Dana R Fisher

I submitted the final Saving Ourselves manuscript to Columbia University Press last week!

The book builds on the argument presented in my paper “AnthroShift in a Warming World,” which was published in Climate Action in summer 2022, to understand what it will take to get to sufficient climate action that will keep us within the framework codified by the Paris Agreement. Saving Ourselves integrates various data on climate policymaking that I’ve collected over the past 25 years with data that I collected specifically for this project through open-ended semi-structured interviews, observations, and surveys with climate activists to understand what is coming and how it will help us save ourselves.

This figure (from Chapter 3 of the book) introduces the different forms that activism take how they work together to affect social change.

As the book moves through the production process, I will share how it comes together for its release in early 2024.