Adam Fleischmann

Adam Fleischmann, PhD, is the Postdoctoral Fellow in Urban Sustainability at the University of Ottawa, part of the Sustainable Cities Initiative. His research and teaching practices bridge anthropological and related approaches to the study of global climate change, the environment, institutions, science and technology, knowledge, ethics and social movements.

His current research project, “Feeling Climate Change: Energy Ethics and Climate Affects in France”, is an ethnographic study of social mobilisations and non-governmental organizations working on the energy transition in French urban climate politics. It expands upon more than a decade of research, including his doctoral dissertation, which was nominated for the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies-ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award. His larger book project based on this work, "Possibility in an era of climate change: ethics, feelings and energy futures," examines how science and politics are brought together to meet the challenges and possibilities of climate change.

Adam is a member of the Executive Committee of the Climate Change Interest Group of the American Anthropological Association and an Affiliate Member of the Centre for Energy Ethics at the University of St Andrews. Before coming to Ottawa, he was Senior Research Associate at the University of Calgary School of Public Policy. He has an MA and PhD in anthropology from McGill University and a BA in Anthropology, French, Environmental & Indigenous Studies from The Evergreen State College.

In his free time, he likes to exercise, bike commute, listen to and play music and imagine better worlds through play and organizing.