Thea Riofrancos

Who Owns the Energy Transition? Climate, Imperialism, and the Geopolitics of Energy Frontiers with Adam Hanieh, Thea Riofrancos, and Ilias Alami | King's College London Join Adam Hanieh, Thea Riofrancos, and Ilias Alami for a discussion on how to think of climate politics in the context of changing energy networks, imperialism, and the remaking of the world order.

I'll be speaking at King's with @triofrancos.bsky.social and Adam Hanieh in a couple of weeks
23 March 2026 17:30 to 19:30
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/who-o...

thank you!

Gimme More | Thea Riofrancos The notion of any single “energy transition” masks the more complicated process of accumulation that undergirds capitalism.

thebaffler.com/latest/gimme.... Super review of a great book

Brilliant take from @triofrancos.bsky.social. The Western green movement was so fugace. And the Great Green Dismantling started well before the Trump 2.0 fascist backlash: weak politicians, powerful carbon lobbies, disorganised green industry, mediocre conservatives lurred into "antiwoke" narratives

Gimme More | Thea Riofrancos The notion of any single “energy transition” masks the more complicated process of accumulation that undergirds capitalism.

by @triofrancos.bsky.social
"More, because growth does not illuminate the class and property relations central to capital accumulation; less, because equating cap with growth simpliciter has difficulty accommodating the system’s tendencies toward quite the opposite: crisis, stagnation & recession"

Towards a new Fressoz debate. Here is a🧵of reviews.

www.penguin.co.uk/books/464145...

Kicking off our hybrid book club with @triofrancos.bsky.social! If you couldn’t join us this evening a recording will be available on our website soon. Catch up to hear about what’s driving expansion of lithium mining and its impact on communities in Chile.

Thanks for coming!

At a talk by @triofrancos.bsky.social on lithium and other mining, at Crossroads Women's Centre in Kentish Town. Extraction is published by Icon Books.

Got on the other side of the mic and talked anti-war movement, past and present, with Dan and Salar.

New Dig ep: Ben Mabie and Salar Mohandesi on what war on Iran tells us about US imperialism, and why US doesn’t have a massive anti-war movement even amid high anti-war public sentiment. We must make movements that can thrive and win under new conditions. thedigradio.com/podcast/anti...

Argentina, Bolivia & Chile contain over half global lithium resources. Once Kast assumes the Chilean presidency, all three will be governed by right-wing leaders.

What are the implications? I’m in @financialtimes.com to analyze this major political reversal www.ft.com/content/0276...

hope you enjoy! 🙏

Looking forward to this weekend reading.

Extraction by @triofrancos.bsky.social

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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"