Kate

PhD researcher at @UniofYork. Looking at climate policy, agonism and democratic innovations.

[BJPIR @BritJPIR]

📣 New #BJPIR article out now!

'The politics of mini-publics: How organisers justify local climate mini-publics in the United Kingdom' by Kate Long.

🔗: https://t.co/xgr8MoUUFa

@PolStudiesAssoc

[Kate @kate_l_long]

(🧵6) Together, these justifications reveal tensions organisers navigate:
⚖️ neutrality vs partisanship
⚡ urgency vs incrementalism
🌱 optimism vs realism

[Kate @kate_l_long]

My first paper is out in @BritJPIR ! 🎉 It looks at a novel dataset of local climate mini-publics in the UK, and how organisers justify their implementation. Full paper: https://t.co/yr53HEpEvn

[Kate @kate_l_long]

(🧵5) Finally, by involving a representative group of citizens, organisers hope to build legitimacy, consensus, and support for difficult climate policies.

[Jeremy Moulton @jfgmoulton]

Fantastic new @ALPSblog post from @uniyorkpolitics PhD researcher and tutor @kateelongg: 'Reflections of a first-time Graduate Teaching Assistant'
https://t.co/gQxwqAQ0Gd

[Kate @kate_l_long]

enjoyed writing this short blog for the PDD blog series on climate change, focusing on local climate mini-publics in the UK!

https://t.co/oNT4TycwwD

[Participatory & Deliberative Democracy @ PSA @PSAdemocracy]

We have just published the first blog in our climate change series by @kateelongg
Lessons from local climate mini-publics in the UK (https://t.co/QnnVGUnfNM)

[Scott Bryan @scottygb]

BBC have remixed the Arthur theme tune for the election, with an explanation by the iconic theme tune creator @davidlowemusic2

[Kate @kate_l_long]

great timing to be in london today! going to be an interesting next 6 weeks…

[DelDemUCan @DelDemUCan]

Presenting The Politics of Becoming in the very same place Anne Phillips once presented The Politics of Presence is our @Hans_Asenbaum

Thank you for hosting York Centre for Political Theory @YCPolTheory @bhatia_ud @AlfMoore!

Check out the OA book 🔓 https://t.co/BCMDXf2qXE

[Journal of Deliberative Democracy @delibdemjournal]

More could be done to move #academicpublishing towards fair, more equitable & ultimately democratic practices ✊

Our TWO-PART SERIES examines the constraints posed by the neoliberal academy in advancing the practice of #deliberativedemocracy 📚

https://t.co/XaxkdFmtFX

[Kate @kate_l_long]

great read!

[Kate @kate_l_long]

had such a great time at my first @PolStudiesAssoc conference - lots of interesting conversations and presentations particularly in @PSAEnvironment and @PSAdemocracy panels!

[LSE British Politics and Policy @LSEpoliticsblog]

🖋️New Post! What roles MPs occupy in their social networks in Parliament have a great effect of their behaviour and impact. https://t.co/BNrAVpEVgg

[Josh Self @Josh_Self_]

NEW: Labour will introduce citizens' assemblies to decide contentious issues, such as Lords reform and housebuilding

Sue Gray has told @TomBaldwin66 of the “transformational” success of bodies in Ireland that built consensus for constitutional change
https://t.co/i7INMBsFu6

[Kate @kate_l_long]

@metecoban92 Hi Mete - do you know when the report or outcomes from this will be publicly available? I would love to see the results. Many thanks.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Whatever your position is, just take a moment to reflect on just how dark this is.

Just hours after the ICJ concluded that Israel was plausibly committing genocide and ordered it to dramatically step up humanitarian efforts, 7 Western countries sanctioned... not Israel but the Palestinians and the UN (!!!).

They cut funding for UNRWA, which is THE UN agency tasked with humanitarian assistance to Palestinians (and therefore their main lifeline).

Even if you were the world's worst cynic, you'd still have a hard time expecting such sheer level of cruelty and depravation. This is absolutely unfathomable.

They did so with the cheapest possible excuse, effectively using Israel's narrative that "UNWRA is Hamas" and allegations by Israel that some UNWRA staff were involved in the 7th Oct attack but 1) Israel has been making these accusations for months (so the timing of cutting funding right after the ICJ ruling is obviously not a coincidence) and 2) UNWRA has announced it's terminated the contracts of the staff members accused (12 people out of its 30,000 strong workforce) and launched an investigation, so it obviously doesn't condone this. Even if the allegations were to be proven correct, how can an organization of 30,000 staff be held collectively accountable for the individual actions of 0.04% of its workforce? Especially in the current context when its work is a life or death matter for millions of people.

To add to the cynicism here, UNWRA staff are actually a major victim of the war with at least 152 UNRWA staffers killed by Israel in Gaza to date. In a normal world, it is Israel that should be punished for killing so many members of a humanitarian organization. But nope, it's the humanitarian organization that's getting punished, alongside with the very vulnerable population it's committed to helping.