{"id":3282,"date":"2023-09-29T13:53:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T17:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/?page_id=3282"},"modified":"2023-10-08T16:04:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T20:04:40","slug":"oct-5-sociology-on-fire-north-american-wildland-fires-past-present-and-future","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/oct-5-sociology-on-fire-north-american-wildland-fires-past-present-and-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Oct 5: Sociology on Fire: North American Wildland Fires, Past, Present and Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mark Hudson <\/span><\/a>is a professor in the Sociology and Criminology department at the University of Manitoba, where he also coordinates the Global Political Economy program. He has published books, journals and articles in the field of environmental sociology, be sure to check out our resource list to see his works!<\/span><\/p>\n

The wildland fires of 2023 have blown the roof off the record books in Canada. Is this what we can expect from now on? How did we build such combustible landscapes? The new fire regimes we are seeing emerge so \u201csuddenly\u201d are at least a century in the making. Fossil fuels and the associated climate change are a part of the story, but so are other aspects of capitalist settler colonialism that have profoundly changed the way that sparks interact with fuels. Avoiding a future of catastrophic fire means radically reducing \u201cfossil fire,\u201d but also radically increasing the intentional application of fire to the landscape.<\/span><\/p>\n

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