Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brown University. Racial politics + Climate politics.
Providence, RI
Joined May 2018
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How is class resentment used in climate politics? This article from @LoredanaLoy and @RachelWetts finds conservative media link climate initiatives to elite practices doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spag0…
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New paper alert! I identify members of “the climate establishment”: “insider INGOs working within the multilateral process and with large corporations to influence rulemaking, soft law and firm behavior.”
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link.springer.com/article/10…
My new article, “Money and Meaning in the Climate Change Debate,” is now out in AJS!
The paper asks how the economic power of interest groups + the cultural appeal of their messages shape which voices get heard in the US climate change debate.
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
And h/t to the many other folks who influenced this research in one way or another: @RBrulle @maxboykoff @Fisher_DanaR @leahstokes @JoshuaBasseches @JeffDColgan @MaibachEd @ecotone2 @HoffmanAndy @redunlap1 @calebscoville @chrisreaborn @rauscher_emily
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🚨New WP!🚨
"Antiracism and its Discontents: The Prevalence and Political Influence of Opposition to Antiracism among White Americans" w/ @RobbWiller
We find opposition to antiracism is a widespread ideology profoundly shaping US racial politics 🧵
osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/xv…
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Our research on white Americans’ opposition to antiracism was covered yesterday in the @NYT by @Edsall. See also this thread summarizing our results.
nytimes.com/2023/07/19/opini…
Rachel Wetts retweeted
Our research on opposition to antiracism covered in the New York Times today! Congrats, @RobbWiller and @RachelWetts ! nytimes.com/2023/07/19/opini…
Rachel Wetts retweeted
Asst IBES & @BrownSociology Prof @RachelWetts co-authored a new study, finding that response skepticism (questioning policies that address climate change) is common in right-wing news channels and present in some mainstream coverage. Read more in @Nature: nature.com/articles/s43247-0…
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Watch for ‘whataboutism’!
Climate discourses in mainstream TV coverage nature.com/articles/s43247-0… by @JamesPainter61 @RachelWetts et al
"...we find that skepticism about the science of climate change is still prevalent in channels that we have classified as ‘right-wing’..."