Bindu Panikkar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1601984 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bindu Panikkar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bindu |
| FAMILY NAME | Panikkar |
| SIGNATURE | PANIKKAR B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vermont |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1864-0570 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Socializing with contaminated wastelands
Contaminated landscapes are incommensurable and have complex histories. If not visibly obscured by redevelopment, remediation, or even by ecological growth and rewilding, these landscapes often serve as a reminder of past industrial legacies that have since left the land. Beyond what is immediately visible, contaminated spaces can be places of refuge, recreation, and even care and kinship. The Pine Street Barge Canal (PSBC) site, a 38-acre superf…
What does environmental justice look like in Vermont? Centering perspectives from the margins
Until 2022, Vermont was one of the few US states that did not have an Environmental Justice (EJ) policy. In 2016, the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) initiated a process to create an EJ policy based on an agreement with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A coalition of academics, non-profit organization leaders, legal experts, and community-based partners formed in response to the DEC’s initial approach because i…
Food justice in Vermont’s environmentally vulnerable communities
Vermont Environmental Disparity Index and Risks
Mapping tools that characterize environmental inequities and health disparities have shown to be an effective approach to facilitate environmental decision making at the state level. We developed the Vermont Environmental Disparity Index (VTEDI) to measure the cumulative impacts of environmental risk, social vulnerability, and health risk in the Vermont communities. In addition to exploring regions with high cumulative impacts, we conducted a Bay…
Precarious Essential Work, Immigrant Dairy Farmworkers, and Occupational Health Experiences in Vermont
Migrant dairy workers in Vermont face a wide range of occupational and health hazards at work. This research examines the environmental risks, occupational health hazards, and health outcomes experienced by migrant dairy farm workers in Vermont. This research draws on a triangulation of sources including analysis of data-surveys and interviews with migrant dairy farmworkers gathered by the organization Migrant Justice since 2015 as well as releva…
Litigation Is Our Last Resort”
The permitting of large-scale industrial mines is often controversial and litigious. This article examines three legal battles over the exploratory permitting of the Pebble mine in southwestern Alaska to examine the logics and rationalities used to legitimize the permitting, the alternate epistemic arguments made by the resistance movements to redraw state-constructed boundaries, and differing definitions of land-based resources, pollution, and b…
Contested extractivism
For large extractive mineral projects, Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) processes function in part as a procedural tool to adjudicate the legitimacy of divergent environmental truth claims. Successful anti-extraction movements work to litigate divergent knowledge claims in the public arena, but few anti-extraction communities have access to a broad public audience. This article examines the proposed Donlin Gold mine in southwestern Alaska, a …
Land as material, knowledge and relationships
This article examines the social, historical and political constitution of land and resource imaginaries in Bristol Bay, Alaska. We compare the dynamics of these different imaginaries in the region within the early permitting debates concerning the proposed Pebble Mine to understand the contemporary politics of defining and constructing ideologies of extractive resource use. We show that the civic epistemologies and ontologies embedded in differe…
Occupational Health Outcomes Among Self-Identified Immigrant Workers Living and Working in Somerville, Massachusetts 2006–2009
Land as material, knowledge and relationships
This article examines the social, historical and political constitution of land and resource imaginaries in Bristol Bay, Alaska. We compare the dynamics of these different imaginaries in the region within the early permitting debates concerning the proposed Pebble Mine to understand the contemporary politics of defining and constructing ideologies of extractive resource use. We show that the civic epistemologies and ontologies embedded in differe…
Occupational Health Outcomes Among Self-Identified Immigrant Workers Living and Working in Somerville, Massachusetts 2006–2009
Land as material, knowledge and relationships
This article examines the social, historical and political constitution of land and resource imaginaries in Bristol Bay, Alaska. We compare the dynamics of these different imaginaries in the region within the early permitting debates concerning the proposed Pebble Mine to understand the contemporary politics of defining and constructing ideologies of extractive resource use. We show that the civic epistemologies and ontologies embedded in differe…
Litigation Is Our Last Resort”
The permitting of large-scale industrial mines is often controversial and litigious. This article examines three legal battles over the exploratory permitting of the Pebble mine in southwestern Alaska to examine the logics and rationalities used to legitimize the permitting, the alternate epistemic arguments made by the resistance movements to redraw state-constructed boundaries, and differing definitions of land-based resources, pollution, and b…
Contested extractivism
For large extractive mineral projects, Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) processes function in part as a procedural tool to adjudicate the legitimacy of divergent environmental truth claims. Successful anti-extraction movements work to litigate divergent knowledge claims in the public arena, but few anti-extraction communities have access to a broad public audience. This article examines the proposed Donlin Gold mine in southwestern Alaska, a …
Precarious Essential Work, Immigrant Dairy Farmworkers, and Occupational Health Experiences in Vermont
Migrant dairy workers in Vermont face a wide range of occupational and health hazards at work. This research examines the environmental risks, occupational health hazards, and health outcomes experienced by migrant dairy farm workers in Vermont. This research draws on a triangulation of sources including analysis of data-surveys and interviews with migrant dairy farmworkers gathered by the organization Migrant Justice since 2015 as well as releva…
Vermont Environmental Disparity Index and Risks
Mapping tools that characterize environmental inequities and health disparities have shown to be an effective approach to facilitate environmental decision making at the state level. We developed the Vermont Environmental Disparity Index (VTEDI) to measure the cumulative impacts of environmental risk, social vulnerability, and health risk in the Vermont communities. In addition to exploring regions with high cumulative impacts, we conducted a Bay…
What does environmental justice look like in Vermont? Centering perspectives from the margins
Until 2022, Vermont was one of the few US states that did not have an Environmental Justice (EJ) policy. In 2016, the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) initiated a process to create an EJ policy based on an agreement with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A coalition of academics, non-profit organization leaders, legal experts, and community-based partners formed in response to the DEC’s initial approach because i…
Food justice in Vermont’s environmentally vulnerable communities
Socializing with contaminated wastelands
Contaminated landscapes are incommensurable and have complex histories. If not visibly obscured by redevelopment, remediation, or even by ecological growth and rewilding, these landscapes often serve as a reminder of past industrial legacies that have since left the land. Beyond what is immediately visible, contaminated spaces can be places of refuge, recreation, and even care and kinship. The Pine Street Barge Canal (PSBC) site, a 38-acre superf…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Environmental justice (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Economics (3 works)