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🚨New policy study🚨

There must be an alternative: Against mainstream defeatism and towards the rejuvenation of the democratic public space

We make seven key recommendations to turn the tide

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Delighted, as Head of Division for Politics & IR, that our department is recruiting a Lecturer in Environmental Politics on an open-ended teaching & research contract.

If anybody wants to chat informally about the position, I’ll be @ PSA Annual Conference next week.

www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

In Oxford for #PSA2026? We kick off with a unique roundtable with speechwriters on what it is like to work with politicians.
With @profafinlayson.bsky.social @daimoon.bsky.social @psapolleadership.bsky.social @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

We will be at the PSA Annual Conference in Oxford, with 6 panels on political rhetoric and discourse, plus a Roundtable with professional speechwriters (co-organised with the @psapolleadership.bsky.social

Full programme here 👉 www.psa.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #PSA26

Transition Imaginaries Cambridge Core - International Relations and International Organisations - Transition Imaginaries

💥 Really happy to see Transition Imaginaries published online 💥

In this book, @drsophiah.bsky.social and I critically question the affective attachments and political conceptions of technology in current projects of energy transition.

(Published with Open Access)

doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Definitely! Let’s arrange a chat soon☺️

Thank you so much Arife. I am so pleased that this is relevant to your fantastic work in rhetoric!

Excellent panel yesterday on "pathways to a biodiverse future". @guyshrubsole.bsky.social started with a celebration of what we can experience as abundant nature, despite all the bad news and shifting baseline. Sights of (here Devon) temperate rainforest fragments & lichens always cheer me up!

That would be great, please do!

Link to open access full-text: "What Would it Mean to Win? Imagining Alternative Ecopolitical Futures with Young Climate Justice Activists" (2/2)

www.researchgate.net/profile/Carl...

Congratulations Carlie, I just finished reading your chapter and I thoroughly enjoyed it! I would love to use it in my class! And I am so pleased that the concept of “ecopolitical imaginaries” was helpful 🙂

Congratulations Richard!

Photo by Mike Erskine via Unsplash of closeup of meadowsweet herb in Llandough, Cardiff, Wales

🎉Tyndall Centre's Roger Few + co-authors have won the Richard Macrory Prize for Best Article in the Journal of Environmental Law for 'Protecting Everyday Nature'. Judges called it 'conceptually fascinating': doi.org/10.1093/jel/...

@drsophiah.bsky.social @ljmabon.bsky.social @odirilwes.bsky.social

Yesterday I had the pleasure of introducing Mauro Lubrano’s new book ahead of his lively conversation with Sean Fleming. Congratulations on a topical and important book, @maurolubrano.bsky.social

I really enjoyed this podcast with @jemgilbert.bsky.social and @profafinlayson.bsky.social I came to it for insights into British politics, I stayed for the regressions. But it was the discussion on the crisis of liberalism that kept me through it.

Spain Is Using Defense Budgets to Combat Climate Change Effects Europe’s rush to rearm in support of Ukraine has led Spain to also bolster its climate defenses.

EXCLUSIVE: Europe is rearming and one country is using defense money to beef up the army's ability to fight climate change.

I found it's a growing trend

Read the story for free here:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Become a guest writer for the IPR blog! Share your expertise, studies, and thoughts to enrich the policy conversation. Help shape the future of public policy by joining us here: buff.ly/0ueINOw #PublicPolicy #PolicyDiscourse

New publication - 'The Future as a Democratic Resource', online now at Perspectives on Politics
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
@poppublicsphere.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social @lseblogs.bsky.social

Congratulations @lesliewehner.bsky.social and @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social Fantastic piece of work and great to see this collaboration.

Finally out in Politics & Gender! Please read & share this work with @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social

“The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy: The Cases of Chile and Sweden” doi.org/10.1017/S174...

We study the conditions that made possible the formal adoption of a Feminist Foreign Policy 🇨🇱🇸🇪

The picture shows the poster for the workshop, including hard facts and program

The program for the #PREDEF workshop on Forgotten Institutions is now online!

Keynote by Anthoula Malkopoulou & contributions by @arthurghins.bsky.social @drsophiah.bsky.social @simonintheory.bsky.social a.o.

Organised by @saragebh.bsky.social

Details: predef.univie.ac.at/wsforgotteni...

Wonderful to see this
important new Handbook of Environmental Political Theory published. Very pleased to have a contribution on “Anthropocene imaginaries” in it. Thank you to editors @amandamachin.bsky.social and Marcel Wissenburg for coordinating this project so smoothly.

In this article in @ecologicalcitizen.bsky.social, we reflect on Ecodemocracy: Operationalizing
ecocentrism through political
representation for non-humans www.ecologicalcitizen.net/pdfs/v03n2-1...

Building a Net Zero future: CAST’s response to the CCC’s Seventh Carbon Budget Report - cast.ac.uk CAST responds to the Climate Change Committee's (CCC) latest advice on how to achieve Net Zero in its Seventh Carbon Budget report.

Can we build the #NetZero future the Climate Change Committee says is possible? 🌍

Today @thecccuk.bsky.social published its latest advice to the Government in its #SeventhCarbonBudget report.

Read our CAST response: cast.ac.uk/building-a-n...

Key messages thread 🧵

Happy to be in beautiful Bristol today to present our work on symbolic policies and climate policy support.

Great workshop organised by @psaenvironmental.bsky.social, @environmentalpol.bsky.social, @psaepop.bsky.social and @jeppjournal.bsky.social.

Agenda: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-e...

Workshop: Elections and Climate Change (In-Person Registration) This workshop will focus on the role that climate change is playing in elections around the world. Register here to attend in-person.

Join us this week in Bristol for our Workshop on Elections and Climate Change @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @environmentalpol.bsky.social @psaepopsg.bsky.social @jeppjournal.bsky.social @conorlittle.bsky.social @matpaterson.bsky.social @drsophiah.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-e...

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

Call for Papers @europeanisa.bsky.social PEC 2025 for the newly established standing section on Reactionary Global Politics (REACT) in Bologna, Italy. @reacpolrn.bsky.social

Work With Us - Climate & Community Institute There are currently no open positions at Climate & Community Institute.

We are hiring Junior Research Fellows for the summer of 2025! We are looking for outstanding graduate students to join us for the summer to make meaningful contributions to our transformative research and policy work across geographies and economic sectors. Applications due March 3.

As a member of the advisory group for this, heartily recommend this report on where Politics/IR teaching and research stands

@uaces.bsky.social @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social