Oct 18, 2016 | Publications
In 2016, we joined a group of sociologists, political theorists, geographers, philosophers and literary scholars for the digital re-launch of the Social Science Research Council’s journal, Items: Insights from the Social Sciences. The task was to reflect on...
Sep 2, 2016 | Publications
Commercial fracking has not yet started in England. In the past few years, however, the government has issued exploratory permits in various sites around the country and energy companies are readying themselves to drill (some already have). This brief article sets out...
Aug 1, 2015 | Publications
The jury is still out – quite literally – on whether or not we are living in a new epoch called “the Anthropocene.” Even so, for many social scientists and humanities scholars, the Anthropocene is very much upon us, and this has consequences. Key among...
Mar 4, 2015 | Publications
This article won the prestigious British Sociological Association’s Climate Change Article Prize in 2015, coming in second overall among the three winning nominations. In 2016, we were invited to reflect further on the topic in a prize-winners’ workshop the...
Nov 15, 2014 | Publications
One question that has attracted considerable attention in recent years is the relation between ‘nature’ and ‘culture/society,’ and how (and if) to theorise it. This chapter provides one possible answer through a selective social history of the...
