David Pellow


David Naguib Pellow is 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. 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.

Biography and Education

He received a Ph. D in Sociology from Northwestern University in 1998, with a thesis "Black workers in green industries : the hidden infrastructure of environmental racism."

Focus of work

Pellow's ] work has focused on the "social and environmental impacts of the U.S. and international waste management industries 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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