Thea Riofrancos

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Congrats!! Excited to read this.

📣 Publication day! The first paper from my project on Europe’s EV battery roll-out is finally out

I unpack how the EU’s EV battery boom is entangled with sacrifice zones—investment in Serbia & Hungary de-risked through autocracy.
www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

“It isn’t a stretch to claim, as Malm and Carton do, that an actual energy transition—of the sort that Fressoz shows has never occurred—would challenge the basic power structures of global capitalism and geopolitics.”

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Much appreciated Josh!

I'm late to read it, but this is a fantastic review - both an incisive examination and critique of Fressoz's work, and illuminating in its own right.

Thank you Matt!

"It isn’t a stretch to claim, as Malm and Carton do, that an actual energy transition—of the sort that Fressoz shows has never occurred—would challenge the basic power structures of global capitalism and geopolitics."

Excellent review with far-reaching implications from @triofrancos.bsky.social

The Commons w/ Peter Linebaugh Featuring Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below.

extraordinary episode of the always great DIG podcast, on the history of the commons

thedigradio.com/podcast/the-...

New from Picketty's lab: The world can raise incomes toward global equity & stabilize the climate under "under very strict conditions"

—reduction of work hours
—consumption shift toward immaterial sectors
—major change in food habits
—a fast energy transition requiring massive low-carbon investment

Iran

For people needing podcasts on iran:

thedigradio.com/History%20of...

We have a big, urgent opportunity to primary establishment Dems who make Trumpism possible through fealty to corporate power and enthusiasm for arming Israeli war machine. My interview with Geoff Simpson on @justicedemocrats.com's 2026 insurgent primary campaigns. thedigradio.com/podcast/prim...

Looking forward to it!

Thrilled to kick off our Development Studies Annual Lectures with @triofrancos.bsky.social!

Join us this Sunday at 5pm!

(on the International Women's Day ✌️)

I saw this and at first thought "no, there's no way 'we definitely had alternative leadership in mind for Iran but I blew them up alongside the schoolgirls using AI' is what the White House is actually saying, that's too clueless and evil to be real"

The first person in Bahrain to be confirmed to die was a migrant worker from the debris of an intercepted missile

Aw thank you! Would love to... I have more Europe engagements in the summer, but most likely focused on Germany b/c I have a German translation coming out... will see what is possible this year or next!

Super bummed that I'll be missing this. If you're in any of these towns, you should go!

EXTRACTION will have its UK debut soon. I will be coming to London, Cambridge and Oxford for events the week after this one.

See my website for event specifics and to RSVP www.theariofrancos.com/upcoming-eve...

Tech Won’t Save Us

techwontsave.us

#greentransition
#resourcenationalism
#extraction
@triofrancos.bsky.social

thank you!!

this is a good book

Silicon Empires w/ Nick Srnicek Featuring Nick Srnicek on Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI. A deep exploration of the political economy of AI: the fulcrum of the authoritarian tech oligarchy—and of global contests for...

This is a really insightful and informative episode with @nsrnicek.bsky.social particularly for how it pushes back against the leftist urge to dismiss AI as politically old hat and philosophically irrelevant thedigradio.com/podcast/sili...

How did rare earth minerals become the focus of a geopolitical battle over the future of green energy and, by extension, capitalism?

Join us on 12 March 5.30-7pm @lselaw.bsky.social for a lecture by @triofrancos.bsky.social & discussion w/ @cschwobelpatel.bsky.social.

🔗 Register shorturl.at/GwbFh

Re-framing Trump’s wars through a focus on energy | Panel Hosted by RGS Climate Change Research Group, this panel centres on the crucial and geographical issue of energy transitions.

Join the Society's Climate Change Research Group for an upcoming panel on Monday 2 March, with Thea Riofrancos, Patrick Schröder, and Sean Kenji Starrs:

'The environmental politics of Donald Trump: re-framing Trump’s wars through a focus on energy'

https://ow.ly/jXVK50YkVis

I can now hear the whole song playing in my head ty

lol i’ve honestly hoped someone would do this 🙏

reading @triofrancos.bsky.social while listening to Nirvana
youtu.be/pkcJEvMcnEg?...

The Scramble for Lithium Thea Riofrancos’s Extraction tells the story of how a rare earth mineral became the focus of a worldwide battle over the future of green energy and, by extension, capitalism.

www.thenation.com/article/cult...

At least some folks know about the deadly aspects of extraction etc. of #fossilfuels #coal #oil #gas
Thea Riofrancos has been doing phenomenal work in helping everyone understand the story behind the #clean technologies of the future.
#solar #batteries #EV #wind