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Nessa Ní Chasaide

@nessanichasaide.bsky.social
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Global tax politics, economic sociology, political economy, equality. Department of Sociology, Maynooth University, Ireland

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“There is an unignorable irony in the fact that Ireland intervened in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ, but cannot recognise the issues that a genocide would pose for students providing original documents in a visa application.” www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-st...
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Gaza students take Ireland to court over visa refusals
A legal team says the justice minister's decision is irrational and discriminatory, with 26 more cases in the pipeline
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow by Timothy Mitchell www.versobooks.com/products/345...
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The Alibi of Capital
Today, extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from nowhere. The trick of conjuring this unearned wealth is, in fact, the key to understanding capital­ism’s origins and a clue to why the catastrophe of c...
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Huge congratulations to our colleagues at @iccl.bsky.social on this win! In a landmark ruling on 25 Sep, the ICCL secured a precedent that will reshape how Big Tech companies defend themselves in GDPR class actions that impact their operations across the entire EU enforce.ie/digital-data...
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ICCL secures landmark precedent against Big Tech - Enforce
Landmark ruling will reshape how Big Tech companies defend themselves in court for EU-wide GDPR class actions
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POP @populismblog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New book out 🔥 The Fascist Zeitgeist. Authoritarian Legacies and the Iberian Far Right. (Elements in the History and Politics of Fascism @universitypress.cambridge.org) How is the success of the Iberian far right linked to the memory of Franco and Salazar? doi.org/10.1017/9781009588072
The image shows, on the right half, the book's cover, with fascist architecture from Rome, which is the signature image used by the series on "The History and Politics of Fascism". The left half of the image shows the book's back, that includes the following summary: 
The far right is achieving unprecedented electoral success, even in countries once considered immune such as Spain and Portugal. For decades, the stigma surrounding the long dictatorships of António Salazar and Francisco Franco seemed to inoculate the Iberian Peninsula against far-right mobilisation, yet Chega and VOX have shown that collective memory evolves – and stigma fades. This Element argues that understanding the far right's global rise requires attention to authoritarian nostalgia: a longing for an idealised authoritarian past. When activated by credible political actors with sufficient media visibility, this sentiment can generate support for far-right movements even in societies with a collective memory firmly condemning their authoritarian past. Using original survey data, the Element shows how contemporary far-right forces mobilise the ghosts of authoritarianism to erode democratic norms, revealing the enduring power of collective memory in shaping political behaviour.
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 30/09/2026
#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social - What Would It Mean to Democratize Finance? An Evaluation of Divergent Conceptions of Democracy and Finance - cup.org/4hT2SwM - LEAH DOWNEY & @stefeich.bsky.social #FirstView
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International Tax Observatory @taxobservatory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
1/4 What can Country-by-Country Reporting (#CbCR) tell us about multinational companies? 🔎 A lot. But there’s a catch: before firm-level CbCR data can be used for research or tax analysis, it needs to be carefully cleaned. 📄 New research note: taxobservatory.world/publication/...
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How academia resembles a drug gang (though different types of drug gangs in different countries) Interesting 'insider-outsider' comparative set ups outlined by Alexandre Afonso @lseblogs.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang - LSE Impact
Academic systems rely on the existence of a supply of “outsiders” ready to forgo wages and employment security in exchange for the prospect of uncertain security, prestige, freedom and reasonably high...
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Interesting. "Policymakers are .. ignoring the politics of their nation’s macroeconomic structure.... decarbonization is not a market puzzle to be solved but a new political economy yet to be built." New book by @danieldrisc.com Why Carbon Taxes Failed academic.oup.com/book/62984
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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 CfP: "Offshore Capitalism: Climate and Crisis", mini-conference at 2027 SASE in Glasgow 🚨 With @joseatiles.bsky.social, @andreabinder.bsky.social & Sabine Dörry, we welcome papers on 'the offshore' from a range of perspectives. DEADLINE: 1 Nov. Apply here: sase.org/conference-s...
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great selection of papers on technofinance just out in @finandsoc.bsky.social
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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
‘What is behind slowdown in Ireland’s property prices? ..demand must be softening’ housing need ≠ market demand There’s a deeply flawed assumption that everyone who needs a home is in the market for a home, regardless of price It’s throwing off so much of policy www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
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What is behind the slowdown in Ireland’s property prices?
New home supply outside Dublin is up but there is also a definite cooling on the demand side of the equation
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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Twelve poets walk into a bookshop... unfortunately, I can’t remember the punchline because I stopped to read Seamus Heaney. Come for Heaney, Walcott, Sassoon and Rupi Kaur. Stay to see who else is on the Secondhand shelves ... there seems to be a great need for poetry right now
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Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 28/09/2026
🇪🇺 Europe has a tax haven problem much closer to home than many might think. Our new illicit financial flows tracker reveals that an estimated US$673 billion in wealth and finance illicitly crosses European countries’ borders every year for the purpose of cheating on tax. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4j754s86
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 23/09/2026
Timely, given the strong Minsky moment vibes these days. Just out in Politics & Society. "The more Minsky rose to the challenge of explaining the economics of his [wage-led growth] proposal ... the more Democrats grew concerned about its politics." journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Instead of OpenAI being prosecuted for creating malware that hacked another company, press releases, news outlets, media personalities, and lawmakers refer to “rogue models” as if they acted on their own." by By Timnit Gebruarchive Emily M. Benderarchive via @chriswrightau.bsky.social
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Lukas Bogner @lbogner.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
New Paper out in Socio-Economic Review! Part of a coming special issue on the socio-economics of loss and decline. About the 4D chess of using blended finance for the coal exit in the Global South. Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/ser/... (or ask me for a copy if you don't have access)!)
 The spectre of de-assetization: legal infrastructures and fragile fixes in fossil decommissioning - Lukas Bogner. Abstract: Efforts to decommission coal power plants in the Global South are constrained by the legal infrastructures that create and protect them as assets. This article examines the Asian Development Bank’s Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM) as a case of managing these constraints via a series of increasingly complex and fragile spatio-temporal fixes: First, power purchase agreements and investment treaties require compensation of investors at business-as-usual asset valuations; second, for lack of public funding, this compensation is to be generated via a blended finance mechanism; third, its inability to stem these costs necessitates further legal-financial engineering, including a novel guarantee mechanism and ‘coal-to-clean’ credits. The ETM and its successive fixes are haunted by the power relations inscribed in asset creation and protection in the Global South. This renders ‘de-risked’ transition finance dubious as a blueprint for fossil decommissioning and highlights the troubled nature of climate-related asset stranding in transnational, hierarchical legal space.
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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Berlin election shows robust support for assets as class boundary thesis proposed by Adkins, @melindacooper.bsky.social, @mkonings.bsky.social: - Significantly higher Left vote share in areas with higher % of renters. - Higher AfD/CDU & surprisingly SPD share in areas with higher asset ownership.
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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
‘Housing Minister wants €20,000 tax refund hike for first-time buyers of new homes in Budget 2027’ .. this is like giving people money to bid for concert tickets*, instead of putting on extra shows** *limited homes **building homes www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
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Housing Minister wants €20,000 tax refund hike for first-time buyers of new homes in Budget 2027
James Browne pushing for massive increase to bridge affordability gap
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I imagine if one single Irish footballer stands up and says he won't play, the rest will follow. Will only take one. Where's the one?
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Why not share tax on corporate profits based on an international agreement for fairer allocation of taxing rights? The UN Tax Convention under negotiation now is an opportunity to just that @financialjustice.bsky.social @eurodadnews.bsky.social @taxjustice.net www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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French minister wants Ireland to share its technology tax billions
French finance minister calls for large tax revenues from tech multinationals to be more fairly distributed across EU
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just in time for the latest oil price spike, we published our article urging the ECB not to hike rates to fight a supply shock. Europe needs a new inflation governance for shockflation. We need disaster preparedness for essentials instead of increasing investment costs.
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨 Call for Applications: Postdocs We’re looking for postdoctoral researchers for the following research areas and topics: - Political Economy - Economic Sociology - Technology and Statehood - Wealth and Social Inequality 🗓️ Application deadline: Dec. 11 📢 Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/UzLEpr
Job Opening: Postdoctoral Researchers. Application Deadline: Dec. 11, 2026
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 14/09/2026
Frontier AI firms are openly calling for competition-reducing coordination. We shouldn't be surprised: The inter-firm infrastructure for this has long been in the making. People think varieties of capitalism is no longer cool but Silicon Valley has built a ... privately coordinated market economy.
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Social Justice Ireland @socialjusticeire.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A Budget that is serious about addressing child and family poverty, and supporting the most vulnerable households in a cost of living crisis must prioritise benchmarking social welfare rates to average earnings and increasing child payments in #Budget2027. www.socialjustice.ie/article/budg...
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Budget 2027 and Child Poverty | Social Justice Ireland
A Budget that is serious about addressing child and family poverty, and supporting the most vulnerable households in a cost of living crisis must…
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Thanks to TG4 for this powerful report on the massive protests held on Saturday in Dublin, Shannon, and Doonbeg against Trump’s visit to Ireland. #FreePalestine #StopFundingGenocide
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Martin Gelin @martingelin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My latest piece for The Guardian: In Sweden, previously unthinkable far-right ideas are now comfortably embedded in the mainstream. The past four years were characterised by an astonishing acceptance of ethnonationalist views, xenophobic rhetoric and authoritarian policies often targeting children.
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How Sweden lost its soul – and stopped being Sweden | Martin Gelin
In 2022 my country entered a new era of cruelty. It will take more than one election to get the old, tolerant Sweden back, writes Swedish journalist Martin Gelin
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
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Lawyers urge Government to tell Trump Ireland opposes his ‘illegal war policies’
US president risks causing ‘global catastrophe’, warns lawyers’ group
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Dr Jennifer Redmond @jenniferredmond.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is a great episode featuring a wonderful scholar. Thanks to all involved helping to highlight the wonderful work we've convened as the HIDDEN COST Action CA21120 @hiddencostaction.bsky.social
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John Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨 It's gratifying to see this paper with wonderful friends and co-authors @savannahcox.bsky.social & @zacjtaylor.bsky.social in print at @jcultecon.bsky.social.Thanks again to guest editors @vapunkt.bsky.social & @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social for sticking with us. Link below!
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Norwegian oil fund may cut US Treasury holdings by $80 billion, the FT reports.
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
At a public meeting about a planned data centre in Kildare, more than double the number of expected attendees turned up.
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‘We just don’t want them’: hundreds gather in a Kildare town over data centre plans
Noise issues in Clondalkin are a cautionary tale – but it’s not too late for Kildare, town meeting hears
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 03/09/2026
Corporate profits are at an all-time high. So why are we still told we can’t afford to tax corporations more? In a new brief, @zorkamilin.bsky.social takes on a core argument for keeping corporate taxes low: that doing so is necessary for US competitiveness. The evidence tells a different story 🧵
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Why Doesn’t the US Tax Its Big Corporations More?: The Myth of “Global Tax Competitiveness”
Low corporate taxes are sold as the price of competitiveness. The evidence shows otherwise and points toward stronger corporate taxes and international cooperation.
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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
How does assetization and assetmanagement inform social conflict? Join us for an online launch event for our NPE special issue "Asset Struggles" on Sept 17th 2PM (German time), featuring: @melindacooper.bsky.social, @jenmcarthur.bsky.social, @benbraun.eurosky.social ⬇️ Signup in post below ⬇️
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Devastating headline (amidst politics as usual) Battle to halt global heating at 1.5 degrees is lost – UN www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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Battle to halt global heating at 1.5 degrees is lost – UN
Focus must now switch to limiting extent of overshoot, says United Nations' climate report
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
AI hype, AI winter, AI gloom. Working paper by Gaia Valenti @dehes.bsky.social & @cedricdurand.bsky.social
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/09/2026
Overnight, this ICE flight operated by Journey Aviation made fuel/crew stops in Ireland and Albania and is now headed east. Likely headed for Central Asia removal stops, there made be third-country nationals onboard.
An ADSB map showing N352BH going from Maine to Ireland to Albania.
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The international political economy of green finance eds Sarah Sharma & @mbabic.bsky.social pub by @compchange.bsky.social 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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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 01/09/2026
At 9.00 next Tuesday at #ECPR2026, @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & I will talk about our new books - on grassroots women and on young people in the radical right. With @caterinafr.bsky.social & @stijntvankessel.bsky.social discussing, and @leoniedejonge.bsky.social chairing, it should be lively!
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
15 years since my uncle Peter Mair died and Ifound by chance the text of his talk at the McGill Summer School in 2011 in which he makes a plea for greater ownership of the state through democratisation of government. Couldn't be more important today. www.macgillsummerschool.com/peter-mair-1...
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Peter Mair 1951-2011 - MacGill Summer School
PETER MAIR 1951-2011 Peter Mair died suddenly on August 15th 2011, two weeks after he had delivered a paper on the Irish political system […]
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
💥New | Universities rarely use research evidence in their decision-making, so why do they expect anyone else to? ✍️ @gemmaderrick.bsky.social Amy Devenney and Lizzie Ville #AcademicSky #HigherEducation #EvidenceBasedPolicy
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Universities rarely use research evidence in their decision-making, so why do they expect anyone else to? - LSE Impact
Despite universities’ important role as evidence-producing organisations, they rarely draw upon research evidence for internal decision making, why?
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Central Bank of Ireland @centralbankireland.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
We have published a Research Technical Paper entitled "The Intangible Economy", written by Radek Šauer. Read more here: www.centralbank.ie/publication/...
Research Technical Paper entitled “The Intangible Economy", written by Radek Šauer.
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Mel Reynolds @maoiliosarey.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"It feels like you have air-conditioning [inside the house] but you haven't. This is the beauty of the Passivhaus standard..” www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Could these alternative homes be the future in a hotter Britain?
The Passivhaus standard is growing in popularity as UK homeowners adapt to hotter summer temperatures.
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Yay!
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Jan Willem Goudriaan @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The biweekly @epsu.bsky.social collective bargaining newsletter Agreements, strikes and more from Europe's public service unions Longest running European newsletter of its kind
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cornelban.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
In this article in @socioeconreview.bsky.social I show why Europe is trillions euro behind China in lending to activities that can save the climate.
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Green monetary transitions? Central banking and climate finance in Europe and China
Abstract. This article examines the political economy of “greening” central banking as a contested project dynamically evolving on the spectrum between neo
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Paula Geraghty @paulageraghty.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I updated my Photoshelter portfolio/website. Let me know what you think. I’m targeting conferences and AGMs and the like…. paulageraghty.photoshelter.com/index?fbclid...
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
South Africa’s top court blocks Shell’s offshore oil exploration right www.climatechangenews.com/2026/08/14/s...
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South Africa's top court blocks Shell's offshore oil exploration right
Constitutional Court rules that Shell and its partners failed to consult affected communities and did not properly consider environmental risks
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 17/08/2026
Read @js-tan.bsky.social and Clarissa Redwine's book on @haymarketbooks.org open.substack.com/pub/highvalu...
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Against Tech Oligarchy
I've written a book! Its about tech worker activism and, relatedly, the rightward turn of Silicon Valley's ultra-rich—and its coming out next month.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
NEW @phenomenalworld.bsky.social @katemac.bsky.social From Morocco’s leveraging trade access for battery factories to Guinea’s strong-arming China with bauxite bans for aluminum smelters, to solar manufacturing, what we call “strategic green industrial diplomacy” has become supercharged in Africa.
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Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay | Green Strategy in Africa
On the continent’s industrial development agenda for the twenty-first century
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