Environmental Politics award a prize of £250 for the best paper published in each volume. The winning paper and runners up for the most recent award will be free to access for the year.
Volume 32 (2023) winner: John Hultgren, ‘Anti-environmentalism and the natural ‘wages of whiteness”.
Congratulations from the entire editorial team! In making this decision, the judges agreed that:
this is a ‘highly original and innovative’ article based on a critical reading of the history of white working class politics in the USA that shows how race, gender and environmental concerns intersect to produce and reproduce an articulation of power and society that both undercuts possibilities for cross-racial working class alliances and efforts to produce pro-environmental policy. ‘It offers up really useful analytical and methodological tools for understanding the Trump era and its deep historical roots as well as its likely impacts on our collective multi-species futures.’
2023 runners up:
- Suvi Alt, ‘Environmental apocalypse and space: the lost dimension of the end of the world‘.
- Kathryn McConnell, ‘The Green New Deal’ as partisan cue: Evidence from a survey experiment in the rural U.S‘.
2023 shortlisted articles:
- Sam Rowan, ‘Extreme weather and climate policy‘.
- Anna G. Sveinsdóttir & McKenzie F. Johnson, ‘Doubling down on DAPL: the contentious politics of pipeline governance in Illinois‘.
All of these articles will be free access for the next year. Congratulations from us go to the whole shortlist.
