Matthias Kranke

📣 Here comes a new article that sets out how to systematically investigate growth (in)dependence in a variety of context. I hope it will be useful for many, including @jhasselbalch.bsky.social @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social @lenarethel.bsky.social @atrasi.bsky.social & @kzimmermann.bsky.social.

Happy to answer any questions!

Perhaps of interest to @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social @jacquelinebest.bsky.social @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social @squirrelista.bsky.social @malerbadaniele.bsky.social @christianstoecker.de @kzimmermann.bsky.social @kateraworth.bsky.social @matpaterson.bsky.social @corinna-viajera.bsky.social ...
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8) Again Malcolm & myself on Bitcoin and other alt-coins
9) @clemhoffmann.bsky.social on the risk of speed in decarbonising energy systems
#growth #post-growth #infrastructures #sustainability
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5) Senka Neuman Stanivuković on the Belgrade–Budapest railway
6) Kathryn Furlong on the debt-growth nexus in Medellín, Colombia
7) @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social & Valérie Boisvert on green accounting
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👉 Here’s a list of the papers:
1) Introduction by Malcolm & myself
2) @eric-cezne.bsky.social & Kei Otsuki on the BR-319 Highway in the Brazilian Amazon
3) Aslı Yürük & Ozan Karaman on the cruise port Galataport in Istanbul
4) Daniel Durrant on megaprojects in the U.K.
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The collection thus moves beyond the common concern for policies and institutions in post-growth scholarship while also calling on infrastructural studies to take questions of (post-)growth more seriously. /3

Across 9 papers, including our own intro, we discuss the notion of ‘growth infrastructures’ (building on work that has used the concept before) and their potential conversion into ‘post-growth infrastructures’. We foreground the socio-material embeddedness of the pursuit of economic growth. /2

Economy and Society (Post-)Growth Infrastructures. Guest Editors: Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Matthias Kranke. Volume 54, Issue 4 of Economy and Society

📣 Publication alert
Just before the break, a special issue co-edited with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn on ‘(Post-)Growth Infrastructures’ was published in @econsocjournal.bsky.social. /1
👉 www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/5...

The conference is organised by the Centre for Global Cooperation Research @unidue.bsky.social & its Fellow Group 'Sustainability and Democracy'. As a member of this group, @mattkranke.bsky.social is a co-organiser.

The fact that not only is the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is still increasing, but the *rate of CO2 increasing* in the atmosphere is still increasing is true nightmare stuff.

Global Green Visions and World Order in the Anthropocene – just published by Bruna Bosi-Moreira & @mattkranke.bsky.social in @gepjournal.bsky.social
direct.mit.edu/glep/issue/2...

... @cerencevik.bsky.social @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social @jksteinberger.bsky.social @angelawigger.bsky.social @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social @tschmidtke.bsky.social @alicevadrot.bsky.social @jvtk.bsky.social @lenarethel.bsky.social @bmangitli.bsky.social @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social & many more

💡 Overall, this diverse collection engages with work on global environmental governance, environmental futures and world order in the Anthropocene. Perhaps of interest to @matpaterson.bsky.social @jhasselbalch.bsky.social @jacquelinebest.bsky.social @corneliab.bsky.social @kaiheron.bsky.social ...

Blue Visions: Ordering a Changing Arctic Ocean Abstract. This essay explores how the prospect of a “blue” Arctic Ocean—no longer covered continuously with sea ice—has shaped, supported, and challenged different visions for and prospective ways of ...

The Forum article by @elanawilsonrowe.bsky.social on the vision of an ice-free, or “blue”, Arctic Ocean concludes the special issue. This anticipated future has, as the author argues, set in motion various attempts at (re)ordering the region.
👉 tinyurl.com/yc3d9e2s

Recarbonization Through Decarbonization: Nickel Extraction and the Deepening of Fossil Fuel Dependence in Indonesia Abstract. A global green vision requires a low-carbon shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy. This transition, however, relies on significant material and energy inputs, exacerbating mineral extr...

Nanang I. Kurniawan, Poppy S. Winanti & Devy D. Cahyati take the case of the Indonesian nickel sector to show how the vision of decarbonisation triggers widely overlooked dynamics of recarbonisation. The extractivist logic remains in place – and fossil fuel dependence high.
👉 tinyurl.com/37arjzhr

A Green World Order with Chinese Characteristics: Implications for Global Climate Cooperation Abstract. This article examines how China’s vision of a green world order affects global climate cooperation. It argues that China’s global green vision is technology driven, combining green industria...

This pattern resurfaces in the article by Bruna Bosi-Moreira on China’s vision of transition, which embraces green growth and technological innovation for decarbonisation. The challenge to the existing world order is thus again relatively moderate.
👉 tinyurl.com/y523pjfa

REDD+ and Extractivism: Navigating Sustainability in Ghana’s Cocoa Landscapes Abstract. REDD+ is a global green vision that addresses climate change by reducing emissions from deforestation and enhancing carbon storage in forests while promoting sustainable forest management. D...

Esther Wahabu explores how the REDD+ vision, which shall promote sustainable forest management and use, has adverse effects on Ghana’s cocoa forests. REDD+ stabilises, rather than undermines, a world order grounded in extractivism and dispossession.
👉 tinyurl.com/5bye3bru

Rights of Nature and World Order: Reimagining Socioecological Futures Abstract. Rights of Nature (RoN) have emerged as a transformative strategy to address contemporary socioecological crises. Over the past two decades, RoN have gained traction as national laws and cour...

Cristina Espinosa & @fabriciorodriguez.bsky.social discuss the Ecuadorian vision of Rights of Nature (RoN). It poses a strong challenge to the extractivist capitalist order, but remains a hybrid instrument, embedded as it is in mainstream liberal institutions.
👉 tinyurl.com/3djcwxs8

Amazonia Center of the World: Telling Stories of Socioenvironmentalism as Struggles for a Planet of Many Worlds Abstract. Considered a regional entity of the Earth system, Amazonia is close to its ecological tipping point. Nonetheless, over the last decades, socioenvironmental alliances have emerged in Brazilia...

The team led by Cristina Y. A. Inoue zooms in on the vision of “Amazonia center of the world”. Their article shows how stories of socioenvironmentalism envisage many worlds that co-exist and are always in the making. In other words, world order is not set in stone.
👉 tinyurl.com/4kfb3srk

The Global Politics of a Protected Earth Abstract. The vision of humans living sustainably on a “protected earth” has a long history. Support for this vision has been surging in recent years, coming into sharp relief in 2022 when negotiators...

@justinalger.bsky.social & Peter Dauvergne examine “Protected Earth” as an emergent conservation vision. It challenges the established order of biodiversity governance although it may also lead to forms of conservation that harm certain groups (e.g., Indigenous communities).
👉 tinyurl.com/42ec4jem

Global Green Visions and World Order in the Anthropocene Abstract. This special issue on what we call global green visions offers a vantage point for understanding global environmental governance in the Anthropocene through the lens of world order(s). Speci...

Bruna & I introduce the collection by developing the notion of “global green visions”. We argue that these visions of sustainability are politically contentious for an underacknowledged reason: they offer criticisms of the existing world order and delineate alternative orders.
👉 tinyurl.com/2xhxtuxv

Volume 25 Issue 3 | Global Environmental Politics | MIT Press

📣 Yet another SI for you, folks! Delighted to announce the publication of a @gepjournal.bsky.social special issue on “Global Green Visions and World Order in the Anthropocene”, co-edited with my dear colleague Bruna Bosi-Moreira.
👉 direct.mit.edu/glep/issue/2...

Here is the full cast of contributors: Amy A. Quark & Elizabeth Jacobs, @ttieku.bsky.social & Amanda Coffie, Bahar Rumelili, Jozon A. Lorenzana, Silvia C. Ruiz-Rodríguez & @alicevadrot.bsky.social, Victória M. S. Santos & Ned Littlefield, @hansenmagnusson.bsky.social & @charlygehrke.bsky.social!

Of course, we also introduce the eight contributions to the special section. To this end, we have come up with a huge but hopefully still accessible and useful table (in addition to details in the text).
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Boundary work and the (un)making of global cooperation: mapping the terrain How does ‘boundary work’ shape global cooperation? This introduction offers a framework to investigate the role of actors in the production and placement o

@marenhofius.bsky.social & I open the collection with a framing paper that draws on a diverse body of work in IR, STS and beyond. We argue that boundary work is pervasive in global politics, shaping and structuring the possibilities of cooperation among actors.
academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...

Volume 101 Issue 3 | International Affairs | Oxford Academic The official journal of Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Publishes content across the entire discipline of international relations and is renowned for its academically rigo...

📣 Belated publication announcement – I have never really gotten round to properly introducing the @iajournal.bsky.social special section on ‘Boundary work and the (un)making of global cooperation’, co-edited with the wonderful @marenhofius.bsky.social.
academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/3

Auch beachtlich: Wer am lautesten für "Freiheit" (für wen eigentlich?) und "Technologieoffenheit" wirbt, hat oft keine Probleme, Freiheit und Offenheit in der Sprache – ja – mit Verboten einzuschränken. Auch eine offene Gesellschaft kommt nicht ohne Verbote aus. Aber ehrlich sollte man dabei sein.

Warum die Politik am Verbrenner-Aus zweifelt Die kriselnde Autobranche will nicht allein auf E-Mobilität setzen, sie fordert Technologieoffenheit. In der Politik mehren sich die Stimmen, die das Verbrenner-Aus 2035 anzweifeln. Von Lissy Kaufmann...

Wem die Sommer immer noch zu kalt sind, sollte nach dem Verbrennerausaus klimaneutrale Kraftstoffe verbieten, neue Kernkraftwerke bauen und alles Grün in Beton umwandeln lassen – und dann bei Dürren und Fluten die Betroffenen mit viel, viel Steuer💰 entschädigen. www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...

📢 Excited to share that this collection has now been published in @gepjournal.bsky.social – thanks to my wonderful co-guest editor Bruna and all our great contributors!

➡️ The introduction is open access: direct.mit.edu/glep/article....