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Week in review! Subscribe for a short weekly round up.

This week we have published two research articles, the last of the year. I’m also using this opportunity to say goodbye.

The new Social Media Editor will be back in the new year!

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The last post before Christmas - and a goodbye from the Social Media Editor!
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December 23, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Repression & criminalisation of climate & environmental protest is an eco-system of state & non-state actors, laws and legal processes, social and media discourses that deplete, deter and delegitimise protest, and distract attention from violent or harmful political structures.
December 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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New article!

The global criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest – a repertoire of repression by
@crossdale.bsky.social @berglundoscar.bsky.social Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social & Tie Franco Brotto.

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This paper sets out a repertoire of repression operating to criminalise and repress recent climate and environmental protest globally. Deploying a novel mixed methods approach, involving a comparative quantitative and qualitative analysis of a sample of 14 countries, we identify that repression and criminalisation are global phenomena – spanning the Global South and North. The repertoire of repression includes: i) enactments of new anti-protest laws; ii) creative and strategic use of existing legislation and legal processes; iii) police action, such as arrests, surveillance, harassment and other forms of police violence; iv) disappearances and killings; and v) vilification. We argue that this repression is a complex eco-system involving state and non-state actors, laws and legal processes, social and media discourses which operate to deplete, deter and delegitimise protest, and distract attention from violent or harmful political structures.
December 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Week in review! Subscribe for a short weekly round up.

This week we have published two research articles, the last of the year. I’m also using this opportunity to say goodbye.

The new Social Media Editor will be back in the new year!

environmentalpoliticsjournal.substack.com/p/week-in-re...
Week in review for Environmental Politics
The last post before Christmas - and a goodbye from the Social Media Editor!
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December 23, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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New article!

The global criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest – a repertoire of repression by
@crossdale.bsky.social @berglundoscar.bsky.social Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social & Tie Franco Brotto.

doi.org/10.1080/0964...
This paper sets out a repertoire of repression operating to criminalise and repress recent climate and environmental protest globally. Deploying a novel mixed methods approach, involving a comparative quantitative and qualitative analysis of a sample of 14 countries, we identify that repression and criminalisation are global phenomena – spanning the Global South and North. The repertoire of repression includes: i) enactments of new anti-protest laws; ii) creative and strategic use of existing legislation and legal processes; iii) police action, such as arrests, surveillance, harassment and other forms of police violence; iv) disappearances and killings; and v) vilification. We argue that this repression is a complex eco-system involving state and non-state actors, laws and legal processes, social and media discourses which operate to deplete, deter and delegitimise protest, and distract attention from violent or harmful political structures.
December 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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New article!

“Nodding through” instead of decision-making: power in participatory governance of the coal phase-out in Lusatia, Germany by Alexandra Krumm, Nora Stognief & Maren Krätzschmar.

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Participatory processes have become central to environmental governance, particularly in regions undergoing socio-economic transformations due to phase-outs. We examine how power dynamics shape civil society participation in decision-making processes within the context of the German coal phase-out. In the coal region Lusatia, local actor participation is a key factor in selecting projects to be funded with the federal states’ share of the structural reorientation funds. Drawing on semi-structured interviews, we analyze how power was exercised in participatory governance processes in Lusatia and the implications for civil society actors. Findings reveal discrepancies between the rhetoric and implementation of participation: public actors dominate decision-making, relegating non-state actors to a passive role in approving proposals. By highlighting the challenges of participatory governance in contexts characterized by historical economic decline, top-down management, and public disillusionment, our findings contribute to broader debates about the role of power in environmental governance and the politics of phase-out.
December 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Participation is a popular element of phase-out governance. But does it actually give a voice to civil society actors? This study of transition funding in the coal region of Lusatia, Germany, highlights the importance of power dynamics in participatory governance.
December 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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New article!

“Nodding through” instead of decision-making: power in participatory governance of the coal phase-out in Lusatia, Germany by Alexandra Krumm, Nora Stognief & Maren Krätzschmar.

doi.org/10.1080/0964...
Participatory processes have become central to environmental governance, particularly in regions undergoing socio-economic transformations due to phase-outs. We examine how power dynamics shape civil society participation in decision-making processes within the context of the German coal phase-out. In the coal region Lusatia, local actor participation is a key factor in selecting projects to be funded with the federal states’ share of the structural reorientation funds. Drawing on semi-structured interviews, we analyze how power was exercised in participatory governance processes in Lusatia and the implications for civil society actors. Findings reveal discrepancies between the rhetoric and implementation of participation: public actors dominate decision-making, relegating non-state actors to a passive role in approving proposals. By highlighting the challenges of participatory governance in contexts characterized by historical economic decline, top-down management, and public disillusionment, our findings contribute to broader debates about the role of power in environmental governance and the politics of phase-out.
December 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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This week we have published two research articles, two book reviews, and a guest post.

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December 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Drawing on critical discourse analysis and Marxian geographical thought, this article seeks to show how the argumentation for sustainability in EU freight policy underpins capital reproduction.
December 19, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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New article!

Fossil and friction free: a critical discourse analysis of sustainability in EU freight policy by Christina Gratorp / @cyborgchris.bsky.social

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ABSTRACT Policy on greening freight constitutes a recent addition to the discourse on sustainability in the EU. To stimulate economic growth, the EU also plans for freight transport activity to grow significantly over the coming decades. In this paper, drawing on critical discourse analysis and Marxian geographical thought, I show how the argument for implementing sustainable freight is constructed in EU freight policy and analyse its contribution to capital reproduction. I find a dominating argument that, by promoting green expansion legitimized by clean technologies, underpins actions that reshape geographies to the demands of circulation, commerce and trade while reproducing conditions of crisis. Thus, EU freight policy harbors contradictions between sustainability and growth that are only discursively resolved.
December 19, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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My brilliant friend and colleague @cyborgchris.bsky.social new article is out!
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New article!

Fossil and friction free: a critical discourse analysis of sustainability in EU freight policy by Christina Gratorp / @cyborgchris.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/0964...
ABSTRACT Policy on greening freight constitutes a recent addition to the discourse on sustainability in the EU. To stimulate economic growth, the EU also plans for freight transport activity to grow significantly over the coming decades. In this paper, drawing on critical discourse analysis and Marxian geographical thought, I show how the argument for implementing sustainable freight is constructed in EU freight policy and analyse its contribution to capital reproduction. I find a dominating argument that, by promoting green expansion legitimized by clean technologies, underpins actions that reshape geographies to the demands of circulation, commerce and trade while reproducing conditions of crisis. Thus, EU freight policy harbors contradictions between sustainability and growth that are only discursively resolved.
December 19, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Week in review! Subscribe for a short weekly round up.

This week we have published two research articles, two book reviews, and a guest post.

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Week in review for Environmental Politics
The Friday Post
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December 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
environmentalpol.bsky.social
New article!

Fossil and friction free: a critical discourse analysis of sustainability in EU freight policy by Christina Gratorp / @cyborgchris.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/0964...
ABSTRACT Policy on greening freight constitutes a recent addition to the discourse on sustainability in the EU. To stimulate economic growth, the EU also plans for freight transport activity to grow significantly over the coming decades. In this paper, drawing on critical discourse analysis and Marxian geographical thought, I show how the argument for implementing sustainable freight is constructed in EU freight policy and analyse its contribution to capital reproduction. I find a dominating argument that, by promoting green expansion legitimized by clean technologies, underpins actions that reshape geographies to the demands of circulation, commerce and trade while reproducing conditions of crisis. Thus, EU freight policy harbors contradictions between sustainability and growth that are only discursively resolved.
December 19, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Great news article based on our @environmentalpol.bsky.social article on criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest
December 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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This interview relates to the research and findings of his recent article, co-authored with Adrienne de Ruiter and Christoph Henning: Where to aim with multispecies climate justice? A critical realist account. doi.org/10.1080/0964...
Where to aim with multispecies climate justice? A critical realist account
Climate justice has become a key concept in addressing normative challenges in climate change and related policies. However, most applications of the term have remained anthropocentric. The multisp...
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December 18, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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New guest post!

Julian van Vugt discusses the importance of taking relationality between human and non-human entities as a foundation for building a more inclusive theory of climate justice, whilst also retaining analytical separation.

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A critical realist account of relationality and multispecies justice: In this interview, Julian van Vugt discusses the research and findings of his recent article in Environmental Politics, co-authored with Adrienne de Ruiter and Christoph Henning: Where to aim with multispecies climate justice? A critical realist account.
December 18, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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New guest post!

Julian van Vugt discusses the importance of taking relationality between human and non-human entities as a foundation for building a more inclusive theory of climate justice, whilst also retaining analytical separation.

environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/interviews/a...
A critical realist account of relationality and multispecies justice: In this interview, Julian van Vugt discusses the research and findings of his recent article in Environmental Politics, co-authored with Adrienne de Ruiter and Christoph Henning: Where to aim with multispecies climate justice? A critical realist account.
December 18, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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New paper out with @stevefisher.bsky.social at @environmentalpol.bsky.social.

We use @ess-survey.bsky.social from 2016-17 and 2020-22 to show how climate worry rose across Europe, and in Western Europe especially so for left individuals and voters of left parties.

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Europeans’ climate consciousness: increased yet more politicised
As climate change became more important to voters and political parties in the late 2010s in Europe, this paper asks whether aspects of public opinion on the issue also became more politicised, in ...
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December 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Chipato and Chandler’s book is a powerful and timely intervention that challenges IR to confront its foundational disavowals. It does not offer easy ways out, nor does it seek to. Instead, it insists on the necessity of staying with the discomfort of critique...
December 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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New book review!

Race in the Anthropocene: coloniality, disavowal and the Black Horizon, by Farai Chipato and David Chandler. Reviewed by Elisa Randazzo.

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December 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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📢 New publication alert: "The losers of ecological transitions: rural and urban support for green policies in Spain" by @martavallve.bsky.social & @evaanduiza.bsky.social in @environmentalpol.bsky.social

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December 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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New paper, with @johnkenny.bsky.social, shows politicisation of climate change attitudes in Europe from 2016 to 2022 increased mostly because of greater climate consciousness among those on the left rather than less among those on the right:

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Europeans’ climate consciousness: increased yet more politicised
As climate change became more important to voters and political parties in the late 2010s in Europe, this paper asks whether aspects of public opinion on the issue also became more politicised, in ...
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December 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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New book review!

Race in the Anthropocene: coloniality, disavowal and the Black Horizon, by Farai Chipato and David Chandler. Reviewed by Elisa Randazzo.

doi.org/10.1080/0964...
December 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Why do rural dwellers show lower support for green policies? Is it because they prioritise the environment less over material goals, or because they perceive higher costs of green policies? Check out our new article! @environmentalpol.bsky.social @evaanduiza.bsky.social tuit.cat/OP6Ph
The losers of ecological transitions: rural and urban support for green policies in Spain
Green policies can be contentious, with opposition often highlighting rural-urban divides. In this article we measure and analyse the perceptions of harm associated with several green policies (ren...
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December 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM