Andreas Folkers

Andreas Folkers

sociology | social theory | sts

News

 

October 2024

This month my Distinguished  Fellowship at the Max-Weber Centre in Erfurt starts. Until July 2025 I will finish my book project on Fossil Modernity and get to discuss with my wonderful colleagues at the MWK.

November 2023

Very happy to receive this year’s JLU Price awarding the best project of an early career researcher of the Justus-Liebig University Gießen for my „Fossil Modernity“ Project! 

September 2022

Until June 2023 I will be Member at the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Thrilled and honored to be there.

 

Current projects

Fossil Modernity: A Natural History of the Present
I’m currently working on my second book that analyses the rise, fall and afterlife of the cataclysmic ligature of modernity and fossil materialities like coal, oil, and gas.

→ Fossil Modernity

Stranded Assets: Making and Managing Climate Risks in Finance
This research project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) looks at the “pipelines” between fossil and financial capital and analyses attempts to govern financial risks associated with decarbonization.

→ Stranded Assets