Claire Blencowe
@claireblencowe.bsky.social
Professor of sociology at Warwick. Critical scholar of cultural and religious racism, extractive industries, racial capitalism, planetary crises & power/knowledge. Wanabe devotee of oceans, birds, & hope.
Super excited to discuss my new book Spirits of Extraction:Christianity, settler colonialism and the geology of race with these fantastic people! If you're at RGS_IBG on Friday please join us!
August 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Super excited to discuss my new book Spirits of Extraction:Christianity, settler colonialism and the geology of race with these fantastic people! If you're at RGS_IBG on Friday please join us!
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📢Our Racism, Resistance and Social change series publishes the most challenging scholarship on race, racism and ethnic relations - mapping their shifting forms in the contemporary age and recognising anti-racism as an intellectual and social movement.
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Find out about our Spring titles below!👇
April 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
📢Our Racism, Resistance and Social change series publishes the most challenging scholarship on race, racism and ethnic relations - mapping their shifting forms in the contemporary age and recognising anti-racism as an intellectual and social movement.
Find out about our Spring titles below!👇
Find out about our Spring titles below!👇
Reposted by Claire Blencowe
Research Fellow @jbrigstocke.bsky.social explores how communities in Brazil’s favelas establish forms of everyday community authority in response to the authoritarian violence of police and criminal groups. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... @cardiffuni.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Research Fellow @jbrigstocke.bsky.social explores how communities in Brazil’s favelas establish forms of everyday community authority in response to the authoritarian violence of police and criminal groups. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... @cardiffuni.bsky.social
Lovely write up of Alice Mah's new book. Congratulations Alice! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Red Pockets by Alice Mah review – finding hope amid the climate crisis
A professor’s quest to make sense of her eco-anxiety takes her from her ancestral village in China to Cop 26 and beyond
www.theguardian.com
May 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Lovely write up of Alice Mah's new book. Congratulations Alice! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
So happy to have this book finally winding it's way into the world. So many thanks and love to everyone @manchesterup.bsky.social @sociowarwick.bsky.social, and the students, friends and family that have carried it along its way.
💥Spirits of extraction by @claireblencowe.bsky.social provides a history of the role of Christianity in the expansion of the extraction industries, British imperialism and settler colonialism in #Britain and #Canada.
April 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
So happy to have this book finally winding it's way into the world. So many thanks and love to everyone @manchesterup.bsky.social @sociowarwick.bsky.social, and the students, friends and family that have carried it along its way.
Reposted by Claire Blencowe
💥Spirits of extraction by @claireblencowe.bsky.social provides a history of the role of Christianity in the expansion of the extraction industries, British imperialism and settler colonialism in #Britain and #Canada.
April 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
💥Spirits of extraction by @claireblencowe.bsky.social provides a history of the role of Christianity in the expansion of the extraction industries, British imperialism and settler colonialism in #Britain and #Canada.
Hello BlueSky! I'm moving beyond my Musk induced social media paralysis and looking forward to getting to know this space.
February 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Hello BlueSky! I'm moving beyond my Musk induced social media paralysis and looking forward to getting to know this space.