Events & Outreach

Bradford Seminar: “The Problem of Climate Change and the Analogy of Development: Insights from the Auto Sector in Brazil and South Africa”

Benjamin Bradlow, Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, will present “The Problem of Climate Change and the Analogy of Development: Insights from the Auto Sector in Brazil and South Africa.” This seminar will be held in-person (PUID holders only) and available via livestream (open to all).

Bradlow is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University, jointly appointed in the School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Sociology. He is also a Visiting Researcher at the Southern Center for Inequality Studies at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar in the research program on “Humanity’s Urban Future.” Bradlow’s research investigates connections between climate change, urbanization, technological change, and the political challenges for democracy that confront societies across the globe. He is the author of Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg (Princeton University Press 2024). His current book project is The Climate Hinge: Green Industrial Transitions in the Global South.

This event is part of the David Bradford Energy and Environmental Policy Seminar Series organized by the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE) in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and co-sponsored by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI).