Angeline Letourneau
Assistant Professor
Sociology
- Contact:
- Office: COR A373 letourneau@uvic.ca
- Credentials:
- BA (U of A), PhD (U of A)
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Environmental sociology, gender, community engagement
Dr. Letourneau's (she/they) research examines the critical role of identity in economic and environmental transitions, with a particular focus on climate change and the global energy transition. Her work is guided by an interest in the co-constitutive relationship between identity and dominant economic and environmental relations, and in how the establishment of dichotomies can limit our capacity to address pressing sustainability challenges. To date, her research has prioritized how gender — particularly masculinities — and Indigenous identities shape both resistance to and support for climate policy and sustainable development initiatives.
Using an interdisciplinary, mixed-methods approach, Dr. Letourneau connects personal and community identities with large-scale economic systems. Her scholarship is informed by professional experience across the public and private energy sectors, the mining industry, and public policy, allowing her to integrate knowledge from the natural and social sciences and bring a distinctive perspective to real-world governance and equity challenges.
Dr. Letourneau holds a Ph.D. in environmental sociology from the University of Alberta. She has a proven track record of acquiring research funding, with over $590,000 in research funding to date. Her training as a Teaching Fellow at the Peter Lougheed Leadership College informs her attention to purposeful intervention through sociological methods. Her work has been published in journals including Social Problems, Global Environmental Change, Environmental Sociology, and Environmental Politics.
Interests
- Political ecology
- Climate change
- Energy transition
- Gender relations
- Mixed methods
- Colonialism
- Reproductive labour
Publications
Letourneau, A. 2026. “They just don’t get it’: hegemonic masculinity, class mobility, and the just energy transition among fossil fuel workers.” Social Problems, in press
Letourneau, A. & M. Stoddart. 2026. “Towards a political ecology of temporalities: Indigenous pathways beyond settler time.” Global Environmental Change, 99 (103184). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378026000737
Davidson, D., A. Letourneau. C. Karsgaard, D. Ivanova. 2026. "The symptoms of climate denial: tracing the intersections of denial, right-wing extremism and masculinity," Climatic Change, 179 (126). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-026-04171-y
Davidson, D. & Letourneau, A. 2026. “The Social Impacts of Mining in Northern Canada: Contemporary manifestations of an enduring challenge,” Extractive Industries and Society, 26 (101848). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214790X25002370
Letourneau, A. 2025. “Instrumental bot identities and the politics of online discourse,” Social Media and Society, 11(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251378233
Debert, R. & A. Letourneau. 2025. “Canada’s mineral power: A review of economic, social, and environmental policies in the critical minerals sector,” Resource Policy, 107 (105660). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105660
Deberdt, R., A. Letourneau, & P. LeBillon. 2025. “Unleashing American Energy? Uncertainties in critical minerals developments under a new Trump administration,” Energy Research and Social Sciences, 126 (104169). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104169
Berseth, V., & A. Letourneau. 2025. “Climate change-conscious methodologies: Ethical Research in a Changing World,” WIREs: Climate Change, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.933
Letourneau, A., & L. Schmaus. 2025. “’Green means good’: challenging the ethical assumptions of the energy transition movement," Environmental Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2024.2427601
Letourneau, A., D. Davidson, C. Karsgaard, & D. Ivanova. 2023. “Proud fathers and fossil fuels: gendered identities and climate obstruction,” Environmental Politics. DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2023.2274271
Letourneau, A., & D. Davidson. 2022. “Farmer identities: facilitating stability and change in agricultural system transitions,” Environmental Sociology 8:4, 459-470.
Zentner, E., Kecinski, M., Letourneau, A. & Davidson, D. 2019. “Ignoring Indigenous peoples—climate change, oil development, and Indigenous rights clash in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge,” Climatic Change 155: 533-544.
Letourneau, A. & D. Davidson. 2024. “Defending status quo: the importance of addressing masculinity and climate change.” In S. Brechin & S. Lee (Eds.) Routledge Handbook on Climate Change and Society, 2nd Edition
Letourneau, A. 2023. “‘To preserve and promote’: gendering harm in green cultural criminology.” In P. Davies, J. Heydon, E. Milne, K. Peggs, & T. Wyatt (Eds.), Gendering Green Criminology (pp. 267-288). Bristol University Press
Letourneau, A. & D. Davidson. 2023. “Tracing Resistance: Hypermasculinity and Climate Change Denial in the Heart of Alberta’s Oil Country. In A.J. Fletcher & M.G. Reeds (Eds.), Gender and the Social Dimensions of Climate Change: Rural and Resource Contexts of the Global North, (pp. 89-108). Routledge Earthscan