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Environment and Climate Politics Working Group @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social · 5d

Two weeks today!

Register here: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

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Sherilyn MacGregor @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social · 17d

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 26d

Being an academic is like carrying an armload full of balls. Sometimes you pick up new balls and add to the pile, but most of the time other people are putting balls in your pile. Eventually you start dropping balls and then people get upset with you. But no one can hold all the balls at once.

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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · Sep 4

New article!

What explains the relationship between populist radical right attitudes and opposition to climate policy? Structural vs. ideological factors, from Håkon Grøn Sælen & Aaron M. McCright.

doi.org/10.1080/0964...

ABSTRACT
Populism of the radical right is strongly associated with climate change denial and opposition to climate policy, but we lack understanding of why these two phenomena are linked. This article tests two alternative explanations presented by extant literature. A structuralist explanation argues that the link is spurious, as both are caused by perceived vulnerability to structural changes in the economy. In highlighting that the ideological nature of radical right populism is antithetical to climate policy, an ideological explanation posits that any apparent effect of structural changes on climate policy attitudes is mediated by radical right populist ideology. We present data from an original survey administered in Australia, Germany, Norway, and the United States that is designed to test the two hypotheses against each other. Two different structural equation modeling analyses provide greater support for the ideological explanation than the structuralist explanation.

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Stephen Burrell @thedailypanda.bsky.social · Sep 3

What a joy to speak to feminist legend Cynthia Enloe for a bumper episode of #NowandMen! Cynthia is a ray of inspiration & wisdom amidst times of militarisation & war. How can we nurture feminist curiosity & resist the permeation of patriarchal militarism in our lives? nowandmen.net/episode/cynt...

Episode 57 of the Now and Men podcast with Prof Cynthia Enloe

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Sherilyn MacGregor @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social · Aug 31

Congrats. Looking forward to getting a copy!

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Susan Buckingham @susanjb7.bsky.social · Aug 29

Very pleased to see our book published by Routledge this week. Feminist climate leadership and policy needed more than ever. @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social @lisaschipper.bsky.social @mikescialom.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @julianagyeman.bsky.social @polarrobs.bsky.social

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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · Aug 19

Also on social movements @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social, with various colleagues, focus on the complex dilemmas for Muslim climate activists in the UK. 7/

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Aug 12

NEW – Analysis: England’s most ethnically diverse areas are 15 times more likely to face extreme heat | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @vernerviisas.bsky.social w/ comment from @profangelhsu.bsky.social @charleshsimpson.bsky.social Emma Howard Boyd @chlobrim.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/boWI6M1

Chart showing neighbourhoods in England that are home to more minority-ethnic people are far more likely to face extreme heat. Proportion of neighbourhoods in England with the highest heat hazard scores in each decile of minority-ethnic population. Each bar represents 10% of English neighbourhoods, ranked by their proportion of minority-ethnic inhabitants, from the highest (top bar) to the lowest (bottom bar). The “highest heat hazard scores” equate to the top 10% of total English neighbourhoods that are most likely to experience high temperatures during hot weather. Source: Carbon Brief analysis, 4 Earth Intelligence, Office for National Statistics.

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · Aug 11

Low-income and minority ethnic people in England most at risk from dangerously hot homes

- Homes are heating up as summers get hotter but least well-off are shouldering greatest risk, study finds

#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Low-income and minority ethnic people in England most at risk from dangerously hot homes

Exclusive: Homes are heating up as summers get hotter but least well-off are shouldering greatest risk, study finds

www.theguardian.com

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JUST @justcentre.bsky.social · Aug 4

📢 PhD Opportunity researching the contribution of social and solidarity economies to just sustainability transformations in the North of England

📍 University of Liverpool
🎓Working with Prof Peter North, Dr Helen Holmes, and Dr Alexander Nurse.
👉 Apply here: lnkd.in/eDPwudvu

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

lnkd.in

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Jul 30

Outstanding. Watch & share.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 30

Motherfucking wind farms…

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · Jul 25

#OpenAccess in Area:

'The politics of rewilding through an ecofeminist lens' by @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social

This short commentary is part of a forthcoming Special Section on 'Gender and Rewilding'.

doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library

In this short commentary for the Gender and Rewilding Special Section, I look through an ecofeminist lens to focus on two themes in the special issue—reproductive labour and epistemic injustice—that ...

doi.org

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David Schlosberg @dschlosberg.bsky.social · Jul 17

Postdoc Job: Just Transition. Come work with Amanda Tattersall and me at USYD, along with Jonathan Pickering and Madeline Taylor, on a 2-year project examining issues of justice and community benefit in transmission line regs, planning, siting. Info here: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

Postdoctoral Fellow - Justice and Electricity Transmission

Part time, 4 days per week, fixed term until June 2028 Research Project, 'Just transmission: advancing coherence in Australia’s electricity policy' Base Salary $127,436 - $151,328 (Level B) pro rata +...

usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com

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The Young Foundation @theyoungfdn.bsky.social · Jul 16

🚀Congratulations to all involved in yesterday's international launch webinar for the @justcentre.bsky.social 🌿🌍 If you missed it, the recording will be shared on the JUST Centre website soon www.just.ac.uk
More on the programme at: bit.ly/4o9Alo3

JUST (Dev) | Centre for Joined-up Sustainability Transformations | The University of Manchester

www.just.ac.uk

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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · Jul 15

New @ippr.org report out today

Transport isn’t working for low-income households

Reducing car dependence is essential for providing greater access to opportunity, cutting transport costs and reducing the harms caused by car-dominated places

Read how the UK government can achieve this👇

The transport challenge for low-income households | IPPR

Transport policy can make a material difference to people’s finances, especially those struggling to make ends meet. It can also help people better access

www.ippr.org

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Sherilyn MacGregor @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social · Jul 9

Excellent must-read article by @bankfieldbecky.bsky.social on the disconnect between what politicians believe and what the evidence shows: the majority of people in the UK want positive action from government to stop climate breakdown.
#JustTransition

@justcentre.bsky.social

Politicians are retreating from net zero because they think the public doesn’t care. But they’re wrong | Rebecca Willis

Our research shows people are strongly in favour of measures to tackle the climate crisis. They just need to be listened to, says professor of energy and climate governance Rebecca Willis

www.theguardian.com

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Sherilyn MacGregor @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social · Jul 9

'Across the UK, people are stepping up to protect the things they love, from clean air & green spaces to secure jobs and warm homes. This is one of the biggest democratic moments for climate and nature in years [showing] that acting for our future is not just popular, it’s essential.” Helen Meech

Thousands meet their MPs to show huge demand for climate action

Mass lobby in Westminster kicked off with giant image on white cliffs of Dover stating ‘89% of people want climate action’

www.theguardian.com

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Sherilyn MacGregor @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social · Jun 25

We are lucky to have you. Looking forward to working together!

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Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey.bsky.social · Jun 25

UK can reach net zero by 2050, climate report finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK can reach net zero by 2050, climate report finds

Climate Change Committee says current targets could be met provided country takes ‘steps forward’ to achieve them

www.theguardian.com

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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · Jun 23

New article from @pancholewis.bsky.social!

Fluid hope in a climate emergency: Lessons from an English citizens’ jury.

Is it possible to have hope for the future in a climate emergency?

doi.org/10.1080/0964...

ABSTRACT
What does it mean to build an authentic politics of hope in a climate crisis? Researchers have explored this question by examining the emergence of different forms of climate hope. This includes urgent, slow, and radical hope, each of which expresses different promises for the future. In this paper, I make the case for attending to ‘fluid hope’ to foreground how different forms of climate hope can be co-constitutive and are subject to being re-configured. I do so by drawing on a case study, that of the Copeland People’s Panel, a citizens’ jury in northern England, where people’s experiences of hope changed in and after the Panel. I conclude by explaining what possibilities the concept of fluid hope affords for empirical study and normative debate about hope in a climate emergency.

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Sherilyn MacGregor @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social · Jun 21

Happy #summersolstice to friends in the northern hemisphere.

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JUST @justcentre.bsky.social · Jun 20

🚨Join us for the International Launch of the JUST Centre, with keynote remarks from Prof. Julian Agyeman and a discussion with Centre Director Prof. Sherilyn MacGregor, Co-Investigators Prof. Lucie Middlemiss, Prof. Stefan Bouzarovski and Prof. Rebecca Willis.

Register here: tinyurl.com/5bxfdb2z

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Sherilyn MacGregor @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social · Jun 20

Join us on 15 July (2.00-3.00pm BST) for a webinar to launch the JUST Centre. Keynote by Prof Julian Agyeman followed by panel discussion. @julianagyeman.bsky.social
@justcentre.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.com/e/internatio...

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Sherilyn MacGregor @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social · Jun 18

A just transition to net zero must improve quality of life and work for everyone and increase investment in community regeneration to repair the damage caused by over a decade of austerity.
@edmilliband.bsky.social