Kasia Paprocki

You can follow these debates about rural futures, land, food, and climate politics at the #ICARRD20 in Colombia, starting this week:

The second 'International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development'.

Follow @plaasuwc.bsky.social @tninstitute.bsky.social @peasantjournal.bsky.social

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...

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....

Welcome to the Journal of Peasant Studies' Bluesky account! We are working on a starter pack of authors, activists and groups who are part of the JPS network. Please let us know if you're a JPS author on Bluesky and would like to be added.
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Adaptation in the Plantationocene Plantation logics have been responsible for devastating transformations of the planet including climate change. While they have shaped the current social and ecological conditions we live with toda...

How do plantation logics shape adaptation to climate change?

In a new article, @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social examines adaptation through the lens of the Plantationocene, showing how it is framed in extractivist and colonial logic #OpenAccess

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2025.2601963

Call for applicants: Writeshop 2026 The Journal of Peasant Studies and co-organizers are pleased to announce the International Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism 2026. 1-10 July 2026, China Agricult…

I’ll be at this Writeshop in Beijing in July (co-sponsored by @peasantjournal.bsky.social) If you’re a junior scholar from the Global South interested in critical agrarian studies, you should consider being there too!

Deadline for applications Jan. 31st

casasouth.org/call-for-app...

Javier Lezaun of @oxford-anthro.bsky.social

LSE's Jake Subryan Richards in conversation with Austin Zeiderman

@harrietbulkeley.bsky.social of @geogdurham.bsky.social

@maxliboiron.bsky.social of @clear-lab.bsky.social

Coming up this term - open to all, please join us! Sponsored by @lsegeography.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social and @gsos-lse.bsky.social

Adaptation in the Plantationocene Plantation logics have been responsible for devastating transformations of the planet including climate change. While they have shaped the current social and ecological conditions we live with toda...

Just published - what the plantationocene concept helps us understand about adaptation.

Despite fundamental limitations, the concept allows us to see important dynamics of uneven development, dispossession and racialization in responses to climate change
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This was a brilliant talk by @ndubash.bsky.social - I will be thinking a lot about his conclusions on the implications to re-orienting climate policy around self-determination.

Thanks to @robertfalkner.bsky.social for organizing, @gsos-lse.bsky.social for hosting! Podcast recording will be up soon.

This is a great piece!

Climate change and urban-agrarian solidarities As climate change has heightened the significance of urban-agrarian material entanglements and intellectual and political oppositions, the need to speak across them has become more urgent. Scholars...

New article! Climate Change and Urban-Agrarian Solidarities. @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social and Hillary Angelo and I look across the fields of urban studies and agrarian studies to explore material entanglements and political solidarities. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In 'Climate Justice in South Asia,' our panelists, @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social and @harjeet11.bsky.social, and moderator Tushar Shetty will explore the term 'climate justice' and its historical significance, post-colonial legacies of development, and much more.

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Our human geography collective is a really collegial and dynamic group. I’d be very happy to answer questions about the department from anyone who might be interested.

Threatening Dystopias by Kasia Paprocki Threatening Dystopias engages the problem of climate change and the highly charged politics of how climate futures are being defined, foreclosed, and contested across an increasing number of sites tod...

New forum up @societyandspace.bsky.social magazine organized by @saraheknuth.bsky.social, with contributions by @nithyaaa.bsky.social, Alex Loftus and Jason Cons

Thrilling to have the chance to think with such generous engagements - thanks to them all!

www.societyandspace.org/book-review-...

2025 NEC Voting Recommendations Below is a list of candidates who are standing for election to UCU’s NEC. Some are members of the Campaign for UCU Democracy, some are independents, and some are members of UCU Commons. We be…

Ballots for the next round of UCU NEC elections will be posted out next week. The Campaign for UCU Democracy has published a list of voting recommendations. It’s a cross-factional list, made up of the more pragmatic, strategic candidates campaignforucudemocracy.com/2025/01/22/2...

🚨 If you're a grad student interested in the intersections of climate, economy, and social justice, please apply to work with us!

Omg I’m so sorry 😳

This piece is so good and so helpful! Literally citing it immediately.

Then on 13 March, we'll close out the term with Jessica Lehman of @geogdurham.bsky.social

Cover of Tao Leigh Goffe's book: Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, The Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis.

On 4 March, along with @lsehumanrights.bsky.social, we'll be co-hosting @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social of @huntercollege.bsky.social

More info on the seminar here: www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/ev...

And check out this review to get excited with us: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/b...

Image for Nikita Sud Social Life of Climate Change seminar Thursday 30 January 2025, 3-4:30pm OLD 3.24 Unjust energy transition: Vignettes from the COPs, climate finance, and a coal hotspot

First up is @professorsud.bsky.social on January 30th

Thrilled to announce our upcoming seminars for this term, starting next week!

All seminars co-hosted by the LSE Departments of Geography and Environment, @lsesociology.bsky.social, and the Global School of Sustainability.

Open to all and held in the LSE's Old Building (room 3.24)

My book DARK LAB is out today!! And I’m featured in the @nytimes.com book review!!

This piece gave me SO much to think about, highly recommended

Opinion | There Is No Way to Retreat From the Risk of Wildfires (Gift Article) Some more realistic ways to think about the challenges ahead.

This is the most thoughtful piece I’ve read on these fires since they began.

Here’s a gift link as well:
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/o...

Opinion | There Is No Way to Retreat From the Risk of Wildfires Some more realistic ways to think about the challenges ahead.

Essential reading on LA wildfire risk from @koslov.bsky.social + Kathryn McConnell

“Managed retreat that is not accompanied by substantial investment in creating safe, sustainable and affordable sources of housing could worsen an already monumental housing crisis.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/o...