Othering and performativity as ideological enablers of fossil extractivism

The climate emergency has an ideological as well as a physical history; the physical history tells…

Rising above the thinking behind Climate Change: World-Ecology and Worker’s Control

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them.” – Albert…

Challenging the entrepreneurial discourse around women home-based workers’ empowerment

This article explores dominant entrepreneurship discourse and practice surrounding informal women home-based workers, and their relationship…

The Oldest Trick in the Book: Panic-Driven Scapegoating in History and Recurring Patterns of Persecution (Springer 2020)

About this book This book investigates the normalisation of blame-shifting within ideological discourse as a broad…

Social Ecology in the Capitalocene @ Harbinger

New journal piece from yours truly at the revamped website for the journal of the Institute…

Halal Certification Uproar: The Muslim Scapegoat as National Safety Valve

Debney, B. (2019). Halal Certification Uproar: The Muslim Scapegoat as National Safety Valve. In C. M.…

The Scare Cycle: Moral Panics and National Elections

Have an article on moral panics and national election cycles in the latest issue of Arena…

Crises Worthy and Otherwise: Terror Scare vs. Climate Change

Donald Trump began his first week in office by fulfilling his campaign pledge to declare a…

Historical Nature versus Nature in General: Capitalism in the Web of Life

Have a new academic piece in the latest edition of Capitalism Nature Socialism, a review essay…

Corporate Accountability Research

For the last couple of weeks I have been helping Corporate Accountability Research prepare a series…