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Max Koch
@maxkoch.bsky.social

Professor in Social Policy & Sustainability, Lund University: Capitalist development & its social, environmental and welfare implications; #degrowth, sustainable #welfare. https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/max-koch .. more

Political science 35%
Economics 24%

Why is it so hard to process the dismantling of democracy? Is there some trait in habitus that makes us believe in the continued power and efficiency of institutions even though these may have, from an 'objective' point of view, stopped functioning? Some kind of institutional hysteresis effect?

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@oxfam.se: Sveriges 46 rikaste personer äger mer i förmögenhet än nästan 80% av befolkningen – 8 miljoner människor.

Samtidigt lever 700 000 svenskar i fattigdom enligt SCB och den siffran har ökat med 120 000 på ett år

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@oxfaminternational.bsky.social: The planet's 12 richest personers own more than the poorest 50% - more than 4 billion people

At the same time, one in four is undernourished, an 41% increase since 2015.
oxfam.se/resisting-th...
Davos 2026 - Oxfam Sverige
Fattigdomsbekämpningen i världen står i princip stilla, samtidigt som världens dollarmiljardärer gjort ännu ett rekordår.
oxfam.se

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“I couldn’t be part of that society, and I don’t want my children to grow up in it.”

www.972mag.com/israeli-emig...
Why Israelis are leaving in record numbers
Over 150,000 citizens have left the country in the past two years alone — many of them with a one-way ticket and no plans of returning.
www.972mag.com

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@oxfamgb.bsky.social: "The world’s richest 1% have used up their fair share of carbon emissions just 10 days into 2026", while "the richest 0.1% took just three days to exhaust their annual carbon budget". www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam
Richest 1% took 10 days while wealthiest 0.1% needed just three days to exhaust annual carbon budget, study shows
www.theguardian.com

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Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com

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”I genomsnitt har den stora majoriteten av hushållen cirka 2 000 kronor mindre varje månad att röra sig med än när Elisabeth Svantesson (M) tog över som finansminister.”

Men:

”I genomsnitt har de rikaste svenskarna fått över 5 000 kronor mer i månaden att röra sig med.”

www.etc.se/debatt/alla-...

Simón Bolívar in 1829: the United States seem "destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty."

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Sverige erbjuder sig att ta emot brännskadade från Schweiz, ett av världens rikaste länder. Däremot vägrar Sverige ta emot skadade från Gaza där sjukhus bombats sönder och vården inte fungerar.

Den här regeringens hyckleri framträder i blixtbelysning.
Sverige erbjuder hjälp – kan ta emot brandskadade
Sverige är redo och har erbjudit sig att ta emot brandskadade patienter efter barbranden i Crans-Montana i Schweiz, säger sjukvårdsminister Elisabet Lann (KD) till TT.
omni.se

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wichtiger Text von @hannapfeifer.bsky.social zur systematischen Leugnung genozidaler Gewalt und dazu, wie unterschiedliche Typen der Leugnung diese Gewalt legitimieren, unsichtbar machen, mit ermöglichen:

www.pw-portal.de/das-fach-pol...
Portal für Politikwissenschaft – Zur Unmöglichkeit eines israelischen Genozids im deutschen Kriegsdiskurs: Varianten der Zurückweisung
www.pw-portal.de

6. Also employing a social practice lense, a related joint study looked into the field of #football and its enormous #climate footprint, this time taking the case of #Norway www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Football in the climate emergency: exploring air travel reduction in the Norwegian senior national football teams
Globalization and commodification trends in football negatively impact the climate in terms of greenhouse gas emissions from leagues and international tournaments. A significant share of these emis...
www.tandfonline.com

5. In the same project we took a Bourdieusean perspective, reconstructed people's present dispositions and analysed their envisionings of a socially and ecologically transformed future www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“What have future generations ever done for us?” Future expectations and present dispositions for social-ecological transformations
The concept of ‘sustainable welfare’ conceptualizes welfare and wellbeing within planetary limits. Yet there is a lack of knowledge about possible soc…
www.sciencedirect.com

4. Sustainable welfare is also at the heart of our mixed-method study of Swedish cities. We identify pathways of intertia, emergence and transformation bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook-oa/...
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com

3. is a summary of results and an overview of gaps in #postgrowth research in relation to #Europe considering ecological overshoot, social inequality and colonial trajectory. It also sketches a sustainable welfare deal for the #EU: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Europe in the Postgrowth Era: Towards a Sustainable Welfare Deal
Europe is confronted with a multiple crisis while coming to grips with its colonial legacy. Given the lack of empirical evidence for sufficient absolute decoupling of gross domestic product (GDP) gro...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

While 1. showed diminishing returns of existing Western welfare states for health-related needs only, 2. dives into the potentials of providing #autonomy in #postgrowth circumstances: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The year is coming to a close. The ESRC may not like it, but this what we published in 2025 on #postgrowth issues and #degrowth issues: 1. A comparative study on current OECD welfare states and their capabilities of satisfying human needs without growth journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The British ESRC aims to put economic growth “at the heart” of the council’s future. Postgrowth research should face a high bar to win grants.

ISEE and ESEE react here: #Postgrowth research is necessary for our very survival - and should be funded generously

www.isecoeco.org/why-academic...
Why Academic Freedom and Post-Growth Research Is Needed
A joint statement from ISEE and ESEE on academic freedom, post-growth research, need for scientific inquiry amid eco and social crises.
www.isecoeco.org

The UN's Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights @deschuttero.bsky.social advances a #postgrowth approach including an extreme wealth line: www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-...

I am part of a consulting group about how to implement this roadmap that meets next week
Roadmap - New Economies for Eradicating Poverty
www.neep-poverty.org

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We all want to move on with our lives, yet the violence continues. The killing continues. The occupation continues. The colonisation continues. More than 9,000 Palestinian hostages are still in Israeli detention. /1
FIFA President Gianni Infantino Wins Inaugural "Football Climate Impact Prize"​ 🏆

As he prepares to hand out FIFA's Peace Prize, Infantino's extraordinary impact on our climate has been recognised with this special new award 😅🧵

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🎓🥳 My PhD is now online!

💡It offers a reflection on how to reduce economic inequality in post-growth societies, with a particular focus on policies that limit income and wealth

🔗 tinyurl.com/3hwvmjyr

🔍 What’s inside? (see 7 features ⬇️)

#inequality #post-growth #degrowth #incomecaps #wealthcaps

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Såhär skriver polisen:”[Alcer ägnar sig åt] brottsliga gärningar för att få igenom en förändring som endast kan ske medelst politiska beslut och bedöms därför som ett hot mot den demokratiska grundordningen”

Civil olydnad ses som hot mot demokratin - jag hoppas alla förstår hur farlig den synen är.
Polisen: Lundaforskarens miljöaktivism är ett hot mot demokratin
Skriver till Migrationsverket • David Alcer: "Det är helt absurt"
www.sydsvenskan.se

David Alcer betonar en sak som vi alla borde har lärt oss under de senaste två år: "Vi kan inte prata om klimaträttvisa utan att prata om rättvisa för förtryckta folk."
"Det är ett tydligt mönster vi känner igen från historien. När makthavare pekar ut aktivister och invandrare som problem, då rör vi oss bort från en demokrati. Jag är rädd för att vi håller på att normalisera auktoritära metoder"
"Vi befinner oss i en absurd situation där våra makthavare ökar utsläppen mitt i en klimatkatastrof. Som forskare har jag inblick i hur mycket skada klimatförändringarna gör, och då har man också ett ansvar att agera, säger David Alcer."

Heja David! Tack för ditt mod!

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"Det är ett tydligt mönster vi känner igen från historien. När makthavare pekar ut aktivister och invandrare som problem, då rör vi oss bort från en demokrati. Jag är rädd för att vi håller på att normalisera auktoritära metoder"
"Vi befinner oss i en absurd situation där våra makthavare ökar utsläppen mitt i en klimatkatastrof. Som forskare har jag inblick i hur mycket skada klimatförändringarna gör, och då har man också ett ansvar att agera, säger David Alcer."

Heja David! Tack för ditt mod!
Utvisningshotade lundaforskaren: ”Det är allas vårt ansvar att säga emot” – Lundagard.se
www.lundagard.se

On my way to Gothenburg to discuss and examine Angelica Wågström's fantastic PhD work on "Careful Energy Transitions". A great contribution to #degrowth!

The thesis can be downloaded via the link below research.chalmers.se/en/publicati...
Careful Energy Transitions: An Ethnography of Degrowth Everyday Utopias
The urgent need to move beyond current energy systems is well-established and especially pressing in wealthy, high-emitting nations. Yet, mainstream research and policy have failed to deliver the tran...
research.chalmers.se

Taking the fight to the right requires a renewed left
"You can’t reach an accommodation with an ICE agent when he’s kneeling on your neck. Climate chaos does not come with a moderate option. An oligarch is not interested in your pitiful attempts to strike a deal." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Zohran Mamdani method can work beyond New York. Take the fight to the right | Aditya Chakrabortty
For too long, the centre has been adopting the language of the right but deploying it with greater civility – to disastrous ends, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com

Vi uttrycker "vårt stöd för David och att vi står upp för ett demokratiskt samhälle utan polistrakasserier, godtyckliga polisförhör och gripanden. Vi ser med oro på en olycklig utveckling i samhället där rättsstaten inte längre ses som en självklarhet." www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/qPK...
Vi står bakom vår kollega – stoppa trakasserierna
DEBATT. Vi som undertecknar det här debattinlägget är alla anställda vid Lunds universitet som forskare, lärare, doktorander, kommunikatörer, bibliotekarier och
www.aftonbladet.se

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“a person from the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than the poorest 50% emit all year”
A stark visual from ‘Climate Plunder: How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster’ by @oxfaminternational.bsky.social

policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...