I was excited to have been able to talk at the 40th Anniversary Celebration of David Harvey’s Social Justice and the City. I talked about ‘The Biographies of Three Editions” (essentially how each of the […]
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Urban Forests and Political Ecologies in Toronto
Tested out some new ideas about “Abolition Ecology” with talk at the Urban Forests & Political Ecologies conference in Toronto, April 18-20th, 2013. The conference was hosted by the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University; […]
Formation of RadGe Writing Group in Vancouver
I had the good fortune to be invited to join a new working/writing/researching/archiving group who assembled in Vancouver on the UBC Campus for an inaugural workshop over the March 1st weekend and then presented some […]
Urban Political Ecology is alive and well at the LA AAG
In response to questions about the state of Urban Political Ecology (UPE), my colleague Jenn Rice and I organized a series of four really good sessions to sus out the health of this emerging sub-disciplinary […]
EcoFocus Film Festival panelist for the climate disobedience film Bidder 70
I had a great time serving as a moderator and commentator on the new documentary Bidder 70 about Tim DeChristopher’s act of climate disobedience at the EcoFocus Film Festival here in Athens. One of the […]
What Does it Mean to Win? On Keeping Antipode’s Radical Spirit Alive
Here is the latest editorial essay we within the Antipode Editorial Collective (including Sharad Chari, Paul Chatterton, Vinay Gidwani, Andy Kent, Wendy Larner, and I in this instance) wrote entitled “What Does it Mean to […]
Food Justice, Hunger and the City in Geography Compass
Here is a post on a little review essay I co-authored last year with colleagues Hilda Kurtz and Amy Trauger entitled Food Justice, Hunger and the City in Geography Compass: Abstract We are amidst a […]
Organizing for Survival: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Anarchism through the Life of Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin in ACME
A paper entitled “Organizing for Survival: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Anarchism through the Life of Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin” I wrote with Jason Rhodes was just published in ACME. It resulted from a […]
Not Meant to Live Like This @ Carter Center in ATL
I had a mind-blowing opportunity to be on a panel at the Carter Center in Atlanta with several of the co-authors of the new book Not Meant to Live Like This (2012). The book is […]
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