This week on Mongabay’s Newscast, host @mikedigirolamo.bsky.social is joined by political ecologist @brambuscher.bsky.social to discuss why conservation efforts must understand and "challenge the power structures" to succeed.
Listen to this new episode!
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podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m.... Great listening to @brambuscher.bsky.social deconstruct the challenges faced by environmental activists in a post truth world. Definitely worth a listen. #climatecrisis #politics #capitalism #environment #change #convivialconservation
Very honoured and excited to join @ieadeparis.bsky.social next academic year!
E finalmente "Conservation Revolution" in Italiano!! :) Importante testo per capire il legame tra Conservazione della biodiversità, il colonialismo, e l'economia Capitalista. Una chiamata verso la convivialità!
I appreciate much of @ipbesfr.bsky.social but this business and biodiversity nonsense goes beyond 'missing the point'. It is simplistic, ineffective & dangerous
As long as we continue to talk about 'business' when the issue is 'capitalism', nothing will change. It only creates empty virtue signals
The people and policies that control how humans treat the natural world are increasingly dominated by a small class of elite political entities and corporations, argues our guest, political ecologist…
Please consider joining our 2026 Political Ecology spring school!
Planetary Political Ecologies: Environmental disasters, conflicts and possibilities in & beyond capitalism
▶️ 13-17 April 2026
▶️ Wageningen
With Annah Zhu, Erik Swyngedouw, Sumit Vij & others!
wass.crs.wur.nl/courses/deta...
Update on the 2026 PE Spring school:
I am extremely pleased that Prof Emma Mawdsley (University of Cambridge) and Prof. Iva Peša (University of Groningen) have agreed to join the spring school as instructors
Together with Annah Zhu, Sumit Vij and Erik Swyngedouw, this makes for a stellar line-up!
Prof. Bram Büscher (Wageningen University)
Prof. Robert Fletcher (Wageningen University)
Prof. Erik Swyngedouw (Manchester University)
Dr. Annah Zhu (Wageningen University)
Dr. Sumit Vij (Wageningen University)
wass.crs.wur.nl
The Conservation Revolution is out in Italian!
Conservation revolution. Idee radicali per salvare la natura oltre l'Antropocene (MiMesis)
Many thanks to Marco Immovilli, Margherita Cisani, Andrea Zinzani & Giacomo Zanolin for their amazing work!
@pollenetwork.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social
What do market thinking and centralized governance mean for academic freedom, public values, and the position of the social sciences? In this Letter to the editor, more than a hundred employees of @w-u-r.bsky.social argue for a pause and fundamental reflection. www.resource-online.nl/index.php/20...
The Conservation Revolution is out in Italian!
Conservation revolution. Idee radicali per salvare la natura oltre l'Antropocene (MiMesis)
Many thanks to Marco Immovilli, Margherita Cisani, Andrea Zinzani & Giacomo Zanolin for their amazing work!
@pollenetwork.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social
POLLEN - Political Ecology Network
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Letter to the editor: 'Increasingly, we are governed as if the university were a firm: steered by measurable outputs.'
Please consider joining our 2026 Political Ecology spring school!
Planetary Political Ecologies: Environmental disasters, conflicts and possibilities in & beyond capitalism
▶️ 13-17 April 2026
▶️ Wageningen
With Annah Zhu, Erik Swyngedouw, Sumit Vij & others!
wass.crs.wur.nl/courses/deta...
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📢 Welcome to the first Fellows of the Paris IAS for 2026! They are selected for a 10-month research residency starting this September (FIAS) :
Will Bateman
Bram Büscher
Carola Hein
Maurizio Isabella
Guilherme Lassance Los Santos Abreu
Ya-Wen Lei
Guillaume Sauvé
Fredrik Stiernstedt
#IEAParis
Prof. Bram Büscher (Wageningen University)
Prof. Robert Fletcher (Wageningen University)
Prof. Erik Swyngedouw (Manchester University)
Dr. Annah Zhu (Wageningen University)
Dr. Sumit Vij (Wageningen University)
When you hear business and biodiversity, which of these images resonates most with you, and why?
The #BizBiodiversity Assessment explores the many ways economic activities interact with nature and nature’s contributions to people.
📖 More about the report: ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG
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