Welcome Frustrations with the Climate: Comment on Redclift
Welcome Frustrations with the Climate: Comment on Redclift
Author(s): Matthias GROSSSubject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: POLIROM & Universitatea Bucureşti - Dept. de Sociologie şi Asistenţă Socială
Keywords: climate change; hemeneutics; interdisciplinarity; environmental sociology
Summary/Abstract: Redclift (2011) provided a timely and perhaps deliberately provocative overview of sociological writings on climate change and the disciplinary problems of a post carbon world for environmental sociology. This comment emphasizes that he never actually clarifies what exactly are those problems that sociology faces in its attempt to open up a space for itself in the field of climate research. This omission also leads to unnecessary claims regarding the state of social science research on climate change as well as unspecified calls for more interdisciplinarity in sociological analysis of contemporary societies’ carbon dependence.
Journal: International Review of Social Research
- Issue Year: 2011
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 183-187
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English