Re: [gep-ed] article recommendations for intro course?

Thu, 17 May 2018 15:21:07 -0700 

Hi,
If I may, I'd like to mention the excellent work done by environmental sociologists looking at corporate influence in US environmental politics, especially the work of Robert Brulle, Riley Dunlap, Aaron McCright, Justin Farrell and their colleagues on corporate foundations and think tanks promoting climtae change denial, Ryan Wishart on coal companies, Peter Dauvergne on "the environmentalism of the rich", Charles Derber on corporate influence on the discourse of sustainability, Eric Bonds and Liam Downey on corporate influence on environmental policy, Sheldon Kamieniecki has two books on the topic, etc. etc.
There's also an amazing interdisciplinary partnership project in Canada that looks specifically at the influence of the oil industry in Canadian politics, including intercorporate networks, think tanks, lobbying, cultural influence, etc. (which I have the privilege to be a part of, see www.corporatemapping.ca). It would be important I think that someone starts a similar project in the US.
On race, class and environmental politics, I'd suggest work by Kari Norgaard, Shannon Bell, Robert Bullard, Julian Agyeman, David Pellow, etc. I must admit I'm a bit surprised that these questions have come up on this listserv, given the wealth of literature on these topics, but perhaps it was intended more specifically and I'm not understanding well. 


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Bell, Shannon Elizabeth. 2013. /Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice/. Champaign (IL): University of Illinois Press.
Bonds, Eric. 2011. “The Knowledge-Shaping Process: Elite Mobilization and Environmental Policy.” /Critical Sociology/ 37(4):429–46.
Bonds, Eric. 2015. “Challenging Global Warming’s New ‘Security Threat’ Status.” /Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice/ 27(2):209–16.
Bonds, Eric. 2016a. “Beyond Denialism: Think Tank Approaches to Climate Change.” /Sociology Compass/ 10(4):306–17.
Bonds, Eric. 2016b. “Losing the Arctic: The U.S. Corporate Community, the National-Security State, and Climate Change.” /Environmental Sociology/ 2(1):5–17.
Bonds, Eric. 2016c. “Upending Climate Violence Research: Fossil Fuel Corporations and the Structural Violence of Climate Change.” /Human Ecology Review/ 22(2):3–23.
Brulle, Robert J. 2014. “Institutionalizing Delay: Foundation Funding and the Creation of U.S. Climate Change Counter-Movement Organizations.” /Climatic Change/ 122(4):681–94.
Brulle, Robert J., Liesel Hall Turner, Jason Carmichael, and J. Craig Jenkins. 2007. “Measuring Social Movement Organization Populations: A Comprehensive Census of U.S. Environmental Movement Organizations.” /Mobilization: An International Quarterly Review/ 12(3):195–211. 


Dauvergne, Peter. 2016. /Environmentalism of the Rich/. Boston: MIT Press.
David Naguib Pellow. 2017. /What Is Critical Environmental Justice?/ Polity Press.
Derber, Charles. 2010. /Greed to Green: Solving Climate Change and Remaking the Economy/. Boulder (CO) and London: Paradigm Publishers.
Downey, Liam. 2015. /Inequality, Democracy, and the Environment/. New York: New York University Press.
Farrell, Justin. 2016a. “Corporate Funding and Ideological Polarization about Climate Change.” /Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences/ 113(1):92–97.
Farrell, Justin. 2016b. “Network Structure and Influence of the Climate Change Counter-Movement.” /Nature Climate Change/ 6(4):370–74.
Gonzalez, George A. 2001. /Corporate Power and the Environment: The Political Economy of U.S. Environmental Policy/. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Guel, Anel, Rachel Kelly, Rich Pirog, Jane Henderson, Kyeesha Wilcox, Taylor Wimberg, et al. 2017. /An Annotated Bibliography on Structural Racism Present in the U.S. Food System/. 5th ed. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems.
Jacques, Peter J., Riley E. Dunlap, and Mark Freeman. 2008. “The Organisation of Denial: Conservative Think Tanks and Environmental Scepticism.” /Environmental Politics/ 17(3):349–85.
Kamieniecki, Sheldon. 2006. /Corporate America and Environmental Policy: How Often Does Business Get Its Way?/ Stanford, Calif: Stanford Law and Politics/Stanford University Press.
Kraft, Michael E. and Sheldon Kamieniecki, eds. 2007. /Business and Environmental Policy: Corporate Interests in the American Political System/. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Mascarenhas, Michael J. 2016. “Where the Waters Divide: Neoliberal Racism, White Privilege and Environmental Injustice.” /Race, Gender & Class; New Orleans/ 23(3/4):6–25.
McCright, Aaron M. and Riley E. Dunlap. 2003. “Defeating Kyoto: The Conservative Movement’s Impact on U.S. Climate Change Policy.” /Social Problems/ 50(3):348–73.
Molotch, Harvey. 1976. “The City as a Growth Machine: Toward a Political Economy of Place.” /American Journal of Sociology/ 82(2):309–32.
Norgaard, Kari Marie. 2012. “Climate Denial and the Construction of Innocence: Reproducing Transnational Environmental Privilege in the Face of Climate Change.” /Race, Gender & Class/ 19(1/2):80–103.
Wishart, Ryan. 2012. “Coal River’s Last Mountain: King Coal’s Après Moi Le Déluge Reign.” /Organization & Environment/ 25(4):470–85. 





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On 2018-05-17 14:35, Stacy VanDeveer wrote:

Hi all,
So this may reveal some of my biases where a lot of American politics scholarship is concerned...  but I find that there is also a dearth of work connecting environment & sustainability to race and and class issues and concerns in American politics. In short - to Michele, Tabitha and others - what may be needed if political science can’t rise to these challenges is to more explicitly open such searches up to social science disciplines where such concerns are more consistently at the center of inquiry. 

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On May 17, 2018, at 5:29 PM, Tabitha Marie Benney <tabitha.ben...@poli-sci.utah.edu <mailto:tabitha.ben...@poli-sci.utah.edu>> wrote:
Great point!  We recently had two failed searches for an Americanist that also did Environment.  We had to expand the search to include Associate level candidates and finally got a fantastic scholar, but the pool was extremely limited otherwise. 

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Hi,
We’re hoping to hire in the area of American politics and environment in the next year or so and I’ve been struck by how few people are working in this space. There is a lot of work on US environmental policy but as far as I can tell not much that connects some traditional issues in American politics with the environmental issue domain. 

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*Subject:* RE: [gep-ed] article recommendations for intro course?
Many thanks to all who replied to my inquiry (David, Johnathan, Leah, Tabitha, and others off-list!).  This is a very helpful listserv.
After skimming and sometimes reading carefully all the suggested work, I am struck by how little attention is given to the roles of campaign finance and corporate lobbying in environmental decisionmaking and outcomes.  Given the outsized role of wealthy campaign contributors to the contemporary American political process, I wonder if I just missed it, or maybe there is a free-standing article on this somewhere? 

Thank you again!

--Debra

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*Subject:* RE: [gep-ed] article recommendations for intro course?
I was going to recommend the exact same chapter from the Vig and Kraft book.  In fact, the first three chapters really do it all in terms of introducing students to the politics side.
And the most recent edition is just as good - although it was written just before the US election and they clearly thought Hilary was going to win (as we all did). 

Best,

Tabitha

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Hi Debra,
This probably won't give you everything your students need--especially as regards the more expressly "political" dimensions--but chapter 1 in Vig and Kraft, /Environmental Policy:  New Directions for the 21st Century/, might be useful.  (Full disclosure:  that's based on the 6th edition; I haven't seen the latest). 

Best,

Jonathan
On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Debra Javeline <javel...@nd.edu <mailto:javel...@nd.edu>> wrote: 

    Hello,

    I am increasingly encountering students from other disciplines
    (engineering, architecture, biology, theology, etc.) who have no
    exposure to politics or political science.  I am searching for an
    article that I can assign in Intro to Sustainability that would
    give them some basic information on the role of lobbying,
    campaign finance, legislation, regulatory bodies, taxation, and
    other dimensions of politics in promoting or obstructing action
    on environmental concerns.

    Is there a single “go to” article or book chapter that
    essentially explains how politics works (and applies specifically
    to environmental issues)?  If not, are there a few that could be
    combined? The course is not an environmental politics course, so
    I don’t have the luxury of assigning as much writing on politics
    as I’d like.  The assignment needs to be appropriate for an intro
    course and assume no knowledge, because wow, they are shockingly
    innocent.

    Best regards,

    Debra

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