Journal of Rural Studies publishes Stephanie Malin
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.
Michael Carolan releases The Food Sharing Revolution
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 […]
Utne Reader publishes sections of Josh Sbicca’s new book
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 […]
The Journal of Peasant Studies publishes Jessie Luna’s research on intersectional inequalities
Jessie Luna published “The chain of exploitation: intersectional inequalities, capital accumulation, and resistance in Burkina Faso’s cotton sector” in The Journal of Peasant Studies this September. Luna joined CSU’s Department of Sociology in Fall 2018 and specializes in environmental inequality, race, food and agriculture, development, and cultural sociology. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado-Boulder, M.A. from […]
Josh Sbicca’s new book examines how food is used in social justice efforts
Story by Jeff Dodge. Originally published on SOURCE. CSU faculty member’s book examines how food is used in social justice efforts Recently the term “food justice” has come to focus almost exclusively on increasing underprivileged groups’ access to culturally appropriate, healthy foods. But a Colorado State University faculty member argues in a new book that […]
Social Science Research publishes Pat Hastings’ research on Income Inequality and Trust
Although both popular and scholarly accounts have argued that income inequality reduces trust, some recent research has been more skeptical.
“Income Inequality and Household Labor” by Pat Hastings published by Social Forces
Using over a decade of time-use and expenditure data, this paper shows how rising income inequality in the U.S. has the potential to reshape domestic labor and, crucially, inequality in domestic labor, by increasing the ability of the affluent to outsource domestic labor by hiring others to perform it.
American Sociological Review publishes Pat Hastings’ “Income Inequality and Class Divides in Parental Investments”
The study, “Income Inequality and Class Divides in Parental Investments,” was published May 21 in the American Sociological Review, the peer-reviewed flagship journal of the American Sociological Association.
Stephanie Malin’s environmental justice research published on The Conversation
Residents tell researchers they consider themselves powerless to control their surroundings or to protect the environment, their health or their property.
Laura Raynolds and Josh Sbicca release market and supply chain report for World Fair Trade Day
The Domestic Fair Trade Association (DFTA), in partnership with the Center for Fair and Alternative Trade (CFAT) is releasing the first-ever comprehensive report on consumer market patterns and awareness of domestic fair trade messaging.