Publications
I have had the good fortune of working with a number of international collaborators in recent years, ranging from the University’s of Illinois and Arizona in the U.S., and most recently, the University of Washington, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and École Normale Supérieure in France, as well as leading my own research projects. Links and descriptions of the outcomes of this work are provided on this webpage. If you are having trouble accessing any of my work or have any inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact me directly (phonetically as: be f oneill at uw dot edu).
Comment Article - Desalination Research & the Social Sciences
Research Article - Desalination Path Dependency, Techno-optimism & Climate Adaptive Water Management
Research Article - Water for Whom? Desalination & the Cooptation of the Environmental Justice Frame
Research Article - The World Ecology of Desalination
Research Article - A Public Health Frame for Fracking?
Research Article - Water Conservation in Desert Cities
Research Article - Documentary Photography as Vocation
Research Article - "I'd rather be teaching!"
Research Article - The Impacts of Climate Change on Natural Areas Recreation
Research Article - Les mégaprojets hydriques de l’ouest étasunien
Livre - Le Champ des Politiques Hydriques
Book - The Field of Water Policy
Chapitre du Livre - Le champ des politiques hydriques dans l’Ouest étasunien
Chapter - Water Conservation in Arizona Desert Cities
Chapter - Laws of the River
Chapter - Reinventing Water Conservation
Public Sociology - The Problem with Arizona's Desalination Dreams
Public Sociology - Moving the Discussion from Techno-solutionism to Social Equity
Public Sociology - Desalination as a New Frontier of Environmental Justice Struggle
Public Sociology - Desalination and the Political (Blue) Economy of Climate Adaptation
Sociologie Publique - Comprendre la Politique du Dessalement
Public Sociology - Fracking, Public Health, and Biden’s Green New Deal
Review Essay - Demystifying the Global ‘Just Transition’
Review Essay - The Oral Tradition of Pierre Bourdieu
Review Essay - Thinking with Sarah Kaufman's Devil's Pool
Review - Pierre Bourdieu’s Classification Struggles
Review - Eric Perramond’s Unsettled Waters: Rights, Law, and Identity in the American West
Review - Anastasia Samoylova’s FloodZone
Review - Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity
Review - Planetary Social Thought: The Anthropocene Challenge to the Social Sciences
Review - Shaun A. Golding's Electric Mountains
Review - Madeleine Fairbairn's Fields of Gold
Review - Matthew Gandy's Natura Urbana
Press
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