Director, Centre for Research in Economic Sociology & Innovation

The Sociogenesis of Climate Change & Finitudes of Earth’s Resources: the China-Brazil connection

Professor Mark Harvey, Wednesday 24 June 2015 Director, Centre for Research in Room 10.05, Harold Economic Sociology & Hankins Building Innovation 4.00 – 5.30 pm (Coffee from (CRESI), University of Essex 3.45 pm)

Abstract These countries’ distinctive political regimes This seminar presents the core ideas of with different developmental trajectories are Mark Harvey’s current ESRC Professional significantly conditioned by sharply Fellowship Research on the food-energy contrasting environmental resources of land, climate change trilemma. The concept of water, solar and fossil energy. Developing his the sociogenesis of climate change will be neo-Polanyian approach the argument will be elaborated in terms of how different made for a social science understanding of political economics interact with their own ‘the shifting place of the economy in nature’ in environmental resource constraints of land, the political shaping of economies manifest in water and energy. The emerging the sociogenesis of and responses to, climate geopolitical dynamic between Brazil and change. China serves to illustrate the necessity for social science to analyse such interactions as a major source of historical and societal variation. Biography Professor Mark Harvey, Director of the He collaborated in the SCI-led ESRC Centre for Research in Economic Sustainable Practices Research Group, Sociology and Innovation (CRESI) in the researching the provisioning and Department of Sociology at the University consumption of drinking water in Europe, of Essex. His recent books include India, Mexico and Taiwan. He currently ‘Exploring the Tomato: transformations of holds an ESRC Professional Research nature, economy and society’; ‘Trust in Fellowship leading a project on ‘The food- Food: A comparative institutional energy-climate change trilemma’ running analysis’; Public or Private Economies of until 2017. Knowledge: Turbulence in the Biological Sciences’; ‘Karl Polanyi: New perspectives If you have any queries please contact Susan on the place of the economy in society’ Hogan on 275 4030 or and ‘Markets, Rules and institutions of [email protected] Exchange’.