Professor
Department of Sociology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
mstoddart@mun.ca
Mark CJ Stoddart is Professor of Sociology at Memorial University, Canada, and is a member of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars. Prof. Stoddart works in the fields of environmental sociology, political sociology and social movements, and communications and culture. His research focuses on climate change, resource extraction, energy transitions, and sustainable tourism development. He has over 90 peer-reviewed publications, including the books Industrial Development and Eco-Tourisms: Can Oil Extraction and Nature Conservation Co-Exist? (Palgrave), Contested Consultations in the Extractive Industries: Rights, Processes, and Tensions (Routledge), and the forthcoming Understanding Environmental Sociology (Elgar).
- Haslam, Paul, Nathan Andrews, Karin Buhmann, Ibironke Odumosu-Ayanu, and Mark C. J. Stoddart, eds. 2025. Contested Consultations in the Extractive Industries: Rights, Processes, and Tensions. London: Routledge.
- Stoddart, Mark C. J., Yasmin Koop-Monteiro, and David B. Tindall. 2025. “Instagram as an Arena of Climate Change Communication and Mobilization: A Discourse Network Analysis of COP26.” Environmental Communication 19(2): 218–237.
- Stoddart, Mark C. J., David B. Tindall, Maria Brockhaus, and Marlene Kammerer. 2023. “Conference of the Parties Meetings as Regularly Scheduled Critical Events for Global Climate Governance: Reflecting on COP26 and the Glasgow Climate Pact.” Society & Natural Resources 36(4): 442–450.
- Stoddart, Mark C. J., and Yixi Yang. 2023. “What Are the Roles of Regional and Local Climate Governance Discourse and Actors? Mediated Climate Change Policy Networks in Atlantic Canada.” Review of Policy Research 40(6): 1144–1168.
- Tindall, David, Mark C. J. Stoddart, and Riley E. Dunlap, eds. 2022. Handbook of Anti-Environmentalism. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Stoddart, Mark C. J., Alice Mattoni, and John McLevey. 2020. Industrial Development and Eco-Tourism: Can Oil Extraction and Nature Conservation Co-Exist? Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
- Co-Investigator (PI: Nathan Andrews), Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement in Resource-Rich Communities: Comparative Cases from the Global South and High North (SSHRC Insight Grant).
- New Pathways for Meaningful Engagement: Lessons from Northern B.C.