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Stefan Pedersen

@stefanpedersen.bsky.social
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Interested in planetary politics and planetary political theory. Honorary Research Fellow, School of Global Studies, Sussex. Co-lead, Planetary Justice Taskforce (Earth System Governance Project).

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"Worlds Beyond Bios," edited by Sophie Chao, @winterchristine.bsky.social, and @dschlosberg.bsky.social, explores how entities not traditionally recognized as “alive” play active roles in shaping multispecies worlds. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/Gjsa8v2
Cover of Worlds Beyond Bios: The Life of Matter and the Matter of Life edited by Sophie Chao, Christine J. Winter, and David Schlosberg. The cover features a photograph of a sandy beach with a city skyline stretched out in the distance. The foreground shows wet sand, footprints, and a large pile of organic material. The title is written in a bold sans serif font in grey blue aligned left. The subtitle is written in black and all caps above and aligned right. The editors names are in white in the bottom left.
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I would recommend this Routledge Guidebook by John Schwarzmantel (2015), and there’s a co-edited volume by him and Mark McNally from 2009 on Gramsci and Global Politics (which is just too old to count as ‘since’)
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Timely that my chapter on Planetary Socialism 'A Left for the Earth' coincides with the Green surge in the UK (and the latest nail in the coffin for what used to be the social democratic Old Left but now is a strange right of centre nationalist-neoliberal perversion of it) doi.org/10.4324/9781...
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Planetary Socialism | 13 | A Left for the Earth | Stefan Pedersen | Ta
This chapter puts the climate and ecological crisis squarely at the centre of analysis. Combining insights from Earth System Science with post-national
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IngerAndersen.bsky.social @ingerandersen.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Today, as Sir David Attenborough turns 100, we mark the extraordinary contribution of a global figure who has dedicated his life to deepening our understanding of nature. His work reminds us all to protect the only home we share - with urgency, responsibility and hope. Happy birthday, Sir David!
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Here's a mural of David Attenborough I came across in Sheffield about a decade ago. I think he can be considered an early 'biospheric hero' which I hope in the future will be a much higher distinction than currently being designated a 'Sir'
A mural of David Attenborough from Sheffield, UK. Circa 2015. Photo: Stefan Pedersen
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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The Global Left in a Multipolar World | Towards a Planetary Politics o
The Global Left in a Multipolar World: Towards a Planetary Politics of Justice and Survival explores how a transformative global left politics might be advanced
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The book itself, which is edited by Dena Freeman, comes warmly recommended by Walden Bello, Ayça Çubukçu, Stephen Gill, Thomas Piketty, and Yanis Varoufakis. It contains great contributions from Göran Therborn, Ronaldo Munck, Don Kalb, Guillaume Long, Sabrina Fernandes, Heikki Patomäki, and others.
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
My chapter 'Planetary Socialism: A Left for the Earth' was just published open access. I argue that a planetary socialism fit for our time of Earth system crisis can and should be formulated in direct opposition to the double-hegemony of neoliberal-nationalism. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
The cover of the book 'The Global Left in a Multipolar World: Towards a Planetary Politics of Justice and Survival' (2026) edited by Dena Freeman
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Join Environment and Climate Politics Working Group & Joanne Yao TOMORROW for their earth day keynote exploring the abstracted view of earth from above as an integrated whole 🌳 'The parts and the whole: 'Earthrise' and the politics of seeing everything from nowhere' 🎉 👉 ow.ly/nb3j50YAtr5
A colorful globe nestled among vibrant green plants symbolizing global ecology and environmental awareness.
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Earth System Governance Project @esgproject.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🎥 Missed it live? The recording of our webinar “Exploring Planetary Justice: A View from India” is now on ESG TV! 📺 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=56oo... 📚 Full series playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Thanks to all speakers & co-conveners!
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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
A wonderful article by my friend Christine Winter.
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Even A Grain Of Sand Deserves Justice | NOEMA
Imagine the potential of a justice theory that includes the more-than-human — animal, vegetable, elemental and mineral — as worthy subjects of justice.
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Last year's was great too: www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
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'Earthrise': The photo that sparked an environmental movement
More than 50 years after it was shot, Earthrise continues to be seen as one of the most iconic environmental photographs ever taken.
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Another interesting Earth Day feature from BBC Future this year: www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
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How 50 years of climate change has changed the face of the 'Blue Marble' from space
The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of the planet reveal visible changes to the Earth's surface.
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
To be precise, McConnell himself thought 'April 22 was the original day of Arbor Day, founded in Nebraska in 1872 by J. Sterling Merton' but a likelier clue is Merton's own birthday: 22 April 1832. So this might be the ultimate 'logic' behind why Earth Day is today en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_...
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Julius Sterling Morton - Wikipedia
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
John McConnell came up with Earth Day in 1968 and campaigned at UNESCO for it be celebrated during the spring equinox (21 March). But Sen. Gaylord Nelson had planned an Environmental Teach-In to coincide with Arbor Day (22 April) that ended up being promoted as Earth Day 1970 - and here we are.
The cover of ‘Peace, Justice, Care of Earth: The Vision of John McConnell, Founder of Earth Day’ A Biography by Robert M. Weir (2007)
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Over 150 university leaders: "As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education." www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
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A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
What is Planetary Justice? An interview with Agni Kalfagianni, Dimitris Stevis and @stefanpedersen.bsky.social. This interview relates to the recent Special Issue on Planetary Justice which they co-edited. environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/interviews/w...
Congratulations on the Special Issue! How did this set of articles come together?

Thank you! The three of us have been the co-conveners of the Planetary Justice Taskforce of the Earth System Governance project since shortly after it was officially launched in 2018. This Taskforce brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars who are concerned with questions of justice in the context of the ongoing profound transformations of the Earth system and their unevenly distributed consequences amongst humans and between humanity and other species. The Taskforce has the ambition to advance and explore the understanding of justice as well as to galvanize communities of research and practice to further consider and integrate planetary justice in everything they do. We got to know many of the authors of this special issue through Taskforce meetings and events. We also reached out to others who we knew were working on the same issues from fresh perspectives. We were specifically on the lookout for scholars with a critical approach to the main analytical questions of this special issue around the scope, temporal and spatial scale, and purpose of planetary justice.
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Marius S. Ostrowski @mariusostrowski.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Very pleased to share that my latest Editorial for @jpolideologies.bsky.social is now available online! "The apotheosis of conceptual morphology", in which I explore no fewer than sixteen different ways we can analyse ideas and ideologies through a morphological lens. Have a read! #ideology
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The apotheosis of conceptual morphology
Published in Journal of Political Ideologies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Another example (and the last of the thread) is Jens Bartelson's final chapter in Becoming International (2023) 'invoking the concepts of globality and the planetary in search of viable alternatives and a normative ground from which to contest' the modern international order doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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From the International to the Global and Beyond? (Chapter 6) - Becoming International
Becoming International - October 2023
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This is all highly interesting work that I expect will make much deeper inroads into e.g. international political theory (IPT) and environmental political theory in the coming years. One example is Simon Dalby's discussion of 'the "planetary" as policy context' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Reframing climate security: The “planetary” as policy context
Much of the discussion under the label of “climate security” focuses on potential conflicts and disruptions in peripheral locations in the global sout…
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The aforementioned Children of a Modest Star also has a companion anthology in The Planetary (2024) edited by @nilsgilman.bsky.social berggruen.org/library/the-...
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The Planetary
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This should all be read in combination with the recent Children of a Modest Star (2024) on 'planetary thinking for an age of crises' also by the Berggruen Institute's Jonathan Blake & @nilsgilman.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/politi...
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Children of a Modest Star | Stanford University Press
A clear-eyed and urgent vision for a new system of political governance to manage planetary issues and their local consequences.
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The Planetary Reading List curated from Noema and introduced by Jonathan Blake prior to the Planetary Summit in Venice last November is also great for context and finding additional reads berggruen.org/news/planeta...
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Adam Frank's prize-winning essay on how 'the planetary is a new “cosmology” — emerging as an alternative to the social, cultural and political-economic orders of global modernity' @adamfrank4.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/the-coming-s...
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The Coming Second Copernican Revolution | NOEMA
Astrobiology is rewiring our understanding of the intimate connection between life and planets as they appear in the universe.
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Here is a list/thread of my favourite reading from Noema @noemamag.com and @berggruenpress.bsky.social on The Planetary: Dipesh Chakraberty on the need to 'imagine a politics beyond the nation state' www.noemamag.com/the-planet-i...
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The Planet Is A Political Orphan | NOEMA
To keep Earth habitable, we must reimagine a politics beyond the nation-state.
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Adam Frank @adamfrank4.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
My @BigThink piece on the future of the nation-state under the pressures of the Anthropocene. Ideas taken from @berggruenInst and @NoemaMag and the Planetary Summit in Venice. bigthink.com/the-present/...
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From global to planetary: Is new governance needed in a post-Holocene world?
The nation-state had a good run, but this form of government may not be able to face planetary challenges that lie ahead.
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
My review of Anthony Pagden's Beyond States was just published. It is a bit critical due to its nation-centric formula for world federation and lack of engagement with the Earth system crisis - but I nonetheless recommend reading it: doi.org/10.1177/1360...
The cover of Anthony Pagden's Beyond States: Powers, Peoples and Global Order. Shows a 'rosette' made of national flags plus the EU flag.
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I look forward to attending the Planetary Summit this weekend. It's on topic for much of my work to put it mildly - so it should be interesting berggruen.org/projects/pla...
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
It’s great to see this SI come out (after years of working on it)!
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I just received a bunch of free eprints of some earlier articles, please use and share as you see fit: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NMIS6...
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Planetarism: a paradigmatic alternative to internationalism
What is a robust theoretical alternative to nationalism? For many seasoned cosmopolitan thinkers the answer is internationalism, which is generally perceived to be a sound foundation for creating a...
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I just received a bunch of free eprints of some earlier articles, please use and share as you see fit: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DAFKW...
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Navigating world order: neoliberalism between nationalism and cosmopolitanism
Through a morphological analysis of early neoliberal discourse, it is argued that preserving the system of states became integral to neoliberalism after a period of contestation. It is common knowl...
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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Proofs sent back. It’s on…
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
Columba Peoples' new book on the (security) implications of 'Planetary Emergence' is a stellar contribution to the scholarship on planetary politics academic.oup.com/book/58214
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Security in Crisis: Planetary Emergence and the Technopolitics of Crisis Management
Abstract. The concept of crisis is a recurrent staple in representations of modern forms of insecurity—from nuclear proliferation to cyber-security, armed
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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
New publication: The intro to an upcoming SI, from guest editors @stefanpedersen.bsky.social, Dimitris Stevis and Agni Kalfagianni. What is planetary justice? doi.org/10.1080/0964...
screenshot of title and abstract which reads: To reconsider the meaning of justice in a planetary frame is both a necessity in our time of multiple entangled crises and an endeavour that seeks convergence and synthesis where there might instead be irreconcilable differences. We invited scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to share their perspectives on the scope, scale, and purpose of planetary justice and received a variety of responses – all highly worthwhile in their own right. What we can conclude from this new milestone in the literature on planetary justice is that people emphasize different justice concerns and operate with different ontologies. Are the Earth system and the pluriverse opposing frameworks or somehow reconcilable? What concerns should be prioritized is also contested. Can there be a decolonial, multispecies, Earth systemic, justice that begins with the self and where matter is included in our sphere of justice?
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
What is planetary justice? Here's a link that provides free access to the intro I co-authored with D Stevis and A Kalfagianni for our upcoming SI on Planetary Justice with @environmentalpol.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RVWGU...
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What is planetary justice?
To reconsider the meaning of justice in a planetary frame is both a necessity in our time of multiple entangled crises and an endeavour that seeks convergence and synthesis where there might instea...
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Hi, I’ve sent you my email (via LinkedIn). Hope to hear from you soon.
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Hi Tim, that’s great to see. I’m currently visiting @seisydney.bsky.social so maybe we could do a coffee or a zoom while I’m here (before 11 Nov)? In any case, I’ll now read some of your work and good to connect.
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
Agree. Ian Manners' 'Planetary Politics in the Twenty-Second Century' is also worth a read, especially for the part on what a 'symbiotic world' might look like link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Planetary Politics in the Twenty-Second Century
After two centuries of immanent planetary politics, by the twenty-second century the politics had become planetary. This means that since the 2020s political analysis encompasses the entire spher...
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
This is an interesting blog/introduction of an SI on "The Arrival of Planetary Politics" by Ian Manners and others: jcms.ideasoneurope.eu/2024/08/28/j...
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JCMS 20th Anniversary Symposium: What does the Arrival of Planetary Politics tell us about normative power and the European Union?
by Dr Maxine David (Leiden University), Professor Roberta Guerrina (University of Bristol), Professor Ian Manners (Lund University), Professor Kalypso Nicolaïdis (European University Institute), Profe...
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
My latest publication is now out with Environmental Values. This fruit of a collaboration with Jeremy Bendik-Keymer will be of interest to anyone interested in the disruptive potential of planetary ideas: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... (or you can alternatively DM me if you would like a pdf).
a picture of the abstract for the journal article Introducing geological wonder: Planetary thinking as a disruption of narcissism (that the link is to)
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
'Will a planetary federation save Earth?' my podcast interview with Lisa Camillo on Are We F#ed? A Climate Shitshow is now available on YouTube youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Are we fkd? How to survive a Climate Shitshow
We have created a new podcast to ease your climate-anxiety and if you don't have it yet, you should and be ready for it, by listening to our amazing guests! ...
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
'Will a planetary federation save Earth?' my podcast interview with Lisa Camillo on Are We F#ed? A Climate Shitshow is now available on Spotify open.spotify.com/show/2VpExic...
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Are we f#ed? How to survive a climate Shit-Show
Podcast · [object Object] · On 'Are We F..ed?', we tackle the pressing challenges of climate collapse with a blend of reality-check, practicality and humor. In a world teetering on the brink of climat...
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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 11/07/2024
New article from Agni Kalfagianni, Stefan Pedersen & Dimitris Stevis. This is a framing article from an upcoming SI on 'planetary justice'. It focuses on three themes: scope, scale, and ecosocial purpose of planetary justice. doi.org/10.1080/0964...
screenshot of abstract and title for article 'Planetary justice: a systematic analysis of an emerging discourse'
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 04/07/2024
You can now read my new article on planetary justice published by @environmentalpol.bsky.social and co-authored with Agni Kalfagianni and Dimitris Stevis. Available open access doi.org/10.1080/0964... #envhum #envhist
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Planetary justice: a systematic analysis of an emerging discourse [8403]
Justice concerns have been central to contemporary social and ecological debates for decades but have only recently made inroads into the Earth system centric discourses on the Anthropocene and pla...
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 16/04/2024
The third "Exploring Planetary Justice" webinar will be held next Tuesday, 23 April. This time with views from Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. With Grettel Navas, Sofia Avila, Celia Ruiz de Oña, and Gustavo Garcia. Moderated by Ignacio Rubio Carriquiriborde. You can register here👇
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Exploring Planetary Justice: Views from Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean
Exploring Planetary Justice: Views from Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean | Earth System Governance
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
The basic idea is this "we are planetary, we are biospheric, and we are Earthlings – and the politics of humanity will have to adjust to this fast" From my new blog for the Streit Council on "Planetary Federalism and Union - within the Biosphere - Now" www.streitcouncil.org/post/planeta...
Pictures of the Earth and a metropolitan area from space on different sides of a figure of a circle divided into three slices marked respectively with "Individual Earthlings" "Planetary Regions" and "Planet Federation" which in turn balances on a rectangle with the text "Biosphere Grounding"
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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
Damning new details raise doubt about the scientific integrity of the “alleged” vote of the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy on the Anthropocene. This is the greatest scientific controversy in generations.
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Anti-Anthropocene vote is ‘null and void’ | Climate & Capitalism
Commission chairs say organizers of ballot violated statutes and ignored scientific evidence…
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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
I am hiring three (3!) postdocs for 3 years to work with me on the Visions for the Future Project, in which we will examine proposals for alternative socio-economic systems. The Ethics Institute at Utrecht University is a great place to work! www.uu.nl/organisatie/...
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Stefan Pedersen @stefanpedersen.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
Some books relevant to the subject of "planetary politics" from recent years I would recommend: Rediscovering Earth (Dunker 2020), Planetary Social Thought (Clark & Szerszynski 2021), On the Emergence of an Ecological Class (Latour & Schultz 2022), and One Planet, Many Worlds (Chakrabarty 2023).
Conversations with Anders Dunker: Rediscovering Earth. Featuring Dipesh Chakrabarty, Vandana Shiva, Bruno Latour, Kim Stanley Robinson, and others.Planetary Social Thought: The Anthropocene Challenge to the Social Sciences. By Nigel Clark and Bronislaw Szerszynski.One Planet, Many Worlds: The Climate Parallax. Dipesh Chakrabarty.On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: A Memo. By Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schultz.
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