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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 7d

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

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Jean Leymarie @jeanleymarie.bsky.social · 15d

Les pauvres pensent-ils à la planète ?

Mon billet politique ce matin sur @franceculture.fr :

Les pauvres pensent-ils à la planète ?

Fin du monde ou fin du mois ? Une enquête du Pacte civique démonte quelques clichés : les plus précaires se préoccupent de l'environnement. Mais demandent aux politiques de les écouter.

www.radiofrance.fr

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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 24d

We also went to great lengths to get this disseminated in the press and got about 40 media outlets to reference it, including big ones like Politico and Le Monde. The timing helped too, as it was published days before the 2021 World Conservation Congress in Marseille

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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 24d

It's always a bit of a mystery why some papers get picked up more than others. I think this one resonated bc it addresses something that practitioners had been looking at for a while ("why is it that conservation works betters when IPLCs lead it?") but long only had circumstantial evidence for

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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 27d

Major environmental justice win just dropped in Brussels 🇧🇪. The Constitutional Court suspends the postponement of the city's Low Emission Zone, stressing the disproportionate exposure of low-income communities and vulnerable groups www.brusselstimes.com/brussels/174...

Constitutional Court suspends postponement of Brussels' Low Emission Zone

"This decision is a reminder that the LEZ is an essential tool for reducing pollution, protecting the most vulnerable, and ensuring healthier air for everyone."

www.brusselstimes.com

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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · Jul 30

Very proud to see our 2021 paper in Ecology & Society on the role of Indigenous people in conservation is most cited paper of the journal for 2020-24 🔥 masterfully led by @neildawson.bsky.social. Just Conservation project funded by FRB/Cesab @nmouquet.bsky.social @googlescholar.bsky.social

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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · Jul 14

Send it on the EJList! sympa-1.sipr.ucl.ac.be/listes/info/... (650 subscribers now)

ejlist - The environmental justice studies mailing list - info

sympa-1.sipr.ucl.ac.be

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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · Jul 12

UC-Berkeley has an open-rank faculty position in our incredible Climate Equity and Environmental Justice (CEEJ) research cluster. It is an extraordinary interdisciplinary group working across multiple colleges and departments at the university! More information here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04842

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Climate Equity and Environmental Justice - Rausser College of Natural Resources

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · Jul 7

L'absence de solutions collectives face au changement climatique nous force dans des engrenages individualisants, amplifiants à la fois les émissions de gaz à effets de serre et les inégalités face au changement climatique. Interview de l'été ☀️ 🥵 dans Moustique mag: www.moustique.be/notre-epoque...

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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · Jun 16

Building on the keynotes, the 2nd session is a roundtable on 'Human Ecology meets Environmental Justice'. We'll be joined by Matthieu Berger (UCLouvain) and
Vasna Ramasar (Lund University) to continue and deepen the discussion in a more intimate setting! Join us: www.societyforhumanecology.org

Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · Jun 16

I'll be chairing 2 important sessions at the XXVI International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology (SHE) at UMons this week. This first one is a double keynote with @winterchristine.bsky.social and @julianagyeman.bsky.social! We'll talk about (in)justice, ecology, cities and... sand!

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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · May 21

The next EOS seminar is tomorrow with our in-house leading lady @anansoms.bsky.social presenting her latest book, Spaces for Stories (UCLouvain Press). Join us at 13:30 CEST, on site in LLN or online on Teams: www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts...

A screenshot of the event of the EOS seminar with An Ansoms on 22 May 2025

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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · May 21

Dear #biodiversity research folks, we at CESAB have 2 new calls out for seed grants 🧔‍♂️🌴 Focus is on novel ideas/concepts (#IdeaShare) and on new data (#DataShare). Very much open to the social sciences & humanities 🤓! www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/en/calls/cal... @nmouquet.bsky.social

[Call for proposals IDEASHARE & DATASHARE 2025] - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité

The FRB-CESAB, in partnership with the HEIRS (hub for Human Evolution Research Synthesis), with the support of the PNDB, are launching a call to fund two types of complementary groups: the IdeaShare a...

www.fondationbiodiversite.fr

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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · May 15

For the first time in history, 6 of the 10 Belgian universities (the biggest ones!) will be run by women (starting next year). I dunno about you, but in today's world seemingly dominated by conservative backlashes, this feels like such a comforting evolution

For the first time in its 600-year history Leuven University’s next Rector will be a woman | VRT NWS: news

Tine Baelmans and Severine Vermeire have made it through to the second round of the process to elect a new Rector at the country’s old university, KU Leuven. This means that soon for the first time in...

vrtnws.be

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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · Apr 14

We argue that European farmers have lots to learn from the long histories of Indigenous struggle for environmental and food justice in Latin America, including political autonomy, food sovereignty, cultural self-recognition, counter-hegemonic knowledge production models and collective stewardship

Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · Apr 14

In other words, the farming crisis is European coloniality coming home. Today's agri-food system is perhaps the most visible expression of plantations' legacies at the heart of the West (extreme inequalities, modern-day slavery, extractive land usage, globalized trade, racialized violence)

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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · Apr 14

A system where land, labor, & capital only profit some, where people are denigrated as inferior, based on codification of difference and on the marginalisation of their knowledge and where landscapes & crops are modeled on sameness, where else have we seen this? Right, in the global South...

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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · Apr 14

Farmers in Europe today are faced with falling income, elite capture, volatile markets, reduced public support, rupture with society, increasing suicide rates, eroding rural identity & loss of sovereignty, to name a few, while being perceived as responsible for the demise of the rural countryside

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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · Apr 14

In a nutshell, we argue that using decolonial theoy can help make sense of today's farming crisis in Europe. It is deeply rooted in the concentration of power and knowledge brought about by agricultural modernization and in its social-environmental consequences

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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · Apr 14

📢new paper alert, check it out in the Journal of Rural Studies! Empowering European farmers: Insights from decolonial theory and indigenous people in Latin America. Led by Lou Lecuyer (@inrae-france.bsky.social): authors.elsevier.com/c/1ktvo2eyKF...

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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · Mar 24

This Thursday ! Join us at 13:30 CET in Louvain-la-Neuve (LECL93) or on MS Teams: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi... The session will be bilingual FR/EN @pyneron.bsky.social

Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · Mar 5

We are hosting the one & only @pyneron.bsky.social at UCLouvain on 27 March. His new book, 'Seeing Like a Firm' (OUP) not only is the best thing you'll read this year, it also wins the prize of hottest book cover🔥💅 Join us on-site or online: www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts... (Teams link coming soon)

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David Schlosberg @dschlosberg.bsky.social · Mar 5

New: Compounding Barriers to Environmental Justice. It has long been argued (and clearly demonstrated) that institutionalised racism is a key barrier to EJ. We illustrate 4 distinct, interrelated ways this is manifest: general, political, legal, and cultural. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Compounding barriers to environmental justice

This paper examines how environmental justice (EJ) activists and scholars experience and think about the barriers to beneficial change. It reports findings from an international study that used Q m...

www.tandfonline.com

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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · Mar 6

To join online: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

Join conversation

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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · Mar 5

We are hosting the one & only @pyneron.bsky.social at UCLouvain on 27 March. His new book, 'Seeing Like a Firm' (OUP) not only is the best thing you'll read this year, it also wins the prize of hottest book cover🔥💅 Join us on-site or online: www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts... (Teams link coming soon)

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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · Feb 19

C'est demain! Rejoignez nous à 13h30 au Collège Leclercq (LECL93) à Louvain-la-Neuve ou sur Teams via teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · Feb 5

Le jeudi 20/2, @dr-pierre-andre.bsky.social et Axel Gosseries (FNRS) présentent leur livre "La justice climatique" (Que Sais-je?, 2024) à EOS: www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts.... Rejoignez-nous (sur place/Teams) ! (une collab avec le Groupe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur la Crise Ecologique)