翱蹿蹿颈肠别:听 103c Guggenheim
Affiliated Departments
Geography
Research Interests
Environmental Justice, Environmental Politics, Political Ecology, Agriculture and Food Systems.
Education
Ph.D. 2006 University of California-Santa Cruz
Biography
I am Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado-Boulder. My work is motivated by the following questions: What causes government agencies, social movement actors,听and others to engage in practices that reinforce environmental injustice? How might such actors be reformed to better support environmental justice (EJ)?听 I have used my research on political conflict over agricultural pesticide poisonings in California, escalations in immigration enforcement in rural Wisconsin, and听government agencies鈥� environmental justice efforts to identify and explain the persistence of environmental inequalities and workplace inequalities in the United States today. Most recently, I have used extensive confidential听interviews with staff of state and federal environmental regulatory agencies across the U.S., as well as ethnographic observation of public and closed-door agency meetings, to demonstrate听that the disappointing pace of government agencies鈥� EJ reform efforts stems in part from dominant elements of regulatory workplace culture, especially colorblind racist notions of bureaucratic听neutrality and utilitarian ideas of effectiveness that circulate among staff. As an interdisciplinary scholar, I have drawn on a wide range of debates in geography, political ecology, sociology,听science and technology studies, anthropology, and beyond. I have been especially influenced in recent years by debates on the prospects for EJ through the state, contemporary race theory,听theories of justice, organizational culture, bureaucratic discretion, and insider activism. I have authored two books:听From the Inside Out: The Fight for Environmental Justice within听Government Agencies听(MIT Press, 2019), which received Honorable Mention for the 2020 Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award from the American Sociological Association鈥檚听Section on Environmental Sociology, and听Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice听(MIT Press, 2011), winner of the 2012 Fred Buttel Outstanding Scholarly Achievement听Award from the Rural Sociological Society and the 2012 Association of Humanist Sociology Book Award, as well as many articles and chapters in edited volumes.
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