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Raf De Bont 🟥

@rafdebont.bsky.social

Historian of science and the environment // Late adopter & cautious adventurer // Interested in 19th, 20th and 21st century natures // Author of Stations in the Field and Nature's Diplomats // https://moving-animals.nl

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Raf De Bont 🟥@rafdebont.bsky.social · 4mo ago

On my way back from the Tensions in Europe conference Apart from the great talks, I was also charmed by Eindhoven's modernist architecture. Somehow this past futurism makes me a bit nostalgic.

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Raf De Bont 🟥@rafdebont.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Drill, baby, drill!" This graph shows oil production by the three biggest producers. U.S. output has risen almost continuously since the late Bush Jr. years. Trump can be blamed for much worse, but on oil he's more an accelerant than an outlier: the shale boom made higher production bipartisan.

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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Meanwhile, in the US. It just takes your breath away. *50 years* in prison for protesting. Don't imagine for one moment that we are immune to this. Already, the legislative framework is in place in the UK to enable such convictions - before we get a Trumplike PM. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Alarm over ‘extreme’ sentences for anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism

First amendment groups call 50-to-100-year prison terms chilling as legal experts say sentences unusually long

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Raf De Bont 🟥@rafdebont.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Of course, I knew that 'ethnic' cuisine is usually a combination of lies and lazy stereotypes, but it becomes all the more apparent when the 'ethnicity' involved is your own. 'Flemish' fish and chips?

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Gregg Mitman@greggmitman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It was a pleasure to contribute a chapter, "Caring for Chimps as Viral Kin," on the complex relations of care and unequal relations of exchange that developed at Vilab II in Liberia, for this great volume! Open access is available @ www.jstor.org/content/oa_b... #envhist #medhist

Globalizing Wildlife on JSTOR

Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became the ...

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Vanessa Bateman@vbateman.bsky.social · 6mo ago

*Globalizing Wildlife* is OUT THIS MONTH (!) with @uncpress.bsky.social “An essential and timely intervention… exciting, cutting-edge vantages on crucial global histories” -Daniel Vandersommers Edited by @rafdebont.bsky.social myself, & Tom Quick #animalhist #globalhist #HistSci #envhist

Cover of the book Globalizing Wildlife, edited by Raf De Bont, Vanessa Bateman, and Tom Quick. Featuring a photo of a red deer held in a nylon sack hanging from below a helicopter.
Raf De Bont 🟥@rafdebont.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Really happy to see this one materialised — it’s been a real pleasure working on it with @vbateman.bsky.social , Tom Quick, and a wonderful group of contributors. Should be available in print and (OA) electronically by May 26!

Vanessa Bateman@vbateman.bsky.social · 6mo ago

*Globalizing Wildlife* is OUT THIS MONTH (!) with @uncpress.bsky.social “An essential and timely intervention… exciting, cutting-edge vantages on crucial global histories” -Daniel Vandersommers Edited by @rafdebont.bsky.social myself, & Tom Quick #animalhist #globalhist #HistSci #envhist

Cover of the book Globalizing Wildlife, edited by Raf De Bont, Vanessa Bateman, and Tom Quick. Featuring a photo of a red deer held in a nylon sack hanging from below a helicopter.
Raf De Bont 🟥@rafdebont.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I still remember watching the Dutch "jeugdjournaal" as a kid (as there was no Belgian equivalent). Fun to now make a brief appearance there. Particularly when it is for talking about a topic like Pablo Escobar's hippos!

Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences@fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Why are #hippos roaming wild in #Colombia? @rafdebont.bsky.social explains on @nosjeugdjournaal.bsky.social how Pablo Escobar’s former animals spread, and what this means for #ecosystems and safety - making a complex issue clear for a young audience. 📽️ jeugdjournaal.nl/artikel/2610...

Simone Schleper 🟥@moneschleper.bsky.social · 8mo ago

And here finally my contribution to this conversation doi.org/10.1017/S174... in @globalhistjnl.bsky.social. I trace the origins of #corporateenvironmentalism to heterogeneous, private #governance networks in the 1970s that served as alternatives to official UN settings. Also, great title, yes?

Private parties for a new world order: Maurice and Hanne Strong, global governance, and environmental imaginaries since 1970 | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core

Private parties for a new world order: Maurice and Hanne Strong, global governance, and environmental imaginaries since 1970

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Cyrus Mody@ccmmody.bsky.social · 10mo ago

ICYMI a summary of a recent chapter. read in combo w/ this 👇chapter (access it by downloading the entire OA volume) by @odinnmelsted.bsky.social + past & forthcoming work by @moneschleper.bsky.social to grasp what I'm calling the "Philanthropocene" ... www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...