Max Koch
Professor in Social Policy & Sustainability, Lund University: Capitalist development & its social, environmental and welfare implications; #degrowth, sustainable #welfare. portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/max-koch
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- Nice to start the week with publication of a co-authored review on #Justice Issues in #Climate Policy led by @mmbuchs.bsky.social. What are the sustainable #welfare and #JustTransitions literatures saying, e.g., on capitalism and growth? Check it out: wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Angelica Wågström: "Samhällsvetenskapen är avgörande för att förstå hur klimatorättvisa uppstår, vilka politiska styrmedel som faktiskt minskar utsläpp och vilka som riskerar att bli kontraproduktiva." www.etc.se/debatt/klima...
- Why is it so hard to process the dismantling of democracy? Is there some trait in habitus that makes us believe in the continued power and efficiency of institutions even though these may have, from an 'objective' point of view, stopped functioning? Some kind of institutional hysteresis effect?
- @oxfam.se: Sveriges 46 rikaste personer äger mer i förmögenhet än nästan 80% av befolkningen – 8 miljoner människor. Samtidigt lever 700 000 svenskar i fattigdom enligt SCB och den siffran har ökat med 120 000 på ett år oxfam.se/wp-content/u...
- @oxfaminternational.bsky.social: The planet's 12 richest personers own more than the poorest 50% - more than 4 billion people At the same time, one in four is undernourished, an 41% increase since 2015. oxfam.se/resisting-th...
- “I couldn’t be part of that society, and I don’t want my children to grow up in it.” www.972mag.com/israeli-emig...
- @oxfamgb.bsky.social: "The world’s richest 1% have used up their fair share of carbon emissions just 10 days into 2026", while "the richest 0.1% took just three days to exhaust their annual carbon budget". www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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- Simón Bolívar in 1829: the United States seem "destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty."
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- The British ESRC aims to put economic growth “at the heart” of the council’s future. Postgrowth research should face a high bar to win grants. ISEE and ESEE react here: #Postgrowth research is necessary for our very survival - and should be funded generously www.isecoeco.org/why-academic...
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- The UN's Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights @deschuttero.bsky.social advances a #postgrowth approach including an extreme wealth line: www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-... I am part of a consulting group about how to implement this roadmap that meets next week
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- @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social: "Min aktivism är en kärlekshandling." www.xn--rdgrnt-wxad.se/2025/11/30/r...
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- David Alcer betonar en sak som vi alla borde har lärt oss under de senaste två år: "Vi kan inte prata om klimaträttvisa utan att prata om rättvisa för förtryckta folk."
- On my way to Gothenburg to discuss and examine Angelica Wågström's fantastic PhD work on "Careful Energy Transitions". A great contribution to #degrowth! The thesis can be downloaded via the link below research.chalmers.se/en/publicati...
- Taking the fight to the right requires a renewed left "You can’t reach an accommodation with an ICE agent when he’s kneeling on your neck. Climate chaos does not come with a moderate option. An oligarch is not interested in your pitiful attempts to strike a deal." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- Vi uttrycker "vårt stöd för David och att vi står upp för ett demokratiskt samhälle utan polistrakasserier, godtyckliga polisförhör och gripanden. Vi ser med oro på en olycklig utveckling i samhället där rättsstaten inte längre ses som en självklarhet." www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/qPK...
- Inte alls för tidigt att ompröva universitetens roll i legitimering av vad FN experter anser som folkmord. Så här skriver vi till vår egen universitetsledning: skanesfolkblad.se/lunds-univer... Stort tack till @kzackari.bsky.social som tog initiativet!
- @astridnl.bsky.social från @oxfam.se: "99 procent har minskat sina utsläpp sedan 1990. Det är bara de rikaste, en procent, som har ökat sina utsläpp." Länken till den nya rapporten "Sveriges vägval: folkvilja eller vinstintresse?" via artikeln: www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...
- António Guterres: "World leaders should ... be schooled by Indigenous peoples in how to achieve a balance with nature." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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- @supermiljobloggen.se har skrivit om vår artikel om "Football in the Climate Emergency ...". Det finns länken till artikeln från bloggen supermiljobloggen.se/nyheter/fotb...
- 3) Of interest? @mmbuchs.bsky.social @jksteinberger.bsky.social @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social @yamsaheb.bsky.social @bpalier.bsky.social @cusp.ac.uk @corinna-viajera.bsky.social @davidpalomera.bsky.social @rbaernthaler.bsky.social
- 2) Deeper inquiry into #autonomy follows up on Paulsson et al 2025, indicating diminishing returns of economic growth for existing welfare states in the basic need domain 'physical and mental health' but not in 'critical autonomy'. Likely last paper of portal.research.lu.se/en/projects/... project
- 2) Deeper inquiry into #autonomy follows up on Paulsson et al 2025, indicating diminishing returns of economic growth for existing welfare states in the basic need domain 'physical and mental health' but not in 'critical autonomy'. Likely last paper of portal.research.lu.se/en/projects/... project
- Joint paper with A Paulsson, R Raphael & M Islar on the provision of autonomy in #degrowth/#postgrowth circumstances, looking at democracy, work and education. Will talk about education part tomorrow at the @scientistrebellion.bsky.social summit in Berlin journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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- Joint paper with A Paulsson, R Raphael & M Islar on the provision of autonomy in #degrowth/#postgrowth circumstances, looking at democracy, work and education. Will talk about education part tomorrow at the @scientistrebellion.bsky.social summit in Berlin journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- On Saturday I take part in the Scientists Responsibility Summit in #Berlin. I talk about Challenges for the Degrowth Transformation: The Role of Academia. Berliners can still register and livestream will be provided (link below). @scientistrebellion.bsky.social blogs.fu-berlin.de/scientistsre...
- The European Uppsala Declaration to end the EU-Israel Association Agreement has over 3,000 signatures. Let's make it 10,000 by Oct 23 when European NGOs will meet with members of the European Parliament to put pressure on the Commission. Fellow academics. please sign! uppsaladeclaration.se/europe/
- “They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others” According to another observer, she was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy”
- carbon footprint from #flying precisely. Perhaps of interest? @caneurope.org @climate-justice.bsky.social @supermiljobloggen.se @jakobskovgaard.bsky.social @researchersdesk.bsky.social @kenzabryan.ft.com @jakobu.bsky.social @carbonbrief.org @climatenews.bsky.social @astridarnslett.bsky.social
- Paper on #football in the #climate emergency with M Guillen-Royo, E Daehlin, B Aamaas from @cicero.oslo.no and J Utgård from @oslomet.bsky.social. We interview senior staff from #Norway's national teams, calculate their carbon footprint and discuss alternatives www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- "We have to move fast": Jane Fonda (and Judy Garland) leading the way www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR5S...
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- Paper on #football in the #climate emergency with M Guillen-Royo, E Daehlin, B Aamaas from @cicero.oslo.no and J Utgård from @oslomet.bsky.social. We interview senior staff from #Norway's national teams, calculate their carbon footprint and discuss alternatives www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- Just signed the European Declaration of Conscientious Objection to end academic collaborations and bilateral agreements with Israeli institutions complicit in severe violations of international law. Colleagues in European academia are more than welcome to do the same (via the link below)!
- Den här frågan är viktig för mig – skriv gärna under: www.mittskifte.org/petitions/od...
- “I hope, as a result of our report, that the minds of states will also be opened” says Navi Pillay, the head of the commission of inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory and a former international criminal court judge www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
- Jewish Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein returns to his ancestral home, Germany, to investigate how the country’s impulse never to repeat the anti-Semitism that led to the Holocaust resulted in the suppression of any criticism of Israel and its actions in Gaza www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfK1...
- Fantastic-looking new book by @ferracimo.bsky.social on @scientistrebellion.bsky.social! I look very much forward to reading it.
- The International Association of Genocide Scholars "Declares that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)." genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
- 150 years ago, Marx described contemporary capitalism rather well: "In proportion as labor develops socially, and becomes thereby a source of wealth and culture, poverty and destitution develop among the workers, and wealth and culture among the nonworkers." www.marxists.org/archive/marx...
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- Was in GER nach der "Staatsraison" zu tun wäre: Entschuldigung, Rehabilitierung, Kompensation und Einsetzung eine Kommission zur Dokumentation repressiver Maßnahmen und zur Entwicklung von Leitlinien für politische Meinungsäußerung im öffentlichen Dienst und an Hochschulen jacobin.de/artikel/gaza...
- I am an "inspirational speaker" representing #degrowth/postgrowth at this event in about three 3 weeks in #Lund. If you are in the area (especially if doing a PhD or masters on a related topic) please register! www.sustainability.lu.se/calendar/dec...
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- "Journalism in the service of violence:" "Germany’s “never again” pledge should carry weight given its deeply genocidal history. Yet it rings hollow when the country’s dominant outlets launder or supply propaganda to legitimise mass killing in Gaza." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- Just signed a German version of the #uppsaladeclaration: uppsaladeclaration.se/germany/ People working in German academia as well as German academics abroad can do the same
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- Amos Goldberg, Professor of Holocaust History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: "... you cannot remain silent." www.facebook.com/ledbydonkeys...
- Looking forward to being back in Berlin (assuming free discussion on what to do about the climate emergency and human rights violations supported by the German government is possible). For Berliners: participation is free; all others: there will be a livestream. blogs.fu-berlin.de/scientistsre...
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- @eileenlaurie.bsky.social and I had the honour and pleasure of participating in a Work-that-Reconnects workshop with Joanna Macy in Findhorn, Scotland. A unique and unforgettable experience! RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBzr...
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- Welcome to #postgrowth Europe! www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
