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Capital Accumulation, Racialisation and the Politics of Ecocide

The language of ‘ecocide’ has become an increasingly important tool in the arsenal of those seeking to oppose and contest the continued environmental destruction of the planet. This has been true both as a general phenomenon but also – more specifically – through the language of international law. Particular important in this regard have been recent proposals to create an international crime of ecocide for inclusion in the Rome State of the International Criminal Court.

Antonio Piraino

Antonio Piraino is a first-year student reading for an MPhil in European Politics and Society at St Antony's College. His research interests encompass the Italian constitutional system and the institutional framework of the European Union.

Fidelia Danielle Renne

Dr Fidelia Danielle Renne is Department Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. She completed her doctorate in International Development at Oxford's Queen Elizabeth House (Department of International Development), and currently convenes the undergraduate course on the politics of the Middle East and the postgraduate course on social movements, revolution, and protest.

Voices from the Miners’ Strike Forty Years On: Historians Robert Gildea and Jim Phillips in conversation with Patricia Clavin

The first week in March marks the 40th anniversary of the Miners’ Strike, when 170,000 miners, backed by their families and supporters across the UK and abroad, fought to defend their pits, their jobs and their communities. The defeat of the miners shattered the labour movement in the UK and devastated mining communities, although there are also amazing stories of miners and their wives reinventing themselves, beginning new careers, and endeavouring to repair their communities.

Read more here: https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/in-conversation-robert-gildea
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