Publications by Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences faculty and staff

 

Recent Submissions

  • Affect 

    Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew; Szeman, Imre; Wenzel, Jennifer; Yaeger, Patricia; Fordham University Press (2015)

  • Disaster Movies and the ‘Peak Oil’ Movement: Does Popular Culture Encourage Eco-Apocalyptic Beliefs in the United States? 

    Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew; Equinox (2013-09-30)
    Using two large-scale surveys, I argue that the prevalence of apocalyptic popular culture influences apocalyptic beliefs in the United States. I focus especially on Hollywood disaster movies of the 1990s and 2000s, most of which deal with environmental themes, and participants in the ‘peak oil’ movement, a quasi-religious American apocalyptic social ...

  • From politics to prophecy: environmental quiescence and the ‘peak-oil’ movement 

    Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew; Taylor and Francis (2013-09-30)
    Adherents of the ‘peak-oil’ theory believe that resource depletion will cause an imminent social collapse that will lead to a simpler and more environmentally balanced world. Although American ‘peakists’ are extremely concerned with environmental issues, their awareness of the scale of ecological crises (such as climate change), gloomy evaluation of ...