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Tom Carter-Brookes

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Former musician, now a Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar looking at sustainable rural transitions and farmer protest through a Human Geography lens at Keele University. Interested in all things environmental politics, post-capitalism, music, wine, books and dogs

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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · Dec 13

My first piece for The Conversation: Farmers are key to net zero transitions and face ever tougher economic conditions. theconversation.com/protesting-f...

Protesting farmers are having to fight off the radical right, conspiracy theorists and climate sceptics

Until farmers get a fair deal, other groups will seek to exploit the situation.

theconversation.com

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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 9h

Yes it does! (Had to ask my wife!)

Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 10h

Ha you're drawing me in! Maybe next year. Agreed it'd be good, I've good some hilarious and depressing AI tales already 🙈

Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 12h

I think that you should consider this Fuck AI CFP too!

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 22h

Another Call for Papers for #BISA2026 (3rd-5th June, Brighton), this time for a panel I'm organising with @tom-cb.bsky.social. Deadline 24th Oct.

Gender and resistance in environmental politics: This panel will explore how gender relates to resistance against env harm AND resistance to transition.

We are putting out this Call for Papers for BISA2026 in search of people who are researching the connection between gender and resistance in the field of environmental politics.
This call comes at a time of (at least) two forms of gendered resistance:
1. Growing resistance to measures that combat climate change and environmental destruction, a form of resistance that is often masculinised
2. Ongoing resistance against environmental destruction, a form of resistance that is both discursively constructed as feminine and that manifests as a form of burden that is often borne by women and other marginalised peoples
Against a backdrop of the target of 1.5 degrees warming looking increasingly unlikely, and a ‘green’ transition currently reliant on new geographies of environmental and human harm and exploitation, any meaningful progress towards global environmental targets is stalling. Resistance to these forms of harm and efforts to transition away from fossil fuels are at a critical juncture. At the same time, there is a surging right-wing politics globally, part of which acts as a defence of industry and environmental harm. This form of resistance is directed at transition itself.
We invite papers which explore the intersections of gender and resistance in relation to environment or climate politics. Approaches might include ecofeminism, political ecology, and feminist political economy.
Some papers which participants might engage with:
• Petro-masculinity: Fossil fuels and authoritarian desire (Daggett, 2018)
• Feminist approaches to environmental politics (Lawrence et al, 2025)
• ‘Gender and climate change’: from impacts to discourses (MacGregor, 2010)
• Colonial erasures in gender and climate change solutions (Resurrección, 2024)
Please send your 200 word abstracts to t.n.brookes@keele.ac.uk and weatherillck@outlook.com by 24th October along with your name, affiliation, career stage and geographical location.

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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 1d

The EU frogmarched into ridicule by the intensive farm lobby. The European Parliament has voted through the Veggie burgers ban.

As the world burns, we make symbolic gestures to show we want to burn it faster.

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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 1d

Err ...YES!!!!

Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 1d

Academic milestone day.....my first ever CFP, alongside the fantastic @ckweatherill.bsky.social We're putting together a panel looking at Gender and resistance in environmental politics for the @mybisa.bsky.social conference next June. Please share away and get in touch if it's of interest

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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Emergency Protest🚨
Stop the far right in Whitechapel!

📆8 October from 5pm
🏢Town Hall, 160 Whitechapel Rd, E1 1BJ

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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 1d

"overthrowing our tolerant society" Ah yes, the Daily Express....true bastions of tolerance 🙈

Good to see Zack just challenging this stuff head on

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 1d

If like me you feel torn between submitting to an environment panel or a colonial, postcolonial, decolonial panel, this Call for Papers is for you.

Work being done at this intersection is vitally important, and I'm really grateful that CPD have joined with us for this.

Environment and Climate Politics Working Group @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social · 1d

Call for Papers for #BISA2026!

Exploring the relationship between imperialism, coloniality and environmental degradation.

This is a joint call with Colonial, Postcolonial & Decolonial WG, recognising that important work is being done at the intersection of our groups.

Deadline Friday 24 October.

Exploring the relationship between imperialism, coloniality and environmental degradation
Joint Call for Papers from the Colonial, Postcolonial, and Decolonial Working Group and Environment and Climate Politics Working Group
We are putting out this joint call in recognition that many researchers are working at the intersection of our two working groups - and during a time when the realities of this intersection between colonialism, empire, and the environment have never been more clear. This moment makes evident the interconnections between militarism and settler colonialism and genocide and ecocide, and therefore the need to situate our knowledge and approaches within anticolonial, indigenous and translocal perspectives.
Recognising the importance of scholarship that addresses these issues, we are calling for papers for BISA2026 that are related to the topics of how imperialism / colonialism / extraction / capitalism are in relationship with environmental degradation. This can be on a material level, where the functions of occupation and extraction lead to environmental destruction, or on a more discursive level, where hierarchies of life are used to justify and naturalise ongoing violence against people and places.
Whilst we are keeping this Call quite broad to encourage wide-ranging submissions, some paper topics or research areas might include:
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Genocide and its links to environmental destruction, for example in Palestine, DR Congo, and Sudan, to name a few.
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Ecological imperialism – theoretical contributions or case studies
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Reparative justice and climate change
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The construction of new ‘frontiers’ – how imperialism and extraction is moving to new areas such as the deep sea or space
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Anticolonial and anti-extractive organising and decarbonization and fossil fuel phase outs
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Indigenous approaches on relationality, connectedness and climate justice
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The role of academics in perpetuating or resisting these forms of harm
Please send your 200-250 word abstrac…

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 3d

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 2d

It's the ability to say this stuff with a straight face that gets me. Like my politics are as far away from the rights as it's possible to be. But honestly, the lack of ability to post stuff like that would be my greatest barrier to becoming a right wing grifter!

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3d

Greta:

"I will never comprehend how humans can be so evil. That you would deliberately starve millions of people living trapped under an illegal siege as a continuation of decades of oppression and apartheid.”

Source: Global Sumud Flotilla via X

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Tory Fibs @toryfibs.bsky.social · 3d

The BBC

• Refused to interview Zack Polanski after he was elected leader in September.

• Cancelled a Zack Polanski interview after his Conference Speech.

Every other elected party leader of other parties got both a post election interview and a conference interview.

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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 4d

I need to move beyond 3....recently got back into it, I used to juggle daily in years gone by

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filmnathan @filmnathan.bsky.social · 4d

While being arrested for holding a placard, one protester recites a poem by 9-year-old Fatema Saidam who was killed, along with her entire family, by an Israeli airstrike on October 17, 2023.

@defendourjuries.bsky.social

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 4d

Ha the strain it's putting on police officers. Poor little lambs. Maybe look for an alternate job then?

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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 4d

I wonder if they'll be applying this to the repeated protests that are taking places outside hotels housing refugees on a weekly basis? 🤔 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 5d

More from our brave boys in blue. Thank you to this officer for keeping the public safe from this terrorist

Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 5d

BREAKING: Heroic police officers save public from this terrifying terrorist who was holding a sign the government doesn’t like x

Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 5d

The met defending us from dangerous terrorists again. Totally proportional use of force that 🖕

Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 5d

A police officer unnecessarily kneels on the chest of a peaceful protestor, before arresting him for a 'terror' offence for holding a sign which says "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · Dec 13

My first piece for The Conversation: Farmers are key to net zero transitions and face ever tougher economic conditions. theconversation.com/protesting-f...

Protesting farmers are having to fight off the radical right, conspiracy theorists and climate sceptics

Until farmers get a fair deal, other groups will seek to exploit the situation.

theconversation.com

Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah it's tricky to navigate, not least as I don't really come from a traditional route into academia either! I'm trying to avoid using it when I'm presenting my stuff on the UK farmer protests....it's a steep learning curve!

Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 5d

An absolutey fantastic piece. It's something that I struggle with lots as a very junior (PhD student) figure in academia. My research touches on various right/far-right oppositions to climate change and I'm often surrounded by work (in various settings) which uses 'populism' incorrectly.

Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 5d

This short piece co-authored with Alex Yates shows why the misuse of populism plays right in the hands of the far right

(Annoyingly, the app is not allowing me to tag colleagues, but follow them!)

theconversation.com/the-word-pop...

The word ‘populism’ is a gift to the far right – four reasons why we should stop using it

Extremists benefit when we use euphemisms that confer on them an air of legitimacy.

theconversation.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6d

This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza.

Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military.

They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.

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