
Professor Vivian Price
Last modified: September 23, 2025About
PhD
Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
Fulbright Scholar
Erasmus Scholar
Visiting Researcher, University of Helsinki
About the organisation(s) I've worked for
Organisation name:
California State UniversityAbout my experience and expertise
Personal statement:
I write and make films about labor, equity, climate. Please see the links for more info.
Key topic areas of research or interest:
Just transitions, labor and community climate justice, lithium lifecycle.
Collaboration opportunities:
Collaborations on the social dimensions of new technology in clean energy, especially media work.
Publications:
Cha, J. M., Stevis, D., Vachon, T. E., Price, V., & Brescia-Weiler, M. (2022). A Green New Deal for all: The centrality of a worker and community-led just transition in the US. Political Geography, 95, 102594
Cha, J. M., Price, V., Stevis, D., Vachon, T. E., & Brescia-Weiler, M. (2021). Workers and communities in transition: Report of the Just Transition Listening Project. Labor Network for Sustainability
Bell, K., Price, V., McLoughlin, K., & Kojola, E. (2024). The necessity of a transformational approach to just transition: defence worker views on decarbonisation, diversification and sustainability. Environmental Politics, 33(2), 281-301.
Price, V., Vachon, T. E., Stevis, D., & Cha, J. M. (2024). Negotiating just transitions: power and interest dynamics in insurgent sustainability coalitions. Environmental Politics, 1-20.
Jordhus-Lier, D., Price, V., & Houeland, C. (2024). Structuring a Conversation Across Time, Space and Political Distance. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1-16.
And many more–see google scholar
Other projects and networks:
Hammering It Out (Women make movies)
Harvest of Loneliness (Films and Media Group)
Transnational Tradeswomen (Women Make Movies)
Wage
HBS Univ of Leeds
Legitimacy2025 Univ Eastern Finland
Climate Industrial Research Team, Canadian Building Trades Unions