Department of Global Development Studies
Queen's University
Mark Vardy
Term Adjunct, Global Development Studies
PhD (Sociology) Queen's
email: mark.vardy@queensu.ca
phone: 33301
fax: 613 533 2986
Global Development Studies Mac-Corry D419
Office hours Mondays 1-3pm or by appointment
Research and Teaching Interests:
Climate change; Arctic issues; environmental sociology; history, philosophy and sociology of science; social and political theory
Courses:
DEVS 496: Climate Change and Global DevelopmentSOCY 425: Environmental Sociology: Climate Change
Publications:
2012. “How Social is the Environment?” Pp. 282-292 In Questioning Sociology: Canadian Perspectives. Edited by Myra J. Hird and George Pavlich. Oxford University Press. Co-authored with Lisa Cockburn.
2011. “The Science and Politics of Polar Ice.” Pp. 348-352 In Reading Sociology: Canadian Perspectives. Edited by Lorne Tepperman and Angela Kalyta. Oxford University Press.
2009. “Metaphysical Closure and the Political Articulation of Climate Change.” TOPIA: The Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies.21:29-40.
2007. “Religion, Science, and Origins: On the Metaphysics of Intelligent Design and Darwinian Evolutionism.”Illumine: The Journal of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society Graduate Student Association. 6(1):7-15. Co-authored with Daniel Lett.