Brian F O’neill

Biographic Data

ID214412
NAMEBrian F O’neill
GIVEN NAMESBrian F
FAMILY NAMEO’neill
SIGNATUREO’NEILL B F
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
ORCID0000-0002-9809-9939
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS32
TOTAL CITATIONS69
AUTHOR COUNT32
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1971
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Ecstatically gemmy

    Open AccessBrian F O’neill, Sébastien RouxARTICLEEmotion, space and society2026

  • Thank you in advance for not changing my retirement home’s intrinsic beauty

    Open AccessMatthew Jerome Schneider, Brian F O’neillARTICLECoastal Studies & Society2025Cited by: 2

    The development of new wind energy infrastructure is widely supported in the United States. Yet, the siting of wind farms is often contentious. This research problematises how local stakeholders frame their opposition to offshore wind projects at a time when the swift adoption of renewable energies is generally seen as a necessity for environmental, social and economic reasons. Through qualitative content analysis of eighty-nine public comments p…

  • Constructing Comparability

    Open AccessJustin Holmes, Brian F O’neillARTICLEScience Technology & Human Values2025References: 84

    Regarding technology, "modularity" typically refers to an apparatus' interchangeability, reproducibility, or transposability, i.e., "plug and play" applications. However, critical scholars contend that modularity is laborious and aspirational, not to be taken for granted. Where promoters of modularity often focus on material dimensions of technology, this article intervenes in these debates by revealing the necessary practical and discursive work…

  • Zine as drafting board

    Open AccessAnne-Lise Boyer, Brian F O’neillARTICLECultural Geographies2025Cited by: 2

    This contribution examines the zine as a drafting board - a creative space for experimentation and interdisciplinary collaboration at the crossroads of science and photography. While presenting research in alternative formats is not a novel concept, we advocate for expanding conversations around the methods, rationale, and value of zine-making within academic and public discourse. Using our project, Heat Diary: Visualizing the Geography of Heat -…

  • Matthew Gandy

    Brian F O’neillARTICLENew Global Studies2024

  • Toward a Critical Environmental Justice Approach to Ocean Equity

    Open AccessBrian F O’neill, Matthew Jerome Schneider et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Justice2024

    Recent oceans sustainability, coastal community development, and ocean governance policy discourse among academics and practitioners increasingly invokes “equity” and “ocean equity.” But, to what end? While this new focus may be a positive development for these fields, this article argues that the conceptualization of equitable approaches to oceanic production and consumption remains rooted in market-liberal environmentalist as well as unproblema…

  • Electronic Monitoring Policy at Sea Beyond “Human Bycatch”

    Open AccessBrian F O’neill, Nicole KaiserARTICLEEnvironmental Justice2024

    This policy brief draws attention to emerging environmental justice concerns in distant water fisheries, especially areas beyond national jurisdiction, and with regard to interlocking concerns at the nexus of human rights and technology. Although there has been tremendous interest recently in electronic monitoring (EM) applications (e.g., video systems) for fisheries to solve social problems (so-called “human bycatch” implications), no coherent p…

  • The Ritual of Homebuying in Desert Cities

    Open AccessBrian F O’neill, Eliza Benites-GambirazioARTICLESociology Lens2024References: 6

    The process of home‐buying is commonly discussed and understood in terms of both asset acquisition and its connection to speculative financial practices utilized to attempt to correct for structural market crises. These dimensions further the possibilities for potential wealth accumulation that assist individuals, families, and corporate actors. This visual essay, emerging out of a decade‐long investigation of the housing market in the American s…

  • Toxic tours and coastal contestation

    Open AccessBrian F O’neillARTICLEVisual Communication2024References: 13

    Based on visual ethnographic research conducted in a California city from 2019 to 2022, this photo essay elaborates the politics of coastal desalination, the industrial practice of producing drinking water from saline sources. The images provoke a dialogue about how photography can be used, not only as an ethnographic passport, but also in a broader sense of encountering spaces, processes and organizations, thus assisting in unpacking various lay…

  • Progress in understanding the social dimensions of desalination and future research directions

    Open AccessBrian F O’neill, Joe WilliamsARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2024Cited by: 1References: 5

  • Madeleine Fairbairn. Fields of Gold

    Brian F O’neillARTICLENew Global Studies2023

  • Documentary photography as vocation

    Brian F O’neillARTICLEVisual Studies2023

    This article explores the works of the late anthropologist Frank Cancian, specifically considering Another Place (1974), Orange County Housecleaners (2006), and Lacedonia – An Italian Town, 1957 (2016). Re-reading his works together reveals Another Place as a point of departure that concretised Cancian’s vision of documentary photography as a vocation. In particular, the article explores the implications of an exchange with none other than John C…

  • Sélection thématique de livres

    Open AccessCharlotte Demonsant, Armand Hatchuel et al.ARTICLENatures Sciences Sociétés2023

    trois catgories : les ouvrages thmatiques par objet d'tude ; les ouvrages sur la science et ses rapports avec la socit ; les ouvrages de rflexion sur les sciences.Pour une description plus dtaille, cliquez sur le titre

  • Reading Reisewitz’s Altamira

    Brian F O’neillARTICLEVisual Studies2023References: 10

  • Water for whom? Desalination and the cooptation of the environmental justice frame in Southern California

    Open AccessBrian F O’neillARTICLEEnvironment and Planning E Nature…2023Cited by: 5References: 82

    The environmental justice frame is a key feature of successful grassroots mobilization against the uneven distribution of environmental problems. However, what happens when this discursive framework is questioned, that is, when features of its established definition are made to serve, rather than contest, industry? The article examines this dynamic through an ethnography of a high-volume desalination (potable ocean water) proposal. Findings indic…

  • Desalination as a New Frontier of Environmental Justice Struggle

    Brian F O’neillARTICLECapitalism Nature Socialism2023Cited by: 4References: 38

    This interview begins a conversation about the social justice implications of an emerging socioecological concern-the desalination industry. Seawater desalination is the industrial process of creating drinking water from the ocean. This dialogue, with two activists at the forefront of contesting desalination in California, indicates how this practice, as a proposed climate adaptation strategy, is not just a matter of crafting governance reforms a…

  • Demystifying the Global ‘Just Transition’—On Power Struggles and Electric Mountains ”

    Open AccessBrian F O’neill, Matthew Jerome SchneiderARTICLEHuman Geography2022Cited by: 4References: 8

    International audience

  • David Sepkoski

    Brian F O’neillARTICLENew Global Studies2021

    Article David Sepkoski: Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene was published on August 1, 2021 in the journal New Global Studies (volume 15, issue 2-3)

  • Inclure les personnes concernées dans la production du savoir sur les personnes LGBTQ+ migrantes à travers la recherche communautaire

    Open AccessJavier Fuentes-Bernal, Ahmed Hamila et al.ARTICLEAlterstice Revue internationale…2021

    Bien qu’il y ait un intérêt grandissant dans la recherche en sciences sociales sur la réalité des personnes migrantes marginalisées, telle que celles appartenant à la population LGBTQ+, on dispose de très peu d’études dans la littérature québécoise sur les meilleures stratégies d’implication des personnes concernées dans la construction des savoirs. Cet article vise à contribuer à la diffusion de la connaissance empirique et autoréflexive sur l’i…

  • FloodZone By Anastasia Samoylova (with the essay “Coming Waters” by David Campany). Göttingen, Germany

    Open AccessBrian F O’neillARTICLEVisual Anthropology Review2021

  • Nigel Clark and Bronislaw Szerszynski

    Brian F O’neillARTICLENew Global Studies2021References: 10

    Article Nigel Clark and Bronislaw Szerszynski: Planetary Social Thought: The Anthropocene Challenge to the Social Sciences was published on August 28, 2021 in the journal New Global Studies (volume 0, issue 0)

  • The World Ecology of Desalination

    Open AccessBrian F O’neillARTICLEJournal of World-Systems Research2020Cited by: 10References: 37

    World-systems scholars are increasingly engaged in issues at the intersection of ecological and economic concerns since the proliferation of debates on the Anthropocene. Recently, the alternative concept of Capitalocene—age of Capital—has emerged to draw attention to the world-ecological disruption of capitalism founded on cheap nature appropriation at ever-emerging extraction zones. This paper extends these discussions to the oceanic frontier, a…

  • Water Conservation in Desert Cities

    Open AccessBrian F O’neill, Anne-Lise BoyerARTICLEAmbiente & sociedade2020Cited by: 3References: 36

    Urban water provision is the archetypal case for the recent wave of urban political ecology, using the concept of "fix" to illustrate belief in technical forms to solve socioecological problems like uneven water distribution and environmental degradation. On the one hand, this paper shows that the risks of water shortages in Arizona, USA are a technical concern. Professionals are dedicated to the promotion of water conservation to "fix" a dysfunc…

  • A Public Health Frame for Fracking? Predicting Public Support for Hydraulic Fracturing

    Brian F O’neill, Matthew Jerome SchneiderARTICLESociological Quarterly2020Cited by: 1References: 77

    The American public is split on support for hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). This study seeks to better understand fracking attitudes by predicting support via economic, environmental, and public health concern. We find support for fracking is intertwined with political partisanship. We show those identifying as “other” political party are significantly more likely to claim “don’t know” in response to questions of fracking support. However, fra…

  • The oral tradition of Pierre Bourdieu

    Open AccessBrian F O’neillARTICLEInternational Sociology2019Cited by: 1References: 7

    This essay discusses the three most recent posthumous publications of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. With the 2019 release of Classification Struggles, coming after On the State (2014) and Manet (2017), and covering Bourdieu's first lectures as the Chair in Sociology at the Collège de France from 1981 to 1982, this emerging oral tradition marks an opportune moment to re-examine Bourdieu's oeuvre in light of a mode of presentation and knowled…