Sarah Rogers
@china-geographies.bsky.social
Associate Professor | Asia Institute | University of Melbourne Hydropolitics, climate, agriculture, agrochemicals, resettlement, Global China
I found this conclusion really troubling... "Perhaps then, rather than wishing that China would be more democratic, democracies need to become more like China." www.break-down.org/the-inconven...
The Inconvenient Case of China
When it comes to the green transition, China poses an inconvenient but important challenge to liberal democracies.
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Jakarta is turning to China for lessons in water management as Indonesia confronts flooding, pollution and rising pressure on its water systems. chinaglobalsouth.com/analysis/jak...
Jakarta Looks to China for Answers to Its Water Crisis
Jakarta is sinking. Parts of the Indonesian capital city drop several centimeters every year because too much groundwater has been pumped from underground. When heavy rain comes, large areas flood.…
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A Friday arvo Clear Air column www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Albanese’s resources minister celebrating the Beetaloo carbon bomb is a hell of a choice. Labor can’t say it wasn’t warned | Clear Air
Scientists will be able to estimate the amount of heating and destruction caused by the gas ultimately drawn from the Beetaloo
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New on The Dig: Insuring Catastrophe with @astra.bsky.social, @dwallacewells.bsky.social, Madison Condon, and Moira Birss Ecological instability has arrived. Storms, floods and fires have become our new normal. Insurance companies are adapting. pod.fo/e/5adbe8
The government has emphasised positive coverage of rescue efforts in Tibet. Across the border in Nepal, foreign journalists are telling a different story.
Barring access and ‘positive’ news: how the Chinese government has controlled the narrative during the Tibet floods
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Summer in Mumbai was brutal and endless. The monsoon's poster child was running out of water. In a dispatch for @equatormag.bsky.social, I wrote about living with extreme heat in a broken city and limits to resilience. With🔥 images by @ishantankha.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/cit...
City of Sweat • EQUATOR
A vision of our overheated future on the streets of Mumbai
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Unsurprising given the chemical intensity of broadacre, but ironic that almost all of this glyphosate would have been produced in China. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
China's rejection of Australian mung beans prompts chemical rethink
China rejects 10 containers of Australian mung beans after testing found the shipment exceeded allowed chemical levels.
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'Reshaping Identity' is a Chinese contemporary dance work bringing together dancers of different ethnic backgrounds. In this essay, performer Yijie Chen takes the show as a lens to discuss the tension between ethnic folk dance as a state-defined form and the individual bodies it claims to represent.
To Whom Does Ethnic Folk Dance Belong? | Made in China Journal
Dance from and by ethnic minorities constitutes a significant part of how people perceive both ethnic minority cultures in China and Chinese dance at large. However, observers often miss how the stagi...
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No book shaped Western understanding of the Maoist revolution more than William Hinton's Fanshen. Drawing on Chinese-language sources and an unpublished draft of Fanshen, Brian DeMare explores the outsider/insider relationship in rural China, as well as Hinton's struggles in documenting it.
Secretary Wang’s American Friend: William Hinton and the Long History of ‘Fanshen’ | Made in China Journal
The road to Long Bow used to be much longer. When American agronomist and author of Fanshen (1966), William Hinton, made the journey to this seemingly unremarkable village in the autumn of 1947, he sp...
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Sign the petition to save the John Medley building. Enough with the pointless capital works, invest in staff. www.change.org/p/stop-the-d...
Sign the Petition
Stop the demolition of the John Medley Building
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Castillo Jara, E. & Bruns, A., (2026) “The production of unequal energyscapes: Contested colonial spaces for tar sands development in Canada”, Journal of Political Ecology 33(1): 6451. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social
The production of unequal energyscapes: Contested colonial spaces for tar sands development in Canada
This article develops the concept of energyscapes to examine the production, governance, and transformation of socio-material spaces for tar sands extraction, distribution, and consumption in Canada. ...
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OnlineFirst - "Imagining like the state: Seductive imaginaries, dam promises and state-ness in the Agno River Basin" by Rhomir S. Yanquiling: @unimelb.edu.au #PoliticalEcology #HumanGeography #WaterGovernance #Hydrosocial #Infrastructure #DamStudies #Philippines journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
The Philippines is now China's No. 2 solar export market. An energy emergency and soaring electricity prices have triggered a rooftop solar boom—but can it become a homegrown industry?
How the Philippines’ Energy Emergency Made It China’s No.2 Solar Market
The war in the Middle East has hit Filipino households where it hurts most: their electricity bills. Since late February 2026, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has disrupted roughly 20% of the worl...
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Paraquat is banned in dozens of countries – but this cheap imported herbicide is everywhere in Australia.
Cheap, effective and dangerous: how Australian farmers came to depend on the toxic weedkiller paraquat
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If you would like to know something about Australian farming and just how dependent it is on Chinese-made chemicals, here's a starter: theconversation.com/cheap-effect...
Cheap, effective and dangerous: how Australian farmers came to depend on the toxic weedkiller paraquat
Paraquat is banned in dozens of countries – but this cheap imported herbicide is everywhere in Australia.
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There it is. Paraquat will continue to be used in Australia. www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...
Breaking: Chemical regulator approves restricted use of controversial herbicide paraquat
The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority concludes its nearly 30-year review of the controversial but popular herbicide.
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Look what book is now *available* for preorder!! @rebecca-altman.bsky.social’s SONG OF STYRENE coming next April. Important and gorgeous. Also that cover!! #envhist #envhum #plastics www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-So...
The Song of Styrene
A personal history of plastics, written by a plastic-maker’s daughter turned environmental sociologist who, for the past decade, has searched for t...
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The energy transition raises difficult questions. #Tibetan nomad communities hosting solar projects wonder whether land leases will be renewed and how ageing panels will be disposed of. Listening to #Indigenous experiences is essential to a just transition. theconversation.com/how-the-deve...
How the development of solar and wind farms on the Tibetan Plateau is affecting local communities
China’s national government policies on energy and economic development are changing pastoral life on the Tibetan Plateau.
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📢 New article out! Drawing on research in Vanuatu, this paper shows how climate finance infrastructures can discipline institutions through audits, compliance requirements, etc. raising questions of justice, power, & sovereignty. #ClimateFinance #ClimateJustice journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Becoming ready, remaining disciplined? Access to climate finance and the double bind of accountability in Vanuatu - Johanna Tunn, 2026
The climate crisis is a lived reality in the Pacific. In Vanuatu, slow-onset and extreme weather events threaten coastal infrastructures, food security, and soc...
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Paraquat is banned in a heap of countries, including China where it is manufactured for export. Paraquat/diquat are still under review by Australia's APVMA. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Vermont becomes first US state to ban paraquat herbicide over Parkinson’s fears
Lawmakers cite studies linking weedkiller to Parkinson’s as pressure mounts for a wider US ban
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Every element of Project 2025 is designed to destroy the model of an educated citizenry capable of rational self-government, and to replace it with a fragmented system of privatized local control, homeschooling, religious indoctrination, and vocational training. lareviewofbooks.org/article/acad...
The Academy in a State of Siege: Pictures of an Institution, Part I | Los Angeles Review of Books
The academy has always been in a state of siege.
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"the most expensive degrees in the arts and the humanities are the gateway to higher education for women, Indigenous and first-in-family students"
Jon Piccini@jonpiccini.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe budget was meant to be about fairness. So why are young people still paying $52,000 for a degree?
Climate scientists are retiring RCP8.5, the worst-case emissions scenario that some have argued was never plausible in the first place. eos.org/research-and...
Why the IPCC Seems Poised to Eliminate Its Most Extreme Emissions Scenario - Eos
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations body whose mission is to “provide governments at all levels with scientific information that they can use to develop climate po...
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New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.
If the govt targets discretionary family trusts there will be a lot of guff about how they will hit middle Australians just trying to get by. Don't believe it www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
This looks like it’ll be a really interesting conservation on academic freedom and the study of China hosted by the INCCS. Details on the event linked below: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/academic-f...
Academic Freedom and China
Experts will reflect on recent developments in Chinese universities considering implications for research, teaching, and collaboration.
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Today @theguardian.com has a big profile on @cplusc.bsky.social and our Stop Greed, Build Green working class climate agenda. The piece does a great job of capturing where we've been, what we're trying to accomplish, and why green economic populism beats fossil fueled fascism.
As household bills soar, is it time for a ‘working-class climate agenda’?
Proposal from group that worked with AOC and Bernie Sanders seeks to counter claim that climate policy is politically toxic
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Blatantly unfair www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
One in four humanities students in Australia to take more than 25 years to pay off student loans, Treasury finds
Job-ready graduates program will also leave almost two-thirds of humanities and creative arts students with debts exceeding $50,000
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