Kai Heron
@kaiheron.bsky.social
Lecturer in Political Ecology at Lancaster University. Co-author of "Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green and Democratic Future" (2025)
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How can we protect democracy from capital, not the other way around?
Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future @kaiheron.bsky.social @kmilb.bsky.social @bertrussell.bsky.social @abundance-org.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social reviewed by Ivan Radanović @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social
Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future @kaiheron.bsky.social @kmilb.bsky.social @bertrussell.bsky.social @abundance-org.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social reviewed by Ivan Radanović @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social
How to transition from capitalism’s scarcity to radical abundance - LSE Review of Books
Kai Heron, Keir Milburn & Bertie Russell's Radical Abundance calls for a transition from capitalism to a “radical abundance” that benefits people & the planet.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 18, 2026 at 3:01 PM
How can we protect democracy from capital, not the other way around?
Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future @kaiheron.bsky.social @kmilb.bsky.social @bertrussell.bsky.social @abundance-org.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social reviewed by Ivan Radanović @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social
Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future @kaiheron.bsky.social @kmilb.bsky.social @bertrussell.bsky.social @abundance-org.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social reviewed by Ivan Radanović @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social
"The US wants our riches—our oil and minerals—but we defend our sovereignty"
- Luisana Antúnez, a resident of Venezuela's Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune. venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/f...
- Luisana Antúnez, a resident of Venezuela's Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune. venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/f...
Fisherfolk Resisting Imperialism: The Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune (Part IV) - Venezuelanalysis
The US blockade brought much suffering to Lake Maracaibo communities, but people responded and resisted by deepening their bonds of solidarity and cooperation.
venezuelanalysis.com
January 3, 2026 at 11:49 AM
"The US wants our riches—our oil and minerals—but we defend our sovereignty"
- Luisana Antúnez, a resident of Venezuela's Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune. venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/f...
- Luisana Antúnez, a resident of Venezuela's Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune. venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/f...
Thanks, Carlos! Great to hear you're enjoying it.
December 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Thanks, Carlos! Great to hear you're enjoying it.
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This book by @kaiheron.bsky.social @kmilb.bsky.social ky.social @bertrussell.bsky.social is really interesting! Great read, with novel ideas
December 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This book by @kaiheron.bsky.social @kmilb.bsky.social ky.social @bertrussell.bsky.social is really interesting! Great read, with novel ideas
I don't know that many people have written about this? Max Ajl's important piece is the only one that comes to mind: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 5/5
Theories of Political Ecology: Monopoly Capital Against People and the Planet - Max Ajl, 2023
This article engages with and critiques dominant theories of political ecology. It takes the theory of ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) as the framework of c...
journals.sagepub.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I don't know that many people have written about this? Max Ajl's important piece is the only one that comes to mind: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 5/5
But unfortunately these perspectives are welcomed and rewarded in the Western academy far more than anti-imperialism, self-determination, and popular development. 4/5
December 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
But unfortunately these perspectives are welcomed and rewarded in the Western academy far more than anti-imperialism, self-determination, and popular development. 4/5
My hope is that the almost complete shift to research organised by the notions of post-development, the pluriverse, extractivism, and narrow treatments of decoloniality will be a temporary 'turn' in the field. 3/5
December 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
My hope is that the almost complete shift to research organised by the notions of post-development, the pluriverse, extractivism, and narrow treatments of decoloniality will be a temporary 'turn' in the field. 3/5
And this when an anti-imperialist, non-Eurocentric, Marxism rooted in Third World eco-social struggles and dynamics is gaining popularity among young scholars. 2/5
December 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
And this when an anti-imperialist, non-Eurocentric, Marxism rooted in Third World eco-social struggles and dynamics is gaining popularity among young scholars. 2/5
Marxism is foundational to the discipline of political ecology, and yet in the past few years there’s been a notable decline of Marxist perspectives in the discipline’s leading conferences and forthcoming handbooks. 1/5
December 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Marxism is foundational to the discipline of political ecology, and yet in the past few years there’s been a notable decline of Marxist perspectives in the discipline’s leading conferences and forthcoming handbooks. 1/5
This is probably my favourite comment from a review of Radical Abundance so far: “Struck a strange tone (not in a bad way) between policy/‘wonk’-ness while also engaging most seriously with communisation theory and their interpretation of secular stagnation of all things.”
December 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This is probably my favourite comment from a review of Radical Abundance so far: “Struck a strange tone (not in a bad way) between policy/‘wonk’-ness while also engaging most seriously with communisation theory and their interpretation of secular stagnation of all things.”
Thanks, Jonathan! I hope you enjoy.
December 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Thanks, Jonathan! I hope you enjoy.
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Article w/ Rory Rowan & Pat Brodie now online in the excellent SI of the Journal of Labor and Society edited by @kaiheron.bsky.social, @alejopedregal.bsky.social & Nemanja Lukić.
'Militarising FDI: Geopolitical Ecology, Dependency, and Ireland’s Twin Transition.'
brill.com/view/journal...
'Militarising FDI: Geopolitical Ecology, Dependency, and Ireland’s Twin Transition.'
brill.com/view/journal...
December 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Article w/ Rory Rowan & Pat Brodie now online in the excellent SI of the Journal of Labor and Society edited by @kaiheron.bsky.social, @alejopedregal.bsky.social & Nemanja Lukić.
'Militarising FDI: Geopolitical Ecology, Dependency, and Ireland’s Twin Transition.'
brill.com/view/journal...
'Militarising FDI: Geopolitical Ecology, Dependency, and Ireland’s Twin Transition.'
brill.com/view/journal...
Thanks, Lukas! I'd love to know more about you're working on.
December 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Thanks, Lukas! I'd love to know more about you're working on.
A huge thank you to all of our contributors and to the journal's editor-in-chief, Immanuel Ness, for his encouragement and support throughout.
December 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A huge thank you to all of our contributors and to the journal's editor-in-chief, Immanuel Ness, for his encouragement and support throughout.
9: @climatevanguard.bsky.social's commentary then closes out the special issue with a reflection on the strategies and tactics needed to tear down ecomodernist imperialism from within the imperial core itself. brill.com/view/journal...
December 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
9: @climatevanguard.bsky.social's commentary then closes out the special issue with a reflection on the strategies and tactics needed to tear down ecomodernist imperialism from within the imperial core itself. brill.com/view/journal...
8: Martín Lallana’s essay critically analyses the ecomodernist approach to just transitions widely adopted by trade unions in the imperial core before showcasing an eco-socialist alternative carved out by Basque labour organizations. brill.com/view/journal...
December 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
8: Martín Lallana’s essay critically analyses the ecomodernist approach to just transitions widely adopted by trade unions in the imperial core before showcasing an eco-socialist alternative carved out by Basque labour organizations. brill.com/view/journal...
7: @pbresnihan.bsky.social, Patrick Brodie and Rory Rowan's timely piece argues that southern Ireland's "twin transition" of digitalization and decarbonization is predicated on the militarization of Irish society and its deeper integration into the imperialist order. brill.com/view/journal...
December 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
7: @pbresnihan.bsky.social, Patrick Brodie and Rory Rowan's timely piece argues that southern Ireland's "twin transition" of digitalization and decarbonization is predicated on the militarization of Irish society and its deeper integration into the imperialist order. brill.com/view/journal...
6: Through a richly ethnographic analysis of grassroots mobilization in Gabes, Dhouha Djerbi's essay shows how European-led “win-win” green hydrogen partnerships replicate long-standing imperial hierarchies and how local resistance contests this. brill.com/view/journal...
December 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
6: Through a richly ethnographic analysis of grassroots mobilization in Gabes, Dhouha Djerbi's essay shows how European-led “win-win” green hydrogen partnerships replicate long-standing imperial hierarchies and how local resistance contests this. brill.com/view/journal...
5: @davidtemin.bsky.social's piece draws on W.E.B Du Bois show illustrate how imperialism and ecomodernism reproduce themselves through a gendered and racialised 'imperial bargain' with some sectors of the imperial core's working class. brill.com/view/journal...
December 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
5: @davidtemin.bsky.social's piece draws on W.E.B Du Bois show illustrate how imperialism and ecomodernism reproduce themselves through a gendered and racialised 'imperial bargain' with some sectors of the imperial core's working class. brill.com/view/journal...
4: Max Ajl's challenges the perspectives of post-development and degrowth. For Ajl, like the imperial systems these theories critique, they wrongly dismiss the imperative of sovereign industrialization and national liberation in the periphery. Open access: brill.com/view/journal...
December 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
4: Max Ajl's challenges the perspectives of post-development and degrowth. For Ajl, like the imperial systems these theories critique, they wrongly dismiss the imperative of sovereign industrialization and national liberation in the periphery. Open access: brill.com/view/journal...
3: Mariko Lin Frame's contribution argues that the struggle against ecological imperialism is also a struggle over the survival of non-capitalist worlds and the epistemic plurality upon which any just ecological transition must rest. brill.com/view/journal...
December 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
3: Mariko Lin Frame's contribution argues that the struggle against ecological imperialism is also a struggle over the survival of non-capitalist worlds and the epistemic plurality upon which any just ecological transition must rest. brill.com/view/journal...
2: @jasonhickel.bsky.social's commentary dismantles that the idea that ecomodernist fixes can bring about a sustainable future. Capitalism, he shows, is rooted in an imperial arrangement that only a global eco-socialist transition can overcome. Open access: brill.com/view/journal...
December 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
2: @jasonhickel.bsky.social's commentary dismantles that the idea that ecomodernist fixes can bring about a sustainable future. Capitalism, he shows, is rooted in an imperial arrangement that only a global eco-socialist transition can overcome. Open access: brill.com/view/journal...
1: An introduction by @alejopedregal.bsky.social, Nemanja Lukić and I opens the issue. Our article rejects both ecomodernism and anti-modernism, arguing instead for an anti-imperialist politics of popular development. Open access: brill.com/view/journal...
December 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
1: An introduction by @alejopedregal.bsky.social, Nemanja Lukić and I opens the issue. Our article rejects both ecomodernism and anti-modernism, arguing instead for an anti-imperialist politics of popular development. Open access: brill.com/view/journal...
Our special issue of Labor and Society on the ecomodernist features of imperialism is now online in full. The issue makes a stronger contribution to theorising contemporary imperialist dynamics than I could have ever hoped for. Here's a thread introducing each contribution. 🧵
December 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Our special issue of Labor and Society on the ecomodernist features of imperialism is now online in full. The issue makes a stronger contribution to theorising contemporary imperialist dynamics than I could have ever hoped for. Here's a thread introducing each contribution. 🧵
US imperialism no longer operates within the post-WWII 'rules based order' it created with its (false) appeals to international rights, freedom, and win-win scenarios. It works through zero-sum calculations, violence, and misinformation. Palestine and Venezuela are front lines.
December 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
US imperialism no longer operates within the post-WWII 'rules based order' it created with its (false) appeals to international rights, freedom, and win-win scenarios. It works through zero-sum calculations, violence, and misinformation. Palestine and Venezuela are front lines.