[gep-ed] New paper: New York City as ‘fortress of solitude’ after Hurricane Sandy

[Daniel Aldana Cohen]

Hi all,

I wanted to pass on a new paper of mine, "New York City as ‘fortress of
solitude’ after Hurricane Sandy: a relational sociology of extreme
weather’s relationship to climate politics
,"
out in *Environmental Politics *this week. (Apologies for cross-posting.)

Using a case study of New York's climate politics evolution after Hurricane
Sandy, and building on essential work by many members of our section, the
paper critiques some of the more superficial, optimistic takes that if we
just link extreme weather to climate change, it will automatically yield
good climate politics. And it sketches a theoretical framework that
illuminates how actors' climate politics evolve after a disaster. I'd love
to get feedback from anyone interested.

I think the paper may have some relevance during this horrible period of
climate disasters. On the one hand, I've been so thrilled to see so many
activists, scholars, and journalists call our Gov. Newsom's pro-fossil fuel
drilling record in the midst of these fires. On the other hand, there seems
to be a lot of discourse limited to "this is climate change!" The other day
there was a story

in the NYT about a "reckoning" with climate change in California that
didn't mention GHG emissions or fossil fuels. I'm not sure where that gets
us. Even if local adaptation is equitable, there can't be climate justice
from a global perspective if affluent parts of the US pursue climate
policies that don't slash emissions.

Pre-print here

.

all best
Daniel

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[gep-ed] Upcoming Webinar on Justice/Equity Considerations and Carbon Dioxide Removal Approaches

[Wil Burns]

We hope you can join us for our upcoming webinar on equity and justice 
considerations in the context of carbon dioxide removal technologies: 
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/equity-and-justice-in-carbon-removal-an-icr-webinar-tickets-120050507299?aff=eand

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About this Event

In this webinar, Ugbaad Kosar, Carbon 180; 
Augustine Njamnshi, Pan African Climate Justice Alliance; and Arunabha 
Ghosh, Council on Energy, Environment, and 
Water will discuss equity and justice issues relating to carbon dioxide removal 
options, including in the context of afforestation/reforestation, Bioenergy 
with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS), and ocean-based solution. Wil 
Burns, 
Co-Director of the Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy, will moderate. 
This webinar is part of a series exploring different aspects of carbon removal.

Registration closes at 11:59 pm EDT on September 20th . Details to access the 
webinar room will be sent to registered participant shortly before the webinar 
is held. All webinars are archived here on the Institute's 
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available.

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[gep-ed] Invitation to submit Perspectives on STS + energy or climate transitions - Deadline November 1 2020

[Benjamin Sovacool]

Dear sustainability transitions and social science colleagues,

Inspired greatly by the work of Jonathan Köhler et 
al.
 and the STRN research community, David J. Hess and I have attempted to 
undertake a similar project looking at the intersections of science and 
technology studies (STS) and energy and climate transitions.  Our first study 
utilized a systematized review to take stock of the field and summarize what it 
has to offer; our second review involved a larger team of interdisciplinary 
science and technology studies colleagues (many of them STRN members) to 
propose future research agendas:


  *   Sociotechnical matters: Reviewing and integrating science and technology 
studies with energy social 
science
  *   Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and 
climate 
research

(Both articles are gold open access and can be read by all with the links 
above).

One of the novel aspects to the Köhler et al. study was that they opened it up 
to criticism, commentary, and debate by inviting a series of Comments in the 
sister journal EIST. Given we believe the discussion of STS could benefit from 
the same sort of exchange, we would like to do the same in the journal ERSS.

I hereby invite the community to submit pitches for Perspectives (short 
articles of 2000 to 5000 words) that engage with-in any way-the two studies 
above. If interested, please submit a short pitch as a Word Document of 200 to 
500 words to b.sovac...@sussex.ac.uk by end of 
the day November 1 2020.  Contributions from early career scholars, scholars in 
the Global South, as well as disciplines far beyond STS or the STRN are 
especially welcome.  We will shortlist and invite up to *ten* of these pitches 
to submit a Perspective to ERSS that will be formally peer reviewed, with a 
deadline of January 1 2021. There is no guarantee of eventual acceptance.

Lastly, while Köhler et al. did an outstanding job mapping a research agenda 
for STRN, and we have tried to do the same for STS, the approach taken would 
certainly have utility in other fields, e.g. geography, political ecology, 
political economy, anthropology, environmental sociology, circular economy, 
etc.  We would most certainly welcome such reviews (as full length articles) at 
ERSS as well.

Have a good week all,

Benjamin

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