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Kate Pride Brown
Assistant Professor
Member Of:
- School of History and Sociology
Email Address:
k.p.brown@gatech.eduOffice Location:
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Overview
Kate Pride Brown is a sociologist whose research focuses upon power relationships and their impact on the natural world. She received her doctorate from Vanderbilt University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment. Among other honors, she has received a Fulbright Fellowship, a grant from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, and a Critical Language Scholarship from the U.S. Department of State. Her recent book, Saving the Sacred Sea: The Power of Civil Society in an Age of Authoritarianism and Globalization (Oxford University Press, 2018), examines the conflict between local and transnational environmentalists, multinational corporations, and the Russian government over the future of Lake Baikal, the largest, deepest and oldest freshwater lake on Earth. Her research has appeared in Energy Research and Social Science, Environmental Politics, Environmental Sociology, Memory Studies, Nature and Culture, Research in Political Sociology, Social Movement Studies, Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy and Water Policy. Currently, she is examining financialization and the impact this change is having upon post-carbon energy development projects.
Education:
- PhD in Sociology, Vanderbilt University
- MA in Sociology, Vanderbilt University
- BA in Liberal Arts, Sarah Lawrence College
Interests
Research Fields:
- Agriculture, Health, and the Environment
- Energy, Climate and Environmental Policy
- U.S. Society and Politics/Policy Perspectives
Geographic
Focuses:
Focuses:
- Europe
- United States
Issues:
- Energy
- Environment
- Globalization and Localization
- Governance
- History and Memory
- Modernity
- Politics
- Social Movements
- Sustainability
Courses
- HTS-3055: Globalization Modern Era
- HTS-3102: Social Theory&Structure
- HTS-6001: Proseminar-Social Theory
- SOC-1101: Intro to Sociology
Selected Publications
Books
- Saving the Sacred Sea: The Power of Civil Society in an Age of Authoritarianism and Globalization
Date: 2018
Journal Articles
- Rumor Has It: Strategies for Ethnographic Analysis in Authoritarian Regimes
In: Ethnography [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2020
- Multilevel Governance and Minimum Flow: The Varying Conservation Outcomes of Water Conflict Resolution
In: Research in Political Sociology: Environment Politics and Society [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2018
- Green tea: clean-energy conservatism as a countermovement
In: Environmental Sociology [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2017
- In the pocket: energy regulation, industry capture, and campaign spending
In: Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2017
- Water, Water Everywhere (or, Seeing Is Believing): The Visibility of Water Supply and the Public Will for Conservation
In: Nature and Culture [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2017
- Pathways to policy: Partisanship and bipartisanship in renewable energy legislation
In: Environmental Politics [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2016
- The prospectus of activism: discerning and delimiting imagined possibility
In: Social Movement Studies [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2016
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
- Rumor Has It: Strategies for Ethnographic Analysis in Authoritarian Regimes
In: Ethnography [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2020