A Malin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 36316 |
|---|---|
| NOME | A Malin |
| PRENOMES | A |
| SOBRENOME | Malin |
| ASSINATURA | MALIN A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Colorado State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2794-2036 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 337 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
‘‘Planting little seeds’ to resist big oil
In Commerce City, Colorado, the Suncor Oil Refinery routinely releases pollutants that disproportionately impact the community surrounding the facility. In the absence of state intervention, women-led organizing has mobilized, calling for justice and accountability. Cultivando, an Indigenous women-led grassroots organization serving Latine and Indigenous migrant communities in Adams County, facilitates activism and advocacy efforts. Drawing on 53…
The politics of protection
During COVID-19, U.S. meatpacking plants were deemed “essential critical infrastructure” under the Defense Production Act of 1950. Workers’ health suffered, due to intersecting variables, including company negligence, limited state intervention, and pre-existing issues associated with corporate consolidation and production. We examine the political-economic roots of harms experienced by meatpacking workers during the pandemic. What institutional,…
We go to the hospital everyday
Neoliberal Governance and Agribusiness Influence
In this article, we examine how neoliberal governance, corporate influence and public health policy intersected during the COVID-19 pandemic in one meatpacking town we call Cattleford. We focus on two research questions: (1) In what ways did the political power of agribusiness shape local-level public health policymaking around meatpacking during COVID-19? and (2) how did neoliberalised governance mechanisms influence public health policies durin…
The Kids Ask 'Are We Safe
Despite knowing about climate risks for decades, oil and gas companies continually increase production. Infants, children, and adolescents are most vulnerable to intensifying air pollution and other upheavals of climate emergency. Here, we illustrate localized impacts of global processes by focusing on the Suncor Oil Refinery in Commerce City, Colorado, the state's only oil refinery and a major polluter. The Suncor facility illustrates broader st…
The system is engineered to do this
Continuing to emit greenhouse gases (GHGs) moves our planet closer to crossing critical tipping points, making ongoing development of fossil fuels an act of climate injustice. Yet, the United States has doubled down on unconventional oil and gas (UOG), becoming the top global producer of hydrocarbons. Significant segments of the public resist UOG drilling, mobilizing to limit or stop production due to intersecting climate, environmental, and publ…
Where's the justice
You fine an industry, then return the funding to them
In Commerce City, Colorado, residents contend with multiple environmental hazards and live in the most polluted zip code in the US. Perhaps no source of environmental harm is more visible than the imposing, aging Suncor Oil Refinery. The refinery dominates entire city blocks and residents' daily lives. Since 2005, the refinery has been cited for over nearly 60 environmental and safety violations. Despite this, it continues operating with minor pe…
Enforcing Hopelessness
Fossil fuel companies hold enormous political, economic, and knowledge production power. Recently, industry operators have pivoted from pushing climate denialism to campaigns aimed at individualizing responsibility for climate crisis. In this paper, we focus on one related outcome of such efforts - people's experiences of complicity - here in the context of unconventional oil and gas (UOG) production. We ask: How do mobilized activists experience…
A Rigged Process from the Beginning”
Unconventional oil and gas (UOG) production has reinvigorated US production while creating conflicts over governance and environmental injustices. Here, we focus on relationships among power, regulatory conflict, and procedural justice around UOG by examining the Colorado Oil and Gas Task Force (TF) and its decision‐making processes. Instead of statewide voting on UOG ballot measures, Colorado convened a 21‐member TF tasked with making regulatory…
Prisons as Law-Violators and Sites of Environmental Injustice
Layered Sites of Environmental Justice
A growing body of scholarship highlights the merits of fusing green criminology and environmental justice frameworks to better understand intersections among carceral systems, race- and class-based stratification, and environmental harm. This paper explores how correctional institutions (CIs) with known histories of federal environmental law violations compare against other previously established environmentally harmful facilities and land uses. …
Sites of Resistance, Acceptance, and Quiescence Amid Environmental Injustice
In this introduction to the special issue, we consider the state of theory and scholarship around environmental justice activism. We examine trends in environmental justice (EJ) research, observing that much work has been done on sites of resistance—where collective organizing or mobilization rejects or limits environmental harms and related policy decisions. However, relatively little work has been done on sites of quiescence or ambivalence—wher…
Collective Neoliberalism and Market Fundamentalism
In the US, unconventional oil and gas (UOG) production has elicited strong public response. As production occurs amid residential and commercial spaces, environmental, social, economic, regulatory, and mental health impacts have been documented across locations. Some community groups have mobilized against this activity, while others have not. We examine how and why UOG production becomes normalized despite its disruptions and risks. Through year…
Reaping Rewards, or Missing out? How Neoliberal Governance and State Growth Machines Condition the Impacts of Oil and Gas Development on Local Well-Being
For decades, the governance regimes of the United States and many other nations have increasingly devolved authority from central federal governments to substantially weaker state and local governments and even private industry. This trend produces uneven results for affected spaces and modes of governance. At the same time, industries have been re-regulated under neoliberalization to maximize corporate profitability. Conterminous to the trend of…
Handbook of Environmental Sociology
Nuclear Geographies and Nuclear Issues
Nuclear geographies and geographers contemplate the significance of nuclear technologies and issues for humans, nonhumans, and ecologies in the past, present, and future. This definition highlights how radiation interacts across different scales and mobilities by considering the significance of their relations to humans, nonhumans, ecologies, and materialities. The field brings together diverse geographical approaches to understand nuclear medici…
Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene
Inequalities through the lens of science
Mechanisms of metapower & procedural injustices in the Colorado Oil and Gas Task Force decision-making process
In the last decade, unconventional oil and gas (UOG) has changed the world’s energy landscapes, often outpacing governments’ efforts to regulate it. Yet, few studies focus on the processes of governance, particularly on questions of procedural equity. Here we examine the process of the 2014 Colorado Oil and Gas Task Force (TF), which was established to address regulatory conflicts over drilling, particularly along the Northern Colorado Front Rang…
Assessing the state of uranium research
Depressed democracy, environmental injustice
Understanding Self-Rated Health and Unconventional Oil and Gas Development in Three Colorado Communities
Domestic, onshore oil and gas production has increased substantially in the United States in the last ∼20 years, creating a range of positive and negative impacts on communities. In this paper, we add to the growing literature on unconventional oil and gas production (a.k.a., “fracking”) and well-being by evaluating the association between self-reported stress induced by local oil and gas development and subjective well-being in the form of self-…
Prisons as Lulus
Criminologists who examine prison siting and proliferation often take two approaches. On one hand, researchers explore citizens' perceptions of prison siting in their community. Alternatively, they unpack consequences a prison brings to a region-often with attention toward whether they fuel economic growth. This discussion occasionally invokes the concept environmental sociologists commonly used to examine environmental injustices: LULUs (locally…
The Right to Resist or a Case of Injustice? Meta-Power in the Oil and Gas Fields
Recent technological innovations in unconventional oil and gas (UOG) production have transformed the global energy landscape. The combination of hydraulic fracturing—commonly referred to as “fracking”—with horizontal drilling in shale plays across the United States has made the nation the top producer of both natural gas and petroleum, after a long hiatus from the top of the list. However, the public is largely marginalized from collective decisi…
A devil's bargain
There’s no real choice but to sign
Embodied energy injustices
We introduce the new concept of embodied energy injustices in order to encourage integrative, systemic, transboundary assessment of the global implications and responsibility of energy-policy decisions. Embodied energy injustices reframe considerations of energy justice to explicitly consider hidden and distant injustices (upstream or downstream) arising from the extraction, processing, transportation and disposal of energy resources. We assess t…
Developing deeply intersectional environmental justice scholarship
When first discussing this special issue in 2015, we had no idea that by press time environmental justice activism, regulation, and research would be so vulnerable in the United States, where the m
Fracking Fortunes
Oil and gas extraction, especially via unconventional means like hydraulic fracturing, is hailed as an economic boon by many commentators and political leaders. However, empirical evidence is limited. In this article, we consider the socioeconomic effects (particularly, related to poverty, employment, income, and wages) of unconventional oil and gas extraction using a national data set of U.S. counties. We use a novel between- and within-county r…
The elephant in the room
Prisons as Lulus
Criminologists who examine prison siting and proliferation often take two approaches. On one hand, researchers explore citizens' perceptions of prison siting in their community. Alternatively, they unpack consequences a prison brings to a region-often with attention toward whether they fuel economic growth. This discussion occasionally invokes the concept environmental sociologists commonly used to examine environmental injustices: LULUs (locally…
How should unconventional oil and gas be regulated? The role of natural resource dependence and economic insecurity
Mechanisms of metapower & procedural injustices in the Colorado Oil and Gas Task Force decision-making process
In the last decade, unconventional oil and gas (UOG) has changed the world’s energy landscapes, often outpacing governments’ efforts to regulate it. Yet, few studies focus on the processes of governance, particularly on questions of procedural equity. Here we examine the process of the 2014 Colorado Oil and Gas Task Force (TF), which was established to address regulatory conflicts over drilling, particularly along the Northern Colorado Front Rang…
Depressed democracy, environmental injustice
Absentee landowners and conservation programs
Left in the Dust
With increased discussions of nuclear energy as a solution to both energy and climate change issues, addressing nuclear policy deserves urgent attention. Though waste storage dominates public attention, uranium mining and milling present their own complexities for individual and community well-being. This case study of Monticello, Utah, a rural community in southeastern Utah that hosted a uranium mill, illustrates uranium's problematic legacy on …
It is not just scale that matters
While the traditional assumption is residents have more confidence in governments that are closest to them, empirical studies supporting this claim remain limited. In this study, we test the claim that 'small is beautiful' by comparing citizen reactions to similar types of decisions affecting Utah residents made by political leaders at different levels of governance. Our primary goal is to test the claim that trust is higher for local governments…
Collective Neoliberalism and Market Fundamentalism
In the US, unconventional oil and gas (UOG) production has elicited strong public response. As production occurs amid residential and commercial spaces, environmental, social, economic, regulatory, and mental health impacts have been documented across locations. Some community groups have mobilized against this activity, while others have not. We examine how and why UOG production becomes normalized despite its disruptions and risks. Through year…
Understanding Self-Rated Health and Unconventional Oil and Gas Development in Three Colorado Communities
Domestic, onshore oil and gas production has increased substantially in the United States in the last ∼20 years, creating a range of positive and negative impacts on communities. In this paper, we add to the growing literature on unconventional oil and gas production (a.k.a., “fracking”) and well-being by evaluating the association between self-reported stress induced by local oil and gas development and subjective well-being in the form of self-…
Free market ideology and deregulation in Colorado's oil fields
Unconventional oil and gas extraction (UOGE) has spurred an unprecedented boom in onshore production in the US. Despite a surge in related research, a void exists regarding inquiries into policy outcomes and perceptions. To address this, support for federal regulatory exemptions for UOGE is examined using survey data collected in 2015 from two Northern Colorado communities. Current regulatory exemptions for UOGE can be understood as components of…
Prisons as Law-Violators and Sites of Environmental Injustice
Environmental justice and natural resource extraction
Extractive industries comprise the operators and firms, workers and communities, and various development activities related to drilling, digging, or mining for coal, oil and gas, various minerals a
A Rigged Process from the Beginning”
Unconventional oil and gas (UOG) production has reinvigorated US production while creating conflicts over governance and environmental injustices. Here, we focus on relationships among power, regulatory conflict, and procedural justice around UOG by examining the Colorado Oil and Gas Task Force (TF) and its decision‐making processes. Instead of statewide voting on UOG ballot measures, Colorado convened a 21‐member TF tasked with making regulatory…
Keep it local? Preferences for federal, state, or local unconventional oil and gas regulations
Unhollowing rural America? Rural human capital flight and the demographic consequences of the oil and gas boom
Green Entrepreneurship
Globalization has often pushed aside the notion that business owners can use their businesses to create household income, influence community behaviors and values, and impact natural resource management. Here, we identify patterns of social awareness described by green entrepreneurs and how they may be drawn into the natural resource management process. We draw upon case studies of small “green” and “green-green” businesses to learn how they inco…
You fine an industry, then return the funding to them
In Commerce City, Colorado, residents contend with multiple environmental hazards and live in the most polluted zip code in the US. Perhaps no source of environmental harm is more visible than the imposing, aging Suncor Oil Refinery. The refinery dominates entire city blocks and residents' daily lives. Since 2005, the refinery has been cited for over nearly 60 environmental and safety violations. Despite this, it continues operating with minor pe…
Layered Sites of Environmental Justice
A growing body of scholarship highlights the merits of fusing green criminology and environmental justice frameworks to better understand intersections among carceral systems, race- and class-based stratification, and environmental harm. This paper explores how correctional institutions (CIs) with known histories of federal environmental law violations compare against other previously established environmentally harmful facilities and land uses. …
Of mills and mines
The extant environmental justice research examines the unequal distribution of environmental risks across and within societies. While patterns of environmental injustice reveal that marginalized communities carry the greatest burden, to date, few scholars have examined the mutually constitutive relationships between environmental risks and intersectionally-subjected individuals and communities. In this article, we utilize intersectionial theory a…
Green Entrepreneurship
Globalization has often pushed aside the notion that business owners can use their businesses to create household income, influence community behaviors and values, and impact natural resource management. Here, we identify patterns of social awareness described by green entrepreneurs and how they may be drawn into the natural resource management process. We draw upon case studies of small “green” and “green-green” businesses to learn how they inco…
Taking Southeast Asia to Market
Left in the Dust
With increased discussions of nuclear energy as a solution to both energy and climate change issues, addressing nuclear policy deserves urgent attention. Though waste storage dominates public attention, uranium mining and milling present their own complexities for individual and community well-being. This case study of Monticello, Utah, a rural community in southeastern Utah that hosted a uranium mill, illustrates uranium's problematic legacy on …
Community development among toxic tailings
Using Monticello, Utah, as our case study, we apply interactional field theory to an understudied area -- the impact of extralocal institutions on community development related to environmental health issues. While the role of external forces in community development efforts is acknowledged in the interactional field theory literature (e.g. Brennan, M., & Luloff, A., (2007). Exploring rural community agency differences in Ireland and Pennsylvania…
Absentee landowners and conservation programs
There’s no real choice but to sign
It is not just scale that matters
While the traditional assumption is residents have more confidence in governments that are closest to them, empirical studies supporting this claim remain limited. In this study, we test the claim that 'small is beautiful' by comparing citizen reactions to similar types of decisions affecting Utah residents made by political leaders at different levels of governance. Our primary goal is to test the claim that trust is higher for local governments…
The elephant in the room
When Is ‘Yes to the Mill’ Environmental Justice? Interrogating Sites of Acceptance in Response to Energy Development
Though grassroots organizations have mobilized against US environmental injustices since; the 1980s, academic definitions of environmental justice (EJ) remain limited in important ways, including: a tendency to privilege cases where activists achieve a successful, ‘tidy’ outcome; inattention to roles natural resource dependence and free market systems play in structuring environmental inequality; and a tendency to under-analyze alternative notion…
A devil's bargain
Laudato Si’
Free market ideology and deregulation in Colorado's oil fields
Unconventional oil and gas extraction (UOGE) has spurred an unprecedented boom in onshore production in the US. Despite a surge in related research, a void exists regarding inquiries into policy outcomes and perceptions. To address this, support for federal regulatory exemptions for UOGE is examined using survey data collected in 2015 from two Northern Colorado communities. Current regulatory exemptions for UOGE can be understood as components of…
Developing deeply intersectional environmental justice scholarship
When first discussing this special issue in 2015, we had no idea that by press time environmental justice activism, regulation, and research would be so vulnerable in the United States, where the m
Keep it local? Preferences for federal, state, or local unconventional oil and gas regulations
Embodied energy injustices
We introduce the new concept of embodied energy injustices in order to encourage integrative, systemic, transboundary assessment of the global implications and responsibility of energy-policy decisions. Embodied energy injustices reframe considerations of energy justice to explicitly consider hidden and distant injustices (upstream or downstream) arising from the extraction, processing, transportation and disposal of energy resources. We assess t…
How should unconventional oil and gas be regulated? The role of natural resource dependence and economic insecurity
Unhollowing rural America? Rural human capital flight and the demographic consequences of the oil and gas boom
Fracking Fortunes
Oil and gas extraction, especially via unconventional means like hydraulic fracturing, is hailed as an economic boon by many commentators and political leaders. However, empirical evidence is limited. In this article, we consider the socioeconomic effects (particularly, related to poverty, employment, income, and wages) of unconventional oil and gas extraction using a national data set of U.S. counties. We use a novel between- and within-county r…
The Right to Resist or a Case of Injustice? Meta-Power in the Oil and Gas Fields
Recent technological innovations in unconventional oil and gas (UOG) production have transformed the global energy landscape. The combination of hydraulic fracturing—commonly referred to as “fracking”—with horizontal drilling in shale plays across the United States has made the nation the top producer of both natural gas and petroleum, after a long hiatus from the top of the list. However, the public is largely marginalized from collective decisi…
Environmental justice and natural resource extraction
Extractive industries comprise the operators and firms, workers and communities, and various development activities related to drilling, digging, or mining for coal, oil and gas, various minerals a
Of mills and mines
The extant environmental justice research examines the unequal distribution of environmental risks across and within societies. While patterns of environmental injustice reveal that marginalized communities carry the greatest burden, to date, few scholars have examined the mutually constitutive relationships between environmental risks and intersectionally-subjected individuals and communities. In this article, we utilize intersectionial theory a…
The Baneberry disaster in review
Embedding the atom
In North America, uranium workers are fighting for their right to participate in a free-market system that provides them with small personal benefits. These workers experience powerlessness, instability, and unpredictability – or social dislocation – by living amidst capitalism’s polluted ecosystems, unstable economies, and disintegrating communities. However, they feel reliant on uranium for their livelihoods and strongly support the industry’s …
Like Oil and Water in the American West
Characterized as a 'wicked' problem, water shortage in the American West will soon become a reality-due to increasing population, climate change, and decreased flows. Concurrently, water-centered technologies such as hydraulic fracturing and directional drilling have facilitated the rapid and widespread growth of unconventional oil and gas (UOG) production in the United States. Water markets are increasingly touted as the best, most efficient, an…
Assessing the state of uranium research
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