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Josephine Becker

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As seen in: Dialnet - Universidad de La Rioja, Shado
they/she / PhD w/ @post_growth : prefigurative politics, militant ethnography / generally Ⓐngry, unless in mountains
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Prefigurative politics as a temporal arc and disruptive protest: A militant ethnography with the student climate movement End Fossil

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By Josephine Becker, Samer Richard
| Dialnet - Universidad de La Rioja
Ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Prefigurative politics as a temporal arc and disruptive protest: A militant ethnography with the student climate movement End Fossil Autores: Josephine Becker Directores de la Tesis: Mario Pansera (dir. tes.), Samer Richard Abdelnour (dir.
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A case for abolishing borders

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By MOB Kitchen, Josephine Becker, Natasha Lee, Amiteshwar Singh
| Shado Verified
“If you have never felt the surveilling eye and iron first of borders, it does not mean borders are not violent weapons; it means that your privilege enables you to circumnavigate the gleaming edge of their blade.” – Leah Cowan, Border Nation Borders. We all exist within them but our experiences vary dramatically. Some of us are descended from those that pencilled the borders of nations in order to live out their colonising fantasies.
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A boat stuck in the Suez Canal, a meme for a world stuck in capitalism

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By Josephine Becker
| Shado Verified
You’ve probably seen the memes popping up everywhere about a gigantic stuck ship and a tiny ineffectual digger. So much so, the image is now fast becoming a euphemism for everything from clothing retailers’ greenwashing bids to combat the climate crisis through a sustainable fashion line to ‘my inbox versus my enthusiasm’.
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Why optimism and pessimism are both redundant in the climate movement

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By Josephine Becker, Olivia McEwan-Hill
| Shado Verified
One question that keeps coming up, no matter what space or context I am in, is: “are you an optimist or a pessimist?” Well the answer really is … neither! And it’s this binary, and their perceived lack of interplay when it comes to discussing solutions to the climate crisis, that I hope to challenge in this article. Whilst optimism takes the approach of “it will definitely work out/change will magically appear”, pessimism is based on the idea that the fight is already lost, so “why bother”.
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