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Stef Craps 🕊️
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Professor of English Literature at UGent | Memory & trauma studies, ecocriticism & environmental humanities, postcolonial & decolonial theory | How stories help us live with loss & imagine better futures | Born at 335 ppm | He/him/his | www.stefcraps.com
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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 22d
Can we meaningfully apologize for driving species to extinction? This newly published article explores how ecological apologies might open pathways towards care, justice, and moral repair beyond the human.
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Looking forward to giving a lecture and masterclass and joining a roundtable on memory, mourning, and the Anthropocene at Radboud University Nijmegen on 4–5 November. Details here: www.oslit.nl/arts-of-memo....
Arts of Memory and Mourning in the Anthropocene: Masterclass and Lecture with Prof. Stef Craps - Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL)
Professor Stef Craps (Ghent University) will visit Radboud University Nijmegen on 4–5 November 2025 to give a masterclass for PhD and ReMA students and a public lecture followed by a roundtable. The e...
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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 15d
New article from @stefcraps.com!

Ecological apologies: reckoning with grief, guilt, and multispecies justice.

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ABSTRACT Focusing on British artist Marcus Coates’s Apology to the Great Auk, a short film documenting an official apology to an extinct bird, this article explores the possibility and desirability of political apologies for anthropogenic species extinction. While the apology presented in the film fails to meet key criteria, it nonetheless offers something of political value. Coates’s work constitutes an audacious and innovative attempt to leverage ecological grief and guilt to counteract dominant discourses that devalue more-than-human life; to redraw the boundaries of the moral, legal, and political community; and to imagine a future of multispecies flourishing. By interpreting Apology to the Great Auk through the lenses of environmental transitional justice, bad environmentalism, and ecological prefiguration, the article demonstrates its potential as an artistic project, and the potential of ecological apologies more generally, to help us think and work towards care, justice, and moral repair beyond the human.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 14d
The neatest and most hilarious debunking of Trump's climate disinformation you'll see this week, courtesy of @emorwee.bsky.social 😎

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Trump delivers dumbest climate speech of all time
The president's easily-debunked 10-minute climate tirade at the U.N. was so stupid and unoriginal, it was actually kind of funny.
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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 14d
RIP Jonathan Lear. Few philosophers have spoken so eloquently about mourning: not as an end point, but as a space in which radical hope might emerge. His voice will be missed, but his vision of resilience in the face of devastation remains with us.
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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 18d
“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy”

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When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900
The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...
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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 20d
Statement in Solidarity with the Intern. Assoc. of Genocide Scholars by the Genocide & Holocaust Studies Crisis Network:

We condemn attacks on the IAGS Gaza genocide resolution & abhor the denialism & bad faith that persist among some in the fields of Holocaust & Genocide Studies.
IAGS Solidarity Statement 9-18-25.pdf
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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 22d
🌱 Fully funded PhD scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University!

A unique opportunity to collaborate with Marco Caracciolo, Elly McCausland, and me on innovative research connecting literature, culture, and ecology.
PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University
Discover a PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.
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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 22d
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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 22d
Can we meaningfully apologize for driving species to extinction? This newly published article explores how ecological apologies might open pathways towards care, justice, and moral repair beyond the human.
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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · Aug 26
🌳💔 Vandaag in De Morgen: mijn opiniestuk over de maatschappelijke betekenis van ecologische rouw, naar aanleiding van de bomenkap in Deurne.

Ecologische emoties zijn geen aanstellerij: ze tonen onze verbondenheid met de levende wereld en doorbreken wat Robert Macfarlane een “war on nature” noemt.
Wie volwassen bomen kapt, berooft de omgeving van schaduw én ziel
Stef Craps is hoogleraar Engelse letterkunde en directeur van het Cultural Memory Studies Initiative (UGent). Hij keek naar de rouwende buurtbewoners na de bomenkap in Deurne-Zuid en stelt dat we iets...
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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · Aug 20
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Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies @mnemonics.bsky.social · Aug 20
Public Events on Memory & Responsibility

🌍 Roundtable: Practising Memory in Times of Crisis — Amani El Haddad, Manoeuvre vzw, Pieter Lagrou, Ann Rigney & Michael Rothberg
🎓 Keynotes: Carlos Fonseca · Sara Dybris McQuaid · Hanna Meretoja

Info and registration: event.ugent.be/registration...
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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · Aug 8
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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · Aug 5
Opinion | Mahmoud Khalil Tells His Story
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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · Jul 24
Joanna Macy is overleden. Mijn eerbetoon aan deze grande dame van de ecologische beweging staat op MO*: www.mo.be/opinie/in-me.... Ze leerde ons verdriet om de aarde niet te onderdrukken maar te doorvoelen - als bron van verbondenheid, hoop en actie.
‘Joanna Macy hielp een andere taal vinden voor deze tijd van ecologische afbraak’ – MO*
Op 19 juli overleed Joanna Macy, die een kompas zal blijven voor wie weigert de wereld op te geven, aldus Stef Craps.
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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · Jul 22
Gaza screams. The world scrolls.
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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · Jul 20
Born 100 years ago today, Frantz Fanon remains a towering figure of decolonial thought and resistance. Rest in power. www.dw.com/en/frantz-fa...
Frantz Fanon: Algeria's independence hero 100 years on – DW – 07/20/2025
Frantz Fanon was one of the major anti-colonial thinkers of the 20th century and a hero of the Algerian liberation movement. He died just before Algeria's independence from France. Fanon would have tu...
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Jonathon Catlin @joncatlin.bsky.social · Jul 17
Today at @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social: @stefcraps.com explores our hunger for fake news and the collective fantasy of nature miraculously healing itself during the "anthropause" of the Covid-19 panedmic. Would that it were so! #MSAPrague2025
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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · Jun 29
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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · Jun 29
“[F]alling birthrates are not the answer to our world’s problems. Confronting climate change requires that billions of people live differently. It does not require that billions of future people never live.“
Opinion | The Population Bust Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis
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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · Jun 21
#ShowYourStripes
Show Your Stripes
Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · Jun 21
Remembering this great tweet on the Summer Solstice
Tweet from @tomgara Randomly on this subject, my (Egyptian) wife had never heard of Stonehenge when I mentioned it recently, so I showed her photos of it, assuming she’d recognise the look but not the name etc, and she was just like, this is pathetic, your ancestors were small and weak
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Jun 11
Facebook decided to suspend my account because of a piece (below) I wrote Monday about violence which in no way advocates for it (but does point out who is violent in the current ruckus).
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