Smurphy
@murphysp.bsky.social
Academic, researcher, interested in all things DEI including climate justice, international development, governance, and geopolitics.
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New Geoformations Research Publication :
A New Brussels Consensus? Qatargate and the (Re)articulation of EU International Development Cooperation Governance
By: 📄 Susan Murphy & Cian McMahon (2025)
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2025.2585304
#Research #EU #Governance #Development #Geoformations
A New Brussels Consensus? Qatargate and the (Re)articulation of EU International Development Cooperation Governance
By: 📄 Susan Murphy & Cian McMahon (2025)
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2025.2585304
#Research #EU #Governance #Development #Geoformations
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
New Geoformations Research Publication :
A New Brussels Consensus? Qatargate and the (Re)articulation of EU International Development Cooperation Governance
By: 📄 Susan Murphy & Cian McMahon (2025)
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2025.2585304
#Research #EU #Governance #Development #Geoformations
A New Brussels Consensus? Qatargate and the (Re)articulation of EU International Development Cooperation Governance
By: 📄 Susan Murphy & Cian McMahon (2025)
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2025.2585304
#Research #EU #Governance #Development #Geoformations
As the US have blocked much progress on important areas like loss and damage over many years, I think their absence creates an opportunities for new collaborations and deepening solidarities in a new international landscape with new possibilities post US dominance www.theguardian.com/environment/...
No high-level US representatives will go to UN climate talks, Trump officials say
Decision to stay away from Cop30 meeting in Brazil underscores administration’s hostility to climate action
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
As the US have blocked much progress on important areas like loss and damage over many years, I think their absence creates an opportunities for new collaborations and deepening solidarities in a new international landscape with new possibilities post US dominance www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Genocide unfolding again in Darfur, famine, mass displacement, yet international indifference. More mefia coverage Trump’s latest insult and nasty rant. Shameful.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Mass killings reported in Sudanese city seized by paramilitary group
Rapid Support Forces accused of killing more than 2,000 unarmed civilians in El Fasher in recent days
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Genocide unfolding again in Darfur, famine, mass displacement, yet international indifference. More mefia coverage Trump’s latest insult and nasty rant. Shameful.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Another episode of the muppet show at the Whitehouse. Time to look up and change channels instead of feeding this fiasco
Trump will meet with the leaders of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan in Washington next week.
This is a comedy bit waiting to happen.
This is a comedy bit waiting to happen.
October 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Another episode of the muppet show at the Whitehouse. Time to look up and change channels instead of feeding this fiasco
At a time of extreme profits… yet another indication of the slow death of neoliberal capitalism where profits are hoarded by the richest and reinvestment rapidly becomes a thing of the past
Recent US Layoff Announcements:
1 UPS: 48,000
2 Amazon: Up to 30,000
3 Intel: 24,000
4 Nestle: 16,000
5 Accenture: 11,000
6 Ford: 11,000
7 Novo Nordisk: 9,000
8 Microsoft: 7,000
9 PwC: 5,600
10 Salesforce: 4,000
11 Paramount: 2,000
12 Target: 1,800
13 Kroger: 1,000
14 Applied Materials: 1,444
1 UPS: 48,000
2 Amazon: Up to 30,000
3 Intel: 24,000
4 Nestle: 16,000
5 Accenture: 11,000
6 Ford: 11,000
7 Novo Nordisk: 9,000
8 Microsoft: 7,000
9 PwC: 5,600
10 Salesforce: 4,000
11 Paramount: 2,000
12 Target: 1,800
13 Kroger: 1,000
14 Applied Materials: 1,444
October 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
At a time of extreme profits… yet another indication of the slow death of neoliberal capitalism where profits are hoarded by the richest and reinvestment rapidly becomes a thing of the past
Beautifully crafted piece. Thank you, Patrick, for caring.
Returning home from Chad, I feel there’s a glitch in western empathy
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Returning home from Chad, I feel there’s a glitch in western empathy
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Patrick Freyne: Returning home from Chad, I feel there’s a glitch in western empathy
The Sudan war is the world’s biggest humanitarian disaster, but it seems our human compassion is taken up by other conflicts
www.irishtimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Beautifully crafted piece. Thank you, Patrick, for caring.
Returning home from Chad, I feel there’s a glitch in western empathy
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Returning home from Chad, I feel there’s a glitch in western empathy
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
you couldn't make this image up... face after face of old white privileged men.... be cool and get yippy... give me a break... these people should be charged with crimes against humanity
April 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
you couldn't make this image up... face after face of old white privileged men.... be cool and get yippy... give me a break... these people should be charged with crimes against humanity
Does anyone actually trust the figures on inflation and labour rates coming out of the US at the moment? I have no trust I am afraid.... the figures are just too convenient for Trumpism and seem very far removed from the destruction being wrecked the US and global economy....
April 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Does anyone actually trust the figures on inflation and labour rates coming out of the US at the moment? I have no trust I am afraid.... the figures are just too convenient for Trumpism and seem very far removed from the destruction being wrecked the US and global economy....
Any guesses on why no-one told Trump that tariffs on Heard and McDonald Islands are unlikely to yield results? Perhaps fear? Or maybe the boys need a few more years in school - perhaps some lessons in economic geography might help? Another self imposed hit to US hegemony..... evaporating with speed
April 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Any guesses on why no-one told Trump that tariffs on Heard and McDonald Islands are unlikely to yield results? Perhaps fear? Or maybe the boys need a few more years in school - perhaps some lessons in economic geography might help? Another self imposed hit to US hegemony..... evaporating with speed
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Who would have thought it… degrowth and deglobalisation driven by US trade policy. Now watch the efforts of others to decouple from the US economy and likely growth of China EU relations. Truly extraordinary times.
April 3, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Who would have thought it… degrowth and deglobalisation driven by US trade policy. Now watch the efforts of others to decouple from the US economy and likely growth of China EU relations. Truly extraordinary times.
Closing date for applications is coming up.... 24th February.... if you are interested in studying the effects of rising authoritarianism and USAID cuts on development governance, shrinking civil society spaces and undermining of international solidarities
We are hiring! Geoformations are currently inviting applications for a Research Assistant in Development Geography. Closing date Feb 24th. All information at geoformations.eu/jobs/research-assistant-in-geography/
Research Assistant in Geography – Geoformations
Research Assistant in Geography Applications are invited for a research assistant to join the GEOFORMATIONS research team. GEOFORMATIONS examines the geographies of dynamic governance assemblages in d...
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February 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Closing date for applications is coming up.... 24th February.... if you are interested in studying the effects of rising authoritarianism and USAID cuts on development governance, shrinking civil society spaces and undermining of international solidarities
The ripple effects of USAID cuts.... undermining civil society and international solidarity....central to our studies at @geoformations.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Authoritarian leaders in former Soviet bloc seize on Musk’s USAid crackdown
Region’s autocrats join in persecution of agency that provided aid and helped to build up civil society in 1990s
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The ripple effects of USAID cuts.... undermining civil society and international solidarity....central to our studies at @geoformations.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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We are hiring! Geoformations are currently inviting applications for a Research Assistant in Development Geography. Closing date Feb 24th. All information at geoformations.eu/jobs/research-assistant-in-geography/
Research Assistant in Geography – Geoformations
Research Assistant in Geography Applications are invited for a research assistant to join the GEOFORMATIONS research team. GEOFORMATIONS examines the geographies of dynamic governance assemblages in d...
geoformations.eu
January 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
We are hiring! Geoformations are currently inviting applications for a Research Assistant in Development Geography. Closing date Feb 24th. All information at geoformations.eu/jobs/research-assistant-in-geography/
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Great to see so many activists, artists, actors, scientists & faith leaders call for a #FossilFuelTreaty during #COP29
Including @katharinehayhoe.com @michaelemann.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social & many others
Join them: fossilfueltreaty.org/cop29-open-l...
Including @katharinehayhoe.com @michaelemann.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social & many others
Join them: fossilfueltreaty.org/cop29-open-l...
COP29 Open Letter — The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative
Letter to world leaders calling for global plan to phase out fossil fuels: Scientists have issued a stark warning for decades: extracting fossil fuels threatens everything we love.
fossilfueltreaty.org
November 23, 2024 at 4:51 AM
Great to see so many activists, artists, actors, scientists & faith leaders call for a #FossilFuelTreaty during #COP29
Including @katharinehayhoe.com @michaelemann.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social & many others
Join them: fossilfueltreaty.org/cop29-open-l...
Including @katharinehayhoe.com @michaelemann.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social & many others
Join them: fossilfueltreaty.org/cop29-open-l...
@eadi.bsky.social really excellent conference in beautiful Krakow.... looking forward to the next opportunity to continue these important debates and discussions on the future of development studies and theory at the current conjuncture
We are delighted to contribute to the EADI Directors' Meeting (7and 8 November), hosted by the Centre for International Studies and Development at Jagiellonian University, and the Polish International Studies Association (PISA) 2024 Congress, Krakow
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November 18, 2024 at 6:25 PM
@eadi.bsky.social really excellent conference in beautiful Krakow.... looking forward to the next opportunity to continue these important debates and discussions on the future of development studies and theory at the current conjuncture
@geoformations.bsky.social. Hi there. It would be great to connect!
November 18, 2024 at 6:21 PM
@geoformations.bsky.social. Hi there. It would be great to connect!
If we want to avoid the slippery slope to Trumpland now might be a good time to re-read Nancy Fraser on progressive and reactionary neoliberalism.... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
For the first time in its history, we could be looking at a genuinely rightwing European Union | Alberto Alemanno
Ursula von der Leyen knows that her new commission will need support from the kind of hard-right parties it once swore to shun, says Alberto Alemanno of HEC Paris
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 12:17 PM
If we want to avoid the slippery slope to Trumpland now might be a good time to re-read Nancy Fraser on progressive and reactionary neoliberalism.... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
(Almost out of)Time for radical rethink of climate action governance structures and process www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World’s 1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’, experts say
Scientists say goal to keep world’s temperature rise below 1.5C is not going to happen despite talks at Cop29 in Baku
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 12:08 PM
(Almost out of)Time for radical rethink of climate action governance structures and process www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@drconorb.bsky.social.... hi there - reactivated my bluesky account!
Looking forward to interacting...
Looking forward to interacting...
November 18, 2024 at 11:55 AM
@drconorb.bsky.social.... hi there - reactivated my bluesky account!
Looking forward to interacting...
Looking forward to interacting...
Truly excellent and timely contribution…. American democracy is in peril. And racism will be the sledgehammer that destroys it
September 6, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Truly excellent and timely contribution…. American democracy is in peril. And racism will be the sledgehammer that destroys it
Industry happy to accept public subsidies but no care for public good and welfare
Industry acts to head off regulation on PFAS pollution from semiconductors
Industry acts to head off regulation on PFAS pollution from semiconductors
August 25, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Industry happy to accept public subsidies but no care for public good and welfare
Industry acts to head off regulation on PFAS pollution from semiconductors
Industry acts to head off regulation on PFAS pollution from semiconductors
The Guardian view on Afghanistan’s gender apartheid: don’t embolden the Taliban
August 20, 2024 at 7:28 PM
The Guardian view on Afghanistan’s gender apartheid: don’t embolden the Taliban