It is important not to over-react to the news that Donald Trump wishes to withdraw the USA from the Paris Agreement and seek to renegotiate a ‘fairer deal’ for America. The wailing and grieving around the media that has accompanied yesterday’s announcement is exactly the sort of reaction that Trump is seeking to provoke. It […]
Energy Humanities Podcast
Listen to me talking about ‘the many meanings of climate’ (starts at 10:00 minutes), recorded with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer for their Cultures of Energy blog, part of the Centre for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human...
Major Publications 2016
Hulme,M. (2016) ‘Climate change and memory’ Chapter 18 (pp.159-162) in: Memory in the twenty-first century: new critical perspectives from the sciences, arts and humanities (ed.) Sebastian Groes, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 428pp. Hulme,M. (2016) ‘Climate change: Varieties of religious engagement’ Chapter 25 (pp.239-248) in: Routledge handbook on religion and ecology (eds.) Jenkins,W., Tucker,M.E. and Grim,J., Routledge, […]
Political populism and sustainability
The first response of a scientist or scholar to surprising physical or cultural events is to want to understand them. And in this spirit, my reaction to the political events of 2016, and potentially to those yet to come,...
The cultural functions of climate
On 27 October 2016 I delivered the opening distinguished lecture of the 2016/17 session at the Institute of Social Sciences – Instituto Ciências Sociais – University of Lisbon. Drawing upon my new book ‘Weathered’ and titled ‘The cultural functions...
TV interview – TRT World: Trump and climate policy
You can see here my interview last Wednesday (30 November) on the Insights magazine programme of TRT World (Turkish) TV. My interview deals with climate policy following the Trump election and starts at 6:50 minutes, following the climate news...
“Deadline-ism”: when is it too late?
Last Thursday was the first day of December 2016. There was nothing particularly remarkable about the date. Except that it was exactly 100 months since Andrew Simms and the New Economics Foundation announced that the world had only 100...
Book review of ‘A cultural history of climate change’ (Bristow & Ford, 2015)
A cultural history of climate change, edited by Tom Bristow and Thomas H Ford, Abingdon and New York, Earthscan/Routledge, 2016, xix + 244 pp., ISBN 978-1-138-83816-1 (hbk); ISBN 978-1-315-73459-1 (pbk). (Review appeared in Green Letters: Studies in Eco-criticism, vol.21(1),...
The future of climate (abridged from ‘Weathered’)
My latest book Weathered: Cultures of Climate is published tomorrow (17 November) by Sage. Here, I offer a heavily abridged version of the final chapter of the book, ‘The future of climate’. Cultural theorist Arjun Appadurai has argued...
Anglophone Political Populism and the Future of Climate-Change
Today’s result in the US Presidential election follows hard on the back of the UK’s Brexit vote in June. Both results – an expression of collective public preference from the electorate – have shaken political and cultural establishments on...
