John Barry
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Is Reader in School, of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen’s University Belfast and Associate Director of the Institute for a Sustainable World. His main research interests are in the politics, economics and ethics of sustainability, green moral and political theory, green political economy, and the relationship between republicanism and green politics, especially in the context of Ireland. He is co-editor of two academic journals, Environmental Politics and Ecopolitics Online.
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He is the author of many academic papers and several books including Environment and Social Theory (2nd edn., Routledge, 2006) and The Global Ecological Crisis and the Nation-State (MIT Press, 2005). He has a forthcoming book with Oxford University Press, The Politics of Actually Existing Unsustainability: Human Flourishing in a Climate Changed, Carbon Constrained World, forthcoming in 2012. He is also working on a book for Pluto Press on The Political Economy of Unsustainability in Ireland.
John is interested in the relationship between moral/political theory and the environment, with particular focus on ecofeminism, and the implications of green theory for thinking about justice, and theories of political economy in relation to the environment. A subsidiary interest is in the relationship between science, technology and the environment - particularly views of risk and developments in biotechnology and other technological developments such as wind energy. More recently he has been working on the ethical aspects of reconciliation in Northern Ireland.
Between 2003 and 2009 John was co-leader of the Green Party in Northern Ireland and has stood for the party in local and regional elections. He is a founder member of Holywood Transition Town and is a member of Transition Ireland and Northern Ireland.
John is interested in the relationship between moral/political theory and the environment, with particular focus on ecofeminism, and the implications of green theory for thinking about justice, and theories of political economy in relation to the environment. A subsidiary interest is in the relationship between science, technology and the environment - particularly views of risk and developments in biotechnology and other technological developments such as wind energy. More recently he has been working on the ethical aspects of reconciliation in Northern Ireland.
Between 2003 and 2009 John was co-leader of the Green Party in Northern Ireland and has stood for the party in local and regional elections. He is a founder member of Holywood Transition Town and is a member of Transition Ireland and Northern Ireland.