Energy Humanities Podcast

Mike Hulme | 16/05/2017

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

Mike Hulme | 20/03/2017 | 1 Comment

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

Mike Hulme | 17/03/2017

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

Mike Hulme | 07/12/2016

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

Mike Hulme | 06/12/2016

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?

Mike Hulme | 05/12/2016

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)

Mike Hulme | 18/11/2016

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’)

Mike Hulme | 16/11/2016

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...

Epistemic geographies of climate change: science, space and politics

Mike Hulme | 15/11/2016

This review article, co-authored with Martin Mahony at the University of Nottingham, has recently been accepted for publication in the journal Progress in Human Geography. Here is the abstract: “Anthropogenic climate change has been presented as the archetypal global...

Anglophone Political Populism and the Future of Climate-Change

Mike Hulme | 09/11/2016

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...

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