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“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”

- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

About Marc Brightman

Marc Brightman is Co-Director of the Centre for the Anthropology of Sustainability at University College London and co-author of The Anthropology of Sustainability: Beyond Development and Progress. He is currently a EURIAS fellow at the University of Bologna and Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute.

Articles by Marc Brightman

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Adam Bychawski is an editorial assistant at openDemocracy.

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

Constitutional conventions: best practice

Sustainability and political opportunity: the invisible common ground in the Italian problem

Marc Brightman 11 June 2018

The problems of migration, unemployment and economic stagnation should be treated together as part of a single problem, which can only be usefully framed in terms of sustainability.

Why is it so hard to believe in climate change?

Marc Brightman and Jerome Lewis 13 February 2015

Those who come after us will wonder at how we were so blinkered, at why we took so long to change.

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Why studying climate change made me quit my PhD

Writers silenced by surveillance: self-censorship in the age of big data

Brexit and the British constitution: it doesn't work

"Demand the impossible": what the left should learn from 1968

Vasyl Cherepanyn

Digital parties on the rise: a mass politics for the era of platforms

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