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Mahir Yazar

@mahiryazar.bsky.social
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Assoc.Prof. @Uni Stavanger Working on socio-political backlashes to climate policy/green transitions across Europe.

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Neelakshi Joshi @njoshi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
National, regional and local governments are increasingly moving towards the #right (hello #SachsenAnhalt). What does this mean for those working in #climate and #sustainability spaces? Sometime back @mahiryazar.bsky.social, @FayolaJacobs and I reflected on what this means for cities.
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
California could kill one of its biggest clean energy successes. More than 200,000 households are part of the Demand Side Grid Support program — the world's largest distributed power plant. It's on the chopping block. My latest in @sfchronicle.com. Gift link! www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
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California shouldn’t abandon a proven way to cut rising energy costs
OPINION: The Demand Side Grid Support Program could save Californians up to $206 million on their electricity bills — unless the state stops funding it, Leah C. Stokes writes.
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Case Studies in the Environment @casestudenv.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Congratulations to Shriya Pai and Caitlyn A. Hall, authors of "The Willow Project and Environmental Justice: Analyzing U.S. Energy Policy’s Impact on Sensitive Ecosystems and Local Communities," the top prize-winning article in the 2025 CSE Prize Competition www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/n...
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University of California Press
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Max(imilian) Auffhammer @auffhammer.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Guess what? The Summer School in Environmental and Energy Economics was funded again! Thanks to the Sloan Foundation! Berkeley. In person. August 17-21, 2026. Applications are due May 15th! Lineup includes J. Shapiro, T. Deryugina, R. Walker, J. Boomhower and more! www.auffhammer.com/summer-school
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Industrial electrification is now a security imperative, not just a climate one. Our new @ox.ac.uk @ecioxford.bsky.social analysis finds up to 90% of industrial energy demand could be electrified. The potential is there. The main constraint is policy. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-04...
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Industrial electrification is now a security imperative, finds Oxford analysis
Industrial electrification is becoming a matter of economic security as well as decarbonisation, according to new analysis from researchers at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of O...
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Mahir Yazar @mahiryazar.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
In this perspective piece, we argue for a new wave in climate urbanism research that calls for both inward reflection on the injustices embedded in urban climate actions, and outward engagement with the escalating social and political backlash. 👇🚨 www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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The fourth wave of climate urbanism: a research agenda for urban climate justice amid right-wing populism - npj Urban Sustainability
npj Urban Sustainability - The fourth wave of climate urbanism: a research agenda for urban climate justice amid right-wing populism
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Today’s news on the world first🦘🇦🇺Senate inquiry on global 🪨⛽️🛢️ dark money organisation, methods & actors pumping out anti-climate/clean energy disinfo. Chair @senatorsurfer.bsky.social did us all a service. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
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Australia has to attack misinformation about climate change, Senate report says
Australia needs to increase its efforts to fight back against misinformation about climate change, a Senate report says.
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Mahir Yazar @mahiryazar.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
BALTIC project has ended [shorturl.at/NcxtY], but great to see our published ideas being advanced by engaging policymakers, practitioners, and wind energy representatives across the Baltic countries. Kudos to Anete,Rico,and Aijan for organising these two-day workshops in Riga!
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
“The term ‘third place’ was coined by sociologist Ray Oldenburg in his book The Great Good Place, which explored the role of places like cafes, parks, & libraries in societies. He argued such places were not only important for mental health, but were essential to democracy & a sense of community.”
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'Elevates the mood': Third places providing a space away from work and home
In an increasingly digital world, Brisbane residents are still heading out to enjoy third places to take a break, enjoy life, and expose themselves to new ideas.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I think each of us in academia knows people in our departments or fields who are horrible people and also know who’s protecting them. These revelations should not be a surprise to any of us.
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Territory, Politics, Governance @rsa-tpg.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Read this #openaccess TPG article by Håvard Haarstad and Mahir Yazar, 'Urban sustainability: a spatial justice critique' which reflects on the apparent growing discontent against urban sustainability policies. doi.org/10.1080/2162...
Image of the TPG journal cover and the abstract of the article: This article provides a spatial justice critique of the urban sustainability agenda. Reflecting on the apparent growing discontent against urban sustainability policies, we argue that this backlash can partly be traced to how this agenda has favoured city centres and overlooked spatial dynamics and injustices that fuel core–periphery polarisation. The urban sustainability agenda tends towards ‘urban triumphalism’, while framing suburban areas and spaces as inherently problematic. We propose to widen the geographical scope of the urban sustainability agenda, and discuss policy directions that may contribute to this, with the view to achieving greater legitimacy, more inclusivity and value pluralism.
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Great intervention by @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on reactionary centrism, anti-wokeness, and the tendency to interpret the success of the right as backlash instead of as its own political project www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Beware of ‘anti-woke’ liberals: they attacked the left and helped Trump win | Jan-Werner Müller
So-called ‘reactionary centrist’ pundits proclaimed that there was a global ‘vibe shift’ in favor of the right. They were wrong
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 14/01/2026
Meta, Microsoft and Google are all coordinating with the European far right in order to dismantle EU digital laws designed to protect citizens, according to a new report. The recent 🇺🇸NSS strategy outlined regime change plans to support the European far right. A public-private partnership.
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US tech giants allying with European far-right to strip back EU rules
Amid rising EU-US tensions, a new report has accused Big Tech of courting far-right MEPs to weaken the EU's regulatory power on AI and data.
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Mahir Yazar @mahiryazar.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
🚨Far-right populists recast discontent in Europe’s green transition via selective intersectionality; invoking gender, labour heritage, and land.A strategy now visible across “left-out regions” in the US, Central & Eastern Europe @environmentalpol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0964... funded @cssn.org
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Selective intersectionality: far-right populist Re-casting of social discontent in Europe’s green transition
European regions long reliant on fossil-intensive energy are undergoing change driven by the European Green Deal, yet the green transition remains uneven across regions. In Estonia’s Ida-Virumaa, o...
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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
#Green agenda success in #city cores may breed resentment in the periphery. As @havardhaarstad.bsky.social & @mahiryazar.bsky.social argue in @rsa-tpg.bsky.social, a moral hierarchy that punishes car-dependent suburbanites —often on lower incomes— is a recipe for #populism. doi.org/10.1080/2162...
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
By me: ‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival
Biden earmarked billions for former coal communities in Appalachia – and his successor came and took it away
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Mahir Yazar @mahiryazar.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
We have a new paper critiques urban sustainability 🚨🏡. Amid rising discontent, we argue the backlash stems from an agenda that favours city centres while overlooking spatial dynamics and injustices fueling core-periphery divides that linger on.... 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Urban sustainability: a spatial justice critique
This article provides a spatial justice critique of the urban sustainability agenda. Reflecting on the apparent growing discontent against urban sustainability policies, we argue that this backlash...
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Rubén Campos @rubencampos.eurosky.social · 26/11/2025
Great to have scholars like @fromtga.bsky.social engaging in public debate about institutions we must fight for to keep our #democracy alive in times of authoritarian rise. We need to go back to the basics like independent judiciary or civil service neutrality www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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My guide to populist-proofing your democracy – before it’s too late | Timothy Garton Ash
From public service broadcasting to an independent judiciary, these are the things that we must fight to keep, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
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Nordregio @nordregio.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
📈 Cities growing, rural areas shrinking - or are they? Mapping #population change across the Nordics over 30 years (1990-2022) shows: 🔹 #Growth around capitals 🔹 #Decline in many inland & northern areas 🔹 Pockets of renewal along coasts and small towns 🗺️ See more: nordregio.org/maps/total-p...
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
🆕 Perceived #Inequality and #Populism Evidence from 🇩🇰🇩🇪🇮🇹 show that people who perceive great inequality are more likely to hold populist attitudes according to @lstoetze.bsky.social, Johannes Giesecke & @heikekluever.bsky.social 🗣️ 📖 #OA
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Perceived inequality and populism | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Perceived inequality and populism
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C-REX @crexuio.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Norway remains one of the world’s most stable democracies. Yet rising populism and sharper debate in the 2025 election revealed growing strains beneath the surface. Read @katrif.bsky.social analysis of the recent general election in Norway for @illsp.bsky.social www.illiberalism.org/continuous-s...
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Continuous “Safety”?  Labour Succeeds in Norway’s 2025 Elections Amidst Polarization illiberalism.org |
Katrine Fangen on Norways election and the issues that animated the campaign, growing polarization, and the paradoxes inherent in the rise of the right-wing Progress Party.
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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
This book finally got published today - free for download here cssn.org/news-researc... A monumental effort documenting climate obstruction across sectors, countries & governance levels, by 110 @cssn.org scholars I was chuffed to contribute to one of the chapters (thread)
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Global Assessment - Brown Climate Social Science Network
Climate advocacy has not failed, climate policy has been sabotaged, explains a new open access book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Hitchcock was a visionary... nypost.com/2025/10/07/s...
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Birds are behaving strangely — and it could have dire implications for humanity, scientist warns
Is it the sign of the a-flock-alypse?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/09/2025
After the far-right mass rally in London, Britain must learn lessons from abroad – and fast | Cas Mudde
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After the far-right mass rally in London, Britain must learn lessons from abroad – and fast | Cas Mudde
This is no time for complacent exceptionalism. The UK is part of the fourth phase of the far right in the postwar era, and its politicians must respond, says political scientist Cas Mudde
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity. As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.
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Most US adults think individual choices keep people in poverty, new AP-NORC/Harris poll finds
A new AP-NORC poll finds that most U.S. adults think personal choices are a major driver of poverty and homelessness, while fewer blame a lack of government support.
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James Jackson @james7jackson.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
NEW PUBLICATION - The Great Dane @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social Larsen and I review the differing concepts of state-led approaches to the green transition over the past two decades. We attempt to provide some conceptual coherence to the debate. The article is Open Access.
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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 25/08/2025
New report that maps the network of anti-offshore wind groups and their lawyers: www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/post/legal-e...
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Legal Entanglements: Mapping Connections of Anti-Offshore Wind Groups and their Lawyers in the Eastern United States
Today we released a new CDL report: “Legal Entanglements: Mapping Connections of Anti-Offshore Wind Groups and their Lawyers in the Eastern United States,” a deep look into litigation efforts against ...
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Veit Braun @toteraltermann.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I recently found an interview with Bruno Latour I had been looking for for a long time and thought this might be a good idea: A list of all the interviews he did during his lifetime, plus some commentary. It's not yet finished, but useful enough to share, I hope. open.substack.com/pub/wondrous...
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Interviews with Bruno Latour
An ongoing, annotated list
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Mahir Yazar @mahiryazar.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Great to be part of this collective effort! New transformation injustices overlap and intersect with legacy injustices — see our commentary published @Nature Energy 👇, led by @lukashermwille.bsky.social
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
My new piece for @science.org is about safety, technology and how we can't automate governance. A quick thread... 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Governance can’t be automated
On the corners of the Holborn viaduct in central London, there are four statues: Commerce, Agriculture, Fine Art, and Science. The figure representing Science looks like she should be in Ancient Greec...
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I've just finished/delivered my new book on hauntology, landscape and music. Out Nov! The end of England, post-Brexit malaise, the decline of the left, strange music, weird walking, ghosts of the past. You probably won't like it, but be brave and have a listen: www.mixcloud.com/gypjh2000/li...
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Regional Studies Association @regstud.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Join us for our forthcoming webinar Legal Geography for Regions and Cities: A Place-first Approach, 26th March 2025, 13.00 GMT. In this webinar, the speakers will explore how law shapes and is shaped by the spaces we inhabit. Register here: bit.ly/RCI26Mar
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
"...the anti-immigrant campaigns of both centrist parties...did not win over any far-right voters. Nor did they inspire their core voters. To do that, they will need their own ideas and priorities, which means looking beyond immigration (which was only the third most important issue for voters..."
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Germany has swung to the right. What does that mean for the country – and Europe? Our panel responds
Friedrich Merz’s CDU/CSU may have won the German election, but all eyes are on the far-right AfD after its huge gains, say Fatma Aydemir, Katja Hoyer and others
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Mahir Yazar @mahiryazar.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Great to see the pre-recorded guest lecture worked well for engaging with graduates at Groningen Uni on urban sustainability, justice, and populism. Thanks again for the invite @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social ! #CriticalApproaches25
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
@senatorsurfer.bsky.social outlines the damage to Australian democratic processes & popular support for renewable energy rollout and climate policy of global #AtlasNetwork disinformation campaigns. Kindly quotes my submission to the Senate inquiry on Offshore Wind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=32tq...
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Offshore Wind Farm Disinformation & the Atlas Network
YouTube video by Australian Greens
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 05/01/2025
In-depth Q&A: What is ‘climate justice’? | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org #CBarchive Read: buff.ly/3MXl5HL
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
4/ We often hear that radical protest will "just put people off your cause", but we now have evidence that's not true The M25 motorway blockades by @just-stopoil.bsky.social led to a 3.3% increase in support for a moderate organisation, Friends of the Earth Equivalent to 2 million people in the UK
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Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I can’t wait for this to be out - a book of propositions on the politics of feeling in populism, liberalism and progressivism with @ajsecor.bsky.social Probably the work I’m most proud of so far - as I think it says something novel about this conjuncture www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777472...
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The Politics of Feeling by Ben Anderson, Anna Secor: 9781915983299 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
How today’s dominant political forms—right-wing populism, progressivism, and liberalism—offer differentiated responses to shared conditions of uncertainty. The Politics of Feeling argues...
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Elisabeth Gilmore @lisgilmore.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Tipping point framings can lead to political paralysis. This video highlights that it may also favour overly technocratic responses. Understanding abrupt changes in the climate system matters. Negotiation and participatory democracy for just and equitable responses matters as much, if not more.
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Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET) @uibcet.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
A great way to end the year 🙌 3 articles in @natureportfolio.bsky.social journals in 3 months. 2 are published and 1 is on the way. 🤓Amazing job by our researchers @mahiryazar.bsky.social @havardhaarstad.bsky.social Tsimafei, Silje & Johan Read about them here 👇 www.uib.no/en/cet/17477...
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Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET) @uibcet.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
📢 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 📢 The Beyond Oil: Changing Climate Futures conference in Bergen on the 22nd and 23rd of October, 2025 is now open for abstract submissions. 📆 Submit by March 28th, 2025 www.uib.no/en/cet/17307... 📷 Thor Brødreskift & Beyond Oil 2023 artwork by Håvard Legreid
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Mahir Yazar @mahiryazar.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Our paper @NatureCities w/ @havardhaarstad.bsky.social & Johan Elfving, finds mobility policies dominate C40 cities, but less than half prioritize procedural justice, leading to tokenistic participation in urban climate governance. Details 👇https://rdcu.be/d2UO0 @uibcet.bsky.social
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