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Sierra Deutsch
@sierra-deutsch.bsky.social
PhD | Senior Scientist/Group Leader @UZH | Political ecologist | Critical interdisciplinary researcher in nat and soc sciences | Advocate of people and the planet | she/her
Thrilled to announce we have launched our website w/our 1st 4 Open Access tools to engage w/power in transdisciplinary transformative change initiatives. Check it out! 👇
www.translating-transformations.org

#CriticalSocialSciences #TransformativeChange #Transdisciplinary #Toolbox #Power #CSSLiteracy
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www.translating-transformations.org
July 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Sustainability and environmental impact assessments of trade and investment agreements need to address biodiversity more effectively! enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10....
Unmute biodiversity risks of free trade? The EFTA–Mercosur Agreement (Swiss) case study - Environmental Sciences Europe
Sustainability and environmental impact assessments of trade and investment agreements need to address biodiversity more effectively. To showcase this, we examined a report, commissioned by Switzerlan...
enveurope.springeropen.com
February 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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This is so frightening - authoritarian fascism in full frontal attack mode. As prof. Pagel emphasises, we must acknowledge we are in a full-blown democratic crisis, call it out for what it is and fight it with every means possible.

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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
February 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Wondering where all this fascism is coming from? In this new article @brambuscher.bsky.social, Robert Coates, Laila Sandroni & I use Bolsonaro as a case study & look to Karl Polanyi & literature on authoritarian neoliberalism & the elite for some answers. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
February 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Having serious déjà vu from my work in Brazil during Bolsonaro's 1st year. The main difference is that Brazil had a strong Supreme Court able to block/reverse most of his executive orders... journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/... #PopulistAuthoritarianNeoliberlism #TrumpTyranny
Populist authoritarian neoliberalism in Brazil: making sense of Bolsonaro's anti-environment agenda
In Brazil, the looming threat of mass extinction has prompted increasingly exceptional measures to protect sensitive biomes. At the same time, such measures threaten to curtail capitalist expansion an...
journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu
January 24, 2025 at 7:16 AM