Giulia Champion

Resisting Mining Book Club: "The Petro-State Masquerade" with Ryan Cecil Jobson - London Mining Network We welcome Ryan Cecil Jobson to discuss his book, The Petro-State Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty and Power in Trinidad and Tobago

Tomorrow! Join us at our Resisting Mining Book Club with Ryan Cecil Jobson where we'll be discussing "The Petro-State Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty and Power in Trinidad and Tobago".

Join us online at 6pm - you don't need to have read the book to attend:
londonminingnetwork.org/2026/01/resi...

The Making of Grimsby’s Dock Tower: The Entanglements of Infrastructural Relations Grimsby Dock Tower exemplifies nineteenth-century infrastructure linking land, sea, commerce, and ecology, revealing buildings as nodes within global circulation systems.

"The Making of Grimsby’s Dock Tower: The Entanglements of Infrastructural Relations" by @samgrinsell.bsky.social is the third post in our Urban and Environmental Dialogues series, published in collaboration with @urbanhistorya.bsky.social

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#envhist #urbanhistory

As of today I will serve as Associate Editor for the 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 journal together with Jessica DeWitt, Giulia Champion & Jonny Turnbull. Having followed EH since its early days, this is a great honor!

@jessicamdewitt.bsky.social @giuliachampion.bsky.social @jonnyjjt.bsky.social #envhum

Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020 Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020

It's very exciting to say that Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020 has just been published in @universitypress.cambridge.org's Elements in the Gothic series – and it's currently open access and *free* to download until the end of December!

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Foto: Laia Ventayol

🌊 Exciting news!
We’re thrilled to announce that several of our international keynote speakers have now been confirmed for the upcoming conference "Seas of consequences: Social and Natural Science Narratives on Environmental Harm and Crime at sea". Meet the speakers at: ocn.uib.eu/conference-p...

Freedom Takes Forever, Freedom Takes Together ‘Freedom is a Constant Struggle’

This is a poem and piece I wrote reflecting on what the photo "Kandake of the Sudanese Revolution" tells us about how women in resistance movements have always been integral to freedom and drawn strength from those fighting similar battles across time and space.

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Author wearing a rainbow dyed t-shirt takes a photo of them showing off their book, The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law.

My book is published! It’s a critical take on how emotions shape conflicts about LGBT rights and repair in equality law, gender recognition, bans on conversion practices, and sex education in schools. You can download it free via @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...

This reminds me of when many newspapers—for some reason—would describe outright racist episodes as "racially tinged." It is as if they are describing interior decor or wine.
"Sounds like the racist bouquet on this is a bit horrible with a texture of hatred and an aftertaste of dread."

Tracey Sharp reviews 'Oceans Between Us: Pacific Peoples and Racism in Aotearoa' (Auckland University Press 2025) edited by Sereana Naepi.

www.takahe.org.nz/oceans-betwe...

Black History, Knowledge, Memory & Future I Getting to African Futures by Revisiting African Pasts

Here I explain my scepticism about Black History Month in UKHE: a "celebration" of Black "culture" with no entrenched study of African history, a marking of Black trauma/experience, that often sees no intellectual value in engaging with Black/Africana scholarship.
folukeafrica.com/history-know...

The largest number of perpetrators of sexual violence in the UK are white men. Any attempt to place blame squarely on racialised groups is not only racist, but it also obscures the systemic problem of men’s violence against women (within homes, which is the most dangerous place for women).

✨ Please consider joining the 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 & 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩’s upcoming discussion of Shalanda Baker's book 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳: 𝘈𝘯 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘵’𝘴 𝘎𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (2021) online on 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 24𝐭𝐡 at 14:00 CET. ✨

#energysystems #energiewende #energytransition

The stage of deterioration where gangs of large (mostly) white men just publicly assault people who seem to be brown because they're brown in the hopes of doing far more harm to them in the name of the state. Glad this one escaped.

Pan-Africanism, Afrofuturism and Decolonisation: A reading list Knowledge will be the first frontier of our freedom.

This is an essay, a reading list and a poem on why I think Pan-Africanism, Afrofuturism and Decolonisation can be insightful tools for realising visions of flourishing future worlds for all.
folukeafrica.com/pan-africani...

'As modern Māori, what do our stories and journeys look like?’

The brilliant Melissa Oliver reviews Overseas Experience by Nicola Andrews (Āporo Press, 2025) 💛🩵🩶

www.takahe.org.nz/overseas-exp...

I’ll be sharing some #envhum insights from *A Cold Colonialism* in a @greenhouseuis.net book talk next Monday, September 8th at 7 am PT / 10 am ET / 4 pm CET. Please join us! ❄️

Click below for more info, including the Zoom link ⬇️ #envhist #cdnhist

newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Electric Wind talks and events in autumn 2025 (arranged by date)

Electric Wind talks in autumn 2025 arranged by place

Six weeks from publication! Forgive a little book promo. I’ve got some talks lined up this autumn if you want to hear more about Electric Wind. Feel free to message me for more details.

Graphic shows a piece of rover machinery in green ocean water and screenshots of the two books and one webpage of the books, chapters and articles for this reading session. Text describes detail of environmental media workshop. Graphic also has registration link and QR code. ESTUARY logo is in the lower right hand corner.

Members, pls join us for the 6th of our Spring 2025 #waterstudies #envhum Reading Group Series! Topic #Media Infrastructures & the #Ocean Sept 4 | 12pm-1pm GMT Register:tinyurl.com/estuarysept4 or scan the QR code. An ECR but not yet a member? Join us-it's free! www.estuary-harbour.com #academicsky

Join our first hybrid talk for 25-26 as part of the SMMI Ocean Justice SIG by @josiegoldman.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au on #nuclearmemory in the #pacific. Register on QR code for ms team or join us in the room in person
@unisouthampton.bsky.social

Promotional graphic for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025. Left side features a circular headshot of Dr Daniel Hammett. Text reads: “Meet the Editor session Dr Daniel Hammett, 27th Aug, Muirhead Building: Room 118 (In-person only), 13:10 – 14:25 BST.” Logos for the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and Liverpool University Press are included. Right side shows the green cover of the International Development Planning Review journal. Background features a green and blue abstract network pattern.

Happening today at #RGSIBG2025 📢
Publishing research on development, planning & policy in the global South?
Meet Dr Daniel Hammett, co-editor of International Development Planning Review, to discuss your work.

📅 13:10–14:25 BST
📍 Muirhead 118
@rgsibg.bsky.social @hamstertowers.bsky.social

Planetary Futures: Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene Conference, 18-19 September 2025, at the University of Manchester. Call for Papers

Conference: Planetary Futures - Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene. Manchester, 18-19 Sept 2025.

Registration is free - please register your interest in attending by Friday 22 August.

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400 signatures and counting!!!

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excited to share the call for the workshop

EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION

happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025,

made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social

deadline: 10 September!

full call below ⤵

#envhist #envhum

Museum Talk: Benin Bronzes – a controversial past and present. The story of an ‘expedition’ that destroyed a civilisation, killed thousands and looted billions.

I once gave a talk at Bristol Museum about the Benin Bronzes. Many of the questions afterwards sounded like:
"But if we give them back, what will we look at?"
I had an answer to that but did not use it. It was a Sunday, so a no-violence day for me. Here is the talk:
folukeafrica.com/museum-talk-...

"academia (is) a competitive, ultra high-pressure, deadline-heavy environment that sometimes seems more aimed at perpetuating itself than at any kind of scientific improvement." Ali Hazelwood

Article On the Stability of Racial Capitalism Abstract What is the connection between capitalism and racial hierarchy? In line with the tradition known as ‘the theory of racial capitalism’ we show that the latter can functionally support the former. As a social construction, race has just those features which allow it to facilitate the sort of stable, inequitable distributions of resources that tend to emerge in capitalist systems. We support this claim using techniques from evolutionary game theory and cultural evolutionary theory, and end by discussing the normative political consequences of this relationship. How to Cite: Kofi Bright, L., Gabriel, N., O'Connor, C. & Táíwò, O. O., (2025) “On the Stability of Racial Capitalism”, Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy 12: 42. doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.7965

Hey look its now properly out and available

journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...

Postdoctoral Researcher on Aquatic Science and Technology Studies and More-than-human relations Postdoctoral Researcher on Aquatic Science and Technology Studies and More-than-human relations

Looking for a #postdoc in Aquatic #STS! MARBLOOM analyses algal blooms from a social scientific perspective with emphasis on the changing relationship between humans and the environment. Position for 3+ years. Deadline 14.08.25. Link to #opencall: tinyurl.com/49wn7vzh

"Now 55, [Jonathan] is the eldest son in the fourth generation of the mining dynasty that began with Ernest Oppenheimer in the early 1900s. The family is worth $10.4-billion, according to Forbes. Almost all of that money was made from gold and diamonds dug from beneath southern African soil."

The Middle Passage: or what we lost to the waters A lament

It is good that universities in the Global North assess what they GAIN from an empire of blood. However, in this poetic reflection, I suggest that this accounting often means that we don't notice what has been and is still being LOST, which in many ways is far more.

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