Casey A. Williams is a Lecturer in the Center for Environmental Studies at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. He holds a PhD in Literature from Duke University with a specialization in critical theory. His research examines the social and cultural dimensions of climate change and energy transition, especially the aesthetic and political logics of “climate impasse” and “just transition.” His writing on climate, energy and labor has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Radical Philosophy, Nature: Climate Change, Climate and Development, Jacobin, Dissent, In These Times, The Bare Life Review, and elsewhere.
Selected Writing
Climate Struggle, Radical Philosophy
South Africa’s Energy Workers and the Green New Deal, Jacobin
Fossil Fuels’ Future in the South, Energy Humanities
Politicizing Climate, The Bare Life Review
Marxism and Climate Change, Polygraph
This Changes Everything, Again: A Review of Naomi Klein’s On Fire, The Los Angeles Review of Books
Why Declaring a Climate State of Emergency Would Be a Disaster, The Outline
What Happens When the Alt-Right Believes in Climate Change? Jewish Currents
Has Trump Stolen Philosophy’s Critical Tools? The New York Times