Dr Heather Alberro
@AlberroHeather
Green utopian academic-activist, Senior Lecturer @TrentUni, co-convenor for @PSAEnvironment, fellow of all terrestrials. She/her. ✊🏾🌏🌱🦈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/social-sciences/heather-alberro 30-03-2018 08:47:16
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What if we challenged traditional (Western) academic practice and acknowledged all of the relatives- human & other- who helped make our work possible? 🫶🏼🌎✊🏾 ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ - Robin Wall Kimmerer #AcademicChatter #BookTwitter
Whales and dolphins have been officially recognised as “legal persons” in a new treaty formed by Pacific Indigenous leaders. Elliot Doornbos and Dr John Whitehead NTU School of Social Sciences explain why this is a watershed moment theconversation.com/whales-and-dol…
Chuffed to have such glowing reviews of our collection by such amazing scholars 🥹🤩🤓🫶🏼✊🏾🌎🦠 #AcademicChatter #BookTwitter #ClimateJustice
“‘Wouldn’t things be different if nothing was an ‘it’? If a maple is an ‘it’, we can take up the chain saw. If a maple is a ‘her’, we think twice.”- Robin Wall Kimmerer, ‘Braiding Sweetgrass 🫶🏼✊🏾🌳🌎 #BookTwitter #AcademicChatter #ecology #Sustainability #ClimateJustice
‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ - Robin Wall Kimmerer 🫶🏼✊🏾🌏 #BookTwitter #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #biodiversity #AnotherWorldisPossible
2024 a crucial year for #democracy worldwide. What have ordinary #Indians done to save their democracy from 'backsliding' over the last decade?
Read #AudaciousHope from Westland Books to find out.
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Department of Politics and International Relations
Today I handed over the typescript of my new book Is A River Alive? to my editor & friend Simon Prosser.
It felt—after 3+ yrs’ work—like a big moment.
To mark it we walked up to the springs near my house, where a river is born—and the book begins & ends.
More on the project below.
“Grief is the persistence of love. It sees my ancestors in stalks of corn and hears them whisper when I pour wild rice through my hands. It…reminds me to be gentle when I strip bark from larch or dogwood”- Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin 🫶🏼✊🏾🌍 #BookTwitter #ClimateJustice
Had such a wonderful time at #PSA24 seeing new & familiar faces, and listening to so many fascinating papers! Looking forward to gathering with my academic tribe again in Birmingham for #PSA25 ! 🥹🫶🏼🤓 #politics #AcademicChatter #ClimateJustice
2/3 of the old PSA ECN committee reunited once again at #PSA24 🤩🤓🫶🏼 #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #politics Dr Liam Mcloughlin ☕ Lawrence McKay