Vital Geographies
@vitalgeogs
Vital Geographies is a research group based at @camunigeography, exploring the production, politics, and governance of different forms of life.
ID: 961251211050708992
http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/vital/ 07-02-2018 14:52:02
385 Tweet
930 Followers
122 Following
'Why should we consider ‘an ethic of not going there?’' - Anna Guasco (Cambridge Geography) makes the case for questioning the need to conduct postgraduate fieldwork in new Geography Directions post 👇 orlo.uk/rX2wV
The Forest Multiple: a symposium and workshop at the University of Cambridge, 27-28 October 2022, organised by Jennifer Gabrys' Smart Forests Project. Looks like an unmissable event! smartforests.net/the-forest-mul… Planetary Praxis
Anthropause environmentalisms: Noticing natures with the Self-Isolating Bird Club Our new paper (Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)) examines changed human-nature relations & the role of digital tech in promoting eco-positivity during the #Anthropause, w/ @admsrl & Jamie Lorimer rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tr…
First amazing presentation from Dr Anna Lawrence with crucial inputs for our later discussion
Applications are now OPEN in for the Cambridge University Masters in Conservation Leadership 2023! Taught in partnership with Cambridge Conservation Initiative, visit our website to find out more: cl.geog.cam.ac.uk #MiCL23 #Masters #Conservation #Leadership
It's a genuine honour to have written this piece for Dr Sasha Dovzhyk's Ukraine Lab I dérive through the Kyiv thickets, finding natural beauty & political potential Thank you to @mstyslav9 for the incredible illustrations theecologist.org/2022/sep/22/ky… The Ecologist Ukrainian Institute London
I’m very excited to be giving the third talk in this series at UT Buddhist Studies over Zoom in Jan. I’ll be talking about Buddhist perspectives of climate change 🌎 Be sure to register if you’d like to attend!
Very glad to share our new article in TiBG (Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)) based on my MSc research (MSc NSEG Oxford) on India's bovine geographies Living waste, living on waste: A bioeconomy of urban cows in Delhi Only five years in the making, with maanbarua.bsky.soc! rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tr… SoGE, University of Oxford
🍃CAMBRIDGE BOOK LAUNCH🍃 "Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space" (MIT Press, 2022) Join Matthew Gandy, maanbarua.bsky.soc, Vanesa Castán Broto and Ash Amin for a book launch in Cambridge! 6th October 2022 17:00-18:00 (BST) Periodicals Room, The Library, Dept. of Geography
I greatly enjoyed working with the lead author and Cambridge Masters in Conservation Leadership alumnus Kumar Paudel to write this #AJOpinion piece on how to balance the uneven distribution of costs and benefits of conservation, with a focus on tigers in Nepal. Thoughts welcome!
Join us in early November for the Cambridge book launch of Vital Geographies member Olga Petri🇺🇦's 'Places of Tenderness and Heat'!
🧵1/ Nepal is doing its best to protect its wildlife, and the new tiger & rhino numbers are proof. However, there is a huge cost to this success. In my latest op-ed w/Chris Sandbrook, we ask how this cost can be shared fairly since wildlife is a global asset aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/…
📚 Join us *tomorrow* for a book launch event for Olga Petri🇺🇦 's 'Places of Tenderness and Heat', with reflections from Matthew Gandy, Daniel Beer, & Philip Howell 📚 5-6 PM GMT, Periodicals Room, Dept of Geography, Cambridge
The Cambridge launch for maanbarua.bsky.soc 's Lively Cities is on 19th October 2023 4-6pm hosted by Vital Geographies !! RSVP to Philip Howell (email below) if interested.