POLLEN - Political Ecology Network

What worked at #POLLEN2026, what didn’t, and what can we learn for future conferences? @danbrockington.bsky.social breaks down feedback from nearly 400 survey responses on conference size, global inclusion, and activist engagement. 🔗 Read more: pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026-...

Thanks and farewell from the Barcelona Secretariat! After two meaningful years hosting and accompanying POLLEN, it’s time for us to hand over the Secretariat to a new team. Read our full farewell reflection: 🔗 lnkd.in/p/eNHVasVp Stay tuned to our channels for upcoming news!

What does a conference leave behind? During #POLLEN2026, Eloïse Ly Van Tu captured some of these moments through a series of live drawings. Her illustrations offer a creative visual trace of the conversations and themes that emerged throughout the week in Barcelona. Explore Eloïse’s drawings below.

Will you be at #POLLEN2026 in Barcelona next week? Join our session: Global Climate Change Solutions and Shrinking Civic Space in Southeast Asia Monday 29th June 15:30pm #PoliticalEcology @pollenetwork.bsky.social

📢Are you coming to #POLLEN2026? We are part of the @pollenetwork.bsky.social organizing committee @ianguelovski.bsky.social and lab members including @pkotsila.bsky.social @imbrace-erc.bsky.social @amaliacaar.bsky.social will be there! @icta-uab.bsky.social www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

I'm presenting at my first @pollenetwork.bsky.social conference! Zoos are influential but overlooked in-situ conservation actors. By working ex- and in-situ, is there a risk they shape landscapes to look like exhibits, rather than the other way around? Session 10, July 2, 16:30–18:30 #POLLEN2026

Panagiota Kotsila, lead investigator of the IMBRACE project, shares her perspectives on urban climate justice and previews her group's participation in the POLLEN (Political Ecology Network) Conference, taking place in Barcelona from June 29 to July 3, 2026. #pollen2026

New webinar : 📅 22 June 2026 🕙 15:30–17:00 CET Just Transition and Care Work: An International Inquiry explores how care work—both paid and unpaid—is central to just transition strategies, linking climate action with social reproduction, labour rights, and everyday life. 🌍💜

📖 New article: conflicts and migration in the Sahel are often explained through climate, ethnicity, or poverty—but this study shows land dispossession as a central, overlooked driver. A political ecology lens challenges reductionist explanations of crisis. 🌍

📢 Call for applications: Research Scholar in Abundance, Freedom, and Limits. An opportunity to explore how abundance, constraints, technology, ecology, and human flourishing intersect in shaping contemporary societies. Applications now open. igvi.org/opportunitie...

📖 Can illegality become a political strategy? This new article examine the Caussade reservoir controversy, o see how the dam's illegal construction transformed activist repertoires, media narratives, and state responses to contested water storage projects 🧊. journals.openedition.org/espacepoliti...

📖 From resource nationalism to fossil fascism, nationalism can obscure, delay, and undermine effective climate action. This new article offers a typology of climate-obstructive nationalisms at a moment when rapid transitions are urgently needed. #ClimateChange #justransition

📖 New book! "Feeding the World as If People Mattered" challenges the idea that agriculture is only about yields, showing how small farms sustain economies, ecologies, and livelihoods 👨‍🌾. by Andrew Flachs #AgrarianStudies uapress.arizona.edu/book/feeding...

Lacan, L. & Dittmann, J., (2026) “Wilder landscapes, shifting powers: The political ecology of rewilding in Zambia”, Journal of Political Ecology 33(1): 8731. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @euinzambia.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social

Andrews, E., Miller, R., Smith, S. & Kroepsch, A., (2026) “"Several things have to come together": The liminality of solar energy development in San Luis Valley, Colorado ”, Journal of Political Ecology 33(1): 8609. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social @kelvinsay.bsky.social

Next week is @pollenetwork.bsky.social #POLLEN2026 Conference! Here @pkotsila.bsky.social @icta-uab.bsky.social talks about the upcoming panel "Living with the Weather," which looks at heat, flooding, who the city protects, and who it doesn't.⁠ 🌡️⛈️ Full video ⬇️ youtu.be/MpcFoAPunXM

An event by @rupturepress.bsky.social and @pollenetwork.bsky.social on June 27, from 15:30 to 21:30 at La Cinètika, Barcelona Join and share! @drxdunlap.bsky.social @squirrelista.bsky.social @degrowth.bsky.social !!

Excited to present a paper on global south and decolonial perspectives on #degrowth at the @pollenetwork.bsky.social conference next week in Barcelona, Spain, on the amazing panel on real existing degrowth (RED) organized by @giorgoskallis.bsky.social and his team. Takes place at 11 am on July 2nd.

🔵📩🟠Our newsletter is out! Read our field work stories, learn about our new case study in Valencia, watch @pkotsila.bsky.social talk about ourupcoming panel at the #POLLEN2026 @pollenetwork.bsky.social + more 👇 mailchi.mp/26f532e2eb30...

📢 Call for Papers | Conference on Ecologism of War and Conflict in the Middle East & the Mediterranean 📍 Académie du Climat, Paris | Dec. 2026 🗓️ Deadline: June 30, 2026 carep-paris.org/recherche/ec... #EnvironmentalHumanities #PoliticalEcology #MiddleEast #Mediterranean #WarAndEnvironment

New Special Issue: “Transformative Environments: #ClimateChange Uncertainties, Marginality & Locally-Driven Transformative Change in India & Bangladesh" @gscjournal.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social @ids.ac.uk bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/jou...

Upcoming Event! Political Ecology Struggling: Between Industrial Extermination & Genocidal Wars Come join the early Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) @pollenetwork.bsky.social event on June 27, 15:30 to 21:30 at La Cinètika in Barcelona More info below 1/3 www.rupturepress.org/blog/pre-pol...

Excited for POLLEN 2026! Antulio Rosales and I organised two panels on #Extraction, Digital Infrastructures + #Nature. @pollenetwork.bsky.social Program here: lnkd.in/grA9wuRB

New article! Co-authored w/ @nicosananes.bsky.social in @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @podcastgreenred.bsky.social @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social @beautifulidea.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social #war

Another new article w/ Carlos Tornel at Globalizations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... This article opens a debate up on Marxist (eco)modernism... @pollenetwork.bsky.social @anarkisminfo.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social @petergelderloos.bsky.social #energy #geography #ecomodernism

New article by Emilie Lavie & Selin Le Visage examines the #Caussade reservoir controversy (2016–2024), showing how anti-ZAD strategies, legal battles, and state ambiguity shaped the conflict over water storage in France. 📖 Read: doi.org/10.4000/1650h #WaterGovernance #EnvironmentalConflict #France

📢 New article out! Drawing on research in Vanuatu, this paper shows how climate finance infrastructures can discipline institutions through audits, compliance requirements, etc. raising questions of justice, power, & sovereignty. #ClimateFinance #ClimateJustice journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢 Job Position! Join the Research Section 'Accumulation and Inequality' within the Africa Multiple Cluster. The successful candidate will lead a research project aligned with the section's themes and serve as Research Coordinator. Apply here: www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/index.html

📢 Call for Abstracts: JETNET Annual Conference 2026 🌍 “Transitions in Extractive Regions: Sustainable Closures, Repurposing and Developmental Pathways” 📍 Goa, India 🗓️ Conference: 26–27 Oct 2026 ⏳ Abstract deadline: 31 May 2026 #JustTransition #PoliticalEcology #Sustainability #ClimateJustice

New research on Loktak Lake (Manipur, India) introduces the concept of “wetland grabbing” showing how hydropower development transformed Indigenous Meetei relationships with the lake and deepened environmental injustice. 🌿⚡ #EnvironmentalJustice #PoliticalEcology #IndigenousRights #Wetlands

🌍 New research: Conflict and migration in the Sahel are not just about climate change or poverty. 🚜 Land dispossession is a key driver. Please check #Sahel #Migration journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/...

📢 Call for Abstracts: JETNET Annual Conference 2026 🌍 “Transitions in Extractive Regions: Sustainable Closures, Repurposing and Developmental Pathways” 📍 Goa, India 🗓️ Conference: 26–27 Oct 2026 ⏳ Abstract deadline: 31 May 2026 #JustTransition #PoliticalEcology #Sustainability #ClimateJustice

Here is my take @geoopenaccess.bsky.social rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New research on Adivasi tenure governance argues that techno-patrimonial state schemes undermine collective rights, deepen hierarchy & detach communities from environmental stewardship — creating “reverse environmentality.” 🌱⚠️ #IndigenousRights #Adivasi #LandRights www.epw.in/journal/2026... @dipika

Join “Political Ecology Struggling: Between Industrial Extermination & Genocidal War” — a POLLEN 2026 pre-conference of workshops, games, discussion, books & collective imagination. 📍La Cinètika, Barcelona 📅 27 June 2026 undisciplinedenvironments.org/2026/05/06/p...

Deberdt, R., (2026) “Startup extractivism: The political ecology of critical minerals processing in the United States”, Journal of Political Ecology 33(1): 8684. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social

Urban heat is not experienced equally 🥵🏙️. New article by Kotsila et al. (2025) shows how migrant communities in El Raval, Barcelona face urban heat injustice—and how they also create everyday, collective “radical adaptations” to survive it.

📍Barcelona is hosting a key conversation with Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur, in dialogue with journalist Joan Roura. An important moment to reflect on human rights, international law and what is happening in Palestine 🗓️ Don’t miss it at MACBA. More info 👉 centredelas.org/agenda/franc...

New Article 📖 International field school study finds that well-designed “living lab” environments can significantly deepen student learning through real-world, place-based engagement 🌍 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

🐑🏔️ Pastoralism in India: Changes & Continuity 📍 IIT Hyderabad | 🗓️ 8–9 May 2026. Two days of conversations on climate change, land, labour & pastoral worlds in India 🌾✨ join online or in person! #Pastoralism #IYRP2026 #India