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Readings in Environmental Sociology

Aronson, Hal. 1993. “Becoming an Environmental Activist: The Process of Transformation from Everyday Life into Making History in the Hazardous Waste Movement.” Journal of Military and Political Sociology 21:63-80.

Brown, Wendy. 1988. Manhood and Politics: a Feminist Reading in Political Theory. Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield.

Capek, Stella. 1993. “The 'Environmental Justice' Frame: A Conceptual Discussion and an Application.” Social Problems 40:5-22.

Cronon, William. 1983. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang.

Cronon, William. 1990. “Modes of Prophecy and Production: Placing Nature in History.” Journal of American History 76:1122-1131.

Cronon, William. 1991. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: Norton.

Cronon, William. 1992. “A Place for Stories.” Journal of American History :1347-1376.

Cronon, William. 1994. “Landscapes of Abundance and Scarcity.” Pp. 602-637 in Oxford History of the American West, edited by C. A. Milner, C. A. O'Connor, and S. Martha A. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Cronon, William. 1996. “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature.” in Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. New York: Norton.

Davis, Mike. 1998. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. New York: Metropolitan Books.

Dickens, Peter. 1996. Reconstructing Nature: Alienation, Emancipation, and the Division of Labour. London: Routledge.

DuPuis, E. Melanie and Peter Vandergeest. 1996. “Creating the Countryside: The Politics of Rural and Environmental Discourse.” . Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Fowler, Robert Booth. 1995. The Greening of Protestant Thought. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press.

Hannigan, John A. 1995. Environmental Sociology: A Social Constructionist Perspective. London: Rutledge.

Harvey, David. 1996. Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

Horkheimer, Max and Theodor W. Adorno. 1944/1993. Dialectic of Enlightenment. New York: Continuum.

Humphrey, Craig R., Tammy L. Lewis, and Frederick H. Buttel. 2002. Environment, Energy, and Society: a new synthesis. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing.

Jenkins, J. Craig and Charles Perrow. 1977/1997. “Insurgency of the Powerless: Farm Worker Movemetns (1946-1972).” in Social Movements, edited by D. McAdam and D. A. Snow. Los Angeles: Roxbury.

Johnson, Robert Underwood. 1968. “Aesthetics and Conservation.” Pp. 68-70 in The American Environment: Readings in the History of Conservation, edited by R. Nash. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.

Langston, Nancy. 1995. Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West, Edited by W. Cronon. Seattle: University of Washington Peess.

Leopold, Aldo. 1966/1949. A Sand County Almanac. New York: Ballantine Books.

Lichterman, Paul. 1996. The Search for Political Community: American Activists Reinventing Commitment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Macauley, David. 2000. “Walking the city: An essay on peripatetic practices and politics.” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 11:3-43.

McCully, Patric. 2001. Silenced Rivers: The ecology and politics of large dams. London: Zed Books.

Merchant, Carolyn. 1989. Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press.

O'Connor, James. 1973. The Fiscal Crisis of the State. New York: St. Martin's Press.

O'Connor, James. 1988. “Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: a Theoretical Introduction.” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 1.

O'Connor, James. 1998. Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism. New York: Guilford.

Peluso, Nancy Lee. 1996. “'Reserving' Value: Conservation Ideology and State Protection of Resources.” in Creating the Countryside: The Politics of Rural and Environmental Discourse, edited by E. M. DuPuis and P. Vandergeest. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Redclift, Michael and Ted Benton. 1994. “Social Theory and the Global Environment.” . London: Routledge.

Schnaiberg, Allan. 1980. The Environment: From Surplus to Scarcity. New York: Oxford University Press.

Schnaiberg, Allan and Kenneth Alan Gould. 2000. Environment and Society : The Enduring Conflict. Caldwell, N.J.: Blackburn Press.

Schnaiberg, Allan, David N. Pellow, and Adam Weinberg. 2002. “The Treadmill of Production and the Environmental State.” Pp. 15-32 in The Environmental State Under Pressure, vol. 10. New York: Elsevier Science Ltd.

Szasz, Andrew. 1994. Ecopopulism: Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Vandergeest, Peter and Nancy Lee Peluso. 1995. “Territorialization and state power in Thailand.” Theory and Society 24:385-426.

Weisman, Alan. 1998. Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Co.

White, Richard. 1980. Land Use, Environment, and Social Change: The Shaping of Island County, Washington. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

White, Richard. 1983. The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change Among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Worster, Donald. 1979. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930's. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Worster, Donald. 1985. Rivers of Empire: Aridity and the Growth of the American West. Oxford: Oxford University Press.