Martin Savransky

Dr Martin Savransky is Reader in Social and Environmental Thought.

He is a social theorist, sociologist, and philosopher with a focus on planetary instability, climate change, and socioenvironmental transformations.

His transdisciplinary work draws inspiration from philosophy, the environmental humanities, global social theory, postcolonial and decolonial studies, and the enviornmental social sciences, to develops transformative theoretical frameworks and analyses to understand our planetary condition. 

His work explores how global histories of modernity have come to shape the nature of social and planetary challenges, and how peoples (human and more) exposed to climate vulnerabilities craft lives tenacious and pluriversal futures amidst environmental instability.     

He is the author of Around the Day in Eighty Worlds: Politics of the Pluriverse (Duke University Press, 2021) and The Adventure of Relevance: An Ethics of Social Inquiry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, with a foreword by Isabelle Stengers). He is co-editor of After Progress (Sage, 2022) and Speculative Research: The Lure of Possible Futures (Routledge, 2017). He has co-curated the After Progress Digital Exhibition in Collaborative Storytelling, and has published essays and special issues in world-leading journals, including Theory, Culture & Society; The Sociological Review; Sub-Stance:A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism; Social Text; Dialogues in Human Geography: and Culture, Theory & Critique, among others.

Dr Savransky has been at the forefront of developing transformative approaches the social and cultural study of climate change in the UK. 

He has developed innovative transdisciplinary programmes in this area, and continues to lead and contribute to teaching in climate change, global social theory, and environmental justice.

Dr Savransky welcomes expressions of interest from prospective doctoral students in any of his areas of interest, including (but not limited to):

Climate change and socioenvironmental transformations; Critical Anthropocene studies; Postcolonial and decolonial approaches to social and environmental justice; Social life after progress; Pluriversal Politics; Transformative adaptation; Theory from the South