Luister of lees 'Waarom het klimaatdebat aanvoelt als en film die we al honderd keer hebben gezien', waarin @maartenhajer.bsky.social en Jeroen Oomen in gesprek gaan met journalist @jelmermommers.bsky.social over #CapturedFutures @decorrespondent.nl

New article just published - together with @evrop-anka.bsky.social, @sonjablum.bsky.social , @maartenhajer.bsky.social, O. Císař and Till Hilmar, we introduce the concept of "political emotions" and show how it helps us understand the climate crisis. Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Solar + storage is now cheater than coal & nuclear. Combining solar with wind, water and/or geothermal reduces the amount of storage needed. We are closing in on 24/7/365 firmed renewable energy. #TheFutureWillBeElectric #FossilFuelsAreStrandedAssets 💪👏🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋

Captured Futures: Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politics is officially out! Huge congratulations to @maartenhajer.bsky.social & Jeroen Oomen. Their new book is a must-read for anyone who is interested in how we can move from captured to captivating #futures. www.uu.nl/en/research/...

"Men emit 26% more planet-heating pollution than women from transport and food, according to a preprint study of 15,000 people in France. The gap shrinks to 18% after controlling for socioeconomic factors such as income and education."

Aanstaande zondag. Doe mee en meld je aan! 👇🕊️ #RodeLijn #nietinmijnnaam #Stophetgeweld paxvoorvrede.nl/acties/wij-t...

On 3 June, @maartenhajer.bsky.social and Jeroen Oomen present their new book “Captured Futures - Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politics” at Pakhuis de Zwijger, together with experts Marianne Minnesma, Bart van den Hurk, and Ralien Bekkers. dezwijger.nl/programma/ca... #CapturedFutures

Could political radicalism require an element of conservatism? That's what we suggest in our new article. Treating politics as theatre🎭, we suggest that the most successful political movements tap into and reinterpret already dominant symbols. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Captured Futures - Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politics by @maartenhajer.bsky.social & Jeroen Oomen offers a compelling critique of how environmental politics ‘as we know it’ cannot deliver. Now available online for subscribers: academic.oup.com/book/59970?l... @oxfordunipress.bsky.social

Read 'Dramaturgies of change: Staging political transformation', a new paper by @godsandsods.bsky.social, Jeroen Oomen, @jessehoffman.bsky.social & @maartenhajer.bsky.social

When cars were still way smaller than parking lots …@urbancyclinginstitute.org

With so much institutional irresponsibility we know that tough regulation is the only way to avoid catastrophe. “UK banks put £75bn into firms building climate-wrecking ‘carbon bombs’, study finds”

Incredible satellite image of the 33 (!!!!) operational fossil fuel combustion engines at the site of Elon Musk's XAI data centre “appalling that xAI would operate more than 30 methane gas turbines without any permits or any public oversight" @selc.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Join us on April 28th for a #FriendsOfTheFuture seminar with Femke Bijlsma, partner and content developer at the international design studio Kossmandejong. Are you interested in exploring how to create compelling stories that matter? learn more and register here: www.uu.nl/en/events/st...

We are in much need of inspiration in these treacherous uncertain times… Thrilled to share the 𝗨𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗮*𝗔𝗿𝘁*𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, an edited multi-media collection which brings together diverse ideas on how artistic practices can help reimagine and remake our world. Download: www.uu.nl/en/research/...

Completely batshit that Harvard has *removed* Cemal Kafadar as head of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies & so shitty to malign one of the great scholars of Ottoman history as antisemitic because the CMES dared to offer programming on ITS AREA OF FOCUS www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

This April, the #PathwaysToSustainability program of @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social is organizing a series of discussions and a participatory exhibition exploring the issues surrounding the new gold rush for critical minerals. Learn more: www.uu.nl/en/events/cr...

Where are we on the slippery slope to geoengineering, halfway down? Stardust has a "proprietary aerosol particle" which it plans to distribute through a machine mounted on an aircraft www.wired.com/story/a-myst...

NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests. So, best we share all the footage we can here! This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu. 🇹🇷 #Turkey

#Vacature Wij zoeken een nieuwe postdoc onderzoeker voor ons #AcademyOfHope project. In deze positie onderzoek je de wijze waarop het faciliteren van gesprekken, binnen & buiten het onderwijs, kan bijdragen aan een meer hoopvolle omgang met de toekomst. Reageer voor 11-04: www.uu.nl/organisatie/...

Guest researcher Sören Altstaedt, of the Max Planck institute for the study of societies, just gave an intriguing #FriendsOfTheFuture seminar about the limits to growth debates in 1970s. Sign up for our events mailing list to receive an invite for the next seminar: mailings.uu.nl/hp/NxTyEInP4...

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

Voor wie even genoeg heeft van het nieuws: kijk naar de hemel. En kijk dan vooral niet naar Mars maar zoek naar Venus 🙏

During WWII, four brothers from the same Jewish family signed up to fight against the Nazis. Only one of the four brothers survived. His grandson is the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. Slava Ukraine! Heroyam Slava! 💙💛

Ok folks, deep breaths. There is very real reason to worry about the dynamic emerging between Washington and Moscow when it comes to Ukraine. But there is also very real reason to believe that Ukraine and Europe can create a better outcome. (A rather long 🧵, obviously) /1

"Appeasement at Munich: World Wars, Past and Possible" The symmetry between Germany-Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Russia-Ukraine in 2022 is uncanny, and pausing for a moment on the resemblances might help us to take a broader view of today. snyder.substack.com/p/appeasemen...

Populisme: elke dag weer een toneelstuk, zonder pointe Mijn column in @nrc.nl www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

‘Pollution’ is back and at full force. PFAS is ‘Silent Spring’ revisited. What a price we pay for allowing these localised environmental disasters to go unnoticed. It is a big story. How could EPA’s and Inspectorates let this slip by? It is due to a captured politics that needs to be addressed.

Teken nog voor morgen de petitie ‘Stop niet met VPRO’s Tegenlicht’. Een van de weinige crossmediale journalistieke programma’s met diepgravende geopolitieke analyses én serieus toekomstperspectief. petities.nl/petitions/st...

World’s climate fight needs fundamental reform, UN expert says: ‘Some states are not acting in good faith’ — this analysis and a search for possible remedies is part of our forthcoming book. April 2025!

Is societal collapse inevitable? No, but value change and leadership based on an understanding of looming failure are crucial to avoid sliding away www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"The big business of housing hasn’t adopted climate underwriting" Economists are beginning to sound warnings, urging the mortgage industry and insurers to face the risky reality that annual insurance policies cannot always be reconciled with 30-year loans. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

In 2018, UFS co-hosted #PlacesOfHope, an exhibition & manifestation about a sustainable future for the (North of the) Netherlands. Versteeg, @maartenhajer.bsky.social &Hoffman wrote a paper about the meaning and potential of utopian experiments like Places of Hope www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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“the city of the future increasingly resembles the city of the past” – www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... More in-depth analysis of #neighbourhoods for the Future is here: valiz.nl/en/publicati...

Pointing out the #absurdities of the present may sometimes be more effective that sketching appealing images of the #future. Here is what I see strolling through my #neighbourhood #SUV

We are living in troubling times. It is difficult to make sense of all interacting logics. That is why I was touched by this profoundly insightful statement by #amitavghosh on the acceptance of the #erasmusprize Highly recommendable. Thanks, @amitav.bsky.social erasmusprijs.org/prijswinnaar...