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Charlotte Weatherill
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Lecturer in Politics & International Studies at OU
Climate politics - vulnerability - islands
Social media editor for @environmentalpol.bsky.social
Convener of @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
Shamblin’s conversation partner wasn’t a classmate or friend – it was ChatGPT, the world’s most popular AI chatbot. A CNN review of nearly 70 pages of chats between Shamblin and the AI tool in the hours before his July 25 suicide, as well as excerpts from thousands more pages in the months leading up to that night, found that the chatbot repeatedly encouraged the young man as he discussed ending his life – right up to his last moments.
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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environmentalpol.bsky.social
Farewell interview with departing editor @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social!

In this interview, Sherilyn reflects on her time with EP, some highlights of her experience, and some advice for people who might wish to be a journal editor in future.

environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/editorial-an...
Editor with Environmental Politics since 2020, Sherilyn MacGregor is now ending her tenure. In this interview she reflects on her time with EP, some highlights of her experience, and some advice for people who might wish to be a journal editor in future.
November 7, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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jenirisallan.bsky.social
3. The size - what are 60,000 people doing there? The negotiations will be focused on a few implementation issues & stalemated issues.

Are the other 52,000 people there for speeches and panels? How does that help the climate?
October 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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tom-cb.bsky.social
My latest article, with the fantastic @alexheffron.bsky.social has just been published. Looking how Reform UK are trying to turn placement of Solar Panels on farmland in a rural culture war and wedge issue.

theconversation.com/you-cant-eat...
‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became Britain’s latest culture war
Reform UK is exploiting opposition to solar panels – but most farmers are more worried about climate change.
theconversation.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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mybisa.bsky.social
This weekend is the LAST WEEKEND for #BISA2026 conference submissions! 🚨

Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions 🎉

Make sure to submit your papers now 👉 https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers-0

VisitBrighton Simon Rushton @julietdryden.bsky.social
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October 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social
New blog from @peternewell.bsky.social

'States of transition? From governing the environment to transforming society.'

What is the role of the state in supporting transitions and deeper transformations towards a more sustainable world?

www.bisa.ac.uk/articles/sta...
States of transition? From governing the environment to transforming society- Environment and Climate Politics | BISA
- Environment and Climate Politics Working Group
www.bisa.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 7:39 AM
ckweatherill.bsky.social
Words feel insufficient at best, if not downright insulting.
October 30, 2025 at 6:05 AM
ckweatherill.bsky.social
Horrors on horrors on horrors. With absolutely no idea what to do except say out loud that this mustn't be allowed to continue. Yet our governments are actively complicit and undemocratic in their disregard for what most people want the world to be.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
‘A true genocide’: RSF kills ‘at least 1,500 people’ in Sudan’s el-Fasher
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkiye, Jordan and Qatar express alarm as more evidence emerges of mass killings by paramilitary forces in Sudan's in el-Fasher.
www.aljazeera.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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nanjala.bsky.social
If you’re looking for a way to support Sudanese people, please consider giving to the Sudan Solidarity Collective.

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Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective
Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...
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October 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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mybisa.bsky.social
'Alternative ecological futures: Art climate change & the radical imagination' new event with Environment and Climate Politics Working Group 🌳

Bringing together Carl Death, Audra Mitchell, Farai Chipato & Cara Berger Hannah Hughes at this roundtable to discuss 🌟

Sign up 👉 https://ow.ly/Y56j50XjGl9
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October 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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sarahgharib.bsky.social
Our @mybisa.bsky.social CPD annual workshop will be happening on 1 December, on Recalibrating our ethical compass: academia in times of crisis. You can find the full CfP below and attached – the deadline for expressions of interest is 5 November 2025!

@niharikaan.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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marymenton.bsky.social
Ecofeminist Revolutionary Struggles Amid Extractivist Conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda doi.org/10.1080/1045...
Ecofeminist Revolutionary Struggles Amid Extractivist Conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda
This article investigates how, against the extractivist legacy of colonialism and the extractivist activities currently under way in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda, the ecofe...
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October 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social
Call for papers deadline for #BISA2026 is a week today - 3rd November!

Coming to Brighton next June?

Make sure you submit your papers / panels / roundtables before the deadline! And choose our track!

conference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers-0
Call for papers
The call for papers for the BISA 2026 conference taking place in Brighton in June 2026.
conference.bisa.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social
If you're submitting an abstract for this, please do so by Friday.

That gives us time before the BISA deadline to read through the papers and then let everyone know so that you can submit your abstract as a single paper if you'd like to.
bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social Environment and Climate Politics Working Group @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social · Oct 8
Call for Papers for #BISA2026!

Exploring the relationship between imperialism, coloniality and environmental degradation.

This is a joint call with Colonial, Postcolonial & Decolonial WG, recognising that important work is being done at the intersection of our groups.

Deadline Friday 24 October.
Exploring the relationship between imperialism, coloniality and environmental degradation Joint Call for Papers from the Colonial, Postcolonial, and Decolonial Working Group and Environment and Climate Politics Working Group We are putting out this joint call in recognition that many researchers are working at the intersection of our two working groups - and during a time when the realities of this intersection between colonialism, empire, and the environment have never been more clear. This moment makes evident the interconnections between militarism and settler colonialism and genocide and ecocide, and therefore the need to situate our knowledge and approaches within anticolonial, indigenous and translocal perspectives. Recognising the importance of scholarship that addresses these issues, we are calling for papers for BISA2026 that are related to the topics of how imperialism / colonialism / extraction / capitalism are in relationship with environmental degradation. This can be on a material level, where the functions of occupation and extraction lead to environmental destruction, or on a more discursive level, where hierarchies of life are used to justify and naturalise ongoing violence against people and places. Whilst we are keeping this Call quite broad to encourage wide-ranging submissions, some paper topics or research areas might include: • Genocide and its links to environmental destruction, for example in Palestine, DR Congo, and Sudan, to name a few. • Ecological imperialism – theoretical contributions or case studies • Reparative justice and climate change • The construction of new ‘frontiers’ – how imperialism and extraction is moving to new areas such as the deep sea or space • Anticolonial and anti-extractive organising and decarbonization and fossil fuel phase outs • Indigenous approaches on relationality, connectedness and climate justice • The role of academics in perpetuating or resisting these forms of harm Please send your 200-250 word abstrac…
October 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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tom-cb.bsky.social
Still a few days to submit your abstracts for this at #BISA2026
ckweatherill.bsky.social Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · Oct 9
Another Call for Papers for #BISA2026 (3rd-5th June, Brighton), this time for a panel I'm organising with @tom-cb.bsky.social. Deadline 24th Oct.

Gender and resistance in environmental politics: This panel will explore how gender relates to resistance against env harm AND resistance to transition.
We are putting out this Call for Papers for BISA2026 in search of people who are researching the connection between gender and resistance in the field of environmental politics. This call comes at a time of (at least) two forms of gendered resistance: 1. Growing resistance to measures that combat climate change and environmental destruction, a form of resistance that is often masculinised 2. Ongoing resistance against environmental destruction, a form of resistance that is both discursively constructed as feminine and that manifests as a form of burden that is often borne by women and other marginalised peoples Against a backdrop of the target of 1.5 degrees warming looking increasingly unlikely, and a ‘green’ transition currently reliant on new geographies of environmental and human harm and exploitation, any meaningful progress towards global environmental targets is stalling. Resistance to these forms of harm and efforts to transition away from fossil fuels are at a critical juncture. At the same time, there is a surging right-wing politics globally, part of which acts as a defence of industry and environmental harm. This form of resistance is directed at transition itself. We invite papers which explore the intersections of gender and resistance in relation to environment or climate politics. Approaches might include ecofeminism, political ecology, and feminist political economy. Some papers which participants might engage with: • Petro-masculinity: Fossil fuels and authoritarian desire (Daggett, 2018) • Feminist approaches to environmental politics (Lawrence et al, 2025) • ‘Gender and climate change’: from impacts to discourses (MacGregor, 2010) • Colonial erasures in gender and climate change solutions (Resurrección, 2024) Please send your 200 word abstracts to t.n.brookes@keele.ac.uk and weatherillck@outlook.com by 24th October along with your name, affiliation, career stage and geographical location.
October 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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ebonyyoung.bsky.social
Re-posting this one ahead of the deadline on Friday - CfP on posthuman IR for BISA 2026!
ebonyyoung.bsky.social Ebony Young @ebonyyoung.bsky.social · Oct 10
Call for Papers! Excited to be putting together a panel on more-than-human and posthuman IR for the BISA 2026 conference. Deadline Fri 24 Oct - details below. Please reach out with any queries
A screenshot of the Call for Papers - please message me for the text version
October 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
ckweatherill.bsky.social
If you're sending us an abstract for this, please do so by Friday!

That gives us time before the BISA deadline to read through the papers and then let everyone know so that you can submit your abstract as a single paper if you'd like to.
ckweatherill.bsky.social Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · Oct 9
Another Call for Papers for #BISA2026 (3rd-5th June, Brighton), this time for a panel I'm organising with @tom-cb.bsky.social. Deadline 24th Oct.

Gender and resistance in environmental politics: This panel will explore how gender relates to resistance against env harm AND resistance to transition.
We are putting out this Call for Papers for BISA2026 in search of people who are researching the connection between gender and resistance in the field of environmental politics. This call comes at a time of (at least) two forms of gendered resistance: 1. Growing resistance to measures that combat climate change and environmental destruction, a form of resistance that is often masculinised 2. Ongoing resistance against environmental destruction, a form of resistance that is both discursively constructed as feminine and that manifests as a form of burden that is often borne by women and other marginalised peoples Against a backdrop of the target of 1.5 degrees warming looking increasingly unlikely, and a ‘green’ transition currently reliant on new geographies of environmental and human harm and exploitation, any meaningful progress towards global environmental targets is stalling. Resistance to these forms of harm and efforts to transition away from fossil fuels are at a critical juncture. At the same time, there is a surging right-wing politics globally, part of which acts as a defence of industry and environmental harm. This form of resistance is directed at transition itself. We invite papers which explore the intersections of gender and resistance in relation to environment or climate politics. Approaches might include ecofeminism, political ecology, and feminist political economy. Some papers which participants might engage with: • Petro-masculinity: Fossil fuels and authoritarian desire (Daggett, 2018) • Feminist approaches to environmental politics (Lawrence et al, 2025) • ‘Gender and climate change’: from impacts to discourses (MacGregor, 2010) • Colonial erasures in gender and climate change solutions (Resurrección, 2024) Please send your 200 word abstracts to t.n.brookes@keele.ac.uk and weatherillck@outlook.com by 24th October along with your name, affiliation, career stage and geographical location.
October 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social
We will shortly be emailing members with CfPs and conference advice so two things -

1) if you have a last minute CfPs, email it to us quick!

2) if you're a BISA member then join the working group to get the email - there is no limit on how many wgs you can join

www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
Environment and Climate Politics
The new Environment and Climate Politics Working Group is a group that encompasses all research and researchers who share a commitment and concern for tackling questions of environment and climate pol...
www.bisa.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social
📣Today! See you at 1pm BST!

www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy- Environment and Climate Politics | BISA
- Environment and Climate Politics Working Group
www.bisa.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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mybisa.bsky.social
Last chance to sign up for tomorrow's Environment and Climate Politics Working Group event 🌳

Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy w/ Rosaleen Duffy Jane Clarke and Kai Heron 🎉

Thinking about your future in environmental research? Register now 👉 https://ow.ly/vtL050Xce84
Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy- Environment and Climate Politics | BISA
- Environment and Climate Politics Working Group
ow.ly
October 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social
Planning an environment / climate politics panel for #BISA2026?

Send us your Call for Papers this week and we'll circulate them in a member email on Monday!
October 16, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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alexheffron.bsky.social
Call for papers for POLLEN26: Returning to the Agrarian Question in the North

Any questions get in touch!
P090 Propose Returning to The Agrarian Question in the North Convenors: Donatella Gasparro (Scuola Normale Superiore) Alex Heffron (Lancaster University) Format: Panel Returning to The Agrarian Question in the North. Panel P090 at conference Pollen2026: Diverse Origins, Multiple Futures: The Stories of Political Ecology. https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/pollen2026/p/17527 show panel on own page Open an email with this panel link Share this panel Format/structure Open panel. 10-15 minutes presentations plus ample time for discussion among panelists and with the audience. Description The agrarian question, in its plural articulations and reinterpretations, has been central to both critical agrarian studies and political ecology; yet, its contemporary understandings, analytics, and geographies tend to treat it as an almost Global South-exclusive problematique. As Global North scholars, activists and farmers, working on land, peasantries, agrarian economies and rural futures, we aim to contribute to the conversation that seeks to ‘reopen’ the agrarian question in the North, with a focus on European countrysides, but in radical alliance with majority world Indigenous, peasant and land struggles. The intent is twofold: on the one hand, bringing back into the conversation European ruralities and agrarian economies, their crises, their politics and their potential for socio-ecological transformation; on the other, rethinking agricultural (re)production, dependencies, (agro)ecologies, and labour in the North in radical alliance with delinking, liberation, self- We are interested in proposals that explore the agrarian question in Europe, starting from (yet not limited to) themes such as: - Northern agrarian metabolisms and their colonial patterns: migrant labour, core-periphery relations (also with internal peripheries); dependencies in the agri-food system; global value, labour and care chains; - Reclaiming rural Europe from the Right: reactionary politics versus ecosocialist potentials; - Why are people “still” farming? Desire, affect, and the “peasant principle”; - (Migrant) worker solidarity in the agri-food system; - Property and its transformations; - The “agrarian question of climate change” (as termed by Paprocki & McCarthy); green transitions and their impacts on agrarian communities; - Political agroecology, socio-ecological reproduction and food sovereignty for the North, beyond localisms.
October 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
ckweatherill.bsky.social
Submissions invited for #POLLEN2026 for the panel: Colonial histories and climate futures: critical perspectives on vulnerability.

We are particularly interested in papers that draw together themes of climate-induced im/mobilities & vulnerabilisation.

nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...
Description This panel brings together theoretical approaches and case studies at the intersection of climate change, human (im)mobility and vulnerability. We aim to critically discuss how colonial and neocolonial systems contribute to geographic, economic, and social inequalities in the context of increasing climate change impacts, thereby making a contribution to both climate justice and political ecology debates. We invite papers which critically examine dominant discourses that ascribe vulnerability to so-called “at-risk” populations and explore alternative epistemologies of survival, resistance and political agency. We are particularly interested in papers that draw together two themes: Climate-induced (im)mobilities, and vulnerabilisation.
October 15, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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ckweatherill.bsky.social
Everything is slightly out of hand right now. I'm circulating:

- Job ad for social media editor (15th Oct)
- Event for ECP WG (17th Oct)
- Two CfPs for BISA (24th Oct)
- CfP for POLLEN (1st Dec)

Going to put links and info on all of this below, partly so I don't lose track.
October 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM