Fantastic new article by @yunhanwen.bsky.social that reconceptualizes Chinese urban development as what she calls "party-state urbanism" in IJURR.

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Brilliant analysis of the Strait of Hormuz effects, by Adam Hanieh. Energy shapes so much of what is possible in politics, economics, and social life writ large.

Tragedy of the horizon on steroids: the green transition and credit ratings How do financial markets influence the green transition? Advocates of harnessing markets to foster the green transition claimed that market rationality is a reliable mechanism to channel investment...

Publication alert! 🔔

My new article in @ripejournal.bsky.social shows that the way in which credit ratings assess climate risks is detrimental to chances of the green transition.

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DEWKJ...

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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

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The Hormuz Crisis and the Fate of the Global South Laura Carvalho sees an opportunity to accelerate the transition to more resilient energy sources and economic models.

The Hormuz Crisis and the Fate of the Global South by @laurabdecarvalho.bsky.social @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/6HPXBuZ

No matter what Scott Bessent and Bjorn Lomborg have to say, the logic of getting out of the US' yoke of fossil fuels is plainly evident to the rest of the world.

An Iran War Winner: China’s Green Industrial Complex Beijing’s push to sell its solar and wind power to the world has gained momentum from troubles in the Middle East.

"The Chinese ambassador to the country, Hua Xin, was quick to make the energy-security argument.

“The sun cannot be blocked,” he said on social media."

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It's a "shock" that the US and Israeli war on Iran will deepen. A structural cascade of markets --> social coalitions --> institutions --> geopolitics.

I would be very interested to understand why Orban conceded so quickly while Bolsonaro and Trump didn't at all.

Partly it has to do with the margin of victory by their opponents, but I'm not necessarily convinced that is a sufficient explanation.

Found it strange that ppl push back on my argument that sales of electric vehicles are going to accelerate now with Iran War, coz LINE GO UP for a decade now

Turns out almost no one knows this fact: Sales of internal combustion engine cars peaked way back in 2018!
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Thanks so much to Luciana de Souza Leão for her thoughtful review of URBAN POWER in the @bjsociology.bsky.social!

Which has not happened in quite some time...

Very much looking forward to reading this book, which just arrived today.

do you know the signatories?

thanks!

Definitely the ghost I will be chasing through the halls there ;)

thank you!

thank you!

I am extremely excited that in the 2026-2027 academic year, I will be a Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, where I will be writing my next book, "The Climate Hinge: Green Industrial Transitions in the Global South"!

Stellantis in Talks to Make Chinese EVs at Idled Canadian Plant Stellantis NV is discussing options for building electric vehicles in Canada with its Chinese partner, Zhejiang Leapmotor Technology Co., according to people familiar with the matter, a sign of how qu...

You cannot build a manufacturing base in the 21st century without electrification technologies. Canada's pivot in its auto sector reflects this dynamic. Perhaps the US will be the last to learn this lesson.

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On Thursday, Florida's Board of Governors removed sociology from the general education curriculum of every university in the state. Chancellor Ray Rodrigues attacked the @asanews.bsky.social as illegitimate.

On behalf of sociologists everywhere, I respond to them in today's @miamiherald.com:

The urban future depends on who the city includes Benjamin Bradlow argues that the fate of democratic cities is shaped not only by elections or resources, but by whether local governments have the power and political ties needed to extend housing, sa

@danbanik.bsky.social speaks with @bhbradlow.bsky.social, author of Urban Power, on the latest episode of the @globaldevpod.bsky.social podcast. Tune in here: buff.ly/Lo9nYpC

The Iran War is Revealing the Messy Middle of Our Renewable Energy Transition

"The Spanish energy transition is far from complete, but the country has already bought back the right to speak its conscience."

— @dwallacewells.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/m...

A global political economy told through the auto sector:

Fordism : Keynesianism

Just-In-Time / Toyotaism : Neoliberalism

Electrified Vertical Integration / BYD-ism : ???

Trump does his best to talk down the price throughout the week and then uses the weekends to do things that would otherwise drive it back up. So probably another dip tomorrow ;)

Thinking of buying some oil futures...

Most interested to see if BYD sees this as a manufacturing opportunity or if it remains all about imports.

Brazil has a secret weapon against oil shocks Brazil's sophisticated biofuels industry, built over half a century, helps shield the country from oil price shocks caused by Middle East conflicts.

"1st, they bolster the sovereignty of a country which, despite being one of the world’s largest exporters of crude oil, still imports 10% of its petrol and 25% of its diesel. 2nd, biofuels let Brazil curb its greenhouse-gas emissions without alienating its farmers."
www.economist.com/the-americas...

Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence - Shay O’Brien, 2026 How do some families manage to entrench themselves in the upper class for many generations while others do not? Bringing together economic sociology, political ...

My latest article is online now at American Sociological Review: “Kinship Interlocks.” It’s about how some elite families manage to stay rich and powerful for many generations while others don’t. 🧵 (1/16)

Some countries to be pretty worried amidst the Iran war economic shock: Cote d’Ivoire, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Ghana, Honduras, Jordan, Kenya, Mongolia, Paraguay, Rwanda and Uzbekistan.

High near-term debt costs coupled with new debt becoming more expensive