In this guest post, Luis Harrison discusses the research from his recently published article in Environmental Politics: Climate populism: the limits of the ideational and discursive approaches. There is a persistent assumption in both public and academic debate that meaningful climate action is primarily championed by the liberal left and centre. Policies such as net zero, nature conservation, and decarbonisation are commonly associated with progressive politics and institutions like the UNFCCC and the COP process. By contrast, climate scepticism and denial are often portrayed as defining features of exclusionary right-wing populism.

New guest post from Luis Harrison.

Treating right-wing populists as inherently anti-climate... risks weakening efforts to advance ambitious climate action, since it prevents us from recognising how adaptable and flexible populist discourses have become.

environmentalpoliticsjournal.net?p=2399

This is the world’s largest spider web — November’s best science images The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.

Have you already seen the world’s largest spider web spanning 106 square metres? Check out November’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team: spklr.io/63326B5Tgq

🧪 #SciencePhotography

Have you considered publishing your #SDG-related research as a book? Publishing it #OpenAccess ensures your insights reach a global community of academics and policymakers.
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#ResearchPublishing

Why the For-Profit Race into Solar Geoengineering is Bad for Science and Public Trust By David Keith and Daniele Visioni Last week, an American-Israeli company that claims it’s developed proprietary technology to cool the planet announced it had raised $60 million, by far the largest k...

“The essential questions of whether or how to use it come down to far thornier societal issues: How can we best balance the risks and benefits? How can we ensure that it’s used in an equitable way? How do we make legitimate decisions about SRM on a planet with such sharp political divisions?”

🌊 The nature of fascism and why it differs from populism People are talking more and more about fascism, and often confusing it with populism. Paul D. Kenny argues that we need to understand how fascism stands out. It has never been just a matter of words o...

🌊 #IlliberalWave No.44
🗣️ People are talking more and more about #Fascism, and often confusing it with #Populism.
💡 @kennypd.bsky.social discusses the features of fascism and argues that we need to understand how it stands out.
👉 bit.ly/4r1mjGe

Lessons from a long road to a first-author paper Unlike my colleagues, I faced a five-year wait to publish my PhD project. Here’s how I coped.

The road to a first-author paper often isn't short or direct. Unlike her colleagues, Poojashree Chettiar faced a five-year wait to publish her PhD project. Here’s how she coped: spklr.io/63324BMXYA

#PhDChat #PhDSky #AcademicSky

What Americans really think when European allies don’t cooperate NATO recently agreed to a historic 5% defence spending target. But Osman Sabri Kiratli presents new experimental evidence revealing that what Americans truly care about goes far beyond the numbers. In...

💰 #NATO has agreed to a historic 5% defence spending target. But @osmansabrikiratli.bsky.social of @ecprsgir.bsky.social presents 🆕 evidence revealing that what Americans truly care about goes beyond the numbers. In fact, democratic allies may have more leeway than they realise.
👉 bit.ly/3JXqqlX

The Political Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographic Society and Political Geography are seeking nominations for the fifth PolGRG/PG Book Award for books published from June 2023 up to and including June 2025.

Green national paradox? How the far right turned Sweden from a (reputed) pioneer of climate mitigation to an obstructor, by Andreas Malm, Kristoffer Ekberg, Christina Englund, Johanne Tagmose Grønkjær, Martin Charlier, Olivia Medin and Ståle Holgersen www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🦋 The pluriverse of democracy In a time of anthropogenic existential crises, writes Ioannis Rigkos-Zitthen, this new stage in the Science of Democracy conversation highlights how plural thinking can help rejuvenate democracy

🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.122
💭 In a time of anthropogenic existential crises, writes @ioannisrz.bsky.social, this new stage in the Science of Democracy conversation highlights how plural thinking can help rejuvenate democracy.
👉 bit.ly/478VF6B

🧭 Framing wartime enlargement: still a process, after all Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has transformed how often EU leaders talk about enlargement, but not how they frame it. Nicole Scicluna shows that despite geopolitical urgency and family rhetoric, enlarg...

🧭 #EUEnlargementDilemmas No.30
🗣️ War in #Ukraine has transformed how often #EUleaders talk about enlargement, but not how they frame it.
🏅 Based on @jeppjournal.bsky.social research, Nicole Scicluna shows that enlargement remains cast as a conditional, merit-based process.
👉 bit.ly/4ommRVc

Why the EU’s democratic deficit persists Pro-EU MEPs have long pursued a logic of democratisation based on institutional mimicry. But as Jan Pieter Beetz, Gilles Pittoors and Wouter Wolfs argue, this path has become ideologically entrenched ...

🗣️ #ProEU MEPs pursue #democratisation based on institutional mimicry.
🔗 Jan Pieter Beetz, @gillespittoors.bsky.social & Wouter Wolfs argue that this risks overlooking potentially better alternative models that might better connect with European citizens.
👉 bit.ly/48gEEs2

Why citizen groups outpace business in EU agenda-setting We often consider business groups to be the dominant lobbying force in Brussels. But, based on his latest research, Frederik Stevens shows the opposite: citizen groups are more likely to influence…

💼 We often consider business groups to be the dominant lobbying force in Brussels.
📘 But, based on @ejprjournal.bsky.social research, @frederikstevens.bsky.social shows the opposite: citizen groups are more likely to influence what gets on, or stays off, the #EU’s agenda.
👉 buff.ly/f5AAtfG

Why disillusioned citizens may back referendums in theory but not in practice Ruben Van Severen shows why politically cynical citizens often praise the idea of referendums, but are not necessarily enthusiastic when they take place. Drawing on research in Flanders, he shows how ...

📙 Drawing on @prxjournal.bsky.social research,
@rubenvanseveren.bsky.social shows why politically cynical citizens often praise the idea of #Referendums, but may not be enthusiastic when they take place.
👎 Low interest can mean low turnout, invalid results + wasted effort.
➡️ bit.ly/3VKlG5I

Indigenous Territories can safeguard human health depending on the landscape structure and legal status - Communications Earth & Environment Indigenous territory extent in the Amazon biome can reduce the incidence of fire-related and zoonotic/vector-borne diseases, but only in certain contexts, according to an analysis of disease incidence data from the region.

Protecting Indigenous territories in Amazon rainforest areas with high levels of forest cover may help reduce the number of cases of several diseases in the surrounding areas, according to an analysis published in @commsearth.nature.com: spklr.io/63329ByPOU #environment #conservation

Screenshot of a commentary abstract in The Geographical Journal by Ioannis Rigkos-Zitthen & Nikos Kapitsinis (2025) entitled 'On commons, state institutions and capitalism' with a blue banner at the top. Within the contemporary context of multiple and overlapping crises, which critical scholars often call the Anthropocene epoch, commons and commoning have been presented as a promising way to approach and address the emerging problems. Commons are often presented as spaces antithetical to capitalism, governed in a radical democratic fashion. We argue that to deepen our knowledge on how commons contribute to politics of our times, we need to understand both the embodied relations of care within the commons and the ways commons are related to the state. On these grounds and by presenting commons as an empty signifier, we aim to provide a nuanced understanding of commons contribution to politics in the Anthropocene.

#OpenAccess in The GJ:

'On commons, state institutions and capitalism' by @ioannisrz.bsky.social & @nikoskapitsinis.bsky.social

This commentary explores the essential nature of commoning as a practice of collective care within today's political climate.

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky

How reducing the US military budget would also reduce emissions New research shows that even with modest reductions in military funding, the United States would keep a whole lot of carbon out of the atmosphere.

Increased military emissions is one of the dangers of increased military spending, but the bigger concern as I explained to @grist.org is that an ever more militarised world is the opposite of climate justice. grist.org/climate/how-...

✨Once again, I am so grateful to be able to work, think, write, rewrite and share emotional highs and lows with the wonderful @corinna-viajera.bsky.social and @sware.bsky.social 💜

Read some results of our common care-full endeavour in the latest issue of @environmentalpol.bsky.social

NATO’s 5 percent spending pledge is a threat to people and the planet The alliance’s spending surge will prompt war, cut services and worsen the climate crisis.

My thoughts on why NATO's new spending pledge is catastrophic for people and the planet. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

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Online first at Space and Polity: "The more-than-human commons in a crisis-ridden context: the case of the women’s collective and the chamomile-bee commons in Skouries of Halkidiki, Greece" by @ioannisrz.bsky.social & @nikoskapitsinis.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Latest issue, Vol 34, Issue 4 out now.

8 research articles and 3 book reviews.

See below for details.

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New article out now discussing the relationship of commons and commoning to progressive populism.

Link to the article here:
doi.org/10.1177/1942...

We will not be distracted.
We will not be discouraged.
We’ve got our eyes on the prize.

And we will build the prosperous, free nation for all that we deserve.

The time to organize is now.

OcasioCortez.com

And that’s on that 😌

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New publication out now!

Together with @nikoskapitsinis.bsky.social we suggest understanding commons as an empty signifier, a way to highlight the messiness, within commons and co-depence of commons to state institutions and capital.

journals.sagepub.com/eprint/GFEGN...

The importance of practices of collective care: Exploring directions for an alternative productive paradigm fitting our times’ social, economic and ecological requirements - Ioannis Rigkos-Zitthen, Ni... The Anthropocene is characterized by multiple crises associated with the infinite accumulation of growth on a planet of finite resources. Productive labour and ...

New publication on care politics and the importance of social reproduction for politics of the Anthropocene.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Political Geography is soliciting nominations for the 2025 Early Career Researcher Paper Award. Nominations are due February 14