One of my dissertation papers is out this week, I answer one question: How do states build and lose decarbonization capacities? It's about the Brazilian Amazon since 1985, an increadible case of succesful, state-led decarbonization! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... 🧵🧵🧵

Reach and Retrenchment of the Environmental State: Global Climate Politics in the Amazon Rainforest1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 132, No 1

How do states build and lose the capacity to decarbonize? Based on a comparative-historical analysis of Brazil’s drastic reduction and later resurgence of CO2 emissions from 1985 to 2022, this article...

journals.uchicago.edu

One of my dissertation papers is out this week, I answer one question: How do states build and lose decarbonization capacities? It's about the Brazilian Amazon since 1985, an increadible case of succesful, state-led decarbonization! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... 🧵🧵🧵

Reach and Retrenchment of the Environmental State: Global Climate Politics in the Amazon Rainforest1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 132, No 1

How do states build and lose the capacity to decarbonize? Based on a comparative-historical analysis of Brazil’s drastic reduction and later resurgence of CO2 emissions from 1985 to 2022, this article...

journals.uchicago.edu

Just out in @socialforcesfan.bsky.social some of our work comparing Elites in Brazil and South Africa! Using a small survey with random sample of CEOs, legislators, and top bureaucrats in both countries, we unpack the contradictory ways elite think about merit and taxation and redistrution.

Just out in @socialforcesfan.bsky.social some of our work comparing Elites in Brazil and South Africa! Using a small survey with random sample of CEOs, legislators, and top bureaucrats in both countries, we unpack the contradictory ways elite think about merit and taxation and redistrution.

This one has been on the makings for years now, glad to finally see it out there!

Benjamin H. Bradlow@bhbradlow.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Huge, blockbuster new paper in the sociology of climate change by @liviosilva.bsky.social, just accepted to @amjsoc.bsky.social! Reach and Retrenchment of the Environmental State: Global Climate Politics in the Amazon Rainforest doi.org/10.1086/741696 i

My first preprint is up! Qualitative Methods in the Digital Era: How computation entangles fieldwork? Drawing on 8 years collecting multiple types of data on Brazil’s environmental state, I reflect on how abductive fieldwork is changing. Comments welcomed osf.io/preprints/so...

Meet the 2025–2026 Academy Scholars! Most will be working on transforming their dissertation into a book manuscript or series of articles, while some will be embarking on new writing. Learn more about them and The Harvard Academy at: https://loom.ly/jgRd-yA

Happy to share “Pathways of the Environmental State” is a co-winner of the Environmental Sociology Student Paper award!

Caleb Scoville@calebscoville.bsky.social · last yr.

In my capacity as Policy & Research Committee Chair, I am delighted to announce the 2025 award winners of the ASA Environmental Sociology Section. Congrats to all, and thanks to the members of the committees for their service to the section and field!

Ok sociology, what do you think are genuine breakthroughs that our field has made. Contributions that might convince skeptical but sympathetic *academics* (not the public) of the value of our field? I'll brainstorm some of mine in the thread - I treat sociology very broadly