Dr Troy Vettese

Discretionary Award 2022

Workshop on Neoliberal Environmental Thought

With Isabel Oakes

How do neoliberals understand and address the environmental crisis? What are their proposals for managing climate change, mass extinction, deforestation, new zoonoses, overfishing and myriad related problems, while preserving the market order?

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Biography

Troy is a Ciriacy-Wantrup post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He obtained his PhD from New York University and Masters' degrees from NYU, St Andrews, and Oxford, and has held research fellowships at the University of Copenhagen, the European University Institute, and Harvard University. Together with Drew Pendergrass, Troy co-authored the manifesto Half-Earth Socialism (Verso, 2022), which has been discussed in Jewish Currents, New Statesman, le Monde, and the Ecologist, as well as being translated into Swedish, Italian, Thai, Korean, and Spanish. He also helped design a video game based on the book. He is currently writing a monograph on neoliberal environmental thought and editing a volume on Marxist animal studies. Troy's popular writing has appeared in n+1, the Guardian, Jacobin, Boston Review, and Bookforum.

Biographical details correct as of 27.02.25

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