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Monday, March 30
Hours: 7:30AM - 1AM
–ZSR Library, Library Auditorium (Room 404)Join the Department of Sociology and co-sponsors (Program for Leadership and Character and Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability) for an invited talk with Professor Hillary Angelo (UC Santa Cruz) where she will discuss her current research on public lands in the American West:.
It is a common (aspirational) refrain that climate change “changes everything,” and equally common to note that climate-related transitions seem to be changing very little at all. What climate-related changes are happening now? And how might we grasp emergent trajectories while we’re in the midst of these transitions? With a substantive focus on the city-hinterland relationship and the American West, and based on five years of fieldwork related to renewable energy, conservation, and housing development on public lands in Nevada and Utah, this talk gets purchase on these questions by presenting climate change as a form of macro-social change. I draw on classical and contemporary macro-historical sociology and critical geography to show how this framework provides new insights on climate transitions and describe its implications for understanding contemporary climate politics, policy, and visions of a just transition.
Free and open to the public.