Anthropocene, Capitalocene or Westernocene? On the Ideological Foundations of the Current Climate Crisis
In the current debate on the causes, consequences and solutions for the climate crisis, it will be argued that the hegemonic discourse of the Anthropocene implies a problematic anthropological, eco...
Urbanizing degrowth: Five steps towards a Radical Spatial Degrowth Agenda for planning in the face of climate emergency - Maria Kaika, Angelos Varvarousis, Federico Demaria, Hug March, 2023
We call for coupling degrowth with urban studies and planning agendas as an academically salient and politically urgent endeavour. Our aim is threefold: to expl...
We call for coupling degrowth with urban studies and planning agendas as an academically salient and politically urgent endeavour. Our aim is threefold: to explore ways for ‘operationalising’ degrowth concepts into urban and regional everyday spatial practices; to sketch pathways for taking degrowth conceptually and methodologically beyond localised experiments and inform larger scale planning practices and international agendas; and to critically assess the multiple ways in which such a radical urban degrowth agenda will have to differ in the Global North and in the Global South. We outline five steps for such a programmatic, yet paradigmatic, urban degrowth agenda. These are: (1) grounding current degrowth debates within their historical–geographical context; (2) engaging (planning) institutions in linking degrowth practices to urbanisation policies; (3) examining how urban insurgent degrowth alliances can be scaled up without co-optation; (4) focusing on the role of experts and professionals in bringing degrowth principles into everyday urban practice; and (5) prefiguring how degrowth agendas can confront the diverse and unequal urban social relations and uneven outcomes in the Global North and South.
Degrowth is a slogan, a field of research, a practice, but also a political strategy that challenges the hegemony of economic growth and calls for a democratically led redistributive downscaling of production and consumption in industrialised countries as a means to achieve socio-environmental justice and well-being (Demaria et al., 2013; Nelson and Edwards, 2020). Degrowth is usually associated with a focus on the beauty and efficiency of the ‘smaller’, the ‘less’ or the ‘different’ (D’Alisa et al., 2014).
The War Feed: Digital War in Plain Sight - Andrew Hoskins, Pavel Shchelin, 2023
Today’s Russian war against Ukraine is unique in its unfolding through a prism of personalized realities, made and remade for individuals, in what we call the “...
Today’s Russian war against Ukraine is unique in its unfolding through a prism of personalized realities, made and remade for individuals, in what we call the “war feed.”
A digital multitude posting, liking, sharing, and applauding each individual image or short form video, are all participants in a fractalized psychological war.
We focus on the messaging app Telegram as a rapidly evolving weapon of psychological warfare, which utterly disrupts the relationship between the showing, hiding, and the seeing of modern war. There seems little point in raging against ineffectual moderation and regulation of social media platforms, whilst the world burns on Telegram.
The war feed is a new spectrum of warfare located in and through messaging apps and platforms. It is how individual locating and targeting, surveillance, psychological operations, trolling, and disinformation, are all enabled through digital networks, streams, and archives. These aspects of war thrive precisely because of the rapid growth in the recording and sharing of all those on the battlefield, and their clicking, swiping, linking, liking, emoting, sharing stories, messages, images, memes, and videos.
LOCO: The 88-million-word language of conspiracy corpus
Behavior Research Methods - The spread of online conspiracy theories represents a serious threat to society. To understand the content of conspiracies, here we present the language of conspiracy...
A review of the life cycle assessment of electric vehicles: Considering the influence of batteries
The automotive industry is currently on the verge of electrical transition, and the environmental performance of electric vehicles (EVs) is of great c…
Cyber operations and useful fools: the approach of Russian hybrid intelligence
This article argues that Russian intelligence has achieved recent success in influencing democratic elections and referenda by combining the traditional Human Intelligence (HUMINT) discipline of ma...
(PDF) Transnational Mobility and Global Health: Traversing Borders and Boundaries
PDF | On Sep 5, 2018, Peter H. Koehn published Transnational Mobility and Global Health: Traversing Borders and Boundaries | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
The Co-Constitutive Nature of Neoliberalism, Design, and Racism
Though the origins of neoliberalism, design, and racism are situated at disparate moments in time, these systems support, reproduce, and reify one another in the United States today. Some contempor...
The anti-vaccination infodemic on social media: A behavioral analysis
Vaccinations are without doubt one of the greatest achievements of modern medicine, and there is hope that they can constitute a solution to halt the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. However, the anti-vaccination movement is currently on the rise, spreading online misinformation about vaccine safety and causing a worrying reduction in vaccination rates worldwide. In this historical time, it is imperative to understand the reasons of vaccine hesitancy, and to find effective strategies to dismantle the rhetoric of anti-vaccination supporters. For this reason, we analyzed the behavior of anti-vaccination supporters on the platform Twitter. Here we identify that anti-vaccination supporters, in comparison with pro-vaccination supporters, share conspiracy theories and make use of emotional language. We demonstrate that anti-vaccination supporters are more engaged in discussions on Twitter and share their contents from a pull of strong influencers. We show that the movement’s success relies on a strong sense of community, based on the contents produced by a small fraction of profiles, with the community at large serving as a sounding board for anti-vaccination discourse to circulate online. Our data demonstrate that Donald Trump, before his profile was suspended, was the main driver of vaccine misinformation on Twitter. Based on these results, we welcome policies that aim at halting the circulation of false information about vaccines by targeting the anti-vaccination community on Twitter. Based on our data, we also propose solutions to improve the communication strategy of health organizations and build a community of engaged influencers that support the dissemination of scientific insights, including issues related to vaccines and their safety.
Intellectual humility’s association with vaccine attitudes and intentions
Vaccinations are critical to public health but uptake levels remain suboptimal. Intellectual humility, a virtue characterized by nonjudgmental recognition of one’s own intellectual fallibility, may...
Future visioning of local climate change: A framework for community engagement and planning with scenarios and visualisation
There is an urgent need for meaningful information and effective public processes at the local level to build awareness, capacity, and agency on clima…
(PDF) In FYP We Trust: The Divine Force of Algorithmic Conspirituality
PDF | In this article, we introduce the concept of algorithmic conspirituality to capture occasions when people find personal, often revelatory... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
On the Relation Between Religiosity and the Endorsement of Conspiracy Theories: The Role of Political Orientation
Religious and conspiracy beliefs share the feature of assuming powerful forces that determine the fate of the world. Correspondingly, they have been theorized to address similar psychological needs a...
Too special to be duped: Need for uniqueness motivates conspiracy beliefs
Adding to the growing literature on the antecedents of conspiracy beliefs, this paper argues that a small part in motivating the endorsement of such seemingly irrational beliefs is the desire to stic...
Witchcraft beliefs around the world: An exploratory analysisp
This paper presents a new global dataset on contemporary witchcraft beliefs and investigates their correlates. Witchcraft beliefs cut across socio-demographic groups but are less widespread among the more educated and economically secure. Country-level variation in the prevalence of witchcraft beliefs is systematically linked to a number of cultural, institutional, psychological, and socioeconomic characteristics. Consistent with their hypothesized function of maintaining order and cohesion in the absence of effective governance mechanisms, witchcraft beliefs are more widespread in countries with weak institutions and correlate positively with conformist culture and in-group bias. Among the documented potential costs of witchcraft beliefs are disrupted social relations, high levels of anxiety, pessimistic worldview, lack of entrepreneurial culture and innovative activity.
Empowering change for future-making: Developing agency by framing wicked problems through design
As the world and its challenges are becoming more complex, students and practitioners alike need to develop a more nuanced understanding of how to nav…
Quantifying national responsibility for climate breakdown: an equality-based attribution approach for carbon dioxide emissions in excess of the planetary boundary
This analysis proposes a novel method for quantifying national responsibility for damages related to climate change by looking at national contributio…
Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century
This paper assesses claims that, prior to the 19th century, around 90% of the human population lived in extreme poverty (defined as the inability to a…
Nature Communications - Floods are most devastating for those who can least afford to be hit. Globally, 1.8 billion people face high flood risks; 89% of them live in developing countries; 170...
