John Hannigan

John Hannigan is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Scarborough, Canada. His research focuses on environmental issues, the geopolitics of oceans and urban political economy. He is the author of three previous editions of Environmental Sociology (Routledge, 1995, 2006 and 2014), Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern City (Routledge, 1998), Disasters Without Borders: The International Politics of Natural Disasters (2012), The Geopolitics of Deep Oceans (2015), and...See more

John Hannigan is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Scarborough, Canada. His research focuses on environmental issues, the geopolitics of oceans and urban political economy. He is the author of three previous editions of Environmental Sociology (Routledge, 1995, 2006 and 2014), Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern City (Routledge, 1998), Disasters Without Borders: The International Politics of Natural Disasters (2012), The Geopolitics of Deep Oceans (2015), and Rise of the Spectacular: America in the 1950s (Routledge, 2021). He is also co-editor (with Greg Richard) of The SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies (2017). See less