Barbara L Allen
Biographic Data
| ID | 76610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara L Allen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara L |
| FAMILY NAME | Allen |
| SIGNATURE | ALLEN B L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8200-2066 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Making effective participatory environmental health science through collaborative data analysis
In the environmental justice arena, citizen science encompasses a broad array of practices, from local residents asking the questions driving scientific inquiry to participating in data collection. This chapter argues that collecting data should not be the end of the participatory process as data does not speak for, or represent, communities without a further step: collaborative analysis. Analyzing data with communities satisfies several objectiv…
Allergic to the Region”: A Population-Based Study of the Diversity of Health Experiences in the Industrial Zone of Marseille, France
This article analyzes the qualitative data collected as part of a 2015 community-based participatory cross-sectional health study conducted in two towns in a heavily polluted industrial zone on the port of Marseille, France. In addition to quantitative measures of residents' health outcomes, the open-ended question about health experiences provide important depth and a lived dimension of the possible harms inflicted on, and endured by, the popula…
Community-Based Participatory Research in the News: A Qualitative Case Study of the Online Media Characterization of a French Health Study
Since online media can be key in the widespread, symmetrical dissemination of science, we performed a media content analysis of 44 online articles to assess coverage of a French community-based participatory research (CBPR) epidemiologic study. Most articles highlighted methodological rigor and the research topic’s salience to residents. Approximately half of the articles reported findings, with the remaining focusing on action steps. To our know…
Toxic truths: Environmental justice and citizen science in a post-truth age
Political strategies for seeking environmental justice Introduction to Part III -Alice Mah 8 Legitimating confrontational discourses by local environmental groups: The case of air quality monitoring in a Spanish industrial area -Miguel A
Collaborative Workshops for Community Meaning-Making and Data Analyses: How Focus Groups Strengthen Data by Enhancing Understanding and Promoting Use
Community-based participatory research is a growing approach, but often includes higher levels of community engagement in the research design and data collection stages than in the data interpretation stage. Involving study participants in this stage could further knowledge justice, science that aligns with and supports social justice agendas. This article reports on two community-based participatory environmental health surveys conducted between…
Strongly Participatory Science and Knowledge Justice in an Environmentally Contested Region
This article draws insights from a case study examining unanswered health questions of residents in two polluted towns in an industrial region in southern France. A participatory health study, as conducted by the author, is presented as a way to address undone science by providing the residents with relevant data supporting their illness claims. Local residents were included in the health survey process, from the formulation of the questions to t…
A Successful Experiment in Participatory Science for Promoting Change in a French Industrial Region
The author and her team worked with the residents in an industrial area in France to produce a participatory epidemiological study about their health. The final report, drafted with input from the citizens, attracted the national press and the interest of many other polluted communities. The survey is currently being used to promote environmental change by the residents, their elected officials, and local doctors. This reinforces the author’s cla…
Health issues in the industrial port zone of Marseille, France: The Fos Epseal community-based cross-sectional survey
Knowledge Justice: An Opportunity for Counter-expertise in Security vs. Science Debates
Knowledge justice provides a conceptual framework to apply principles of social justice in environments of competing interests regarding science. Both knowledge and its making can be seen as a good to be distributed, including all voices for whom the science will matter. In this framework, knowledge production is shared among a broader constituency of knowers representing both local and cosmopolitan voices. The problem of knowledge injustice can …
Through a maze of studies: Health questions and ‘undone science’ in a French industrial region
Near the city of Marseille is one of France’s largest industrial regions, home to over 400 industrial facilities. Adjacent to these facilities are towns whose residents have complained of myriad health problems, from respiratory illness and autoimmune disease to cancers. While human environmental health in this region has been studied repeatedly by state agencies and allied organizations, the studies focused on tightly constructed questions answe…
Justice as Measure of Nongovernmental Organization Success in Postdisaster Community Assistance
Through exploring multiple contemporary conceptions of justice, this article illustrates that justice matters when considering outcomes in nongovernmental organization (NGO) assistance. In environmental justice (EJ) scholarship, the term justice has been underproblematized, assuming a tacit understanding of the concept as fairness or equitable distribution of environmental harms. Using the rebuilding of two heavily damaged poor and minority neigh…
Architecture and organization: Structure, text and context
This special issue seeks to take an imaginative look at notions of organizational structure and to draw on architectural perspectives in order to examine prevailing definitions of the notion of str
Toxic Bodies/Toxic Environments: An Interdisciplinary Forum
Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice (review)
Reviewed by: Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice Barbara L. Allen (bio) Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice. By Julie Sze . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007. Pp. x+282. $24. In the years that have passed since Robert Bullard's groundbreaking Dumping in Dixie (1990), the environmental justice (EJ) movement has been both expanded and reframed in important ways.…
"To Love the Wind and the Rain": African Americans and Environmental History (review)
Reviewed by: “To Love the Wind and the Rain”: African Americans and Environmental History Barbara L. Allen (bio) “To Love the Wind and the Rain”: African Americans and Environmental History. Edited by Dianne D. Glave and Mark Stoll . Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. Pp. 288. $55/ $24.95. The emergence of environmental history as a distinct field during the last few decades—essentially as a post–Earth Day discipline—has produced a…
Environmental Justice and Expert Knowledge in the Wake of a Disaster
various dimensions environmental justice in New Orleans. In particular, the hurricane served to highlight disparities in health and well-being that already existed in the region and to foreground the vulnerabilities of poor, working class, and minority communities. Disputes over local vs cosmo-politan knowledge and questions about whose science and whose knowl-edge ‘counts ’ in the reclamation of the city play out in the politics of rebuilding th…
Environmental justice, local knowledge, and after-disaster planning in New Orleans
Cradle of a Revolution? The Industrial Transformation of Louisiana's Lower Mississippi River
This article provides an overview of the petrochemical industry's transformation of Louisiana's Lower Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to New Orleans from the early 1900s to the present. First there is a broad discussion of why the industry choose this location for development. The focus is then on a historical understanding of how the conditions for the environmental justice movement came to exist. These include: patterns of early land ownersh…
Shifting boundary work: Issues and tensions in environmental health science in the case of Grand Bois, Louisiana
Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change
In Environmentalism Unbound, Robert Gottlieb proposes a new strategy for social and environmental change that involves reframing and linking the movements for environmental justice and pollution prevention. According to Gottlieb, the environmental movement's narrow conception of environment has isolated it from vital issues of everyday life, such as workplace safety, healthy communities, and food security, that are often viewed separately as indu…
Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns
Journal Article Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns. By Margaret Crawford. (New York: Verso, 1995. viii, 248 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-86091-421-6. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-86091-695-2.) Get access Barbara L. Allen Barbara L. Allen University of Southwestern Louisiana Lafayette, Louisiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, Marc…
Digitizing Women's History: New Approaches to Evidence and Interpretation in Museum Exhibits
Research Article| May 01 1997 Digitizing Women's History: New Approaches to Evidence and Interpretation in Museum Exhibits Barbara L. Allen Barbara L. Allen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1997) 1997 (68): 103–120. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1997-68-103 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Barbara L. Allen; Digitizing Women's History: New A…
When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands
Journal Article When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands. By Patricia Jones-Jackson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987. xxix + 189 pp. $19-95.) Get access Barbara Allen Barbara Allen University of Notre Dame Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 4, March 1988, Page 1318, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894421 Published: 01 March 1988
Homesteading the High Desert
Journal Article Homesteading the High Desert Get access Homesteading the High Desert. By Allen Barbara. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1987. xx + 183 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $25.00.) Gordon B. Dodds Gordon B. Dodds Portland State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 3, August 1988, Pages 333–334, https://doi.org/1…
Strongly Participatory Science and Knowledge Justice in an Environmentally Contested Region
This article draws insights from a case study examining unanswered health questions of residents in two polluted towns in an industrial region in southern France. A participatory health study, as conducted by the author, is presented as a way to address undone science by providing the residents with relevant data supporting their illness claims. Local residents were included in the health survey process, from the formulation of the questions to t…
Toxic truths: Environmental justice and citizen science in a post-truth age
Political strategies for seeking environmental justice Introduction to Part III -Alice Mah 8 Legitimating confrontational discourses by local environmental groups: The case of air quality monitoring in a Spanish industrial area -Miguel A
Toxic Bodies/Toxic Environments: An Interdisciplinary Forum
Shifting boundary work: Issues and tensions in environmental health science in the case of Grand Bois, Louisiana
Environmental Justice and Expert Knowledge in the Wake of a Disaster
various dimensions environmental justice in New Orleans. In particular, the hurricane served to highlight disparities in health and well-being that already existed in the region and to foreground the vulnerabilities of poor, working class, and minority communities. Disputes over local vs cosmo-politan knowledge and questions about whose science and whose knowl-edge ‘counts ’ in the reclamation of the city play out in the politics of rebuilding th…
Knowledge Justice: An Opportunity for Counter-expertise in Security vs. Science Debates
Knowledge justice provides a conceptual framework to apply principles of social justice in environments of competing interests regarding science. Both knowledge and its making can be seen as a good to be distributed, including all voices for whom the science will matter. In this framework, knowledge production is shared among a broader constituency of knowers representing both local and cosmopolitan voices. The problem of knowledge injustice can …
Through a maze of studies: Health questions and ‘undone science’ in a French industrial region
Near the city of Marseille is one of France’s largest industrial regions, home to over 400 industrial facilities. Adjacent to these facilities are towns whose residents have complained of myriad health problems, from respiratory illness and autoimmune disease to cancers. While human environmental health in this region has been studied repeatedly by state agencies and allied organizations, the studies focused on tightly constructed questions answe…
Cradle of a Revolution? The Industrial Transformation of Louisiana's Lower Mississippi River
This article provides an overview of the petrochemical industry's transformation of Louisiana's Lower Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to New Orleans from the early 1900s to the present. First there is a broad discussion of why the industry choose this location for development. The focus is then on a historical understanding of how the conditions for the environmental justice movement came to exist. These include: patterns of early land ownersh…
When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands
Journal Article When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands. By Patricia Jones-Jackson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987. xxix + 189 pp. $19-95.) Get access Barbara Allen Barbara Allen University of Notre Dame Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 4, March 1988, Page 1318, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894421 Published: 01 March 1988
Justice as Measure of Nongovernmental Organization Success in Postdisaster Community Assistance
Through exploring multiple contemporary conceptions of justice, this article illustrates that justice matters when considering outcomes in nongovernmental organization (NGO) assistance. In environmental justice (EJ) scholarship, the term justice has been underproblematized, assuming a tacit understanding of the concept as fairness or equitable distribution of environmental harms. Using the rebuilding of two heavily damaged poor and minority neigh…
Environmental justice, local knowledge, and after-disaster planning in New Orleans
When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands
Journal Article When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands. By Patricia Jones-Jackson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987. xxix + 189 pp. $19-95.) Get access Barbara Allen Barbara Allen University of Notre Dame Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 4, March 1988, Page 1318, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894421 Published: 01 March 1988
Homesteading the High Desert
Journal Article Homesteading the High Desert Get access Homesteading the High Desert. By Allen Barbara. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1987. xx + 183 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $25.00.) Gordon B. Dodds Gordon B. Dodds Portland State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 3, August 1988, Pages 333–334, https://doi.org/1…
Digitizing Women's History: New Approaches to Evidence and Interpretation in Museum Exhibits
Research Article| May 01 1997 Digitizing Women's History: New Approaches to Evidence and Interpretation in Museum Exhibits Barbara L. Allen Barbara L. Allen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1997) 1997 (68): 103–120. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1997-68-103 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Barbara L. Allen; Digitizing Women's History: New A…
Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns
Journal Article Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns. By Margaret Crawford. (New York: Verso, 1995. viii, 248 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-86091-421-6. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-86091-695-2.) Get access Barbara L. Allen Barbara L. Allen University of Southwestern Louisiana Lafayette, Louisiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, Marc…
Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change
In Environmentalism Unbound, Robert Gottlieb proposes a new strategy for social and environmental change that involves reframing and linking the movements for environmental justice and pollution prevention. According to Gottlieb, the environmental movement's narrow conception of environment has isolated it from vital issues of everyday life, such as workplace safety, healthy communities, and food security, that are often viewed separately as indu…
Shifting boundary work: Issues and tensions in environmental health science in the case of Grand Bois, Louisiana
Cradle of a Revolution? The Industrial Transformation of Louisiana's Lower Mississippi River
This article provides an overview of the petrochemical industry's transformation of Louisiana's Lower Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to New Orleans from the early 1900s to the present. First there is a broad discussion of why the industry choose this location for development. The focus is then on a historical understanding of how the conditions for the environmental justice movement came to exist. These include: patterns of early land ownersh…
Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice (review)
Reviewed by: Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice Barbara L. Allen (bio) Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice. By Julie Sze . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007. Pp. x+282. $24. In the years that have passed since Robert Bullard's groundbreaking Dumping in Dixie (1990), the environmental justice (EJ) movement has been both expanded and reframed in important ways.…
"To Love the Wind and the Rain": African Americans and Environmental History (review)
Reviewed by: “To Love the Wind and the Rain”: African Americans and Environmental History Barbara L. Allen (bio) “To Love the Wind and the Rain”: African Americans and Environmental History. Edited by Dianne D. Glave and Mark Stoll . Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. Pp. 288. $55/ $24.95. The emergence of environmental history as a distinct field during the last few decades—essentially as a post–Earth Day discipline—has produced a…
Environmental Justice and Expert Knowledge in the Wake of a Disaster
various dimensions environmental justice in New Orleans. In particular, the hurricane served to highlight disparities in health and well-being that already existed in the region and to foreground the vulnerabilities of poor, working class, and minority communities. Disputes over local vs cosmo-politan knowledge and questions about whose science and whose knowl-edge ‘counts ’ in the reclamation of the city play out in the politics of rebuilding th…
Environmental justice, local knowledge, and after-disaster planning in New Orleans
Toxic Bodies/Toxic Environments: An Interdisciplinary Forum
Architecture and organization: Structure, text and context
This special issue seeks to take an imaginative look at notions of organizational structure and to draw on architectural perspectives in order to examine prevailing definitions of the notion of str
Justice as Measure of Nongovernmental Organization Success in Postdisaster Community Assistance
Through exploring multiple contemporary conceptions of justice, this article illustrates that justice matters when considering outcomes in nongovernmental organization (NGO) assistance. In environmental justice (EJ) scholarship, the term justice has been underproblematized, assuming a tacit understanding of the concept as fairness or equitable distribution of environmental harms. Using the rebuilding of two heavily damaged poor and minority neigh…
Through a maze of studies: Health questions and ‘undone science’ in a French industrial region
Near the city of Marseille is one of France’s largest industrial regions, home to over 400 industrial facilities. Adjacent to these facilities are towns whose residents have complained of myriad health problems, from respiratory illness and autoimmune disease to cancers. While human environmental health in this region has been studied repeatedly by state agencies and allied organizations, the studies focused on tightly constructed questions answe…
A Successful Experiment in Participatory Science for Promoting Change in a French Industrial Region
The author and her team worked with the residents in an industrial area in France to produce a participatory epidemiological study about their health. The final report, drafted with input from the citizens, attracted the national press and the interest of many other polluted communities. The survey is currently being used to promote environmental change by the residents, their elected officials, and local doctors. This reinforces the author’s cla…
Health issues in the industrial port zone of Marseille, France: The Fos Epseal community-based cross-sectional survey
Knowledge Justice: An Opportunity for Counter-expertise in Security vs. Science Debates
Knowledge justice provides a conceptual framework to apply principles of social justice in environments of competing interests regarding science. Both knowledge and its making can be seen as a good to be distributed, including all voices for whom the science will matter. In this framework, knowledge production is shared among a broader constituency of knowers representing both local and cosmopolitan voices. The problem of knowledge injustice can …
Strongly Participatory Science and Knowledge Justice in an Environmentally Contested Region
This article draws insights from a case study examining unanswered health questions of residents in two polluted towns in an industrial region in southern France. A participatory health study, as conducted by the author, is presented as a way to address undone science by providing the residents with relevant data supporting their illness claims. Local residents were included in the health survey process, from the formulation of the questions to t…
Collaborative Workshops for Community Meaning-Making and Data Analyses: How Focus Groups Strengthen Data by Enhancing Understanding and Promoting Use
Community-based participatory research is a growing approach, but often includes higher levels of community engagement in the research design and data collection stages than in the data interpretation stage. Involving study participants in this stage could further knowledge justice, science that aligns with and supports social justice agendas. This article reports on two community-based participatory environmental health surveys conducted between…
Making effective participatory environmental health science through collaborative data analysis
In the environmental justice arena, citizen science encompasses a broad array of practices, from local residents asking the questions driving scientific inquiry to participating in data collection. This chapter argues that collecting data should not be the end of the participatory process as data does not speak for, or represent, communities without a further step: collaborative analysis. Analyzing data with communities satisfies several objectiv…
Allergic to the Region”: A Population-Based Study of the Diversity of Health Experiences in the Industrial Zone of Marseille, France
This article analyzes the qualitative data collected as part of a 2015 community-based participatory cross-sectional health study conducted in two towns in a heavily polluted industrial zone on the port of Marseille, France. In addition to quantitative measures of residents' health outcomes, the open-ended question about health experiences provide important depth and a lived dimension of the possible harms inflicted on, and endured by, the popula…
Community-Based Participatory Research in the News: A Qualitative Case Study of the Online Media Characterization of a French Health Study
Since online media can be key in the widespread, symmetrical dissemination of science, we performed a media content analysis of 44 online articles to assess coverage of a French community-based participatory research (CBPR) epidemiologic study. Most articles highlighted methodological rigor and the research topic’s salience to residents. Approximately half of the articles reported findings, with the remaining focusing on action steps. To our know…
Toxic truths: Environmental justice and citizen science in a post-truth age
Political strategies for seeking environmental justice Introduction to Part III -Alice Mah 8 Legitimating confrontational discourses by local environmental groups: The case of air quality monitoring in a Spanish industrial area -Miguel A
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Environmental justice (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Environmental ethics (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Economic Justice (6 works)