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Wolfram Dressler

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Professor, Human Geography, Agrarian Change and Political Ecology #savepalawan

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Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

08.03.2026 02:19 πŸ‘ 25309 πŸ” 8109 πŸ’¬ 781 πŸ“Œ 329

No, the US began shit talking us, slapping us with tariffs and threatening our sovereignty. We Canadians didn't do anything. Don't blame us for this shit. Elbows up, 🍁

24.02.2026 21:44 πŸ‘ 429 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

ICE uses extrajudicial violence and intimidation for political ends. It's unconstrained by the law, unaccountable to the public. Its crimes are endorsed at the highest levels. What does this tell us? That it's the force of paramilitary thugs all fascist movements & governments use. It is Trump’s SS.

25.01.2026 12:05 πŸ‘ 937 πŸ” 285 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 8
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Message from a convicted criminal and sexual offender to Canada.
I'll take that as Team Canada for the win.

23.01.2026 02:03 πŸ‘ 3194 πŸ” 682 πŸ’¬ 433 πŸ“Œ 109
Charlie Angus Talks With the UK About Trump: The Petrie Hosken Show
Charlie Angus Talks With the UK About Trump: The Petrie Hosken Show YouTube video by Charlie Angus

Speaking with folks in the UK about how Canada is resisting the Trump threat.
It was an honour to be on the Petrie Hosken show.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXTH...

21.01.2026 00:13 πŸ‘ 260 πŸ” 61 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 10
We are open: please wait for us to unlock the door. Thank you for your understanding

We are open: please wait for us to unlock the door. Thank you for your understanding

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

19.01.2026 02:11 πŸ‘ 41405 πŸ” 11642 πŸ’¬ 922 πŸ“Œ 503
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19.01.2026 11:32 πŸ‘ 518 πŸ” 173 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 4

Fantastic work!

06.11.2025 12:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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My first book, Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos (University of Hawai'i Press, 2025), exists in this world!

Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...

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05.09.2025 00:04 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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New article!

'Irrigating the periphery: Hydrology, coloniality and counter-irrigation in the Philippines', by Rhomir S. Yanquiling, Wolfram Dressler & Will Smith.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.003

15.08.2025 10:30 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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Caos en El Nido: el destino viral de Instagram enfrenta crisis ambiental por turismo masivo Palawan, la provincia insular occidental de Filipinas, encabeza la lista de deseos de los turistas por su pintoresco destino principal: El Nido. Este pequeΓ±o pueblo pesquero de 50 000 habitantes se en...

El pueblo de El Nido, en la isla filipina de Palawan, se ha convertido en un popular destino turΓ­stico debido a su intensa promociΓ³n en redes sociales. Sin embargo, el turismo ha causado una grave contaminaciΓ³n costera. Esta es la situaciΓ³n.
es.mongabay.com/2025/07/los-...

19.07.2025 13:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I mean, JFC if the FT can say it, so can you @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social

29.07.2025 11:28 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Gorilla habitats and pristine forest at risk as DRC opens half of country to oil and gas drilling bids Government launches licensing round for 52 fossil fuel blocks, potentially undermining a flagship conservation initiative and affecting an estimated 39 million people

Gorillas to be further endangered: the Democratic Republic of the Congo is opening crucial gorilla habitats and pristine forests to bids for oil and gas drilling, with plans to carve up more than half the country into fossil fuel blocks.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

29.07.2025 12:17 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Innocuous-sounding "active clubs", including near where I grew up in Hamilton.
ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...

20.07.2025 00:49 πŸ‘ 103 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4
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Distributive Politics and Class Dynamics in Rural Java Based on fieldwork in a village I call Lone Teak in East Java, Indonesia, this paper examines emerging patterns of class differentiation and distributive politics. The history of Lone Teak's landhold....

An open access paper I wrote on differentiated Suharto nostalgia in rural Java for a Journal of Agrarian Change special issue on land and labour in Indonesia: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

18.07.2025 16:11 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A picture of the toronto skyline

A picture of the toronto skyline

🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky

16.07.2025 18:10 πŸ‘ 124 πŸ” 88 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3
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Around 100,000 march in Budapest Pride event in defiance of Hungary's ban Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and fines to participate in the annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed by a law passed by Prime Minister Viktor OrbΓ‘n's right-wing governing party.

Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and fines to participate in the annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed by a law passed by Prime Minister Viktor OrbΓ‘n's right-wing governing party.

28.06.2025 18:16 πŸ‘ 4492 πŸ” 989 πŸ’¬ 80 πŸ“Œ 97
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Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years Real world measurements of how much extra heat the Earth is trapping are well beyond most climate models. That’s a real problem.

Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years. Article in @theconversation.com by Thorsten Mauritsen @stockholm-uni.bsky.social Steven Sherwood UNSW Sydney & Benoit Meyssignac UniversitΓ© de Toulouse #Climate
theconversation.com/earth-is-tra...

27.06.2025 06:58 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 14
Wolfram H. Dressler, "For the Sake of Forests and Gods: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands" (Cornell UP, 2025) - New Books Network

newbooksnetwork.com/for-the-sake...

Great to talk with @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social about "For the Sake of Forests and Gods" on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social !

26.06.2025 08:19 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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26.05.2025 01:02 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The conceptual terrain addressed by the volume is expansive. By approaching this terrain through fine-grained studies grounded in the histories, ecologies, and inequalities of Southeast Asia, the contributors render the multidimensioned violence of our time palpable.
β€”Tania Murray Li, UoT

16.05.2025 07:13 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

… The book’s interdisciplinary focus on the volumetric brings a new vision to our understandings of resource territorialities and a new conceptual tool for analyzing the productions of sterile bodies and barren landscapes.
β€”Nancy Lee Peluso, University of California, Berkeley

16.05.2025 07:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œViolent Atmospheres brings the political ecology of crisis to bear on atmospheric violence in Southeast Asia. The theoretically innovative and ethnographically grounded chapters address the internal contradictions of capital accumulation and how resource conflict triggers atmospheric crises.”

16.05.2025 07:13 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Violent Atmospheres: Livelihoods and Landscapes in Crisis in Southeast Asia In Southeast Asia, atmospheric violence emerges from the haze plumes of burning of palm oil plantations, the invisible but powerful spread of viral flows, and the subordination of upland farmers wh…

🚨 On behalf of the contributors, Mary Mostafanezhad and I are delighted to announce the publication of our new book, Violent Atmospheres: Livelihoods and Landscapes in Crisis in Southeast Asia, published by the University of Hawaii Press.

uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/violen...

16.05.2025 07:13 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊

10.05.2025 08:39 πŸ‘ 7985 πŸ” 2680 πŸ’¬ 317 πŸ“Œ 164
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Canada, we’re with you!
TRUMPISM IS REPUDIATED IN AUSTRALIA!
#auspol

03.05.2025 10:36 πŸ‘ 34708 πŸ” 5127 πŸ’¬ 1294 πŸ“Œ 496

Israel murdered this beautiful soul. Remember Fatima Hassona. Watch and spread the film "Put your soul on your hand and walk". And never stop fighting the mass murdering death machine that is the Israeli state.

She was 25.

18.04.2025 09:13 πŸ‘ 2931 πŸ” 1801 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 23
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U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate β€œauthentic” and said there wasn’t reason to consider him an β€œillegal alien.”

How is it possible U.S. citizens are being held as illegal aliens in America even after they produce their birth certificate? This is intolerable. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

18.04.2025 00:13 πŸ‘ 10007 πŸ” 3740 πŸ’¬ 790 πŸ“Œ 246
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BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, Immigration Judge Rules The judge said the Trump administration’s evidence – a two-page letter from Secretary of State Marco Rubio – is sufficient to deport Khalil under an obscure legal provision.

Chilling. They are saying that simply taking action in opposition to US foreign policy is grounds for deportation.

Think of the proud lineage of protests against US-backed wars, coups, torture...

BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, Immigration Judge Rules open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

11.04.2025 20:58 πŸ‘ 906 πŸ” 341 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 25