PhD Candidate @UBCSociology. Environmental, cultural, and political sociologist studying climate change and energy transitions.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Joined September 2016
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How do we counter disinformation in public discourse and recreate space for higher quality public debates?
PhD candidate @MarkJShakespear collaborated with the David Suzuki Institute to investigate this question in "Silencing Science."
Learn more: buff.ly/gIaOJqK
Come and join us on Thursday November 7 at 4pm PST for a discussion of UN climate summits and what to look for as we head into COP29.
With #COP29 in Azerbaijan coming up, join a panel of experts (including faculty and students from @ubcSPPGA @ubcVSE @UBCSociology) for a primer on how UN climate summits work and the pressing issues up for negotiation this year 🌍️
✅️ Register today: l8r.it/LEza
I'm excited to be a part of the CSDI team! @UBCDemocracy
We are excited to welcome Mark to the CSDI! A sociology PhD candidate @UBC, he researches climate discourse shifts at UN COP meetings and Canada's fossil fuel influence. At the Centre, he will research climate related mis/disinformation and harassment on social media in Canada.
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In a new paper, Prof. Andrew Jorgenson analyzes the carbon intensity of human well-being in Canada.
The paper was co-written with graduate students Taekyong Goh, Yasmin Koop-Monteiro, Mark Shakespear, Nicolas Viens & Grace Gletsu. buff.ly/4cTLbrz
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Generative AI has captured global attention. How can this technology be used in social science & humanities research? What legal, ethical and social justice dilemmas does this pose?
Join us and @UbcCcss for the “Querying AI” symposium on Oct 27: eventbrite.ca/e/querying-ai-…
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One of the ~coolest~ stories I've helped report is now out!
The planet is warming. @jake_bittle, Florencia Fuertes, and the crack team of editors and designers at Grist and I imagined what a heat-resilient city could look like. Give it a read!
grist.org/project/cities/ext…
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I think this is the strongest decision on climate change ever issued by any court. After a trial where climate scientists testified under oath and were subject to cross examination (very rare in itself), the court issued a 103-page decision that found that fossil fuel use is
In the first ruling of its kind in the USA, a #Montana state court has decided in favour of young people who alleged that the state violated their right to a “clean and healthful #environment” by promoting the use of #fossilfuels. 👏
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🎉 New open access book, Nature-based Solutions for Cities, is now available from @ElgarPublishing, edited by @timonmcphearson @NadjaKabisch @NFrantzeskaki. Explore the state of the art in advancing NBS for cities across the world 👉 elgaronline.com/edcollbook-o…
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Critical minerals are fundamentally different from fossil fuels!
Congrats to @thijsvandegraaf and the @IRENA team for this graphic and their great new report on the Geopolitics of CRM: irena.org/Publications/2023/…
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New paper in @EnvSociology! Sociologists @yasmin_koop & her co-authors Mark Stoddart & @dbtindall, examine how animals are visually featured in climate change discourse and find that animals are framed for "eco-political purposes" in a multitude of ways tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1…
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Super exited to see the cover of my new book 🙏 Thanks for all the contributing authors for all their hard work! And amazing support from @routledgebooks
📚 #NewBook (order your library copy now!) 🎉
ALT The Routledge Handbook of Routledge Handbooks
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📚 A book that describes the power relations of contemporary agroextractivism and analyzes the social processes of emancipatory agroecologies.
Open acces: 👉buff.ly/2Onctwy
@AgroecologyE @FundAgroecology @AgroecologyMap @GRAIN_org @friends_earth @focussouth @IPESfood
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The Intro essay for the special issue of Social Networks on Social Networks and Anthropogenic climate change is now available online:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1goTF…
All of the 16 articles are now available online. The special issue will be formally published in SN in August 2023.
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The electricity system is undergoing a profound transformation.
What we are seeing is a much more consumer-centric model emerging with much more diversity in terms of generation and consumption.
A short 🧵
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80% of internal flights ✈️ in #USA 🇺🇸 could be replaced by a high speed rail network 🚅
Bullet trains travelling at 300 mph
Reduced carbon emissions
Faster, safer travel 🧳
Massive job creation 👷♀️👷♂️
Technology innovation 🚝
Vote winner #USElection
#America2050
#ClimateChange
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Let's bust some myths about mining and climate change. trib.al/oamxPni
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Sociologies of climate change are not enough. Putting the global biodiversity crisis on the sociological agenda tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… #biodiversity #Kunming-MontrealFramework #EnvironmentalSociology #climatechange
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Researchers have been studying the link between indoor air pollution and human health for more than 50 years.
Every year, it becomes more clear:
Gas stoves produce unsafe levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2). And that causes respiratory illnesses like asthma.
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I'll just say, @GretaThunberg has powers.