Last week to send in your abstracts for this year's Animal Politics conference on Social Ties at University of Sheffield, 8-9th September!
More details here
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Co-organisers @stevecooke.org @joshmilburn.bsky.social @drsvg.bsky.social and Alasdair Cochrane & Angie Pepper
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Social and political relationships constitute the foundation of our shared communities. Yet, scholars working in the field of animal politics have not had these social ties as their primary focus. The...
Just a wee reminder for anyone listening to politicians doing the ‘I condemn the violence but people have legitimate concerns’, shuffle, immigration in NI is 3.5% of the population. Most of them working in NHS, social care and other badly paid jobs.
Look, I get it, this *sounds* great for defence, security and the environment. But this erases risks entailed in integrating environment & defence. Eg it’s not just re wetting bogs, these schemes also come with military infrastructure that blocks wildlife migration & damages ecosystems
Fantastic new research from Marina Requena-i-Mora & @danbrockington.bsky.social which picks apart #GreenGrowth claims. Read this short overview in @uk.theconversation.com as an appetiser for the main paper ⬇️
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“Nature for defense” will also come with military and other uniformed personnel presence and activities all associated with their own footprints (camps, vehicle traffic) often at the cost and exclusion of local people and other activities through for example establishment of no-go zones.
One for the top of the reading list for 2026 - congrats to @rafdebont.bsky.social @vbateman.bsky.social & Tom Quick. The book is a series of engaging essays by brilliant writers ⬇️
Feargal Cochrane
This post is drained of contextual meaning. ‘Unrest’ ‘anti-immigration demonstrations’?
Not really.
Unrest = orchestrated loyalist mob.
& these weren’t ’demonstrations’ they were thugs attempting a racist pogrom, kicking in doors & forcing people out of their homes based on the colour of their skin
Real efforts have been made, and recent lines on the chart do go in the right direction. But what if they are wobbles, not turns.
Another great paper just out from Utkarsh Roy Choudhury, published in environment planning e: “Maintained disrepair: Accumulation by rejuvenation, financialization, and the politics of restoration in India's Namami Gange program”
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Feargal Cochrane
Look, I get it, this *sounds* great for defence, security and the environment. But this erases risks entailed in integrating environment & defence. Eg it’s not just re wetting bogs, these schemes also come with military infrastructure that blocks wildlife migration & damages ecosystems
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Check these out - I have the Dr Who & pronoun pins and they are beautifully crafted ⬇️
Hooray - really pleased to see this report & arguments set out for the need to see climate and biodiversity crises as linked. I’m so often irritated by the idea that climate takes precedence over everything else when the feedback loops between interlocking crises are so obvious. We can do better ⬇️
