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this story has revealed a lot about the mindset of figures like Infantino the idea that FIFA can - and should - operate as if it is a transnational corporation with shareholders, is clearly so normalized that it must have seemed inconceivable to senior mgmt that this proposal would be opposed

one of the fun things about secondhand books is seeing what parts the previous reader found noteworthy

picked up this record as a bit of a joke, but listened to it this morning and it’s an absolute belter

new paper by Jason Hickel and Dylan Sullivan on the myth that poorer countries are 'catching-up' with richer countries through capitalist development

The myth of catch-up development: trends in core–periphery inequality from 1960 to 2023The conventional narrative in international development holds that poorer countries are “catching up” with richer countries through the process of capitalist growth. This paper assesses this claim ...www.tandfonline.com

will be interested to read Jäger's book based on this piece - his argument that we are living in a period of 'hyperpolitics' is persuasive, but I wonder whether this periodization glosses over contemporary climate / environmental movements that are not as fleeting as he might claim

great reporting on the litigation brought by Big Food companies against public health policies in battleground jurisdictions while the majority of these legal challenges fail, they should be understood as part of a political economy of delay www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

Big Food vs. The PeopleWe expose Big Food’s 239 lawsuits against life-saving policieswww.lighthousereports.com

this image is even funnier with Infantino's hand just in frame what a farce haha

ofc fifa made an incredibly tacky inflatable trophy for trump

just got this email from some AI edtech startup, and, in a world of pointless applications, creating an avatar to do interviews because you can’t be bothered is objectively one the stupidest ideas i can think of

found out there’s a sprinter at the Tour de France called Max Kanter GC may be done, but still a lot to play for in the nominative determinism stakes

wishful thinking perhaps, but this crisis has exposed a rot that may accelerate the end of FIFA in its current form at this conjuncture, it’s difficult to see how FIFA will be able to accommodate pressures for fundamental reform

my colleague @lukaslehner.bsky.social has been doing some incredibly cool and important work on the socio-economic impacts of Walmart in the US a real contribution to the business power literature

Noooooo, my sweet prince :(

you never hear football commentators describe a match as "high octane" and that's a real shame in my view

Accepting $$$ from Saudi Aramco - the world's largest oil company - and committing to climate action is an unsquarable circle support @fossilfreefootball.bsky.social and @clientearth.bsky.social in demanding that FIFA stop accepting sponsorship from polluters

idea for a paper: the neoliberal spirit of capitalism, but it's just the shareholder reports of Big Food companies during the 1990s

RIP zoom institutional license you were the lesser of a much worse evil

As internal documents show, Exxon spent decades trying to obstruct meaningful action on climate change, knowing that its internal modelling predicted global warming that's not skepticism, it's a corporate political strategy of delay

the idea for this paper was formed during a whatsapp call on an incredibly hot day in Geneva, as negotiations toward a UN plastics treaty hit deadlock this article grapples with the erosion of liberal environmentalism and what it might mean for global environmental governance

new study led by colleagues at @pml.ac.uk which shows that plastics packaging linked to food and beverages is by far the dominant form of marine plastics pollution the headline finding is perhaps not thath surpising, but the figures are pretty staggering

Food and beverage plastics dominate global shorelines: A harmonized rank-based assessment of usage types to guide interventionsPlastic pollution represents a pervasive global environmental challenge. However, the lack of globally harmonized monitoring hinders the development o…www.sciencedirect.com