Timo Zandstra
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Timo Zandstra
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Call for abstracts: "Government Ownership for Sustainability and Strategic Autonomy," a two-day research workshop at Utrecht University, June 25–26, 2026.

More info here: www.uu.nl/en/events/go...
Government Ownership for Sustainability and Strategic Autonomy
International research workshop on Government Ownership for Sustainability and Strategic Autonomy for academics and policymakers at Utrecht University on June 25-26, 2026.
www.uu.nl
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Angelos Theocharis’s project @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social examines the impact of the climate crisis on Indigenous cultural heritage through short 🎬 created by vulnerable communities in Asia.

Watch now: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/indige...
Indigenous Visualities of Climate Crisis
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Angelos Theocharis’s project examines the impact of the climate crisis on Indigenous cultural heritage through short films created by vulnerable communities in South an...
media.leverhulme.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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I wrote for @lpeblog.bsky.social about @alybatt.bsky.social's new book—which, I argue, shows how the critique of political economy can allow us to clearly name the social cause of climate catastrophe: capital. lpeproject.org/blog/when-na...
When Nature is Worthless
Under capitalism, the social domination of nature occurs through and is mediated by the commodity form. Certain portions of non-human nature can be valued, but only when they are transformed into…
lpeproject.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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📢☀️NEW EPISODE📢☀️ Sofia Menemenlis joins PTO to talk about her recent article on the threat of solar geoengineering in the @the-breakdown.bsky.social:
The Sunlight Managers w/ Sofia Menemenlis
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 11/05/2025 · 46m
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November 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp
October 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
October 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Pressing piece by my friend Adi Mansour. Do read! voelkerrechtsblog.org/epistemic-ap...
Epistemic Apartheid
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September 12, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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🚨 ONLINE EVENT

Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition.

Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social

📅 16 Oct 6PM BST
🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL
September 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Coming this year: Hegel 13/13 a multi-year project that explores the historical confrontations with G.W.F. Hegel’s thought, from 19th century to the present, with the aim of developing new critical perspectives and practices for today’s times of crisis. I am building the website now, stay tuned...
September 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Looking forward to this (assuming they let me in)!

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September 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Tomorrow at the n+1 office in Brooklyn! Join Alyssa Battistoni for a conversation about her new book, FREE GIFTS, with n+1 senior editor @cgvanderburg.bsky.social.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Alyssa Battistoni in conversation
On Thursday, September 4, join n+1 for a conversation with contributor Alyssa Battistoni about her new book, Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature, out now from Princeton University Press.
www.nplusonemag.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Do statehood and sovereignty persist when a state sinks?

AURELIO CORNEO and JUDITH SCHERER examine what the ICJ says on this question in its climate advisory opinion and explore the issues of territory, population, and government in times of climate crisis.

verfassungsblog.de/montevideo-c...
August 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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As always, important insights by Adam Shatz.
Equally important to be aware of the initiatives organizing against repression and anticipatory obedience, including

@krisolwissenschaft.bsky.social
krisol-wissenschaft.org/en/

pja-verein.de

@spore-initiative.bsky.social
spore-initiative.org/en/
August 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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"In the last 30yrs,... more [Carrara] marble has been removed from the ⛰️ than during the previous 2000... The finest white variety has been entirely depleted; the rest of the quarries could be emptied within 50yrs." In Carrara, marble "has come to be seen as a curse."
The Curse of Carrara Marble — The Dial
The luxury stone is being mined at the expense of the region and its people.
www.thedial.world
August 2, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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“Some don’t speak,” she told me. “They stare, sometimes scream. Most cry for hours, unblinkingly.” Children have asked Jarada if they could go back to school, as if normal were still hiding somewhere nearby.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Treating Gaza’s Collective Trauma
In Gaza, where displaced children play a game called “air strike” and act out death, the lack of mental-health resources has become another emergency.
www.newyorker.com
August 2, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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"A Right Foundational to Humanity’s Existence" 🌱

DAVID R. BOYD (@drdavidboyd.bsky.social‬), former UN Special Rapporteur, on the role of the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment in the ICJ's advisory opinion on climate change.

verfassungsblog.de/icj-climate-...
July 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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A gallery of shadow astronauts Part I
'The bodies are distorted, and also cyborg: in the shadow, flesh and camera meld into one amorphous shape.'
A gallery of shadow astronauts Part 1
For the last few years, I have been playing with the idea of shadows as part of a site's fabric . It's not just about the hard materials. It...
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July 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM