Dana R FisherI'm really looking forward to waking up early on a weekend WITHOUT feeling the need to edit my book so I can meet the deadline! #AlmostDone #SavingOurselves
I talk about how #civildisobedience has become much more normalized among #climate #activists in my new book. Here's proof from @[email protected] and her resistance of #FossilFuel expansion in Germany #SavingOurselves https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/01/17/germany-coal-village-mud/
I'm trying so hard to get this chapter fully drafted by my self-imposed deadline of New Years Eve.
It might be the paxlovid talking here, but I'm finding it sooo much harder to write coherently for a general audience about characteristics of the #climate #movement, how it's grown and is changing since I've written so much about it already (versus the other chapters of #SavingOurselves).
Like many people, I watched #GlassOnion over the holiday. Very disappointed to see Miles call them the #Disruptors--I've been using that term for #CivilSociety actors who are engaging in more confrontational tactics for #SocialChange in #SavingOurselves...
@RadReduction @davidho @andrew_jorgenson yes. The paper is the theoretical background.
My new book is #SavingOurselves : from #Climate Shocks to #ClimateAction is under contract with Columbia University Press (out after I finish writing it).
An overdue #intro: I research, write, and speak about #climate, #activism, #protest, and #democracy. I'm professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, a non-resident senior fellow at @brookingsinst, and the president-elect at the Eastern Sociological Society.
My most recent book was #AmericanResistance (Columbia University Press 2019) and my next book (which I'm furiously trying to finish) is #SavingOurselves: from Climate Shock to #ClimateAction 🌎 🔥
Chapter 2 of #SavingOurselves is completed and, as a reward, I'm taking this week off of writing to give exams, grade, and finish a bunch of other deadlines (promotion letters and such).
Super overcaffinated so I might be wrong, but I definitely think I will meet my deadline for finishing the next chapter of #SavingOurselves (tomorrow!) #WritingCommmunity #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter
Ps I still miss easy access to a gif library...
@Anyaanya Well, that is the subject of my new book #SavingOurselves, which Im trying to finish right now...happy to share the main ideas.
Here's the paper that provides a skeleton of the argument: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44168-022-00011-8
AnthroShift in a warming world - Climate Action
Thirty years after the UN Conference on Environment and Development created the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, efforts to respond to the issue continue to be insufficient to meet the challenges of the climate crisis. This perspective builds on the experience of society’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic to understand what is needed to get to meaningful climate action. It applies the framework of the AnthroShift to assess how transformational social change is likely to emerge. The paper concludes by determining that the most plausible pathway to an effective social response to the climate crisis would be driven by civil society. However, the level of mass mobilization needed is only possible if society is experiencing large-scale and sustained levels of risk that have tangible long-term consequences in terms of social cost to people and property.
@gregladen I just saw this paper that contributes to this discussion (along with the chapter for the new book that I'm trying to finish ASAP) #SavingOurselves https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-environ-012220-011104