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“Existing commons are everywhere, but they’re often invisiblised by bigger institutions and the stories they tell.” Amber Huff suggests that commons show that better worlds are possible: POLLEN is itself a commons, but commons is just one word & way of seeing. #POLLEN23

Simon Batterbury introduces journalofpoliticalecology, which aims to cross ‘North’ and ‘South’ boundaries and be a community of scholars. A section of the journal focuses on writing by activist scholars. #POLLEN23

Morning! Here’s the programme for our third and final day at #POLLEN23 🐝

@KlaraJFischer starting the conversation on multispecies entanglements of Bt maize at POLLENCon2023; systemic, social-ecological challenges of agricultural "pests" won't be solved by targeting the individual pest

Meenal Tula shares her work exploring the meanings that Indigenous people in Nagaland in the Himalayas ascribe to jhum (millet) in the face of global market forces POLLENCon2023

Exciting new research from PhD student Andrea Stuit ICTA-UAB on blockchain technologies in conservation. Finally someone has explained blockchain to me! POLLENCon2023 POLLEN #POLLEN23

Debating and illustrating the political & analysis of power within more than human and multi-species approaches…..along with cute theory and psychoanalysis @jaredmargulies Charis Enns #POLLEN23 POLLENCon2023 POLLEN

Plenary on ‘conservation labour’ - anwesha dutta says there’s a lot of *work* going on in conservation, but it’s not often thought about through the lens of ‘labour’. A new project, CONLAB, is looking into this. #POLLEN23

The labour involved in conservation is itself used as a source of surplus value. And conservation that involves communities includes a lot of uncompensated labour too, says Amber Huff. #POLLEN23

Conservation labour: Francis Masse looks at militarised conservation and talks with rangers who do things they don’t necessarily want to, but because it’s their ‘job’. The aim to ‘combat wildlife trafficking’ is a big part of how some rangers now see their role. #POLLEN23

Conservation labour: Tishant Simlai says he’s talked to forest workers in India who work with dogs - where the government investment in the dog is 100x what the human workers earn. #POLLEN23

Convincing us about why we should pay more attention to atmospheres. Rebel Mole Ariadne Collins POLLENCon2023 presenting research on Atmospheric Commoning #POLLEN23

Juan Sebastian Velez Triana from IOB - Institute of Development Policy Cealdes - Centro de Alternativas al Desarrollo shares his research from Venecia in rural Colombia, experiments with peasant social-ecological struggles aligning with academic research POLLENCon2023

The environment as a tool of control. Environmental restoration as a form of resistance to imperialism. Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel presents on the civil war in Ethiopia and how the environment has always been political in the #Tigray region. POLLENCon2023

The environment and environmental issues are deeply political. My take home from POLLENCon2023. Attending, participating and speaking at the amazing conference with scholars and practitioners from around the world shows that our social science perspectives are making waves.

At the #POLLEN23 closing session, Jens Friis Lund announces the next POLLEN conference! In 2024 the event will be in 3 places - Lund, Lima, Dodoma - with an online element. See pollen2024.brick.site for more details

📆 More info on the next POLLEN conference is out #POLLEN24 POLLEN

BLOG: To think, feel and see otherwise: a report and mini-zine from #POLLEN23 futurenatures.org/to-think-feel-… by Nathan Oxley

Announcement! The Call for Papers for the POLLEN24 Conference is officially out👏 We encourage the submission of individual articles, paper panels, debates, art, and other interventions. Deadline: December 15th, 2023 More info: pollen2024.brick.site/call #POLLEN24 #Callforpapers

For those still following us, tune in to POLLEN and follow #POLLEN24 to see updates from this year’s conference on 10-12 June!