Description: Daniel Aldana Cohen is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is Director of the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2, and serves as a member of the Graduate Group of the Designated Emphasis in Political Economy. He is also Founding Co-Director of the Climate and Community Project. He is a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar (2021-23).…
Daniel Aldana Cohen is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is Director of the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2 , and and serves as a member of the Graduate Group of the Designated Emphasis in Political Economy . He is also Founding Co-Director of the Climate and Community Project . He is a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar (2021-23). In 2018-19, he was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He is the co-author of
Cohen works on the intersections of the climate emergency, housing, political economy, social movements, and inequalities of race and class in the United States and Brazil. As Director of (SC)2, he is leading qualitative and quantitative research projects on Whole Community Climate Mapping, green political economy, and eco-apartheid. He was also co-founder and co-PI of the Superstorm Research Lab , in New York City.
Cohen’s research and writing have appeared in Nature; Environmental Politics; Public Culture ; The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research ; City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action; NACLA Report on the Americas; The Century Foundation ; The Guardian ; Time ; The Nation ; Jacobin ; Dissent ; and elsewhere. He is the co-editor of a special issue of the NACLA Report on the Americas , A Green New Deal for the Americas: Mobilizing for Climate Justice from Above and Below . He i