“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason.Or it can be thrown through the window” [Brian Massumi, in Deleuze and Guattari, 1987]

🦮So pleased that Collared is out in the world! 🐕 Big thanks to everyone at @ProfileBooks (esp @JonPetreDish for wrangling words and images) and @pew_literary (esp @doujohyou) for making this happen Big thanks too @LivUniHistory @ROH_Indies and @wellcometrust #dogs #history

Really excited to share that my first ever journal article "Eutrophicated: Tracking colonial histories of phosphate matter and the Plantationocene inheritances of the River Wye" is published today in EPE: Nature and Space and is available to read for free @envplane @TechNatures

"Peace presupposes the establishment of justice, the defense of the rights of the poor, the punishment of the oppressors, a life without fear of being enslaved by others, the liberation of the oppressed." --Gustavo Gutiérrez Gutiérrez reminds us to not settle for empty peace.

Feathers, folklore, and eco-literacy: Stories ascribe cultural keystone status to avian scavengers in South Asian cities | doi.org/10.1093/ornith… | Ornithological Applications | #ornithology

Happy to share my latest article “Inhabiting more-than-human ecologies of Extended urbanization” in Geoforum. Building upon the work of @maanbarua, @NikosKatsikis, and @hiangelo the paper looks at the more-than-human ecologies of extended urbanisation sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 1/7

Had an absolute blast working with @ClaudiaFTowne to create a series of episodes. Still can't believe that I went from being a fan of The Animal Turn to contributor. I will be shamelessly spamming your feeds every week so do give it a listen! Won't be a waste of your time 🗑️

Recently published "An analytical framework to understand the problematization of urban (historical) animals" with @envplane In a nutshell the article proposes an framework for understanding how animals become 'urban problems' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25… Would love our thoughts!

How should we rethink decolonisation when it is hijacked by authoritarian forces? A few thoughts from me: hope they help all those grappling with these pressing issues, inc profs & students. Do read+spread this open access article @AmAnthroJournal ⬇️ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/am…

🐁 New paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography 🐁 'Labor, violence and the unfamiliar: Animals’ geographies of the more-than-human #home' by Hannah Fair journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27… @hanthropocene #AnimalGeography #Pests #MoreThanHuman @UoSGeogEnv

very happy to see that the new york declaration on animal consciousness is still receiving coverage! i especially appreciated this recent op-ed, which has appeared in a number of outlets. witness.co.za/opinion/column…

Our new article is out on Annals of American Association of Geographers: “Traversing Precarity: The Socioeconomic Mobility of Female Migrant Building Workers in China”. Access is free :) doi.org/10.1080/246944…

Robert W. Lake, "On Resisting the Seduction of Theory" @DialoguesinR doi.org/10.1177/275412…

What is “attentive observation” as a form of radical empiricism and imaginative insight? By focusing on interactions with nature in urban contexts, Gandy advocates for a nuanced approach to fieldwork, emphasizing multisensory/multispecies textures. bit.ly/4gmfERF

My new book, SPEAKING FOR NATURE: THE ORIGINS OF INDIAN ENVIRONMENTALISM, is out next month. It profiles ten thinkers who, in different but equally compelling ways, anticipated the environmental challenges that face India and the world today. More details below.

I want to be clear. There is no collaborating, braiding, bridging, or weaving to be ethically had with a police state. These integration approaches benefit only the Indigenous petit bourgeoisie. The state still steals, kills, lies. Now with some sweetgrass and smug prose.

Conservation without biopolitics in TIBG: my analysis of nature practices in Chennai argues for a shift away the past (endangerment) and future (restoration) to the present - and already existing natures. doi.org/10.1111/tran.1… @GeosciencesEd @natura_urb @ROH_Indies

"Dalit Ecologies: Caste and Environmental Justice" by Mukul Sharma is out now with @CambridgeUP India. The book "explores the ecological experiences, histories, & perspectives integrated within Dalit writing, art, & culture, delving into caste, earthly environment, labour,…

My article 'Distant time: The future of urbanisation from ‘there’ and ‘then’ @DialoguesHG Through planning archives of Shimla, India, I conceptualise how temporal ordering of a colonial state is reflected in postcolonial imaginaries of smart urban futures doi.org/10.1177/204382…

Last yr I met v young transpersons from rural & urban working class, evicted by family, surviving suicide attempts, homelessness. [Search Apnon ka Bahut Lagta Hai (Our Own Hurt Us the Most)]. Trans rights are about these kids, not about 'post-individualism or 'culture wars'.

Do livestock *necessarily* cause conflicts with wildlife? @Enviro_conflict and I showed that this is not the case in #MaasaiMara. Rather, the conflict framing is rooted in & perpetuates sociopolitical #inequality. Out today in PNAS @PNASNews @UMSEAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…