iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Claire Blencowe @claireblencowe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We're hiring! 2 Research Fellows to investigate the power of religion in extractive industry struggles - focusing on Brazil or the USA, as part of RAIDS Application deadline Nov 5th, 2026 Full information: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/soci...

warwick.ac.uk

Religious Authority in Extractive Industry Struggles (RAIDS)

The global rush for minerals often overlooks religious authority, which is a hidden force shaping local resistance and corporate power. The ERC-funded RAIDS project aims to explore how religion serves...

112

Reposted by Claire Blencowe

Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Book review forum -- the Just Eco-Geo-Political Futures research cluster @sociowarwick.bsky.social reads Shourideh Molavi’s “Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance” antipodeonline.org/2026/06/29/b... @plutopress.bsky.social

Front cover of book Environmental Warfare in Gaza

0135

Claire Blencowe @claireblencowe.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Another thoughtful and generous review of Spirits of Extraction. Many thanks to Diarmind Finnegan and @jofhistgeog.bsky.social for the intertest!

011

Claire Blencowe @claireblencowe.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Super excited to discuss my new book Spirits of Extraction:Christianity, settler colonialism and the geology of race with these fantastic people! If you're at RGS_IBG on Friday please join us!

152

Reposted by Claire Blencowe

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

📢Our Racism, Resistance and Social change series publishes the most challenging scholarship on race, racism and ethnic relations - mapping their shifting forms in the contemporary age and recognising anti-racism as an intellectual and social movement. Find out about our Spring titles below!👇

Promotional image featuring three new titles in the Racism, Resistance and Social Change book series from Manchester University Press. Red background. Background image is a photograph of protestors raising their fists in solidarity. Book covers from left-right: Spirits of extraction, Islamophobia, antiracism and the British left, and The ethics of researching the far right.

183

Reposted by Claire Blencowe

Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 27/05/2025

Research Fellow @jbrigstocke.bsky.social explores how communities in Brazil’s favelas establish forms of everyday community authority in response to the authoritarian violence of police and criminal groups. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... @cardiffuni.bsky.social

032

Claire Blencowe @claireblencowe.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

So happy to have this book finally winding it's way into the world. So many thanks and love to everyone @manchesterup.bsky.social @sociowarwick.bsky.social, and the students, friends and family that have carried it along its way.

2114

Reposted by Claire Blencowe

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

💥Spirits of extraction by @claireblencowe.bsky.social provides a history of the role of Christianity in the expansion of the extraction industries, British imperialism and settler colonialism in #Britain and #Canada.

121

Claire Blencowe @claireblencowe.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Hello BlueSky! I'm moving beyond my Musk induced social media paralysis and looking forward to getting to know this space.

160