Carl Pierer

My research focuses on the question of how ecological crises, such as climate change and biodiversity loss, challenge our understanding of politics. In my PhD, I am exploring the ways in which the political in the Anthropocene can be reconfigured through the concept of labour. To this end, I am working on an environmental history of political thought around the problem of labour. Relatedly, Marxist feminist critiques of (productive) labour and efforts to valorise undervalued and hidden (reproductive) labour are of particular interest to me.

I hold an MA in Philosophy from the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris – PSL and a MA (Hons) in Mathematics from the University of Edinburgh.

Key publications: 

• Carl Pierer and Felix Creutzig, 2019: Star-shaped cities alleviate trade-off between climate change mitigation and adaptation, Environ. Res. Lett. 14 085011
• Carl Pierer, 2024: "The Nature of Property: Locke and Labor in the Anthropocene", Environmental Ethics:  https://doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics202422069