Much of my current work explores the intersection between everyday environmentalisms and the political potentials and dangers of populism.
Recent publications include:
How (not) to politicize the climate crisis: Beyond the anti-populist imaginary, with Sherilyn MacGregor. Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 2025.
Power and Truth in Science-Related Populism: Rethinking the Role of Knowledge and Expertise in Climate Politics, Political Studies, 2024.
"The People" and Climate Justice: Reconceptualizing Populism and Pluralism within Climate Politics, Polity, 2024.
Thinking about Hope, Vision, and Mobilization with Darrel Moellendorf's Mobilizing Hope, Ethics, Policy, & Environment, 2024.
Experimentalism and its alternatives: toward viable strategies for transformative change and sustainability, Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 2023.
Information about books I've written and (co-)edited can be found by clicking on the cover images, below.
There are other interviews and talks, here, here, and here, in which I discuss my work.
My book Engaging the Everyday: Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma (MIT Press, 2015) was awarded the first annual Clay Morgan Award for Best Book in Environmental Political Theory.
An earlier book Political Nature: Environmentalism and the Interpretation of Western Thought (MIT Press, 2001) was recognized as a "Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2002" and a "Great Work in Environmental Political Thought" in 2012.
I am an editor, with Graeme Hayes, Sikina Jinnah, Prakash Kashwan, David Konisky, Sherilyn MacGregor, and Anthony Zito, of Trajectories in Environmental Politics (Routledge, 2022); with Teena Gabrielson, Cheryl Hall, and David Schlosberg, of the Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory (Oxford University Press, 2016; paperback 2019); with Jens Kersten of The Greening of Everyday Life: Challenging Practices, Imagining Possibilities (Oxford University Press, 2016); with Michael Maniates of The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice (MIT Press, 2010); and of American Indians and U.S. Politics (Praeger, 2002).
I’ve published articles, essays, and reviews in academic journals including the American Political Science Review; Democratization; Environmental Politics; Environmental Values; Ethics, Place, and the Environment; the Journal of Political Philosophy; the Journal of Politics; Organization and Environment; Perspectives on Politics; Political Studies; Political Theory; Polity; Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, and Theory & Event. I’ve also written magazine essays and blog posts for a broader public audience.