the cultural politics of green exercise' by Jim Cherrington & James Brighton
4) '‘A wonderful day and a wonderful crossing!’: Internment (im)mobilities, ambivalence, and the residual tourist gaze in Second World War Britain' by Michael Holden & Peter Adey
5) '‘Smartness’ narratives: A critical discourse analysis of smart eldercare in urban China' by Yi Yu
6) 'Critique beyond relation: The stakes of working with the negative, the void and the abyss' by David Chandler & Jonathan Pugh
7) 'Poetics in the work of three urban photographers: Love for the chaotic city from the site of urban rooftops' by Paulina Nordstrom
8) 'Places as refrains: A non-constructive alternative to assemblage thinking' by Peter MerrimanA graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue.

1) Climate change, bodies and diplomacy: Performing watery futures in Tuvalu
Liam Saddington
2) Digital animal deathscapes: The online circulation of animals killed for conservation
Alexandra Palmer
3) The medium is the message: The geographies of cryptocurrency remittances to Venezuela
Daniel Robins
4) ‘One school, two systems’: Navigating the geographies of alternative education in an elite primary school in China
Zhenjie Yuan,  Huiyu Xie,  Hong Zhu
5) Translating India to India: Travelling translations, Patanjali Ayurveda, and the visual language of spiritual consumerism
Raksha Pande,  Alastair Bonnett
6) Urban political ecologies of sewage surveillance: Creating vital and valuable public health data from wastewater
7) Constructive (in)visibility and the trafficking industrial complex: Leveraging borders for exploitation
Audrey Lumley-Sapanski,  Katarina Schwarz
8) Translations, translocations, and pluralism: A transnational and multilingual analysis of the circulation of radical geographical knowledge
Federico Ferretti
9) From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves
Valerio Donfrancesco,  Chris SandbrookA graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles with 6 standard articles and 2 commentaries, with the names of papers in the issue.

1) Mining an Anthropocene in Japan: On the making and work of geological imaginaries
Deborah P. Dixon,  Carina J. Fearnley,  Mark Pendleton
2) Uneven ambient futures: Intersecting heat and housing trajectories in England and Wales
Caitlin Robinson,  Lenka Hasova,  Lin Zhang
3) Examining the ‘gendered’ places and spaces of UK doctoral education using multilevel modelling
Laura Harriet Sheppard,  Jonathan Reades,  Richard P. J. Freeman
4) The (non-)performance of the financial frontier: Building investment pipelines for the Sustainable Development Goals in Ghana
Abbie Yunita
5) Thinking through an ethnography of infrastructure: Commonsensical reasoning, road sharing, and everyday infrastructural settlements
Alan Latham,  Russell Hitchings,  Michael Nattrass
6) (Re)wilding London: Fabric, politics, and aesthetics
Jonathon Turnbull,  Tom Fry,  Jamie Lorimer
7) Resilient education: The role of digital technology in supporting geographical education in Ukraine
Simon M. Hutchinson,  Elizabeth R. Hurrell,  Kateryna Borysenko,  Vladyslav Popov,  Dariia Kholiavchuk,  Yana Popiuk
8) Imagining post-war futures amid cycles of destruction and efforts of reconstruction
Constance Carr,  Olga Kryvets
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Progress in Environmental Geography @progenvgeog.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
🌍 New paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography 🌎 'The Radical Edge of More-Than-Human Political Ecology: A Clarification of Scope and Approach' by Valerio Donfrancesco journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @vdonfrancesco.bsky.social
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Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
What do we mean when we say that carnivores and other wildlife are "habituating" to people? Who actually habituates to whom? Is this bad or god? Who decides? All of this and more in our new paper, expertly led by @ethanddoney.bsky.social, out now in @peopleandnature.bsky.social.
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Alexander L. Metcalf, PhD @metcalfhdlab.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Early word we'll have funding to recruit a Post-Doc in the Human Dimensions of Wildlife space - specifically working on hunter behaviors in deer management across several midwestern states. On the ground work, experiments, many academic & agency partners! Spread the word to any potential applicants.
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natureandspace.bsky.social @natureandspace.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
OnlineFirst - "Agrarian change and predators’ mobilities: A more-than-human political ecology of wolf impacts" by @vdonfrancesco.bsky.social and @csandbrook.bsky.social: #wolf #agrarianchange journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Thom van Dooren @thomvandooren.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Wishing I could be there in person. Looking forward to Zooming in to present on "Multispecies Storytelling for Catastrophic Times" (Sat morn in Europe, evening in Australia). Anyone interested can join the zoom! More info here: mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/meshw...
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Valerio Donfrancesco @vdonfrancesco.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
📄 Our paper has been recognised as among the 10% most read articles in Conservation Science and Practice in 2023. Emerging from a collaborative effort of many dingo scholars, it frames 'conflict over values' and 'conflict over evidence' in polarised wildlife management. doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
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Understanding conflict among experts working on controversial species: A case study on the Australian dingo
This study entails a social investigation into why experts may disagree about conservation and wildlife management issues, stressing the importance of understanding and emphasizing dissent in current...
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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
#OpenAccess paper in TIBG: 'From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves' by @vdonfrancesco.bsky.social & @csandbrook.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geo #geosky
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Valerio Donfrancesco & Chris Sandbrook (2025) entitled 'From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves' with a red banner at the top.
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Valerio Donfrancesco @vdonfrancesco.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
New paper from my PhD, in Transactions (@tibg.bsky.social) coauthored by @csandbrook.bsky.social. On wolves, farmers and interspecies violence. "From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves" rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... A thread below
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Exercises of biopower to promote human–wolf coexistence can have limited success. In contrast, affirmative biopolitics grounded in place-based ethics, which recognise wolves as subjects rather than l...
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