Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin Madison
Jill Harrison
Assistant Professor
352 Agricultural Hall
1450 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706
On leave through May 2012
Education:
Ph.D., 2006, University Of California - Santa Cruz
Biography:
My teaching and research focus on environmental sociology, sociology of agriculture and food systems, and contemporary im/migration politics.
Through my research projects, I investigate the ways in which state institutions reinforce environmental and other inequalities, as well as innovative ways in which social movement groups struggle to redress those dynamics. I have largely pursued this interest through the lens of environmental justice and an empirical case study of pesticide drift in California’s immigrant farmworking communities. In that project, I unravel the role of the environmental regulatory state in perpetuating and naturalizing environmental injustices and showcases the efforts of activist groups to contest and redress those dynamics. I have also begun to research the relationship between the state and oppression of racialized groups through my recent research on immigration policy enforcement within the United States. I have taken on this task through a case study of Latino workers in Wisconsin’s dairy farm sector, in which I investigate how these workers and their families experience authorities’ e fforts to monitor and regulate unauthorized migrants.
I am a faculty affiliate of numerous programs at UW-Madison (including the Program on Agricultural Technology Studies, the Agroecology Graduate Program, the Holtz Center for Science and Technology, and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies). I have served on the Wisconsin Governor's Council of Migrant Labor and the Wisconsin Migrant Coalition.
Classes:
C&E Soc 140: Introduction to Community and Environmental Sociology
C&E Soc 248: Environment, Natural Resources, and Society
C&E Soc 650: Sociology of Agriculture
C&E Soc 945: Theories of Justice
C&E Soc 948: Environmental Sociology
Documents:
- Harrison, Jill and Sarah Lloyd. 2011. "Illegality at work: Deportability and the productive new era of immigration enforcement." Antipode. [184 kb pdf]
- Harrison, Jill. 2011. "Parsing 'participation' in action research: Navigating the challenges of lay involvement in technically complex participatory science projects." Society and Natural Resources. [354 kb pdf]
- Harrison, Jill. 2008. "Lessons learned from pesticide drift: a call to bring production agriculture, farm labor, and social justice back into agrifood research and activism." Agric. Human Values. [124 kb pdf]
- Harrison, Jill. 2008. "Confronting Invisibility: Reconstructing Scale in California's Pesticide Drift Conflict" in Michael K. Goodman, Maxwell T. Boykoff, and Kyle T. Evered, eds., Contentious Geographies: Environmental Knowledge, Meaning, and Scale, Ashgate. [852 kb pdf]
- Harrison, Jill. 2008. "Abandoned bodies and spaces of sacrifice: Pesticide drift activism and the contestation of neoliberal environmental politics in California." Geoforum. [482 kb pdf]
- Harrison, Jill. 2006. " 'Accidents' and Invisibilities: Scaled Discourse and the Naturalization of Regulatory Neglect in California’s Pesticide Drift Conflict". Political Geography 25: 506-529. [264 kb pdf]
- Harrison, Jill. 2004. "Invisible People, Invisible Places: Connecting Air Pollution and Pesticide Drift in California," in E. Melanie DuPuis, ed., Smoke and Mirrors: The Politics and Culture of Air Pollution, New York: New York University Press. [164 kb pdf]
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