🟢❌The #EUGreenDeal drives essential #climateaction BUT there’s a Green Paradox: Climate policies can accelerate displacement, #greengentrification, housing unaffordability + "renovictions."
⬇️Read about it in the RehousIn policy brief www.bcnuej.org/resources/ rehousin.eu/documents/po...
Thanks to my colleague @ianguelovski.bsky.social I'm exploring new horizons! We are embarking together on exciting new research looking at the intersection of social justice and ecosystems' conservation in Catalonia (more soon)!
By Emilia Oscilowicz, James J.T. Connolly, and Isabelle Anguelovski: go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202... @icta-uab.bsky.social @bcnuej.bsky.social
✍️ An @icta-uab.bsky.social coauthored by @ianguelovski.bsky.social @estevecorbera.bsky.social and Alex Laszewicki
Nature should not be a “white leisure reserve.” It should be a shared cultural space, safe, welcoming, and meaningful for everyone. #Greenjustice is #climatejustice.
The solution isn’t more green branding, but green spaces tailored for specific needs. In cities for example, people ask for:
☂️ shade
🚰 drinking water
🚻 clean toilets
In warming cities, green spaces need to provide climate refuge, not just a pretty view
Many green spaces are still designed for quiet, individual, white middle-class leisure. But for many families, nature is about:
👨👩👧👦 being together
🍽 eating
⚽ playing
💬 talking
When design doesn’t match real life, people are pushed out.
People born in the Global South tend to use local parks where they can socialize and children can play, rather than the nearby natural park of Collserola. Why? Not distance. Not money. Women especially feel unsafe and out of place.
🌳 What we call “normal” ways of enjoying #nature are often very white, middle-class habits that are treated as universal. A new study in two racialized neighborhoods of #Barcelona shows how race and gender shape who feels welcome in #greenspaces and who doesn’t. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
⛈️❄️El cambio climático agrava el sinhogarismo (también en invierno)
✍️👩@andreamcintosh.bsky.social, investigadora del ICTA-UAB, pone sobre la mesa esta grave problemática social que se encuentra a diario en las calles de las ciudades.
📰@publico.es
www.publico.es/opinion/colu...
🥶"How does #climatechange —in particular colder, wetter and more unpredictable winters—impact people experiencing #homelessness? A piece by our researcher Andrea McIntosh @icta-uab.bsky.social www.publico.es/opinion/colu...
Sounds normal. But it isn’t.
On #WomenInScienceDay these are the voices of women researchers at ICTA-UAB, imagining what science would feel like if gender equality were fully achieved. This is what should be ordinary. #IfThisWereNormal
#GenderEquality #11F #ICTAUAB #WomenInSTEM
Our researcher @amaliacaar.bsky.social presenting our project ClimateJusticeReady at the Climate-Housing Nexus Conference in #NOLA last week! Discussing #climatejustice, displacement, survival, and place protection in the #climatecrisis @icta-uab.bsky.social architecture.tulane.edu/events/multi...
🚨"Living on the streets is also a climate issue" Our researcher @andreamcintosh.bsky.social @icta-uab.bsky.social explains how climate change deepens vulnerability among homeless people in Barcelona, based on her research and the recent street count w/ Arrels Fundació #Homelessness #ClimateJustice
🌡️Heatwaves are one of the most invisible, yet deadly, climate risks in cities. In this clip, @pkotsila.bsky.social talks about climate vulnerabilities in El Raval, Barcelona, 1 of our key case studies ▶️https://palaumacaya.fundacionlacaixa.org/es/p/comunidad-reconstruccion-y-resiliencia_a172936012
✨🎄Wishing everyone an amazing Xmas holiday!
📢 Hey! Submission for this call is extended until March 10! 👇https://www.nature.com/collections/bjddhegddh #climatejustice #environmentaljustice
"Soy activista científica y no separo mi rol en la sociedad de mi rol en la universidad. No podría ser una académica que trabaja totalmente aislada en su torre de marfil." Entrevista con @ianguelovski.bsky.social @icta-uab.bsky.social ethic.es/entrevista-i...
🗣️ @ianguelovski.bsky.social @icta-uab.bsky.social inaugura la 1a Setmana de la Recerca d’Andorra alertant que aplicar polítiques verdes és fàcil però fer-les justes és el repte. Sobretot defensa l'accessibilitat a l’habitatge per garantir una transició ecològica justa www.altaveu.com/entrevistes/...
Què vol dir posar la justícia i la inclusió al centre d’una política ambiental? @ianguelovski.bsky.social en el @diariandorra.ad www.diariandorra.ad/la-contra/25...
📢 Avui!! 👇
📜Read the full open-access paper here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
👀In conclusion, he argues that militant research is a dynamic, contested process, a daily negotiation shaped by positionality. It’s messy… but that’s also where its transformative potential lies.
🌍3⃣Translating across diverse knowledges.
Militant research moves between activist and academic worlds, requiring constant translation between practical and theoretical knowledge. Both are vital and together they can form feedback loops that drive transformation.
😶🌫️2⃣Coping with the double impostor syndrome.
Militant researchers often feel “not militant enough” as activists and “not objective enough” as academics. Supportive institutions and strong, reciprocal community ties are key to navigating this tension.
⚖️1⃣Balancing collective and individual motivations
How do you stay true to social struggle while meeting academic expectations? He proposes a strategy of alignment: a guiding principle to pursue professional goals while co-producing knowledge from and for specific struggles
Drawing from his experience studying urban commoning, he identifies 3 core challenges that shape the everyday practice of engaged and militant researchers:
🎓💥What happens when you try to do #militantresearch from within #academia? In a new paper our researcher Sergio Ruiz Cayuela explores the everyday tensions, contradictions, and negotiations that shape politically engaged research for professional scholars👇
4️⃣projectes liderats per #investigadorsICREA reben les Synergy Grants de l' @erc.europa.eu.
Dels 66 ajuts atorgats a Europa, hem aconseguit un 6% del total — un resultat excepcional que impulsa la col·laboració científica i porta la recerca més enllà.
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
📣 La setmana vinent serem a la Setmana de la Recerca d’Andorra! @ianguelovski.bsky.social @icta-uab.bsky.social
🗓️ 17 de novembre, 18.20h
🗣️ Posar la justícia i la inclusió al centre de la transició verda: una ambició real o un discurs buit? #SetmanaRecercaAndorra #JustíciaAmbiental
