Fixing the Climate: Charles Sabel in Conversation with Filippo Barbera

Filippo Barbera; Charles F. Sabel

doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/16916

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Filippo Barbera Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3103-0531

Filippo Barbera is Professor of Economic Sociology at the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society of the University of Turin and Fellow of the Collegio Carlo Alberto (Italy). His recent publications include: The Foundational Economy and Citizenship (2021, Policy Press, ed. with I.R. Jones) and "The Daily-life and Moral Economy", in M. Zafirovski (Ed.), The Routledge International Handbook of Economic Sociology (2023, Routledge, pp. 343--357).
Charles F. Sabel Columbia Law School, Columbia University

Charles F. Sabel is Professor of Law and Social Science at Columbia Law School (USA). Previously, he was Ford International Professor of Social Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). Sabel is a leading figure in political economy and social theory. He studied the crisis of mass production and its implications (The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for Prosperity, 1984, with M.J. Piore). His more recent work focuses on democratic experimentalism (e.g., Learning from Difference: The New Architecture of Experimentalist Governance in the EU, 2008, with J. Zeitlin). His current projects focus on global problems such as trade and climate change.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/16916

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climate change, experimentalist governance, collective learning, policy failure, Montreal Protocol

Abstract

In this interview with Filippo Barbera, Charles F. Sabel discusses his latest book, Fixing the Climate (Princeton University Press, 2022, with D.G. Victor), that dramatically reorients our thinking about the climate crisis. It provides a road map to institutional design oriented around concrete problem-solving that can finally lead to self-sustaining reductions in emissions that years of global diplomacy have failed to deliver. The discussion touches upon a number of key issues of general interest for social scientists: global governance; decisions under uncertainty and risk; pragmatic solutions to wicked problems; technological solutions and innovation.

References

Latour, B. (2018). Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (C. Porter, Trans.). Cambridge: Polity. (Original work published 2017)

Sabel, C.F., & Victor, D.G. (2022). Fixing the Climate: Strategies for an Uncertain World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

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