Articles

Damming Brazil: Local Movements and Transnational Struggles over Water, Society and Natural Resources (2009)

A growing range of contestation has arisen in the Brazilian Amazon regarding two proposed large...

 

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Democratizing Science Movements: A New Framework for Contestation., Social Studies of Science (2007)
 

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The Governance of Hydro-electric Dams in Brazil, Journal of Latin American Studies (2007)

This paper examines the governance of hydroelectric dam planning in Brazil with a particular focus...

 

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The Brazilian Anti-Dam Movement: Knowledge Contestation as Communicative Action, Organization & Environment (2006)
 

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The Personal Is Scientific, the Scientific Is Political: The Public Paradigm of the Environmental Breast Cancer Movement (with Phil Brown and Stephen Zvestoski), Sociological Forum (2003)
 

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Policy Issues in Environmental Health Disputes (with Phil Brown, Stephen Zavestoski, Brian Mayer, and Pamela S. Webster), Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2002)
 

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Print Media Coverage of Environmental Causation of Breast Cancer (with Phil Brown, Stephen M. Zavestoski, Joshua Mandelbaum, and Theo Luebke), Sociology of Health and Illness (2001)

Given the growing concern with breast cancer as a largely unexplained and common illness of...

 

Books

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Mobilizing Science: Movements, Participation and the Remaking of Knowledge (2009)

Mobilizing Science theorizes and empirically explores the rise of a new kind of social movement...

 

No Family History: Investigating the Environmental Links to Breast Cancer (2008)

Breast cancer awareness has been on the rise for over twenty years, resulting in improved...

 

Contributions to Books

The Sociology of Risk (with Scott Frey and Eugene Rosa), 21st Century Sociology: A Reference Handbook (2007)
 

Presentations

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Hot or Not?: Recognizing and Managing the Health Impacts of Climate Change, American Sociological Association (2008)

Climate change is already detrimentally affecting the lives and health of many people (Houghton et...

 

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Interview on Channel 9 (2007)

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Poisoned Land: The Science and Politics of the Oklahoma Buyouts (2008)

The world’s most rapidly increasing population of refugees is the group displaced by environmental disaster...

 

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Reframing the Fight: Why Prevention is the Cure for Breast Cancer (2008)