BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//TYPO3/NONSGML Calendarize//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendarize-hillary-angelo-solar-struggles-in-nevada-climate-change-ci ty-hinterland-relations-the-question-of-large-scale-social-transformation DTSTAMP:20260513T085339Z DTSTART:20260610T160000Z DTEND:20260610T180000Z SUMMARY:Hillary Angelo\, "Solar Struggles in Nevada: Climate Change\, City -Hinterland Relations\, the Question of Large-Scale Social Transformation" DESCRIPTION:It is a common (aspirational) refrain that climate change “c hanges everything\,” and equally common to note that climate-related tra nsitions seem to be changing very little at all. What climate-related chan ges 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 ye ars of fieldwork related to renewable energy\, conservation\, and housing development on public lands in Nevada and Utah\, this talk gets purchase o n these questions by presenting climate change as a form of macro-social c hange. I draw on classical and contemporary macro-historical sociology and critical geography to show how this framework provides new insights on cl imate transitions and describe its implications for understanding contempo rary climate politics\, policy\, and visions of a just transition. \nHill ary Angelo is an Associate Professor of Sociology\, founding Director of U CSC’s Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies\, and former m ember of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Her work combines historical sociology\, critical social theory\, and urban political econom y and ecology to analyze contemporary urban and environmental culture and politics. She has published widely in leading sociology\, geography\, and urban studies journals and her first book\, How Green Became Good: Urbaniz ed Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens\, was published in 2021 by the University of Chicago Press.\nThis Lecture is organized in cooperatio n with the Research training group (RTG) ‘Urban future-making: Professio nal agency across time and scale’ at HafenCity University Hamburg. \nNo Registration needed.\nMore Information X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

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 subs tantive focus on the city-hinterland relationship and the American West\, and based on five years of fieldwork related to renewable energy\, conserv ation\, and housing development on public lands in Nevada and Utah\, this talk gets purchase on these questions by presenting climate change as a fo rm of macro-social change. I draw on classical and contemporary macro-hist orical sociology and critical geography to show how this framework provide s new insights on climate transitions and describe its implications for un derstanding contemporary climate politics\, policy\, and visions of a just transition. \;

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Hillary Angelo is an Associate Professor of Sociology\, fou nding Director of UCSC’s Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Stu dies\, and former member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Her work combines historical sociology\, critical social theory\, and urb an political economy and ecology to analyze contemporary urban and environ mental culture and politics. She has published widely in leading sociology \, geography\, and urban studies journals and her first book\, How Green B ecame Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens\, was p ublished in 2021 by the University of Chicago Press.

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This Lecture is organized in cooperation with the Research training group (RTG) ‘Urban future-making: Professi onal agency across time and scale’ at HafenCity University Hamburg.& nbsp\;

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No Registration needed.

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LOCATION:DFG-Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe "Zukünfte der Nachhaltigkeit"\, Gorc h-Fock-Wall 3\, 20354 HH\, Klingelschild "Nachhaltigkeit"\, Raum 1021 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR