D N Pellow
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 19861 |
|---|---|
| NOME | D N Pellow |
| PRENOMES | D N |
| SOBRENOME | Pellow |
| ASSINATURA | PELLOW D N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9160-2880 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 69 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 498 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Uneven Ground
Background: Soil lead (Pb) contamination remains a persistent yet underestimated health concern, particularly in urban school gardens where young people learn and play. Although much attention has been given to lead in paint and water, far less is known about soil lead and disparities in pollution within school soils. Methods: This study analyzed soil lead concentrations in 31 Brooklyn, NY public schools with active garden programs. Garden and ad…
Pathways between people, wildlife and environmental justice in cities
Wildlife are increasingly recognized as critical to urban ecosystems, but the impacts and benefits of wildlife on people in cities are poorly understood. Environmental justice scholarship has concluded that elements of the urban environment can create or exacerbate social inequity, but human–wildlife interactions have not been considered through this lens. We conducted a literature review on urban wildlife, human–wildlife interactions and environ…
The socio‐ecological niche
Ecologists recognise that we live on an increasingly human‐dominated planet, yet most of the field's foundational concepts remain essentially biophysical, with little reference to human society. There are few better examples of this divide between ecological and social theory than the niche concept. During its century‐long history, the niche concept has been defined in many ways, including to describe the ecological roles of humans. To date, howe…
Epilogue
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Mutual Aid as a Praxis for Critical Environmental Justice
We build on the critical environmental justice (CEJ) framework by exploring mutual aid as a means of practising and realising transformative environmental justice that allows activists to build environmentally resilient and just communities beyond the state. We draw on the work of W.E.B. Du Bois, the Black Radical Tradition, and other critical approaches to demonstrate how mutual aid offers a meaningful point of conjunction for uniting ideologica…
Power & temporality in pursuing transformative planetary justice
Planetary justice discourse has emerged as a new approach for earth system governance which centers justice concerns within a particular temporal epoch, the so-called ‘Anthropocene.’ Here, we examine the distinctive features of the planetary justice framework, focusing specifically on the importance of the temporal dimensions relevant for understanding injustices beyond humans and at the planetary scale. We use two examples – PFAS and insurance –…
Critical environmental justice and the Wasteocene
This article aims to frame the state violence and socio-ecological injustice perpetrated against prisoners through the lens of both critical environmental justice studies and the concept of the Wasteocene. We seek to uncover the socio-ecological relationships that have historically shaped the enforcement of the prison and waste systems through a focus on the Italian context during the Covid-19 pandemic. We explore the case of a jail in Campania, …
Satellite Remote Sensing for Environmental Data Justice
In recent years, journalists and researchers have used mixed methods to characterize a pattern of prison landscapes being exposed to environmental hazards such as air pollution, proximity to hazardous facilities, and inadequate mitigation in extreme weather—a pattern frequently referred to as “prison ecology.” However, no studies have sought to characterize the perceptions of organizers across U.S. cities who work at the intersection of prison an…
Wild Urban Injustice
Background: People and wildlife can both be the subjects of environmental injustice. Although their experiences are clearly not the same, shared logics of oppression often impose harms through the environment on vulnerable and marginalized people and free-living nonhuman animals. Critical environmental justice provides a matrix for analyzing and addressing arrangements of power across categories of difference, whereas human ecology approaches off…
Envisioning Disabled and Just Futures
Climate change and numerous other environmental catastrophes, both swift and slowly unfolding, are mass disabling events for humans, nonhuman animals, and ecosystems. How can we develop a praxis of indispensability within our own communities as we face the impacts of climate change? We bring critical environmental justice into closer conversation with critical disability studies and disability justice by drawing on concepts such as eco-ability, e…
Evaluating equity and justice in low-carbon energy transitions
A low-carbon energy transition is essential for mitigating climate change, but can also cause energy justice and equity impacts on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), low-income, and other frontline communities. Examples include exacerbating energy burden, inaccessibility and unaffordability of low-carbon energy and electric end-use technologies, property value loss and displacement from renewable energy siting, and unequal health ben…
Urban Movements and Climate Change
Recent years have seen an explosion of protest movements around the world, and academic theories are racing to catch up with them.This series aims to further our understanding of the origins, dealings, decisions, and outcomes of social movements by fostering dialogue among many traditions of thought, across European nations and across continents.All theoretical perspectives are welcome.Books in the series typically combine theory with empirical r…
Multispecies Alliances Against the Wasteocene
In this article, we will not engage with the scientific Anthropocene, rather, we are interested in challenging what Jason Moore has called the popular Anthropocene, that is, a narrative about the present socio-ecological crisis and its causes. The Wasteocene is part of a wider critique of the Anthropocene narrative that stresses the need to look at inequalities and power relationships to understand the socioecological crisis. Those alternative co…
Confronting Institutional Violence in the Context of Climate Justice Politics
Over the last decade, I have been drawn toward the study of how climate change and other socioecological threats have intersected with the criminal legal system. In this essay, I consider how one case offers important challenges and possibilities for communicating dreams of radical environmental and climate justice in the context of the criminal legal system. Moreover, I reflect on my own direct involvement in these movements and struggles as an …
The Silicon Valley of Dreams
Next to the nuclear industry, the largest producer of contaminants in the air, land, and water is the electronics industry. Silicon Valley hosts the highest density of Superfund sites anywhere in the nation and leads the country in the number of temporary workers per capita and in workforce gender inequities. Silicon Valley offers a sobering illustration of environmental inequality and other problems that are increasingly linked to the globalizat…
Back to the future
For more than a century, wildlife conservation in the United States has been built on the notion that nonhuman animal populations are resources to be regulated by law and managed efficiently, according to the best available science and in the public trust. This approach, known as the North American Model of Wildlife Management, has come under increasing criticism for excluding diverse viewpoints that have the potential to advance both conservatio…
Collaborative Research and Action for Climate Justice in California
How can university scholars and community activists effectively collaborate to produce generative, empowering, and materially impactful knowledge and actions concerning climate change and climate justice? In this paper, we report on a collaborative effort between climate justice non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and university faculty and students to conduct research to produce innovative ideas and insights about just transitions in Californi…
Health and Environmental Justice Struggles in America's Prisons During a Global Pandemic
From Toxic Narratives to Narrative Justice
Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities - Volume 10, Number 1-2, Winter 2022/Spring 2023
Handbook of Environmental Sociology
Meeting at the crossroads
As global environmental changes continue to accelerate, research and practice in the field of conservation biology may be essential to help forestall precipitous declines in the earth’s ability to sustain a diversity of life. However, many conservation programs have faced scrutiny for the social injustices they create, especially within the paradigm of demarcating protected lands. Currently, a new conservation paradigm emphasizing landscapes shar…
Environmental Justice and the Challenge of Black Lives Matter
Critical environmental justice and the nature of the firm
Struggles for Environmental Justice in US Prisons and Jails
In this paper I ask how might environmental justice studies scholarship be recast if we consider the phenomenon of environmental injustice as a form of criminalisation? In other words, since environmental injustice is frequently a product of state‐sanctioned violence against communities of colour, then what are the implications of reframing it as a practice of treating those populations as criminally suspect and as deserving of state punishment? …
New directions in environmental justice studies
The field of environmental justice studies has blossomed into a multidisciplinary body of scholarship in the last few decades with contributions across the social sciences, humanities, law, and the sciences. Our framing of environmental justice scholarship centers on the necessity of examining the role of state and institutional violence in producing environmental injustice through interlocking systems of racial capitalism, settler colonialism, a…
Toward a Critical Environmental Justice Studies
In this paper I expand upon the recent use of the term "Critical Environmental Justice Studies." This concept is meant to capture new developments in Environmental Justice (EJ) Studies that question assumptions and gaps in earlier work in the field. Because this direction in scholarship is still in its formative stages, I take this opportunity to offer some guidance on what Critical Environmental Justice (CEJ) Studies might look like and what it …
Why equity is fundamental in climate change policy research
Environmental Inequality Formation
There are a number of conceptual, theoretical, and methodological issues in the literature on environmental justice and environmental inequalities in need of refinement. Using data from the recycling industry, the author proposes an environmental inequality formation (EIF) perspective to address these issues. The EIF perspective synthesizes three major points that are largely neglected in research on environmental inequalities: (a) the importance…
Environmental justice and rural studies
New directions in environmental justice studies
The field of environmental justice studies has blossomed into a multidisciplinary body of scholarship in the last few decades with contributions across the social sciences, humanities, law, and the sciences. Our framing of environmental justice scholarship centers on the necessity of examining the role of state and institutional violence in producing environmental injustice through interlocking systems of racial capitalism, settler colonialism, a…
Struggles for Environmental Justice in US Prisons and Jails
In this paper I ask how might environmental justice studies scholarship be recast if we consider the phenomenon of environmental injustice as a form of criminalisation? In other words, since environmental injustice is frequently a product of state‐sanctioned violence against communities of colour, then what are the implications of reframing it as a practice of treating those populations as criminally suspect and as deserving of state punishment? …
Racial Formation, Environmental Racism, and the Emergence of Silicon Valley
The environmental justice literature is characterized by a strange fact: the vast majority of research on this topic is about racial inequality, yet there is almost no mention of social scientific theories of race and racism. It is as if statistical correlations alone are enough to prove or disprove the existence of racism. While there are exceptions to this rule, the overwhelming majority of environmental justice studies make no mention of well-…
Environmental Justice and the Political Process
I explore two questions in this article: (1) How has the role of the U.S. state in the political process changed vis-à-vis corporations? (2) What tactical repertoires have movements devised to confront this changing political process? Through the lens of the U.S. environmental movement, I find that (1) the state's policy-making authority has weakened as corporations have become both policy makers and the new targets of challengers, (2) the enviro…
Political Prisoners and Environmental Justice
This paper considers the intersections of environmental justice concerns with the U.S. prison system through the experiences of political prisoners and politicized prisoners from high-profile revol
The Environmental Justice Movement
Critical environmental justice and the nature of the firm
Social inequalities and environmental conflict
This paper is organized around two points. The first concerns the literature on environmental justice (EJ) studies and its lack of incorporation of social scientific theories and concepts concerning racism. This is surprising, given EJ studies' strong interest in challenging a form of racism - environmental racism. This, in turn, allows for a critique of theories of racism for their lack of attention to the ways in which society-environment relat…
Negotiation and Confrontation
This is a study of activists who employ an environmental decision-making model whose aim is to move beyond traditionally adversarial natural resource conflicts toward "consensus." Activists are ostensibly allowed equal footing with industrialists and state actors in an innovative environmental policy model called consensus based decision making (CBDM). Environmentalists are choosing the CBDM strategy because it provides (1) a new definition of po…
Forum 4
Mobility can indicate a powerful or privileged relationship with one’s environment. The ability to exercise mobility or not (of oneself or others) is an exertion of power that demarcates where particular people belong and under what kind of environmental conditions. This essay focuses on the significance of borders in creating environmental privilege in the Anthropocene. Environmental privilege is accrued through the exercise of economic, politic…
Advanced industrial countries
(2000). Advanced industrial countries. Environmental Politics: Vol. 9, Ecological Modernisation Around the World Perspectives and Critical Debates, pp. 109-137
The Next American Revolution
Back to the future
For more than a century, wildlife conservation in the United States has been built on the notion that nonhuman animal populations are resources to be regulated by law and managed efficiently, according to the best available science and in the public trust. This approach, known as the North American Model of Wildlife Management, has come under increasing criticism for excluding diverse viewpoints that have the potential to advance both conservatio…
Collaborative Research and Action for Climate Justice in California
How can university scholars and community activists effectively collaborate to produce generative, empowering, and materially impactful knowledge and actions concerning climate change and climate justice? In this paper, we report on a collaborative effort between climate justice non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and university faculty and students to conduct research to produce innovative ideas and insights about just transitions in Californi…
Environmentalism of the Rich
Mutual Aid as a Praxis for Critical Environmental Justice
We build on the critical environmental justice (CEJ) framework by exploring mutual aid as a means of practising and realising transformative environmental justice that allows activists to build environmentally resilient and just communities beyond the state. We draw on the work of W.E.B. Du Bois, the Black Radical Tradition, and other critical approaches to demonstrate how mutual aid offers a meaningful point of conjunction for uniting ideologica…
Critical environmental justice and the Wasteocene
This article aims to frame the state violence and socio-ecological injustice perpetrated against prisoners through the lens of both critical environmental justice studies and the concept of the Wasteocene. We seek to uncover the socio-ecological relationships that have historically shaped the enforcement of the prison and waste systems through a focus on the Italian context during the Covid-19 pandemic. We explore the case of a jail in Campania, …
Multispecies Alliances Against the Wasteocene
In this article, we will not engage with the scientific Anthropocene, rather, we are interested in challenging what Jason Moore has called the popular Anthropocene, that is, a narrative about the present socio-ecological crisis and its causes. The Wasteocene is part of a wider critique of the Anthropocene narrative that stresses the need to look at inequalities and power relationships to understand the socioecological crisis. Those alternative co…
Popular Epidemiology and Environmental Movements
Power & temporality in pursuing transformative planetary justice
Planetary justice discourse has emerged as a new approach for earth system governance which centers justice concerns within a particular temporal epoch, the so-called ‘Anthropocene.’ Here, we examine the distinctive features of the planetary justice framework, focusing specifically on the importance of the temporal dimensions relevant for understanding injustices beyond humans and at the planetary scale. We use two examples – PFAS and insurance –…
Urban Movements and Climate Change
Recent years have seen an explosion of protest movements around the world, and academic theories are racing to catch up with them.This series aims to further our understanding of the origins, dealings, decisions, and outcomes of social movements by fostering dialogue among many traditions of thought, across European nations and across continents.All theoretical perspectives are welcome.Books in the series typically combine theory with empirical r…
Popular Epidemiology and Environmental Movements
Negotiation and Confrontation
This is a study of activists who employ an environmental decision-making model whose aim is to move beyond traditionally adversarial natural resource conflicts toward "consensus." Activists are ostensibly allowed equal footing with industrialists and state actors in an innovative environmental policy model called consensus based decision making (CBDM). Environmentalists are choosing the CBDM strategy because it provides (1) a new definition of po…
Advanced industrial countries
(2000). Advanced industrial countries. Environmental Politics: Vol. 9, Ecological Modernisation Around the World Perspectives and Critical Debates, pp. 109-137
Environmental Inequality Formation
There are a number of conceptual, theoretical, and methodological issues in the literature on environmental justice and environmental inequalities in need of refinement. Using data from the recycling industry, the author proposes an environmental inequality formation (EIF) perspective to address these issues. The EIF perspective synthesizes three major points that are largely neglected in research on environmental inequalities: (a) the importance…
Black Working Wives
Environmental Justice and the Political Process
I explore two questions in this article: (1) How has the role of the U.S. state in the political process changed vis-à-vis corporations? (2) What tactical repertoires have movements devised to confront this changing political process? Through the lens of the U.S. environmental movement, I find that (1) the state's policy-making authority has weakened as corporations have become both policy makers and the new targets of challengers, (2) the enviro…
The Environmental Justice Movement
Garbage Wars
A study of the struggle for environmental justice, focusing on conflicts over solid waste and pollution in Chicago.In Garbage Wars, the sociologist David Pellow describes the politics of garbage in Chicago. He shows how garbage affects residents in vulnerable communities and poses health risks to those who dispose of it. He follows the trash, the pollution, the hazards, and the people who encountered them in the period 1880-2000. What unfolds is …
Citizens, Experts, and the Environment
Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development
Polular Epidemiology and Environmental Movements
Garbage Wars
Handbook of Environmental Sociology
Environmental Sociology: An Introduction by Riley E. Dunlap, William Michelson, and Glenn Stalker Sociological Theory and the Natural Environment by Frederick H. Buttel and Craig R. Humphrey Theory and the Sociological Study of the Built Environment by William Michelson and Willem van Vliet-- Socio-Behavioral Qualities of the Built Environment by Sherry Ahrentzen Macro-Environments and People: Cities, Suburbs, and Metropolitan Areas by David Pope…
Interrogating the Treadmill of Production
This article is structured to answer a number of questions that have been raised over the years about the origin, structure, and application of the treadmill of production theory. The following questions are addressed: What was the theoretical structure of the treadmill of production? Why does the theory focus on production rather than consumption? Was the treadmill a dialectical or a linear change theory? How has the treadmill theory changed und…
Product Review
Racial Formation, Environmental Racism, and the Emergence of Silicon Valley
The environmental justice literature is characterized by a strange fact: the vast majority of research on this topic is about racial inequality, yet there is almost no mention of social scientific theories of race and racism. It is as if statistical correlations alone are enough to prove or disprove the existence of racism. While there are exceptions to this rule, the overwhelming majority of environmental justice studies make no mention of well-…
The treadmill of production and the environmental state
Environmental Justice
In this review, we provide an introduction to the topics of environmental justice and environmental inequality. We provide an overview of the dimensions of unequal exposures to environmental pollution (environmental inequality), followed by a discussion of the theoretical literature that seeks to explain the origins of this phenomenon. We also consider the impact of the environmental justice movement in the United States and the role that federal…
Social inequalities and environmental conflict
This paper is organized around two points. The first concerns the literature on environmental justice (EJ) studies and its lack of incorporation of social scientific theories and concepts concerning racism. This is surprising, given EJ studies' strong interest in challenging a form of racism - environmental racism. This, in turn, allows for a critique of theories of racism for their lack of attention to the ways in which society-environment relat…
Resisting Global Toxics
Examines the export of hazardous wastes to poor communities of color around the world and charts the global social movements that challenge them. Every year, nations and corporations in the “global North” produce millions of tons of toxic waste. Too often this hazardous material—inked to high rates of illness and death and widespread ecosystem damage—is exported to poor communities of color around the world. In Resisting Global Toxics, David Nagu…
Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists
Break Through
Environmental Justice
The article reviews two decades of scholars' claims that exposures to pollution and other environmental risks are unequally distributed by race and class, examines case studies of environmental justice social movements and the history and politics of environmental justice policy making in the United States, and describes the emerging issue of global climate justice. The authors engage the contentious literature on how to quantitatively measure an…
We Didn't Get the First 500 Years Right, So Let's Work on the Next 500 Years”
This article begins with a guiding framework for how we might think about environmental justice (EJ), from a sociological standpoint. The next section argues that, if we would like to move societies closer to a state of environmental justice, then future EJ research and activism might move in a much more transformative and radical direction. The need for this kind of analysis and action is illustrated in a discussion of the problem and promise of…
Reflections on Earth Day
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