MUST READ for anyone thinking about which climate actions are most likely to be successful! @r-thombs.bsky.social and @akjorgenson.bsky.social analyze which types of climate policies are most effective at decoupling of carbon emissions from economic growth. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
12.01.2026 11:35 — 👍 22 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
New article in American Sociological Review, coauthored with Grant, Longhofer, and Vasi. We theorize about and empirically demonstrate how affective polarization is shaping the climate crisis, with a focus on CO2 emissions from power plants throughout the world. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
29.12.2025 18:46 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0I wrote about just transition in Brazil for UNRISD - TLDR, lots of different impacts, from new kinds of energy, from old ones, with different implications for different groups (some hit urban, some indigenous, some quilombolos, some labor) www.unrisd.org/en/library/p...
12.01.2026 15:16 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
New and fascinating open access book on the role and impact of Climate Ambassadors....
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook-oa/...
My @ucmerced.bsky.social colleague @fast-reggae.bsky.social just pointed me to this collection he's editing -- now open for submissions. www.nature.com/collections/...
10.11.2025 23:56 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
19th Central American Sociological Association Meetings held this week at the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH). Conference theme highlights the role of sociology in addressing the climate crisis @clacso.bsky.social
07.08.2025 10:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@ucmerced.bsky.social Ph.D. candidates Eliana Fonsah and our own Nihan Karagul are recipients of the competitive dissertation fellowship from the @ucigcc.bsky.social.
Congratulations to both! 👏
Read more: ucm.edu/3ocptd
New PhD in our sociology department at UCM:
sociology.ucmerced.edu/news/2025/dr...
ucm.edu/81aqqr Grad Program recognized @ucmerced.bsky.social
03.05.2025 00:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New article on music and trauma in El Salvador...https://online.ucpress.edu/jams/article-abstract/78/1/53/206678/Faith-Trauma-Resistance-and-Resilience-in-the?redirectedFrom=fulltext
25.04.2025 01:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A recently published volume of The Oxford Handbook of Climate Action includes contributions from Tulane Political Science's own Professor Moises Arce, Assistant Professor Joshua Basseches (@joshuabasseches.bsky.social), and PhD Student Zoe Sullivan:
academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
Very useful new handbook chapter by @hochstet.bsky.social, analyzing how, and to what extent we can think of "green transitions as climate action." Necessarily, she shows how this requires a much more global view than is typical.
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
A new article from 2023-24 IGCC Fellow Luis Rubén González Márquez—alongside @ucmerced.bsky.social professor Paul Almeida—analyzes how local economic threats from authoritarian forms of pro-market development models generate labor protest. Now available online: bit.ly/4iB20uT
24.03.2025 21:25 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Pleased to share this new collab piece, "Ecologically Unequal Exchange as a Catalyst for Climate Action", available as part of the The Oxford Handbook of Climate Action. It is freely available on on ResearchGate too. doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
#climate #ClimateJustice #ClimateCrisis #sociology
Our chp (w/ P. Gardner) on Extinction Rebellion with
@OUPAcademic it's out. We look into one of the most influential climate movements of our time.
Published in Oxford Handbook of Climate Action (ed. Paul Almeida
Link: t.co/q0mNtd4XZz
