Michael Dobson is a PhD candidate in Global Politics in the Politics Department at The New School for Social Research in New York City, supervised by Professor Nancy Fraser. He holds Bachelors degrees in Law and Political Science from the University of Otago, and a Masters degree in Politics from the New School for Social Research. His work has appeared previously in Climate Home, Jacobin and the Huffington Post.
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