So thrilled to say that today I passed my viva with no corrections. I'd like to thank my wonderful friends, family, supervisory team and incredible participants. This wouldn't have been possible without you. To my late supervisor, Dr. Ros Hague, I hope I've made you proud.
A bit of exciting personal news- officially on a permanent lectureship at
@TrentUni
’s
@ntuhum
part of the global studies teaching team, where I’ll be working on developing a curriculum with ecological justice at its core 🤩😍.
#AcademicChatter
#teachingintheanthropocene
Just submitted the final draft of my first book ‘Terrestrial Ecotopianism: Multispecies Flourishing in & Beyond the Capitalocene 🤩🤓✌🏼! A surreal experience many years in the making. Thank you to all who made it possible.
@RalahineCentre
@PeterLangGroup
#AcademicChatter
So thrilled that our edited collection ‘Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown: Entangled Futurities’ has been accepted for the
@routledgebooks
environmental humanities book series! 🤩🫶🏼🌏🌊🦠
@atasoyemrahh
@RhiFirth
@nora_castle
& Conrad Scott
As if more evidence were needed that we need to be focusing most of our efforts at mitigating the
#climatecrisis
on elite consumption rather than the general population…
#taxtherich
#inequalitykills
We need to change the language we use to ‘heal the world’: other species are not mere ‘resources’ or commodities; even the word ‘non-human’ defines other species as ‘lacking’ in relation to us. Other species are kin ✊🏾💚🐄🐢🦧🐆🐆🦈🐖🐝🐏🪱🐓🐛🐠
#OneHealth
#Extinction2023
@ciwf
"We can no longer let the people in power decide what hope is. Hope is not passive. Hope is not blah blah blah. Hope is telling the truth. Hope is taking action."
#Greta
@GretaThunberg
#ClimateEmergency
Leaders don't speak the truth.
#TellTheTruth
🧵Yesterday the
#PublicOrderBill
came into effect, giving police & courts more powers to silence dissent. Amongst other things, they can now: further restrict protests; make arrests for the offences of locking on; use SDPOs to prohibit people from protesting; & increase sentences
The top dotted line represents the highest annual per capita emissions consistent with limiting warming to 2 degrees by 2100…Wealthy nations must radically cut back, leaving the remaining carbon budget to those who need it.
#ClimateActionNow
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateJustice
Can’t believe
#PSA23
is a wrap! Had such a wonderful time seeing new & familiar faces. Brain is buzzing with ideas for research & collaboration in environmental politics! Already looking forward to
@PolStudiesAssoc
2024 in Glasgow! 🙌🏼🤓🤩😌
#ClimateJustice
#AcademicChatter
“Despair is my vanity talking. It is an indulgence in the illusion that what is here & now is inevitable, that the future is written, that we can see how it will unfold…it is also, quite simply, bad politics.” -
@yotammarom
in ‘Not Too Late’
@RebeccaSolnit
🫶🏼❤️🔥✊🏾
#BookTwitter
So honoured to be giving a guest lecture on ‘staying with the trouble’ of earthly eco-breakdown versus attempts to colonise extra terrestrial worlds, chaired by the wonderful
@atasoyemrahh
and hosted by
@KapadokyaUniv
😁🙏🌍🚀
#biodiversity
#ClimateAction
New term, new students, new possibilities- excited for my new MA module ‘global development & environmental breakdown’ exploring green utopias,
#degrowth
& other post-capitalist approaches to ‘the good life’ ☺️🤓🤩🫶🏼
#teachertwitter
#AcademicTwitter
#SDGs
@ntuhum
Chuffed! Thank you so much for the votes of confidence, friends & colleagues! Thrilled to be working alongside my colleague Dr Manjeet Ramgotra and others on fleshing out the new Equality, Diversity & Inclusivity working group 😊🤩🙋🏽♀️✊🏼
#Diversity
#AcademicChatter
📣 Exciting news! The results are in for the 2023 PSA trustee election.
@AlberroHeather
and
@ProfNJAllen
have been elected to serve their first terms, while Dr Manjeet Ramgotra serves a second term as Chair of the PSA’s EDI Working Group.
Congrats! 👏🎉
Shell made £32.2 billion last year, its highest profits in 155 years; BP doubled its profits last year with £23 billion. Meanwhile, the number of UK households in fuel poverty has more than doubled since 2020
@ConversationUK
...this wanton criminality's got to end
#ClimateJustice
Going to list 'coffee' in my PhD thesis acknowledgments because, seriously, none of it would have been possible without copious amounts of caffeine 🤪🙃☕️.
#irunoncoffee
#drinkofthegods
#phdchat
Over the moon at being elected as the new Equality, Diversity & Inclusivity officer for
@utopiaeurope
! Thank you so much- I’ll commit myself to ensuring that the society remains accessible to Utopian comrades from all backgrounds 🤩😊🙏✊🏽.
#USS21
“The absolute distinction between the natural and the human that is so central to western ways of thinking leaves no room for other-than-human beings to figure as protagonists in history or politics.” -
@GhoshAmitav
The Nutmeg’s Curse ✊🏾🫶🏼
#AcademicChatter
It’s called ‘planned obsolescence’. Practices that encourage conspicuous consumption and resource profligacy amid times of ecological breakdown should be considered a crime.
#climatecrisis
#systemchange
What a stellar, invigorating, inspiring few days at
#USS22
with utopian comrades old & new! Going back home with abundant food for thought, and a redoubled hope against the dark 🫶🏼❤️🔥✊🏾🙏
#utopianow
#abetterworldispossible
You’ve gotta love hate mail 😂😅. I’m touched that someone took time out of their day to write this. As long as we keep the conversation going, eh?
#AcademicChatter
#AcademicTwitter
One of our wondrous, resident peregrine falcons carefully tending to their new brood 🫶🏼🥹🥰. The fastest aerial divers, able the reach speeds of up to 200mph! One of the many treasures we have to fight to protect & nurture 🫶🏼❤️🔥
#biodiversity
@NTUSustTeam
@Nottswildlife
Don’t miss out on this exciting conference on utopian and dystopian depictions of pandemics in film, fiction and culture! Registration now open! Send paper/panel abstracts to pandemicimaginaries
@gmail
.com!
@UtopianActs
@utopiaeurope
@UtopianSJournal
Amidst the mounting pressures of neoliberal academia, the time to read and write with care is a vital source of solace and sanity. Let’s fight to keep these spaces alive ✊🏾🫶🏼🤓
#AcademicChatter
#anotherworldispossible
@biosec_erc
@RachelNuwer
Crazy that this apolitical nonsense is still pedalled after mounting evidence that the profligate consumption patterns of the world’s wealthiest account for the lion’s share of global GHG emissions & land-use change. Inequality kills.
#decolonise
#ecology
#TaxTheRich
Anyone who fits the research criteria below, I’d be so grateful if you could take part and/or retweet and share with other relevant parties ✌🏼🙏.
#COVID19
#pandemic
#planttwitter
Thanks to
@PolStudiesAssoc
and
@UniOfYork
for a great conference which was not easy to pull off after two years. And as ever a particular thank you to professional staff at both who have done an incredible job as ever. Looking forward to to Liverpool
#PSA23
!
In my latest
@ConversationUK
piece, I talk dominion theology, the Cartesian Human/nature dualism and the need for our re-entanglement with earth others for ethically inhabiting the Anthropocene 😁🧐✊🌏
#anthropocenechronicles
#systemchange
“So it is only in that they lack language- a human attribute- that trees are mute. But in that humans lack the ability to communicate as trees do, could it not be said that for a tree it is the human who is mute?”
@GhoshAmitav
‘The Nutmeg’s Curse’
#ecology
#BookTwitter
🌳
@herbivorize
Using tech to reshape ecosystems & species in order to suit your vision of how they should operate is just about the most anthropocentric thing imaginable. As is the assumption that you have the right to do so.
@herbivorize
Is this satire or a real movement? If real, have you not considered the disastrous ecological ramifications of such a move? It’s also insanely hubristic & anthropocentric…remaking nature to suit your own vision? 🤦🏽♀️
#ecology
#nature
#BiodiversityCrisis
Our workshop ‘Insurgent Ecologies: Climate Breakdown and Extremism in Europe’ is off to a very thought-provoking start with
@LubardaB
on far-right movements’ conditional embrace of ecological concerns! 🙌🏼🌏🌊
#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateEmergency
@UvA_Amsterdam
Keynote talk by
@r_baccolini
about to kick off! Hope as an essential light during dark times & which refutes the limits of the deficient present 🤩🙌🏼🫶🏼
#USS22
#utopianow
Certainty is antithetical to hope. Hope is possible precisely because a given outcome is never guaranteed. Before us lie a range of possible trajectories- relative flourishing, climate & biodiversity collapse. How bad things get depend on how quickly we act.
#utopianow
"To limit the [political] discussion to humans, their interests, their subjectivities, & their rights, will appear as strange a few years from now as having denied the right to vote of slaves, poor people, or women” (Latour 2004, g. 69).
#Latourlegacy
#Ecology
#biodiversitycrisis