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Maarten Hajer @maartenhajer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We moeten praten over democratie. Over hoe we samen tot breed gedeelde besluiten komen. Zie mijn stuk met #christinaklubert in @nrc.nl — haal de toekomst uit de achterkamertjes. Open een breder debat

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Maarten Hajer @maartenhajer.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Klimaatbeleid is tonnenjacht geworden

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Urban Futures Studio @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Join @maartenhajer.bsky.social and Jeroen Oomen in conversation with Vanessa Timmer as they unpack the core themes in their 2025 book Captured Futures – Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politics. Watch the full talkshow here: vimeo.com/1161055336?f...

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Captured Futures Talk Show

In 2025 Maarten Hajer and Jeroen Oomen published Captured Futures - Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politics. In this talk show, moderated by Vanessa Timmer,…

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Scientists4Future🇳🇱 @scientists4future.nl · 26/01/2026

Join us @scientistrebellion.nl @anne-urai.bsky.social for a webinar on Thursday, 20:00 CET! Jeroen Oomen will discuss environmental olitics, with his book Captured Futures: Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politics (written with @maartenhajer.bsky.social) as a starting point.

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Rob Zakee @robbiez57.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Het nieuwe kabinet is hard op zoek naar budget. Alsjeblieft, #CDA en #D66, 2 miljard in the pocket als je stopt met de onzinnige verbreding #A27 Amelisweerd #Utrecht

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Auke Hoekstra @aukehoekstra.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

In dit lange draadje laat @jaspervis.bsky.social haarfijn zien op hoeveel manieren de NL staat nucleaire energie wil gaan sponsoren. Logisch dat dit nodig is want Nuclear is intussen echt veel en veel duurder dan zon+wind+opslag. Voor zon+wind+opslag gaan de prijzen bovendien nog naar beneden.

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Futures of Sustainability @fos-uhh.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

We kindly invite you to register for the upcoming Kolleg-Lecture by Maarten Hajer on 14 October, 18:00-20:00: "Beyond Captured Futures - Re-imagining Environmental Politics" All infos here: bit.ly/Kolleg-Lectu... @maartenhajer.bsky.social @stefanaykut.bsky.social

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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

New article just published - together with @evrop-anka.bsky.social, @sonjablum.bsky.social , @maartenhajer.bsky.social, O. Císař and Till Hilmar, we introduce the concept of "political emotions" and show how it helps us understand the climate crisis. Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Solar + storage is now cheater than coal & nuclear. Combining solar with wind, water and/or geothermal reduces the amount of storage needed. We are closing in on 24/7/365 firmed renewable energy. #TheFutureWillBeElectric #FossilFuelsAreStrandedAssets 💪👏🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋

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Urban Futures Studio @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Captured Futures: Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politics is officially out! Huge congratulations to @maartenhajer.bsky.social & Jeroen Oomen. Their new book is a must-read for anyone who is interested in how we can move from captured to captivating #futures. www.uu.nl/en/research/...

Bookcover 'Captured Futures — Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politcs' by Maarten A. Hajer & Jeroen Oomen

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

"Men emit 26% more planet-heating pollution than women from transport and food, according to a preprint study of 15,000 people in France. The gap shrinks to 18% after controlling for socioeconomic factors such as income and education."

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Car use and meat consumption drive emissions gender gap, research suggests

The French study of 15,000 people shows men emit 26% more pollution due to eating red meat and driving more

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Urban Futures Studio @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

On 3 June, @maartenhajer.bsky.social and Jeroen Oomen present their new book “Captured Futures - Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politics” at Pakhuis de Zwijger, together with experts Marianne Minnesma, Bart van den Hurk, and Ralien Bekkers. dezwijger.nl/programma/ca... #CapturedFutures

Bookcover 'Captured Futures' by Maarten Hajer and Jeroen Oomen on green background

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CIDAPE EU Horizon Project @cidape.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Could political radicalism require an element of conservatism? That's what we suggest in our new article. Treating politics as theatre🎭, we suggest that the most successful political movements tap into and reinterpret already dominant symbols. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Urban Futures Studio @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Captured Futures - Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politics by @maartenhajer.bsky.social & Jeroen Oomen offers a compelling critique of how environmental politics ‘as we know it’ cannot deliver. Now available online for subscribers: academic.oup.com/book/59970?l... @oxfordunipress.bsky.social

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Urban Futures Studio @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Read 'Dramaturgies of change: Staging political transformation', a new paper by @godsandsods.bsky.social, Jeroen Oomen, @jessehoffman.bsky.social & @maartenhajer.bsky.social

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Maarten Hajer @maartenhajer.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

When cars were still way smaller than parking lots …@urbancyclinginstitute.org

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Maarten Hajer @maartenhajer.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

With so much institutional irresponsibility we know that tough regulation is the only way to avoid catastrophe. “UK banks put £75bn into firms building climate-wrecking ‘carbon bombs’, study finds”

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/04/2025

Incredible satellite image of the 33 (!!!!) operational fossil fuel combustion engines at the site of Elon Musk's XAI data centre “appalling that xAI would operate more than 30 methane gas turbines without any permits or any public oversight" @selc.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

a greyscale satelitte image of Musk's data centre - with a bright red marker showing emissions from the many (I think about 30) fossil fuel combustion engines on site

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Urban Futures Studio @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Join us on April 28th for a #FriendsOfTheFuture seminar with Femke Bijlsma, partner and content developer at the international design studio Kossmandejong. Are you interested in exploring how to create compelling stories that matter? learn more and register here: www.uu.nl/en/events/st...

Stimulation or manipulation? The power of immersive storytelling.

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Josie Chambers @jochamb.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

We are in much need of inspiration in these treacherous uncertain times… Thrilled to share the 𝗨𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗮*𝗔𝗿𝘁*𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, an edited multi-media collection which brings together diverse ideas on how artistic practices can help reimagine and remake our world. Download: www.uu.nl/en/research/...

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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Completely batshit that Harvard has *removed* Cemal Kafadar as head of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies & so shitty to malign one of the great scholars of Ottoman history as antisemitic because the CMES dared to offer programming on ITS AREA OF FOCUS www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard Crimson

Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, Hist...

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Urban Futures Studio @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

This April, the #PathwaysToSustainability program of @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social is organizing a series of discussions and a participatory exhibition exploring the issues surrounding the new gold rush for critical minerals. Learn more: www.uu.nl/en/events/cr...

Critical materials and critical stories — A participatory exhibition and conversation series with cases from West-Papua, the DRC, ande more.

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Where are we on the slippery slope to geoengineering, halfway down? Stardust has a "proprietary aerosol particle" which it plans to distribute through a machine mounted on an aircraft www.wired.com/story/a-myst...

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A Mysterious Startup Is Developing a New Form of Solar Geoengineering

Stardust, an Israeli–US startup, intends to patent its unique aerosol technology for temporarily cooling the planet.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests. So, best we share all the footage we can here! This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu. 🇹🇷 #Turkey

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Urban Futures Studio @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

#Vacature Wij zoeken een nieuwe postdoc onderzoeker voor ons #AcademyOfHope project. In deze positie onderzoek je de wijze waarop het faciliteren van gesprekken, binnen & buiten het onderwijs, kan bijdragen aan een meer hoopvolle omgang met de toekomst. Reageer voor 11-04: www.uu.nl/organisatie/...

Onderzoekers werken in groepen op de buitenplaats van De Lik, Utrecht, tijdens het kick-off event van het Academy of Hope project

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Urban Futures Studio @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Guest researcher Sören Altstaedt, of the Max Planck institute for the study of societies, just gave an intriguing #FriendsOfTheFuture seminar about the limits to growth debates in 1970s. Sign up for our events mailing list to receive an invite for the next seminar: mailings.uu.nl/hp/NxTyEInP4...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)

America hurt itself badly today.

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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

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Maarten Hajer @maartenhajer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Voor wie even genoeg heeft van het nieuws: kijk naar de hemel. En kijk dan vooral niet naar Mars maar zoek naar Venus 🙏

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Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

During WWII, four brothers from the same Jewish family signed up to fight against the Nazis. Only one of the four brothers survived. His grandson is the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. Slava Ukraine! Heroyam Slava! 💙💛

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Sam Greene @samagreene.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Ok folks, deep breaths. There is very real reason to worry about the dynamic emerging between Washington and Moscow when it comes to Ukraine. But there is also very real reason to believe that Ukraine and Europe can create a better outcome. (A rather long 🧵, obviously) /1

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

"Appeasement at Munich: World Wars, Past and Possible" The symmetry between Germany-Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Russia-Ukraine in 2022 is uncanny, and pausing for a moment on the resemblances might help us to take a broader view of today. snyder.substack.com/p/appeasemen...

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Appeasement at Munich

World Wars, Past and Possible

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Caroline de Gruyter @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Populisme: elke dag weer een toneelstuk, zonder pointe Mijn column in @nrc.nl www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

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Column | Populisme: elke dag een ander toneelstuk zonder pointe

In Europa: Caroline de Gruyter

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Maarten Hajer @maartenhajer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

‘Pollution’ is back and at full force. PFAS is ‘Silent Spring’ revisited. What a price we pay for allowing these localised environmental disasters to go unnoticed. It is a big story. How could EPA’s and Inspectorates let this slip by? It is due to a captured politics that needs to be addressed.

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Marleen Stikker @marleen.oso.social · 12/01/2025

Teken nog voor morgen de petitie ‘Stop niet met VPRO’s Tegenlicht’. Een van de weinige crossmediale journalistieke programma’s met diepgravende geopolitieke analyses én serieus toekomstperspectief. petities.nl/petitions/st...

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Stop niet met VPRO Tegenlicht

De community van VPRO Tegenlicht vindt het besluit van de hoofdredactie van VPRO om in 2025 te stoppen met dit programma onbegrijpelijk. Als achterban willen we een krachtig signaal afgeven dat Tegenl...

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Maarten Hajer @maartenhajer.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

World’s climate fight needs fundamental reform, UN expert says: ‘Some states are not acting in good faith’ — this analysis and a search for possible remedies is part of our forthcoming book. April 2025!

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Cody Hochstenbach @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

"The big business of housing hasn’t adopted climate underwriting" Economists are beginning to sound warnings, urging the mortgage industry and insurers to face the risky reality that annual insurance policies cannot always be reconciled with 30-year loans. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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The 30-Year Mortgage Wasn’t Designed for Climate Chaos

As house-demolishing weather becomes increasingly common, more Americans will find themselves without a safety net.

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Urban Futures Studio @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

In 2018, UFS co-hosted #PlacesOfHope, an exhibition & manifestation about a sustainable future for the (North of the) Netherlands. Versteeg, @maartenhajer.bsky.social &Hoffman wrote a paper about the meaning and potential of utopian experiments like Places of Hope www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Utopianism in state–society interaction: reflections on the transdisciplinary intervention ‘Places of Hope’

Awareness is growing that current climate policy approaches for citizen and policymaker interaction are inadequate. ‘Public participation’ is often found to be hampered by narrow technical and func...

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Urban Futures Studio @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Hi 👋 We're new at #Bluesky and just getting to know this platform. In the meantime, if you want to know more about us, you could sign up for our quarterly newsletter. #comingsoon mailings.uu.nl/hp/rt6Oc-q1P...

People holding up protest signs in Dutch saying 'Hope', 'A new era', appetite for the future', 'Here is where I want to be', etc.

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Maarten Hajer @maartenhajer.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Pointing out the #absurdities of the present may sometimes be more effective that sketching appealing images of the #future. Here is what I see strolling through my #neighbourhood #SUV

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Maarten Hajer @maartenhajer.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

We are living in troubling times. It is difficult to make sense of all interacting logics. That is why I was touched by this profoundly insightful statement by #amitavghosh on the acceptance of the #erasmusprize Highly recommendable. Thanks, @amitav.bsky.social erasmusprijs.org/prijswinnaar...

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Erasmusprijswinnaars - Stichting Praemium Erasmianum

It takes only a glance at a newspaper nowadays to see that much of what we once took for granted is either being cast aside or turned on its head. Indeed, with floods sweeping away entire cities, and ...

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