New Books Network podcast!
In this conversation, our convenor @paulinesophieh.bsky.social talks to @peternewell.bsky.social about his book States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society.
Check it out!
www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
Last chance to register for Thursday's event!
'Alternative ecological futures: Art, climate change and the radical imagination'.
Online, free to all, 3pm-4.30pm, UK time.
More info and the link for registration: www.bisa.ac.uk/events/alter...
@mybisa.bsky.social
Please join us for this great event! @ebonyyoung.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social
📣 3 post doc roles on GreenFrontier @erc.europa.eu project - fantastic opportunities to work on an exciting project on socio-ecological relations in Italy, Spain & Poland. And best of all, a chance to work with @georgeiorda.bsky.social as team lead #PoliticalEcology #Conservation ⬇️
New blog from @peternewell.bsky.social
'States of transition? From governing the environment to transforming society.'
What is the role of the state in supporting transitions and deeper transformations towards a more sustainable world?
www.bisa.ac.uk/articles/sta...
Re-posting this one ahead of the deadline on Friday - CfP on posthuman IR for BISA 2026!
We will shortly be emailing members with CfPs and conference advice so two things -
1) if you have a last minute CfPs, email it to us quick!
2) if you're a BISA member then join the working group to get the email - there is no limit on how many wgs you can join
www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
Last chance to sign up for tomorrow's Environment and Climate Politics Working Group event 🌳
Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy w/ Rosaleen Duffy Jane Clarke and Kai Heron 🎉
Thinking about your future in environmental research? Register now 👉 https://ow.ly/vtL050Xce84
Today we will be screening this documentary, The Deepest Red, at Kelvinhall at 6.30 pm. We hope you can join us. There will be a Q&A session at the end of the screening with two fantastic researchers from Glasgow and Edinburgh. @glalarn.bsky.social @uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Planning an environment / climate politics panel for #BISA2026?
Send us your Call for Papers this week and we'll circulate them in a member email on Monday!
Description This panel brings together theoretical approaches and case studies at the intersection of climate change, human (im)mobility and vulnerability. We aim to critically discuss how colonial and neocolonial systems contribute to geographic, economic, and social inequalities in the context of increasing climate change impacts, thereby making a contribution to both climate justice and political ecology debates. We invite papers which critically examine dominant discourses that ascribe vulnerability to so-called “at-risk” populations and explore alternative epistemologies of survival, resistance and political agency. We are particularly interested in papers that draw together two themes: Climate-induced (im)mobilities, and vulnerabilisation.
Submissions invited for #POLLEN2026 for the panel: Colonial histories and climate futures: critical perspectives on vulnerability.
We are particularly interested in papers that draw together themes of climate-induced im/mobilities & vulnerabilisation.
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📺 Really looking forward to this event organised by the terrific by @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social team. The session will be especially useful for #ECRs in environmental research & thinking about different career pathways. It’s online and open to everyone @mybisa.bsky.social. Tune in on Friday ⬇️
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A screenshot of the Call for Papers - please message me for the text version
Call for Papers! Excited to be putting together a panel on more-than-human and posthuman IR for the BISA 2026 conference. Deadline Fri 24 Oct - details below. Please reach out with any queries
Everything is slightly out of hand right now. I'm circulating:
- Job ad for social media editor (15th Oct)
- Event for ECP WG (17th Oct)
- Two CfPs for BISA (24th Oct)
- CfP for POLLEN (1st Dec)
Going to put links and info on all of this below, partly so I don't lose track.
We are putting out this Call for Papers for BISA2026 in search of people who are researching the connection between gender and resistance in the field of environmental politics. This call comes at a time of (at least) two forms of gendered resistance: 1. Growing resistance to measures that combat climate change and environmental destruction, a form of resistance that is often masculinised 2. Ongoing resistance against environmental destruction, a form of resistance that is both discursively constructed as feminine and that manifests as a form of burden that is often borne by women and other marginalised peoples Against a backdrop of the target of 1.5 degrees warming looking increasingly unlikely, and a ‘green’ transition currently reliant on new geographies of environmental and human harm and exploitation, any meaningful progress towards global environmental targets is stalling. Resistance to these forms of harm and efforts to transition away from fossil fuels are at a critical juncture. At the same time, there is a surging right-wing politics globally, part of which acts as a defence of industry and environmental harm. This form of resistance is directed at transition itself. We invite papers which explore the intersections of gender and resistance in relation to environment or climate politics. Approaches might include ecofeminism, political ecology, and feminist political economy. Some papers which participants might engage with: • Petro-masculinity: Fossil fuels and authoritarian desire (Daggett, 2018) • Feminist approaches to environmental politics (Lawrence et al, 2025) • ‘Gender and climate change’: from impacts to discourses (MacGregor, 2010) • Colonial erasures in gender and climate change solutions (Resurrección, 2024) Please send your 200 word abstracts to t.n.brookes@keele.ac.uk and weatherillck@outlook.com by 24th October along with your name, affiliation, career stage and geographical location.
Another Call for Papers for #BISA2026 (3rd-5th June, Brighton), this time for a panel I'm organising with @tom-cb.bsky.social. Deadline 24th Oct.
Gender and resistance in environmental politics: This panel will explore how gender relates to resistance against env harm AND resistance to transition.
Exploring the relationship between imperialism, coloniality and environmental degradation Joint Call for Papers from the Colonial, Postcolonial, and Decolonial Working Group and Environment and Climate Politics Working Group We are putting out this joint call in recognition that many researchers are working at the intersection of our two working groups - and during a time when the realities of this intersection between colonialism, empire, and the environment have never been more clear. This moment makes evident the interconnections between militarism and settler colonialism and genocide and ecocide, and therefore the need to situate our knowledge and approaches within anticolonial, indigenous and translocal perspectives. Recognising the importance of scholarship that addresses these issues, we are calling for papers for BISA2026 that are related to the topics of how imperialism / colonialism / extraction / capitalism are in relationship with environmental degradation. This can be on a material level, where the functions of occupation and extraction lead to environmental destruction, or on a more discursive level, where hierarchies of life are used to justify and naturalise ongoing violence against people and places. Whilst we are keeping this Call quite broad to encourage wide-ranging submissions, some paper topics or research areas might include: • Genocide and its links to environmental destruction, for example in Palestine, DR Congo, and Sudan, to name a few. • Ecological imperialism – theoretical contributions or case studies • Reparative justice and climate change • The construction of new ‘frontiers’ – how imperialism and extraction is moving to new areas such as the deep sea or space • Anticolonial and anti-extractive organising and decarbonization and fossil fuel phase outs • Indigenous approaches on relationality, connectedness and climate justice • The role of academics in perpetuating or resisting these forms of harm Please send your 200-250 word abstrac…
Call for Papers for #BISA2026!
Exploring the relationship between imperialism, coloniality and environmental degradation.
This is a joint call with Colonial, Postcolonial & Decolonial WG, recognising that important work is being done at the intersection of our groups.
Deadline Friday 24 October.
‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds
- Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries
Story by me
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Currently working on putting together a Call for Papers for BISA that will be joint between the Environment and Climate Politics working group and the Colonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial working group.
If you work at this intersection, keep your eye out for the CfPs next week!
I’m looking forward to this event. I’ll be riffing off the London-Edinburgh Weekend Return Group’s idea of being ‘in and against the state’ to reflect on what it means to pursue an academic career ‘in, against and beyond’ the university. Which is something I'm still trying to figure out myself...
Looking forward to this one! We'll be hearing from three wonderful guests (@rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, @kaiheron.bsky.social and Dr Jane Clarke) about the different doors your environment PhD can open 👀🗝️🌍
Very much looking forward to this - I’ll be talking about the job search in academia, with key insights from some very generous ECRs about their own journeys in to academia. Sign up is in the link ⬇️
It's time to start planning for next year's conference! Get in touch if you want information on the process, or if you'd like us to share a call for papers!
Our next event! 17th October, 1pm-2.30pm. Online, and free to attend.
'Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy' with speakers Professor Rosaleen Duffy, Dr Kai Heron and Dr Jane Clarke.
@kaiheron.bsky.social @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social
www.bisa.ac.uk/events/pathw...
Announcing our first winner of the Early-Career Environment and Climate Politics Paper Prize!
Congratulations to John Donovan (OU), for his winning paper 'Commercial Gains, Climate Losses: Unpacking the Environmental Costs of Lunar Industrialisation'.
www.bisa.ac.uk/news/early-c...
I feel like putting together a Loss and Damage panel I think. Time to think about it still, but feel free to reach out if you want in.
'Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy' - a @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social event 🌟
Aimed at PhD and ECR researchers thinking about their future in environmental research📚
Ft. @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social Dr Jane Clarke & @kaiheron.bsky.social 🎉
Sign up now 👉
The latest in our Spotlight Series is now up on the blog! Hear from PhD candidate Santosh Kumar: www.bisa.ac.uk/articles/spo...
Santosh is interested in understanding how emerging scientific knowledge reconfigures views of the environment 🌍☁️📝
Our next event is taking place 17th October, 13.00-14.30 UK time.
Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy.
Register now! www.bisa.ac.uk/events/pathw...
The latest event for @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social is now open for registration:
'Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy' will have three speakers: @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social ; @kaiheron.bsky.social and Jane Clarke.
@mybisa.bsky.social
www.bisa.ac.uk/events/pathw...
