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Jennie C Stephens

@jenniecstephens.bsky.social

Climate justice scholar activist feminist. Professor of Climate Justice. Maynooth University Ireland. Author of Climate Justice and the University: Shaping a Hopeful Future’s for All (Johns Hopkins University Press 2024).

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Feminist climate justice offers antidote to petro-masculinity Jennie Stephens: Feminist climate justice principles are courageously demonstrated by Mary Robinson

“Petro-masculinity will continue to destroy both people and the planet. Can we stop it?” Making the case for feminist climate justice in the Irish Times

Feminist climate justice offers antidote to petro-masculinity

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

19.02.2026 14:00 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1
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Time to challenge corporate power in Ireland Greta Thunberg and Bohemian Football Club together stress need to put communities before companies

My column in the Irish Times on the dangers of corporate capture. Corporate interests dominate public policy while community needs go unmet. Greta Thunberg & BohsFC show us how to reclaim the public good
@thunberggreta.bsky.social @bfcdublin.bsky.social

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

15.01.2026 07:31 — 👍 47    🔁 23    💬 0    📌 4
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Ireland is falling for the American fossil fuel industry’s ‘energy security’ con One of the reasons this argument has been so effective is because, like all good propaganda, there is an element of truth to it

The fossil fuel industry’s “energy security” argument is dangerous, misleading and fundamentally flawed. Ireland should not be building new fossil fuel infrastructure. My piece in today’s Irish Times. #climate #climateobstruction #climatejustice #fossilfuels

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

18.12.2025 06:52 — 👍 31    🔁 15    💬 3    📌 0
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In her book, @jenniecstephens.bsky.social "insists that higher education reckon with its complicity in addressing the intersecting crises of systemic abandonment and ecological collapse."

Read Dr. @mariavamvalis.bsky.social 's full review here: bit.ly/48ioTQS
@hopkinspress.bsky.social

19.11.2025 19:25 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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Honoured to meet President Catherine Connolly at a climate event today at An Taisce in Dublin & present on transformative climate justice. Inspired that she referred to my recent article on #climatejustice in the Irish Examiner.
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@climatejusticeuni.bsky.social

19.11.2025 23:03 — 👍 43    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0

Yes it will be recorded!

19.11.2025 18:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Ireland’s new climate justice President Catherine Connolly won over 63% of the vote because she effectively linked many different climate justice issues to a vision of a better future and a unified Ireland, writes Jennie C Stephens, Profess...

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

13.11.2025 18:51 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 2

Spot on here by @orlakelleher.bsky.social

'we need to be alert to the risk that the housing crisis is potentially being weaponised to push through a deregulatory agenda in planning and environmental law'

12.11.2025 16:59 — 👍 19    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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Resisting GenAI and big tech in higher education. Join the conversation 25 November
REGISTER HERE: bit.ly/4qE27dB co-sponsored by the @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social and the Campus Climate Network

07.11.2025 08:15 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 2

New open-access resource on climate obstruction detailing all the ways industry has been strategically sabotaging climate action. Great collaborating with many colleagues at @cssn.org. I’m a lead author on last chapter on resisting climate obstruction. Check it out!

18.10.2025 19:07 — 👍 13    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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Join us Tuesday 21 Oct for panel discussion on Climate Justice Research for Transformative Action. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/geography/ev...

Register to join us in person or online: forms.office.com/e/G9ktW4J9iF

13.10.2025 19:36 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Just published chapter on on "Politicizing financial innovations for transformative climate justice” with @martinsokol.bsky.social in open access book on climate politics. Thanks to @matpaterson.bsky.social Paul Tobin & @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social 4 editing+

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19.08.2025 22:40 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Universities, polycrisis and regional redistribution - Review of Regional Research As humanity faces a worsening polycrisis, the need for systemic change in society is becoming more widely recognized. This time of increasing disruptions of all kinds comes with new opportunities for ...

Check out our new research w/ @martinsokol.bsky.social on redistributing higher ed to meet urgent community needs - moving away from financialized universities reinforcing profit-seeking competitiveness toward transformative accessible collective community-based orgs more like public libraries

16.07.2025 10:36 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
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Join us virtually to discuss universities, transformative climate justice & roles of academics in resisting dehumanization, fossil fueled authoritarianism, & militarism. With Laura Horn, Vera Trappmann Aaron Thierry & others.
Wed July 2nd 9am EST, 2pm Ireland
Virtual link here lnkd.in/evjcRj_j

29.06.2025 14:26 — 👍 21    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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Our new publication on why gender equity & care are essential for transformative climate justice. Integrating care, care work & feminist principles into climate policy is necessary for transformative change. Part of "Changing the Conversation About Climate Change" special issue
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04.06.2025 15:59 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Advancing climate justice requires resisting technocratic false solutions like solar geoengineering. Join me by endorsing the international non-use agreement on solar geoengineering

14.05.2025 08:28 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion: Normalising the corporate funding of higher education in Ireland is a dangerous game Professor Jennie C Stephens and Conchúr Ó Maonaigh of Maynooth University investigate how much corporate money is being used to fund education in Ireland.

We raise concerns about the risks of corporate funding of Irish universities in @thejournal.ie. Entangling profit-driven agendas with the public good mission of universities Is dangerous. With Conchur O Maonaigh www.thejournal.ie/readme/fundi...

11.05.2025 17:24 — 👍 21    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
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Irish universities take millions of euro from big business. Are they too close for comfort? Many higher education institutions now rely on industry-sponsored professorships, research centres and scholarships to plug State funding gaps

Our research highlighting multiple risks of industry funding of universities featured in the Irish Times. Corporate investments strategically distract from industry harms, erode support for non-commercial areas, & promote industry friendly policies & perspectives www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

01.05.2025 14:00 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Excited to be speaking at the Oxfam Ireland Ground Up: Climate Justice Forum this Friday!

I’ll be discussing feminist climate justice collective action on a panel Friday morning.

Register now
www.oxfamireland.org/ground-up-cl...

📍Where? University College Cork, Devere Hall
#groundup25

08.04.2025 08:22 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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MaynoothPalFest25

Looking forward to the Maynooth Festival of Palestinian Culture April 7-10 at the National University of Ireland @maynoothuniversity.ie Great to see such broad support across the university @mu-ssi.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social @maynoothenglish.bsky.social

sites.google.com/view/maynoot...

27.03.2025 17:31 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Project MUSE - Climate Justice and the University

Thrilled that my new book - Climate Justice and the University - is now available open access. This radical exploration of higher ed reimagines how universities could engage with transformative change for a better future for all. Download whole book or individual chapters

muse.jhu.edu/book/123270

12.03.2025 16:02 — 👍 20    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0
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New paper highlighting risks of corporate funding in higher ed in Ireland. Need for more transparent data and more inclusive decision-making if universities are to retain their independence and integrity publicpolicy.ie/education/in...

25.02.2025 15:54 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Profit-seeking solar geoengineering exemplifies broader risks of market-based climate governance Despite uncertainties about its feasibility and desirability, start-up companies seeking to profit from solar geoengineering have begun to emerge. One…

Not only is market-based climate governance inadequate, non-transformative and unjust, it also dangerously results in companies selling “cooling credits” trying to profit from solar geoengineering. Check out our new research www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

25.02.2025 07:21 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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Join us at Maynooth University 7th of March as we build collective power for feminist climate justice! Register here! www.climatejusticeuniversitiesunion.org/events-1

12.02.2025 10:14 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Of course it’s a coup Miss the obvious, lose your republic

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
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05.02.2025 14:59 — 👍 28267    🔁 10787    💬 588    📌 757
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Book Talk: Climate Justice and the University This talk will be a radical exploration of how higher education can advance transformative climate justice. Amid the worsening climate crisis and intensifying inequities, higher education can play...

Giving a book talk at MIT next Tuesday Feb 4th on Climate Justice and the University at 4:30pm. Looking forward to seeing Boston/Cambridge friends & colleagues. calendar.mit.edu/event/book-t...

27.01.2025 20:04 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why is climate justice missing from new Government programme? Ireland is uniquely positioned to lead on transformative climate justice, but the incoming Government is proceeding with business as usual

In 2025, a narrow focus on limited, gradual emissions reductions is not enough. My thoughts on the lack of ambition in the new Irish government’s climate plans www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

21.01.2025 17:46 — 👍 16    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 3
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Homepage - Design Leaders Conference

Looking forward to speaking at the Design Skillnet #DesignLeadersConf on Courage, Creativity & Transformative #ClimateJustice. The conference takes place in Dublin on January 30th. Find out more and get tickets at designleadersconference.com @designskillnet.bsky.social

19.01.2025 13:52 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Networks of climate obstruction: Discourses of denial and delay in US fossil energy, plastic, and agrichemical industries The use of fossil-derived hydrocarbons in fossil energy, plastic production, and agriculture makes these three sectors mutually reinforcing and reliant on sustained fossil fuel extraction. In this pap...

Check out our new research on how the fossil energy, plastic & agrichemical industries are interconnected in their climate obstruction narratives and coordinated in efforts to deny & delay the transformative climate action needed for a stable & healthy future. journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

17.01.2025 00:14 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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On climate change, are universities part of the problem or part of the solution? As the effects of climate change become increasingly more extreme, fossil fuel interests are preventing transformative change. Where do universities stand?

“Higher ed is critical social infrastructure…. to encourage & support transformative thinking, research & learning toward climate justice.” My latest in @timeshighered.bsky.social on the new book Climate Justice & the University
@hopkinspress.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/clima...

09.01.2025 16:56 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0