Stefan Pedersen

🎥 Missed it live?
The recording of our webinar “Exploring Planetary Justice: A View from India” is now on ESG TV!

📺 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=56oo...
📚 Full series playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Thanks to all speakers & co-conveners!

Even A Grain Of Sand Deserves Justice | NOEMA Imagine the potential of a justice theory that includes the more-than-human — animal, vegetable, elemental and mineral — as worthy subjects of justice.

A wonderful article by my friend Christine Winter.

'Earthrise': The photo that sparked an environmental movement More than 50 years after it was shot, Earthrise continues to be seen as one of the most iconic environmental photographs ever taken.

Last year's was great too: www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

How 50 years of climate change has changed the face of the 'Blue Marble' from space The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of the planet reveal visible changes to the Earth's surface.

Another interesting Earth Day feature from BBC Future this year: www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Julius Sterling Morton - Wikipedia

To be precise, McConnell himself thought 'April 22 was the original day of Arbor Day, founded in Nebraska in 1872 by J. Sterling Merton' but a likelier clue is Merton's own birthday: 22 April 1832. So this might be the ultimate 'logic' behind why Earth Day is today en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_...

The cover of ‘Peace, Justice, Care of Earth: The Vision of John McConnell, Founder of Earth Day’ A Biography by Robert M. Weir (2007)

John McConnell came up with Earth Day in 1968 and campaigned at UNESCO for it be celebrated during the spring equinox (21 March). But Sen. Gaylord Nelson had planned an Environmental Teach-In to coincide with Arbor Day (22 April) that ended up being promoted as Earth Day 1970 - and here we are.

A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U A Call for Constructive Engagement

Over 150 university leaders:

"As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education."

www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

Congratulations on the Special Issue! How did this set of articles come together? Thank you! The three of us have been the co-conveners of the Planetary Justice Taskforce of the Earth System Governance project since shortly after it was officially launched in 2018. This Taskforce brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars who are concerned with questions of justice in the context of the ongoing profound transformations of the Earth system and their unevenly distributed consequences amongst humans and between humanity and other species. The Taskforce has the ambition to advance and explore the understanding of justice as well as to galvanize communities of research and practice to further consider and integrate planetary justice in everything they do. We got to know many of the authors of this special issue through Taskforce meetings and events. We also reached out to others who we knew were working on the same issues from fresh perspectives. We were specifically on the lookout for scholars with a critical approach to the main analytical questions of this special issue around the scope, temporal and spatial scale, and purpose of planetary justice.

What is Planetary Justice? An interview with Agni Kalfagianni, Dimitris Stevis and @stefanpedersen.bsky.social.

This interview relates to the recent Special Issue on Planetary Justice which they co-edited.

environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/interviews/w...

The apotheosis of conceptual morphology Published in Journal of Political Ideologies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Very pleased to share that my latest Editorial for @jpolideologies.bsky.social is now available online!

"The apotheosis of conceptual morphology", in which I explore no fewer than sixteen different ways we can analyse ideas and ideologies through a morphological lens.

Have a read! #ideology

From the International to the Global and Beyond? (Chapter 6) - Becoming International Becoming International - October 2023

Another example (and the last of the thread) is Jens Bartelson's final chapter in Becoming International (2023) 'invoking the concepts of globality and the planetary in search of viable alternatives and a normative ground from which to contest' the modern international order doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Reframing climate security: The “planetary” as policy context Much of the discussion under the label of “climate security” focuses on potential conflicts and disruptions in peripheral locations in the global sout…

This is all highly interesting work that I expect will make much deeper inroads into e.g. international political theory (IPT) and environmental political theory in the coming years. One example is Simon Dalby's discussion of 'the "planetary" as policy context' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Planetary

The aforementioned Children of a Modest Star also has a companion anthology in The Planetary (2024) edited by @nilsgilman.bsky.social berggruen.org/library/the-...

Children of a Modest Star | Stanford University Press A clear-eyed and urgent vision for a new system of political governance to manage planetary issues and their local consequences.

This should all be read in combination with the recent Children of a Modest Star (2024) on 'planetary thinking for an age of crises' also by the Berggruen Institute's Jonathan Blake & @nilsgilman.bsky.social
www.sup.org/books/politi...

Berggruen Institute

The Planetary Reading List curated from Noema and introduced by Jonathan Blake prior to the Planetary Summit in Venice last November is also great for context and finding additional reads berggruen.org/news/planeta...

The Coming Second Copernican Revolution | NOEMA Astrobiology is rewiring our understanding of the intimate connection between life and planets as they appear in the universe.

Adam Frank's prize-winning essay on how 'the planetary is a new “cosmology” — emerging as an alternative to the social, cultural and political-economic orders of global modernity' @adamfrank4.bsky.social
www.noemamag.com/the-coming-s...

The Planet Is A Political Orphan | NOEMA To keep Earth habitable, we must reimagine a politics beyond the nation-state.

Here is a list/thread of my favourite reading from Noema @noemamag.com and @berggruenpress.bsky.social on The Planetary:

Dipesh Chakraberty on the need to 'imagine a politics beyond the nation state'

www.noemamag.com/the-planet-i...

From global to planetary: Is new governance needed in a post-Holocene world? The nation-state had a good run, but this form of government may not be able to face planetary challenges that lie ahead.

My @BigThink piece on the future of the nation-state under the pressures of the Anthropocene. Ideas taken from @berggruenInst and @NoemaMag and the Planetary Summit in Venice.

bigthink.com/the-present/...

The cover of Anthony Pagden's Beyond States: Powers, Peoples and Global Order. Shows a 'rosette' made of national flags plus the EU flag.

My review of Anthony Pagden's Beyond States was just published. It is a bit critical due to its nation-centric formula for world federation and lack of engagement with the Earth system crisis - but I nonetheless recommend reading it:
doi.org/10.1177/1360...

Berggruen Institute

I look forward to attending the Planetary Summit this weekend. It's on topic for much of my work to put it mildly - so it should be interesting berggruen.org/projects/pla...

It’s great to see this SI come out (after years of working on it)!

Planetarism: a paradigmatic alternative to internationalism What is a robust theoretical alternative to nationalism? For many seasoned cosmopolitan thinkers the answer is internationalism, which is generally perceived to be a sound foundation for creating a...

I just received a bunch of free eprints of some earlier articles, please use and share as you see fit: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NMIS6...

Navigating world order: neoliberalism between nationalism and cosmopolitanism Through a morphological analysis of early neoliberal discourse, it is argued that preserving the system of states became integral to neoliberalism after a period of contestation. It is common knowl...

I just received a bunch of free eprints of some earlier articles, please use and share as you see fit:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DAFKW...

Proofs sent back. It’s on…

Security in Crisis: Planetary Emergence and the Technopolitics of Crisis Management Abstract. The concept of crisis is a recurrent staple in representations of modern forms of insecurity—from nuclear proliferation to cyber-security, armed

Columba Peoples' new book on the (security) implications of 'Planetary Emergence' is a stellar contribution to the scholarship on planetary politics academic.oup.com/book/58214

screenshot of title and abstract which reads: To reconsider the meaning of justice in a planetary frame is both a necessity in our time of multiple entangled crises and an endeavour that seeks convergence and synthesis where there might instead be irreconcilable differences. We invited scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to share their perspectives on the scope, scale, and purpose of planetary justice and received a variety of responses – all highly worthwhile in their own right. What we can conclude from this new milestone in the literature on planetary justice is that people emphasize different justice concerns and operate with different ontologies. Are the Earth system and the pluriverse opposing frameworks or somehow reconcilable? What concerns should be prioritized is also contested. Can there be a decolonial, multispecies, Earth systemic, justice that begins with the self and where matter is included in our sphere of justice?

New publication: The intro to an upcoming SI, from guest editors @stefanpedersen.bsky.social, Dimitris Stevis and Agni Kalfagianni.

What is planetary justice?

doi.org/10.1080/0964...

What is planetary justice? To reconsider the meaning of justice in a planetary frame is both a necessity in our time of multiple entangled crises and an endeavour that seeks convergence and synthesis where there might instea...

What is planetary justice? Here's a link that provides free access to the intro I co-authored with D Stevis and A Kalfagianni for our upcoming SI on Planetary Justice with @environmentalpol.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RVWGU...

Hi, I’ve sent you my email (via LinkedIn). Hope to hear from you soon.

Hi Tim, that’s great to see. I’m currently visiting @seisydney.bsky.social so maybe we could do a coffee or a zoom while I’m here (before 11 Nov)? In any case, I’ll now read some of your work and good to connect.

Planetary Politics in the Twenty-Second Century After two centuries of immanent planetary politics, by the twenty-second century the politics had become planetary. This means that since the 2020s political analysis encompasses the entire spher...

Agree. Ian Manners' 'Planetary Politics in the Twenty-Second Century' is also worth a read, especially for the part on what a 'symbiotic world' might look like link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...