A/Prof Kate Booth

Human geographer posting about climate, insurance, inequity, and the most challenging and controversial predicament of our times - global collapse. #InCollapse

[A/Prof Kate Booth @InCollapse_]

Critical Collapse Studies research program: addressing the most difficult and controversial predicament of our times – global collapse, and uneven and unjust impacts on individuals, communities, nations, and regions around the world.

#InCollapse
https://t.co/Eo42FKRKxA

[Just Collapse @JustCollapse]

New book about collapse out now: https://t.co/V202RfAQJw

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@ProfSteveKeen Hi Steve. Really appreciated your presentation with Michael Hudson for the David Graeber Institute! Hoping to touch base with you about a book I have coming out in May, In Collapse: When Insurance and Climate Collide. Cheers, A/Prof Kate

[A/Prof Kate Booth @InCollapse_]

My book - available in May 2026!

‘In Collapse: When insurance and climate collide’

[A/Prof Kate Booth @InCollapse_]

PALESTINE CALLING: Roads to Justice

Thurs 26 March, 4.30-6pm

In this University forum, Dr Adel Yousif and Remah Naji share their insights about Palestine and experiences of being Palestinian during colonial occupation and oppression.

Hosted by UTAS Geographers for Palestine.

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PALESTINE CALLING - Roads to Justice

In this powerful forum, Dr Adel Yousif and Remah Naji share their insights about Palestine and experiences of being Palestinian during colonial occupation and oppression.

[A/Prof Kate Booth @InCollapse_]

I have just submitted my book to its publisher! In this book, I take a look at one of the most controversial ideas of our times—global collapse, focusing on climate and insurance. My motivation is to support meaningful and just responses to unevenly distributed impacts & hardship

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Today, I began reading Post-Anarchism: A Reader, a collection of essays edited by Duane Rouselle and Sureyyya Evren (2011).

Why am I reading this book?

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The fourth book I’m reading this month is The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer (2021).

Some of Greer's language and framings are now dated and unacceptable; she appears to lack empathy and understanding of lived experience in all its diversity. So why read this book, 55 years on?

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Third cab off the rank - I'm reading David Graeber's (2014) Debt. Three reasons why this book is on my list:

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My second book is The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Engels Friedrich (2010) – the manifesto itself and an introduction and notes.
In the 21st century, why on earth am I reading The Communist Manifesto?!! Here are three reasons, which I’m sure others can add too.

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...Actual Intelligence and is a refreshing deep dive into attentive scholarship.

My next book? Well, I’m tossing up between Mark Bray’s, Antifa: An Anti-fascist Handbook and Germaine Greer’s, The Female Eunuch. Or, maybe, The Communist Manifesto…

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In modern academic life, reading a whole book is a radical act. Unfortunate, but true. So, I’ve dedicated the next 4 weeks to reading.

My first book? Peter Hay’s (2002) Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought. UNSW Press.

Why read this book?

[A/Prof Kate Booth @InCollapse_]

...in climate-environmentalism its often not so much reinventing the wheel but running faster on the same wheel. There is much that has been said and tried before. Think, for example, eco-modernism and degrowth lifestylers. Thirdly, as a poet, Pete Hay’s writing demonstrates...

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It's too late to avoid civilizational collapse. Or is it?

The Beaker Street Festival Great Debate is now live on ABC's Big Ideas. 'The Transformers' and 'The Three Horsewomen of the Apocalypse' battled it out, and who won? Spoiler alert - my horsey team!
https://t.co/Nn8RCXHPtn

[A/Prof Kate Booth @InCollapse_]

I call myself an 'academic activist.' But what does that mean?

The ideas embedded within @JustCollapse come from human geography and allied fields. This is critical geography in action - mixing academic life with activist intent with some surprising results!

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Be a rockstar, #TalkCollapse!

Sonic Youth co-founder, @leeranaldo, has released ‘A Just Collapse’ - part of the soundtrack for a new film featuring just collapse activist @RealTadzioM. We’ll keep you updated about where to watch ‘The System’.
https://t.co/SfXKyX9Kb1

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Interested in doing a PhD?

Geographies of Collapse and Equity: This is your opportunity to design a project within critical collapse studies – a leftist, intellectual concern with power and inequity in everyday life and a collapsing world.
https://t.co/nZU7FDGUou

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Is it end of the world? Have multi-crises like climate change and over-consumption finally brought us to the brink?
Join two teams of science and culture heavy hitters for this battle of brains and bravado. Yes, that includes me - on the affirmative team!
https://t.co/jM0i2IGoKS

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Prof Dariusz Wojcik, Editor in Chief of Finance and Space, presents the 2nd award for Best Paper to Kate Booth and Grace Martini (University of Tasmania, Australia) for their paper entitled Insurance in a changing climate: from commonsense to catastrophe.
https://t.co/Tx0CrSq3Up