@kprodani
Political ecology of asset manager capitalism | Biodiversity metric contestations in green finance | Performativity of nature-related financial risk modelling by central banks papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=S6mUi94AAAAJ&hl=en
So let’s be clear: this type of corporate bullying is designed to rob us of our rights and freedoms.
But we will not be silenced.
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The literature on state capacity for decarbonization has grown so much since I started my PhD back in 2020, so this review has been rewritten so many times (and I had to cut a lot in this final iteration). Hope I’ve done it justice. Available open access here 🔓 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Unsustainable for a democracy.
Bedrijven kunnen niet zonder biodiversiteit. Mooi artikel over het #businessandbiodiversity assessment van #IPBES.
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Met inbreng van o.a. @wietekewillemen.bsky.social @kprodani.bsky.social en anderen
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Many thanks to the Chapter 6 contributing authors @romainsvartzman.bsky.social @rensvantilburg.bsky.social @gerdie knijp @maud abdelli!
The UK student loan system — and its danger for Labour Growing anger among millions of graduates who face decades of debt is causing unease in Westminster
“I graduated with £42,000 of debt and even though I’m paying it off, it’s now £72,000.”
It's truly an abomination: On a normal job you keep paying forever. 40 years!
“Why would I trust a government that mis-sold me a loan when I was a child?” is a very good question.
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Front page of the report, available here: https://reportondemocracyatwork.org/en/the-report/
Picture of Yolanda Diaz and the expert committee members at the report's launch in Madrid, 2 Feb 2026.
Spain's constitution promises democracy at work. Last year, @yolandadiaz.bsky.social convened an expert group to study how to make good on that promise.
Lead by @isabelleferreras.bsky.social, we have delivered what is, we think, the highest-level 400-page report on economic democracy out there. 1/2
Sounds fascinating! @estherturnhout.bsky.social
In this paper I show that the prevalent forms of knowledge production and use are inadequate to guarantee the perpetuation of a safe ecological space and argue in favor of planning episteme against green finance 1/
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@tandfresearch.bsky.social @dehes.bsky.social
Hello London-ish people! I will be there doing a book talk on Pollution is Colonialism week after next! Feb 3. Free and open to all!
NEW: Troubled ontologies: an economisation approach to climate risk and its politics - Matthias Taeger and Daniel Buenza www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Wow... Writing this paper was a bit like watching a soap opera unfold. But it's out now in @bjpir.bsky.social
The big story is still: The ECB marched forward, with clear democratic authorisation, but not the Fed. Green central banking is much more democratic than people think.
It was an honor to be interviewed in-depth by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social @proteanmag.com
A key theme: how to analyze “extractive frontiers” from a world-systemic perspective attentive to both the structures of colonialism and capitalism—and to socio-ecological struggle proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...
Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
That’s nothing: Where I’m from, “junior scholar” lasts to 42.
Why do global environmental institutions multiply and persist even when they seem unable to address biodiversity loss and environmental governance failures effectively?
Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7
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Late stage capitalism meets the misguidedness of GDP accounting: when one big chunk of growth is a technology bubble responsible for huge greenhouse gas emissions and another big chunk is cleaning up the mess caused by those emissions
Looking for readings — what scholarship historicizes and theorizes financiers’ legal responsibility for financing harm, how have conceptions of their responsibility changed over time, and how are these perhaps very different in different countries?
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New in Conservation Letters: a guide to understanding power relations in conservation science. "A cross-cutting matrix enables users to trace how their own position shapes what they see, do, and make possible in conservation contexts" doi.org/10.1111/conl...
Sounds very interesting. It says "page not found" when I click on the link.
"In Gaza, destruction is rewarded with contracts and the “peace plan” is property development.
Historian @adam_tooze & economist @ClaraEMattei
trace how capitalism profits through ruin: war, austerity, and reconstruction form one system of control. "
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@estherturnhout.bsky.social
Palestinian artist Faraj Suleiman is on tour (recently Utrecht, next Paris, Dusseldorf and London). Book your tickets!
Questions on my mind is a beautiful song about longing for home - English lyrics here: lyricstranslate.com/en/fy-syl-br...
open.spotify.com/track/24yw67...
“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,”
Application Deadline: December 15, 2025
📣 New call for postdoctoral researchers!
We are seeking candidates with a doctorate in the social sciences for our research areas Political Economy (Prof. Dr. Lucio Baccaro) and Economic Sociology (Prof. Dr. Jens Beckert).
Please share widely!
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Hey Christian! Could I be in here too? :)
