Tristan Sturm

Many years in the making. Thx for the support and contributions @censamm.bsky.social !!! Should be available in late October.

With Uzodinma Iweala (of Beats of No Nation fame), a new fellow at CAPAS! Lovely fella, writing on apocalyptic conspiracies no less!

Im unable to put myself in Trump's mind, he is mercurial, not rational. What will happen is wide open: Too strong of an act of force by Iran or Israel could tip scales. Without a Ukrainian peace deal, perhaps Trump realised Putin is not his friend. But, as said, Trump isn't a rational actor.

Will the U.S. get involved in Iran? Mike Huckabee's evangelical worldview may be the key Mike Huckabee's text to President Trump implicitly urging action against Iran had deep roots in Christian Zionist theology.

My new oped in @forward.com asking, "Will the U.S. get involved in Iran? Mike Huckabee’s evangelical worldview may be the key".
forward.com/opinion/7299...

Top recommendation! Very excited for Ben Anderson and Anna J. Secor's new book 💥

Come join our fabulously fun and supportive Geography dept at Queen's University Belfast!

Oh wow, their music travelled farther than I would have thought!

YouTube video by The Be Good Tanyas - Topic Lakes of Pontchartrain

My first intro to Lakes of Ponchartrain was by Canadian friends of ours, the Be Good Tanyas in 2000. Faster, but no less sentimental: youtu.be/Dtywt38RnX4?...

Conspiracist knowledge geographies and the potentiality of an impossible political alliance - Tristan Sturm, 2025 This paper interrogates the epistemic and spatial dimensions of conspiracy theories through the lens of knowledge geographies, foregrounding the socio-spatial i...

My new paper asking what a geography of conspiracism might look like and how we might engage conspiracist publics: "Conspiracist knowledge geographies and the potentiality of an impossible political alliance” doi.org/10.1177/2043...

I like this kayfabe concept, normality as performance.

Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help

Things aren't right, yet our mundane lives continue. We live in hypernormalisation (nice Le Guin quote at end): www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...

Christian Zionism and the Apocalyptic Landscape of Gaza | Contending Modernities This nationalism is religious at its core, sprung from a set of interpretations of the Bible that identifies the Jewish return to Israel as a prophetic sign of the imminence of the apocalypse.

Balfour was an antisemite, and the Balfour Declaration wasn’t about compassion—it was about removing Jews from Europe and fulfilling a Christian Zionist prophecy requiring Jews in Israel to trigger the end-times and the Second Coming. A century later, the end-times are here—but Jesus is still MIA.

In Christ’s Name: Christian Zionism and the Liquidation of the Gaza Ghetto | Political Theology Network The Western inability to recognize Palestinians as fully human is often attributed to Islamophobia, framed as a post-9/11 construct that portrays Muslim violence as a threat to the liberal West.

I agree, but we can go farther back still. A nice piece by Hanine Shehadeh in Political Theology that pushes "Christian Zionism" and the west's colonial designs on Palestine 300 or so years earlier: politicaltheology.com/in-christs-n...

Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it

I'm pleased to hear about the decline of the semi-colon. They are usually used incorrectly, often as colons or as comma splices. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Jealous you weren't on that train?

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Interested in Macron, Starmer, and Merz's alleged cocaine party and the post-truth frenzy that resulted? I was interviewed on Times Radio (Hugo Rifkind) today (2:37:00-2:44:53): www.thetimes.com/radio/show/2...

Mike Huckabee's old-school Christian Zionism is bad news for anyone who wants Middle East peace Mike Huckabee's Christian Zionism could have dire implications for Israel and Palestinians in President-elect Donald Trump's second term.

Mike Huckabee was confirmed last week as US ambassador to Israel, hence my oped on his apocalyptic designs being republished in The Forward:

forward.com/opinion/6754...

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

Brilliant piece by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on "end times fascism", an escapist resonance of Christian right and fascist Trumpers facilitating the End. They cite my oped on Huckabee, so that's pretty darn special!

@astra.bsky.social @naomiaklein.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie).

Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

New paper on why the 'illegal' should be taught in Planning and planned for in the city. In this case, we focus on people who use drugs. Thank you @bolandphilip.bsky.social, this is the result of your vision, drive, and hardwork!

Voor de christen-zionisten van Ebenezer Operatie Exodus is bezetting van de Westoever de wil van God Volgens de christelijk-zionistische organisatie Ebenezer Operatie Exodus is de Westelijke Jordaanoever het bijbelse hart van Israël. De Nederlandse afdeling helpt joden en christenen met verhuizingen ...

I was interviewed for this long form article on Operation Ebenezer Exodus, a well funded Christian Zionists org that helps Jews immigrate to Israel-Palestine to hasten Armageddon and Christ's return (in Dutch). Thx Jasmijn!: www.groene.nl/artikel/land...

Library representation. Thx @rickiorawe.bsky.social

The top 10 highest-paying jobs with the least amount of stress in 2025 The highest-paid job on the list had an annual median salary of $157,740

"Geographers" in top 10 of highest paying with least stress job (Remote sensing also in the top 10 so arguably two spots). www.independent.co.uk/life-style/j...

Congrats to my PhD student, Steven Farquhar, who won the highest overall Masters grade from a cohort of 120 students!

Signed. The traffic is too damn high.

Religion and Geopolitics: Apocalyptic Geopolitics as a Way of Knowing About Global Space This chapter explores the reciprocal relationship between religion and geopolitics in which historically formed religious beliefs produce imaginations of global space and, conversely, geopolitical kno...

Delighted to see published my chapter w/ Tom Albrecht, "Religion and Geopolitics: Apocalyptic Geopolitics as a Way of Knowing About Global Space", in the Handbook of the Geographies of Religion, edited by Lily Kong, Orlando Woods, and Justin K.H. Tse. link.springer.com/referencewor...

Universities are continuing to retaliate against staff for participating in Gaza campus protests Columbia University staff are being suspended and terminated for participating in last Spring’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment, even if they were off the clock at the time. Similar cases are being seen...

Columbia University staff are being suspended and terminated for participating in last Spring's Gaza Solidarity Encampment, even if they were off the clock at the time. Similar cases are being seen across the country.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/universities-are-continuing-to-retaliate-against-…

‘Constituent Covid-19 apocalypses: contagious conspiracism, 5G, and viral vaccinations’ The uncertainties and scale of the Covid-19 pandemic has mobilised global anxieties and insecurities, and many cultural groups have conjuncturally embedded conspiracy theories within millennial and...

Hi, sorry for the delay, new to the platform. The book idea began with this article.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

www.cdamm.org/articles/hal...

Articles about evangelicals, not climate:
forward.com/opinion/6754...

contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...
Thank you for the interest!

Israel’s boycott of Haaretz is straight out of the authoritarian playbook Israel's sanctions against Haaretz, along with its jailing of journalists, are a threat to democracy,right out of the authoritarian playbook.

The Israeli government’s new boycott of Haaretz, an internationally respected news outlet, is straight out of the authoritarian playbook, writes Jodie Ginsberg, the CEO of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Starting in 3 hrs I'm hosting a terrific panel about the role of conspiracy culture in undermining climate action and attacking Indigenous rights.

Three very smart experts are going to be taking us on a wild ride.

800 ppl have already registered - you can too! t.co/Rm90W2ZAPr