Really glad to see our special feature of People and Nature is starting to trickle through.
The issue includes some wonderful contributions from scholars and practitioners working on the digital dimensions of nature recovery!
As the crowdfunder for the first radical bookshop icon Newcastle for 40 years gets closer to the end I’m making the bold move of calling on all the academics I sort of vaguely know and also those I don’t to share the link for our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...
On the horror of our times and what it means to feel like you’re on the darkest timeline: my 2025 Political Geography Plenary, at last out from embargo with three brilliant commentaries and my response: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @squirerachael.bsky.social @politicalgeography.bsky.social
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From V2 rocket-scarred London to Ukraine: how nature thrives in bomb craters—Vincent Mundy, The Guardian
"Every crater carries a different story, depending on the soil, location, power of the explosion, intensity of the battle and whether clean water is present"
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Distortion, unreality, a confusion of perspective: it is hard to shake the feeling of “time out of joint” in the period since Trump's re-election to t…
In the UK capital, Bomb Crater Pond is full of wildlife, while scientists studying land obliterated by recent Russian blasts 1,500 miles away have seen ‘how quickly nature begins to heal itself’
Bill Adams argues that ethical frameworks and methodological transparency are essential for ensuring Digital Surveillance Technologies can deliver benefits for nature recovery benefits without causing undue harm
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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦
🐄 🌍 Our new paper—'Metabolo-politics: Bovine Metabolism and Environmental Biopower'—is out in @theoryculturesociety.org.
We use Thomas Lemke's writings on Foucault to theorise an environmental and metabolic mode of biopower.
Really glad to see this one out!
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‘We want to be the hosts of this story’ by Lucy Jenner, Marc J. Metzger, Darren Moseley, and Ed Forrest explores whether improved data access can enhance understanding of land use change for nature recovery, focusing on community-led approaches
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Theo Stanley tracks the emergence of a new culture of nature—"technical wildness"—in Scotland in the early 2020s, arguing that it reshapes what rewilding is, how it is practised, and which ecosystems it creates
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Ben Bowsher
I'm honoured to have been named a CIFAR Global Scholar alongside this cohort of fantastic researchers.
As part of the Future Flourishing programme, we'll be asking what it means to live (well) without human exceptionalism?
cifar.ca/cifarnews/20...
Our special feature of People and Nature on the Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery is coming into being!
The special feature emerges from our 2024 conference at the Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub, Jesus College, Oxford
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Our special feature of People and Nature on the Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery is coming into being!
The special feature emerges from our 2024 conference at the Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub, Jesus College, Oxford
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... @peopleandnature.bsky.social
Anna Secor
Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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More-than-human metabolic processes increasingly constitute the locus of contemporary biopower, often responding to industrially-altered biogeochemical cycles. ...
<em>People and Nature</em> is an international journal publishing interdisciplinary research with ecological relevance that explores the relationships between humans and nature.
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<em>People and Nature</em> is an international journal publishing interdisciplinary research with ecological relevance that explores the relationships between humans and nature.
