@marsel

Professor of Political Economy of Sustainable Development, ISS-EUR, The Hague

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Joined April 2007
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Then a debate section on "Renewables Capitalism", debating whether climate change will end capitalism, or whether capitalism can have a future beyond fossil fuels, edited by @marsel & @ASaadFilho. Their opening article for the debate is a tour de force: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Political Economy of Renewables Capitalism: Moving beyond ‘Climate Change’ vs ‘System Change’

There is a growing tendency to argue that the capitalist mode of production is fundamentally incompatible with climate stability and that ‘system change’ is needed to prevent apocalyptic ‘climate...

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The @DevandChg 2024 forum issue on the political economy of global #reparations is just out, with an amazing line up of leading thinkers on this issue. A must read, especially with current discussions about this at #Commonwealth Summit. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/… See thread🔽
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Why are game-changing environmental policies rarely implemented? we discuss #Ecuador 🇪🇨 under President @MashiRafael in: 'Structural limits to effective environmental activism: Post-neoliberal development, extractive imperative and authoritarianism in Ecuador' with @marsel
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rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.… @lorenzopelle @GeoOpenAccess @issnl

Structural limits to effective environmental activism: Post‐neoliberal development, extractive...

Environmental activists were instrumental to the rise of Rafael Correa's leftist government in Ecuador. Although they were initially able to influence governmental policy, for example by advocating...

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ISS, The Hague@issnl27 May 2024
🍃Do you want to address the impacts of global #capitalist development on #agrarian structures and #environmental systems? 🌎 If yes, apply now to our MA Programme in Development studies for Agrarian, Food and Environmental Studies (AFES)! ➡ iss.nl/afes
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Powerful must-read article on majoritarian politics in India & Israel, by Nandini Sundar from Delhi Uni. First out (early view) for our upcoming @DevandChg forum issue on global reparations. Stay tuned for more. @nssylla @anninak82 doi.org/10.1111/dech.12822

When Victors Claim Victimhood: Majoritarian Resentment and the Inversion of Reparations Claims

From the mid-20th century onwards, diverse groups — whether formerly enslaved populations or victims of mass atrocities — have demanded reparations as part of a wider struggle for justice. However,...

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Vandaag laatste zittingsdag hoger beroep klimaatzaak Shell. Het klimaatdecor: om onder 1,5C te blijven, moet 71% olie, 81% gas (& 97% steenkool) in grond blijven. Maar hoe dan, is de veel lastiger vervolgvraag. Nieuwe studie met oa @lorenzopelle & @marsel: nos.nl/artikel/2516447-olie-…

Olie- en gasreserves zeepbel? 'Laten zitten als we klimaatdoelen willen halen'

71 procent van de bekende oliereserves en 81 procent van het gas zou niet opgepompt moeten worden, berekenden wetenschappers.

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@suspol@sus_pol19 Mar 2024
🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 🌍 A Global Atlas of Unburnable Oil Reserves - and what it means for humanity’s efforts to tackle climate change and keep fossil fuel reserves in the ground. A quick 🧵 on the main takeaways nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

The atlas of unburnable oil for supply-side climate policies

Nature Communications - The global atlas of unburnable oil shows that the most socio-environmentally sensitive areas, such as protected areas or biodiversity hotspots, need to be kept entirely...

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The atlas of unburnable oil... Colleagues Lorenzo Pellegrini and Murat Arsel at @issnl map out which fossil resources should be left alone because of social and environmental consequences. newsweek.com/global-warming-…

Map shows oil we must leave alone to avoid "irreversible" climate change

"The goal of no more than 1.5 degrees C global warming requires a complete halt to exploration for new fossil fuel deposits," the researchers said.

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And finally... 📢 Climate Change & Critical Agrarian Studies 📢 The ** magic link ** where you can get the whole book for free, or download your favourite chapters individually: taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-e….. @PLAASuwc @IDS_UK @issnl @Cornell @CUNY @GC_CUNY @UCBerkeley @AshokaUniv
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Jessica Hope@JessCHope31 Aug 2023
What are the emancipatory possibilities of infrastructure during climate change? Come discuss it with us! @marsel & I chair great papers. Last two panels Friday @RGS_IBG #RGSIBG23 Main bding Council Room @DevGeogsRG
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Postdoctoral researcher opportunity to work on the project "Technology and Citizen Technoscience: Connecting Local Environments with the Ecological Crisis". The postdoc will be based at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam
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Call for Special Issue Proposals (for publication 2024 and 2025) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/jour…

Development and Change

Click on the title to browse this journal

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🚨 New blog post by @marsel and @JessCHope on how infrastructure is reshaping Latin American political ecologies and environmental geographies lagukinfo.wixsite.com/lag-uk… @AOJDavies @CeperoPietra @AngusMcnelly @JLatAmGeog

Infrastructure and Environments

Infrastructure remains one of geography’s most exciting debates, providing an entry point to understanding the making of social worlds (for example with a focus on citizenship, politics, cities and...

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BREAKING: The well known Erasmus University (@erasmusuni) institute 'Institute of Social Studies' (ISS) @issnl has decided to not accept funding from the following sources: "the tobacco, arms, or fossil fuel industry"! The new funding policy went live on March 29th, 2023!
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Murat Arsel retweeted
JPS@Peasant_Journal5 Apr 2023
🚨 Call for papers We are celebrating JPS's 50th anniversary with an international conference: Critical Agrarian Studies in the 21st Century 🗓️ Beijing, 10-12 October ⏰ Submit your abstract between now and May 5th: peasantjournal.org/news/inte…
"Rural women", by Boy Dominguez

ALT "Rural women", by Boy Dominguez

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The 2023 Holberg Prize is awarded to Catalan scholar Joan Martinez-Alier for his ground-breaking research in ecological economics, political ecology and environmental justice.

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Çocuklarımız ve hayatı çalınan binlerce insan için sadece müteahhitlerin değil,rant düzenini kuran herkesin yargılanmasını istiyoruz! #isiaskatilleritutuklansın #deprem
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