I have two primary areas of research. In a book published in 2015, Inequality, Democracy, and the Environment, I study the role that elite-controlled organizations, institutions, and networks play in harming people, societies, and the environment, focusing in particular on elite-controlled policy planning networks, armed violence organized by the state, commodity chain power, and international trade and finance institutions such as the World Bank and the World Trade Organization. In a book published in 2023, I study the role that violence, broadly defined, plays in producing social order, with a particular emphasis on sexual violence against women, police and political violence against African-Americans, the violence of profit and consumption, and the violence of U.S. militarism.
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environmental sociology, inequality democracy and the environment, natural resource extraction and violence, political economy, political sociology, violence and social order
