Bram Büscher

Some thoughts on the latest @wwf.org.uk @wwfnederland.bsky.social Living Planet Report 2026. While it warns against 'false hope', this is exactly what it keeps doing by trying to improve an inherently unsustainable system. Time for Convivial Conservation. www.linkedin.com/posts/bram-b...

🔬 La science comme rempart. Hier soir, à la rentrée de l'IEA de Paris, Bettina Laville et Saadi Lahlou ont appelé chercheurs, institutions et partenaires à faire bloc face aux attaques contre la recherche. Avec Mélody Tonolli (Ville de Paris) et Donald Dingwell (Academia Europaea). #Rentrée2026

🌐 New paper published in Progress In Environmental Geography 🌐 'Saving the Planet with Class: Professional-Managerial Virtue and the Emergence of Neoliberal Conservation' by Jim Igoe and Bram Büscher journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... @brambuscher.bsky.social

Opinie: basisinkomen zou een uitkomst zijn voor boeren! Margriet Goris en ik hebben vandaag een opinie stuk in de Trouw waarin we een natuur basisinkomen voor boeren bepleiten om meerdere urgente vliegen in één klap te slaan Zie: www.trouw.nl/opinie/opini...

Very honoured and excited to join @ieadeparis.bsky.social next academic year!

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m.... Great listening to @brambuscher.bsky.social deconstruct the challenges faced by environmental activists in a post truth world. Definitely worth a listen. #climatecrisis #politics #capitalism #environment #change #convivialconservation

This week on Mongabay’s Newscast, host @mikedigirolamo.bsky.social is joined by political ecologist @brambuscher.bsky.social to discuss why conservation efforts must understand and "challenge the power structures" to succeed. Listen to this new episode! 🎧️ mongabay.cc/q3Sh2g 🎧️

I appreciate much of @ipbesfr.bsky.social but this business and biodiversity nonsense goes beyond 'missing the point'. It is simplistic, ineffective & dangerous As long as we continue to talk about 'business' when the issue is 'capitalism', nothing will change. It only creates empty virtue signals

Update on the 2026 PE Spring school: I am extremely pleased that Prof Emma Mawdsley (University of Cambridge) and Prof. Iva Peša (University of Groningen) have agreed to join the spring school as instructors Together with Annah Zhu, Sumit Vij and Erik Swyngedouw, this makes for a stellar line-up!

E finalmente "Conservation Revolution" in Italiano!! :) Importante testo per capire il legame tra Conservazione della biodiversità, il colonialismo, e l'economia Capitalista. Una chiamata verso la convivialità!

Please consider joining our 2026 Political Ecology spring school! Planetary Political Ecologies: Environmental disasters, conflicts and possibilities in & beyond capitalism ▶️ 13-17 April 2026 ▶️ Wageningen With Annah Zhu, Erik Swyngedouw, Sumit Vij & others! wass.crs.wur.nl/courses/deta...

The Conservation Revolution is out in Italian! Conservation revolution. Idee radicali per salvare la natura oltre l'Antropocene (MiMesis) Many thanks to Marco Immovilli, Margherita Cisani, Andrea Zinzani & Giacomo Zanolin for their amazing work! @pollenetwork.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social

CfP @pollenetwork.bsky.social 2026: Conservation without Liberal Reason: Unsustainable Virtues, Illiberal Technopolitics, and Residual Histories. Organizers: Jim Igoe & Bram Büscher More info: pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/... We look forward to proposals & meeting in Barcelona!

Some more days before submission deadline on 5 December - please join us if you can!

"The wealthiest 0.1% emit an average of 2.2 tonnes of CO2 every day, equivalent to the weight of a rhinoceros or an SUV. A citizen of Somalia burns off just 82 grams of CO2 each day, barely the mass of a single tomato or half a cup of rice." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

For those in Roskilde, Denmark next week - please join!

CfP @pollenetwork.bsky.social 2026: Conservation without Liberal Reason: Unsustainable Virtues, Illiberal Technopolitics, and Residual Histories. Organizers: Jim Igoe & Bram Büscher More info: pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/... We look forward to proposals & meeting in Barcelona!

#POLLEN"2026 panels are now live. What happens now is a vital part of the preparation Hundreds of potential participants will be sending in their ideas to the hundreds of different convenors. It is a rich moment of exchange and interaction. Please spread the word. shorturl.at/fCGhB

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Was great indeed to do this piece on The Value of Political Ecology in Biodiversity Conservation for Nature Reviews biodiversity with a great group of colleagues. Next time in person @jaredmargulies.bsky.social ?

2012 #ivory - Al Shabab vibes here when naive conservationists jumped on the idea environmental protection = global security. It doesn’t - just take one look at the Military Emissions Gap project. #Militarisation harms the environment www.politico.eu/article/russ...

We are in the middle of it.

Another year, another "crucial global summit". Except that no summit before has actually gone to the roots of the climate crisis and have altogether had near-zero impact. We need to drastically rethink global environmental governance. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

📣 New Paper on #ConvivialConservation in Biological Conservation, brilliantly led by @judithekrauss.bsky.social We argue for greater transdisciplinary research to develop convivial forms of human-predator #coexistence. It’s #OA and you can read it here ⬇️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Koot, S 2025 Book review of Van Beemen, O. Ondernemers in het wild: Het ontluisterende verhaal van een club witte weldoeners in Afrika. J of Political Ecology 32(1). journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/ @pollenetwork.bsky.social @brambuscher.bsky.social Book is in Dutch German & French

New article: Authoritarianism isn’t just chaos—it’s a power reshuffle. Under Bolsonaro, a “new elite” tore down protections, fueling socioecological crises while hiding their own downfall. 🔥🌍 #Brazil #Authoritarianism onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The UN’s new biodiversity deal aims to protect 30% of Earth by 2030—but does it tackle the root causes of nature’s destruction? Without addressing economic expansion, pollution & systemic issues, conservation alone won’t be enough. #Biodiversity #NatureCrisis theconversation.com/biodiversity...

Right, one of the biggest 'free' market capitalists believes that 'free-market thinking' is under threat and must become the official opinion of his newspaper Seems Bezos is hellbent on ensuring his newspaper's creed 'democracy dies in darkness' becomes reality. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...

Rest in Peace James Ferguson. @pollenetwork.bsky.social brambuscher.com/2025/02/21/r...

"Another approach to conservation is needed, one that takes seriously our economic system’s structural pressures, violent socio-ecological realities, cascading extinctions and increasingly authoritarian politics" We wrote this 5 years ago. Could have been yesterday. www.jstor.org/stable/26677...

Of course not. If you deliberately do not address root causes you will never meet your targets. theconversation.com/biodiversity...

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This is so frightening - authoritarian fascism in full frontal attack mode. As prof. Pagel emphasises, we must acknowledge we are in a full-blown democratic crisis, call it out for what it is and fight it with every means possible. @sierra-deutsch.bsky.social @esthermarijnen.bsky.social

Led by @sierra-deutsch.bsky.social and co-authored with Rob Coates&Laila Sandroni, this paper seems all too prescient right now.. Sierra's apt phrasing of 'brazen political antics and mystifying logics accompanying authoritarianism' are in full display Resisting fascism is more important than ever

Wondering where all this fascism is coming from? In this new article @brambuscher.bsky.social, Robert Coates, Laila Sandroni & I use Bolsonaro as a case study & look to Karl Polanyi & literature on authoritarian neoliberalism & the elite for some answers. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Zapiro is very sharp, as usual..

POLLEN 2026 will take place in Barcelona next June 💫, and we warmly welcome you all to join us. Stay tuned for updates on exact dates, costs, and scheduling ⌛—details will be available soon on our new website! 🖥️🙂

Researchers make the case for shift from economic growth to human well-being within planetary limits news.mongabay.com/2025/02/rese...

Colleagues, A decade in the making, I’d like to share with you my new book entitled, 'For the Sake of Forests and God: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands'. From the Cornell University Press webpage: lnkd.in/ghyuxMKT