Matthew Paterson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on the political economy of global environmental change. In addition to a book developing a general theoretical approach out of these interests, he has developed them in relation to global climate change and the politics of the automobile. His publications include Global Warming and Global Politics (Routledge 1996), Understanding Global Environmental Politics: Domination, Accumulation, Resistance, (Palgrave 2000), Automobile Politics: Ecology and Cultural Political Economy (Cambridge University Press 2007), and most recently Climate Capitalism: global warming and the transformation of the global economy (with Peter Newell, Cambridge University Press 2010). He has recently acted as a Lead Author by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, working on the chapter on international cooperation for the 5th assessment report. His current research project, funded by the SSHRC, is entitled ‘Cultural Politics of Climate Change’, and explores the contested politics of how shifts to a low carbon society produce novel forms of subjectivity and challenge established ones.

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