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Ecopolitical Psychology at the Capital-Climate Nexus: A Research Agenda for the Capitalocene - by yours truly*

Article in Special Issue on "The Next Big Ideas in Psychology" in Review of General Psychology

*Link to free download, end of 🧵 1/n

doi.org/10.1177/1089...

Check out our new article in the Journal of Environmental Psychology!

We emphasize the importance of foregrounding sociocultural context in the study of political ideology, ‘polarization,’ and environmentalism.

Follow-up analyses indicated that the weaker relationship of conservatism with WP support (versus EM and EJ), and differences in this relationship as a function of ethnic-racial category, stemmed in part from a (racialized) perception of EM and especially EJ as threats to U.S. society.

...than initiatives that advocate techno-fixes to ecological degradation (Ecomodernism; EM) or address the suffering of marginalized groups (Environmental Justice; EJ). Importantly, these patterns were generally more pronounced among White compared to Black & Latine participants.

Whereas political conservatism was negatively related to support for environmentalism, this relationship was weaker for initiatives that prioritize conservation of supposedly pristine nature (Wilderness Preservation; WP)...

In a new article, colleagues @nafsiatmahir.bsky.social @hjschmitt.bsky.social (& Glenn Adams) & I report findings from 3 studies on the relationship of political conservatism with support for three types of environmentalism among three ethnic-racial groups in the U.S.

Do conservatives oppose all environmentalist initiatives, or does the compatibility of conservatism with environmentalism vary by sociocultural context? (more below!)

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

...stemmed in part from a (racialized) perception of EM and especially EJ as threats to U.S. society.

We emphasize the importance of foregrounding sociocultural context in the study of political ideology, ‘polarization,’ and environmentalism.

Importantly, these patterns were generally more pronounced among White compared to Black & Latine participants. Follow-up analyses indicated that the weaker relationship of conservatism with WP support (versus EM and EJ), & differences in this relationship as a function of ethnic-racial category...

...this relationship was weaker for initiatives that prioritize conservation of supposedly pristine nature (Wilderness Preservation; WP) than those that advocate techno-fixes to ecological degradation (Ecomodernism; EM) or address the suffering of marginalized groups (Environmental Justice; EJ).

...on the relationship of political conservatism with support for three types of environmentalism among three ethnic-racial groups in the U.S.

Whereas political conservatism was negatively related to support for environmentalism...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My heart is with my Iranian friends and their families. May everyone live.

Dr. Noor Abdalla should be together with her husband, Mahmoud Khalil, adjusting to life as new parents together.

Instead, Mahmoud is detained in Louisiana for his political advocacy in support of Palestinian rights. We won't stop fighting until Mahmoud is reunited with Noor and baby Deen.

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.

📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
t.co/lg46ijHLDF

“IDF materials show that soldiers reloaded their magazines multiple times while shooting at 12 aid workers who tried to identify themselves”

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Yale punishing students for protesting a leader of a government internationally accused of genocide comes one day after the school signed a statement saying their campus was where students are free to exchange ideas and opinions without fear of retribution or censorship

Wild—
Mohsen Mahdawi asked Columbia to publicly admit what they did privately: that he & other students were not "threatening"—and that he in fact *confronted* an antisemitic disruptor.

They ignored him.

Weeks later, the Trump admin cited Columbia's own unretracted lie to justify arresting Mohsen.

A person told me they changed their research agenda because of conservative threats on certain subjects. I wrinkled my nose, because I’ll be damned if I’m going to be scared away from doing my research because some white folks don’t like it.

From the 2003 preface of Said's Orientalism.

"For all it's often noted defects and problems, the American University - and mine, Columbia, in particular - is still one of the few remaining places in the US where reflection and study can take place in an almost-utopian fashion."

Welp.

Social science gives us the tools to understand the very forces that fear it.

Kudos to @marahalkire.bsky.social for leading this piece, in which she, @clarawilkins.bsky.social, and I share how, to many people, recent pushes to root out “anti-Christian bias” serve to signal pro-White allegiance.

Hundreds of students and graduates who have protested or shown support for Palestine have had their visas revoked by immigration officials since US President Donald Trump took office for a second time, with several also arrested.

Here's what we know aje.io/f193q0