Victor Toom

🎁 Goedkope, schone energie uit eigen land, hoe kun je daar in godsnaam op tegen zijn? Elektrische auto’s hebben beperkt bereik en windmolens zijn lelijk. Zijn dat nou echt redenen om de energietransitie tegen te houden? Bereikszeikers en molenhaters kunnen niet meer om de voordelen hee...

Het omgekeerde argument: stel je voor dat we van elektrische auto’s naar benzine auto’s zouden veranderen. #wieisernougek? #gratislezen 'Goedkope, schone energie uit eigen land, hoe kun je daar in godsnaam op tegen zijn?' fd.nl/samenleving/... (gratis te lezen)

It’s not a podcast…nevertheless: ‘Preparing for digital disruption’ may be of interest english.wrr.nl/springer

Opinion | What 9/11, Cancer and the Palisades Fire Taught Me We’ll never know with certainty that carcinogens in the smoke, dust and ash from the World Trade Center caused my wife’s cancer and my own.

Today is the anniversary of #9/11. A day that destroyed the lives of so many more people than the almost 3000 fatalities. Suffering is extended to today. Climate change contributes to new forms of suffering. Dan O’Brien writes beautifully about this urgent issue.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

YouTube video by Middle East Eye Israel is committing genocide, say top scholars | Expert Witness

Genocide scholars convincingly argue that Israel is committing #genocide in #Gaza, namely the intentional destruction of an entire population group.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=LhT5...

Zal Trumps vredesdeal leiden tot rust in Oost-Congo? NRC Vandaag · Episode

Hele interessante @nrc.nl podcastaflevering waarin de genocide van Rwanda, het actuele geweld in DRCongo, Trump’s politieke en economische imperium en de strijd om kritieke grondstoffen samenkomen. Kortom, luisteren! open.spotify.com/episode/7jyQ...

Imagine the reverse: we transition from electric cars to petrol cars. 😂

Oh no, Michel Callon!
I learned so much from his academic work. A great mind who, together with inter alia Bruno Latour and Joh Law, conceived and furthered a sociology of associations—actor-network theory (ANT) will always be his conceptual companion. RIP

Totdat sancties in beeld komen blijft druk uitoefenen belangrijk. Een geëigend kanaal daarvoor is via de ambassade, want die houdt nationaal een ‘vinger aan de pols’. Dus klim in die pen, en stuur je zorgen (woede, verdriet, etc) naar de Israëlische ambassade 📧📨
new.embassies.gov.il/netherlands/...

Future design in the public policy process: giving a voice to future generations* Long-term public issues face the intergenerational problem: current policy decisions place a disproportionate burden on future generations while primarily benefitting those in the present. The inte...

The book sparked my interest after a pilot we did with #FutureDesign to give a voice to future generations in present day policy issues regarding climate change and housing. Led to a an article with some valuable insights www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I asked my STS friends what I should read and 2 of the suggestions are in my bag: Boltanski (Enrichment: A Critique of Commodities), and White (In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea) (leaving this Wednesday to Terschelling) More suggestions 👇🏼
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The future as an urgent policy and research object—so relevant! Thx Mia

Hear from the former guard blowing the whistle on GHF aid sites in Gaza Anthony Aguilar told Al Jazeera about what he says were deadly and unprofessional practices at aid sites in Gaza.

Watch & judge yourself
“I call that a war crime.” Anthony Aguilar told Al Jazeera about what he says were deadly and unprofessional practices he witnessed firsthand at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution sites in #Gaza. #warcrimes #IDF
aje.io/yaum1k

Thx Noortje, it’s becoming a really interesting reading list like this. I’ve to stay away much longer than planned 😅

Enrichment: A Critique of Commodities This book offers a major new account of modern capitalism and of the ways in which value and wealth are created today. Boltanski and Esquerre argue that capitalism in the West has recently undergone a...

Look fabulous as well 🤩 www.wiley.com/en-us/Enrich...

Rules A panoramic history of rules in the Western world

This one! Thank you press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Hi #STS friends, the holidays are coming up and I’m looking for recent and urgent reads. What are you reading? #books @noortjem.bsky.social @stsbot.bsky.social @keanbirch.bsky.social @penders.bsky.social @alondra.bsky.social @avastmachine.bsky.social @Dominicboyer.bsky.social @joedeville.bsky.social

I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. The Opinions · Episode

Je kan t interview ook luisteren: open.spotify.com/episode/5wes...

You say: “All options remain on the table if Israel doesn’t deliver on its pledges.” And those options will remain there. Genocides continue without real action. DO SOMETHING MEANINGFUL! Break ties, introduce sanctions that hurt, ban arm transfers, escort aid trucks into #Gaza, #stopgenocide

Maybe the 2.5 pages on the four ‘horsemen’ in Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios? Or the first (?) chapter in Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future
www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

Renowned genocide scholar articulates why and how IDF’s actions in #Gaza constitute #genocide: “My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Er was precedent voor een bredere interpretatie van de geweldsinstructie in het VN-mandaat. De studie leidt tot een ander perspectief op de val van #Srebrenica: “De keuze voor passiviteit was geen onafwendbare noodzakelijkheid, maar een keuze.” #Dutchbat
militairespectator.nl/artikelen/sr...

Heel goed dat dit drama historisch beschouwd wordt: “Meer specifiek: de minimalistische lezing van internationale resoluties en daarin toegekende verantwoordelijkheden, die op operationeel en tactisch niveau leidde tot passiviteit waar actie naar het zich laat aanzien ook een optie was.”

‘The voices of our dead have not faded away’: the fight for the memory of genocide in Srebrenica Three decades on, as leaders deny what happened, remains of the thousands killed continue to be identified and buried

Today marks the 30st anniversary of the #Srebrenica #genocide. Approx. 8000 boys and men were killed. While remains of 7000 victims have been laid to rest, still 1000 persons remain missing. #Neveragain we often hear. Yet a genocide is being committed in #Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Addressing the trouble with #race in #anthropology, Clever & Jong argue, requires a comprehensive reevaluation of scientific practices, its methods and technologies, and would benefit from interdisciplinary collaboration within anthropology and beyond. #forensic #STS

One that I consider a classics:
Law, John (2004). After method: Mess in social science research. Routledge.

Dit is de Nederlandse versie van de 10 fases #genocide, waaronder dus uitroeiing en ontkenning #gaza www.genocidewatch.com/nl/_files/ug...

Gregory Stanton schreef in 1996 al over de 10 fases van genocide. De 9e fase is uitroeiing, de 10e is ontkenning (fases voltrekken zich vaak gelijktijdig). Kijkend naar de handelingen van IDF in Gaza, is Stanton’s analyse nog steeds van toepassing.
www.genocidewatch.com/tenstages

It’s hard to look at this photo and not think of a concentration camp. (Photo by Eyad Baba, AFP)

Weinigen realiseren zich dat strategische sectoren (defensie, energietransitie, ict, medische tech) in NL/EU bijna volledig afhankelijk zijn van kritieke grondstoffen uit China. De kwetsbaarheid is enorm, een oplossing nog lang niet in zicht @klinkab.bsky.social

Wie draait er straks op voor waardedaling van de woningen bij regelmatige natte voeten? Een woning is particulier bezit. De overheid gaat niet bijspringen. Het nieuwe ‘Groningen’ in de maak. Bouw daar niet.