Postdoc @css.ethz.ch FiRES project • Political ecologist & feminist geographer • Water governance & social movements in Southeast Asiahttps://bsky.app/profile/zalifung.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/zalifung.bsky.social/post/3mjlb7ypfwc2oThis afternoon, @drjchambers.bsky.social & I will co-present on women’s care labour at the Thai-Myanmar border for the University of Melbourne’s Geography seminar series. Join us! I’ll present a paper co-authored with @drvanessalamb.bsky.social on women’s food preparation for anti-dam protests16 Apr 2026 01:31 +0000at://did:plc:jyjwtivisters3upkmfv7fmp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjlb7ypfwc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/zalifung.bsky.social/post/3mhzh5kys422k🚨 New paper in Asia Pacific Viewpoint Reflecting on my collaboration with Mueda Nawanat, I show how collaboration between foreign researchers and local RAs can enable research to support the goals of communities and social movements in the Salween River Basin https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/apv.7003727 Mar 2026 06:04 +0000at://did:plc:jyjwtivisters3upkmfv7fmp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhzh5kys422khttps://bsky.app/profile/zalifung.bsky.social/post/3md3h34smvs2kNew paper in @politicalgeography.bsky.social 🚨 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629825002112 I show how authoritarianism not only erodes civil and political rights, but undermines the organisations designed to protect those rights and hold state and corporate actors accountable 1/323 Jan 2026 10:02 +0000at://did:plc:jyjwtivisters3upkmfv7fmp/app.bsky.feed.post/3md3h34smvs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/zalifung.bsky.social/post/3mapnvfpfyc2bMy essay on “slow resistance” to long-proposed hydropower dams & diversions in the Salween River Basin is out with @newmandala.bsky.social ! It’s based on my PhD research & an article co-authored with @drvanessalamb.bsky.social in Antipode. https://www.newmandala.org/slow-resistance-in-the-salween-river-basin/24 Dec 2025 06:42 +0000at://did:plc:jyjwtivisters3upkmfv7fmp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mapnvfpfyc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/zalifung.bsky.social/post/3m6luqedoy224New paper with @drvanessalamb.bsky.social in @roadsides.bsky.social We show how food preparation, primarily undertaken by older Karen women, is key to contesting long-proposed hydropower dams & water diversions in the Salween River Basin Thanks editors @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon27 Nov 2025 07:43 +0000at://did:plc:jyjwtivisters3upkmfv7fmp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6luqedoy224https://bsky.app/profile/zalifung.bsky.social/post/3lukbbahtek2wJust discovered that @austgeo.bsky.social is on BlueSky! My (relatively) new paper shows how researchers can build trust & collaborate with civil society actors online & across multiple borders (geographic, material, sociocultural, etc). This can build the foundations for in-person fieldwork. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Jul 2025 10:10 +0000at://did:plc:jyjwtivisters3upkmfv7fmp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lukbbahtek2whttps://bsky.app/profile/zalifung.bsky.social/post/3ltvqrb4mu227Thanks @polgeographygroup.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Jul 2025 06:22 +0000at://did:plc:jyjwtivisters3upkmfv7fmp/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltvqrb4mu227https://bsky.app/profile/zalifung.bsky.social/post/3lt2o6fpbz22jlooking forward to presenting on speculative and “amorphous” unbuilt infrastructures in the Salween River Basin at the upcoming Beyond Infrastructures conference @infranortherc.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Jul 2025 11:54 +0000at://did:plc:jyjwtivisters3upkmfv7fmp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt2o6fpbz22j