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The critique of settler space is a pressing task in the context of movements for Indigenous justice in settler-colonial societies across the world. My recently awarded PhD thesis contributes to this critique by investigating the historical production of settler space, on the premise that thinking through this project of settler spatial history may help shed light on the contradictions and contours of settler spaces today. It is available to download from the University of Sydney Library here.

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It’s time to rethink what tools reveal about animal intelligence and evolution.

The post Tools of the Wild: Unveiling the Crafty Side of Nature appeared first on Nautilus.

How one insect is reshaping the ecosystem of the African savannah.

The post The Tiny Ant and the Mighty Lion appeared first on Nautilus.

The magnificence of the continent that’s changing our world.

The post So Much Depends Upon Antarctica appeared first on Nautilus.

How the lucrative market could spark conservation.

The post The Hidden Butterfly Trade appeared first on Nautilus.

They sense the buzzing sounds of pollinators, the vibrations of the wind.

The post What Plants Hear appeared first on Nautilus.

The key to preventing crashes is to know what you don’t know.

The post How to Guarantee the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles appeared first on Nautilus.

During the 2010s, many states across the global South turned decisively to the right. Foreshadowed by the rise of Recep Erdogan in Turkey in the early 2000s, a wave of authoritarian populism swept political figures like Mahinda Rajapaksa, Jair Bolsonaro, Rodrigo Duterte, and Narendra Modi into power with very substantial popular mandates. If we agree that it is an important task to address this bias and to conceptualize southern authoritarian populism in its own right, it is also necessary to ask ourselves how we should approach this task – in short, how should we study authoritarian populism in the global South?

The post On Southern Authoritarian Populism appeared first on Progress in Political Economy (PPE).

An exciting new theory reconciles gravity and quantum physics. I think it’s wrong. But I may be too.

The post What Physicists Have Been Missing appeared first on Nautilus.

By imitating early conditions of Earth in the lab, scientists gain new insight into the origin of life.

The post How Did Life Begin? appeared first on Nautilus.