Hey @jwgsim.bsky.social, sorry, I didn't know you were around here too ☺️

Something deeply fucked up when you can blindly break basic state functions and condemn millions to death and then people make you the richest man in the world instead of a pariah

If you’re interested in
🌱 environmental politics
🔄 social network analysis

…you might enjoy this piece and the rest of the "Politics of Environmental Networks" special issue in Politics and Governance.

📖 Check it out here 👉 www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

Beyond our case study, our article shows that collaboration stems from a shifting balance between identities and interests, not a single stable logic.
Moments of political transformation don’t just open or close opportunities, they recalibrate the very grounds on which actors choose to cooperate.

In short, the Basque environmental field shifted from militant confrontation to pragmatic cooperation.
Yet this wasn’t a simple replacement of one logic with another, giving rise to a more pluralistic but less predictable network.

The results show a shifting balance of collaboration drivers. After 2011, political cleavages lost influence, while shared issue agendas remained more steady, though fluctuating, basis for cooperation. Interpersonal ties played only a minor role throughout.

Our statistical analyses reveal both continuity and change in collaboration logics.

Before 2011, ideological alignments strongly shaped collaboration. Afterward, their influence waned, while pragmatic ties based on shared issue agendas remained the most consistent driver.

Using original network data from 419 environmental events, we mapped how organizations in the Basque environmental field collaborated across 6 alternate years.

We asked:
1️⃣ How did collaboration drivers shift across protest cycles?
2️⃣ How did they change before and after the end of the conflict?

Our study applies this framework to examine how collaboration patterns among Basque environmental organizations evolved between 2007 and 2017, during a decade marked by the end of violent conflict and major ups and downs in environmental mobilization.

To address this gap, we propose a new analytical framework that captures the dynamic interplay between political context and the grounds on which collaboration is established, maintained, or dissolved.

Environmental activism (and activism more broadly) thrives on collaboration. Many factors have been studied as facilitators or barriers of interorganizational cooperation.

Yet one crucial question remains: how does the broader political context interact with these drivers of collaboration?