Sherilyn MacGregor

Meet the racists and far-right activists campaigning for Matt Goodwin in Gorton and Denton – HOPE not hate On 26 February, a parliamentary by-election will be held in Gorton and Denton and Reform UK has put up the far-right provocateur Matt Goodwin as...

REVEALED: Matt Goodwin, Reform UK’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton byelection, has been campaigning alongside racists and far-right activists in his bid to win the seat.

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🗺️ WEBINAR | Joined-Up Sustainability Transformations: Mapping the current landscape

Join us on 4th March 1-2pm to explore the findings of our forthcoming evidence review of 140 actors and initiatives driving JUST climate action across the North of England and beyond.

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🗺️ WEBINAR | Be the first to see our new evidence review on JUST climate action

Join us 4 March 1-2pm as the authors unpack insights from mapping 140+ actors and initiatives across the North of England.

Attendees will get an early look at the review before wider release.

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Tommy Robinson is backing Reform candidate Matthew Goodwin. And Goodwin won’t distance himself from the former EDL leader.

Who is Matt Goodwin? Far-right provocateur and Reform UK candidate – HOPE not hate Matt Goodwin was once a serious academic, who sought to understand the drivers of far-right extremism and warn about its dangers. He has since morphed...

🧵 Who is Matt Goodwin, Reform UK’s provocative far-right candidate?
Goodwin was once a serious academic warning about populist extremism.
He has since morphed into something very different.

Read our updated briefing here:
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‘Handmaid’s Tale future’: Reform’s Matt Goodwin sparks outcry with fertility comments Byelection candidate accused of indulging ‘alt right fantasy’ by suggesting women need ‘biological reality’ check

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So right, we need the Feminist Green New Deal @wen-uk.bsky.social @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social

Where do you start the story of climate change? By Charlotte Weatherill, University of Manchester Where you start any story matters. Especially when describing how a problem came to be, your starting point establishes what has caused it, and the…

I've written a new blog - Where do you start the story of climate change?

This blog lays out the argument for why climate baselines should not be taken from the industrial revolution, and why the science needs to get past its fixation on attribution.

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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
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A graphic publicising a new Special Section in Area called 'Gender and Rewilding'. There are seven tiles with the names of papers and authors as follows: 1) Gender and Rewilding: Introduction to the Special Section Nadia Bartolini 2) Rewilding: An emotional nature Sophie Wynne-Jones 3) Gendered, embodied knowledge within a Welsh agricultural context and the importance of listening to farmers in the rewilding debate Ffion Jones 4) Rewilding, gender and the transformation of the Côa Valley Nadia Bartolini, Bárbara Carvalho, Sarah May 5) ‘A canary is supposed to sit in a cage and look at someone else's happiness’: Domestic rewilding in fin-de-siècle St Petersburg Olga Petri 6) The politics of rewilding through an ecofeminist lens Sherilyn MacGregor 7) Rewilding Gender: Towards Relational Understandings of ‘the Wild’ Kim Ward

A black tile publicising the new 'Gender and Rewilding' Special Section in Area. There is a quote from Nadia Bartolini's (2025) introduction. It reads: "Moving forward, it is critical that future research embed feminist approaches that help to evidence the relationship between gender and 'nature' and investigate the wider geographies and populations affected by rewilding".

New Special Section in Area:

'Gender and Rewilding' guest edited by Nadia Bartolini

Featuring contributions from @kimjward.bsky.social, @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social, @sarahmay1.bsky.social & others

Read the full #OpenAccess collection here ⬇️
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On International Migrants Day, let’s celebrate the generations of migrants who’ve helped make London what it is today - the greatest city in the world.

Alternative ecological futures: Art, climate change and the radical imagination- Environment and Climate Politics | BISA - Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

Last chance to register for Thursday's event!

'Alternative ecological futures: Art, climate change and the radical imagination'.

Online, free to all, 3pm-4.30pm, UK time.

More info and the link for registration: www.bisa.ac.uk/events/alter...

@mybisa.bsky.social

Infrastructure (in)Justice: a multi-scalar framework and review of epistemic, restorative, and reparative justice dimensions Distributive, recognition, and procedural dimensions of justice in environmental justice frameworks are common starting points for justice-oriented research and practice. Additional dimensions of j...

Incorporating epistemic, restorative, and reparative justice an analytical Infrastructure (in)Justice framework is proposed. The framework further develops the 6 + 1D typology of injustice: Disinvest, Disrespect, Disenfranchise, Dismiss, Distress, and Dispossess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Friends at #COP30 please keep an eye on the chatter about solar geoengineering. It's being pushed through without proper deliberations or thorough analysis of the myriad risks it poses to planetary stability. Precisely what the fossil fuel industry wants to avoid accountability. #ClimateActionNow

What if dinner was public infrastructure? A Scottish charity wants to reintroduce state-subsidised diners for all—potentially a big ask in the current political climate.

A charity is gaining momentum pushing for state-subsidised diners to be reintroduced across the UK to improve access to affordable, healthy, and climate-friendly food.

Not everyone is convinced, however, that there's a chance in the current political climate.

My latest for Sower ⬇️

Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...

As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

After a series of community events in Sept/Oct, the JUST Centre has been launched in West Cumbria, Merseyside, Gtr Manchester, West Yorkshire & the North East. Big thanks to all who participated. Looking forward to working together for an inclusive just transition in the UK @justcentre.bsky.social

Just Climate Futures Just Climate Futures - Integrating Social Inclusion Into the Net Zero Transition; This book takes a deep dive into the ways families and communities are, or could be, impacted by transition to Net Zer...

Recommending this book to everyone who believes in engaging and supporting people to achieve a truly just & inclusive transition to net zero through collective social and structural change. @justcentre.bsky.social

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Amazing opportunity to join the Politics Department and the JUST centre at the University of Manchester!

PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at @uompols.bsky.social and @justcentre.bsky.social. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

Two weeks today!

Register here: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

Being an academic is like carrying an armload full of balls. Sometimes you pick up new balls and add to the pile, but most of the time other people are putting balls in your pile. Eventually you start dropping balls and then people get upset with you. But no one can hold all the balls at once.

ABSTRACT Populism of the radical right is strongly associated with climate change denial and opposition to climate policy, but we lack understanding of why these two phenomena are linked. This article tests two alternative explanations presented by extant literature. A structuralist explanation argues that the link is spurious, as both are caused by perceived vulnerability to structural changes in the economy. In highlighting that the ideological nature of radical right populism is antithetical to climate policy, an ideological explanation posits that any apparent effect of structural changes on climate policy attitudes is mediated by radical right populist ideology. We present data from an original survey administered in Australia, Germany, Norway, and the United States that is designed to test the two hypotheses against each other. Two different structural equation modeling analyses provide greater support for the ideological explanation than the structuralist explanation.

New article!

What explains the relationship between populist radical right attitudes and opposition to climate policy? Structural vs. ideological factors, from Håkon Grøn Sælen & Aaron M. McCright.

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Episode 57 of the Now and Men podcast with Prof Cynthia Enloe

What a joy to speak to feminist legend Cynthia Enloe for a bumper episode of #NowandMen! Cynthia is a ray of inspiration & wisdom amidst times of militarisation & war. How can we nurture feminist curiosity & resist the permeation of patriarchal militarism in our lives? nowandmen.net/episode/cynt...

Congrats. Looking forward to getting a copy!

Very pleased to see our book published by Routledge this week. Feminist climate leadership and policy needed more than ever. @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social @lisaschipper.bsky.social @mikescialom.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @julianagyeman.bsky.social @polarrobs.bsky.social

Also on social movements @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social, with various colleagues, focus on the complex dilemmas for Muslim climate activists in the UK. 7/

Chart showing neighbourhoods in England that are home to more minority-ethnic people are far more likely to face extreme heat. Proportion of neighbourhoods in England with the highest heat hazard scores in each decile of minority-ethnic population. Each bar represents 10% of English neighbourhoods, ranked by their proportion of minority-ethnic inhabitants, from the highest (top bar) to the lowest (bottom bar). The “highest heat hazard scores” equate to the top 10% of total English neighbourhoods that are most likely to experience high temperatures during hot weather. Source: Carbon Brief analysis, 4 Earth Intelligence, Office for National Statistics.

NEW – Analysis: England’s most ethnically diverse areas are 15 times more likely to face extreme heat | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @vernerviisas.bsky.social w/ comment from @profangelhsu.bsky.social @charleshsimpson.bsky.social Emma Howard Boyd @chlobrim.bsky.social

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Low-income and minority ethnic people in England most at risk from dangerously hot homes Exclusive: Homes are heating up as summers get hotter but least well-off are shouldering greatest risk, study finds

Low-income and minority ethnic people in England most at risk from dangerously hot homes

- Homes are heating up as summers get hotter but least well-off are shouldering greatest risk, study finds

#climatecrisis
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