The fourth book I’m reading this month is The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer (2021).

Some of Greer's language and framings are now dated and unacceptable; she appears to lack empathy and understanding of lived experience in all its diversity. So why read this book, 55 years on?

Third cab off the rank – I’m reading David Graeber’s (2014) Debt.

Three reasons why this book is on my list:

My second book is The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Engels Friedrich (2010) – the manifesto itself and an introduction and notes.

In the 21st century, why on earth am I reading The Communist Manifesto?!! Here are three reasons, which I’m sure others can add too.

In modern academic life, reading a whole book is a radical act. Unfortunate, but true. So, I’ve dedicated the next 4 weeks to reading.

My first book? Pete Hay's (2002) Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought. UNSW Press.

Why read this book?

It's too late to avoid civilizational collapse. Or is it?

The Beaker Street Festival Great Debate is now live on ABC's Big Ideas. 'The Transformers' and 'The Three Horsewomen of the Apocalypse' battled it out, and who won? Spoiler alert - my horsey team!

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

I call myself an 'academic activist.' But what does that mean?

The ideas embedded within @justcollapse.bsky.social come from human geography and allied fields. This is critical geography in action - mixing academic life with activist intent with some surprising results!

Interested in doing a PhD?

Geographies of Collapse and Equity: This is your opportunity to design a project within critical collapse studies – a leftist, intellectual concern with power and inequity in everyday life and a collapsing world.

www.utas.edu.au/research/deg...

Is it the end of the world? Have our multi-crises of climate change, over-consumption etc brought us to the brink?

Join two teams of science and culture heavy hitters for this battle of brains and bravado. Yes, that includes me - on the affirmative team!

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New research: “aimed at reducing oppression during crises… mutually beneficial networks of skills and resources…the possibility of enduring within instability, adapting to conditions that may continue to deteriorate, even to the ultimate outcome of species extinction” @hopeforfuture1.bsky.social
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It's here! I'm thrilled to share my latest publication in Critical and Radical Social Work - “Collapsed Social Work: A Theoretical Framework for Adapting to Societal Collapse.”
This paper asks a unnerving but necessary question: What happens to social work when society itself begins to break down?

Great to have our paper selected!

Right now, it’s not insurance companies we should worry about. It is the unfolding, real-time collapse of insurance for households, businesses and communities.

In a changing climate, are we veering towards a collapse of insurance?

"...it is not a future crash of insurers that should be of primary concern. It is the real-time collapse of insurance for households, businesses and communities." #JustCollapse

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Grace and I are delighted this paper has received the 2025 Regional Studies Association Best Paper Award (Finance and Space)!

Thank you for the presentations 💛,
Kate Booth (@incollapse.bsky.social),
Tristan Sykes
and Tadzio Mueller (@tadziomueller.bsky.social)! #TalkCollapse

Will you upload a recording to #JustCollapse Youtube channel? It would be worth it. 🙏
@justcollapse.bsky.social

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This event may be of interest and worth sharing.
@pik-potsdam.bsky.social @cser.bsky.social @torchoxford.bsky.social @sthlmresilience.bsky.social

I’m proud to be hosting this free, online forum, asking the key question of our times, ‘This is Collapse - what do we do now?’

www.eventbrite.com.au/e/this-is-co...

New open access paper, 'Insurance in a changing climate: From commonsense to catastrophe'

How to read this paper: Non-academics may be interested in the section 'Emergent insurantial imaginary' - based on interviews with insurance professionals and householders.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Critical Collapse Studies research program: addressing the most difficult and controversial predicament of our times – global collapse, and uneven and unjust impacts on individuals, communities, nations, and regions around the world.

#InCollapse

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