Publikationen (Special Issues)

On the invite of renown social stratification and China scholar, Prof. Dr. Yu Xie (Princeton University) Julia Teebken and Dr. Jesse Rodenbiker (Princeton University / Rutgers University) were invited as guest editors to convene a Special Issue on “China and the Environment” with the Chinese Journal of Sociology. The manuscripts are currently being collected and will be published via the following link: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/chs/call-for-papers/china-and-the-environment.

Together with colleagues from Bangladesh, India, Norway, and the United States, Julia Teebken is currently guest editing the Special Issue “From Vulnerability to Critical Adaptation Policy and Practice” with Climate and Development. The special issue incorporates transdisciplinary scholarship that critically assesses current adaptation practices, policy processes, models, and tools. Through both empirical case studies and literature reviews, the collection of articles will have the aim to produce concrete recommendations for justice-centered adaptation policymaking and practice. Three broad questions are at :

1. How can policy-makers, social movements, knowledge brokers, and scholars confront this gap between an increasingly refined understanding of the root causes of climate vulnerability and a prevailing pattern of adaptation policy that fails to directly address those root causes–both in terms of elucidating the ways in which seemingly radical discourses of transformation are appropriated by powerful actors (i.e. Long and Rice 2021; Thomas 2024; Westman and Broto 2022) as well as how creative engagements with vulnerable communities can begin to directly address root causes even within prevailing approaches to climate policy (i.e. Colloff et al. 2024; Grove et al. 2023; Meriläinen et al. 2022)?
2. How might research play a part in refining and implementing the proliferating array of radical and transformative policy principles and frameworks to guide the design of adaptation interventions so as to more directly and effectively address the root causes of vulnerability and the climate crisis (i.e. Ajibade and Adams 2019; Anguelovski et al. 2020; Amorim-Maia et al. 2022; Broto et al. 2023; Cannon et al. 2023; Fitzgerald et al. 2023; Morrison et al. 2020; Oscilowicz et al 2022)?
3. What new imaginations and practices are needed to advance the design, implementation, and assessment of radical climate interventions (Chhetri et al. 2023; Nightingale et al. 2020), and what is the role of academic scholarship in pursuing transformative adaptation (McPhearson et al. 2021; Meriläinen et al. 2022)?

The papers in this special issue will include multiple scales of governance from local to global and will cover studies from around the world–including case studies from the Global North and Global South.