Eco-Types offers insight into polarisation over environmental issues
In it, I demonstrate that when liberals feel they have a moral monopoly on environmental issues, polarization results. If we are serious about protecting the planet, we must acknowledge that we don’t all need to care about the environment in the same way.
Recent Publications
Books & Special Issues:
Kennedy, Emily Huddart. 2022. Eco-Types: Five Ways of Caring about the Environment. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Kennedy, Emily H. and Josée Johnston. 2019. Civic Responses to Environmental Issues: How Culture Matters. Sociological Perspectives, 62(5).
Recent Articles (2018-2022):
Baumann, Shyon, Emily Huddart Kennedy, and Josée Johnston. 2022. Moral and aesthetic consecration and higher status consumers’ tastes: The “good” food revolution. Poetics 101654.
Horne, Christine, and Emily Huddart Kennedy. 2022. Understanding the rebound: normative evaluations of energy use in the United States. Environmental Sociology 8(1): 64-72.
Kennedy, Emily Huddart, and *Parker Muzzerall. 2021. Morality, Emotions, and the Ideal Environmentalist: Toward A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Political Polarization. American Behavioral Scientist: 00027642211056258.
Horne, Christine, Emily Huddart Kennedy, and *Thomas Familia. 2021. Rooftop solar in the United States: Exploring trust, utility perceptions, and adoption among California homeowners. Energy Research & Social Science 82: 102308.
Kennedy, Emily H. and Christine Horne. 2020. Accidental environmentalist or ethical elite? The moral dimensions of environmental impact. Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts. Published online.
Kennedy, Emily H. and Josée Johnston. 2019. If you love the environment, why don’t you do something to save it? Bringing culture into environmental analysis. Sociological Perspectives 62(5): 593-602.
Kennedy, Emily H. and Jennifer Givens. 2019. From powerlessness to eco-habitus: Reconsidering environmental concern as class and identity performance. Sociological Perspectives. 62(5): 646-672.
Kennedy, Emily H., Baumann, Shyon, and Josée Johnston. 2019. Eating for taste and eating for change: Ethical consumption as a high-status practice. Social Forces 98(1): 381-402.
Kennedy, Emily H. and Christine Horne. 2019. Do green behaviors earn social status? Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. 5: pp.1-9. Published online.
Horne, Christine and Emily H. Kennedy. 2018. Explaining support for renewable energy: Commitments to self-sufficiency and communion. Environmental Politics. 28(5):929-949.
*Shortlisted for Environmental Politics’ Best Article of the Year award.
Kennedy, Emily H. and Julie A. Kmec. 2018. Is there an “ideal feeder”? How healthy and eco-friendly consumption choices impact judgments of parents. Agriculture and Human Values. 36(1):137-151.
Kennedy, Emily H., Josée Johnston and John R. Parkins. 2018. Small-p politics: How pleasurable, convivial, and pragmatic political ideals influence engagement in eat-local initiatives. British Journal of Sociology. 69(3): 670-690.
Kennedy, Emily H. and Julie A. Kmec. 2018. Is environmentalism bad for women? Reinterpreting the gender gap in household pro-environmental behaviour. Environmental Sociology, 4(3): 299-310.
Kennedy, Emily H., John R. Parkins, and Josée Johnston. 2018. Food activists, consumer strategies, and the democratic imagination: Insights from eat-local movements. Journal of Consumer Culture 18(1): 149-168.
Kennedy, Emily H. and Amanda D. Boyd. 2018. Gendered citizenship and the individualization of environmental responsibility: Evaluating a campus common reading program. Environmental Education Research. 24(2): 191-206.
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