Jennifer Thomson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3738253 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Thomson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bucknell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6173-1187 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction: Fair Housing and Environmental Justice
All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health
Journal Article All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health Get access All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health. By Merlin Chowkwanyun. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. xii, 336 pp. Cloth, $95.00. Paper, $29.95.) Jennifer Thomson Jennifer Thomson Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on…
Bring Money: The Environmental Protection Agency, Sewer Infrastructure, and the Racialized Geography of the United States
Journal Article "Bring Money": The Environmental Protection Agency, Sewer Infrastructure, and the Racialized Geography of the United States Get access Jennifer Thomson Jennifer Thomson Associate professor of history at Bucknell University Readers may contact Thomson at [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 111, Issue 1, June 2024, Pages 71–90, https://doi.o…
Civil Rights Enforcement and Fair Housing at the Environmental Protection Agency
This article analyzes the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) within the broader history of federally sponsored residential segregation, as well as the criminalization of and disinvestment from urban areas contemporaneous with the agency's founding. It offers a detailed analysis of EPA's first decade of recalcitrance regarding its own obligations under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and Title VII of the 1968 Fair Housing Act. The EPA dev…
GM Crops and the Global Divide
Attitudes to GM crops continue to generate tension, even though they have been grown commercially for over 20 years. Negative sentiment towards their development limits their adoption in Western countries, despite there being no evidence of harm to human health. These unfounded concerns about genetically modified crops have also inhibited uptake in many countries throughout Africa and Asia, having a major impact on agricultural productivity and p…
GM Crops and the Global Divide
Abortion Law and Political Institutions: Explaining Policy Resistance
The Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and Feminist Institutionalism: A Research Agenda
Since the inception of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325) in 2000, feminist academia has been closely interested in the developing women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda in international affairs. The majority of this work has emerged from within feminist international relations (Mcleod 2015; Shepherd 2008) and feminist legal studies. Less attention has been paid to the WPS agenda by feminist political science. As a resu…
Resisting gendered change: Feminist institutionalism and critical actors
Feminist institutionalism is concerned with the ‘rules of the game’ in political institutions. It is interested to explore how institutions create gender-just conditions in terms of the policies and actions they undertake and the make-up of the elected representatives they contain. It also has a growing interest in how institutions can resist or obstruct positive gendered change. It is argued here that employing the concept of ‘critical actors’ a…
Thinking globally, acting locally? The women’s sector, international human rights mechanisms and politics in Northern Ireland
Literature considering international human rights mechanisms stresses that they have the best chance of success when they are closest to ideas which already exist within national contexts. Research which addresses women’s human rights bodies, such as the Convention Against All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325), argues that they function best when reinterpreted to fit the…
Surviving the 1970s: The Case of Friends of the Earth
Whereas scholars have thoroughly deconstructed the myth that so-called mainstream environmentalism was born of the first Earth Day in April 1970, we have just begun to explore what happened in the decade following. This article provides a much needed intervention into the scholarship on environmental politics in the 1970s by examining the activities of Friends of the Earth (FOE) in its long first decade (1969–1984). Founded in 1969, FOE synthesiz…
Toxic Residents: Health and Citizenship at Love Canal
This article investigates the relationship between American political culture and grassroots environmentalism in the 1970s. To do so, it examines how the white working class residents of Love Canal, New York, claimed health and a healthy environment as rights of citizenship. To date, the Canal has remained a sore spot for environmental scholarship; this article demonstrates how the analytic difficulties posed by the Canal stem from the crosscurre…
Abortion and same-sex marriage: How are non-sectarian controversial issues discussed in Northern Irish politics
Westminster's legislation regarding marriage rights for same sex couples has not been extended to Northern Ireland. Similarly, Northern Ireland has never been under the jurisdiction of the 1967 Abortion Act, making abortion effectively illegal in the province unless it is necessary to preserve the long-term life or health of the woman. This article considers contemporary political debate around abortion and same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland t…
Resisting gendered change: Feminist institutionalism and critical actors
Feminist institutionalism is concerned with the ‘rules of the game’ in political institutions. It is interested to explore how institutions create gender-just conditions in terms of the policies and actions they undertake and the make-up of the elected representatives they contain. It also has a growing interest in how institutions can resist or obstruct positive gendered change. It is argued here that employing the concept of ‘critical actors’ a…
Abortion and same-sex marriage: How are non-sectarian controversial issues discussed in Northern Irish politics
Westminster's legislation regarding marriage rights for same sex couples has not been extended to Northern Ireland. Similarly, Northern Ireland has never been under the jurisdiction of the 1967 Abortion Act, making abortion effectively illegal in the province unless it is necessary to preserve the long-term life or health of the woman. This article considers contemporary political debate around abortion and same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland t…
The Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and Feminist Institutionalism: A Research Agenda
Since the inception of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325) in 2000, feminist academia has been closely interested in the developing women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda in international affairs. The majority of this work has emerged from within feminist international relations (Mcleod 2015; Shepherd 2008) and feminist legal studies. Less attention has been paid to the WPS agenda by feminist political science. As a resu…
Thinking globally, acting locally? The women’s sector, international human rights mechanisms and politics in Northern Ireland
Literature considering international human rights mechanisms stresses that they have the best chance of success when they are closest to ideas which already exist within national contexts. Research which addresses women’s human rights bodies, such as the Convention Against All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325), argues that they function best when reinterpreted to fit the…
Surviving the 1970s: The Case of Friends of the Earth
Whereas scholars have thoroughly deconstructed the myth that so-called mainstream environmentalism was born of the first Earth Day in April 1970, we have just begun to explore what happened in the decade following. This article provides a much needed intervention into the scholarship on environmental politics in the 1970s by examining the activities of Friends of the Earth (FOE) in its long first decade (1969–1984). Founded in 1969, FOE synthesiz…
Bring Money: The Environmental Protection Agency, Sewer Infrastructure, and the Racialized Geography of the United States
Journal Article "Bring Money": The Environmental Protection Agency, Sewer Infrastructure, and the Racialized Geography of the United States Get access Jennifer Thomson Jennifer Thomson Associate professor of history at Bucknell University Readers may contact Thomson at [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 111, Issue 1, June 2024, Pages 71–90, https://doi.o…
Surviving the 1970s: The Case of Friends of the Earth
Whereas scholars have thoroughly deconstructed the myth that so-called mainstream environmentalism was born of the first Earth Day in April 1970, we have just begun to explore what happened in the decade following. This article provides a much needed intervention into the scholarship on environmental politics in the 1970s by examining the activities of Friends of the Earth (FOE) in its long first decade (1969–1984). Founded in 1969, FOE synthesiz…
Toxic Residents: Health and Citizenship at Love Canal
This article investigates the relationship between American political culture and grassroots environmentalism in the 1970s. To do so, it examines how the white working class residents of Love Canal, New York, claimed health and a healthy environment as rights of citizenship. To date, the Canal has remained a sore spot for environmental scholarship; this article demonstrates how the analytic difficulties posed by the Canal stem from the crosscurre…
Abortion and same-sex marriage: How are non-sectarian controversial issues discussed in Northern Irish politics
Westminster's legislation regarding marriage rights for same sex couples has not been extended to Northern Ireland. Similarly, Northern Ireland has never been under the jurisdiction of the 1967 Abortion Act, making abortion effectively illegal in the province unless it is necessary to preserve the long-term life or health of the woman. This article considers contemporary political debate around abortion and same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland t…
Thinking globally, acting locally? The women’s sector, international human rights mechanisms and politics in Northern Ireland
Literature considering international human rights mechanisms stresses that they have the best chance of success when they are closest to ideas which already exist within national contexts. Research which addresses women’s human rights bodies, such as the Convention Against All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325), argues that they function best when reinterpreted to fit the…
The Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and Feminist Institutionalism: A Research Agenda
Since the inception of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325) in 2000, feminist academia has been closely interested in the developing women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda in international affairs. The majority of this work has emerged from within feminist international relations (Mcleod 2015; Shepherd 2008) and feminist legal studies. Less attention has been paid to the WPS agenda by feminist political science. As a resu…
Resisting gendered change: Feminist institutionalism and critical actors
Feminist institutionalism is concerned with the ‘rules of the game’ in political institutions. It is interested to explore how institutions create gender-just conditions in terms of the policies and actions they undertake and the make-up of the elected representatives they contain. It also has a growing interest in how institutions can resist or obstruct positive gendered change. It is argued here that employing the concept of ‘critical actors’ a…
Abortion Law and Political Institutions: Explaining Policy Resistance
GM Crops and the Global Divide
Attitudes to GM crops continue to generate tension, even though they have been grown commercially for over 20 years. Negative sentiment towards their development limits their adoption in Western countries, despite there being no evidence of harm to human health. These unfounded concerns about genetically modified crops have also inhibited uptake in many countries throughout Africa and Asia, having a major impact on agricultural productivity and p…
GM Crops and the Global Divide
Civil Rights Enforcement and Fair Housing at the Environmental Protection Agency
This article analyzes the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) within the broader history of federally sponsored residential segregation, as well as the criminalization of and disinvestment from urban areas contemporaneous with the agency's founding. It offers a detailed analysis of EPA's first decade of recalcitrance regarding its own obligations under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and Title VII of the 1968 Fair Housing Act. The EPA dev…
All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health
Journal Article All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health Get access All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health. By Merlin Chowkwanyun. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. xii, 336 pp. Cloth, $95.00. Paper, $29.95.) Jennifer Thomson Jennifer Thomson Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on…
Bring Money: The Environmental Protection Agency, Sewer Infrastructure, and the Racialized Geography of the United States
Journal Article "Bring Money": The Environmental Protection Agency, Sewer Infrastructure, and the Racialized Geography of the United States Get access Jennifer Thomson Jennifer Thomson Associate professor of history at Bucknell University Readers may contact Thomson at [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 111, Issue 1, June 2024, Pages 71–90, https://doi.o…
Introduction: Fair Housing and Environmental Justice
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