The Problem of Climate Change and the Analogy of Development

Insights from the Auto Sector in Brazil and South Africa
Date
Apr 28, 2025, 12:15 pm1:15 pm
Location
300 Wallace Hall
Audience
In-person attendance for Princeton University ID holders (no RSVP req); Other guests RSVP to [email protected]; Livestream on MediaCentral

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Benjamin H. Bradlow is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University, jointly appointed in the School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Sociology. He is also a Visiting Researcher at the Southern Center for Inequality Studies at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar in the research program on “Humanity's Urban Future.” Bradlow's research investigates connections between climate change, urbanization, technological change, and the political challenges for democracy that confront societies across the globe. He is the author of Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg (Princeton University Press 2024). His current book project is The Climate Hinge: Green Industrial Transitions in the Global South

 

Sponsors
  • Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment
  • High Meadows Environmental Institute