Claire Blencowe

Another thoughtful and generous review of Spirits of Extraction. Many thanks to Diarmind Finnegan and @jofhistgeog.bsky.social for the intertest!

Spirits of extraction: Christianity, settler colonialism and the geology of race Published in Ethnic and Racial Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Super excited to discuss my new book Spirits of Extraction:Christianity, settler colonialism and the geology of race with these fantastic people! If you're at RGS_IBG on Friday please join us!

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Research Fellow @jbrigstocke.bsky.social explores how communities in Brazil’s favelas establish forms of everyday community authority in response to the authoritarian violence of police and criminal groups. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... @cardiffuni.bsky.social

Palestine: A Sociological Issue Cairsti Russell, Rafeef Ziadah, Ashjan Ajour and Yasmin Gunaratnam in conversation Part of The Sociological Review Foundation’s Conversations series, this 8 May 2025 event explored the role of sociology in responding to genocide in Gaza, student resistance, campus securitisation, an...

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Red Pockets by Alice Mah review – finding hope amid the climate crisis A professor’s quest to make sense of her eco-anxiety takes her from her ancestral village in China to Cop 26 and beyond

Lovely write up of Alice Mah's new book. Congratulations Alice! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

thanks Alex!

The book explores the intersecting genealogies of biopolitical racism, evangelical Christianity, cultural genocide and the extractive industries in the context of British Empire zooming in on Methodists and miners in Bristol, Cornwall, and Anishinaabewaki/Upper Canada.

So happy to have this book finally winding it's way into the world. So many thanks and love to everyone @manchesterup.bsky.social @sociowarwick.bsky.social, and the students, friends and family that have carried it along its way.

Book cover for Spirits of extraction.

💥Spirits of extraction by @claireblencowe.bsky.social provides a history of the role of Christianity in the expansion of the extraction industries, British imperialism and settler colonialism in #Britain and #Canada.

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