Daniel Hartley

@danieljhartley.bsky.social

Associate Professor in World Literatures at Durham University. Marxist literary criticism & environmental humanities, new peasantries, agroecology, post-capitalist futures. Views mine.

It exists! Publication day in the UK of ARRESTING ECOLOGIES: GLOBAL LITERATURE ACROSS AIR, LAND, AND SEA, 1926-2014. Available everywhere for preorder with discount code AUFLY30 at Oxford UP WEBSITE; digital edition available now at all libraries with Oxford academic subscriptions.

Hardcover copy of ARRESTING ECOLOGIES: GLOBAL LITERATURE ACROSS AIR, LAND, AND SEA, 1926-2014 (Oxford UP June 2026).Table of contents of ARRESTING ECOLOGIES Image of interior pages with Shell OIL advertising photos.

Zeteo contributor Alex Colston has just been released from Israeli prison. Alex was abducted while traveling with the Global Sumud Flotilla and details the abuses he experienced while detained.

I’m happy to share that our book proposal has been accepted in Routledge’s History and Philosophy of Biology series! I’m so excited and honored to be co-editing the volume - titled Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin - with Jonathan Basile and Denis Walsh.

A very interesting article that contextualises Welsh devolution in the longue-durée history of the British state and reflects on what Reform's rise might mean for "Welsh European" regional autonomy.

Daniel G. Williams@danielgwydion.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Rhywbeth i’w ddarllen tra'n aros am y canlyniadau, efallai. @richardwynjones.bsky.social @danieljhartley.bsky.social @jasminedonahaye.bsky.social nationtimecymrusydd.wordpress.com/2026/05/07/i...

I'm giving a talk at Oxford University next week as part of their Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar. The title of the talk is: '"In the Belly of this Story": Metabolic Autonomy in Leslie Marmon Silko and the Late Marx'. Do come if you're around!

Poster advertising the seminar series. If you'd like specific details, please do ask.

On Tuesday April 21, I'll be hosting an in-person (non-recorded) one-day symposium on "Culture and the 21st-Century Agrarian Question" at Durham University. Details in the images, booking link below. All welcome!

Slide showing event key info:
Event: Symposium
Title: Culture and the 21st-Century Agrarian Question
Date: April 21
Time: 10.30a.m.-6p.m.
Location: Durham University (Waterside Building | Business School | Room: WB-0003-0004)
Organiser: This event is organised by the Centre for Culture and Ecology.
Speakers: Sourit Bhattacharya, Hannah Green, Daniel Hartley,  Amanda Herbert,  Clara Olóriz Sanjuán, Douglas SpencerSlide showing programme schedule:
10.30-10.45 – Welcome and Introduction (Organiser: Daniel Hartley)

10.45 – 11.45 – Amanda Herbert (Durham University): ‘The Edible Commons: Food Rights and Local Fisheries in England, Virginia, and Jamaica, c. 1630-1830’

11.45-12.45 – Sourit Bhattacharya (Edinburgh University): ‘“Aesthetics of Hunger”: Mahasweta Devi’s Irreal Tales’

12.45-13.45 – Lunch

13.45-14.45 – Daniel Hartley (Durham University): ‘The Cultural Logic of “Eating Well”: From the Early Marx to the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement’

14.45–15.45 – Hannah Green (Bristol and Aberystwyth Universities): ‘“This land is so much younger than ourselves”: 21st-century narratives of depeasantization in Jim Crace’s Harvest (2013) and Tom Branfoot’s boar (2023)’

15.45-16.00 – Break

16.00-17.00 – Douglas Spencer (Iowa State University): ‘Crises of representation in the landscapes of end-stage capitalism’

17.00-18.00 – Clara Olóriz Sanjuán (Architectural Association School of Architecture): ‘Planetary Landscapes: Architecture(s) in Climate, Care and Food Crises’

On Tuesday April 21, I'll be hosting an in-person (non-recorded) one-day symposium on "Culture and the 21st-Century Agrarian Question" at Durham University. Details in the images, booking link below. All welcome!

Slide showing event key info:
Event: Symposium
Title: Culture and the 21st-Century Agrarian Question
Date: April 21
Time: 10.30a.m.-6p.m.
Location: Durham University (Waterside Building | Business School | Room: WB-0003-0004)
Organiser: This event is organised by the Centre for Culture and Ecology.
Speakers: Sourit Bhattacharya, Hannah Green, Daniel Hartley,  Amanda Herbert,  Clara Olóriz Sanjuán, Douglas SpencerSlide showing programme schedule:
10.30-10.45 – Welcome and Introduction (Organiser: Daniel Hartley)

10.45 – 11.45 – Amanda Herbert (Durham University): ‘The Edible Commons: Food Rights and Local Fisheries in England, Virginia, and Jamaica, c. 1630-1830’

11.45-12.45 – Sourit Bhattacharya (Edinburgh University): ‘“Aesthetics of Hunger”: Mahasweta Devi’s Irreal Tales’

12.45-13.45 – Lunch

13.45-14.45 – Daniel Hartley (Durham University): ‘The Cultural Logic of “Eating Well”: From the Early Marx to the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement’

14.45–15.45 – Hannah Green (Bristol and Aberystwyth Universities): ‘“This land is so much younger than ourselves”: 21st-century narratives of depeasantization in Jim Crace’s Harvest (2013) and Tom Branfoot’s boar (2023)’

15.45-16.00 – Break

16.00-17.00 – Douglas Spencer (Iowa State University): ‘Crises of representation in the landscapes of end-stage capitalism’

17.00-18.00 – Clara Olóriz Sanjuán (Architectural Association School of Architecture): ‘Planetary Landscapes: Architecture(s) in Climate, Care and Food Crises’