Natasha Heenan
@natashaheenan.bsky.social
Environmental political economy, climate repair, green industrial policy. Thinking about the past and future of legacy carbon @USyd
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Natasha Heenan
@natashaheenan.bsky.social
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My PhD on geoengineering, Producing the Climate, is now available to read via USyd library! Huge thanks to my wonderful supervisors @garethbryant.bsky.social and @kurtiveson.bsky.social as well as my generous examiners @geoffmann.bsky.social and Chantel Carr. ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/...
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Dead workers? Well, at least we aren’t confusing businesses!
Texas workers are dying from heat, but business leaders and Republicans support a ban on local protections, because too many different laws will confuse businesses.
But they oppose a national OSHA standard as well.
Maybe they just don't care?
insideclimatenews.org/news/2411202...
But they oppose a national OSHA standard as well.
Maybe they just don't care?
insideclimatenews.org/news/2411202...
Texas Workers Keep Dying in the Heat - Inside Climate News
Despite its blazing temperatures, Texas has no labor protections for heat. That leaves workers, especially immigrants, vulnerable on the job.
insideclimatenews.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Dead workers? Well, at least we aren’t confusing businesses!
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Lise Vogel’s The Contested Domain (edited by me) is officially released today!!! I hope it will be a resource for people interested in Lise’s rigorous approach to social thought (spanning 5 decades) that creates theoretical openings for an inclusive Marxist Feminism.
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Lise Vogel’s The Contested Domain (edited by me) is officially released today!!! I hope it will be a resource for people interested in Lise’s rigorous approach to social thought (spanning 5 decades) that creates theoretical openings for an inclusive Marxist Feminism.
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That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
CSIRO to slash hundreds of jobs in cost-saving drive
The staff association at the nation’s leading scientific research organisation says the latest round of cuts marks “a sad day for publicly funded science”.
www.smh.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 AM
That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
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"We work at the most automated port on planet Earth. Our job description is literally "assisting automation"."
On day #3 of Overland's Subscriberthon, we bring you — who else? — the great Sam Wallman.
On day #3 of Overland's Subscriberthon, we bring you — who else? — the great Sam Wallman.
When you're a nail, everything looks like a hammer: working at the most automated port on planet Earth - Overland literary journal
We work at the most automated port on planet Earth. Our job description is literally "assisting automation".
overland.org.au
November 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
"We work at the most automated port on planet Earth. Our job description is literally "assisting automation"."
On day #3 of Overland's Subscriberthon, we bring you — who else? — the great Sam Wallman.
On day #3 of Overland's Subscriberthon, we bring you — who else? — the great Sam Wallman.
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This is a great essay--a must-read for anyone concerned about the use of AI as deskilling, automation, labor techno-discipline, etc.
Wrote a thing on the hot summer of uni AI adoption for @defector.com
A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social
A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...
defector.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
This is a great essay--a must-read for anyone concerned about the use of AI as deskilling, automation, labor techno-discipline, etc.
This book looks awesome
My book 'Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia' is out today with Stanford University Press. A long time coming and a big labour of love, I feel very excited to see this out in the world!
October 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This book looks awesome
Very excited to celebrate 50 years of Political Economy at Sydney this Thursday! For many of us being students of PE has been life changing. We are indebted to the people who fought for an alternative to neoclassical economics and allowed us to study and teach the incredible program we have today
Celebrating 50 Years of Political Economy at the University of Sydney ppesydney.net/celebrating-...
October 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Very excited to celebrate 50 years of Political Economy at Sydney this Thursday! For many of us being students of PE has been life changing. We are indebted to the people who fought for an alternative to neoclassical economics and allowed us to study and teach the incredible program we have today
Milton Friedman on the BLF and Green Bans 🤡
October 19, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Milton Friedman on the BLF and Green Bans 🤡
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Matthew Ryan reviews @hannahforsyth.bsky.social 's Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008 @universitypress.cambridge.org
tinyurl.com/2pyxhch5
🧵4/5
tinyurl.com/2pyxhch5
🧵4/5
September 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Matthew Ryan reviews @hannahforsyth.bsky.social 's Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008 @universitypress.cambridge.org
tinyurl.com/2pyxhch5
🧵4/5
tinyurl.com/2pyxhch5
🧵4/5
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Now that the Deloitte report, about the government's unlawful administration of mutual obligations, is making international headlines, it's worth looking at what's actually in it (apart from AI slop) and WHY it was actually commissioned
A thread👇
A thread👇
October 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Now that the Deloitte report, about the government's unlawful administration of mutual obligations, is making international headlines, it's worth looking at what's actually in it (apart from AI slop) and WHY it was actually commissioned
A thread👇
A thread👇
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JOB!
Permanent Lecturer / Senior Lecturer position (education focused) in Political Economy at the University of Sydney.
Permanent Lecturer / Senior Lecturer position (education focused) in Political Economy at the University of Sydney.
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Political Economy (Education Focused) - University of Sydney - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
The Discipline of Political Economy at the University of Sydney is advertising a continuing education focused position, to be appointed at either Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level. This position is pa...
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September 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
JOB!
Permanent Lecturer / Senior Lecturer position (education focused) in Political Economy at the University of Sydney.
Permanent Lecturer / Senior Lecturer position (education focused) in Political Economy at the University of Sydney.
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A nice article about friend and colleague Raewyn Connell in the SMH, including foreshadowing her new trans memoir. Pleased to see she's delivering this year's Ted Wheelwright lecture in political economy at Sydney University - one of the few universities to maintain political economy and Marxism.
Raewyn’s groundbreaking work changed how we think about men. Its origins were deeply personal
Raewyn Connell has a global reputation and is speaking at an event marking one of the PM’s intellectual influences.
www.smh.com.au
September 9, 2025 at 4:02 AM
A nice article about friend and colleague Raewyn Connell in the SMH, including foreshadowing her new trans memoir. Pleased to see she's delivering this year's Ted Wheelwright lecture in political economy at Sydney University - one of the few universities to maintain political economy and Marxism.
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Robodebt: administrative harm and Australian social policy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Robodebt: administrative harm and Australian social policy
The Robodebt scheme was one of the most calamitous episodes in recent Australian public policy, with government agencies imposing hundreds of thousands of illegitimate debts on current and former w...
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August 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Robodebt: administrative harm and Australian social policy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
tfw your joint intellectual project makes it out of the group chat. Thanks @kurtiveson.bsky.social for your astonishing write up of our work! We're merely picking up on the threads of spatial and environmental political economy laid down by yourself and many others!
4/
The most special part of this story is that
@kurtiveson.bsky.social
has read our work as a collective project - which is precisely what it is. I guess this is what it looks like when a joint intellectual project makes it out of the group chat, and into the world.
The most special part of this story is that
@kurtiveson.bsky.social
has read our work as a collective project - which is precisely what it is. I guess this is what it looks like when a joint intellectual project makes it out of the group chat, and into the world.
August 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
tfw your joint intellectual project makes it out of the group chat. Thanks @kurtiveson.bsky.social for your astonishing write up of our work! We're merely picking up on the threads of spatial and environmental political economy laid down by yourself and many others!
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50 Years of Political Economy. Some fantastic articles, but only one has brought me to tears.
@kurtiveson.bsky.social's generous contribution takes time to dwell on the PhD theses of @natashaheenan.bsky.social, Anna Sturman, and myself.
@ppesydney.bsky.social
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www.ppesydney.net/jape-issues/...
@kurtiveson.bsky.social's generous contribution takes time to dwell on the PhD theses of @natashaheenan.bsky.social, Anna Sturman, and myself.
@ppesydney.bsky.social
1/
www.ppesydney.net/jape-issues/...
Issue 95 (Winter 2025) - 50 Years of Political Economy in Australia - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
SPECIAL ISSUE – 50 YEARS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN AUSTRALIA Complete issue JAPE95 complete Contents The Editors: Editorial Voices of Former Students of Political Economy: Anthony Albanese; Thalia Antho...
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August 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
50 Years of Political Economy. Some fantastic articles, but only one has brought me to tears.
@kurtiveson.bsky.social's generous contribution takes time to dwell on the PhD theses of @natashaheenan.bsky.social, Anna Sturman, and myself.
@ppesydney.bsky.social
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www.ppesydney.net/jape-issues/...
@kurtiveson.bsky.social's generous contribution takes time to dwell on the PhD theses of @natashaheenan.bsky.social, Anna Sturman, and myself.
@ppesydney.bsky.social
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www.ppesydney.net/jape-issues/...
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Hey y'all! This week we have Jordan Daniels reviewing @alybatt.bsky.social's Free Gifts ( @princetonupress.bsky.social ).
Read the review! Read the book!
Hey y'all! This week we have Jordan Daniels reviewing @alybatt.bsky.social's Free Gifts ( @princetonupress.bsky.social ).
Read the review! Read the book!
The Price of Freedom – Spectre Journal
Jordan Daniels reviews Alyssa Battistoni's Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.
spectrejournal.com
August 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
spectrejournal.com/the-price-of...
Hey y'all! This week we have Jordan Daniels reviewing @alybatt.bsky.social's Free Gifts ( @princetonupress.bsky.social ).
Read the review! Read the book!
Hey y'all! This week we have Jordan Daniels reviewing @alybatt.bsky.social's Free Gifts ( @princetonupress.bsky.social ).
Read the review! Read the book!
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🚨⛈️ BRISBANE AND SEQ: You do not have to do any activities or appointments for "mutual" obligations over the next week.
If you are due to report your job search before 12 March, you do not have to submit any job applications or meet your points target.
Stay safe ❤️
If you are due to report your job search before 12 March, you do not have to submit any job applications or meet your points target.
Stay safe ❤️
March 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
🚨⛈️ BRISBANE AND SEQ: You do not have to do any activities or appointments for "mutual" obligations over the next week.
If you are due to report your job search before 12 March, you do not have to submit any job applications or meet your points target.
Stay safe ❤️
If you are due to report your job search before 12 March, you do not have to submit any job applications or meet your points target.
Stay safe ❤️
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Incredible work by one of the best, most generous scholars I know. A more nuanced and politically useful analysis of geoengineering than you'll find anywhere else. Highly recommended!!
My PhD on geoengineering, Producing the Climate, is now available to read via USyd library! Huge thanks to my wonderful supervisors @garethbryant.bsky.social and @kurtiveson.bsky.social as well as my generous examiners @geoffmann.bsky.social and Chantel Carr. ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/...
ses.library.usyd.edu.au
February 28, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Incredible work by one of the best, most generous scholars I know. A more nuanced and politically useful analysis of geoengineering than you'll find anywhere else. Highly recommended!!
I return to this one a lot
February 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I return to this one a lot
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As the Trusk regime is wrecking the state apparatus that brought us the IRA, it's more urgent than ever to understand the politics of green macrofinancial regimes.
Here's a 🧵 on the result of @danielagabor.bsky.social and I wrecking our brains for four years.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Here's a 🧵 on the result of @danielagabor.bsky.social and I wrecking our brains for four years.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
As the Trusk regime is wrecking the state apparatus that brought us the IRA, it's more urgent than ever to understand the politics of green macrofinancial regimes.
Here's a 🧵 on the result of @danielagabor.bsky.social and I wrecking our brains for four years.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Here's a 🧵 on the result of @danielagabor.bsky.social and I wrecking our brains for four years.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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I did a piece about the political economy of climate breakdown for @londonreview.bsky.social, pivoting off the essential new book by Andreas Malm and @wimcarton.bsky.social.
Please give it a read!
Please give it a read!
Brett Christophers · So much for Paris: Climate Overshoot
All fossil fuel projects are politically constituted. Either they are state projects, controlled and administered by...
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January 30, 2025 at 7:39 AM
I did a piece about the political economy of climate breakdown for @londonreview.bsky.social, pivoting off the essential new book by Andreas Malm and @wimcarton.bsky.social.
Please give it a read!
Please give it a read!
My PhD on geoengineering, Producing the Climate, is now available to read via USyd library! Huge thanks to my wonderful supervisors @garethbryant.bsky.social and @kurtiveson.bsky.social as well as my generous examiners @geoffmann.bsky.social and Chantel Carr. ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/...
ses.library.usyd.edu.au
February 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
My PhD on geoengineering, Producing the Climate, is now available to read via USyd library! Huge thanks to my wonderful supervisors @garethbryant.bsky.social and @kurtiveson.bsky.social as well as my generous examiners @geoffmann.bsky.social and Chantel Carr. ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/...
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Our research on community efforts to care for animals during the #BlackSummerBushfires is now out.
Read the short article in The Conversation: theconversation.com/as-the-black...
With gratitude to colleagues @seisydney.bsky.social and the Shoalhaven community who spoke with us.
Read the short article in The Conversation: theconversation.com/as-the-black...
With gratitude to colleagues @seisydney.bsky.social and the Shoalhaven community who spoke with us.
As the Black Summer megafires neared, people rallied to save wildlife and domestic animals. But it came at a real cost
When authorities fight fires, they focus on human life and property. But animals are part of communities too – and disaster preparation should reflect this
theconversation.com
January 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Our research on community efforts to care for animals during the #BlackSummerBushfires is now out.
Read the short article in The Conversation: theconversation.com/as-the-black...
With gratitude to colleagues @seisydney.bsky.social and the Shoalhaven community who spoke with us.
Read the short article in The Conversation: theconversation.com/as-the-black...
With gratitude to colleagues @seisydney.bsky.social and the Shoalhaven community who spoke with us.
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Update: this list has now 100 (!) women political economists to follow! 🤩
Thanks so much for the (self-)recommendations, I'm thrilled to connect and reconnect with you all here & so looking forward to learning more about your work!
Still 50 spots open! 🙋
go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3
Thanks so much for the (self-)recommendations, I'm thrilled to connect and reconnect with you all here & so looking forward to learning more about your work!
Still 50 spots open! 🙋
go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3
November 27, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Update: this list has now 100 (!) women political economists to follow! 🤩
Thanks so much for the (self-)recommendations, I'm thrilled to connect and reconnect with you all here & so looking forward to learning more about your work!
Still 50 spots open! 🙋
go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3
Thanks so much for the (self-)recommendations, I'm thrilled to connect and reconnect with you all here & so looking forward to learning more about your work!
Still 50 spots open! 🙋
go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3
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Myself and @garethbryant.bsky.social have been editing the blog @ppesydney.bsky.social for 10 years now addressing the worldliness of critical political economy issues. So here's a thread celebrating its practical and theoretical diversity #HappyBirthdayPPE
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November 19, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Myself and @garethbryant.bsky.social have been editing the blog @ppesydney.bsky.social for 10 years now addressing the worldliness of critical political economy issues. So here's a thread celebrating its practical and theoretical diversity #HappyBirthdayPPE
www.ppesydney.net
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