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David Pellow

Protrait: David Pellow

Professor, Don Martindale Endowed Chair
Ph.D. 1998 Northwestern University
Room 1070 Social Sciences
Phone: 612-624-5006
Email: dpellow@umn.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Interest Areas

Environmental Justice Studies; Racial and Ethnic Inequality; Transnational Social Movements; Qualitative Research Methods; Labor Studies; Immigration.

Current Research

Prof. Pellow is mainly interested in the intersections between social inequality and environmental conflict. He continues to work on transnational environmental justice movements and global policy frameworks concerning sustainability. He is also working on a study of environmental, labor, and immigration conflicts in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley (with Lisa Sun-Hee Park).

Selected Publications

“Environmental Justice,” with Paul Mohai and J. Timmons Roberts. 2009.
Annual Review of Environment and Resources 34:405-430.

“’We Didn’t Get the First 500 Years Right, So Let’s Work on the Next 500 Years’: A Call for Transformative Analysis and Action.” 2009. Environmental Justice 2(1):3-8.

“The Global Waste Trade and Environmental Justice Struggles.” 2009. Pp. 225-236 in Handbook on Trade and the Environment, edited by K. P. Gallagher. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.

The Treadmill of Production: Injustice and Unsustainability in the Global Economy, with Kenneth A. Gould and Allan Schnaiberg. 2008. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.

"The State and Policy: Imperialism, Exclusion, and Ecological Violence as State Policy." 2008. Pp. 47-58 in Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology, edited by K. A. Gould and T. L. Lewis. New York: Oxford University Press.

"Silicon Valley," with Lisa Park. 2008. 2nd edit. Vol. 7. Pp. 510-511 in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, edited by W. A. Darity, Jr. Detroit, MI: Thompson Gale.