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Full title: Australian third sector actors’ theories of change for climate justice: real and apparent barriers and obscured root causes. ABSTRACT - As climate action remains insufficient, societal actors are demanding climate justice. Self-defined climate advocates working within non-governmental and not-for-profit organisations – collectively known as third sector organisations (TSO) – are one set of such actors working towards their subjective vision of climate justice in Australia. I critically examine Australian TSO actors’ theories of change for climate justice. Although diverse, I identify a spectrum of climate justice visions from social solidarity with Indigenous Peoples to, although less prevalent, eco-centric, bordering on anti-human. Most TSO actors’ theories of change were underpinned by assumptions about the effectiveness of incremental change without necessarily challenging the existing power structures premised, as they are in Australia, on colonial capitalism. Some diagnosed barriers to change but struggled to articulate a theory of change to transcend them. When giving up is not an option, critical reflection on the root causes of climate injustice and barriers to change is necessary.

New #OpenAccess article from @guyjackson.bsky.social - Australian third sector actors’ theories of change for climate justice.

When giving up is not an option, critical reflection on the root causes of climate injustice and barriers to change is necessary.

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Loss and damage in tropical fisheries: a systematic review of people, climate, and fisheries - Regional Environmental Change Climate change loss and damage research and policy includes biodiversity loss as a non-economic loss and damage. Yet there is scant understanding of what is loss and damage in tropical fisheries and h...

1/8. 📣NEW STUDY: 🐟“ #LossAndDamage in Tropical Fisheries: A Systematic Review of People, #Climate, and Fisheries” from Alicia N’Guetta , Emily Boyd and Torsten Krause and @guyjackson.bsky.social Jackson via Springer Nature.

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Is corporate America already souring on Trump? Optimism at the prospect of tax cuts and lighter regulation has given way to anxiety over trade policies

The FT says bankers/biz executives are having 2nd thoughts. Serves 'em right.
Eager for tax cuts, deregulation, and a revival in the M&A deals that enrich them (aka "animal spirits") they ignored the obvious: he would bring chaos, tariffs, and vengeful democratic erosion.
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This may well be a variant of the Welsh superpower to "go there now in a minute" 😄❤️

Behind ever ‘drain the swamp’ - from Budapest to Washington DC - is actually a highly targeted ploy to ransack the state and destroy those bodies that would ever hold the autocrat, and his oligarchs, to account

man, that's a lot of words to avoid using the single word "illegal"

#Tunisia: UN Experts calls for unconditional & immediate release of unjustly detained defender Sihem Bensedrine

We expect no less of key EU institutions. Unfortunately their silence sounds like complicity w/ repression.

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... @kajakallas.bsky.social @giorgiogori.bsky.social

A great thread. This is very encouraging!

After war ends: Aid paradigms and post-conflict preferences This article is interested in aid preferences, or what people desire in terms of aid, in a post-conflict and post peace accord context. When examining…

How do post-conflict preferences align with the priorities of donors? I address this question in World Development with my colleagues @rogermacginty.bsky.social and Julianne Funk using empirical @epi-ngo.bsky.social data from Mostar, Bosnia Herzegovina www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

South Africa and Malaysia to launch campaign to protect international justice Formation of Hague Group comes amid challenges to ICJ and ICC rulings

Hague Group.
International Legal Order defended by the Global South (South Africa, Malaysia, Colombia, Bolivia, Chile, Senegal, Namibia) amidst the cold feet, or open rejection, in the Global North. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jan...

"How interesting that some sociologists should support the idea that certain actions are wrong only because they are socially defined as wrong!" Love Andrew Sayer. From his book, 'Why Things Matter to People'

image is a picture of a phone with a conversation opened with MA. MA says "Hello daughter! I went to get the ricecakes you like, tangerines are ready too. I wish you were here with us." theres 2 pictures attached, one of mandarines and one of rice cakes and the person responding says" Sorry mum I wish I could be back to Hong Kong but I can't. I miss you..."

image reads "We all want to live without fear of speaking our mind. Hong Kongers want this too, wherever they live. Join the movement to protect freedom of expression."

Today millions of families, across borders, are gathering to celebrate #LunarNewYear.

But there are Hong Kongers in the UK unable to join their families.

Hong Kongers face repression by Hong Kong and Chinese authorities - even in the UK.

Act now ➡️ amn.st/6017xwSw5

The Elon Musk Online Outriders Hoping to Take Control of UK Politics and Oust Keir Starmer The world's richest man is amplifying a series of often extreme Alt Right voices bent on radically reshaping our politics

🔴The Elon Musk Online Outriders Hoping to Take Control of UK Politics and Oust Keir Starmer

The world’s richest man is amplifying a series of often extreme Alt Right voices bent on radically reshaping our politics

bylinetimes.com/2025/01/27/e...

The University of Leeds has become the first Russell Group university to officially announce that it is quitting Elon Musk’s social media site X.

It will, however, be alive and well on Bluesky.

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Spanish PM accuses tech billionaires of wanting to overthrow democracy Social media owners should be held responsible for ‘poisoning society’, Pedro Sánchez tells World Economic Forum in Davos

Good to see at least one politician saying it like it is.

www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Brilliant: the cover of Private Eye

I remember my grandparents stopped reading the Telegraph in the late 90s because it had become in their words "fascist". They were part of a war generation who could sniff out the far right, even in broadsheet garb. Today's Telegraph looks more like Der Stürmer

Black is white

War is peace

Fossil fuel lobbyists only have the good of the planet at heart, not profit

Excellent thread on the rise of ‘influencer intellectuals’

Read and beware 😳

Among other things, Friends of the Earth Eng/Wales/NI, @opportunitygreen.bsky.social, @ercscot.bsky.social @justfairuk.bsky.social & I recommend the CESCR should say that private property with regards to the production and delivery of energy services must serve the general interests of the community

New papers from IGDC members Read the latest on reimagining cities, harnessing solar power in Africa, understanding health inequalities in Brazil - and much more.

Read the latest on reimagining cities, harnessing solar power in Africa, understanding health inequalities in Brazil - and much more.

How Biden Failed on Human Rights If Donald Trump’s second term is anything like his first, the incoming U.S. president will not advance the cause of human rights. His foreign policy is more likely to harm democratic values around the...

"The damage Trump may do to the cause of human rights could create a temptation to look back on the Biden era with nostalgia. But those rose-colored glasses would obscure the real picture."

Read HRW's Sarah Yager on how US President Joe Biden failed on human rights:

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‘Just the start’: X’s new AI software driving online racist abuse, experts warn Amid reports of creation of fake racist images, Signify warns problem will get ‘so much worse’ over the next year

We'll be forced to watch shadows of hands raised in Roman salutes on our screens & devices for ever unless we end the power of the tech fascists and properly regulate AI. Unfortunately none of the noises being made by our political leaders suggest they get this.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Welsh Refugee Council staff 'harassed' after Musk shares X post Staff at the charity say some colleagues have had death threats after Musk shared the post on X.

Coms, consider a solidarity donation to the Welsh Refugee Council
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wrc.wales

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New

The coming battle between social media and the state

Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength

By me, in todays @financialtimes.com

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The coming battle between social media and the state Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength

The Q is: does the British govt have the spine to take on Big Tech? "The question is now whether the EU, Brazil and others have the determination and the stomach for what will become an ugly public multinational row."

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House Passes Bill to Impose Sanctions on I.C.C. Officials for Israeli Prosecutions (Gift Article) The action put the measure on track for likely enactment given strong support for it among Republicans, who now control the Senate, and President-elect Donald J. Trump.

Deeply concerning. The US plans to impose sanctions on ICC officials involved in Israeli prosecutions, including freezing assets and denying visas. Will ICC signatories, like the UK, take a stand for global justice or remain passive? I think we already know the answer

10 ways the MA in Applied Human Rights is distinctive YouTube video by cahruoy

Find out more about an MA in Applied Human Rights
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