it's not doom if it's the best case scenario
Authors: Camille Barbagallo and Nicholas Beuret Vol. 11 No. 1 | Winter/Spring 2025: A Lexicon for Bridging Decolonial Queer Feminisms and Materialist Feminisms Everyone seemingly knows what a strike is – it refers to the withdrawal of labor or, to speak plainly, not going to work. We can locate the strike in the labor struggles…
Published: Environment and Planning E, 2023 Abstract: Stories about the end of the world continue to pile up daily. There isn’t any sense of respite from the litany of horrors we are presented with. The eerie atmosphere of ecological catastrophe colonises our political imaginations. Understanding how we collectively imagine the end of the world, and…
Authors: Giovanni Bettini, Nicholas Beuret and Ethemcan TurhanPublished: ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geographies 2021 Abstract: Migration and climate change are hot topics generating widespread concerns and fears in European public opinion. However, a striking difference between them is the ‘efficacy’ of the fears that surround the two topics. For migration, the spectre of…
Published: Environment and Planning E, 2020 Abstract: The only existing plans to arrest dangerous climate change depend on either yet to be invented technologies to keep us below 2 C or on crashing the world economy for decades to come. The political choice appears to be between doing what is scientifically necessary or what is…
Authors: A Kanngieser and Nicholas BeuretSouth Atlantic Quarterly April 2017 Abstract: This essay establishes silence as an ethical-political response to the Anthropocene. Silence is key to the making of commons, which frames the reinvention of ways of living and relating as a necessary response to the Anthropocene moment. Drawing from and intervening in autonomist Marxist…
Published: Antipode 2017 Abstract: The environmental movement in the global North is in a state of impasse. It appears that despite the renewed international focus on climate change, and the actions of innumerable social movements, a ” solution ” to the problem appears as one, without a viable solution. It is the contention of this…
PhD Thesis, University of Leicester 2016 This thesis explores the role of the catastrophic imaginary in shaping environmental praxis in the UK. Confronted by the threat of a looming climate change catastrophe, environmentalism in the global North is caught in a state of impasse. Despite numerous organising attempts no mass climate change movement has emerged…