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Laurie Parsons
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Reader @ Royal Holloway Geography

Climate change in a globalised world // Cambodia

Chair, RGS Climate Change Research Group

Editor at Geo
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🎧 @laurieparsons.bsky.social, author of Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse, speaks with Stentor Danielson for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.

Listen to the full episode here: newbooksnetwork.com/climate-hege...

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September 28, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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We're delighted to once again be working with @rgs.org #Oxford to host a public lecture by our author, Dr @laurieparsons.bsky.social. His award-winning book is a sharp, urgent and challenging rethink of the politics and distribution of climate change.
Tickets on sale now: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
How rich countries export climate breakdown
Dr Laurie Parsons explores the murky practices of outsourcing environmental impact, when emissions and waste are exported from rich to poor countries.
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September 3, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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OnlineFirst - "Hotter trends: Working conditions and climate-linked heat stress in the Cambodian garment sector" by @laurieparsons.bsky.social, Sabina Lawreniuk, Serey Sok, Long Vouch Ly, Pratik Mishra, Jennifer Cole, and Camellia Biswas:

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August 20, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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"A genuine contribution to a growing body of scholarship that insists on treating climate change as a political phenomenon rather than a technical one."

@wafarasheeq.bsky.social reviews Climate Hegemony
(@laurieparsons.bsky.social) for @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social🪴

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July 30, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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Read my review of @laurieparsons.bsky.social’s book “Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse” for @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social
July 30, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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Why has climate action stalled?

Laurie Parsons explains how the fossil fuel industry has shaped global politics and influenced responses to the climate crisis.

Read more in his book 'Climate Hegemony', free to read and download in the RGS-IBG Book Series with LSE Press 📚
July 16, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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In Climate Hegemony, Laurie Parsons brings us a human’s-eye view of the climate crisis, drawing on two decades’ research at the frontline of global development in Cambodia.

Available now to read and download for free via #OpenAccess: https://bit.ly/4lBH0qc

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Photo of the book Climate Hegemony.
July 16, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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Enjoyed celebrating the launch of Climate Hegemony in the RGS-IBG Book Series last night @rgs.org - thanks to all who came out!

You can read the #OpenAccess book here for free: share.google/boY6a0Y56fGQ...

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The main hall of the Royal Geographical Society with people standing and sitting around talking and having drinks. There are polar expedition sledges, paintings and an old kayak on the walls. A photograph of a Q&A session with Laurie Parsons and Catherine Souch sitting in front of a seated audience. A photograph of an RGS staff member serving drinks. There is a display with some cover images of the book Climate Hegemony on the right.
May 29, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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Read Alex Loftus' review of the new #OpenAccess book by @laurieparsons.bsky.social "Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse" antipodeonline.org/2026/05/19/c... @lsepress.bsky.social @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social
Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse - Antipode Online
Alex Loftus (King’s College London) on Laurie Parsons’ Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse Read Review
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May 19, 2026 at 9:32 AM
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📢 Launch Day!

We're delighted to celebrate the publication of Laurie Parsons's new book, 𝘊𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘺: 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦, in the RGS-IBG Book Series.

Read the full #OpenAccess book (LSE Press) ⬇️
https://ow.ly/5OkH50YV4O9
Two books in front of a bright orange circular sign on a brick wall for the Royal Geographical Society with IBG. Book titled 'Climate Hegemony' by Laurie Parsons on a wooden table with bookshelves and a window in the background.
May 7, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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🗨️ “We have the power to stop the worst outcomes of climate change”

@laurieparsons.bsky.social , spoke with @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social about his new book, Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse.

Read the full post: blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...
Laurie Parsons: “We have the power to stop the worst outcomes of climate change” - LSE Review of Books
LSE Review of Books interviews Laurie Parsons about his book Climate Hegemony, the politics of climate governance, & how ground-up approaches can effect change.
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May 7, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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👁️ Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse by Laurie Parsons @laurieparsons.bsky.social / @royalholloway.bsky.social.

Published as part of @rgsibg.bsky.social monograph series.

May 2026 #OpenAccess

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December 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Uncovering the hidden cost of climate change 🌎

Researcher Dr Laurie Parsons (@laurieparsons.bsky.social) from @rhulgeography.bsky.social investigates how extreme heat caused by climate change is impacting workers in the global supply-chain in Cambodia.

Read more: ow.ly/X5CG50XyBn8
Montage of workers from different areas
November 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Good article - would also recommend Carbon Colonialism by @laurieparsons.bsky.social

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lrb.co.uk London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Nov 24
‘The problem is that we are now recycling so much stuff that it’s impossible to recycle it all.’

@brettchristophers.bsky.social reviews three new books on the problem of trash, including 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 by Oliver Franklin-Wallis and Alexander Clapp’s 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘴.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
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December 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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🏝️New in Geo!🏝️

'Epistemic violence in global climate governance: The case of climate finance in Vanuatu' by @johannatunn.bsky.social

This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Political Ecologies of Islands: Environmental & Climate (In)Justices'.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Johanna Tunn (2025) entitled: 'Epistemic Violence in Global Climate Governance: The Case of Climate Finance in Vanuatu' with an orange banner at the top. This paper explores mechanisms of epistemic violence enacted through the climate finance (access) industry in Vanuatu, shedding light on the colonial inflictions of multilateral green funds in global climate governance. While the climate crisis is a reality in Vanuatu, its access to direct climate finance remains constrained, as it is not an accredited entity to any of the major climate funds. This serves as a gateway for a growing climate finance (access) industry that has established itself across the Pacific and in Vanuatu. Using an action-theoretical perspective that centres acts of doing epistemic violence, this paper identifies four mechanisms of epistemic violence enacted through Vanuatu's climate finance (access) industry: distortion via the mistranslation of realities; imposition via rendering people and regions investable; devaluation via rendering people incapable and exploitation through the extraction of knowledges and exhaustion of resources. Rather than improving access and equity for frontline communities, this paper elaborates that epistemic violence remains the modus operandi of Vanuatu's climate finance (access) industry—and is thus complicit in the perpetration of physical violence in the form of losses and damages, ecocide and epistemicide. Dismantling this system would at least require the islanding of climate finance, emphasising local agency and self-determination over externally imposed, extractive models.
November 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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🔋New in Geo🔋

'Between energy transition and industrial revival: Exploring hydrogen imaginaries in the United Kingdom and Teesside' by @naimakf.bsky.social et al.

This paper uses the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries to explore hydrogen as a potential enabler of net-zero
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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Naima Kraushaar-Friesen, Gavin Bridge & Magdalena Kuchler (2025) entitled: 'Between energy transition and industrial revival: Exploring hydrogen imaginaries in the United Kingdom and Teesside' with an orange banner at the top.
November 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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New in Geo:

'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' by Farhana Sultana

This paper critically examines the intersections of power, pedagogy and praxis in producing inequitable climate knowledge, global governance, policies and solutions.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Farhana Sultana (2025) entitled: 'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' with an orange banner at the top. Climate change intensifies existing inequities, disproportionately impacting marginalised populations, particularly in the Global South and Indigenous communities. This is maintained through inequitable global climate governance, policies and solutions. The paper argues that climate coloniality, the complex entanglements of colonial legacies with contemporary climate and ecological changes, operates through systemic knowledge-based marginalisation or epistemic injustice, serving as a key mechanism in the uneven production and distribution of climate harms. Beyond the more commonly discussed material dimensions of loss and damage, epistemic injustices arise from silencing critical voices and devaluing knowledge systems. The paper extends the scope of loss and damage debates by drawing attention to epistemic losses: the erasure of worldviews, ontologies and practices that are vital for just and sustainable climate futures. It critically examines the intersections of power, pedagogy and praxis in (re)producing epistemic injustices, while simultaneously revealing counter-narratives of refusal, resurgence and relationality. By engaging Indigenous and Global South scholarship, the paper underscores the need to decolonise knowledge systems that reproduce dominant climate narratives and heed the epistemological alternatives offered by land- and kinship-based knowledge systems. Advancing climate justice depends on confronting epistemic injustice as both a form of loss and a condition of possibility: centring Global South and Indigenous perspectives is essential for cultivating pluriversal, decolonial and just climate frameworks and futures.
October 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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☁️New in Geo!☁️

'Glocalisation of environmental challenges: The impact of the war in Ukraine on smog and heating practices in Polish local communities' by Piotr Żuk & Paweł Żuk

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Piotr Żuk & Paweł Żuk (2025) entitled 'Glocalisation of environmental challenges: The impact of the war in Ukraine on smog and heating practices in Polish local communities' with an orange banner at the top. This article analyses the impact of the war in Ukraine on air quality and heating practices in Polish cities. In this case, it does not focus on the direct impact of military activities, but on various social and political decisions, as well as changes in social behaviour undertaken under the influence of the energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine. The authors defend the thesis that it is worth analysing air quality and heating practices in local communities not only in the context of local and national policies but also by referring to global and transnational factors. Based on focus group interviews with the residents of Wrocław, they prove that global events may have an impact on local air quality and apartment heating methods and be a catalyst for processes in various spheres of local and national public life: legal–political, economic, environmental–spatial, health and socio-practical. The article proposes a glocalisation perspective as an approach that can integrate local social and environmental conditions with global ecological challenges, while also highlighting the impact of global factors—economic, political, energy-related and military—on local trends, behaviours and policies in the context of environmental protection.
October 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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👋 Newbie writer for Housing Quality Magazine

✏️ We've penned the op ed "Allocation Policies – A Hidden Homelessness Scandal" for their new edition

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Allocation policies: A hidden homelessness scandal – HQM
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October 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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This is why "all of the above" energy is not a climate solution.

Record amounts of clean energy were built in 2024, but since we're still building out fossil fuels—indeed, since we're still just *using* fossil fuels—the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is still going up, cooking us.

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WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION Carbon dioxide levels increase by record amount to new highs in 2024 • PRESS RELEASE 15 October 2025 Carbon dioxide (COz) levels in the atmosphere soared by a record amount to new highs in 2024, committing the planet to more long-term temperature increase, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
October 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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A deeply disturbing talk this afternoon from Mark Bo
at the London School of Economics on his new book Scam: Inside Southeast Asia's Cybercrime Compounds

🔥 A terrifying read on the dark underbelly of the new political economy of labour where coercion, digital capitalism & exploitation converge
October 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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The UK and US sanctioned the alleged mastermind behind some of the largest scam centers in Cambodia, in a move that freezes more than £130 million ($172 million) of properties across London.
London Mansion Frozen as UK Sanctions Cambodian Scam Network
The UK and US sanctioned the alleged mastermind behind some of the largest scam centers in Cambodia, in a move that freezes more than £130 million ($172 million) of properties across London.
www.bloomberg.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Special economic zones aren’t just trade infrastructure - they’re tools of imperial power & authoritarian control.

🚨New paper from @invisibleworkers.bsky.social

Read on to learn how global production sustains empire & violence.

🔗https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629825001635
Governing through extra-territoriality: Jordan's clothing production zones as tools of imperial power and authoritarian rule
Jordan's Export Processing Zones (EPZs) for clothing production form part of political geographies of US imperialism in the Middle East, and have serv…
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October 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Published today on #WorldHomelessDay: my book Debt Trap Nation – a deep dive into how government policy is driving families into homelessness & debt.

All royalties to @seacharity.bsky.social 💜

Families aren't failing. They're being failed.

📖 www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...

#DebtTrapNation
October 10, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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New in Area: What happens when academic institutions police solidarity?

Dr Shereen Fernandez explores the disciplining of #Palestine solidarity & the radical potential of #friendship in resistance.

Part of our Dialogues in #Radical Geog SI.

Read 👉 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
October 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM