Sociology prof @UCSC; @IAS 22-23; author How Green Became Good (bit.ly/39hLUVb); urbanism, environment, social theory; public lands, energy, climate change
Very happy to have a piece on public lands in the new issue on Socialism in the City; very important to connect movement goals across these spaces! dissentmagazine.org/article/… (will be unpaywalled at some point; pls contact me for PDF)
This issue of @CritSoc features bold provocations on the future of critical sociology by @CihanTugal, Gretchen Pursur, @hiangelo, Greta Krippner and myself. Value-free sociology offers broken tools to address our crises. What should sociology do instead?
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I never post here anymore but LA's fires compel me to highlight this 2024 @PNASNews article w M. Greenberg about hsg, wildfire, and WUI growth in CA. Hsg crisis climate change will mean more of these horrors, for ppl much less able to cope with them. pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pna…
but we expect this pattern to change as we see more "affordability migrants" (rather than amenity migrants) exposed to wildfier and other environmental hazards on urban peripheries in the coming years.
journalists like @thatsMohrlikeit@AdamLMahoney get it - but very (very) few scholars are thinking about such connections between urban cores and peripheries, and the centrality of justice and affordability, to what we think of as "sustainability"
Looking for a great post doc to work with me at UC Berkeley on an @SloanFoundation-funded research projects focused on energy transition mineral development & water justice in the Great Basin. Deadline Oct 30. Plz share and apply!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04…
Happy to share my latest article “Inhabiting more-than-human ecologies of Extended urbanization” in Geoforum. Building upon the work of @maanbarua, @NikosKatsikis, and @hiangelo the paper looks at the more-than-human ecologies of extended urbanisation sciencedirect.com/science/ar… 1/7
This fall I’m joining Sociology at the University of California Santa Cruz as Director of Community Studies & Associate Professor. As a product of the UC and raised a few hours away its a dream to be able to think and build things there.
@GeogSara introduces Andrew Curley's review forum for Carbon Sovereignty (@AZpress). This book is a story of coal in the Navajo Nation, providing a slew of concepts & methodologies for those studying colonial capitalism, resource and energy, or temporality
societyandspace.org/book-rev…
NEW: In this week’s essay, @jmijincha breaks down the “just” transition, tracing its origins, misuse & meanings.
"Advancing a just transition is transformational — moving from a world built around extraction to one built around regeneration & care.”
break-down.org/post/what-is-…
Come work with me!! @cpluscp is hiring and Energy & Industrial Policy Manager. Looking for someone ready to take down the fossil fuel industry and build a better, more just energy system. 💡⚡️✊
climateandcommunity.org/ener…
🏡 Let's prioritize affordable housing! It's time for communities where a single job covers rent and retirement means stability. As your rep, I'll protect renters and support homeownership. Join us in shaping the future ➡️ DavinaForUT.com#AffordableHousing#SustainableCommunities#DavinaForUT
Climate change is already having severe impacts on peoples’ everyday lives - including their ability to insure their homes against disaster. Launching today, our new series "Policy Visions for the Home Insurance Crisis" examines the home insurance crisis climateandcommunity.org/home…
For those in or near Salt Lake City, we hope you can join us at the first in-person public comment meeting this evening. The meeting will take place from 6 to 8 PM at the Marriott – University Park, located at 480 S Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, UT, 84108.
What an honor to have this set of reviews, and to share the stage with interlocutor, co-conspirator, and friend @kiangoh. This is the best part of academic life. Thank you so much @dwachsmuth, as well as…
I'm honored and heartened and thrilled af to have my book Form and Flow and @hiangelo's book How Green Became Good together in the @theAAG Review of Books, with reviews by so many brilliant and generous scholars of urban nature... tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
ALT Review fora from AAG Review of Books first page image, showing title "The Space-Times of Urbanizing Nature," book covers for How Green Became Good and Form and Flow, and introduction text by David Wachsmuth.