Prof. John Meyer
Senior Fellow
John M. Meyer is Professor of Politics at California Polytechnic State University,Humboldt. There, he also serves in interdisciplinary programs on Environmental Studies and Environment & Community. As a political theorist, his current project explores the intersection between climate politics and the political potentials and dangers of populism. Meyer is the author of the award-winning Engaging the Everyday: Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma (MIT, 2015) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory (Oxford, 2016). He is editor-in-chief of the international journal, Environmental Politics.
CV Download:
- Climate Politics, Justice, and Populism
- Politics of Sustainability
- Environmental Political Theory
- Engaging Everyday Practices
- Experimentalism and Climate Politics
Publications at the RIFS
Publications prior to joining the 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.