Kari norgaard biography of barack
Selected lectures and presentations by Kari Marie Norgaard, sociologist of climate change & tribal environmental justice, & author of Living in Denial....
Norgaard is author of Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions and Everyday Life and other publications on gender, race, and the sociology of emotions.
Kari Norgaard
American sociologist
Kari Marie Norgaard is a Professor of sociology at the University of Oregon,[1] a post she has held since 2017. She is known for her research into Indigenous environmental justice, climate change denial and the politics of global warming.[2][3]
Indigenous environmental justice
Norgaard has worked with the Karuk tribe on many projects, including undamming the Klamath River.
Research into social denial
To investigate the lack of response in Western societies to the implications of global warming, Norgaard collected ethnographic data and took interviews in a rural community in west Norway during the winter of 2000–2001 when unusually warm conditions damaged the skiing industry and prevented ice fishing.
Both local and national media linked the problems to global warming, and while the public treated this as common knowledge, they failed to demand a political response or change their own fuel usage. She inve
