Melanie Pichler
@melaniepichler.bsky.social
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prof @BOKU_SEC | social ecology | political science | environmental justice | politics | social-ecological transformation
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melaniepichler.bsky.social
Ich habe auf Ö1 zur Zukunft von Autoindustrie und Mobilität diskutiert; ein paar Tage kann das Gespräch noch nachgehört werden.
melaniepichler.bsky.social
Ich freue mich auf die Veranstaltung "Zug um Zug" am 29.9., wo ich gemeinsam mit Verkehrsminister Peter Hanke, Gewerkschaftsvorsitzendem Roman Hebenstreit (vida) und CEO Hana Dellemann (Hitachi) über die sozial-ökologische Zukunft der Bahnindustrie diskutiere. Meldet euch gleich an.
melaniepichler.bsky.social
Yes, that's true. We tried hard but failed. But I'm very happy to send the file once I'm back in office.
melaniepichler.bsky.social
Our new article in @natclimate.nature.com shows that climate policy is not only failing due to a lack of political will (that too), but also due to the structural limitations of the liberal-capitalist state. State structures must also change #transformationstate 👇
mathiaskrams.bsky.social
🧵Staaten gestalten #Transformation zunehmend aktiv – doch zwischen Ambition & Umsetzung klafft Lücke. In @natclimate.nature.com analysieren wir: Der entstehende #Dekarbonisierungsstaat steht in Widerspruch zu zentralen Funktionen liberal-kapitalistischer Staatlichkeit (1/4)
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Structural limitations of the decarbonization state - Nature Climate Change
The implementation gap between national climate targets and actual policies has been seen as a main barrier for decarbonization. Here researchers show it is rooted in the structural limitation of stat...
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hehaberl.bsky.social
Important new conceptual paper from the Institute of Social Ecology: Melanie Pichler and colleagues discuss how various framings around "demand-side" and "supply-side" policies obfuscate rather than clarify important issues in climate policy. #IPCC

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Conceptualizing supply- and demand-side climate change mitigation: A typology and new research directions
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melaniepichler.bsky.social
Thanks. We haven't focused too much on financing renew. but more on cutting supply (regulatory or through pricing) for fossil fuels. We include regulatory supply-side in the industrial transformation perspective and pricing in the techno-innovation. Serious cap-and-trade would be in the middle...
melaniepichler.bsky.social
New paper: I've become increas. irritated that reductions in energy use seem to be equated with *demand-side* strategies a l o n e and that *supply-side strategies* are often framed as technical solutions o n l y. We provide a more compreh. typology and challenge the dichotomy more generally 👇.
melaniepichler.bsky.social
Neli, du warst nicht nur eine brillante Wissenschafterin, sondern auch eine von den menschlich wirklich Guten! Es ist unfassbar traurig, dass du schon gehen musstest!
attac.at
Attac trauert um Neli (Cornelia) Staritz.

Cornelia Staritz ist nach langer Krankheit viel zu früh von uns gegangen. Sie war eine der ersten Vorständinnen von Attac und hat Attac zentral mitgestaltet und geprägt.

Wir werden sie sehr vermissen: www.attac.at/news/details...
Cornelia Staritz
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lukasoberndorfer.bsky.social
Mit 150 Teilnehmenden aus der Arbeiter:innen- und Klimabewegung und spannenden inhaltlichen und strategischen Diskussionen war die 2. Akademie für sozialen und ökologischen Umbau in der Stahlstadt Linz ein Höhepunkt unsrer diesjährigen Arbeit.
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lorenzbodner.bsky.social
Großartiges 1. Forum For Future Economists (FFE) gestern an der @wuvienna.bsky.social

Nach einem Tag voller spannender Paper-Präsentationen diskutierten @sigridstagl.bsky.social, @melaniepichler.bsky.social, @gfelbermayr.bsky.social und @ecolomist.bsky.social zum Thema „Klimaneutrale Wirtschaft“
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bokusec.bsky.social
Wir freuen uns auf die Antrittsvorlesungen unserer Kolleginnen!
@simonegingrich.bsky.social „Umweltgeschichte im Anthropozän“
@melaniepichler.bsky.social : „Gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen einer sozial-ökologischen Transformation“
Hier geht's zur Einladung: boku.ac.at/event/detail...
Foto von Pro. Melanie Pichler und Prof. Simone Gingrich
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kidpex.bsky.social
Gewalt, die ins Innere schlägt: Die serbische Polizei testete die Schallkanone LRAD 450 XL im November 2023 zuerst an Geflüchteten. Vor einigen Tagen wurde die Waffe gegen Studierende bei Demonstrationen in Belgrad verwendet.

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Serbische Polizei testete Schallkanone 2023 zuerst an Geflüchteten
"Ein Lehrbeispiel wie Polizeigewalt gegen Geflüchtete ins Innere schlägt und plötzlich die ganze Gesellschaft betrifft", kommentiert Petar Rosandić von SOS Balkanroute.
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melaniepichler.bsky.social
Read this if you are interested in strategies against fascism. I try to do my part in research (on power dynamics, on eco-social policies, on climate-workers coalitions) but read especially point 4 because in the end it's about emotions and warmth - especially when it feels hopeless.
melaniepichler.bsky.social
For academic course development: does anyone know interesting readings on socio-ecological #collapse (both historical examples and contemporary conceptualizatons)? All (inter)disciplinary backgrounds welcome.
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melaniepichler.bsky.social
PhD position (75%, 4y) on political dimensions of social-ecological transformations (e.g., conflicts, power relations, sructural barriers or potentials in specific sectors/countries). Please share widely and contact me for any queries. Deadline: 6th Jan 2/2
boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...
boku.ac.at
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ckweatherill.bsky.social
New article! I'll do a thread / blog soon, but it's out, and it's Open Access!

'Colonial fantasies of invulnerability to climate change'

doi.org/10.1080/1461...
screenshot of first page, abstract reads: Despite an ever-growing critical literature, vulnerability retains its place as a dominant concept in climate politics. What is less heavily researched is the concept of “invulnerability,” an idea that feminist and decolonial theory has many tools to critique. After unpacking the material and discursive elements of vulnerability politics, this article focuses on invulnerability as a concept that is an influential yet unexplored set of masculine and colonial fantasies. These fantasies – of modernity, mastery, and continentalism – are critiqued through different critical traditions, which are brought into conversation with climate politics literature. I then discuss the counternarratives of Oceanic thought, following Teresia Teaiwa’s prompt to “island the world.” I argue that this can be done through a focus on care, relationality, and a decolonial politics of resistance. I conclude that resisting the politics of vulnerability requires an engagement with critical feminist and decolonial thought to enable an imaginative piercing of the fantasies of invulnerability.
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melaniepichler.bsky.social
Interesting findings on the links between far right electoral turnout and reduced access to public services. Let's talk much more about public services than about migration!
catherinedevries.bsky.social
New paper published @ajpseditor.bsky.social

Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹

Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state?

We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out

shorturl.at/zQ8bJ
https://shorturl.at/zQ8bJ
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sophiarut.bsky.social
Gemeinsam mit der Doku Lebensgeschichte an der Uni Wien sammel ich ab heute Erlebnisberichte zu den Themen Proteste gegen Kraftwerke, Energienutzung und Energiekrisen in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren in Österreich. Bitte weiterleiten!
Schreibaufruf Energie
Schreibaufruf zu Protesten gegen Kraftwerke 1970er 1980er, Zwentendorf, Hainburg, Hintergebirge, Energiesystem in Österreich
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melaniepichler.bsky.social
PhD position (75%, 4y) on political dimensions of social-ecological transformations (e.g., conflicts, power relations, sructural barriers or potentials in specific sectors/countries). Please share widely and contact me for any queries. Deadline: 6th Jan 2/2
boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...
boku.ac.at