The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) conference was held in Baltimore in March. “Justice, Human Rights, and Activism” was the theme of ACJS’s 56th Annual Meeting. Several faculty and graduate students along with one undergraduate attended and cheered on Prabha Unnithan as he was inducted as the 2019–2020 ACJS president. Shown above from left: Ian Greenwood, Jeff Nowacki, Megan […]
Josh Sbicca published “Urban Agriculture, Revalorization, and Green Gentrification in Denver, Colorado” in The Politics of Land.
The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) conference was held in Baltimore in March. “Justice, Human Rights, and Activism” was the theme of ACJS’s 56th Annual Meeting. Several faculty and graduate students along with one undergraduate attended and cheered on Prabha Unnithan as he was inducted as the 2019–2020 ACJS president. Shown above from left: Ian Greenwood, Jeff Nowacki, Megan […]
Striving for a more equitable food system Story by Amanda Moutinho. Originally published by Boulder Weekly Seemingly every day Netflix adds a food documentary, another farmers’ market opens and more restaurants offer farm-to-table fare. While some obvious improvements are being made in the way society consumes food, author, sociologist and CSU professor Joshua Sbicca thinks there […]
Stephanie Malin and colleagues published “Embodied energy injustices: Unveiling and politicizing the transboundary harms of fossil fuel extractivism and fossil fuel supply chains” in Energy Research & Social Science.
Jessie Luna was an invited discussant for the session “Intersections of Interventions: On development, difference, dispossession and discourse” at the Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference in Lexington, Kentucky in February. She also presented a paper there, titled “Quantified Deservingness: a comparative political ecology of technological healthism.”
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 […]
