Claudine Scoville
Biographic Data
| ID | 153122 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudine Scoville |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudine |
| FAMILY NAME | Scoville |
| SIGNATURE | SCOVILLE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2797-0018 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From maps to models: Participation and contestability in the dynamic management of natural resources
How does stakeholder participation in natural resource management change when conservation rules are grounded in near real‐time data? Recent technological advances have increased the feasibility of the ‘dynamic management’ of natural resources, which promises to align the spatiotemporal scales of management with ecological variability and resource use. Drawing on Kelty's (2020) concept of ‘contributory autonomy’, this article offers a critical co…
How to divide people with things: Division entrepreneurs, wedges, and the Delta Smelt controversy
Eco-Types: Five Ways of Caring about the Environment
So You’ve Provincialized the Canon. Now What
Sociologists are engaging in a long-overdue reckoning about the place of the traditional canon in social theory courses and pedagogy. Instructors are revising their syllabi to include a more diverse set of authors while “provincializing” classics that have long been taught as universal. We confront the question of how to teach contested canonical works after an instructor has committed to this work. We argue that progressive reforms to theory syl…
Climate Silence in Sociology? How Elite American Sociology, Environmental Sociology, and Science and Technology Studies Treat Climate Change
Climate change is among the most pressing problems of our time, yet it remains a marginal topic in sociology. This study draws on citation network analysis, qualitative coding, and computational text analysis of articles published between 2015 and 2020 in select journals in U.S. elite sociology, environmental sociology, and science and technology studies (STS) to better understand differences and similarities in how these (sub)fields approach-or …
Mask Refusal Backlash: The Politicization of Face Masks in the American Public Sphere during the Early Stages of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This research shows how face masks took on discursive political significance during the early stages of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in the United States. The authors argue that political divisions over masks cannot be understood by looking to partisan differences in mask-wearing behaviors alone. Instead, they show how the mask became a political symbol enrolled into patterns of affective polarization. This study relies on qualitative an…
Constructing Environmental Compliance: Law, Science, and Endangered Species Conservation in California's Delta
This study extends theories of the construction of legal compliance by conceptualizing scientists as compliance professionals in relation to environmental law. The author argues that visions of nature immanent in scientific and legal fields can serve as the basis for various environmental compliance relations. The approach is developed via a historical and ethnographic case study of the delta smelt, a controversial and intensely studied endangere…
The means and ends of nature
Promoting equity in the use of algorithms for high-seas conservation
Algorithmic conservation in a changing climate
Groundwater in California: From Juridical and Biopolitical Governmentality to a Political Physics of Vital Processes
This article analyzes the emergence of a political rationality of groundwater in contemporary California. It contrasts a new government of nature that we call a 'political physics of vital processes', operative in the case of the Orange County Water District, with juridical and biopolitical rationalities of groundwater governance. To do so, we propose a genealogical account grounded in a reading of a key concept in Aristotle's first book of Polit…
Hydraulic society and a 'stupid little fish: Toward a Historical Ontology of Endangerment
We Need Social Scientists!” The Allure and Assumptions of Economistic Optimization in Applied Environmental Science
Keywords: environmental scienceeconomic optimizationvaluationscientific reasoningCalifornia waterfisheries
George Orwell and ecological citizenship: Moral Agency and Modern Estrangement
Theories of ecological citizenship seek to conceptualize political agency while taking into account humanity’s embeddedness in nature. This essay intervenes with contributions from an author distant from discourses about environmental politics, but with insights to offer them. George Orwell’s writings respond to a problem continuously articulated in the history of ecological thought: the estrangement from the conditions of one’s existence. In doi…
Grants
Mask Refusal Backlash: The Politicization of Face Masks in the American Public Sphere during the Early Stages of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This research shows how face masks took on discursive political significance during the early stages of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in the United States. The authors argue that political divisions over masks cannot be understood by looking to partisan differences in mask-wearing behaviors alone. Instead, they show how the mask became a political symbol enrolled into patterns of affective polarization. This study relies on qualitative an…
Hydraulic society and a 'stupid little fish: Toward a Historical Ontology of Endangerment
Constructing Environmental Compliance: Law, Science, and Endangered Species Conservation in California's Delta
This study extends theories of the construction of legal compliance by conceptualizing scientists as compliance professionals in relation to environmental law. The author argues that visions of nature immanent in scientific and legal fields can serve as the basis for various environmental compliance relations. The approach is developed via a historical and ethnographic case study of the delta smelt, a controversial and intensely studied endangere…
How to divide people with things: Division entrepreneurs, wedges, and the Delta Smelt controversy
Climate Silence in Sociology? How Elite American Sociology, Environmental Sociology, and Science and Technology Studies Treat Climate Change
Climate change is among the most pressing problems of our time, yet it remains a marginal topic in sociology. This study draws on citation network analysis, qualitative coding, and computational text analysis of articles published between 2015 and 2020 in select journals in U.S. elite sociology, environmental sociology, and science and technology studies (STS) to better understand differences and similarities in how these (sub)fields approach-or …
George Orwell and ecological citizenship: Moral Agency and Modern Estrangement
Theories of ecological citizenship seek to conceptualize political agency while taking into account humanity’s embeddedness in nature. This essay intervenes with contributions from an author distant from discourses about environmental politics, but with insights to offer them. George Orwell’s writings respond to a problem continuously articulated in the history of ecological thought: the estrangement from the conditions of one’s existence. In doi…
So You’ve Provincialized the Canon. Now What
Sociologists are engaging in a long-overdue reckoning about the place of the traditional canon in social theory courses and pedagogy. Instructors are revising their syllabi to include a more diverse set of authors while “provincializing” classics that have long been taught as universal. We confront the question of how to teach contested canonical works after an instructor has committed to this work. We argue that progressive reforms to theory syl…
Algorithmic conservation in a changing climate
Groundwater in California: From Juridical and Biopolitical Governmentality to a Political Physics of Vital Processes
This article analyzes the emergence of a political rationality of groundwater in contemporary California. It contrasts a new government of nature that we call a 'political physics of vital processes', operative in the case of the Orange County Water District, with juridical and biopolitical rationalities of groundwater governance. To do so, we propose a genealogical account grounded in a reading of a key concept in Aristotle's first book of Polit…
Grants
George Orwell and ecological citizenship: Moral Agency and Modern Estrangement
Theories of ecological citizenship seek to conceptualize political agency while taking into account humanity’s embeddedness in nature. This essay intervenes with contributions from an author distant from discourses about environmental politics, but with insights to offer them. George Orwell’s writings respond to a problem continuously articulated in the history of ecological thought: the estrangement from the conditions of one’s existence. In doi…
We Need Social Scientists!” The Allure and Assumptions of Economistic Optimization in Applied Environmental Science
Keywords: environmental scienceeconomic optimizationvaluationscientific reasoningCalifornia waterfisheries
Groundwater in California: From Juridical and Biopolitical Governmentality to a Political Physics of Vital Processes
This article analyzes the emergence of a political rationality of groundwater in contemporary California. It contrasts a new government of nature that we call a 'political physics of vital processes', operative in the case of the Orange County Water District, with juridical and biopolitical rationalities of groundwater governance. To do so, we propose a genealogical account grounded in a reading of a key concept in Aristotle's first book of Polit…
Hydraulic society and a 'stupid little fish: Toward a Historical Ontology of Endangerment
Promoting equity in the use of algorithms for high-seas conservation
Algorithmic conservation in a changing climate
Mask Refusal Backlash: The Politicization of Face Masks in the American Public Sphere during the Early Stages of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This research shows how face masks took on discursive political significance during the early stages of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in the United States. The authors argue that political divisions over masks cannot be understood by looking to partisan differences in mask-wearing behaviors alone. Instead, they show how the mask became a political symbol enrolled into patterns of affective polarization. This study relies on qualitative an…
Constructing Environmental Compliance: Law, Science, and Endangered Species Conservation in California's Delta
This study extends theories of the construction of legal compliance by conceptualizing scientists as compliance professionals in relation to environmental law. The author argues that visions of nature immanent in scientific and legal fields can serve as the basis for various environmental compliance relations. The approach is developed via a historical and ethnographic case study of the delta smelt, a controversial and intensely studied endangere…
The means and ends of nature
So You’ve Provincialized the Canon. Now What
Sociologists are engaging in a long-overdue reckoning about the place of the traditional canon in social theory courses and pedagogy. Instructors are revising their syllabi to include a more diverse set of authors while “provincializing” classics that have long been taught as universal. We confront the question of how to teach contested canonical works after an instructor has committed to this work. We argue that progressive reforms to theory syl…
Climate Silence in Sociology? How Elite American Sociology, Environmental Sociology, and Science and Technology Studies Treat Climate Change
Climate change is among the most pressing problems of our time, yet it remains a marginal topic in sociology. This study draws on citation network analysis, qualitative coding, and computational text analysis of articles published between 2015 and 2020 in select journals in U.S. elite sociology, environmental sociology, and science and technology studies (STS) to better understand differences and similarities in how these (sub)fields approach-or …
How to divide people with things: Division entrepreneurs, wedges, and the Delta Smelt controversy
Eco-Types: Five Ways of Caring about the Environment
From maps to models: Participation and contestability in the dynamic management of natural resources
How does stakeholder participation in natural resource management change when conservation rules are grounded in near real‐time data? Recent technological advances have increased the feasibility of the ‘dynamic management’ of natural resources, which promises to align the spatiotemporal scales of management with ecological variability and resource use. Drawing on Kelty's (2020) concept of ‘contributory autonomy’, this article offers a critical co…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Law (4 works)