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A/Prof Kate Booth

@incollapse.bsky.social

Human geographer posting about climate, insurance, inequity, and the most challenging and controversial predicament of our times - global collapse. #InCollapse

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PALESTINE CALLING - Roads to Justice

In this powerful forum, Dr Adel Yousif and Remah Naji share their insights about Palestine and experiences of being Palestinian during colonial occupation and oppression.

22.02.2026 07:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Big news! I have just submitted my book to its publisher! In this book, I take a critical look at one of the most controversial ideas of our timesβ€”global collapse, focusing on climate and insurance. My motivation is to support meaningful and just responses to unevenly distributed impacts & hardship.

15.01.2026 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today, I began reading Post-Anarchism: A Reader, a collection of essays edited by Duane Rouselle and Sureyyya Evren (2011).

Why am I reading this book?

18.11.2025 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The fourth book I’m reading this month is The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer (2021).

Some of Greer's language and framings are now dated and unacceptable; she appears to lack empathy and understanding of lived experience in all its diversity. So why read this book, 55 years on?

10.11.2025 05:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Third cab off the rank – I’m reading David Graeber’s (2014) Debt.

Three reasons why this book is on my list:

04.11.2025 08:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My second book is The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Engels Friedrich (2010) – the manifesto itself and an introduction and notes.

In the 21st century, why on earth am I reading The Communist Manifesto?!! Here are three reasons, which I’m sure others can add too.

27.10.2025 07:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My next book? Well, I’m tossing up between Mark Bray’s, Antifa: An Anti-fascist Handbook and Germaine Greer’s, The Female Eunuch. Or, maybe, The Communist Manifesto…

21.10.2025 06:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

…wheel but running faster on the same wheel. There is much that has been said and tried before. Think, for example, eco-modernism and degrowth lifestylers. Thirdly, as a poet, Pete Hay’s writing demonstrates Actual Intelligence and is a refreshing deep dive into attentive scholarship.

21.10.2025 06:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

…standing against immigration) have a backstory. Early ecofeminists contributed to shifting β€˜the problem’ from β€˜humans’ to intersections of patriarchy, imperialism, and class. Secondly, amidst claims of novelty and innovation, in climate-environmentalism its often not so much reinventing the…

21.10.2025 06:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Firstly, contemporary climate-environment discourses and practices reflect and, at times, are rooted in ideas developed and prosecuted in the Global North in the late 20th Century. Links between nationalism and the environment (environmentalists attending March for Australia rallies and…

21.10.2025 06:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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In modern academic life, reading a whole book is a radical act. Unfortunate, but true. So, I’ve dedicated the next 4 weeks to reading.

My first book? Pete Hay's (2002) Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought. UNSW Press.

Why read this book?

21.10.2025 06:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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We’re F**ed! It’s too late to avoid civilisational collapse. 2025 Beaker Street Festival Great Debate - ABC listen Is the end of the world nigh, or just the end of the world as we know it? Are we set to doom-scroll our way to apocalypse? Or is this the moment we wake up to ourselves, change course, and save the pl...

It's too late to avoid civilizational collapse. Or is it?

The Beaker Street Festival Great Debate is now live on ABC's Big Ideas. 'The Transformers' and 'The Three Horsewomen of the Apocalypse' battled it out, and who won? Spoiler alert - my horsey team!

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

16.10.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I call myself an 'academic activist.' But what does that mean?

The ideas embedded within @justcollapse.bsky.social come from human geography and allied fields. This is critical geography in action - mixing academic life with activist intent with some surprising results!

05.10.2025 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Available projects for research degrees | University of Tasmania - Geographies of collapse and equity Global collapse is one of the most compelling and controversial ideas ...

Interested in doing a PhD?

Geographies of Collapse and Equity: This is your opportunity to design a project within critical collapse studies – a leftist, intellectual concern with power and inequity in everyday life and a collapsing world.

www.utas.edu.au/research/deg...

12.08.2025 04:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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THE BEAKER STREET DEBATE Natasha Mitchell hosts the battle of brains and bravado

Is it the end of the world? Have our multi-crises of climate change, over-consumption etc brought us to the brink?

Join two teams of science and culture heavy hitters for this battle of brains and bravado. Yes, that includes me - on the affirmative team!

tickets.beakerstreet.com.au/Events/THE-B...

31.07.2025 07:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New research: β€œaimed at reducing oppression during crises… mutually beneficial networks of skills and resources…the possibility of enduring within instability, adapting to conditions that may continue to deteriorate, even to the ultimate outcome of species extinction” @hopeforfuture1.bsky.social
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22.06.2025 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

It's here! I'm thrilled to share my latest publication in Critical and Radical Social Work - β€œCollapsed Social Work: A Theoretical Framework for Adapting to Societal Collapse.”
This paper asks a unnerving but necessary question: What happens to social work when society itself begins to break down?

16.06.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Great to have our paper selected!

30.05.2025 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NSW is again cleaning up after major floods. Are we veering towards the collapse of insurability?

Right now, it’s not insurance companies we should worry about. It is the unfolding, real-time collapse of insurance for households, businesses and communities.

29.05.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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NSW is again cleaning up after major floods. Are we veering towards the collapse of insurability? Right now, it’s not insurance companies we should worry about. It is the unfolding, real-time collapse of insurance for households, businesses and communities.

In a changing climate, are we veering towards a collapse of insurance?

"...it is not a future crash of insurers that should be of primary concern. It is the real-time collapse of insurance for households, businesses and communities." #JustCollapse

theconversation.com/nsw-is-again...

29.05.2025 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Grace and I are delighted this paper has received the 2025 Regional Studies Association Best Paper Award (Finance and Space)!

29.05.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for sharing this article. The author poses an important question: β€œSo I ask again, the end of the world… for whom?”

24.05.2025 08:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just Collapse Just Collapse is an activist platform dedicated to socio-ecological justice in face of inevitable and irreversible global collapse. We advocate for a Just Collapse and a Planned Collapse to avert the ...

Thank you for the presentations πŸ’›,
Kate Booth (@incollapse.bsky.social),
Tristan Sykes
and Tadzio Mueller (@tadziomueller.bsky.social)! #TalkCollapse

Will you upload a recording to #JustCollapse Youtube channel? It would be worth it. πŸ™
@justcollapse.bsky.social

πŸ‘‰ www.youtube.com/@justcollaps...

23.03.2025 06:06 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

@profstevekeen.bsky.social

08.03.2025 01:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@postcarbon.org

08.03.2025 01:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This event may be of interest and worth sharing.
@pik-potsdam.bsky.social @cser.bsky.social @torchoxford.bsky.social @sthlmresilience.bsky.social

08.03.2025 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi @chrhentschel.bsky.social
This collapse event may be of interest - online and in a time zone compatible with Hamburg.

05.03.2025 05:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is Collapse - what do we do now? Online event: Activists and academics discuss global collapse, calling for inclusive, diverse and equitable local preparedness and action.

I’m proud to be hosting this free, online forum, asking the key question of our times, β€˜This is Collapse - what do we do now?’

www.eventbrite.com.au/e/this-is-co...

23.02.2025 07:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Insurance in a changing climate: from commonsense to catastrophe Insurance is frequently touted as a key mechanism for responding to climate change and its application is treated as β€˜commonsense’. This surety regarding the role of insurance forms part of a hegem...

New open access paper, 'Insurance in a changing climate: From commonsense to catastrophe'

How to read this paper: Non-academics may be interested in the section 'Emergent insurantial imaginary' - based on interviews with insurance professionals and householders.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

10.12.2024 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Researchers and projects Interested in joining the team as a research student? Interested in collaborating?

Critical Collapse Studies research program: addressing the most difficult and controversial predicament of our times – global collapse, and uneven and unjust impacts on individuals, communities, nations, and regions around the world.

#InCollapse

collapsestudies.wordpress.com/2024/01/03/r...

10.12.2024 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0