Assistant professor at SciencesPo; environmental politics; climate change; social movements; political participation; cities; climbing
Dec 28, 2022 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
OUT NOW! In this article for Geoforum @ClimateJens and I dig into a tension we often observe among climate activists: they continue campaigning for climate mitigation even though they express no longer believing that climate change can be kept within safe boundaries
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They thus combine apocalyptic strategies that assume the apocalypse can still be prevented with postapocalyptic narratives that assume the apocalypse is already here or unavoidable (2/20)
Oct 28, 2022 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
Colleagues have commented on the legitimacy & effectiveness of recent climate actions like #SoupGate & #MashedMonet using general social movement theory. But can climate activism really be understood like other movements? I argue it cannot as I give my take on the matter👇👇 1/14
Preamble: A good example of such a discussion is
