🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers! Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025 Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills! Please share widely!
Valerio Donfrancesco
@vdonfrancesco.bsky.social
Research interest in political ecology, more-than-human geography, human-wildlife relations
📢New issue of TIBG📢 Transactions' September Issue features two interventions on environmental crisis & geographies of creativity, 21 papers, and two commentaries on the war in Ukraine. 22/25 pieces are #OpenAccess and available to read here⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...
🌍 New paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography 🌎 'The Radical Edge of More-Than-Human Political Ecology: A Clarification of Scope and Approach' by Valerio Donfrancesco journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @vdonfrancesco.bsky.social
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What do we mean when we say that carnivores and other wildlife are "habituating" to people? Who actually habituates to whom? Is this bad or god? Who decides? All of this and more in our new paper, expertly led by @ethanddoney.bsky.social, out now in @peopleandnature.bsky.social.
🦊 Reimagining habituation: The case for a reciprocal and contextual understanding ➡️ buff.ly/6rbtYxu @livwildlab.bsky.social @ethanddoney.bsky.social @vdonfrancesco.bsky.social @hannalp.bsky.social @csandbrook.bsky.social
Early word we'll have funding to recruit a Post-Doc in the Human Dimensions of Wildlife space - specifically working on hunter behaviors in deer management across several midwestern states. On the ground work, experiments, many academic & agency partners! Spread the word to any potential applicants.
OnlineFirst - "Agrarian change and predators’ mobilities: A more-than-human political ecology of wolf impacts" by @vdonfrancesco.bsky.social and @csandbrook.bsky.social: #wolf #agrarianchange journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Wishing I could be there in person. Looking forward to Zooming in to present on "Multispecies Storytelling for Catastrophic Times" (Sat morn in Europe, evening in Australia). Anyone interested can join the zoom! More info here: mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/meshw...
MESH Symposium 2025
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Looking forward to this wonderful #MESH conference in Kõln, with Kate Rigby, @franzkrause.bsky.social, @thomvandooren.bsky.social and others.
📄 Our paper has been recognised as among the 10% most read articles in Conservation Science and Practice in 2023. Emerging from a collaborative effort of many dingo scholars, it frames 'conflict over values' and 'conflict over evidence' in polarised wildlife management. doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
Understanding conflict among experts working on controversial species: A case study on the Australian dingo
This study entails a social investigation into why experts may disagree about conservation and wildlife management issues, stressing the importance of understanding and emphasizing dissent in current...
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#OpenAccess paper in TIBG: 'From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves' by @vdonfrancesco.bsky.social & @csandbrook.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geo #geosky
New paper from my PhD, in Transactions (@tibg.bsky.social) coauthored by @csandbrook.bsky.social. On wolves, farmers and interspecies violence. "From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves" rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... A thread below
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Exercises of biopower to promote human–wolf coexistence can have limited success. In contrast, affirmative biopolitics grounded in place-based ethics, which recognise wolves as subjects rather than l...
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