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Stefan Pedersen
@stefanpedersen.bsky.social
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Interested in planetary politics and planetary political theory. Honorary Research Fellow, School of Global Studies, Sussex. Co-lead, Planetary Justice Taskforce (Earth System Governance Project).
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🎥 Missed it live?
The recording of our webinar “Exploring Planetary Justice: A View from India” is now on ESG TV!

📺 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=56oo...
📚 Full series playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Thanks to all speakers & co-conveners!
May 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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anthonyburke.bsky.social
A wonderful article by my friend Christine Winter.
Even A Grain Of Sand Deserves Justice | NOEMA
Imagine the potential of a justice theory that includes the more-than-human — animal, vegetable, elemental and mineral — as worthy subjects of justice.
www.noemamag.com
May 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Another interesting Earth Day feature from BBC Future this year: www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
How 50 years of climate change has changed the face of the 'Blue Marble' from space
The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of the planet reveal visible changes to the Earth's surface.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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John McConnell came up with Earth Day in 1968 and campaigned at UNESCO for it be celebrated during the spring equinox (21 March). But Sen. Gaylord Nelson had planned an Environmental Teach-In to coincide with Arbor Day (22 April) that ended up being promoted as Earth Day 1970 - and here we are.
The cover of ‘Peace, Justice, Care of Earth: The Vision of John McConnell, Founder of Earth Day’ A Biography by Robert M. Weir (2007)
April 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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robertfalkner.bsky.social
Over 150 university leaders:

"As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education."

www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
www.aacu.org
April 22, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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environmentalpol.bsky.social
What is Planetary Justice? An interview with Agni Kalfagianni, Dimitris Stevis and @stefanpedersen.bsky.social.

This interview relates to the recent Special Issue on Planetary Justice which they co-edited.

environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/interviews/w...
Congratulations on the Special Issue! How did this set of articles come together? Thank you! The three of us have been the co-conveners of the Planetary Justice Taskforce of the Earth System Governance project since shortly after it was officially launched in 2018. This Taskforce brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars who are concerned with questions of justice in the context of the ongoing profound transformations of the Earth system and their unevenly distributed consequences amongst humans and between humanity and other species. The Taskforce has the ambition to advance and explore the understanding of justice as well as to galvanize communities of research and practice to further consider and integrate planetary justice in everything they do. We got to know many of the authors of this special issue through Taskforce meetings and events. We also reached out to others who we knew were working on the same issues from fresh perspectives. We were specifically on the lookout for scholars with a critical approach to the main analytical questions of this special issue around the scope, temporal and spatial scale, and purpose of planetary justice.
February 19, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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mariusostrowski.bsky.social
Very pleased to share that my latest Editorial for @jpolideologies.bsky.social is now available online!

"The apotheosis of conceptual morphology", in which I explore no fewer than sixteen different ways we can analyse ideas and ideologies through a morphological lens.

Have a read! #ideology
The apotheosis of conceptual morphology
Published in Journal of Political Ideologies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
January 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
stefanpedersen.bsky.social
Here is a list/thread of my favourite reading from Noema @noemamag.com and @berggruenpress.bsky.social on The Planetary:

Dipesh Chakraberty on the need to 'imagine a politics beyond the nation state'

www.noemamag.com/the-planet-i...
The Planet Is A Political Orphan | NOEMA
To keep Earth habitable, we must reimagine a politics beyond the nation-state.
www.noemamag.com
January 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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My @BigThink piece on the future of the nation-state under the pressures of the Anthropocene. Ideas taken from @berggruenInst and @NoemaMag and the Planetary Summit in Venice.

bigthink.com/the-present/...
From global to planetary: Is new governance needed in a post-Holocene world?
The nation-state had a good run, but this form of government may not be able to face planetary challenges that lie ahead.
bigthink.com
December 30, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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My review of Anthony Pagden's Beyond States was just published. It is a bit critical due to its nation-centric formula for world federation and lack of engagement with the Earth system crisis - but I nonetheless recommend reading it:
doi.org/10.1177/1360...
The cover of Anthony Pagden's Beyond States: Powers, Peoples and Global Order. Shows a 'rosette' made of national flags plus the EU flag.
January 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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I look forward to attending the Planetary Summit this weekend. It's on topic for much of my work to put it mildly - so it should be interesting berggruen.org/projects/pla...
Berggruen Institute
berggruen.org
November 22, 2024 at 8:26 AM
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It’s great to see this SI come out (after years of working on it)!
environmentalpol.bsky.social Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · Nov 18
Special Issue on Planetary Justice, Vol 33, Issue 7 out now! From guest editors Stefan Pedersen, Dimitris Stevis & Agni Kalfagianni.
See below for details of the articles, or follow the link: environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/editorial-an...
cover of issue, showing the details of the special issue on a grey back ground, with a yellow half circle. Details: Title, 'Planetary Justice'. Editors Stefan Pedersen, Dimitris Stevis & Agni Kalfagianni. Volume 33, issue 7. Published November 2024.
November 18, 2024 at 7:59 AM
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I just received a bunch of free eprints of some earlier articles, please use and share as you see fit: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NMIS6...
Planetarism: a paradigmatic alternative to internationalism
What is a robust theoretical alternative to nationalism? For many seasoned cosmopolitan thinkers the answer is internationalism, which is generally perceived to be a sound foundation for creating a...
www.tandfonline.com
November 14, 2024 at 1:37 PM
stefanpedersen.bsky.social
I just received a bunch of free eprints of some earlier articles, please use and share as you see fit:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DAFKW...
Navigating world order: neoliberalism between nationalism and cosmopolitanism
Through a morphological analysis of early neoliberal discourse, it is argued that preserving the system of states became integral to neoliberalism after a period of contestation. It is common knowl...
www.tandfonline.com
November 14, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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Proofs sent back. It’s on…
October 31, 2024 at 10:20 AM
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Columba Peoples' new book on the (security) implications of 'Planetary Emergence' is a stellar contribution to the scholarship on planetary politics academic.oup.com/book/58214
Security in Crisis: Planetary Emergence and the Technopolitics of Crisis Management
Abstract. The concept of crisis is a recurrent staple in representations of modern forms of insecurity—from nuclear proliferation to cyber-security, armed
academic.oup.com
October 30, 2024 at 1:48 AM
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environmentalpol.bsky.social
New publication: The intro to an upcoming SI, from guest editors @stefanpedersen.bsky.social, Dimitris Stevis and Agni Kalfagianni.

What is planetary justice?

doi.org/10.1080/0964...
screenshot of title and abstract which reads: To reconsider the meaning of justice in a planetary frame is both a necessity in our time of multiple entangled crises and an endeavour that seeks convergence and synthesis where there might instead be irreconcilable differences. We invited scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to share their perspectives on the scope, scale, and purpose of planetary justice and received a variety of responses – all highly worthwhile in their own right. What we can conclude from this new milestone in the literature on planetary justice is that people emphasize different justice concerns and operate with different ontologies. Are the Earth system and the pluriverse opposing frameworks or somehow reconcilable? What concerns should be prioritized is also contested. Can there be a decolonial, multispecies, Earth systemic, justice that begins with the self and where matter is included in our sphere of justice?
October 29, 2024 at 7:24 AM
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What is planetary justice? Here's a link that provides free access to the intro I co-authored with D Stevis and A Kalfagianni for our upcoming SI on Planetary Justice with @environmentalpol.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RVWGU...
What is planetary justice?
To reconsider the meaning of justice in a planetary frame is both a necessity in our time of multiple entangled crises and an endeavour that seeks convergence and synthesis where there might instea...
www.tandfonline.com
October 28, 2024 at 12:21 AM
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This is an interesting blog/introduction of an SI on "The Arrival of Planetary Politics" by Ian Manners and others: jcms.ideasoneurope.eu/2024/08/28/j...
JCMS 20th Anniversary Symposium: What does the Arrival of Planetary Politics tell us about normative power and the European Union?
by Dr Maxine David (Leiden University), Professor Roberta Guerrina (University of Bristol), Professor Ian Manners (Lund University), Professor Kalypso Nicolaïdis (European University Institute), Profe...
jcms.ideasoneurope.eu
September 2, 2024 at 12:36 PM
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My latest publication is now out with Environmental Values. This fruit of a collaboration with Jeremy Bendik-Keymer will be of interest to anyone interested in the disruptive potential of planetary ideas: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... (or you can alternatively DM me if you would like a pdf).
a picture of the abstract for the journal article Introducing geological wonder: Planetary thinking as a disruption of narcissism (that the link is to)
August 21, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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'Will a planetary federation save Earth?' my podcast interview with Lisa Camillo on Are We F#ed? A Climate Shitshow is now available on YouTube youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Are we fkd? How to survive a Climate Shitshow
We have created a new podcast to ease your climate-anxiety and if you don't have it yet, you should and be ready for it, by listening to our amazing guests! ...
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August 21, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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'Will a planetary federation save Earth?' my podcast interview with Lisa Camillo on Are We F#ed? A Climate Shitshow is now available on Spotify open.spotify.com/show/2VpExic...
Are we f#ed? How to survive a climate Shit-Show
Podcast · [object Object] · On 'Are We F..ed?', we tackle the pressing challenges of climate collapse with a blend of reality-check, practicality and humor. In a world teetering on the brink of climat...
open.spotify.com
August 21, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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environmentalpol.bsky.social
New article from Agni Kalfagianni, Stefan Pedersen & Dimitris Stevis. This is a framing article from an upcoming SI on 'planetary justice'. It focuses on three themes: scope, scale, and ecosocial purpose of planetary justice.
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
screenshot of abstract and title for article 'Planetary justice: a systematic analysis of an emerging discourse'
July 11, 2024 at 6:20 AM
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You can now read my new article on planetary justice published by @environmentalpol.bsky.social and co-authored with Agni Kalfagianni and Dimitris Stevis.

Available open access

doi.org/10.1080/0964...

#envhum #envhist
Planetary justice: a systematic analysis of an emerging discourse [8403]
Justice concerns have been central to contemporary social and ecological debates for decades but have only recently made inroads into the Earth system centric discourses on the Anthropocene and pla...
doi.org
July 4, 2024 at 12:54 PM