Federica Genovese
@fgenovese
Political scientist at University of Oxford • Leverhulme Trust awardee • cross-national policy, political economy, politics of climate and crises • mom of 2 • she/her
Great presenting at Wits University this week. Thanks to SCIS and Julia Taylor for the warm welcome and the excellent feedback to our general project and the more targeted South Africa fieldwork that is unravelling as we speak 🌍
Depleting resources for climate projects abroad is to be expected (see ⤵️ article) but underestimating that other countries have agency is dumb IR Their next climate disaster? They‘ll blame u for not having helped build resilience. Their next emigration wave? They‘ll attribute to ur shortsightedness
Well hello Cape Town 🇿🇦 looking forward to all the climate and energy politics learning ahead with thanks, as always, to the @leverhulme.ac.uk cc @susannagarside.bsky.social
I know it won’t happen for many structural reasons but: wouldn’t it be nice to live in a world where, after the US electorate flips the Senate(!) and maybe even get ms rid of Trump in 2 years (!!), Dem strategists look at what is happening in the media landscape of Hungary and say “this is the way”
I don't think Farage will easily lose, but I also don't think now is the time to focus on inevitabilities (he did take secret gifts from a convicted criminal, among other things)
Telling lay people/politicians/media that this June is the hottest on historical record will not *on its own* generate policy change. Best political comms isn’t the one the identifies a problem but the one that *also* presents realistic (yes) solutions. Those are mitigate mitigate and adapt adapt.
Leo XIV in Lampedusa, July 4th 2026. As other institutions disappear, the Pope shows how to do politics
Whoever this legend is, don't you worry I have plenty of this commentary in me all the time
in this endless list of games I had not registered that US v EU is on next week
Enjoyed talking to Hagen Schulz-Forberg (U Aarhus) a few weeks back about my view of where climate politics is at in historical and global relative terms -- not just in usual suspects countries, but also in emerging economies where climate issues are becoming simultaneously hopeful and explosive.
The world is converging into a state that Global South countries know very well
Tldr: Oil firms seized the moment and dramatically underinvested in reg compliance when rule oversight was weakest 👇 The paper traces this to specific oil fields where major swaps/mergers happened precisely at the peak of the negotiation chaos.
10 years of Brexit, the gift that keeps on giving. People say “we now see the chaotic effects”, but actually some of them manifested immediately after, disrupting basic public goods 💦🌊 ⬇️ Nominally order and sovereignty were restored in 2021, but really we just fossilized a new bad equilibrium.