Sam Toscano

Israel-Premier Tech say pulling out of Vuelta would ‘set a dangerous precedent’ The Israel-Premier Tech team have said pulling out of this year’s Vuelta a España would ‘set a dangerous precedent in the sport of cycling’

My favourite genre of guilty press statement:

Group being protested against telling protesters that their tactics are 'counterproductive to their cause'. Thankfully, Israel-Premier Tech does support "everyone's right to protest", so long as they don't succeed.

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

04.09.2025 12:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@markdoidge.bsky.social , @berglundoscar.bsky.social, @jennyamann.bsky.social , @samtoscano.bsky.social I have submitted the first draft of our book ‘football and climate change: the unsustainability of the beautiful game’ to Manchester University Press. If all goes well it should be out in 2026.

01.09.2025 10:03 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

This article is published in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations and will be part of their 25th anniversary Special Issue.

@bjpir.bsky.social @oupolitics.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1177/1369...

28.02.2025 09:10 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

BP expected to scrap renewables target in shift back to fossil fuels Goal of increasing renewable energy generation 20-fold to be ditched, shareholders to be told this week

3 lessons here:
1/ fossil asset owners will keep these assets as long as gov'ts will let them.
2/ oil and gas net zero pledges are an elaborate distraction -- both for ESG optimists and consumers
3/ liberals take note: the market won't supply decarbonization.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

24.02.2025 20:16 — 👍 158    🔁 75    💬 14    📌 5

New paper on the most disproportionate UK election: how Labour doubled its seat share with a 1.6 point increase in vote share in 2024!

With @profjanegreen.bsky.social
Out now in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social

Link: doi.org/10.1111/1467...
Short thread below🧵

03.02.2025 10:36 — 👍 69    🔁 36    💬 1    📌 4

Am I the only person who constantly mistakes Kamala Harris' husband for Leo Varadkar?

20.01.2025 15:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A @uompol.bsky.social list of PGR/ECR researchers to follow

@samtoscano.bsky.social @sarahledoux.bsky.social @martamiori.bsky.social @yonghaohuang.bsky.social
@niamhcashell.bsky.social @qiaochuzhang.bsky.social
@preciouskennedy.bsky.social
@vittoriogerosa.bsky.social
(Add any I've missed),

21.12.2024 10:02 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

"Tapestry", always tapestry

19.12.2024 08:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

screenshot of first page, abstract reads: Despite an ever-growing critical literature, vulnerability retains its place as a dominant concept in climate politics. What is less heavily researched is the concept of “invulnerability,” an idea that feminist and decolonial theory has many tools to critique. After unpacking the material and discursive elements of vulnerability politics, this article focuses on invulnerability as a concept that is an influential yet unexplored set of masculine and colonial fantasies. These fantasies – of modernity, mastery, and continentalism – are critiqued through different critical traditions, which are brought into conversation with climate politics literature. I then discuss the counternarratives of Oceanic thought, following Teresia Teaiwa’s prompt to “island the world.” I argue that this can be done through a focus on care, relationality, and a decolonial politics of resistance. I conclude that resisting the politics of vulnerability requires an engagement with critical feminist and decolonial thought to enable an imaginative piercing of the fantasies of invulnerability.

New article! I'll do a thread / blog soon, but it's out, and it's Open Access!

'Colonial fantasies of invulnerability to climate change'

doi.org/10.1080/1461...

06.12.2024 07:47 — 👍 283    🔁 86    💬 26    📌 18