"Reimagining the Politics of Citation Through Critical Curation" -- new article @areajournal.bsky.social from a project supported by a Right to the Discipline grant from the Antipode Foundation doi.org/10.1111/area...

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Bringing together insights from art curation and geography, this paper reimagines academic citation as a form of critical curation that fosters more deliberate, generous and grounded citational pract...

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The #Salween as well as the #Mekong River (2 major rivers in Southeast Asia) are now contaminated with arsenic etc likely from mining upstream in #Myanmar. Thai scholars have already deemed this a crisis and many locals are doing the best they can to draw attention to the issue. bit.ly/48hhHEk

Asia’s longest free-flowing river contaminated by arsenic linked to Myanmar mines

MAE HONG SON, Thailand — Saw Si Paw Rak Salween guns the wooden fishing boat’s engine and steers along the river that inspired his family name. He is ethnic Karen — his parents migrated from Myanmar’s...

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Latest for @mongabay.com dives into the poisoning of the Salween River, Asia's longest free-flowing river. Unregulated mines in Myanmar have seen arsenic contamination reach dangerous levels on the Salween, leaving Indigenous Karen communities with no fish, no water and no solutions from governments

Asia’s longest free-flowing river contaminated by arsenic linked to Myanmar mines

MAE HONG SON, Thailand — Saw Si Paw Rak Salween guns the wooden fishing boat’s engine and steers along the river that inspired his family name. He is ethnic Karen — his parents migrated from Myanmar’s...

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This afternoon, @drjchambers.bsky.social & I will co-present on women’s care labour at the Thai-Myanmar border for the University of Melbourne’s Geography seminar series. Join us! I’ll present a paper co-authored with @drvanessalamb.bsky.social on women’s food preparation for anti-dam protests

New Publication Alert! Go read @zalifung.bsky.social's piece in Political Geography on pursuing accountability under authoritarian rule to learn more about how authoritarianism unfolds and is challenged in specific places and times www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Damming indictment of the managerialist infiltration of Australia’s universities resulting in job cuts #auspol #4corners youtu.be/quc24Ot9Qwg?...

Universities $1.8 billion consultancy spending under wraps | Four Corners Documentary

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Simon Rosenberg@simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“This is the standard way consultants exploit a university; Infantilise the client, embed yourself in their business, and get yourself a permanent desk.” - ex-partner KPMG. But UTS staff who complained about dodgy reports were sidelined by management. #4Corners

@zalifung.bsky.social writes thoughtfully and carefully about the process of doing research in collaboration with human rights lawyer Mueda during the PhD and the key ways this shaped the work. A great paper as part of our Asia Pacific Viewpoint Special Issue! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Brokers, Collaborators and Knowledge Translators: Expanding the Role of Research Assistants in Geographic Research

While ‘local’ research assistants (RA) often play a key role in knowledge production in fieldwork-based disciplines like geography, their role and agency often remain silenced. This paper brings toge...

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🚨 New paper in Asia Pacific Viewpoint Reflecting on my collaboration with Mueda Nawanat, I show how collaboration between foreign researchers and local RAs can enable research to support the goals of communities and social movements in the Salween River Basin onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Brokers, Collaborators and Knowledge Translators: Expanding the Role of Research Assistants in Geographic Research

While ‘local’ research assistants (RA) often play a key role in knowledge production in fieldwork-based disciplines like geography, their role and agency often remain silenced. This paper brings toge...

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Exciting New Paper: The Community Ethics Advisory Board's insights into how to 'ground' research ethics in communities of research at the Thai–Burma border. Part of a special issue coming soon, edited by Anne Décobert, Sophia Htwe + @zalifung.bsky.social). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Reimagining Research Ethics Through Local Knowledge and Leadership: The Community Ethics Advisory Board on the Thailand–Burma Border

This article examines the Community Ethics Advisory Board (CEAB) on the Thailand–Burma border as a locally led ethics advisory mechanism that complements formal and institutionalised ethics systems w...

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New paper in @politicalgeography.bsky.social 🚨 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I show how authoritarianism not only erodes civil and political rights, but undermines the organisations designed to protect those rights and hold state and corporate actors accountable 1/3

Pursuing accountability under authoritarian rule: Thailand's National Human Rights Commission and community struggles for justice

Rising authoritarianism in Southeast Asia and globally underscores the need for geographers to critically interrogate this concept, its uneven effects…

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New Year's READ: Volunteering While Researching Conflict and Violence by @shonaloong.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Excited that this is part of our special issue on #Decolonising Research #Ethics in Asia Pacific Viewpoint (w/Anne Décobert, Sophia Htwe + @zalifung.bsky.social)

This year has been brutal for the #climate movement. Rollbacks, repression, & outright denial, especially in the US, have made progress feel fragile & uneven. Which is exactly why it matters to pause & look back at what did move forward in 2025. Here are 12 real wins 🏆, one for each month 🧵⬇️

NEW 🇹🇭 For decades, governments have sought to dam and divert rivers in the Salween River Basin—and for decades, communities have resisted under often deeply repressive political conditions. @zalifung.bsky.social explores their repertoire of "slow resistance" in this essay drawing on her PhD research

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

Grassroots activism gums up the wheels of hydro-development

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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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Please consider joining our 2026 Political Ecology spring school! Planetary Political Ecologies: Environmental disasters, conflicts and possibilities in & beyond capitalism ▶️ 13-17 April 2026 ▶️ Wageningen With Annah Zhu, Erik Swyngedouw, Sumit Vij & others! wass.crs.wur.nl/courses/deta...

I wrote about food and the work to create "solidarity infrastructures" in the #Salween, particularly the work by women who provide food for the movement, with @zalifung.bsky.social www.roadsides.net/articles/8234

Roadsides@roadsides.bsky.social · 8mo ago

In their contribution to our latest issue, @drvanessalamb.bsky.social and @zalifung.bsky.social show how food preparation by Karen women for anti-dam gatherings is a form of solidarity infrastructure in the Salween River Basin at the Thai–Myanmar border. www.roadsides.net/articles/8234

In their contribution to our latest issue, @drvanessalamb.bsky.social and @zalifung.bsky.social show how food preparation by Karen women for anti-dam gatherings is a form of solidarity infrastructure in the Salween River Basin at the Thai–Myanmar border. www.roadsides.net/articles/8234

New paper with @drvanessalamb.bsky.social in @roadsides.bsky.social We show how food preparation, primarily undertaken by older Karen women, is key to contesting long-proposed hydropower dams & water diversions in the Salween River Basin Thanks editors @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon

Apply now — Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis”, deadline 20 December 2025 antipodeonline.org/2025/11/13/a...

Apply now—Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis” - Antipode Online

Toronto, Ontario, Canadathe traditional territory of the Huron Wendat, the Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit June 1st – 5th, 2026 The contemporary global landscape is increasingly defined by w...

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Please join us! I am co-convening 3 Royal Geographical Society panels on Feminist and Gendered Geographies of Resistance with @zalifung.bsky.social and Rebecca Elmhirst at the University of Birmingham next week. A great lineup of presentations. bit.ly/4lgkPnk @rgsibg.bsky.social

Just discovered that @austgeo.bsky.social is on BlueSky! My (relatively) new paper shows how researchers can build trust & collaborate with civil society actors online & across multiple borders (geographic, material, sociocultural, etc). This can build the foundations for in-person fieldwork.

Australian Geographer@austgeo.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper: Fung, Z. (2024). Navigating research ethics during COVID-19 in authoritarian Southeast Asia: a feminist approach to combining online and in-person qualitative methods. Australian Geographer, 1–21.

Thanks @polgeographygroup.bsky.social

@polgeographygroup.bsky.social · last yr.

And another honourable mention to Zali Fung for her paper: Fung, Z. (2024). Amorphous infrastructure: Contesting the proposed Yuam River water diversion project in the Salween River Basin. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7(6), 2386-2412. doi.org/10.1177/2514... Congratulations to all!

looking forward to presenting on speculative and “amorphous” unbuilt infrastructures in the Salween River Basin at the upcoming Beyond Infrastructures conference @infranortherc.bsky.social

InfraNorth: Building Arctic Futures@infranortherc.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 We are excited to announce the preliminary program for the conference “𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲? (𝗨𝗻-)𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗲”! 🌍 Join us at the University of Vienna (@univie.ac.at), Sept 22–24, for an interdisciplinary dialogue on #infrastructure #research. 🎫 Early bird ends July 6!

a great and much needed piece

Zali Fung@zalifung.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper in Geographica Helvetica 🚨 I reflect on the (im)possibilities of doing slow scholarship in neoliberal academia as an early-career scholar & how precarity limits collaboration. I outline *collective* strategies to address this & invite further discussion gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...

"As a geographer and an interdisciplinary scholar, when I look at climate change, I see it essentially about changes in water." Farhana Sultana, The Politics of Water: Climate (In)Justice in Megacities of the Global South #climate #geo #geosky @farhanasultana.com ‪@berlinergazette.bsky.social‬

The Politics of Water: Climate (In)Justice in Megacities of the Global South · BG · berlinergazette.de · EN|DE

As megacities continue to grow around the world, primarily in the Global South, they are becoming sites of ongoing and future climate and water injustices. Drawing on her research in Dhaka,…

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An excellent (& devastatingly true) account on the "leaky pipeline"

Zali Fung@zalifung.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper in Geographica Helvetica 🚨 I reflect on the (im)possibilities of doing slow scholarship in neoliberal academia as an early-career scholar & how precarity limits collaboration. I outline *collective* strategies to address this & invite further discussion gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...

Precarity in the neoliberal university (Swiss edition) and caring scholarship, by @zalifung.bsky.social gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...

Excited to be in Barcelona this July and meet the @bcnuej.bsky.social team! Also happy to give a talk on "Counter-Topographies of Care: Feminist Geographies, Migrant Infrastructures, and Political Subjectification" 💻 In person & online 📆 8 July @uomseed.bsky.social @urbanstudiesfoundation.org

BCNUEJ@bcnuej.bsky.social · last yr.

📆📢Coming up, Jul 8‼️ @matinakapsali.bsky.social, postdoc researcher at @officialuom.bsky.social will talk at @icta-uab.bsky.social about the political and spatial dynamics of grassroots, feminist-oriented infrastructures emerging in migrant communities. Join us online!💻🔗 www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

New paper in Geographica Helvetica 🚨 I reflect on the (im)possibilities of doing slow scholarship in neoliberal academia as an early-career scholar & how precarity limits collaboration. I outline *collective* strategies to address this & invite further discussion gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...

CfP for a special issue that draws attention to the important but often overlooked gendered elements of ‘global China’

Jessica DiCarlo@jessicadicarlo.bsky.social · last yr.

The next Global China Pulse CfP is out! A Gendered Lens on Global China @globalchinamap.bsky.social globalchinapulse.net/calls-for-pa...