Associate Professor Andy Scerri from the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech is a Fulbright Scholar with research interests in environmental political theory and policy. Some of his research looks at the tensions that have emerged between labor movements and environmental movements, and what those tensions mean for democracy.
In this conversation, Andy shares some of his earlier experiences working in the building and construction industry and following music on his travels before going on to academic studies.
Andy’s forthcoming book has the working title Democracy Without Illusions, and he is author of Postpolitics and the Limits of Nature: Critical Theory, Moral Authority, and Radicalism in the Anthropocene (2019) and Greening Citizenship: Sustainable Development, the State and Ideology (2012).
Andy’s interest in music is ongoing and he can be heard on radio station WUVT as DJ Andy.
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