@armandocaroca
PhD at the Global Development Institute, U. of Manchester, and MSc Urban Design & Development, University College London. Currently researching the political ecology of mining wastelands and territories of sacrifice.
Highlighting this part of the article "... key aspects remain unknown, including the quality of the minerals. Mining the mud had previously been seen as too expensive to be viable"
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Cuesta creer que uno de los lugares más hermosos, sublimes y diversos del Altiplano vaya a ser explotado por litio: laguna Verde, Región de Atacama.
¿Cómo se protege un ecosistema frágil y único? ¿Cómo se evita la destrucción irreversible de esta laguna?
#AmorPorLosSalares
Let's all embrace a itsjustajob mindset in 2026.
After decades of protest by Serbian civil society, Rio Tinto has halted its lithium exploration project in the Jadar Valley.
LMN member @earththrive.bsky.social has cautiously welcomed this victory: friendsoftheearth.eu/news/lithium...
Hear Aleksandra's perspective: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxtA...
Em novo artigo em português, explico a relação entre as várias zonas de sacrifício na América Latina e a lógica crescentista desenvolvimentista que, mesmo dizendo buscar superar as amarras do mega-extrativismo, promove uma economia negacionista dos limites planetários.
Protesters lay outside the #COP30 climate summit in Brazil covered in white sheets, to call attention to the deaths of activists and journalists killed while "defending land, territories and natural resources."
10 years ago today, Brazil suffered the worst environmental crime in its history.
On this poignant anniversary, we’re honoured to share an exhibition of photos by Rebeca Binda, taken in the wake of the devastating dam failure: londonminingnetwork.org/2025/11/phot...
Exhibition open until 8 Dec.
On Monday join us at LSE or online to hear about life in the world’s most polluted town - Kabwe Zambia - the origin and impact of the lead pollution, why it’s a corporate problem & the road to justice, eg the class-action
We'll launch our report with Environment Africa, RAID & London Mining Network
And this is why we should keep doing this work: bsky.app/profile/koja...
“We’re living in a sacrifice zone. Anglo American has polluted the water and the air we breathe.”
Glad to see this article published and shining a light on how Anglo American's mining operations are impacting the communities we work with in Chile 👇
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
In many ways this was inevitable - there are a few easy wins (increasingly cheap solar & wind) but generally dealing with climate change was always going to require tough decisions which politicians don't want to sell to electorates that should know better ...
The scientific consensus is clear on the causes of global heating. So why does the Science Museum continue to accept sponsorship from fossil fuel companies?
Join our webinar to learn about the growing movement to boycott the Science Museum until it ends toxic sponsorship 👇
zoom.us/meeting/regi...
A hybrid lecture on Mon 15 Sep will focus on understanding the links between urban and infrastructural transformation and destruction in the face of the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
The session will feature presentations from Prof Haim Yacobi (UCL) and Chloé Chbat (UoM)
Register: bit.ly/46fwX2M
White text on a Palestine flag reads: Palestine & Social Justice: Decolonisation and Development Studies 17 October 2025
Registration now open for the @gdi-students-4-pal.bsky.social conference on 'Palestine & Social Justice'.
🗓️ Conference date: Fri 17 October 2025
📍 Venue: Hybrid (University of Manchester/online)
🎟️ Free registration | Limited seats
🗓️ Register by: 28 September 2025
👉 Register: lnkd.in/eqVnvzFA
NEXT MONDAY, 2 pm UK!:
"Settler Colonial Urbanism(s) and Infrastructural Changes in Palestine", organsied by the GDI Students for Palestine, and the "Global Urban Futures" and "Resource, Environment and Development" at GDI.
zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Info:
events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
Giant Mine Remediation Project sign with mine in background
Today on our site we have "Yellowknife’s Giant Mine: Canada downplayed arsenic exposure as an Indigenous community was poisoned" by @arnkeeling.bsky.social and John Sandlos
niche-canada.org/2025/09/03/y...
#envhist #mininghistory #cdnhist #indigenoushistory
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excited to share the call for the workshop
EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION
happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025,
made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social
deadline: 10 September!
full call below ⤵
#envhist #envhum
I’m in @financialtimes.com on Trump’s recent move to make the Pentagon the top shareholder in the US only rare earths mine. This is the “worst of all worlds” resource nationalism: a toxic mix of environmental harm, militarism, Big Tech, financial de-risking, and asset appreciation. Link below ⬇️
‼️ EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism will be out in the UK with Icon Books on 25 September ‼️
A Chinese-owned mining company has been accused of covering up the extent of a disastrous toxic spill in Zambia that polluted a major river that millions rely on with cyanide and arsenic.
Today is the final day of this year’s Annual Conference! ⬇️
Our agenda focuses on our shared futures, energy justice, displacement and migration, geographies of loneliness, coastal geographies, and much more. Check the agenda for our last day: bit.ly/45WpHtm #RGSIBG25
📢 Just 10 days left! Join the 4-part #TeachIn series on Palestine & Habitat 🏠🌍
🗓️ Dates:
30 July | 13 Aug | 27 Aug | 10 Sept
🕓 16:00–18:00 SAST
🔗 Register: bit.ly/Palestine-Te...
Let’s reflect, learn & act in solidarity.
#Palestine #LandRights #HousingJustice #HIC
The government has approved a vast new data centre on protected green belt land
Despite there being no environmental impact assessment
And despite the local authority rejecting the development as inappropriate
Remind me again how AI will help us conserve nature?
“US metal mines already have sufficient mineral endowment to substantially reduce the nation’s mineral [deficit]. Unrecovered, these byproducts contribute to the country’s growing industrial waste.”
www.ft.com/content/29cd...
This is kind of a random question, but does anyone here go to the RGS conference in Birmingham? I think I don't know anyone who is! 🤔
Hola! Me interesaría participar, aunque mi trabajo es desde la ecología política y no la antropología, podré postular? Gracias!
Un cuadro con un mensaje de un congreso académico Enero, 5 al 10 2026 Simposio 13 Perspectivas situadas de las transformaciones territoriales en contextos (neo) extractivistas Coordinadoras: Evelyn Arriagada - ekarriagada@gmail.com Gabriela Cabaña - gabi.cabana@gmail.com América Valenzuela - avalenzuelar@udla.cl
Simposio 13. Perspectivas situadas de las transformaciones territoriales en contextos (neo) extractivistas Este simposio tiene como objetivo generar un espacio de diálogo y aprendizaje colectivo, orientado a la comprensión de diversos fenómenos, dinámicas y perspectivas situadas en torno a las transformaciones territoriales en contextos (neo) extractivistas y de transición energética. Buscamos contribuciones sobre transformaciones territoriales relacionadas con la transición energética, conflictos socioambientales (minería, forestal, pesca), ERNC, seguridad hídrica, emergencia climática y participación social. Hacemos un llamado a quienes, desde la disciplina, promueven el intercambio de saberes, visibilizan prácticas de investigación activista y/o acompañan procesos de organización comunitaria, otorgando centralidad a las comunidades y las y los actores que elaboran y promueven sus propias categorías de análisis, conceptos y metodologías de investigación-acción.
Junto a Evelyn Arriagada y América Valenzuela estamos organizando este simposio para el 12° Congreso Chileno de Antropología: "Perspectivas situadas de las transformaciones territoriales en contextos (neo)extractivistas"
The UK government will evacuate nine of the 40+ students in Gaza with scholarship at UK universities. My PhD student Shaimaa isn't included. We must now make sure they help the other students - email your MP today. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
