Description:
In Climate Hegemony, Parsons brings us a human's-eye view of the climate crisis, drawing on two decades' research in Cambodia to argue for a new perspective on how we understand the climate impasse.
Brief description: Dr Laurie Parsons is a Reader in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. His work explores the nexus of climate change and the global economy, showing how the dynamics of global production shape the unequal impact of climate and environmental change. For the last 17 years, his work has focused on the rapid environmental, economic and social changes underway in Asia, and in particular on Cambodia, where has lived for over 5 years in the last two decades, as a student, consultant and academic. During this time, he has won multiple awards for his work. In 2020, Blood Bricks was awarded the Times Higher Education Prize for Research Project of the Year, whilst in 2024, the book Carbon Colonialism: How Rich Countries Export Climate Breakdown was named AAP PROSE Economics book of the year and a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2024. His other books include Climate Change in the Global Workplace (Routledge, 2021); and Going Nowhere Fast: Inequality in the Age of Translocality (OUP, 2020).