Vital Geographies
@vitalgeogs
Vital Geographies is a research group based at @camunigeography, exploring the production, politics, and governance of different forms of life.
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The Cambridge launch for Maan Barua 's Lively Cities is on 19th October 2023 4-6pm hosted by Vital Geographies
!! RSVP to Philip Howell (email below) if interested.
📚 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
Research by the team of UCCRI's Rachael Garrett (Rachael Garrett) has shown that forest clearing has barely been impacted despite 'deforestation-free’ supply chain pledges. cam.ac.uk/research/news/…
🧵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 in early November for the Cambridge book launch of Vital Geographies member Olga Petri🇺🇦's 'Places of Tenderness and Heat'!
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!
🍃CAMBRIDGE BOOK LAUNCH🍃
'Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space' (MIT Press, 2022)
Join Matthew Gandy, Maan Barua, 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
Very glad to share our new article in TiBG (Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)) based on my MSc research (@MScNSEG) on India's bovine geographies
Living waste, living on waste: A bioeconomy of urban cows in Delhi
Only five years in the making, with Maan Barua!
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tr… SoGE, University of Oxford
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!
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
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
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/ adam searle & Jamie Lorimer
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tr…