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Kjell Vowles

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Post-doctoral researcher - climate, nationalism, obstruction

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Oerhört viktigt och bra gräv av @etc.se

05.03.2026 16:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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DN Debatt. ”Dissa inte vetenskap bara för att ni ogillar protester” DN Debatt. Vetenskapsförfattaren Maths Nilsson varnar för lobbyism mot klimatmål i EU och Sverige

Mycket bra av @mattanurret.bsky.social www.dn.se/debatt/dissa...

03.03.2026 23:31 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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New interview!

Fossil Fuels and the Far Right’s Nostalgic Vision by Kjell Vowles.

@kvowles.bsky.social

environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/interviews/f...

24.02.2026 10:52 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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New article!

Far-right fossil fuel ignorance: the nostalgia of national-industrial modernity by Kjell Vowles.

@kvowles.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2026.2620920

16.02.2026 12:03 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
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Klimatforskningen ryms inte i Söderholms förenklade konflikt Ola Söderholm gör både forskningen och samhällsdebatten en otjänst.

”Ola Söderholm gör både forskningen och samhällsdebatten en otjänst.”

01.02.2026 06:01 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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1-2 Doctoral studentships in human geography Job assignments: The doctoral candidate program amounts to 240 credits (equivalent to four years of full-time study). It formally ends with the doctoral candidate publicly defending his/her printed do

Open (fully funded) PhD position in Human Geography.

Please share!

@cssn.org #envpol #politicalecology

lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

04.02.2026 07:42 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

I am thankful for my WG within @cssn.org where I presented some early thoughts regarding this research that's now been published in @environmentalpol.bsky.social

30.01.2026 10:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

But this is a society that must be ignorant about its immorality, and conveniently forget about the systems of exploitation, environmental degradation, gender inequality, racism, and global inequal exchange which upholds it. (4/4)

30.01.2026 09:52 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I here argue that anti-reflexivity is broader than just opposition to environmentalism. Far-right nostalgia is often focused on the 50s and 60s and idolises a society closely resembling what Ulrich Bech described as first modernity. (3/4)

30.01.2026 09:52 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

In the article I argue that far-right climate obstruction can be understood as anti-reflexive acts of refusal to reclaim the ignorance of nation-industrial modernity. Revisiting early work on climate denialism and anti-reflexivity (by e.g., Riley Dunlap, Aaron McCright, and Peter Jacques) (2/4)

30.01.2026 09:52 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Far-right fossil fuel ignorance: the nostalgia of national-industrial modernity Far-right climate change obstruction has been widely noticed in the scholarly literature, and both material and ideational factors have been recognised as playing a part in climate policy backlash....

Very pleased to see this article finally out: Far-right fossil fuel ignorance: the nostalgia of national-industrial modernity (1/4) doi.org/10.1080/0964...

30.01.2026 09:52 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2

Och 90 procent sannolikhet handlar inte om hur troligt det är att nuvarande klimatpolitik fortsätter, utan om hur troligt det är att temperaturökningen inte går över 3,3 grader (vilket fortfarande är en katastrofal nivå) givet att inga länder försämrar sin klimatpolitik fram till 2100.

28.01.2026 15:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Det stämmer att USA är med i rapporten, men poängen är att det inte finns något som säkerställer att åtgärder som gäller nu kommer fortsätta fram till 2100. Det är ett antagande om att inget försämras vad gäller klimatpolicies, och som USA visar kan saker förändras mycket snabbt.

28.01.2026 14:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Osäkerheterna är också kopplade till osäkra uppskattningar om vilken effekt policies och ndc:s får

26.01.2026 12:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Och som många andra sagt, konsekvenserna vid tre grader är också katastrofala.

26.01.2026 09:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Dessutom finns det stora osäkerheter i de här beräkningarna, kopplat till de osäkerheter som finns kring klimatsensitivitet. Även om nuvarande politik upprätthålls finns det en risk att vi går mot fyra grader. wedocs.unep.org/rest/api/cor...

26.01.2026 09:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Även "current policies" är ett slags löfte, eftersom det bygger på att nuvarande policies upprätthålls tills 2035 och sedan ligger på en liknande nivå. Som vi har sett inte minst i Sverige och USA kan klimatpolitik rullas tillbaka ganska snabbt vid val.

26.01.2026 09:38 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Spännande, den ser jag fram emot att läsa!

22.01.2026 16:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oerhört bra av @fridahylander.bsky.social om Ola Söderholms förvillande argumentation!

22.01.2026 15:38 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Very pleased to be part of this special issue!

19.01.2026 20:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Special Issue on Backlash, Borders, and Bunkers: Antidemocratic Politics and Climate Change Communication that I edited is now available. A huge thanks to @phaedra.bsky.social for the opportunity to edit this project and to all of the contributing authors! www.tandfonline.com/toc/renc20/2...

19.01.2026 16:54 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 2
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Workshops - Uppsala University

Understanding the bridge between literal climate change denial and cultures of ignorance. Remember to submit your abstracts to our workshop (n 22), at the #NESS2026 conference in Uppsala. Deadline 8th of December. www.uu.se/en/departmen...

28.11.2025 08:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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S14, Ep5 | How the Fossil Fuel Industry Sabotages Climate Action Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

See also @drilledmedia.bsky.social's episode featuring chapter authors @geoffdembicki.bsky.social, @kertdavies.bsky.social, and @krekberg.bsky.social drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

28.10.2025 20:15 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Globally averaged CO2 concentration (a) and its growth rate (b) from 1984 to 2024. Increases in successive annual means are shown as the shaded columns in (b). The red line in (a) is the monthly mean with the seasonal variation removed; the blue dots and blue line in (a) depict the monthly averages. Observations from 179 stations were used for this analysis.

Globally averaged CO2 concentration (a) and its growth rate (b) from 1984 to 2024. Increases in successive annual means are shown as the shaded columns in (b). The red line in (a) is the monthly mean with the seasonal variation removed; the blue dots and blue line in (a) depict the monthly averages. Observations from 179 stations were used for this analysis.

Holy wow, +3.5 ppm CO₂ last year, up from +2.4 ppm average the past decade, and +0.6 ppm in the 1960s.

It gets scarier the closer you look at it. All this is a stress test for the planet, and it's buckling.

Two big reasons for the massive increase: wildfires, and the ocean sinks are shutting down.

16.10.2025 07:02 👍 893 🔁 412 💬 43 📌 41

BIG launch this week--the book is available, free, online at our @cssn.org website:

cssn.org/news-researc...

16.10.2025 11:36 👍 79 🔁 51 💬 1 📌 3
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Beyond the CCCM – The Conditions Facilitating the Swedish Climate Change Reactionary Movement Research on climate change obstruction has often focused on what has been called the Climate Change Countermovement, the CCCM. While the term originated from the social movements literature – ackno...

What's beyond vested interests? Can we use the concept of countermovemement in more ways to understand climate obstruction? @kvowles.bsky.social and I think with a common but perhaps underused concept to understand reactionary climate politics in Sweden. @cssn.org

18.09.2025 17:58 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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On Israel and comparisons with the Nazis After Israel announces it's building a concentration camp, condemning the few politicians speaking out is morally twisted

Israel has announced it's building a concentration camp in Gaza.

Imagine seeing this news and deciding you should aim your fire at the few politicians speaking out, rather than condemning the crime.

On Israel and Nazi comparisons 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/on-israel-...

12.07.2025 16:19 👍 604 🔁 259 💬 21 📌 11
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Svenske diplomaten: Svälten sprider sig i Gaza Nästan var tredje invånare går dagar i sträck utan mat.

DETTA PÅGÅR

”Nästan var tredje invånare i Gazaremsan går dagar i sträck utan att äta, uppger FN:s livsmedelsprogram, WFP.
Svenske WFP-toppen Carl Skau beskriver en situation som är värre än någonsin förr.”

www.sydsvenskan.se/2025-07-11/s...

11.07.2025 05:34 👍 29 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 1
bar chart showing deaths associate with extreme heat with and without climate change in 12 European cities

bar chart showing deaths associate with extreme heat with and without climate change in 12 European cities

About 1500 of the approx. 2300 people that will have lost their lives across 12 European cities last week would still live, if it wasn't for our burning of oil, coal and gas. If we care about the right to life, we need to stop burning fossil fuels. www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

09.07.2025 14:34 👍 403 🔁 226 💬 7 📌 16

Det finns ingenting som säger att klimatförnekelse försvinner bara för att effekterna av den globala uppvärmningen blir tydliga

10.07.2025 14:40 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0