🌎New in Geo🌎
'Beyond alternative energy markets without morals: Examining the North Carolina clean energy plan in Robeson County, NC, USA' by Sebastian Boute & @socistmjs.bsky.social
This commentary examines solar energy in Robeson County through the lens of energy justice
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New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
My book will join an amazing lineup of books already released as a part of @ugapress.bsky.social's Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Series: ugapress.org/series/socio...
At the center of this book is an abstract and thorny question: what does it mean for predominantly white and middle class volunteer groups to serve a disproportionately Black unhoused population? More to come!
In this book, which is based on a year of ethnographic observation and interviews of homeless services volunteers in St. Louis, MO, I explore the promise and contradictions of people who have identified a problem in their city and sought to do something about it.
My forthcoming book has a cover… I’m in disbelief. Thanks to all of those who have helped me get to this point, including
@mickodopolous.bsky.social, @ugapress.bsky.social, @brunsma.bsky.social, David Embrick, and many others.
Save the Date, MSSA 51st Annual Conference, October 15-18, 2025, North Augusta South Carolina Conference Theme: Disasters: Understanding the Textures of Loss, Love, and Recovery Amidst Forced Social Change Theme Description: Globally, in a world of interlocking networks, the likelihood that most residents will experience a major disaster in their lifetimes is increasing significantly. Whether caused by natural, technological, synergistic, social, cyber, or new means, disasters are becoming more complex, frequent, stronger, longerlasting, and more devastating in their impacts. As each disaster receives only limited national attention, the extended, slow recovery process forces change and transition at all levels of society, reshaping the pathways forward. Disasters force endings and offer new beginnings. Their destruction spotlights human losses, community ties, deep social change, power dynamics, gender inequalities, wealth and poverty disparities, as well as themes of security, insecurity, and civil rights across varied geographies and cyberspaces. For this conference, we encourage you to submit papers around the theme of disaster with a focus on the humanistic impacts, to understand the texture of loss, the emergence of care and love amidst such devastation, and the process of recovery in a myriad of social and cultural contexts. We are also interested in ways disaster concepts and theorization can apply to new social contexts, expanding our understanding of the theories and
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Findings suggest a need for expanded research on the dimensions of privilege that may be at play across wind farm sites and that any consideration of a just transition must consider how expressions of privilege inform environmental political discourse.
In this article, we make use of public comments from North Carolina, USA to argue that objections to wind projects reflect an understanding of the infrastructure’s environmental burden and, importantly, a desire to protect environmental privilege.
Happy to share my latest article, "‘Thank you in advance for not changing my retirement home’s intrinsic beauty’: NIMBYism, environmental privilege, and the politics of offshore wind energy," now open access at Coastal Studies and Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
My forthcoming book will be unfortunately very relevant as we navigate the next 4 years, I hope that my colleagues friends and all those concerned abt the future of grassroots resistance will find it insightful and practical (out Feb from UNC press) uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Sometimes I think the criticism that the media doesn't report critically enough on Trump is a bit much. But one thing the media doesn't cover effectively is how online groypers are running the show.
That's who's been talking about "DEI pilots" for years.
It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.”
University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
I wish people on the left would stop using “diversity hire” or “affirmative action” to describe folks like Hegseth. This reinforces the racist, sexist notion that diversity and affirmative action are promoting unqualified people, doing the right’s work for the.