21068 - Global and Transnational Sociology of Climate Change

Description

The sociology of climate change is overdue for a global and transnational turn. The majority of the historic stock of carbon emissions currently warming the atmosphere originated in so-called “Global North” countries while the majority of the current flow of carbon emissions currently entering the atmosphere originates in the so-called “Global South.” Attempts to both mitigate these emissions and adapt to their effects are shaped by social and political inequalities long at the heart of the sociological project. At the same time, sociology needs to look outwards to generate insights that can speak across the social and physical sciences, in order to contribute to a more sociologically informed, interdisciplinary climate science. This panel will feature work that aims to do so by engaging with global and transnational dimensions of the ultimate planetary dilemma of climate change. This includes research that compares across nations and / or elucidates processes that are beyond the scale of nations, including global institutions, transnational movements, value chains, and other social, economic, and cultural formations.

Sub Unit

• Section on Global and Transnational Sociology / Global and Transnational Sociology of Climate Change

Presider

• Benjamin Bradlow, Princeton University

Individual Presentations

• Climate Policies for Global Value Chains: Imported Emissions, Due Diligence, and the Politics of Regulatory Change - Tim Bartley, Georgetown University; Maria-Therese Gustafsson, Stockholm University; John Murray, Lund University

• Empire’s Currents: Energy “Transition” in Colonial Manchukuo - Wei Zhou, University of Chicago

• Financialization as Transnational Policy Insulation: Climate Finance in Brazil, 1990-2020 - Livio Silva Silva-Muller, Harvard University

• The Expression of Econationalism from Host Countries at UN COPs: The Cases of Colombia and Azerbaidjan - Charles Simon Berthelet, University of Quebec at Montreal

Discussant

• Benjamin Bradlow, Princeton University

Session Organizer

• Benjamin Bradlow, Princeton University