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About Andrew Dobson

Andrew Dobson is professor of politics at Keele University. Among his books are Citizenship and the Environment (Oxford University Press, 2003); (as co-editor) Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge (Cambridge University Press, 2006); and Green Political Thought (Routledge, 4th edition, 2007). His website is here

Articles by Andrew Dobson

Friday 17th September

The fiction of climate change

Andrew Dobson, 17 September 2010
What is a climate-change novel, and what makes a good one? Andrew Dobson takes time from his day job as professor of politics to read the existing literature and emerge with suggestions about how to do it better.
Tuesday 17th August

Ecocentrism: a response to Paul Kingsnorth

Andrew Dobson, 17 August 2010
Paul Kingsnorth’s journey from a degraded environmentalism to nature-centred ways of living and thinking has many echoes for Andrew Dobson, but also clarifies a difference of outlook.
Tuesday 20th April

James Lovelock: greenery vs democracy

Andrew Dobson, 20 April 2010
Does the pioneer of “gaia” have a point: could democracy be an obstacle to planetary safety?
Thursday 17th December

Copenhagen: climate countdown

Sue Branford, Ian Christie, Andrew Dobson, John Elkington, Øyvind Paasche, and Oliver Tickell, 17 December 2009
The United Nations climate-change summit is a vital moment in the world’s effort to avert catastrophe. openDemocracy authors reflect on what needs to happen and how much Copenhagen can achieve.
Wednesday 16th September

10:10 and the politics of climate change

Andrew Dobson, 16 September 2009
A new climate-change project lacks the political focus that the scale of the problem now demands
Sunday 26th October

A politics of crisis: low-energy cosmopolitanism

David Hayes and Andrew Dobson, 26 October 2008
The financial breakdown is opening new fissures in the world's political crust
Tuesday 1st April

Climate change and the public sphere

Andrew Dobson, 1 April 2008
How refreshing the public realm can unlock climate-change solutions
Tuesday 18th December

Was Bali a success?

Alun Anderson, Saleemul Huq, Oliver Tickell, David Steven, Camilla Toulmin, and Andrew Dobson, 18 December 2007
The first draft of history on the climate-change deal
Wednesday 19th September

A climate of crisis: towards the eco-state

Andrew Dobson, 19 September 2007

The state protects banks. Can it mend the planet too?

Wednesday 28th March

A politics of global warming: the social-science resource

Andrew Dobson, 28 March 2007
What kind of politics does climate change need? New understandings of the real drivers of human social behaviour can help provide an answer, says Andrew Dobson
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