James A. Fraser
@jfraser.bsky.social
Critical human geographer and anthropologist whose scholarship explores the political and historical ecology of tropical forests, agrarian change, and struggles for recognition http://bit.ly/4mf1rsM
NEW: The scariest part of Backrooms is how eerily well it maps onto our capitalist world of hostile liminality, argues @rsbenedict.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/hostile-arch...
Hostile Architecture: Late Capitalism and Backrooms
The scariest thing about Backrooms is that we already live there.
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This is a brilliant –– and horribly timely –– interview with Daniel Trilling about the rise of the British far right
Politics Theory Other@poltheoryother.bsky.social · 2mo agoICYMI - @trillingual.bsky.social on the rise of the UK far-right and how Britain's establishment institutions normalised ideas and policies that were once considered fringe and extreme:
New W. E. B. Du Bois American Masters is excellent.
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With A Cause | Full Documentary | American Masters | PBS
YouTube video by American Masters PBS
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Leaked audio recordings appear to indicate a high-level conspiracy by US, Israeli & Latin American far-right leaders to destabilize leftist governments in Mexico, Brazil & Colombia. english.elpais.com/internationa...
‘Hondurasgate,’ the alleged US and Israeli interference plot to destabilize Mexico and other progressive governments
A leaked audio recording points to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, Javier Milei, and Donald Trump as attempting to create a platform to spread fake news about the administrations of ...
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Milton Santos, 100 anos: geógrafo negro teorizou sobre desigualdades revistapalavras.com.br/2026/05/04/m...
Milton Santos, 100 anos: geógrafo negro teorizou sobre desigualdades - Palavras!
Rafael Cardoso – Repórter da Agência Brasil Em meio às grandes redes de supermercados em São…
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An excellent article with Corinne Lamain, @nicosananes.bsky.social, @esthermarijnen.bsky.social & Thijis Jeursen! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Esther Marijnen@esthermarijnen.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew paper! In this paper we explore the military capture of both climate change and biodiversity decline, and the socio-environmental costs of increasing militarisation. Proposing a research agenda on militarised ecologies. It is open access! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Versión en español — Intervención: “¿Revertir o reafirmar la dependencia? La importancia histórico-mundial de las elecciones del 2026 en Colombia” — disponible aquí antipodeonline.org/wp-content/u...
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As usual, @antipodeonline.bsky.social sets a standard for radical scholarship. #geosky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Great SI on Nature and Anti-/decoloniality
Querying Nature and (Anti‐/De‐)coloniality: Introduction to the Symposium
The introduction to this Symposium outlines how actually existing movements contest various forms of “colonial Natures,” from settler property regimes to extractive frontiers and conservation landsca...
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Intervention — “Reversing or Reinscribing Dependency? The World-Historical Significance of Colombia’s 2026 Elections” @jfraser.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/2026/04/16/r...
Intervention — “Reversing or Reinscribing Dependency? The World-Historical Significance of Colombia’s 2026 Elections” - Antipode Online
James A. Fraser (Honorary Researcher, Lancaster Environment Centre) ***Versión en español disponible aquí*** As Colombia gears up for Presidential elections this May 2026, Iván Cepeda, the presidentia...
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OnlineFirst - "Conservation-by-alienation: Koliwadi forest estrangement in Maharashtra, India" by Annie James, James Angus Fraser, and Sergio Villamayor-Tomas: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
“Geophagic attunement encourages a temporary turn away from summing up Black people’s relationship to terra as defined solely by alienated labor. This momentary respite from exploitation — of both humans and the land — enables a focus on Black desire for and knowledge of the earth.”
Places Journal@placesjournal.bsky.social · 5mo agoDrawing on literature and film spanning more than a century, Tiffany Lethabo King writes about the Black diasporan tradition of dirt eating, also known as geophagia: “As unfinished sites, geophagical pits open portals to geological time, offering up, in morsels, millions of years of earth-knowing.”
"The lurch from declaring fears abt Iran to be mere media exaggerations to invoking imminent threat, from demanding the Nobel to luxuriating in lethality, is the essence of the autocrat’s monopoly on unpredictability... When the leader can make up a war as it goes along, his whims have become law."
Signifying Absolutely Nothing | Fintan O’Toole
Trump’s war of choice in Iran is a performance of horrific military strength that betrays a stark political weakness.
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ICYMI - historian @ngeorge00.bsky.social on the background to the latest round of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, the current situation in the country, and the history of Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty.
Israel's forever war in Lebanon w/ Nathaniel George
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · March 12 · 1h 3m
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Bluesky is mostly a blow-by-blow account of right wing settlers dismantling the liberal settler civilizational infrastructure, and liberal settlers glimpsing (mostly without realizing it) the beginnings of a destruction endured by first nations to make this culturally evangelical & rapacious state.
Radical Abundance in Manchester this Thursday (March 5th). @kaiheron.bsky.social and I will be discussing our book and examining how a radical abundance strategy can be put into place in Manchester. Get yourself to Partisan and join in.
Vitória contra a privatização dos rios na Amazônia, mas não dá nem tempo de comemorar: no sul da Bahia a terra indígena Comexatibá sob ataque de pistoleiros e pressão de fazendeiros e da especulação imobiliária, mesmo tendo sido declarada como posse permanente dos Pataxó no final do ano passado.
Apib@apiboficial.bsky.social · 5mo agoMotos, carros e helicópteros foram usados em uma manifestação de fazendeiros contra indígenas. Os disparos dos pistoleiros atingiram 2 turistas que se dirigiam às praias. Uma família indígena foi sequestrada. Carta do Coletivo de Lideranças da TI Comexatibá bit.ly/4kQlrS6 #DemarcaçãoÉDemocracia
🌍 Land for Life, Livelihood and a Liveable Future for All 🌱 👉 https://www.foodsovereignty.org/icarrd20-must-move-beyond-technocratic-fixes-to-implement-real-integral-agrarian-reform-global-social-movements-in-cartagena 📢 POLITICAL DECLARATION by the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Must read on upcoming Colombian presidential elections, brought to us by @murosinvisibles.bsky.social and the incredible Pirate Ware Services team. #kudos open.substack.com/pub/piratewi...
Colombia enters election year amid record violence
Colombians will go to the polls to elect a new president and congressmen amidst the highest number of attacks by armed groups since the civil war
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Teaser - Late Fascism w/ Alberto Toscano (02/16/26)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/150947880 Beatrice speaks with Alberto Toscano about what characteristics second Trump term
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The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about
Why does climate action so often take socially regressive and ecologically destructive forms? In a new #OpenAccess article, Michael Levien and @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social challenge the reductive articulation of climate solutions solely through the lens of carbon www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Against the planetary: carbon fetishism and the politics of false solutions
Why does climate action so often take socially regressive and ecologically destructive forms? Building on Stuart Hall, we argue that regressive climate change solutions are enabled by an articulati...
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“Nothing can carry people into politics but people themselves. In the process, they bring their own ideas with them. ‘People think,’ Asad liked to remind his readers.” —Ben Tarnoff on Asad Haider
People Think | Ben Tarnoff
Asad Haider, the foremost socialist thinker of his generation, staked his philosophy on the principle that everyone should be fundamentally free.
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A reportagem acompanha desde 2021 a luta dessas mulheres que transformaram a defesa do território em modo de vida. No final de 2025, o retorno a Manicoré revelou um cenário de invasões e desmatamento, registrado pelo Varadouro. infoamazonia.org/2026/02/05/c...
Criadoras do primeiro Território de Uso Comum, mulheres do rio Manicoré resistem em meio à destruição no Amazonas
A reportagem acompanha desde 2021 a luta dessas mulheres que transformaram a defesa do território em modo de vida. No final de 2025, o retorno a Manicoré revelou um cenário de invasões e desmatamento.
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Comunidades do Rio Manicoré lançam plano que vai orientar o futuro do primeiro Território de Uso Comum do Amazonas www.tnc.org.br/conecte-se/c...
Comunidades do Rio Manicoré lançam plano que vai orientar o futuro do primeiro Território de Uso Comum do Amazonas
Com o apoio da TNC Brasil, o documento marca uma nova etapa na proteção de florestas públicas no estado e fortalece a autonomia das comunidades
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The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality? doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality?
This article analyses Brazil's first Território de Uso Comum (TUC) in the Amazon as an experiment in insurgent universality—a women-led, grassroots struggle advancing collective rights through shared...
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Comunidades do Rio Manicoré lançam plano que vai orientar o futuro do primeiro Território de Uso Comum do Amazonas www.tnc.org.br/conecte-se/c...
Comunidades do Rio Manicoré lançam plano que vai orientar o futuro do primeiro Território de Uso Comum do Amazonas
Com o apoio da TNC Brasil, o documento marca uma nova etapa na proteção de florestas públicas no estado e fortalece a autonomia das comunidades
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My piece on @uk.theconversation.com on how Bolivia's new government revived the entreguista state - and its opposition. @uclamericas.bsky.social
The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · 6mo agoBolivia’s new government has buried 20 years of socialist rule with reforms promising ‘capitalism for all’.
