Ideological enabling of fossil extractivism through Othering and performativity
The climate emergency has an ideological as well as a physical history; the physical history tells us about how the…
Category: Academic Writing
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 Einstein In even attempting…
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 to goals of individual…
The Oldest Trick in the Book: Panic-Driven Scapegoating in History and Recurring Patterns of Persecution (Springer 2020)
This book investigates the normalisation of blame-shifting within ideological discourse as a broad feature of history, working from Churchill’s truism…
Social Ecology in the Capitalocene
New journal piece from yours truly at the revamped website for the journal of the Institute of Social Ecology, Harbinger.…
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. Hall, The Routledge Handbook…
The Scare Cycle: Moral Panics and National Elections
Have an article on moral panics and national election cycles in the latest issue of Arena Journal, No 47/48. …
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 built around Jason W.…
Working paper: The Terror Scare: War on Terror Mythology and Moral Panic
https://www.academia.edu/28916965/The_Terror_Scare_War_on_Terror_Mythology_and_Moral_Panic ‘Moral judgment about the historical events with which War on Terror narratives have become associated has become implicit in…
The Yellow Peril: The Chinese Scapegoat on the Goldfields as Ideological Safety Valve
The following text was presented at the Australian History Association annual conference ‘Boom to Bust,’ organized in conjunction with Federation…