20th April - Distinguished Professor John Urry – Lancaster University –
Department of Sociology
Title: CLIMATE CHANGE AND SOCIETY
Abstract: An analysis of the centrality of social science analysis to thinking through
the 'causes', 'consequences' and possible 'mitigations' of changing climates. This talk
will draw upon the 2011 book CLIMATE CHANGE AND SOCIETY and bring out the
importance of systems, lock-ins and their clustering. How mobility systems can be
'innovated' will provide the substantial issues to be interrogated in this talk.
Bio: John Urry. Distinguished Professor and Director of the Centre for Mobilities
Research, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University. Recent books
include Mobilities: new perspectives on transport and society, Ashgate, 2012,
Climate Change and Society. Polity, 2011, The Tourist Gaze 3.0. Sage, 2011, Mobile
Methods, Routledge, 2011, Mobile Lives. Routledge, 2010, After the Car. Polity,
2009.