New Visiting Fellow: Tracey Skillington

Dr. Tracey Skillington is a lecturer and Director of the BA Sociology in the School of Society, Politics and Ethics, University College Cork, Ireland. She is author of Climate Justice & Human Rights (Palgrave, 2017); Climate Change & Intergenerational Justice (Routledge, 2019) and forthcoming A Critical Theory of Climate Trauma (Routledge). She has also published articles in many peer reviewed journals and guest edited special issue journal volumes in, for instance, the European Journal of Social Theory, Sociology, the International Journal of Human Rights, the Irish Journal of Sociology, Sociology, Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, and Sustainable Development. Currently, she leads UCC as a partner in the EU Horizon 2020-funded project JUSTNORTH.

During her time as a Visiting Fellowin Uppsala, Tracy Skillington will participate in two Uppsala Forum events: A Guest Lecture on September 3 entitled Climate Change, Trauma and the Question of Justice: A Heated Exchange, as well as a seminar on September 7 on the theme of Critical Theory, Planetary Multiplicity and Cosmopolitan Justice.