Special edition from Colorado Water Institute Malin and CSU’s Environmental Justice Working Group guest edited a recent special issue of Colorado Water, in partnership with the Water Center. The articles come from some of the stellar and engaging presentations from the Fall 2017 “Stories of Water Equity and Environmental Justice” symposium held at CSU.
Stephanie Malin, Stacia Ryder, and a Political Science colleague published “Of mills and mines: an intercategorical critique of the hidden harms of natural resource boom and bust cycles in U.S. history” in Environmental Sociology.
Jeni Cross is co-author of “Addressing the Infrastructure Decay Rate in US Cities: the Case for a Paradigm Shift in Information and Communication” published in Part XI The Role of Urban Planning and Public Policies in the edited volume Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure.
Jessie Luna published “The Ease of Hard Work: Embodied Neoliberalism among Rocky Mountain Fun Runners” in Qualitative Sociology in January. Luna joined CSU’s Department of Sociology in Fall 2018 and specializes in environmental inequality, race, food and agriculture, development, and cultural sociology. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11133-019-9412-8#aboutcontent Direct access at: https://rdcu.be/bhWm1 ABSTRACT In contemporary Western countries, thin, fit, and “healthy” bodies operate as important markers […]
Jeni Cross and colleagues published “Trouble with Sense of Place in Working Landscapes” in Society & Natural Resources.
Josh Sbicca and Rebecca Shisler (’16 M.A.) published “Agriculture as Carework: The Contradictions of Performing Femininity in a Male-Dominated Occupation” in Society & Natural Resources.
Stephanie Malin co-authored “Embedding the atom: Pro-neoliberal activism, Polanyi, and sites of acceptance in American uranium communities” published in The Extractive Industries and Society.
Stephanie Malin and Adam Mayer published “How should unconventional oil and gas be regulated? The role of natural resource dependence and economic insecurity” in Journal of Rural Studies.
The Food Sharing Revolution:How Start-Ups, Pop-Ups, and Co-Ops are Changing the Way We Eat was just released by Michael Carolan. The key to successful sharing, he shows, is actually sharing. He warns that food, just like taxis or hotels, can be co-opted by moneyed interests. But when collaboration is genuine, the sharing economy can offer […]
About the book Food Justice Now!: Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle, published this summer by the University of Minnesota Press and available at the CSU Bookstore, explores the relationship between food activism and social justice activism with a historically grounded and ethnographically rich narrative. With his argument that food justice is more than a myopic focus […]
