Nicolas Graham, PhD
Sociology
I'm a post-doctoral researcher at the University of British Columbia. My research is in the field of the sociology of climate change. I'm currently studying competing political projects for energy transition and decarbonization in Canada.
Research Interests
Most broadly, my work examines the relationship between society and the rest of nature.
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I study the social relations and political economic mechanisms at the root of environmental degradation, especially climate change. In addition to an analysis of structural drivers of climate and ecological crises, my work examines relationships between corporate, state and civil society actors and the strategies they deploy to shape energy development and climate policy.
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My work comprises the following three components:
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1. Corporate power (especially examining the power of the fossil fuel sector) and climate obstruction.
2. Competing political projects for energy transition and decarbonization.
3. Conceptual and theoretical issues in ecological Marxism and environmental sociology.
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Key Publications
Graham, Nicolas. 2021. Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Capitalism. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill and Haymarket.
Graham, Nicolas. 2020. Fossil Knowledge Networks: Science, Ecology and the “Greening” of Carbon Extractive Development. Studies in Political Economy 101(2): 93-113.
Graham, Nicolas. 2019. Canadian Fossil Capitalism, Corporate Strategy and Post-Carbon Futures. The Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue Canadienne de Sociologie 56(2): 224-250.