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Ilan Kapoor

@ilankapoor.bsky.social
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professor of critical development studies, faculty of environmental and urban change, york university, toronto; views are my own

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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🌐 The #RulesBasedInternationalOrder is not simply breaking down. 🌎 Instead, governments are increasingly creating exceptions that allow them to modify or selectively apply those rules while leaving the wider institutional architecture intact, argues @ilankapoor.bsky.social 📖 bit.ly/4xLz0qT
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When the exception becomes the rule in world politics
The rules-based international order is not simply breaking down. Governments are increasingly governing through exceptions built into the rules themselves, argues Ilan Kapoor
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Ilan Kapoor @ilankapoor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Journal article just out in Antipode (open access): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Against Pluriversality: Epistemology, Ideology, and the Disavowal of Capitalist Antagonism
Recent years have witnessed a dramatic surge of interest in decolonial pluriversality across critical geography, political ecology, and development studies. Advanced most prominently by scholars, suc...
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Ilan Kapoor @ilankapoor.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Journal article just out (open access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Entitlement, aspiration, and the spatial politics of exemption - Ilan Kapoor, 2026
This article argues that entitlement has become a defining affect of contemporary capitalism. While neoliberal capitalism relied on competition, merit, and aspi...
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Ilan Kapoor @ilankapoor.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Just out today: www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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The Global South is being forced to choose creditors over children
The education of millions of children is at risk because of the current global financial order. We need change
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Ilan Kapoor @ilankapoor.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Another World Cup op-ed piece of mine: www.socialeurope.eu/fifa-has-mad...
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FIFA Has Made World Cup Tickets a Financial Instrument
Ghost tickets, surge pricing, and resale fees reveal how football’s biggest event now profits from its own fans.
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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
⚽ Football’s global spectacle the #FIFAWorldCup does not suspend politics, says @ilankapoor.bsky.social. Rather, it reveals how national identity remains emotionally powerful, commercially valuable, and geopolitically charged ⚽ #WorldCup2026 🏴 #Nationalism 🏳️ #NationalIdentity 👉 bit.ly/4vnMN5I
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World Cup 2026: the last acceptable nationalism
Football’s global spectacle does not suspend politics, says Ilan Kapoor. Rather, it reveals how national identity remains emotionally powerful, commercially valuable, and geopolitically charged
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Ilan Kapoor @ilankapoor.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Just out: "Anti-Blackness, Social Death, and Negative Universality," in Philosophy & Social Criticism, journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🚢 As states adapt through alternative trade networks, shadow fleets, and new payment systems, @ilankapoor.bsky.social reveals how #Sanctions increasingly impose costs 💰️ without securing political compliance. 👉️ bit.ly/3SsXI08
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The limits of sanctions in a multipolar era
As states adapt through alternative trade networks, shadow fleets, and new payment systems, Ilan Kapoor reveals how sanctions increasingly impose costs without securing political compliance
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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
🚢 From the Strait of #Hormuz to Europe’s #GasCrisis, energy dependence lets states project power through prices, not troops. 🌐 This, says @ilankapoor.bsky.social, is reshaping geopolitical influence. 👉️ bit.ly/3Q98R59
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The quiet power of energy dependence
From the Strait of Hormuz to Europe’s gas crisis, energy dependence lets states project power through prices, not troops. This, says Ilan Kapoor, is reshaping geopolitical influence
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Gavin Fridell @gavinfridell.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Excited to announce our new co-authored book!! Trade Fetishism: Magical and Materialist Thinking in Global Political Economy. www.routledge.com/Trade-Fetish...
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Trade Fetishism: Magical and Materialist Thinking in Global Political Economy
Trade Fetishism argues that “trade” not only meets material goals, but also simultaneously works as a fantasy that seeks to satisfy and soothe our unconscious desires and anxieties. Countering the ide...
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Ilan Kapoor @ilankapoor.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
A second op-ed of mine out today: Washington's Russia U-Turn Exposes the Real Logic of Sanctions www.socialeurope.eu/washingtons-...
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Washington's Russia U-Turn Exposes the Real Logic of Sanctions
The easing of Russian oil restrictions amid the Iran crisis reveals sanctions as tools of power, not justice.
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Ilan Kapoor @ilankapoor.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Out today: aje.news/l7ro39
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Ilan Kapoor @ilankapoor.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
My article just out in Political Geography: "Extimate Nature: Environmental Crisis and the Excluded" (open access): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Extimate nature: Environmental crisis and the Excluded
Drawing on the Lacanian notion of “extimacy,” which denotes that which is both intimate and exterior, this article aims to contribute to the bourgeoni…
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Ilan Kapoor @ilankapoor.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Art and environmental activism! The first ever artwork installed on an active (Shell) oil and gas platform: vimeo.com/1109966939/e...
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GP - Star Hero Film - AD - R4
This is "GP - Star Hero Film - AD - R4" by Greenpeace MG on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Ilan Kapoor @ilankapoor.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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Breaking_Video_1_Portrait_V2
This is "Breaking_Video_1_Portrait_V2" by Greenpeace MG on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Ilan Kapoor @ilankapoor.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Huge ‘Butchered’ artwork installed on North Sea gas rig by Greenpeace activists
Anish Kapoor work referring to ‘butchering of our environment’ believed to be first fine artwork exhibited from a working gas extraction platform
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Ilan Kapoor @ilankapoor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Ilan Kapoor @ilankapoor.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Compelling analysis on contemporary fascism by Zahi Zalloua in the Philosophical Salon: www.thephilosophicalsalon.com/fascism-from...
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Ilan Kapoor @ilankapoor.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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Ilan Kapoor @ilankapoor.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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Tech-utopian, conspiracist and apartheid fan: Elon Musk’s grandpa was shaped by Canadian politics
Joshua Haldeman became politically active after losing his Saskatchewan farm during the ‘Dirty Thirties.’
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Gavin Fridell @gavinfridell.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
With all the talk of national defence in Canada, we argue food sovereignty needs to be part of a "total defence" strategy. theconversation.com/why-canada-m...
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Why Canada must treat its food system as a matter of national defence
Faced with both a trade war and annexation threats, Canada must confront whether its domestic food systems can feed its population in a crisis.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Fossil fuel companies should be forced to pay the public trillions in damages for the costs of their planetary arson. Instead they are trying to shut down one of the most important and storied environmental groups in the world. It's shameless - and it's not over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury
Non-profit said in statement lawsuits like this aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’
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Ilan Kapoor @ilankapoor.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Very pleased with the forum on Psychoanalysis and Development framed by Gavin Fridell's (@gavinfridell.bsky.social) and my article (and 2024 book) with 4 responses and our response to the responses, in the Canadian Journal of Development Studies, just out: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcjd20/4...
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Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement
Volume 46, Issue 1 of Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement
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