Jennifer Keahey
Work
Associate Professor of Sociology
School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University
ASU Faculty Affiliate with The Melikian Center and School of Social Transformation
ASU Sanford Sociology Faculty Affiliate
Education
PhD in Sociology, Colorado State University
MA in Development and Social Change, Clark University
BA in Anthropology and BA in French, University of Utah
My latest book rethinks development in three critical ways:
It disrupts a polarized political discourse by engaging the cases of post-Soviet Latvia and post-apartheid South Africa to unpack the similar impulses of command and capitalist economies;
It inserts a cultural voice into the discourse on sustainable development, showing how Indigenous knowledges and values have informed agrarian efforts to establish local food and fair trade networks.
It decolonizes thinking on social change by unpacking the current existential crisis in development, and by illustrating the importance of post-authoritarian contributions to global justice movements.
Books
This edited volume brings an international body of energy democracy scholars and practitioners into dialogue:
80 contributors dispense theoretical and empirical knowledge on energy democracy movements in countries around the world.
The volume provides thematic focus on energy democracy ideals, transitions, and risks, proving an invaluable asset to sustainable development research and practice.
What's New
"Authoritarianism and the Spirit of Poverty"
Keynote talk, given at the 10th Annual Sociology of Development Conference, hosted by Johns Hopkins University
