Month: September 2019

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A Penal State of Mind

Ben September 25, 2019

Australian nationalism promotes the claim of a nation-state united under the Australian flag, but thanks...

Rising Above the Thinking that Created the Climate Crisis

Ben September 24, 2019

As a clear and present threat to humanity, the climate crisis is far too broad...

Ben Debney

Ben Debney is author of The Oldest Trick in the Book: Panic-Driven Scapegoating in History and Recurring Patterns of Persecution (Palgrave Macmillan 2020). Current research investigates the role of Othering and blame-shifting in the origins and consequences of fossil ideology, the group of ideological belief systems that have sought to rationalise and legitimate the historical conditions behind the climate emergency. https://linktr.ee/bendebney