Meghan Elizabeth Kallman, participant in the UCSIA Summer School 2017, recently published the book The Conceivable Future: Planning Families and Taking Action in the Age of Climate Change (2024) together with Josephine Ferorelli. The volume was published by Rowman & Littlefield.
The book explores how climate change shapes deeply personal decisions about whether and when to have children. Bringing together personal narratives and broader social analysis, the authors examine how concerns about the climate crisis influence family planning and how private anxieties can evolve into collective engagement and social action. In doing so, the book connects intimate life choices to pressing ethical and political questions about responsibility, hope, and the future in an era of ecological uncertainty.
Meghan Elizabeth Kallman is an environmental activist, senator in Rhode Island, and Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director at the School for Global Inclusion and Social Development and Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her work focuses on social movements, democracy, and civic engagement.
With The Conceivable Future, she makes a timely and important contribution to contemporary debates on climate change, ethics, and social transformation.
The UCSIA Summer School warmly congratulates Meghan on this publication.