Portrait by Jason Varney.

A protester holds up a sign that reads, “We will not be a sacrifice zone” while attending an event responding to pollution from lithium industry in California. https://www.kpbs.org/news/environment/2024/12/04/imperial-valley-advocates-seek-environmental-and-labor-commitments-from-regions-lithium-industry

*Fellow Spotlight*

2024-25 Regional Faculty Fellow @amleq.bsky.social is an environmental sociologist and Assistant Professor in Sociology at Drexel University who researches how people use stories of place, belonging, and repair to diagnose social problems across the rural-urban spectrum.

Welp, the US Climate impacts screening tool has disappeared. screeningtool.geoplatform.gov. We can see through the @waybackmachine.bsky.social that it was working yesterday.

The multidimensional relationship between renewable energy deployment and carbon dioxide emissions in high-income nations - npj Climate Action npj Climate Action - The multidimensional relationship between renewable energy deployment and carbon dioxide emissions in high-income nations

bumping my colleague Xiaorui Huang's fabulous article in @nature.com climate action on the relationship between renewable energy deployment and carbon dioxide emissions in high-income nations. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Tuan was such a revolutionary and humanist theorist--and his theory rarely feels 'theoretical' to me, but rather wise observations about the world and our very human interactions with it. Thanks for your reflections!

Right? what a phenomenal thinker and writer, and so influential to me. I got to see his Last Lecture at UW, which now, looking back, was a huge moment for me as a young grad student.

a lovely and acute summary of my interview with Kyle Green for Give Theory a Chance!

Check out this fun conversation about how geographer Yi-Fu Tuan shaped my new book, and why I think sociologists need to be more like Tuan here @thesocietypages.bsky.social
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Q&A: 'Why Do People Stay?' | The Daily Yonder Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a

The stellar rural newspaper organization, @dailyyonder.bsky.social, interviewed me about rural Wisconsin residents' decision making, environmental ethics, and my personal motivations for the research backing Who We Are, here: dailyyonder.com/qa-why-do-pe...

'Who We Are Is Where We Are': Discovering home in Iron County after mining industry’s exit The history of Iron County serves as a microcosm of how deindustrialization in the 20th century affected communities across the Midwest, according to sociologist Amanda McMillan Lequieu, who spent yea...

Wisconsin's @npr.org covered the rural community that I studied, in this interview:
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check out a few of my essays on findings from my book, like this in @theconversation.com on why people stay in hard places: theconversation.com/why-people-s...

Disposable issues: The Sociological Review magazine’s #TSRWaste issue looks at wasted resources, wasted opportunities and wasted lives.

Contributions from Miriam Emefa Dzah, @jedalegado.bsky.social, Aline Stehrenberger, Amit Balmiki, Mark Parsons, Alexandrina Vanke and many more.

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And, if you want to buy the book with a discount, CUP20 gets you 20% off: cup.columbia.edu/book/who-we-...

This book compares two formerly integrated rural and urban communities to analyze the social construction and renegotiation of home in the face of economic crisis.

Unboxing my new book, 'Who we are is where we are: Making home in the American Rustbelt'! What a labor of love. Why do people stay in hard places, when all evidence suggests leaving is the best best? Read the book!