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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

📣 Here comes a new article that sets out how to systematically investigate growth (in)dependence in a variety of context. I hope it will be useful for many, including @jhasselbalch.bsky.social @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social @lenarethel.bsky.social @atrasi.bsky.social & @kzimmermann.bsky.social.

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

8) Again Malcolm & myself on Bitcoin and other alt-coins 9) @clemhoffmann.bsky.social on the risk of speed in decarbonising energy systems #growth #post-growth #infrastructures #sustainability /6

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

5) Senka Neuman Stanivuković on the Belgrade–Budapest railway 6) Kathryn Furlong on the debt-growth nexus in Medellín, Colombia 7) @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social & Valérie Boisvert on green accounting /5

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

👉 Here’s a list of the papers: 1) Introduction by Malcolm & myself 2) @eric-cezne.bsky.social & Kei Otsuki on the BR-319 Highway in the Brazilian Amazon 3) Aslı Yürük & Ozan Karaman on the cruise port Galataport in Istanbul 4) Daniel Durrant on megaprojects in the U.K. /4

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The collection thus moves beyond the common concern for policies and institutions in post-growth scholarship while also calling on infrastructural studies to take questions of (post-)growth more seriously. /3

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Across 9 papers, including our own intro, we discuss the notion of ‘growth infrastructures’ (building on work that has used the concept before) and their potential conversion into ‘post-growth infrastructures’. We foreground the socio-material embeddedness of the pursuit of economic growth. /2

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

📣 Publication alert Just before the break, a special issue co-edited with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn on ‘(Post-)Growth Infrastructures’ was published in @econsocjournal.bsky.social. /1 👉 www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/5...

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Economy and Society

(Post-)Growth Infrastructures. Guest Editors: Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Matthias Kranke. Volume 54, Issue 4 of Economy and Society

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College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr @college-uaruhr.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The conference is organised by the Centre for Global Cooperation Research @unidue.bsky.social & its Fellow Group 'Sustainability and Democracy'. As a member of this group, @mattkranke.bsky.social is a co-organiser.

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The fact that not only is the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is still increasing, but the *rate of CO2 increasing* in the atmosphere is still increasing is true nightmare stuff.

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Institut für Sozioökonomie @ifso.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Global Green Visions and World Order in the Anthropocene – just published by Bruna Bosi-Moreira & @mattkranke.bsky.social in @gepjournal.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/glep/issue/2...

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

💡 Overall, this diverse collection engages with work on global environmental governance, environmental futures and world order in the Anthropocene. Perhaps of interest to @matpaterson.bsky.social @jhasselbalch.bsky.social @jacquelinebest.bsky.social @corneliab.bsky.social @kaiheron.bsky.social ...

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The Forum article by @elanawilsonrowe.bsky.social on the vision of an ice-free, or “blue”, Arctic Ocean concludes the special issue. This anticipated future has, as the author argues, set in motion various attempts at (re)ordering the region. 👉 tinyurl.com/yc3d9e2s

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Blue Visions: Ordering a Changing Arctic Ocean

Abstract. This essay explores how the prospect of a “blue” Arctic Ocean—no longer covered continuously with sea ice—has shaped, supported, and challenged different visions for and prospective ways of ...

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Nanang I. Kurniawan, Poppy S. Winanti & Devy D. Cahyati take the case of the Indonesian nickel sector to show how the vision of decarbonisation triggers widely overlooked dynamics of recarbonisation. The extractivist logic remains in place – and fossil fuel dependence high. 👉 tinyurl.com/37arjzhr

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Recarbonization Through Decarbonization: Nickel Extraction and the Deepening of Fossil Fuel Dependence in Indonesia

Abstract. A global green vision requires a low-carbon shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy. This transition, however, relies on significant material and energy inputs, exacerbating mineral extr...

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

This pattern resurfaces in the article by Bruna Bosi-Moreira on China’s vision of transition, which embraces green growth and technological innovation for decarbonisation. The challenge to the existing world order is thus again relatively moderate. 👉 tinyurl.com/y523pjfa

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A Green World Order with Chinese Characteristics: Implications for Global Climate Cooperation

Abstract. This article examines how China’s vision of a green world order affects global climate cooperation. It argues that China’s global green vision is technology driven, combining green industria...

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Esther Wahabu explores how the REDD+ vision, which shall promote sustainable forest management and use, has adverse effects on Ghana’s cocoa forests. REDD+ stabilises, rather than undermines, a world order grounded in extractivism and dispossession. 👉 tinyurl.com/5bye3bru

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REDD+ and Extractivism: Navigating Sustainability in Ghana’s Cocoa Landscapes

Abstract. REDD+ is a global green vision that addresses climate change by reducing emissions from deforestation and enhancing carbon storage in forests while promoting sustainable forest management. D...

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Cristina Espinosa & @fabriciorodriguez.bsky.social discuss the Ecuadorian vision of Rights of Nature (RoN). It poses a strong challenge to the extractivist capitalist order, but remains a hybrid instrument, embedded as it is in mainstream liberal institutions. 👉 tinyurl.com/3djcwxs8

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Rights of Nature and World Order: Reimagining Socioecological Futures

Abstract. Rights of Nature (RoN) have emerged as a transformative strategy to address contemporary socioecological crises. Over the past two decades, RoN have gained traction as national laws and cour...

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The team led by Cristina Y. A. Inoue zooms in on the vision of “Amazonia center of the world”. Their article shows how stories of socioenvironmentalism envisage many worlds that co-exist and are always in the making. In other words, world order is not set in stone. 👉 tinyurl.com/4kfb3srk

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Amazonia Center of the World: Telling Stories of Socioenvironmentalism as Struggles for a Planet of Many Worlds

Abstract. Considered a regional entity of the Earth system, Amazonia is close to its ecological tipping point. Nonetheless, over the last decades, socioenvironmental alliances have emerged in Brazilia...

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

@justinalger.bsky.social & Peter Dauvergne examine “Protected Earth” as an emergent conservation vision. It challenges the established order of biodiversity governance although it may also lead to forms of conservation that harm certain groups (e.g., Indigenous communities). 👉 tinyurl.com/42ec4jem

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The Global Politics of a Protected Earth

Abstract. The vision of humans living sustainably on a “protected earth” has a long history. Support for this vision has been surging in recent years, coming into sharp relief in 2022 when negotiators...

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Bruna & I introduce the collection by developing the notion of “global green visions”. We argue that these visions of sustainability are politically contentious for an underacknowledged reason: they offer criticisms of the existing world order and delineate alternative orders. 👉 tinyurl.com/2xhxtuxv

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Global Green Visions and World Order in the Anthropocene

Abstract. This special issue on what we call global green visions offers a vantage point for understanding global environmental governance in the Anthropocene through the lens of world order(s). Speci...

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

📣 Yet another SI for you, folks! Delighted to announce the publication of a @gepjournal.bsky.social special issue on “Global Green Visions and World Order in the Anthropocene”, co-edited with my dear colleague Bruna Bosi-Moreira. 👉 direct.mit.edu/glep/issue/2...

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Volume 25 Issue 3 | Global Environmental Politics | MIT Press

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Here is the full cast of contributors: Amy A. Quark & Elizabeth Jacobs, @ttieku.bsky.social & Amanda Coffie, Bahar Rumelili, Jozon A. Lorenzana, Silvia C. Ruiz-Rodríguez & @alicevadrot.bsky.social, Victória M. S. Santos & Ned Littlefield, @hansenmagnusson.bsky.social & @charlygehrke.bsky.social!

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Of course, we also introduce the eight contributions to the special section. To this end, we have come up with a huge but hopefully still accessible and useful table (in addition to details in the text). academic.oup.com/view-large/5...

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Table 1: Open in new tab Boundary work... | Oxford Academic

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

@marenhofius.bsky.social & I open the collection with a framing paper that draws on a diverse body of work in IR, STS and beyond. We argue that boundary work is pervasive in global politics, shaping and structuring the possibilities of cooperation among actors. academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...

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Boundary work and the (un)making of global cooperation: mapping the terrain

How does ‘boundary work’ shape global cooperation? This introduction offers a framework to investigate the role of actors in the production and placement o

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Auch beachtlich: Wer am lautesten für "Freiheit" (für wen eigentlich?) und "Technologieoffenheit" wirbt, hat oft keine Probleme, Freiheit und Offenheit in der Sprache – ja – mit Verboten einzuschränken. Auch eine offene Gesellschaft kommt nicht ohne Verbote aus. Aber ehrlich sollte man dabei sein.

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Wem die Sommer immer noch zu kalt sind, sollte nach dem Verbrennerausaus klimaneutrale Kraftstoffe verbieten, neue Kernkraftwerke bauen und alles Grün in Beton umwandeln lassen – und dann bei Dürren und Fluten die Betroffenen mit viel, viel Steuer💰 entschädigen. www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...

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Warum die Politik am Verbrenner-Aus zweifelt

Die kriselnde Autobranche will nicht allein auf E-Mobilität setzen, sie fordert Technologieoffenheit. In der Politik mehren sich die Stimmen, die das Verbrenner-Aus 2035 anzweifeln. Von Lissy Kaufmann...

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

🎉 Nice to see this little contribution out! We briefly discuss the ways in which graphic novels (like ours on the global environmental crisis) can be used in school teaching. Happy to chat about it if anyone is interested! Just send me a DM. 📧

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Together with Bruna Bosi-Moreira, I have contributed a chapter on green growth and degrowth futures, asking – in line with the volume theme – what understandings of world order are behind these different types of futures. And stay tuned as a related project by us is nearing completion. 💡

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

📢 The volume "Governing Nature and the Making of World Order", edited by the great team of @elanawilsonrowe.bsky.social, @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social & @lucasdopaes.bsky.social, is out now. And it's OA. 👇 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollbook-o...

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

And here's my chapter: I examine the extent to which the German Ministry of the Economy moved away from preaching the gospel of economic growth under Green leadership (specifically, Robert Habeck). Spoiler alert: very little.

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

📢 Publication alert – How often have you thought "Oh, that's a bad policy"? Then this is the right book (OA) for you: "Ineffective Policies: Causes and Consequences of Bad Policy Choices", co-edited by Roberge, McKeen-Edwards & Campbell-Verduyn. ⬇️ /1 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollbook-o...

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

This is a nice honour! Thanks, Poppy!

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

One month in, we have already had plenty of good exchanges on and surrounding our project. I am looking forward to more. Great to be a part of that PhD journey!

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Institut für Sozioökonomie @ifso.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Boundary work and the (un)making of global cooperation: mapping the terrain – just published by Maren Hofius & @mattkranke.bsky.social in @iajournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...

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Institut für Sozioökonomie @ifso.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Boundary work against identity stress: atrocity stories among the Bretton Woods twins – just published by @mattkranke.bsky.social in @iajournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

📢 Job announcement – 1 PhD researcher in my "Global Sustainability Governance" research group Please share this opportunity within your networks and encourage suitable candidates to apply (or consider applying yourself)! Happy to answer questions! Deadline: 4 June 👇 www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Wow – this is an unexpected honour. Thank you @globalsociety.bsky.social for selecting my article.

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College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr @college-uaruhr.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Job opportunity for students with a Bachelor's degree in political science, sociology or a similar discipline: The research group 'Global Sustainability Governance' led by @mattkranke.bsky.social is looking for 2 research assistants. www.college-uaruhr.de/news-events/... Please apply by 13 May!

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

📢 Great opportunity at a fantastic place!

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I like to tell my students that good titles already hint at or even reflect the main argument of a paper. Massive congrats in this regard to @dandrezner.bsky.social!

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I have yet to decide if I am interested or provoked @mstephen.bsky.social!

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

For those who wonder: Yes, I had previously worked on "bad science" (journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....). So the transition to "bad/good policy" was a logical one ...

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

📢 Publication alert – Here's a new edited volume on "ineffective policies", to which I have contributed a chapter on how desirable the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) finds economic growth. Spoiler alert: very desirable even under green leadership.

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