 | This biographical article is written like a résumé. (July 2017) |
Dana R. Fisher is an American sociologist, professor of sociology, public speaker, and author. She is the director of the Center for Environment, Community, and Equity and a professor in the School of International Service at American University. Her areas of research and expertise are activism, democracy, the climate crisis, and environmental policy.
Her most recent book is Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action (2024). She is also author of American Resistance: from the Women’s March to the Blue Wave (2019) and Activism Inc.: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns Is Strangling Progressive Politics in America (2006).
She is a self-described climate apocalyptic optimist[1] and co-developed (with Andrew Jorgenson) the framework of AnthroShift to explain how social actors are reconfigured in the aftermath of widespread perceptions and experiences of risk.[2]
- ^ Apocalyptic Optimism Could Be the Antidote for Climate Fatalism, (Time Magazine)
- ^ Fisher, Dana R.; Jorgenson, Andrew K. (2019). "Ending the Stalemate: Toward a Theory of Anthro-Shift". Sociological Theory. 37 (4): 342–362. doi:10.1177/0735275119888247.