Blood Bricks

Award-winning research on the climate change-modern slavery nexus in the Cambodian construction industry. ESRC-FCDO funded (2016-2019). RTs NE

[Leila Goldstein @leila_goldstein]

@RalphLauren @Lululemon @jcrew @adidas
@Nike @c_en_a and @UnderArmour have all been notified at least twice. Brick workers incinerate the scraps in kilns, in an industry where #debtbondage and #childlabor are persistent problems. Read the full story here: https://t.co/mako3Ehpxk

[Prof Katherine Brickell @K_Brickell]

The home in capitalist times

Ever more 'home' to the rhythms of capitalist enclosure & profit

The outcome for the indebted = wakefulness in their day & nighttime lives

NEW in @theAAG journal from #Cambodia research with #microfinance borrowers:

https://t.co/FHbMXyeSiy

[Laurie Parsons @lauriefdparsons]

Can't sleep for money worries? Debts haunting your dreams?

You're not alone

As @K_Brickell, Dalia Iskander, @VincentGuermond and I show in this NEW Annals @theAAG paper, wakefulness is a feature of indebted life under capitalism

Check it out here👇

https://t.co/LYDmpiA2FE

[W. Nathan Green @WNathanGreen1]

Happy to share this new article written with my PhD student, Rosa Yi, about the impact of #Covid-19 on translocal migrant households in #Cambodia, published in @RGS_IBG's journal Area. https://t.co/PR0um87StC

[Disaster Trade @DisasterTrade_]

Very proud to see our analysis featured here in @guardian this afternoon

More than 500m bricks were imported in 2022, leading to carbon emissions of 288,190 tonnes - an all-time high!

Thanks to @rachelxkeenan for excellent, clear reporting on this issue

https://t.co/nCStsANy1D

[Disaster Trade @DisasterTrade_]

Climate change and labour exploitation go hand in hand in the Cambodian brick sector

This new report with @BBCLBicker - Burning prisons - gives you an insight into the coalface of climate change

🔊Sound on👇

[Prof Katherine Brickell @K_Brickell]

🧱 BBC revisits our @Blood_Bricks findings 🧱

👕 #Fastfashion is STILL being used as fuel in #Cambodia brick kilns

⚕️ The health consequences are devastating

Thanks @BBCLBicker

@RHULGeography @kclgeography @lauriefdparsons @nith1989

https://t.co/GHfd7eP4Ts

[Ruom @RuomCollective]

Cambodia: The burning prisons fuelled by fast fashion. @TCristofoletti’s latest collaboration with @BBCNewsAsia - story by @BBCLBicker, produced by @LindleMarkwell https://t.co/B9niTSgYeo

[Matt Blomberg @BlombergMD]

From the dreams/memory/imagination of Cambodian artist Chan Phoun, whose art walks us through life as a brickyard debt-slave, where kids work off parents' debts. Podcast for @FreedomCollab ft @Blood_Bricks @TharoKhun @lauriefdparsons @gallery282
https://t.co/ROFUD1T7oF

[CamboJA News (ខេមបូចា ព័ត៌មាន) @cambojanews]

The American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) has urged the new government to take action on Cambodia’s brick kiln industry, which allegedly continues to employ child labor and use textile waste to fuel brick kiln factories.
https://t.co/lPrqu6zUMB

[Laurie Parsons @lauriefdparsons]

Great to see @Reuters keeping the issue of brick kilns burning garment waste in Cambodia in the public eye

Well done to @clarebaldwin and @helenmariareid for an important piece

Check out the piece here:

https://t.co/CLQ32nUg0I

[Jack Brook @jack_brook96]

Cambodian farmer Nhu Laen died because of a microloan that never should have been granted.

And he's not the only borrower who committed or attempted suicide in part because of heavy debt from European development bank-funded microloans. 🧵

Here's what I found for @guardian:

[Eliza Anyangwe (elizatalks.bsky.social) @ElizaTalks]

Fantastic training opportunity with CNN Academy:

Content creators & journalists from and in the Global South, apply by Nov 15 to be in with a chance of getting on this all-expense paid program from November 27th to December 10th 2023 in Abu Dhabi. https://t.co/r6AdWtKjIO

[Blood Bricks @Blood_Bricks]

Blood Bricks’ legacy continues through new research funding from @wellcometrust

Brilliant PDRA post here. Please share widely.

[Laurie Parsons @lauriefdparsons]

🚨3 Year PDRA Position🚨

Under climate change, excess heat is a growing global risk

But its impact is not equal

Exploited + vulnerable workers are hit first + hardest by rising temperatures

Come work with me @RHULGeography to find out what we can do:

https://t.co/GN0TWJlP9a

[Laurie Parsons @lauriefdparsons]

Very exciting to see my forthcoming book 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 is now featured in @ManchesterUP's Spring/ Summer catalogue

More info here:
https://t.co/9l7vpWQzau

Out May 2023!

[David Hutt @davidhuttjourno]

Much ink has been spilled identifying the many problems with the sector, but much less so about possible ways forward. Me for @Diplomat_APAC https://t.co/lcAoGl54bs