Tamara Mix

author of "Fractured Communities: Risk, Impacts, and Protests Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions"

January 24, 2018

Dr. Tamara L. Mix is the Laurence L. and Georgia Ina Dresser Professor in the Department of Sociology at Oklahoma State University with research interests in environmental justice, social movements, and race, class and gender inequality. A community engaged scholar, she has worked on projects involving a diverse range of stakeholders to address issues of community contamination, water access and quality, food justice, and the community dimensions of resource extraction and production. Current projects focus on environmental justice and community dimensions of energy and resource extraction with an emphasis on unconventional resource technology and induced seismicity in Oklahoma, as well as the implications of food inequality, food justice, and local food production on underserved communities.

While environmental disputes and conflicts over fossil fuel extraction have grown in recent years, few issues have been as contentious in the twenty-first century as those surrounding the impacts of unconventional natural gas and oil development using hydraulic drilling and fracturing techniques—more commonly known as “fracking”—on local communities. In Fractured Communities, leading environmental sociologists present a set of crucial case studies analyzing the differential risk perceptions, socio-environmental impacts, and mobilization of citizen protest (or quiescence) surrounding unconventional energy development and hydraulic fracking in a number of key U.S. shale regions. Fractured Communities reveals how this contested terrain is expanding, pushing the issue of fracking into the mainstream of the American political arena.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2018-honorees/tamara-mix

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