Jennifer Keahey

Associate Professor of Sociology

School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University

ASU Faculty Affiliate with The Melikian Center and School of Social Transformation
ASU Sanford Sociology Faculty Affiliate

PhD, Sociology, Colorado State University

MA, Development and Social Change, Clark University

BA, French, University of Utah

BA, Anthropology, University of Utah

"Authoritarianism and the Spirit of Poverty"

Keynote talk, given at the 10th Annual Sociology of Development Conference, hosted by Johns Hopkins University
Published brief in Sociological Insights for Development Policy.

"The Political Economy of Energy"

Forthcoming chapter in The Palgrave Handbook of the Geopolitics of Energy Cooperation, edited by J. Simões, F. Leandro, and E. Caetano de Sousa, London.
2025 PEWS Panel Presentation, given at the 120th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago.

My latest book rethinks development in three critical ways:

It disrupts a polarized political discourse by engaging the cases of post-Soviet Latvia and post-apartheid South Africa to unpack the similar impulses of command and capitalist economies;
It inserts a cultural voice into the discourse on sustainable development, showing how Indigenous knowledges and values have informed agrarian efforts to establish local food and fair trade networks.
It decolonizes thinking on social change by unpacking the current existential crisis in development, and by illustrating the importance of post-authoritarian contributions to global justice movements.

This edited volume brings an international body of energy democracy scholars and practitioners into dialogue:

80 contributors dispense theoretical and empirical knowledge on energy democracy movements in countries around the world.
The volume provides thematic focus on energy democracy ideals, transitions, and risks, proving an invaluable asset to sustainable development research and practice.

"Sustainable Development: Social Forces and Critical Perspectives"

Edited volume, in collaboration with co-editor Enrique Pumar and 14 other chapter contributors
With support from the Johns Hopkins Center on Global Poverty