The metropolis and #metabolic life: looking forward to presenting some of my ethnography at the forum on Annemarie Mol's book Eating in Theory at ULB, Brussels! 19 May. @dukepress.bsky.social
Maan Barua
@maanbarua.bsky.social
Politics, economies and governance of the living and material world | ERC #UrbanEcologies | Lecturer, University of Cambridge | #LivelyCities (University of Minnesota Press, 2023), #PlantationWorlds (Duke University Press, 2024) | Views own
Forum on #LivelyCities is now out in Environment & Planning F. Though-provoking interventions by Alicia Barceinas Cruz, Chris Philo, Christoph DD Rupprecht and J Anthony Stallins on the city otherwise: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
The penultimate talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @maanbarua.bsky.social (@camunigeography.bsky.social) Tuesday 5th May, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
Metabolic #ethnography: or why methods need reorienting in response to regimes of exposure, incorporation and circulation that now condition life in an industrialized world. #metabolism New article, open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Excited to give the keynote for this timely, fascinating Imagining More-than-human Communities Symposium at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social: a fuller exposition of my ongoing work on "The Metropolis and Metabolic Life". #metabolism @camunigeography.bsky.social @infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social
Looking forward to this wonderful #MESH conference in Kõln, with Kate Rigby, @franzkrause.bsky.social, @thomvandooren.bsky.social and others.
A thoughtful review of #PlantationWorlds by Bikash K Bhattacharya in South Asian Review. @dukepress.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Plantation Worlds
Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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The Infrastructural Geographies 2nd Annual Lecture: Professor Louise Amoore "What Kind of Infrastructure is an Algorithm?" 29th of May, 2025, Univ of Cambridge, Dept of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre Join us!
#Metabolic #politics: article now out in @tibg.bsky.social Vol 50. #Metabolism Open access: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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This paper develops the concept of metabolic politics: a form of power emerging in response to the fraught and unanticipated effects generated by the industrialisation of life. Metabolic politics act....
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A review of #PlantationWorlds in the AAG Review of Books: "compelling, well argued and grounded". Thank you @audralmitchell.bsky.social for the thoughtful engagement. @dukepress.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Plantation Worlds
Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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#PlantationWorlds - thanks @stuartelden.bsky.social for featuring it on your favourite books of 2024-2025! @dukepress.bsky.social progressivegeographies.com/2024/12/31/m...
My favourite academic books of 2024
At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked. The criteria was that they were published in that year (or late the previous one), and that I read and liked them. Many of the …
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How do we engage with a world of material transformation hidden in plain sight? #MetabolicFutures at @akademiesolitude.bsky.social starts today! With Hannah Landecker, Andrew Barry, Matthew Gandy, @ulibeisel.bsky.social Víctor Muñoz Sanz and many others! Full programme: bit.ly/4hLTmbB
Keynote Lecture, Sound Piece & Foodsharing Dinner // Tomorrow we're finally starting the program of »metabolic futures« by inviting you to Akademie Schloss Solitude! Find the full program here: https://bit.ly/4hLTmbB
Delighted to be speaking on #PlantationWorlds at the #VitalGreenhouse Conference in Amsterdam today! Will include archival film of the Assam plantations! @dukepress.bsky.social
The first launch of #PlantationWorlds at @oxford-anthro.bsky.social, with Thomas Cousins, @lysalcayna.bsky.social and @chihab.bsky.social! 28 February: 16:00 onwards! All welcome! @dukepress.bsky.social
Wonderful to see this review of #PlantationWorlds by Ambika Aiyadurai! @dukepress.bsky.social
The India Forum@theindiaforum.bsky.social · 2y ago"Maan Barua tells the story of the lives of Adivasi & elephants, which were not only shaped by plantations but also by the large infrastructure, exotic plants & modern conservation." Ambika Aiyadurai reviews 'Plantation Worlds' published by @dukepress.bsky.social www.theindiaforum.in/book-reviews...
🌍 New paper published in Progress in Human Geography 🌍 '#Metabolic geographies: Work, shifts and politics' by Maan Barua journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Metabolic geographies: Work, shifts and politics - Maan Barua, 2025
This article reinvigorates a pivotal arena of scholarship in human geography and the social sciences: metabolism. It does so by staging an encounter between pol...
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In "Plantation Worlds," Maan Barua explores the fraught politics of dwelling between elephants and villagers on land that once harbored colonial plantations in northeastern India. Read the introduction for free now. www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMa...
New #OpenAccess paper in TIBG: 'Metabolic politics: A comparative synthesis' by Maan Barua This paper develops the concept of metabolic politics acting on bodies, as distinguished from a biopolitics of populations. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geo #geosky
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper develops the concept of metabolic politics: a form of power emerging in response to the fraught and unanticipated effects generated by the industrialisation of life. Metabolic politics act....
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