The US and #Venezuela announced that they reached a huge oil deal. Some details remain murky, and reactions come in different forms, from celebratory to ones decrying the pact. A few, at times obvious, comments regarding how the deal changes oil governance in Venezuela: 🧵
Antulio Rosales
@antuliorosales.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Department of Social Science, York University. I work on political economy of energy and development, politics of cryptocurrency in Latin America, Venezuelan politics.
Jason Arday’s tragic death reveals the intense skepticism Black scholars face theconversation.com/jason-ardays...
Jason Arday’s tragic death reveals the intense skepticism Black scholars face
Black academics can mourn a young colleague while also anticipating the burden his case may place on scholars who may find their own qualifications subjected to renewed suspicion.
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‘In July alone, more than 150 towns and counties passed temporary or permanent bans on data centers, many adopted in emergency meetings. That brings the nationwide total to more than 500.’ www.theinformation.com/articles/dat...
Here is my urgent call to place Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights at the centre of the Humanitarian Response and discussions about #ReconstructionEfforts. Thanks to @hpg-odiglobal.bsky.social for their invitation. odi.org/en/insights/...
Earthquakes and governance: why we need a gender lens in Venezuela’s compounding crises
Statistically, Venezuela was already a dangerous place for women to give birth before the earthquakes. That fact alone should place sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) needs at the forefr...
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A feminist 🧵on the Humanitarian Response in #Venezuela Before the earthquakes, 🇻🇪 already had the 2nd highest #MaternalMortality rate in the Americas and the Caribbean. Adding a double #earthquake with over 16,000 injured & thousands displaced necessarily increases the risk of maternal mortality.
“Statistically, #Venezuela was already a dangerous place for women to give birth before the earthquakes. That fact alone should place sexual and reproductive health and rights needs at the forefront.” – masayalb.bsky.social (Huron University College). Find out more in our article: buff.ly/XvWHSou 🔗
Earthquakes and governance: why we need a gender lens in Venezuela’s compounding crises
Statistically, Venezuela was already a dangerous place for women to give birth before the earthquakes. That fact alone should place sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) needs at the forefr...
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Earthquakes and governance: why we need a gender lens in Venezuela’s compounding crises by @masayalb.bsky.social odi.org/en/insights/...
Earthquakes and governance: why we need a gender lens in Venezuela’s compounding crises
Statistically, Venezuela was already a dangerous place for women to give birth before the earthquakes. That fact alone should place sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) needs at the forefr...
odi.org
a map of 🌮 crime family's crypto empire. enjoy (sort of). h/t ritholtz map.citationneeded.news
Mapping Trump's Crypto Empire
Untangling the sprawling web of Trump family crypto ventures, and the fortune they’re making by cashing in on the presidency.
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There are more than 870 wildfires burning across Canada as of Thursday, with several threatening communities and forcing residents to flee or prepare to evacuate at a moment’s notice. 🔗 Here’s an overview of the current situation – in maps and charts: bit.ly/can-wildfire...
I have a new piece out that synthesizes the past few years of research in Latin America on cryptocurrency adoption. The political economy of cryptocurrency in Latin America www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... in @econsocjournal.bsky.social. Thanks to @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca for their support. 🧵
The political economy of cryptocurrency in Latin America
This paper explains the political economy of cryptocurrency expansion in Latin America. Based on qualitative research and in-depth interviews, the paper explains the motivations that promote crypto...
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The tech industry is pushing our planet to the breaking point. HYPERSCALE tells the story of the growing fight around data centers. It comes out October 20. Preorder yours today: hyperscalebook.com
La Sección de Estudios Venezolanos (SVS) abre la convocatoria de propuestas que serán presentadas en @lasabluesky.bsky.social "Navegar el colapso: reinventar la política, cuidar lo común”. La #fecha límite es el 21/8/26 #Venezuela #México Más #información aquí www.facebook.com/share/p/1EAn...
Venezuela 2026: recalibrando esperanzas Por Jessica Vargas otrosdialogos.colmex.mx/venezuela-20...
OTROS DIÁLOGOS | Venezuela 2026: recalibrando esperanzas
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De la crisis extractivista al extractivismo tutelado. #Extractivismo #Venezuela #tutelaje otrosdialogos.colmex.mx/de-la-crisis...
OTROS DIÁLOGOS | De la crisis extractivista al extractivismo tutelado
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Help Venezuela From Abroad: Cash Donations Matter Most Right Now www.caracaschronicles.com/2026/06/26/h...
Help Venezuela From Abroad: Cash Donations Matter Most Right Now | Caracas Chronicles
Supplies are being collected in the US and globally, but monetary transfers are the fastest way to deliver relief
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Doblete sísmico en Venezuela y las grietas por atender @maryhenjimenez.bsky.social #Venezuela elpais.com/america/2026...
Doblete sísmico en Venezuela y las grietas por atender
El Estado venezolano debe ser repensado y reconstruido para cumplir con sus funciones básicas, pero también para responder y anticipar los desafíos por venir
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Por qué fueron tan destructivos los terremotos del 24 de junio #Venezuela www.caracaschronicles.com/2026/06/25/w...
Por qué fueron tan destructivos los terremotos del 24 de junio
La onda sísmica que se extendió desde Yaracuy y los suelos alrededor de la cordillera explican la amplitud del daño
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I am glad to see this new article out in GEP, with Heather Millar, Ty Tarnowski and Holly Burke. Banning Bitcoin: The Material and Normative Dimensions of Energy Security in the Regulation of Cryptocurrency Mining in the United States and Canada ⬇️ direct.mit.edu/glep/article...
Banning Bitcoin: The Material and Normative Dimensions of Energy Security in the Regulation of Cryptocurrency Mining in the United States and Canada
Abstract. New digital industries like artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and cryptocurrency mining are voracious energy consumers, with complex implications for states’ climate action, economic...
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Excited for POLLEN 2026! Antulio Rosales and I organised two panels on #Extraction, Digital Infrastructures + #Nature. @pollenetwork.bsky.social Program here: lnkd.in/grA9wuRB
Global environmental governance after liberal environmentalism: Review of International Political Economy @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @jacktaggart.bsky.social @policyrelevant.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Global environmental governance after liberal environmentalism
Global environmental governance has long been predicated on a normative compromise, commonly referred to as ‘liberal environmentalism’, which posits that addressing global environmental challenges ...
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Cerramos la entrevista haciendo referencia a "Venezuela’s Critical Juncture: Pushing for a Democratic Transition" (de libre acceso) un Documento de Trabajo que publicamos en conjunto 21 académicos especialistas en #Venezuela vcprn.tulane.edu/wp-content/u...
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Parte de esta conversación responde a este trabajo (de libre acceso) que publicamos con @antuliorosales.bsky.social en el que ilustramos la relación entre el autoritarismo y la explotación de las mujeres en Venezuela desde 2013 academic.oup.com/sp/advance-a...
Embodying the Cost of a Predatory State: Depletion via Social Reproduction in Venezuela’s Crisis (2013–2021)
Abstract. This article brings together the literatures of predation and depletion via social reproduction (DSR) to provide an explanation of the Venezuelan
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Gracias @es.rfi.fr por esta entrevista en que hablamos sobre cómo la crisis política y económica venezolana ha generado costos invisibles que han cargado las mujeres y niñas.
"Delcy Rodríguez no cambió nada para las venezolanas"
A diverse group of 21 Venezuelanist social scientists has produced a working paper on what we think needs to occur for a fulsome democratic transition to take place in Venezuela. @dsmilde.bsky.social @masayalb.bsky.social @beccahanson.bsky.social @maryhenjimenez.bsky.social ⬇️ t.co/PMZ75AVDvz
Vessels fired at in Strait of Hormuz after crews fall victim to Bitcoin phishing scam. Welcome to Cryptoland. bsky.app/profile/pete...
"Crypto is a symptom of desperation, not innovation". Thoughts from me on #Iran #Bitcoin toll-booth in Strait of #Hormuz for @uk.theconversation.com @northumbriauni.bsky.social @nuglobaldev.bsky.social theconversation.com/crypto-tolls...
Data centres in space will ruin everything! Smashing article here says so 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Extra terra nullius: Off-worlding the externalities of AI, Bitcoin mining and cloud computing with Orbital Data Centres
Despite ambitious carbon neutrality targets from Big Tech companies like Google, the rapid global proliferation of generative Artificial Intelligence …
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After the US entered #Venezuela to capture Nicolás Maduro and develop a cooperative relation with his successor, Delcy Rodríguez, a new chapter in Venezuela's oil legal history started. But this is a longer history. Raul Sanchez U and I explore here for TWQ 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Venezuela’s extractive constitutionalism: between a nationalised and privatised petro-state
This article provides a critique of Venezuela’s extractivism with an emphasis on its constitutional and regulatory foundations in historical perspective. Venezuela’s extractive legislative framewor...
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Full article: From bolibourgeoisie to cryptocrats: how the crisis and sanctions reshaped Venezuela’s ruling elite into a new oligarchy by @benedictebull.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
From bolibourgeoisie to cryptocrats: how the crisis and sanctions reshaped Venezuela’s ruling elite into a new oligarchy
This article examines whether Venezuela’s prolonged ongoing crisis, intensified by international sanctions, is fostering the emergence of a new oligarchy. Extending theories on the relationship bet...
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I am pleased to share this conversation about crisis, governance, and everyday use of #crypto in contexts of volatility, in the Society for Economic Anthropology's podcast Mergers & Acquisitions. It was a pleasure to share the space with Wesam Hassan and Al Lim. open.spotify.com/episode/7kPU...
From Everyday Crypto Speculation to its Geopolitics: In Conversation with Wesam Hassan and Antulio Rosales
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Twilight of the oligarchs www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Twilight of the oligarchs
The hyper-wealthy are increasingly, blatantly influencing politics both at home and abroad. Despite multiple paths to plutocrat-status, and perpetual infighting within the very top of the economic ...
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