David Naguib Pellow has written widely on themes, and edited books, related to the environment. He co-edited, in 2006, the book Challenging the Chip

Challenging the Chip

Challenging the Chip is a 2006 book on "labor rights and environmental justice in the global electronics industry". It is published by Temple University Press, Philadelphia. In three parts, the book looks at global electronics, environmental justice and labor rights, and electronic waste and...

. He is currently Professor, Don Martindale Endowed Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota. Previously, he was 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 (October 2004). 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

California Cultures in Comparative Perspective

California Cultures in Comparative Perspective is a program at the University of California, San Diego in California dedicated to fostering creative and activist interdisciplinary research, teaching, and collaboration among California’s communities, faculty, and students...

. 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 race and ethnicity, the environment, labour, social protest, immigration, free trade agreements, globalization, the global impacts of the high tech industry in Asia, Latin America and elsewhere.

Focus of work

Naguib Pellow's work has focussed 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

Environmental racism

Environmental racism is a sociological term referring to policies and regulations that disproportionately burden minority communities with negative environmental impacts....

, 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.

External links

• Google links to David Naguib Pellow
• MIT Press links to David Naguib Pellow
• Challenging The Chip
• Pellow-linked books on Amazon.com
• The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Justice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy, (New York and London: The New York University Press, 2002) Journal of Urban Affairs 26 (3), 401–403.
• USCD, ethnic studies
• California Cultures in Comparative Perspective
• Web page for David Naguib Pellow