David Naguib Pellow

David Naguib Pellow (born 1969) has written widely on themes, and edited books, related to the environment. He co-edited, in 2006, the book Challenging the Chip. He is currently Dehlsen Chair and Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Environmental Justice Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Previously he was Professor, Don Martindale Endowed Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota and Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He has also been described as "an activist-scholar who has published widely on environmental justice issues in communities of color."

Books authored, edited

Some of David Naguib Pellow's works include book Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago (MIT Press 2004); 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 Weinberg and Allan Schnaiberg); Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice (MIT Press 2007); Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement(University of Minnesota Press 2014); The Treadmill of Production: Injustice and Unsustainability in the Global Economy (Paradigm Press 2008, with Kenneth Gould and Allan Schnaiberg); Keywords for Environmental Studies (New York University Press, co-edited with Joni Adamson and William Gleason); What is Critical Environmental Justice? (Polity Press 2017). He co-edited (2005, with Robert J. Brulle) Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement

Relevant, more accessible

His webpage at the University of California, San Diego site says: "Pellow has sought to make the academic enterprise more relevant and more accessible to non-academic audiences. This is the greatest challenge of the social scientist and one of the greatest dilemmas facing public universities that are primarily focused on faculty research."

Pellow joined the UCSD faculty in 2002. He is also Director of the California Cultures in Comparative Perspective. This research initiative, according to online links, supports "creative interdisciplinary research, teaching and collaborations among faculty, students, and the public".

Specialisation

His area of specialisation include issues concerning environmental justice, 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.

Focus of work

David Naguib 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, occupational health hazards, economic globalization, 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.

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