Welcome Frustrations with the Climate. Comment on Redclift (pages 183-187)
Matthias GROSS
Article first published online: 11 October 2011

Keywords: climate change, hemeneutics, interdisciplinarity, environmental sociology.

Abstract. Redclift (2011) provided a timely and perhaps deliberately provocative overview of sociological writings on climate change and the disciplinary problems of a post carbon world for environmental sociology. This comment emphasizes that he never actually clarifies what exactly are those problems that sociology faces in its attempt to open up a space for itself in the field of climate research. This omission also leads to unnecessary claims regarding the state of social science research on climate change as well as unspecified calls for more interdisciplinarity in sociological analysis of contemporary societies' carbon dependence.

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