When geopolitical forces pressure #TNCs to exit host economies: the Iranian 🇮🇷 #automotive industry as a case used to theorise Geopolitical Decoupling in Global Production Networks. Petr Pavlínek's new piece in Economic Geography: bitly.ws/36jHV Viktor Kveton Robert Hassink

An opportunity for Czech speakers to join the RESOURCE Project team (D. Sosna, @MaikeMelles & I) as a fully funded PhD student, starting Jan 2025. We're researching #food waste & #water consumption in Czech 🇨🇿 & Dutch 🇳🇱 households Czech Academy of Sciences eu.avcr.cz/cs/aktuality/C…

News from my former life as a rural ethnographer - my book forthcoming with @UGAPress has a cover

Although our 6-year project on #sustainability, #frugality, household food waste🍞🥕🥛& water consumption 🚿🚾🚰in 🇨🇿 & 🇳🇱 began in Jan, today's launch of our funky website feels like a proper start: resourceeurope.cz Watch this space. Czech Academy of Sciences @MaikeMelles Czexpats In Science

For 🇨🇿 speakers: Interview with my colleague Johana Wyss about the importance of imagination and creativity in academic research and her ERC grant on populist politics in border regions MEMPOP ('Memory and Populism from Below'): eu.avcr.cz/en/research/ Czech Academy of Sciences Czexpats In Science

Important CFP from Geographica Helvetica. Please join into a discussion on the ongoing attempts to delegitimize and police academic speech and knowledge production.

Desiree, Irish potatoes 🥔

The 16th ESA Porto Conference is approaching! Today the LOC was taking care of the last details. Very proud to join this great team of colleagues working for an exciting conference!

I am thrilled to have been invited to give a talk 'The practice and policy of food self-provisioning' at the concluding seminar of the project 'Skills of Self-Provisioning in Rural Communities' at Helsinki's House of the Sciences & Letters on Mon 26 Aug: rb.gy/6dctbu

📣Job alert! Two 4.8-year post-doctoral research associate posts at The University of Manchester News, within the ERC/UKRI Consolidator GENERATE project (manchester.ac.uk/about/news/ukr…). More info at: - Post 1 (qualitative focus): jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?… - Post 2 (quantitative focus): jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

Indeed, if we were to commission a publicity piece for the topic of our academic work - food self-provisioning🍅🥦🍆🍓🍒🍏 and #sharing - in the last decade, we would like it to look like this article.

Happy to share this announcement. Our #research project has a website and Twitter account👇 Researching how households navigate themsleves through conventional and alternative #food systems in the context of #resilience. #gardening #FSP #shopping #AFN #survey #interviews

Registration for 'Micro-practices of societal transformation?', CESCAME's mid-term conference (14-15 Oct, free, online, in-person) will close on Sunday 13 Oct at 5 pm CET. Info and registration: cescame.soc.cas.cz/events/micro-p…

Mushroom picking season is upon us...

A new full-time and research-only job opportunity at the Dept of Ecological Anthropology (currently 9 researchers from 5 countries; Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences). Deadline for application: 15 Nov. eu.avcr.cz/cs/aktuality/R…

And for our last talk of the year, and to top off the wonderful lineup of speakers we've had for the Ecological Anthropology Seminar Series: The excellent Markéta Zandlová will be "thinking with drought" on November 14 Register here: forms.office.com/e/rfKrvjTnE2

Dept of Ecological Anthropology presents Markéta Zandlová's talk "Facing Climate Crisis: The Productive Connectivity of Drought", 14 Nov 14:00 CET. Join us in person or online. To register, please click here eu.avcr.cz/cs/aktuality/F…

Inst of Ethnology Prague presents: 🇪🇸"On Moral Grounds: Revisiting Acorn Theft in 20th-Century Spain"🇪🇸, @MaikeMelles's talk in Brno and online, 2 Dec, 2 pm CET, with Susanne Fehlings (Goethe Uni Frankfurt) as discussant. Info and link to join online: eu.avcr.cz/cs/aktuality/O…

Delighted to have the first paper from the FoodRes Project co-authored with Petr Daněk published in Erdkunde Open access: erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view/3… The geography of Czech 🇨🇿 & Austrian 🇦🇹 food self-provisioning 🍒🥦🍓🫑🍇🌶️ Sociologický ústav AV ČR Jan Vávra

"Towards more resilient food systems: exploring spaces between the mainstream and alternatives" 🌶️🍇🫑🍓🥦🍒- an opportunity to join us for this exciting session at the EUGEO conference in Vienna 🇦🇹 in Sept.