Vacancy: We are looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher / Curator (100%) (f/m/d) for our exhibition project "Negotiating African Futures" @unibonn.bsky.social @futuriumd.bsky.social. More➡️ crc-trr228.de/call-for-app...

Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Researcher / Curator - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

The Department of Geography at the University of Bonn and Futurium are partnering on the Z05 project “Negotiating African Futures: an exhibition project” of

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Hey #geosky kindly share this CfP for this years RGS-IBG conference 🙂 @theobromin.bsky.social and myself are hosting a session on infrastructure, the politics of deception and breaking the future! Deadline for submission is February 20!

‼️Two open ECR positions in Economic Geohraphy based at @giubresearch.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social as part of the Collaborative Research Center ‚Future Rural Africa‘. Project C02 investigates industrial development visions in the context of renewables in 🇰🇪 crc-trr228.de/available-po...

Available Positions for Third Funding Phase - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

We are pleased that our research project has received funding for a third project phase (2026-2029).

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My essay on “slow resistance” to long-proposed hydropower dams & diversions in the Salween River Basin is out with @newmandala.bsky.social ! It’s based on my PhD research & an article co-authored with @drvanessalamb.bsky.social in Antipode. www.newmandala.org/slow-resista...

“Slow resistance” in the Salween River Basin - New Mandala

Grassroots activism gums up the wheels of hydro-development

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‼️Two open ECR positions in Economic Geohraphy based at @giubresearch.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social as part of the Collaborative Research Center ‚Future Rural Africa‘. Project C02 investigates industrial development visions in the context of renewables in 🇰🇪 crc-trr228.de/available-po...

Available Positions for Third Funding Phase - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

We are pleased that our research project has received funding for a third project phase (2026-2029).

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Congratulations to Dr. @arnerieber.bsky.social! Arne received the Dr. Hohmann Award 2025 by the Cologne Geographical Society @unicologne.bsky.social for his research project on "German Industrial Transformation: Geoeconomy and the Role of the State in the Chemical Industry". tinyurl.com/mr3upmvd

Our Intervention on the limitation of free speech at German Universities, based on experiences with organising pro-Palestinian events. gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

#mittwochsimGIUB Tomorrow, Prof. Dr. Andrew Cumbers (@uofglasgow.bsky.social | Visiting Professor @unibonn.bsky.social) will give a talk on "The Future of the Public and the Struggle for the Democratic Economy" When? Nov. 18, 5:15pm Where? Lecture Hall, Dept. of Geography #geosky #geography

As seen in the release notes of ChatGPT Atlas. Cool cool cool

‼️There's a PhD or Postdoc position open in my working group ‼️Let's be colleagues 🥹 Economic Geography in Bonn Application deadline 22 November 2025 Due to teaching obligations, fluency in German is required

Today's session on the responsible use of AI in geography for incoming Master's students showed that: a) students are using AI, and b) they would like much clearer guidelines (and guidance). Simply telling them not to use it because it's evil will not be sufficient.

Call for Abstracts - AAG 2026 | SF Deadline: October 23rd Join my Panel at next year's AAG conference on "Infrastructure Monsters and the Specter of Sabotage". We talkin' horror stories, queer geography, ghosts, Marx' specters, ruination, sabotage, and much more! @geographers.bsky.social #GeoSky

First day in my new position 🎉 Excited to join the economic geography group at @giubresearch.bsky.social as a postdoctoral researcher. Moving from political ecology to political economy, in the next years I will focus on the role of the state in the geoeconomy and industry policy.

Congrats to @arnerieber.bsky.social who completed his dissertation this summer! 🎉 Arne worked in @crctrr228.bsky.social on on future-making in large-scale hydraulic infrastructure projects in East Africa. Read more: bonndoc.ulb.uni-bonn.de/xmlui/handle... #geosky #PoliticalEcology #geography

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

In 2022 the High Grand Falls Dam was announced by UK and Kenyan governements, to irrigate 400,000ha and produce 1 GW. By 2025 it was cancelled again. What remained in the region was no material change, but the violence of broken promises impacting future-making and everyday actions of those affected

"The Government of Israel’s restrictions, delays, and fragmentation under its total siege have created chaos, starvation, and death."

Israel blocking aid from Gaza is creating ‘chaos and death’, say 111 humanitarian groups

Letter signed by agencies including Doctors Without Borders condemn Israeli military attacks on Palestinians

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Very happy and proud to share that today I’ve successfully defended my dissertation. So grateful to the @unibonn.bsky.social @giubresearch.bsky.social @crctrr228.bsky.social, my supervisors, reviewers and wonderful colleagues in Bonn who guided and supported me over the last three years!

📢June Issue of Area📢 This latest issue pulls together the fully #OpenAccess 'Rivers as Borders' Special Section alongside papers on topics including de-development, AI, and diary methods. Read all the papers here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762... #geosky

Can sabotage be an act of care? A way to build the future? In our new @antipodeonline.bsky.social article, Eric Kioko & I introduce the Sabotage Matrix, a tool to rethink infrastructure sabotage as both destructive and constructive. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Conference in Barcelona, June 2026. Help us disseminate the event and submit your articles, please! @icta-uab.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/

Hey Bonn/Cologne people. The KritGeo group at our department is hosting an event next week that speaks for itself in terms of urgency or relevance.

Over the past weeks I've had 2 major grants terminated, from EPA and NSF. Over $1 million of funding for human-enviro geography research lost. These terminations have negative impacts for myself, my graduate students, my university, community partners, and society. #withoutNSF #geosky 1/9 🧪

#OA paper in Area: 'Claim-making in hydrosocial spaces: The temporality of displacement around Kenya's Masinga Dam reservoir' by @arnerieber.bsky.social & Benson Nyaga This paper explores how historical injustices shape contemporary contestations over land & water rights. doi.org/10.1111/area...

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library

The article examines the contested hydrosocial territory of the Masinga Dam reservoir in Kenya, focusing on how historical injustices, infrastructural temporalities, and spatial reconfigurations shap...

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Future Rural Africa Public Lecture: How does wealth accumulate in African cities & beyond? Who owns what, who gets what, and why? @econgeo.bsky.social unpacks these questions, linking local & global economies. 📅 7 April 2025 🕓 16:00 - 17:30 (CEST) More ➡️ crc-trr228.de/crc-trr-publ...

CRC-TRR Public Lecture: Stefan Ouma - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

Mon | April 7th, 2025 | 16:00 – 17:30  (CEST)

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New Publication! @theobromin.bsky.social & Detlef Müller-Mahn explore how labor shapes future-making in East African infrastructure projects. 📰➡️https://crc-trr228.de/new-publication-how-labour-has-the-potential-to-make-marginalised-futures-visible-and-real/

New Publication: How Labour has the Potential to Make Marginalised Futures Visible and Real - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

In this recent publication, researchers Theo Aalders and Detlef Müller-Mahn (Project C03 Green Futures) explore how labor shapes future-making in East African

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Really happy to see our article in JPE! In it, we discuss the 'non-economy of anticipation', a double vision in the construction phase of infrastructure, where future promises collide with the actual realities of implementation. We show how this leads to apathy and infrastructural violence.

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Rieber, A., Kioko, E. M. & Aalders, T., (2025) “The non-economy of anticipation in the construction phase of large dams”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 6117. doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @changetanzania.bsky.social @arnerieber.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social

Politicians in Berlin, @kaiwegner.bsky.social & Ina Czyborra have pressured the FU Berlin to cancel Albanese's & Weizman's lecture. @christinebinzel.bsky.social, @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social and I condemn this in the strongest terms. Below our letters to the politicians in EN & DE, plus a 🧵 1/4