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In a new blog post for the Political Ecology Network, @chanelle.bsky.social reflects on how his fieldwork in Madagascar’s Central Highlands led him rethink the category of “essential work” pollenpoliticalecology.network/essential-oi...
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In a new blog post for the Political Ecology Network, I reflect on how my fieldwork in Madagascar’s Central Highlands led me to rethink the category of “essential work” pollenpoliticalecology.network/essential-oi... @pollenetwork.bsky.social @politicalecology.bsky.social
“If I am peaceful in this discomfort, is not peace,/ is getting used to harm.”
Dionne Brand
Land to Light On
starting to lose track of my personal research databases. which one is best for storing and sorting notes; notion, obsidian or devonthink?
" The guidelines recommend that museums should “Transition away from sponsorship from organisations involved with environmental harm (including fossil fuels), human rights abuses, & other sponsorship that does not align with the values of the museum.” "
What if I told you that what’s most “essential” to essential oils might be the informal workers in out-of-the-way places like Madagascar who ensure a steady supply of plant-derived therapeutics during public health crises? New publication out now! anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
This passage shocked me to my core.
The loss of biodiversity isn't a tragic accident or oversight, it was the plan!
André 3000 noted that OutKast started in a little room. Like he said, “Great things start in little rooms.”
“The rich archival collections of Ajami literature refute the pervasive myth of Africa’s supposed illiteracy that is perpetuated by the overemphasis on African oral traditions in academia and the privileging of external sources over local chronicles.”
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/theajami-s...
Life update: I am now Dr. Adams!
interesting phd opportunity: "Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century"! www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
✊ À Madagascar, la jeunesse se soulève contre les pénuries et l’autoritarisme de Rajoelina
Face à cette mobilisation spontanée, le pouvoir malgache a répondu par la répression et l’instauration d’un couvre-feu.
Police fired teargas to disperse the thousands of mostly youth protesters who were marching in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, denouncing the government and demanding restoration of reliable water and electricity across the country.
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
the hands behind AI
Protests are taking place in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar 🇲🇬, after worsening water shortages and frequent power cuts.
Authorities banned public gatherings, but many people still came out to demonstrate.
How I wake up every day
Madagascar : la France restitue trois crânes sakalava, ce qu'il faut savoir
Madagascar: le crâne du roi sakalava sera restitué par la France le 26 août
Join us tomorrow at #mmea @chstmorg for a talk by Chanelle Adams (University of Lausanne): Volatile Oils: 'Wellness', Political Power, and the Market for Ravintsara Essential Oil in Madagascar at 10am Philadelphia, 3pm London, 4pm Berlin time: free online, all welcome! www.chstm.org/content/plan...
Installation of five prints on prepared photographic paper.
Sammy Baloji's present work, 'Shinkolobwe’s Abstraction' (with Pedro Monaville), links the Belgian uranium extraction in Katanga to the 1945 US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. The introductory text was written by Oliver Fuke for a recent exhibition at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (2024).
You can read more about my public environmental history practice here: artthrob.co.za/2022/04/21/f...
A new episode of the Black Autonomy podcast is up! Learn more about the release of JoNina Abron-Ervin's book, Driven by the Movement. This was three decades in the making for the last editor of the Black Panther Party newspaper.
blackautonomy.libsyn.com/driven-by-th...
Thank you !
Honored to receive the 2025 bristol-bern prize for public environmental history from @eseh.bsky.social ! #ESEH2025
The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social
