Jill Lindsey Harrison's research while affiliated with University of Colorado Boulder and other places
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Publications (23)
In this article, I address a set of recent publications that explicitly critique U.S. environmental justice (EJ) movements and scholars for looking to the state for protection from environmental harm. These publications have argued that U.S. EJ movements and scholars have become preoccupied with seeking justice through state institutions instead of...
Background
Increasing engineering students' engagement with public welfare is central to promoting ethical responsibility among engineers and enhancing engineers' capacity to serve the public good. However, little research has investigated how student experience attempts to increase engagement with public welfare concerns.
Purpose/Hypothesis
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Losses from hazard events disproportionately affect long-term development trajectories and activities of communities in the Global South. For this reason, researchers often discuss the growing intersections in hazards and development work. However, despite longstanding considerations of the interrelated nature of these fields, the integration of ha...
The concept of a ‘just transition’ positions justice concerns of workers, front-line communities, and other marginalized groups at the center of sustainability efforts. However, related scholarship has largely neglected conflicts that arise between sustainability and justice goals. A framework is developed to identify three main tensions that plann...
Environmental justice (EJ) scholars have argued that agencies’ EJ efforts have done little to accomplish core goals of the EJ movement: democratizing decision-making and reducing environmental inequalities. Scholars explain that agencies’ EJ efforts are undermined by industry and political elites hostile to environmental regulations, shortcomings o...
Scholarship at the intersection of social movement and organizational theories has illuminated intra-organizational factors that shape agencies' efforts to implement policies social movements have fought for, emphasizing the roles of agency leaders' ideological commitments to movement policy, organizational capacity, and sanctions to ensure complia...
In this article, I augment scholars’ explanations for why agencies’ environmental justice (EJ) programs often fail to meet EJ movement principles. Other scholars have shown that countermovement actors within the state and from industry have coopted EJ policy implementation by reframing ‘EJ’ away from activist principles. Drawing on insights from so...
Agrifood scholars have long investigated the relationship between farm size and a wide variety of social and ecological outcomes. Yet neither this scholarship nor the extensive research on farmworkers has addressed the relationship between farm size and job quality for hired workers. Moreover, although this question has not been systematically inve...
While sociologists have shown how employers contribute to occupational segregation along lines of race, gender, and nativity, little attention has been paid to unpacking why employers engage in those practices. We take on this gap through a case study of hired labor relations on Wisconsin dairy farms, which have become segregated along lines of nat...
Our goal in this paper is to identify how recent escalations in immigration enforcement and changes in migration practices affect the ability of the state to continue to serve two of its key “productive” functions: protecting capital accumulation within industry and ensuring the state's own political legitimacy in the eyes of the public. We draw...
An examination of political conflicts over pesticide drift and the differing conceptions of justice held by industry, regulators, and activists. © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. All rights reserved.
Participatory action research (PAR) is widely recognized for its potential to improve environmental problem solving. However, PAR proponents and observers have paid relatively little attention to the ways in which lay participation complicates the research process. In this article, I examine the challenges presented by lay participation in the case...
Citations
... However, the first city to address EJ was Oakland, 2 decades earlier in 1998. We expected that newer plans would have a stronger focus on EJ based on trends in growing EJ advocacy statewide (London, 2022;London & Harrison, 2021). We found the frequency of the term and density of the topic in plans to be greater in newer plans; twothirds of the city plans that addressed EJ were adopted within the last 10 years, indicating a growing local interest in EJ. ...
... A more recent study [37] conducted 26 in-depth interviews with students at one public and one private university in the US. The outcome showed that the engineering students had difficulty justifying the value of non-technical work and integrating community knowledge into projects. ...
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... However, highly complex or chaotic problems, such as learning from past disasters, are seldom part of engineering curricula (Hadgraft & Kolmos, 2020) and there are shortcomings in terms of awareness of how to deal with and learn from failure (Edmondson & Sherratt, 2022;Goldberg et al., 2019;Pearson et al., 2018). Moreover, studies with engineering students showed that there is little knowledge and understanding about topics such as resilient infrastructures or risk management within their education (Chittoori et al., 2020;Contreras et al., 2020;Rokooei, Vahedifard, & Belay, 2022). Therefore, education needs to better embed the concept of resilience (Kharrazi, Kudo, & Allasiw, 2018;Pearson et al., 2018). ...
... In all, green growth is full of struggles between tackling the environmental crisis and social inequity while still boosting economic growth (Parr 2016), which in rural regions are seen as three interdependent objectives (OECD 2020a). The struggle appears when assessing the justice of the distribution of social, economic, and environmental costs or benefits resulting from green growth (Parr 2016;Ciplet & Harrison 2020). Socio-economic (in)equity is also a critical approach employed for assessing the circumstances in which growth is acceptable or unacceptable. ...
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... In addition, this duality of being both engineering and business professionals creates what we call a conflict of identities amongst engineers. [24], [48]. For students, having established an identity as engineers means navigating a dualism that frames themselves as extremely technical personnel and that supposes everything other than technical to be less valuable [48]. ...
... This may include attending to distribution, recognition, interactions, receptivity, and (potentially) reparation (Toxopeus et al., 2020;Josephs et al., 2021). At the same time, environmental agencies convening governance forums often perceive contending with power differences as beyond the scope of their work and mission of their agency (Harrison, 2017;Kohl, 2019). As a result ecosystem-centered governance, policies, programs, and practices do not always democratize decision-making or reduce inequalities (Bullard, 2007;Agyeman, 2008;Shilling et al., 2009;Harrison, 2015Harrison, , 2019Konisky, 2015;George and Reed, 2017;Dobbin and Lubell, 2021). ...
... Fear of being detected and deported can increase stress levels among undocumented farmworkers [17]. Unlike fruit and vegetable growers who may be eligible for H-2A temporary visas, there is no legal visa program available for dairy farmworkers and the majority of foreign-born dairy workers are undocumented [16,18,19]. Previous research found that immigrant workers without H-2A visas have higher levels of stress [20]. ...
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... For example, critical EJ scholars demonstrate how proenvironmental and colorblind discourses erase racial inequalities and allow government staff, planners, and citizens to resist antiracist policies and practices. 42,43,44 In addition, institutions privilege scientific knowledge over local, indigenous, or experiential knowledge. 45 Government and nonprofit actors undermine community claims by asserting their scientific authority or framing themselves as responsible practitioners, acting in accordance with their organizational mission or mandate. ...
... For example, when scientists failed to incorporate Cumbrian sheep farmers' knowledge of sheep grazing while trying to determine how to respond to the radiation released by the Chernobyl disaster, scientists reached an inaccurate conclusion (Wynne 1992(Wynne , 1996. In California, scientists assess pesticide safety assuming perfect usage conditions without consulting the knowledge of farmworkers familiar with actual usage conditions (Harrison 2011 These examples also point to power asymmetries between experts and laypeople. Some call for including lay knowledge in public decision-making because excluding laypeople from providing input in decisions that affect their lives violates the principles of democracy (Nelkin 1975) and provides opportunities for abuse by the wealthy and powerful (Gordon 2021;Haraway 1988;Harrison 2011;Irwin 1995;Krings, Kornberg, and Lane 2019;Smith 2012). ...
... Academics and scholar-activists have explored the injustices faced by food workers from many perspectives, backgrounds, and countries. They have shown that even producers meeting ecological standards do not necessarily provide better working conditions (Dumont & Baret, 2017;Harrison & Getz, 2015;Soper, 2019;Weiler et al., 2016). Many minority world countries struggle to balance reliance on migrant food workers with a desire to limit immigration (Rye & Scott, 2018). ...
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