Forschungsinstitut für Nachhaltigkeit Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam

Senior Fellow

Prof. John Meyer

Senior Fellow

John M. Meyer ist Professor für Politik an der California Polytechnic State University, Humboldt. Er dient auch in interdisziplinären Programmen zu Umweltstudien und Umwelt & Gemeinschaft. Als politischer Theoretiker untersucht sein aktuelles Projekt die Schnittstelle zwischen Klimapolitik und den politischen Potenzialen und Gefahren des Populismus. Meyer ist Autor des preisgekrönten Buchs Engaging the Everyday: Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma (MIT, 2015) und Mitherausgeber von The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory (Oxford, 2016). Er ist Chefredakteur der internationalen Zeitschrift Environmental Politics.

Download der Vita:

  • Klimapolitik, Klimagerechtigkeit und Populismus
  • Politik der Nachhaltigkeit
  • Umweltpolitische Theorie
  • Engagierende Alltagspraktiken
  • Experimentalismus und Klimapolitik

Publikationen am RIFS

Publikationen vor der Tätigkeit am RIFS

  • Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory. Edited with Teena Gabrielson, Cheryl Hall, and David Schlosberg. Oxford University Press, 2016. Paperback edition, 2019.
  • Engaging the Everyday: Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma. The MIT Press, 2015.
  • Author or editor of 6 other books and numerous journal articles and book chapters.

  • "Experimentalism, Vanguardism, or What? Strategies for Systemic Change and Sustainability." Keynote Speaker, International Research Workshop: "Can We Experiment Ourselves Out of the Crisis?" Institute for Social Change and Sustainability, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria, November 2021.
  • "An Environmental Politics of the Everyday: Material Participation and Populist Resonances." Keynote Speaker, workshop on "Material Grassroots Politics, Doing Citizenship and the Political," University of Siegen, Germany, July 2019.
  • "Climate Change, Environmentalism, and the Resonance Dilemma." Robert and Mary Neher Global Sustainability Lecture, University of La Verne, California, April 2017.
  • "Environmentalism, New Materialism, and the Resonance Dilemma." Talk sponsored by Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, and the University of Oklahoma Department of English, April 2015.

  • Engaging the Everyday honored as the inaugural "Clay Morgan Award for Best Book in Environmental Political Theory," 2018.
  • Political Nature one of three books honored as "Great Works in Environmental Political Thought," Western Political Science Association, 2012.

Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Politics, 2020-present.

Editor, Environmental Politics, 2016-2020.

Editorial Board, Journal of Politics, 2015-2018.  

Associate Editor, Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2013-2016.