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This article reviews ethnographic literature of environmental justice (EJ). Both a social movement and scholarship, EJ is a crucial domain for examining the intersections of environment, well-being, and social power, and yet has largely... more
The widespread opposition to government plans for mining bauxite in the Central Highlands of Vietnam that emerged in early 2009 and late 2008 was a major political event. However, rather than emphasizing any particular group or approach... more
This article examines the social life of PFAS contamination (a class of several thousand synthetic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) and maps the growing research in the social sciences on the unique conundrums and complex travels of... more
Since 2001, the Ifugao Rice Terraces has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Danger. Maintaining the heritage site, while not curtailing needed infrastructure, has be-come a challenge. This research focuses on the link between... more
This study observing the deforestation in the protected forest areas in Pagaralam (formerly part of the Lahat Regency) of South Sumatra Province in Indonesia. The relationship between population and environment in the case of the... more
In 1987, the United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice released its groundbreaking study, Toxic Waste and Race in the United States. The report found race to be the most significant predictor of where hazardous waste... more
This paper tries to engage with nuances of new and more direct 'conservation' paradigm which has developed recently i.e. PES (Payments for Environmental Services). It's direct approach of striking a deal between environmental service (ES)... more
This article examines the reinvigoration of outer space imaginaries in the era of global environmental change, and the impacts of these imaginaries on Earth. Privatized space research mobilizes fears of ecological, political, or economic... more
In a world saturated by toxic substances, the plight of exposed populations has figured prominently in a transdisciplinary body of work that we call political ecologies of toxics. This has, in turn, sparked concerns about the unintended... more
Resumo: Neste artigo, discutimos algumas reações sociais e simbólicas ao processo de invasão biológica conduzido por suínos ferais da espécie Sus scrofa (javalis e seus híbridos com porcos domésticos) na região de fronteira... more
The theme of the commons has long been discussed, with a variety of meanings. The chapter addresses basic questions and approaches from an environmental sociology perspective. It first looks at the origins of the debate, marked by... more
Our article analyzes interdisciplinary literature within the social sciences on outcomes of environmental cleanups at Superfund, brownfield, and other contaminated sites. By focusing on postremediation sites and outcomes, we expand the... more
The research presented in this paper is structured on the basis of the extensive literature on the world energy shift and, in particular, the dynamics of the political, social, market, and community acceptability of different energy... more
The materiality of pollution is increasingly embodied in humans, animals, and the living environment. Ethnographic research, especially from within the fields broadly construed as medical anthropology, environmental anthropology, disaster... more
This article reviews how global hydropower assemblages catalyze socioecological change in the world’s rivers. As a quintessential megaproject, massive dams and the hydropower they generate have long captivated the modernist development... more
A possible explanation for the unusually high occurrence of pleural cancer (mesothelioma) in New Caledonia is the high presence of naturally occurring asbestos (NOA). Through the lens of the issue of NOA, this contribution analyses how... more