Sustainability Science and Expertise: Sociological Perspectives

Asafu-Adjaye, John et al (2015). ‘An Eco-Modernist Manifesto’, The Breakthrough Institute, 30 pages

Arancibia, Florencia (2016). ‘Rethinking Activism and Expertise Within Environmental Health Conflicts’, Sociology Compass 10(6), 13 pages.

Beck, Silke (2011). ‘Moving Beyond the Linear Model of Expertise? IPCC and the Test of Adaptation’, Regional Environmental Change 11, 9 pages.

Bennett, Nathan et al (2019). ‘Just Transformations to Sustainability’, Sustainability 11(14), 18 pages.

Burawoy, Michael (2005). ’For Public Sociology’, British Journal of Sociology 56, 35 pages.

Ciplet, David (2022). ‘Transition Coalitions: Toward a Theory of Transformative Just Transitions’, Environmental Sociology 8(3), 15 pages.

Evans, Robert (2008). ’The Sociology of Expertise: The Distribution of Social Fluency’, Sociology Compass 2, 14 pages.

Eyal, Gil (2010). ‘How Parents of Autistic Children Became “Experts of Their Own Children”: Notes toward a Sociology of Expertise’, Berkeley Journal of Sociology 54, 14 pages.

Eyal, Gil (2023) ‘Sociology of Expertise as Public Sociology’ in Bifulco, Lavinia & Borghi, Vando (eds.) Research Handbook on Public Sociology. Edward Elgar, 16 pages.

Flyvbjerg, Bent (2008). ’Making Sociology Matter: Phronetic Sociology as Public Sociology’ in Michael Hviid Jacobsen ed. Public Sociology. Aalborg University Press, 30 pages.

Funtowicz, Silvio & Ravetz, Jerome (1993) ‘Science for the Post-Normal Age’, Futures 25(7). 17 pages.

Gabrys, Jennifer (2017). ‘Citizen Sensing, Air Pollution and Fracking: From Caring about your Air to Speculative Practices of Evidencing Harm’, Sociological Review 65(2), 20 pages.

Kimura, Aya & Kinchy, Abby (2016). ‘Citizen Science: Probing the Virtues and Contexts of Participatory Research’, Engaging Science, Technology and Society 2, 30 pages

Levins, Richard & Lewontin, Richard (1987). ‘The Commoditization of Science’, Chapter 8 in The Dialectical Biologist, Harvard University Press, 12 pages.

Lidskog, Rolf, Standring, Adam & White, James (2022) ‘Environmental Expertise for Social Transformation: Roles and Responsibilities for Social Science’, Environmental Sociology 8(3), 11 pages.

Longo, Stefano et al (2022) ‘Key Challenges to the Corporate Biosphere Stewardship Research Program: Inequity, Reification and Stakeholder Commensurability’, Global Sustainability 5, 7 pages.

Osborne, Thomas (2004). ’On Mediators: Intellectuals and the Ideas Trade in the Knowledge Society’, Economy and Society, 33(4), 17 pages.

Oreskes, Naomi (2004). ‘Science and Public Policy: What has Proof Got to Do with It?’ Environmental Science & Policy 7, 14 pages.

Rosa, Eugene (1998) ‘Metatheoretical Foundations for Post-Normal Risk’, Journal of Risk Research 1(1), 30 pages.

Shrivastava, Paul et al (2020). ’Transforming Sustainability Science to Generate Positive Social and Environmental Change Globally’, One Earth 2(4), 11 pages.

Sundqvist, Göran Hermansen, Erlend et al (2018). ‘One World or Two? Science-Policy Interactions in the Climate Field’, Critical Policy Studies 12(4), 20 pages.

Turner, Stephen (2001). ’What is the Problem with Experts?’ Social Studies of Science 31, 26 pages.

Wylie, Sara Shapiro, Nicholas & Max Liboiron (2017). ‘Making and Doing Politics Through Grassroots Scientific Research on the Energy and Petrochemical Industries’, *Engaging *Science, Technology and Society 3, 32 pages.

Total: 441 pages

Project Work
Relevant literature is decided in consultation with course teachers, approx.300 pages.