David Naguib Pellow (born 1969) is Dehlsen Chair and Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Environmental Justice Project at the
University of California, Santa Barbara
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. Previously he was Professor, Don Martindale Endowed Chair, Department of Sociology,
University of Minnesota
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and Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of
California, San Diego. His area of specialisation include issues concerning
environmental justice
Environmental justice is a social movement to address the unfair exposure of poor and marginalized communities to harms from hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses.Schlosberg, David. (2007) ''Defining Environmental Justic ...
, race and ethnicity, labour, social protest, animal rights, immigration, free trade agreements, globalization, the global impacts of the high tech industry in Asia, Latin America and elsewhere.
Biography and Education
He received a Ph. D in Sociology from
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world.
Charte ...
in 1998, with a thesis "Black workers in green industries : the hidden infrastructure of environmental racism."
Focus of work
Pellow's work has focused on the "social and environmental impacts of the U.S. and international waste management industries (garbage, pesticides, incineration, electronic computer wastes etc.) and the global social protest movement that has emerged to combat this." He has also published on issues such as
environmental racism
Environmental racism or ecological apartheid is a form of institutional racism leading to landfills, incinerators, and hazardous waste disposal being disproportionally placed in communities of colour. Internationally, it is also associated with ...
,
racial capitalism
Racial capitalism is a concept reframing the history of capitalism as grounded in the extraction of social and economic value from people of marginalized racial identities, typically from Black people. It was described by Cedric J. Robinson in h ...
, occupational health hazards,
economic globalization
Economic globalization is one of the three main dimensions of globalization commonly found in academic literature, with the two others being political globalization and cultural globalization, as well as the general term of globalization.
Econom ...
, international environmental protest movements, Silicon Valley industries, the global environment in high tech and social impacts, waste management industry, recycling industry, international movement of hazardous chemical wastes and international laws/conventions/treaties concerning
environmental protection
Environmental protection is the practice of protecting the natural environment by individuals, organizations and governments. Its objectives are to conserve natural resources and the existing natural environment and, where possible, to repair dam ...
.
Books
Authored
*''The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Justice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy'' New York University Press 2002, (with Lisa Sun-Hee Park);
*''Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development'' Princeton University Press 2002, (with
Adam S. Weinberg and
Allan Schnaiberg);
*''Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago'' MIT Press, 2004
*''Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry''. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006 (with Ted Smith and David Allen Sommerfeld)
**Translated into Chinese by Di qiu gong min ji jin hui. ''挑戰晶片 : 全球電子業的勞動權與環境正義 / Tiao zhan jing pian : quan qiu dian zi ye de lao dong quan yu huan jing zheng yi'' Xin bei shi xin dian qu : Qun xue, 2014
**Translated into Korean by Jeong-ok Kong. ''Challenging the chip : segye jeonja saneob-ui nodong-gwon-gwa hwan-gyeong jeong-ui'' Seoul : May Day Publishers, 2009.
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*''The Treadmill of Production
Environmental sociology is the study of interactions between societies and their natural environment. The field emphasizes the social factors that influence environmental resource management and cause environmental issues, the processes by whic ...
: Injustice and Unsustainability in the Global Economy'' Paradigm Press 2008, (with Kenneth Gould and Allan Schnaiberg)
*''Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement'' University of Minnesota Press 2014
*''Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice'' MIT Press 2014;
*''What is Critical Environmental Justice?'' Polity Press 2018
Edited
*''Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement'' MIT Press, 2005. (co-edited with Robert J. Brulle )
*''Keywords for Environmental Studies'' New York University Press, 2016 (co-edited with Joni Adamson and William Gleason);
References
External links
Web page for David N. Pellow at UCSB
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1969 births
Living people
American sociologists
Environmental sociologists
American non-fiction environmental writers
University of California, San Diego faculty
University of Minnesota faculty
University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
Activists from California
Environmental justice scholars