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Brett Christophers is an economic geographer who is professor at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University.… more

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For Brookfield, "investing in energy transition assets" of course means buying existing assets.
Brookfield raises $20bn in second energy transition investment fund
Canadian parent company to contribute heavily alongside UAE and Norwegian wealth funds
on.ft.com
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by Brett Christophers — Reposted by: Stacy D. VanDeveer

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The iron law of climate politics: everyone is "in favour of climate action" [as long as it means zero change to existing lifestyles]
How politicians and passengers gave up on greener air travel
A renewed push for economic growth has added to technological challenges and problems with carbon offset schemes
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economyandspace.bsky.social
Economy and Space Vol. 57, No. 7 is now available online! It features articles on a number of topics, from municipal structural adjustment and post-entrepreneurial cities to heritage branding and the geography of financial exclusion.

Link and ToC below:

journals.sagepub.com/toc/epna/57/...
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kanejim.bsky.social
If you're trying to make sense of BlackRock's recent buying spree, we have a deep dive into the firm's operations and where it's likely headed.
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I have so much respect for Greta Thunberg because she easily could have coasted on speaking gigs and Davos appearances for the rest of her life
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by Susan J. Smith — Reposted by: Brett Christophers

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Exactly! Large corporates have their eyes on the huge value of ‘last time sales’ - part of a wider shift in the housing economy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Interview: The economic style of reasoning is not value-neutral! An interview with Elizabeth Popp Berman, by Ditte Andersen
doi.org/10.1177/0001...
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jamesmeek.bsky.social
I wrote about Artificial Desire

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Meek · Computers that want things
For all the fluency and synthetic friendliness of public-facing AI chatbots like ChatGPT, it seems important to remember...
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Of course, but in this instance the good thing is _enabled by_ the bad thing, so the bad inhabits and irrevocably stains the good
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Please don't eulogise Norway. Its rapid EV take-up is in large part greenwashing, covering up (and SUBSIDIZED BY) massive ongoing oil and gas extraction -- with dozens of new exploration and production licences continuing to be issued.
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 9d
Norway puts our backtracking to shame:

Norway’s uptake of EVs is nearly 100%. August set a new record of 98.4% of all new sales (with plug-in hybrids a mere 1.5%). The government has a goal of ending the sale of fossil-fuelled cars by the end of this year.

cleantechnica.com/2025/09/09/e...
EVs At A Record 98.4% Share In Norway — KGM Musso Arrives - CleanTechnica
August saw plugin EVs at a record 98.4% share in Norway, up from 95.7% year on year. BEVs alone took 96.9% share.
cleantechnica.com
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Reposted by: Brett Christophers, Richard S.J. Tol, Peter Thorne , and 10 more

drkatemarvel.bsky.social
my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
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sethdklein.bsky.social
Norway puts our backtracking to shame:

Norway’s uptake of EVs is nearly 100%. August set a new record of 98.4% of all new sales (with plug-in hybrids a mere 1.5%). The government has a goal of ending the sale of fossil-fuelled cars by the end of this year.

cleantechnica.com/2025/09/09/e...
EVs At A Record 98.4% Share In Norway — KGM Musso Arrives - CleanTechnica
August saw plugin EVs at a record 98.4% share in Norway, up from 95.7% year on year. BEVs alone took 96.9% share.
cleantechnica.com
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Reposted by: Brett Christophers, Fabián Muniesa

poltheoryother.bsky.social
"While Trump’s first term looked like an aberration, a morbid symptom of a dying world, his second looks more like an attempt to enforce a new paradigm." - @will-davies.bsky.social

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
William Davies · Repeal the 20th Century: Pre-MAGA
To understand the intellectual coordinates of Trumpism requires us to look in less conventional places and to pay more...
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Reposted by: Brett Christophers, Nandita Sharma

bostonreview.bsky.social
From runaway slave lists to Canary Mission, the state has long deputized citizens to enforce its will.

New from Shiri Pasternak:
A Theory of the List - Boston Review
From runaway slave lists to Canary Mission, the state has long deputized citizens to enforce its will.
www.bostonreview.net
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housingtheory.bsky.social
🔔 Two new highlights!

✏️ Understanding Housing Justice in Shared Housing by Zoë Goodall, Wendy Stone, Kay Cook and Deb Batterham investigating shared private rental housing through the lenses of relationality and housing justice.

➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Understanding Housing Justice in Shared Housing
This article conceptually explores housing justice through the worked example of shared housing in the private rental sector (PRS), where people live with non-family. Drawing on interviews with 25 ...
www.tandfonline.com
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A political choice subsidised by oil money, no less
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 13d
I feel like this is a very strong counter to a lot of arguments about fundamental economic or structural obstacles to decarbonization, or that it requires a comprehensive reorganization of our system of production. It's a political choice, that's all.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 15d
It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.
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jwmason.bsky.social
I feel like this is a very strong counter to a lot of arguments about fundamental economic or structural obstacles to decarbonization, or that it requires a comprehensive reorganization of our system of production. It's a political choice, that's all.
janrosenow.bsky.social
Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 15d
It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.
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Program here
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🚨 Conference Announcement 🚨

The Land Question
October 30-31, 2025
Grimm Zentrum, HU Berlin

Full Program + Abstracts now online. 2 days, 30 scholars, 8 panels. No registration required. Keynotes by Omar Dahbour and Isabel Feichtner. Come!

criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
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Rent controls of a sort set to arrive in Scotland as Housing Bill reaches final stage
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rent controls set to pass in new Scottish housing bill - but not for all
New legislation will see long-term rent controls and responsibilities for preventing homelessness.
www.bbc.co.uk
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"China is the only large country driving the energy transition at anything close to the necessary speed and scale."

It's also the only one whose energy transition is not hamstrung by reliance on the motive force of renewables profitability.

Coincidence?

I think not.
Chartbook 409 Beyond the "Marshall Plan": China's solar boom as world-changing industrial policy.
In the first six months of 2025 China installed more than 250GW of solar power capacity.
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lrb.co.uk
‘Over the weeks, I didn’t once get a sense that anyone present had fully thought through that Martha had been deprived of, say, seventy years of life.’

@paullaity.bsky.social on the search for accountability after his daughter’s preventable death in hospital: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Laity · After Martha
For the hospital, and for the NHS, it was a closed case, another preventable death: medicine is imperfect, such things...
www.lrb.co.uk
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ipojuner.bsky.social
it's 100 years since the land registry (and therefore the modern property market) was established in england and wales. next tuesday i'll be talking with @sarahkeenan.bsky.social, lorna fox o'mahony and lucy finchett-maddock about the politics of registration. join: www.eventbrite.ca/e/perpetual-...
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by Jamie Peck — Reposted by: Brett Christophers

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Our pitch for constructivist economic geographies - Rachel Phillips, Chris Meulbroek, Jamie Peck, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Constructivist economic geographies - Rachel Phillips, Chris Meulbroek, Jamie Peck, 2025
The paper makes a case for explicitly constructivist approaches and projects in economic geography. Constructivism names and problematizes the relationship betw...
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housingtheory.bsky.social
We have some new online publications, great readings on home ownership, rentierism, and decarbonized living!

🔸 Susan Smith and Gavin Wood discusses the edges of owner occupation and rentier capitalism
➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Edges of Owner-Occupation versus Rentier Capitalism
Over the past half century, housing systems have been reconfigured through processes variously labelled financialization, assetization and rentierization. Unevenly advanced by successive rounds of ...
www.tandfonline.com
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by Brett Christophers — Reposted by: Brett Christophers, Fabián Muniesa, Benjamin Braun , and 2 more

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A new piece on extractive capitalism for @thetls.bsky.social, reviewing 4 new books, including @triofrancos.bsky.social's much-anticipated EXTRACTION and Partha Dasgupta's widely-
praised ON NATURAL CAPITAL
Paying Nature’s price
“What does it mean”, asks Thea Riofrancos in Extraction, “to defend people and the planet from extraction – when others frame this same extraction as
www.the-tls.com
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lrb.co.uk
‘We spoke on the phone to one of the consultants at King’s. There was, he said, “a full set of escalations” we could make. Welcome to my last four years.’

@paullaity.bsky.social on the search for accountability after his daughter Martha died of sepsis in hospital:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Laity · After Martha
For the hospital, and for the NHS, it was a closed case, another preventable death: medicine is imperfect, such things...
www.lrb.co.uk
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paullaity.bsky.social
'Welcome to my last four years.' A search for accountability and a full, detailed explanation for Martha's death . . . www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Laity · After Martha
For the hospital, and for the NHS, it was a closed case, another preventable death: medicine is imperfect, such things...
www.lrb.co.uk
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