Education

M.A. Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, 2022

Thesis: Thirty Years On: Planetary Climate Planning and the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the UNFCCC

B.A. Geography (Individualized), New York University, 2020

Research

Political geography; comparative climate planning; climate governance; the climate of history; ecologically unequal exchange; climate justice

Selected Publications

Weinger, B.K. 2023. Thirty years on: Planetary climate planning and the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee. Global Environmental Change 80: 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102669.

Weinger, B.K. 2021. Scripting climate futures: The geographical assumptions of climate planning. Political Geography 88: 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102409.

Weinger, B.K. 2021. The COVID-climate moment: Approximating planetary crisis in Palestine/Israel. Antipode. https://antipodeonline.org/2021/02/05/the-covid-climate-moment-in-palestine-israel/.

Arefin, M.R., & B.K. Weinger. 2020. Infrastructural occupations: Waste and electricity in Palestine. Cultural Geographies 28(3): 569-572. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474020978487.

Grants & Awards

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2020-2025)

UCLA Department of Geography Helin/Korpela Research Travel Grant (2022, 2023)

UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies Dissertation Research Fellowship (2023)

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (2021, 2022)

Advisors

John Agnew (chair)

Stephanie Pincetl

Kelly Kay

Shaina Potts