ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY
FIELD STATEMENT READING LIST
November 5, 2015
The field statement is the student’s creation of their assessment of the state of the field. There will be 2 or 3 in-depth subfields of the field statement, and these should be designed to help move you towards the dissertation. The field statement will include at least two critical readings from each area on the reading list: Environmental Health, Social Movements, Political Economy of the Environment, Environmental Justice, STS and the Environment, and Energy, Food, and Natural Resources. These will be applied to the overall framework and major themes of the field statement, not written about as a stand-alone “classics core.”The faculty have created a Blackboard course that contains all readings from existing graduate courses in environmental sociology, and students will have access to this to facilitate obtaining readings. Students will deposit in the Blackboard course all readings not already there, to continue building it.
Environmental Health
Critical Texts
Brown, Phil. 2007. Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Movement. New York: Columbia University Press.
Edelstein, Michael. 2004. Contaminated Communities: The Social and Psychological Impacts of Residential Toxic Exposure. Second Edition. Boulder: Westview.
Steingraber, Sandra. 2010. Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment. Second Edition. Cambridge, MA: DaCapo Books.
Additional Reading
Adams, Crystal, Phil Brown, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Julia Green Brody, Ruthann Rudel, Ami Zota, Sarah Dunagan,Jessica Tovar, andSharyle Patton. 2011. “Disentangling the Exposure Experience: The Roles of Community Context and Report-back of Environmental Exposure Data” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 52 (2):180-196.
Altman Rebecca G., Rachel Morello-Frosch, Julia G. Brody, Ruthann A. Rudel, Phil Brown, and Mara Averick. 2008. Pollution Comes Home and Gets Personal: Women’s Experience of Household Chemical Exposure. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 49:417-435.
Baron, Sherry, Raymond Sinclair, Devon Payne-Sturges, Jerry Phelps, Harold Zenick, Gwen W. Collman, and Liam R. O'Fallon 2009. “Partnerships for Environmental and Occupational Justice.” American Journal of Public Health. 99 (S3): S517-S525.
Colborn, Theo, Diane Dumanoski, and John Peterson Meyers. 1996. Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival?--A Scientific Detective Story. New York, NY: Dutton/Penguin USA.
Downey, Liam. 2006. Environmental Racial Inequality in Detroit. Social Forces. 85: 771-796.
Erikson, Kai. 1976. Everything in Its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Klawiter, Maren. 1999. “Racing for the Cure, Walking Women, and Toxic Touring: Mapping Cultures of Action within the Bay Area Terrain of Breast Cancer.” Social Problems. 46:104-126.
Kriebel, David, Joel Tickner, Paul Epstein, John Lemons, Richard Levins, Edward Loechler, Margaret Quinn, Ruthann Rudell, Ted Schettler, and Michael Stoto. 2001. “The Precautionary Principle in Environmental Science.” Environmental Health Perspectives. 109 (9): 871-876.
Langston, Nancy. 2010. Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Little, Peter. C. 2014. Toxic Town: IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks. New York, NY: New York University Press.
Markowitz Gerald and Rosner, David. 2002. Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
McCormick, Sabrina, Julie Brody, Phil Brown, and Ruth Polk. 2004. “Public Involvement in Breast Cancer Research: an Analysis and Model for Future Research.” International Journal of Health Services 34(4):625–46.
Morello-Frosch, Rachel, Manuel Pastor, and James Sadd. 2002. “Integrating Environmental Justice and the Precautionary Principle in Research and Policy Making: The Case of Ambient Air Toxics Exposures and Health Risks among Schoolchildren in Los Angeles.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.584: 47-68.
O'Fallon, Liam R., and Allen Dearry. 2002. "Community-Based Participatory Research as a Tool to Advance Environmental Health Sciences." Environmental Health Perspectives. 110:155-159.
Shostak, Sara. 2004. “Environmental Justice and Genomics: Acting on the Futures of Environmental Health.” Science as Culture. 13(4): 539-562.
Vogel. Sarah. 2009. “The Politics of Plastics: The Making and Unmaking of Bisphenol A ‘Safety’” American Journal of Public Health. 2009. 99:S559–S566
Social Movements
Critical Texts
Brulle,Robert J. Agency, Democracy, and Nature: The U.S. Environmental Movement from a Critical Theory Perspective. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2000.
Gottlieb, Robert. 1993. Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement. Washington, DC: Island Press.
Martinez-Alier, Joan The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2002.
For Further Reading
Alinsky, Saul. 1971. Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals. New York: Random House.
Bell, Shannon. Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice 2013 University of Illinois Press.
Benford, Robert and David Snow. 2000. “Framing Processes and Social Movements: an Overview and Assessment.”Annual Review of Sociology26:611–39.
Benford, Robert D., Helen A. Moore, and J. Allen Williams, Jr. 1993. “In Whose Backyard?: Concern About Siting a Nuclear Waste Facility.” Sociological Inquiry. 63(1): 30-48.
Brown, Phil and Edwin Mikkelsen. 1990.No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action. Berkeley: University of California Press
Brown, Phil and Faith Ferguson 'Making a Big Stink': Women's Work, Women's Relationships, and Toxic Waste Activism" Gender & Society , 1995, 9:145-172.
Brown, Phil Stephen Zavestoski , Sabrina McCormick, Brian Mayer, Rachel Morello-Frosch, and Rebecca Gasior. “Embodied Health Movements: Uncharted Territory in Social Movement Research” Sociology of Health and Illness 2004 26:1-31
Brulle, Robert J. 2000. Agency, Democracy, and Nature: U.S. Environmental Movements from a Critical Theory Perspective. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Mark Dowie. Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996.
Dunlap, Riley and Angela Mertig (eds.), American Environmentalism: The U.S. Environmental Movement 1970-1990. Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis. Chapters by Dunlap and Mertig, Bullard and Wright, and Dunlap.
Epstein, Steven. 1996. Impure Science AIDS, activism and the politics of knowledge.Berkeley: University of California Press
Faber,Daniel (ed.). The Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Environmental Justice Movements in the United States. New York: Guilford, 1998.
Faber, Daniel (ed.). Foundations for Social Change: Critical Perspectives on Philanthropy and Social Movements (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).
Fischer, Frank. Citizens, Experts, and the Environment: The Politics of Local Knowledge. 2000 Duke
Frickel, Scott . “Scientist Activism in Environmental Justice Conflicts: An Argument for Synergy” Society and Natural Resources 2004 17:359-366
Fortun, Kim. Advocacy after Bhopal: Environmental, Disaster, New Global Orders. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Gerlach and Hines. 1970. People, Power Change: Movements of Social Transformation.
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company.
Harrison, J. L. 2014. “Neoliberal Environmental Justice: Mainstream Ideas of Justice in Political Conflict Over Agricultural Pesticides in the United States.” Environmental Politics (ahead-of-print):1–20.
Hofrichter, Richard Reclaimning the Environmental Debate; The Politics of Health in a Toxic Culture 2000 MIT Press
Kasper, Anne and Susan Ferguson , eds., Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic
Krauss, Celene. 1989. “Community Struggles and the Shaping of Democratic Consciousness.” Sociological Forum. 4 (2): 227-239.
Kroll-Smith,J. Stephen and Stephen Robert Couch The Real Disaster Is Above Ground: A Mine Fire and Social Conflict2009 University Press of Kentucky
Levine, Adeline. Love Canal 1982 Lexington Books
Mayer, Brian. 2009. “Cross-Movement Coalition Formation: Bridging the Labor-Environment Divide.” Sociological Inquiry 79(2), 219-239.
Mayer, Brian. Blue-Green Coalitions: Fighting for Safe Workplaces and Healthy Communities. 2008. Cornell University Press.
McCormick, Sabrina. Mobilizing Science: Movements, Participation, and the Remaking of Knowledge 2009, Temple University Press.
Meyer, David. 2004. “Protest and Political Opportunities.”Annual Review of Sociology30:125–45.
Mies, Maria and Vandana Shiva Ecofeminism 2014 Zed Books.
Polletta, Francesca and James Jasper. 2001. “Collective Identity and Social Movements.”Annual Review of Sociology27:283–305
Sawyer, Susan: Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
Schurman, Rachel and William Munro Fighting for the Future of Food; Activists Versus Agribusiness in the Struggle over Biotechnology 2010 University of Minnesota Press
Seager, Joni Earth Follies; Coming to Feminist Terms with the Global Environmental Crisis 1993 Routledge
Setterberg, Fred and Lonny Shavelson Toxic Nation; The Fight to Save our Communities from Chemical Contamination 1993 Wiley
Phil Shabecoff, A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2004.
Shutkin, William. The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century MIT Press
Taylor,Dorceta. Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection: Social Inequality and the Rise of the American Conservation Movement.Duke University Press.(2014).
Tesh, Sylvia Noble Uncertain Hazards: Environmental Activists and Scientific Proof 2000 Cornell University Press
Walsh, Edward J., Rex Warland, and D. Clayton Smith. 1993. “Backyards, NIMBY’s, and Incinerator Sitings: Implications for Social Movement Theory.” Social Problems 40(1): 25-34
Widener, Patricia Oil Injustice: Resisting and Conceding a Pipeline in Ecuador. 2011 Rowman and Littlefield
Political Economy Of The Environment
Critical Texts
Carmin, JoAnn, J. Timmons Roberts, and Thomas K. Rudel. 2010. “Political Economy of the Environment.” Annual Review of Sociology.
Faber, Daniel, Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice: The Polluter-Industrial Complex in the Age of Globalization
O’Connor, James. Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism. New York: Guilford, 1998.
Gould, Kenneth A., David N. Pellow, and Allan Schnaiberg. The Treadmill of Production: Injustice and Unsustainability in the World Economy. Paradigm, 2008.
Additional Readings
Banzhaf, H. Spencer (ed). The Political Economy of Environmental Justice. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012.
Bell, Shannon and Richard York. 2010. “Community Economic Identity: The Coal Industry and Ideology Construction in West Virginia.” Rural Sociology
Bunker, Stephen and Paul Ciccantell. 2003. “Generative sectors and the new historical materialism.” Studies in comparative international development. 37(4):3-30.
Foster, John Bellamy, Brett Clark, and Richard York. The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2011.
Gould, Kenneth, Allan Schnaiberg, and Adam Weinberg. 1996. Local Environmental Struggles: Citizen Activism in the Treadmill of Production. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Jorgensen, A and B Clark. 2009. “Ecological unequal exchange in comparative perspective: A brief introduction.” International journal of comparative sociology.50: 211-14.
Logan, John R. and Harvey Molotch. 1987. Urban Fortunes: the Political Economy of Place. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.
Logan, John R., Rachel Bridges Whaley, and Kyle Crowder. 1997. "The Character and Consequences of Growth Regimes: An Assessment of Twenty Years of Research" Urban Affairs Review. 32: 603-630.
Mol, Arthur, David Sonnenfeld, and GertSpaargaren, eds. The Cological Modernization Reader: Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice. 2009. Routledge.
Morello-Frosch, Rachel. 2002. “Discrimination and the Political Economy of Environmental Inequality.” Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 20: 477-496.
Noble, David F. America By Design: Science, Technology and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism Oxford University Press: Oxford 1977
Oreskes, Naomi and Erik M. Conway. 2010. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. New York: Bloomsbury Press.
Rudel, Thomas K. 2009. “How Do People Transform Landscapes?: A Sociological Perspective on Suburban Sprawl and Tropical Deforestation.” American Journal of Sociology. 115(1):129-154.
Scott, James C.1998. Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Sellers, Christopher C. 1997.Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Shiva,Vandana. Making Peace with the Earth: Beyond Resource, Land, and Food Wars. Women Unlimited, 2012.
Szasz, Andrew. 2007. Shopping our Way to Safety: How we Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
York, Richard, Eugene Rosa, and Thomas Dietz. 2003. “Footprints on the Earth: The Environmental Consequences of Modernity.” American Sociological Review. 68:2 (279-300).
Environmental Justice
Critical Texts
Luke Cole and Sheila Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement2000 NYU Press.
Mohai, Paul, David Pellow, and J. Timmons Roberts. 2009. “Environmental Justice.” Annual Review of Environment and Resources. Vol. 34 (November 2009)
Walker, Gordon. Environmental Justice: Concepts, Evidence and Politics. New York: Routledge, 2012.
Additional Readings
Agyeman, Julian, Robert Bullard, and Bob Evans. Eds. Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World MIT Press
Allen, Barbara: “Uneasy Alchemy Citizens and Experts in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor Disputes” 2003, MIT Press
Bell, Karen. Achieving Environmental Justice: A Cross-National Analysis. Chicago: Policy Press, 2014.
Bullard, Robert and Beverly Wright. 2009. Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina. Philadelphia: Westview Press.
Bullard, Robert. 1990. Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality. Boulder: Westview Press.
Robert D. Bullard and Maxine Waters. The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution. Counterpoint, 2005.
Corburn, Jason Street Science Community Knowledge and Environmental Health Justice
Susan Cutter. Hazards, Vulnerability and Environmental Justice. London: Earthscan, 2006.
Harrison, Jill. 2011. Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice.
Lerner, Steve. 2005. Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Lerner, Steve. Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States. 2010 MIT Press
Ottinger, Gwen and Benjamin Cohen, eds.,Engineers, Scientists, and Environmental Justice . 2011. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Pellow, David, Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice
Pellow, David and Robert Brulle, eds. Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement. 2005. MIT Press
Sandler, Ronald and Phaedra PezzulloEnvironmental Justice and Environmentalism : The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement. 2007. MIT Press
Schlosberg, David, Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Sze, Julie and Jonathan K. London. “Environmental Justice at a Crossroads.” Sociology Compass 2/4 (2008): 1331-1354.
Taylor, DorcetaToxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility.New York University Press. (2014).
STS and the Environment
Critical Texts
Haraway, Donna. 1989. Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. New York: Routledge. Chapter on Teddy-Bear Patriarchy.
Murphy, Michelle. 2006. Sick Building Syndromeand the Politics of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience and Women Workers. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Latour Bruno: (1987). Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press.
Shapin, Steven, and Simon Schaffer. 1985. Leviathan and the Air Pump. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Additional Readings
Beck, Ulrich. 1992. Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. New Delhi: Sage.
Bowker, Geoffrey C., and Susan Leigh Star.Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.
Certeau, Michel "Making Do: Uses and Tactics" in The Practice of Everyday Life, University of California Press, 1984
da Costa, Beatriz and Kavita Philip, eds. 2008. Tactical Biopolitics Art, Activism, and Technoscience. Cambridge, MA:The MIT Press.
Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. 1987. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press.
Edwards, Paul N. 2010. A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Frickel, Scott and Kelly Moore (eds.). 2006. The New Political Sociology of Science: Institutions, Networks, and Power. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Haraway, Donna.1997. Modest Witness@SecondMillennium. New York: Routledge.
Haraway, Donna 2008. When Species Meet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Hayden, Cori. When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico, In-Formation Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
Jasanoff, Sheila. 2005. Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Kohler, Robert E. 1994. Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Kohler, Robert 2002. Landscapes and Labscapes: Exploring the Lab-Field Border in Biology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Landecker, Hannah. 2007. Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Masco, Joseph. 2006. The Nuclear Borderlands. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Nash, Linda. 2004. “The Fruits of Ill-Health: Pesticides and Workers' Bodies in Post-World War II California” Osiris, 2nd Series, 19: 203-219.
Nash, Linda. 2006. Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease and Knowledge. Berkeley: University of California.
Petryna, A. (2002). Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl. Princeton, Princeton University Press.
Rampton, Sheldon and John Stauber. 2000. Trust Us, We’re Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with your Future. New York: Tarcher.
Rheinberger Hans-Jörg. 1997.Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Thompson, Nato and Gregory, Sholette. 2004. The Interventionists: Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life. North Adams, MA: MASS MoCA Publications.
Tsing, Anna LowenhauptFriction: An Ethnography of Global Connection Princeton University Press (2005)
Waterton, Claire. 2002. From Field to Fantasy: Classifying Nature, Constructing Europe. Social Studies of Science 32: 177-204.
Wylie, Sara. 2011. Hormone Mimics and their Promise of Significant Otherness. Science as Culture. 1-28