Scholars
Lukas Slothuus
University of Sussex
Based in
United Kingdom
Europe
Lukas Slothuus is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Sussex working on climate politics. His work centres on the politics of fossil fuels, specifically the politics of fossil fuel production phaseouts, climate leadership, and the global political economy of fossil fuels. He is furthermore interested in, and has published on, the politics of social transformation, the role of intellectuals and leaders in social change, and the role of hope and faith for social movements.
Country(ies) of Specialty
Denmark Norway SwedenFocus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics History Fossil fuels Social movementsHow to Connect
Publications
Articles
Slothuus, Lukas. ‘Facing a Fossil Free Future through the Past: The Importance of History for Understanding Fossil Fuel Phaseouts’. Energy Research & Social Science, vol. 121, Mar. 2025, p. 103971. ScienceDirect, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.103971.
———. ‘Who Should Phase Out Fossil Fuels First? A Geopolitical Approach to Determining the Sequencing of Fossil Fuel Phaseouts’. Geopolitics, June 2025, pp. 1–24, https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2025.2517785.
———. ‘Climate Social Movements and the Politics of Leadership’. Epistemic Resistance, Radical Politics, Positionality: How Social Movements Inform Philosophy, edited by Yorgos Karagiannopoulos et al., De Gruyter, 2025, pp. 169–86, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111193748.
———. ‘Petrol for the People’. The Break–Down, no. 1, 2025, pp. 104–14, https://www.break-down.org/petrol-for-the-people/
———. ‘Political Fatalism and the (Im)possibility of Social Transformation’. Contemporary Political Theory, Mar. 2024. Springer Link, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-024-00685-1.