Environment and Society
The Environment and Society research cluster brings together staff and research students interested in the unfolding ecological crisis from a critical sociological perspective.
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Overview
Research at present explores the following areas:
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Theories of crisis and the entanglement of ecological and political crisis;
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Competing imagined and anticipated ecological futures;
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Concepts of nature and forms of ecological reason;
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One Health approaches to antimicrobial resistance to examine the intersection of human, animal, and environmental health;
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Contested ‘just energy transition’ processes and new articulations of racial capitalism through ‘green extractivism’;
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Collaborative research with communities impacted by climate change and extractive economies and struggles for post-extractive and sustainable societies, modelling alternative relations to land and each other.
Researchers