Professor of Human Geography @ Durham Uni, researching the geopolitics-development nexus, China-Africa relations, energy, resource & infrastructural geographies
Joined February 2014
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Marcus Power retweeted
27 Aug 2025
Good to be engaged in a thoughtful and enriching discussion with @MarcusJPower, Professor of Human Geography at @durham_uni, UK.
Our conversation focused on the intricate nexus of geopolitics and development, delving into wider global and regional dynamics.
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Marcus Power retweeted
2 May 2025
1/ How does Chinese development finance affect policy space across Sub-Saharan Africa? In our new article in the Journal of International Development, Han Cheng, @MarcusJPower and I explore this through Grabel’s concept of productive incoherence.
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/jid.3996
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Marcus Power retweeted
24 Mar 2025
Good time to recall the debate over status of Nepal's independence during the British Raj, particularly b/n late 19th cent and 1923, when the treaty confirming Nepal's independence was signed by the British. Short 🧵:
17 Mar 2025
They were all legally a part of the Indian Empire following the Interpretation Act of 1889. Here you can see the standard Raj list of Indian princely states, opening alphabetically with Abu Dhabi and including places like Bahrain and Bhutan...
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Marcus Power retweeted
11 Mar 2025
Mai and I are looking for people who work on archives/archiving the idea of Tricontinental solidarity (or Third Worldism) - academics, artists, film-makers - anyone. Please share if you/anyone you know of works on this. Thank you! 💙 @mtaha1871
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Marcus Power retweeted
14 Feb 2025
I've now read this, & it is straight 🔥. A rare ecological approach to Marxism that does not move to revise/reject the bulk of Marx & Engels's thought or find 'ecology' buried deep in notebooks/Vol 3. Some favorite passages below (besides the ones I already noted below the QT).
5 Feb 2025
This looks fantastic! Engels FTW...
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Marcus Power retweeted
10 Jan 2025
Isaiah and Christ teaming up with Elijah, Jacob, Moses and the Baptiste. Who next for the biblical Hatters?
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Marcus Power retweeted
6 Jan 2025
A.i couldn't do this, there's wounds and a lived, weathered life behind the completely unqualified person who was tasked with creating this image. Also, Ireland is driving away from England and taking the six counties with it. This is radical decolonial art
6 Jan 2025
god i love the ireland school of motoring logo that's just our beautiful island as a guy left foot braking with his peanits out
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31 Dec 2024
Great news, hoping we stop leaking silly goals every week now. Looks a good young prospect #COYH 🧡
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Marcus Power retweeted
31 Dec 2024
Mozambique now exports energy to seven countries
#Mozambique #Moçambique #Economy #MozambiqueNews
clubofmozambique.com/news/mo…
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Marcus Power retweeted
17 Dec 2024
The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed criminal complaints in France and Belgium saying that Apple's supply chain is contaminated with "blood minerals".
Their lawyers argue Apple is complicit in crimes committed by armed groups that control mines.
bbc.in/4gBVaUo
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Marcus Power retweeted
28 Nov 2024
Job Alert - @GeogDurham is seeking applications for two permanent Human Geography Assistant Professorships - durham.taleo.net/careersecti… closing date 11:59pm on 12th January 2025
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4 Dec 2024
All the BBC media action films from our Sajag-Nepal project are available to watch now on our YouTube channel here: youtube.com/@sajag-nepal?si=…
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Marcus Power retweeted
18 Nov 2024
Join us on November 21st as we discuss the politics underlying the popular uprising in Mozambique with António Bai, Anne Pitcher, and José Jaime Macuane. youtube.com/watch?v=LlSjZsSs…
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Marcus Power retweeted
23 Oct 2024
Enterprise at its best. Mustang locals have set up tents at Korala to cash in on the tourist boom and sell them Chinese goods from across.
🇳🇵State might be slow to develop border infra, but 🇳🇵people are quicker. Border tourism as another form of sovereignty assertion?
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Marcus Power retweeted
21 Oct 2024
On generative AI, photojournalism and visual politics. Watch our recent and fascinating @VisualPolUQ conversation between David Campbell (VII Foundation) and @Cenevox (@RMIT), moderated by @brontebratton and myself. rolandbleiker.com/past-event…
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Marcus Power retweeted
14 Oct 2024
Our story on China's is push against and sometimes even push into countries on its borders makes NYT 1st page:
🇺🇸A 'New Great Wall Of China' 📷Nepalis have complained that China’s breaches of the border threaten their land and their way of life
nytimes.com/interactive/2024…
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Marcus Power retweeted
27 Aug 2024
NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!! 🌏📖
Of Infrastructure Diplomacy and Development:How Nepal Manages Infrastructure Aid from India, China, and Japan.
Full report on our website: pei.center/publication/infra…
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🌍 22 years, 1,243 loans, 49 African governments, 39 Chinese lenders over $170 billion.
Explore the projects and data in the Chinese Loans to Africa Database: gdpcenter.org/4dbInXk
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Marcus Power retweeted
29 Jul 2024
We would like to thank our discussants @JanakRai_Anthro @sumitbeatles and Katsuo Nawa for their insightful and thought provoking comments. @GeogDurham @NSETNepal1 @soscbaha @sijapatisweata @SarmilaPaudyal
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