[Yarawg] Fwd: Re: ICL article collaboration

Tue Nov 4 12:13:32 CET 2025

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Onderwerp: Re: ICL article collaboration
Datum: 2025-11-04 11:59
Afzender: Jeff Diamanti <J.Diamanti at uva.nl>
Ontvanger: "adriana at aseed.net" <adriana at aseed.net>

  Dear Adriana,

  Perfect! We’d love for you to speak informally about your methods and
the case study on December 11th. We can offer 300 total (split however
you like) if this is a guest lecture. Does that sound ok?

  Best
  Jeff

_____________________
Dr. Jeff Diamanti

Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Analysis

Program Coordinator rMA Cultural Analysis

Institute for Advanced Studies Associate (IAS) [1]

University of Amsterdam
Spuistraat 134 (kamer 6.14)
Amsterdam 1012 VB

Netherlands

Website [2]

  Office Hours [3]

  From: adriana at aseed.net <adriana at aseed.net>
Date: Tuesday, 4 November 2025 at 11:24
To: Jeff Diamanti <J.Diamanti at uva.nl>
Subject: Re: ICL article collaboration

Hi Jeff, 

Thank you for clarifying your interest in this collaboration. To answer
your last question, yes, I would like to join an (informal) dialogue
about our research! 

A preemptive hint about our methods: we collected information through
online searches, digging into our sources’ sources, and lots of grey
literature (like newspaper articles), which we gathered thanks to our
network. Hence, nothing particular, except for the huge advantage of
having a big network of activists or partner organisations for knowledge
sharing.
 Regardless, we are happy to share the process with you and
your colleagues, so let me know how and when that could happen.

Also, my team was asking whether we could receive some compensation for
the time spent collaborating (of course, depending on how long that
would be), as it has happened when ASEED worked with the UvA before.

Looking forward to your updates!

[P.S. I saw that you and Ruby are organising a symposium these days,
how exciting! So sorry I won’t be in Amsterdam to see it, hope it goes
well!!]

Best regards,
Adriana

Jeff Diamanti schreef op 2025-10-27 07:27:

> Dear Adriana and all,
> 
> Many thanks for getting back to me and for this helpful context. I've
> been wondering for a few years now when someone would do this kind of
> deep dive into ICL. They've been on my radar for a long time as you
> know because of their role in the international fertiliser industry
> and of course because of the infrastructures that tie Amsterdam to the
> occupation regime. I was so excited to see that you all had done this
> level of research already and for all the future elaborations that are
> now possible based on this solid foundation you've established.
> 
> I think I understand the nature of your hesitation around presenting
> this work for our Supply Chain Criticism workshop. I think for us it
> wouldn't make as much sense to be in dialogue with Adem Vrij aan Het
> Ij quite yet but I will discuss it with my colleagues helping to run
> the workshop. What we are most immediately interested in is sharing
> practical tools for doing the kind of research that you've done here
> — a counter cartography or counter-forensic approach to the movement
> of matter and value through supply chains. ICL would be a case study
> for us to ground this skill sharing in Amsterdam but not itself the
> target or focus of our work either. So actually I do think it's the
> skillset that your group brings to this work that we would be
> interested in learning about, rather than the case about ICL per se
> and its impact on Amsterdam (at least in the short term).
> 
> So while I speak with my colleagues, would you also consider joining
> us perhaps less formally for a dialogue about the kinds of research
> methods and techniques you use as a group that our researchers might
> learn from?
> 
> All the best and great work!!!
> 
> Best
> Jeff
> 
> _____________________
> Dr. Jeff Diamanti
> 
> Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Analysis
> 
> Program Coordinator rMA Cultural Analysis
> 
> Institute for Advanced Studies Associate (IAS) [1]
> 
> University of Amsterdam
> Spuistraat 134 (kamer 6.14)
> Amsterdam 1012 VB
> 
> Netherlands
> 
> Website [2]
> 
> Office Hours [3]
> 
> From: adriana at aseed.net <adriana at aseed.net>
> Date: Monday, 20 October 2025 at 16:38
> To: Jeff Diamanti <J.Diamanti at uva.nl>
> Cc: pia at aseed.net <pia at aseed.net>, lucia at aseed.net <lucia at aseed.net>,
> marina at aseed.net <marina at aseed.net>
> Subject: ICL article collaboration
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> 

I hope that you're doing great that the end of the first UvA
> block is
> treating you well! As promised, here I write you about our
> collaboration
> pertaining ASEED's ICL article and our involvement in your supply
> chain
> criticism workshop.
> 

> To give you some context, the article ASEED wrote emerged as a request
> by the neighbourhood activist group Adem Vrij Aan het Ij, which has
> been
> suing the ICL and fighting against the high pollution rates that it
> causes in Amsterdam Noord. For more information on their work and
> their
> past achievement, here is their website:
> 
https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fademvrijaanhetij.nl%2F&data=05%7C02%7CJ.Diamanti%40uva.nl%7C0fd346ffcae14ae557a208de0fe65ed1%7Ca0f1cacd618c4403b94576fb3d6874e5%7C0%7C0%7C638965679266753987%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Ud6qiHbbTQASsIByZhsZ3khQGT8jiMwz%2Bxr670DHdsE%3D&reserved=0
> [4].
> They asked us to give a comprehensive overview of the highly
> problematic
> practices of ICL in Palestine and within the weapon industry, for them
> to use it in their campaign. We could help them mostly because ASEED
> has
> the freedom to be openly Pro-Palestine, both because we do not have to
> contend our politics with funding bodies, and because all our members
> are politically aligned; the latter is not the case for Adem Vrij (a
> very openly pro-Palestine publication would have created issues within
> their members and affiliates).
> 
> Now, I am telling you this story to say that ASEED is not actively
> campaigning against ICL. Surely the work we have put into it fits well
> within our Corporate Free Agriculture campaign, but our actions,
> research,  and energies are and will be mostly focused on the
> fertiliser
> giant corporation Yara. 
In short, our team thinks that your
> students'
> interest and involvement in this topic might be most useful for Adem
> Vrij and their campaign, so if you want, we can get in touch with them
> and propose this collaboration to them. They surely are closer to the
> issue, more knowledgeable about the ICL, and more needy of public
> interest and resources.
> 
> At the same time, I'd still be very happy to facilitate this encounter
> (if Adem Vrij accepts) and very excited to join the collaboration
> session in either December or February, as you proposed, to talk about
> the article; both to follow up on ASEED's work and out of my personal
> interest in the work you're doing!      

> 
> Let me know your thoughts on this possible collaboration expansion to
> Adem Vrij, and we'll reach out to them. Looking forward to what's
> next!

> 
> Best regards, 

> Adriana 

Links:
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[1] https://ias.uva.nl/community/associates/about.html
[2] http://www.jeffdiamanti.wordpress.com/
[3] 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YPnd719dDS2-3xIeWCZvQVG_lOkNk5kymXn1NHSEdhg/edit?usp=sharing
[4] https://ademvrijaanhetij.nl/