Mass deaths and displacement across the world to keep shareholders happy:
BP will scrap its plan to cut its fossil fuel production and will instead grow production to 2.3m–2.5m barrels of oil a day by the end of the decade for "shareholder value".
theguardian.com/business/202…
🗓️"Democracy as if the future mattered: Can democratic innovation change the world?"
Delighted to invite you to my inaugural lecture at the University of Edinburgh this spring ☀️
Information and registration 👉 eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural…
Everyone welcome! 😃
ALT Democracy as if the future mattered: Can democratic innovation change the world?
We are delighted to invite you to the celebration of Oliver Escobar's professorship at his inaugural lecture this spring.
Wednesday 2nd of April 2025
5.15pm-6.30pm: Lecture in Lecture Theatre G.05 in 50 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LH.
Followed by a reception in the Chrystal Macmillan Building foyer (15a George Square) until 7.30pm.
🗓️19 december, 5 p.m. (Paris) Don't loose our next session this Thursday!
We will have the pleasure to welcome @SadiyaAkram to present her last book: "Bourdieu, Habitus and Field: A Critical Realist Approach"(Palgrave Macmillan (2023)).
Don't loose it, it gonna be amazing !
Positionality has become a buzz word in qualitative circles in recent years. In this piece, I offer my take on what the emphasis on positionality gets wrong, especially when positionality statements are performative rather than properly reflexive. sociolegalreview.com/post/ta…
Are you interested in environmental & climate justice? Join us for a fun & creative panel on "EJ/CJ Storytelling Thru Zines!" 12/2 at 4pm Eastern. Four panelists will share how they use zines in their EJ/CJ research and activism! Register at: bit.ly/4f40aRm
BREAKING: Priti Patel made Shadow Foreign Secretary by Kemi Badenoch
The same Priti Patel who was forced to resign as Home Secretary for subversively engaging under the radar with a foreign state, seeking to divert British taxpayer money to the Israeli army @georgemonbiot
The People Act - a new hub for Legislative Theatre and Creative Civic Practice - has launched! Last week's party brought tgthr 99 ppl from 18 countries, all committed to fun, creative, participatory democracy - esp on days like today. #Election2024
Visit thepeopleact.org
As one of the editors, I'm excited to share that the Call for Proposals for The Palgrave Handbook on Frantz Fanon is now out. The submission deadline is February 1, 2025. For more information, visit here: philevents.org/event/show/12…
If the quote: “environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening” has ever resonated with you, I encourage you to listen to this chat from Jason Hickel: “why a liberated Palestine threatens global capitalism”
BREAKING: @Chevron appears to have attacked my account to delete this post about its vicious targeting of me and Amazon communities after we won a historic $10 billion pollution case. Many posts are missing.
The story below is in my words. Please share.⤵️
esquire.com/news-politics/a3…
ALT Edinburgh's Radical Bookfair
'We Are It: Community Power in Our Time'
Jeremy Corbin, Kate Pickett and Oliver Escobar
6pm, Saturday 23rd November
at Assembly Roxy
The Caucasians created modern sciences to justify their exploitive and destructive nature. They deemed their science as the best way and discarded and minimized our regenerating ancient and indigenous science as uncivilized and useless.
Clip from The Seeds of Vandana Shiva