Dr. Karena Shaw

Credentials

PhD

Biography

Kara Shaw is the Academic Director of the Transformative Climate Action Certificate. She is also  Professor in the School of Environmental Studies, Academic Director of the UVic Sustainability Scholars Program, and a member of the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems.

Her current research and teaching focus on the social and political dynamics of responses to climate change, with a particular focus on how energy transitions can support communities that are more just, diverse, and resilient.

Past research had engaged with feminist theory and practice, international relations, indigenous politics, and environmental politics, always with a focus on understanding how social movements are transforming political possibility. Book-length publications include, A Political Space: Reading the Global Through Clayoquot Sound and Indigeneity and Political Theory: Sovereignty and the Limits of the Political.