Books
Bell, Shannon Elizabeth. 2016. Fighting King Coal: The Challenges to Micromobilization in Central Appalachia. The MIT Press, Urban and Industrial Environments Series.
Bell, Shannon Elizabeth. 2013. Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice. University of Illinois Press.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters
(*indicates graduate or undergraduate student coauthor)
Labuski, Christine, and Shannon Elizabeth Bell. Forthcoming. “Ecofeminisms.” In Jordan Fox Besek, Ian Carrillo, J.P. Sapinski, and Diana Stuart (eds.) Environmental Sociology Now. University of California Press.
Bell, Shannon Elizabeth. Forthcoming. “Energy, Society, and the Environment.” In Kenneth A. Gould and Tammy L. Lewis (Eds.) Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology, Fourth Edition. Oxford University Press.
Baller,Cameron Reid* and Shannon Elizabeth Bell. 2024. “An Ecosystem of Tactics: Bridging the Radical and Moderate Flanks in a Pipeline Resistance Movement.” Energy Research & Social Science. Vol. 117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103714.
Bell, Shannon Elizabeth, Michael Hughes, Grace Tuttle, Russell Chisholm, Stephen Gerus, Danielle Mullins*, Cameron Baller*, Kelly Scarff, Rachel Spector,* and Denali Nalamalapu. 2024. “Pipelines and Power: Psychological Distress, Political Alienation, and the Breakdown of Environmental Justice in Government Agencies’ Public Participation Processes.” Energy Research & Social Science. Vol. 109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103406.
Sovacool, Benjamin K., Shannon Elizabeth Bell, Cara Daggett, Christine Labuski, Myles Lennon, Lindsay Naylor, Julie Klinger, Kelsey Leonard, and Jeremy Firestone. 2023. “Pluralizing Energy Justice: Incorporating Feminist, Anti-Racist, Indigenous, and Postcolonial Perspectives.” Energy Research & Social Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.102996
Bell, Shannon Elizabeth, Steven Gerus*, Danielle Mullins*, and Michael Hughes. 2022. “Resistance, Acceptance, and Quiescence: The Role of Social Networks in Predicting Responses to a New Natural Gas Pipeline.” Environmental Justice. 16(1):29-35. https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/env.2021.0112
Ergas, Christina, Laura McKinney, and Shannon Elizabeth Bell. 2021. “Intersectionality and the Environment.” In Beth Caniglia, Andrew Jorgensen, Stephanie A. Malin, Lori Peek, David N. Pellow, and Xiaorui Huang (eds.) International Handbook of Environmental Sociology. Springer.
Shannon Elizabeth Bell, Cara Daggett, and Christine Labuski (equal authorship). 2020. “Toward Feminist Energy Systems: Why Adding Women and Solar Panels is Not Enough.” Energy Research & Social Science. 68: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101557
Received the 2021 Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award from the Environmental Sociology Section of the American Sociological Society.
Translated to French and Croatian
Bell, Shannon Elizabeth. 2020. “Energy, Society, and the Environment.” In Kenneth A. Gould and Tammy L. Lewis (Eds.) Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology, Third Edition. Oxford University Press.
Emily Satterwhite, Shannon Elizabeth Bell, Linsey C. Marr, Christopher K. Thompson, Aaron J. Prussin II, Lauren Buttling*, Jin Pan*, and Julia M. Gohlke. 2019. “Building Interdisciplinary Partnerships for Community-Engaged Environmental Health Research in Appalachian Virginia.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(5):1695. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051695
Dockstader, Sue* and Shannon Elizabeth Bell. 2019. “Ecomodern Masculinity, Energy Security, and Green Consumerism: The Rise of Biofuels in the United States.” Critical Sociology. 46(4-5): 643-660. https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920519885010
Bell, Shannon Elizabeth, Jenrose Fitzgerald, and Richard York. 2019. “Protecting the Power to Pollute: Identity Co-optation, Gender, and the Public Relations Strategies of Fossil Fuel Industries in the United States.” Environmental Sociology. 5(3): 323-338. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2019.1624001
Hao, Feng; Jay Michaels, and Shannon Elizabeth Bell. 2019. “Social Capital’s Influence on Environmental Concern in China: An Analysis of the 2010 Chinese General Social Survey.” Sociological Perspectives. 62(6):844–864. https://doi.org/10.1177/0731121419835504
York, Richard and Shannon Elizabeth Bell. 2019. “Energy Transitions or Additions? Why a Transition from Fossil Fuels Requires More Than the Growth of Renewable Energy.” Energy Research & Social Science. 51:40-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.01.008
Martínez Novo, Carmen, Shannon Elizabeth Bell, Subhadra Mitra Channa, Annapurna Devi Pandey, and Luis Alberto Tuaza Castro. 2018. “Indigenous Social Movements in Mountain Regions.” In Ann Kingsolver and Sasikumar Balasundaram (Eds.) Global Mountain Regions: Conversations Toward the Future. Indiana University Press.
Bell, Shannon Elizabeth. 2017. “Environmental Injustice and the Pursuit of a Post-Carbon World: The Unintended Consequences of the Clean Air Act as a Cautionary Tale for Solar Energy Development.” Brooklyn Law Review. 82(2):529-557. https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/blr/vol82/iss2/6/
Social Sciences Feminist Network Research Interest Group (co-authors listed alphabetically at end of article). 2017. “The Burden of Invisible Work in Academia: Social Inequalities and Time Use in Five University Departments.” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations. Special Issue on Diversity in Higher Education. 39:228-245. https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/hjsr/vol1/iss39/21/
Bell, Shannon Elizabeth, Alicia Hullinger*, and Lilian Brislen*. 2015. “Manipulated Masculinities: Agribusiness, Deskilling, and the Rise of the Businessman-Farmer in the United States.” Rural Sociology. 80(3):285-313. https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12066
Lead article.
Bell, Shannon Elizabeth. 2015. “Bridging Activism and the Academy: Exposing Environmental Injustices through the Feminist Ethnographic Method of Photovoice.” Human Ecology Review. 21(1): 27-58. https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p313031/pdf/ch023.pdf
An earlier version of this manuscript was awarded the 2013 Robert Boguslaw Award for Technology and Humanism from the Environment & Technology Section of the American Sociological Association.
Sharon L. Harlan, David N. Pellow, and J. Timmons Roberts, with Shannon E. Bell, William G. Holt, and Joane Nagel. 2015. “Climate Justice and Inequality: Insights from Sociology.” Chapter 5 in Riley E. Dunlap and Robert J. Brulle (Eds.) Climate Change and Society: Sociological Perspectives. Report of the American Sociological Association’s Task Force on Sociology and Global Climate Change. New York: Oxford University Press.
York, Richard and Shannon Elizabeth Bell. 2014. “Life Satisfaction Across Nations: The Effects of Gender Equality and Public Priorities.” Social Science Research. 48:48-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.05.004
Bell, Shannon Elizabeth. 2014. “‘Sacrificed So Others Can Live Conveniently’: Social Inequality, Environmental Injustice, and the Energy Sacrifice Zone of Central Appalachia.” In Claire M. Renzetti and Raquel Kennedy Bergen (Eds). Understanding Diversity: Celebrating Difference, Challenging Inequality. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
Boudet, Hilary Schaffer and Shannon Elizabeth Bell. 2014. “Risks and Social Movements: Examining the Role of Communication.” Chapter 25 in Hyunyi Cho, Torsten Reimer, and Katherine McComas (Eds.). The SAGE Handbook of Risk Communication. Sage Publications.
Bell, Shannon Elizabeth. 2014. “Energy, Society, and the Environment.” In Kenneth A. Gould and Tammy L. Lewis (Eds.) Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology, Second Edition. Oxford University Press.
Bell, Shannon Elizabeth and Richard York. 2012. “Coal, Injustice, and Environmental Destruction: Introduction to the Special Issue on Coal and the Environment.” Special Issue on Coal and the Environment, Organization & Environment. 25(4):357-365. https://doi.org/10.1177/1086026612468138
Bell, Shannon Elizabeth. “The Southern West Virginia Photovoice Project: Community Action through Sociological Research.” Pp. 178-183 in Kathleen Odell Korgen and Jonathan M. White (Eds). Sociologists in Action. Sage Publications.
Bell, Shannon Elizabeth and Richard York. 2010. “Community Economic Identity: The Coal Industry and Ideology Construction in West Virginia.” Rural Sociology. 75(1):111-143. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1549-0831.2009.00004.x
Received the inaugural Best Scholarly Paper Award from the Rural Sociological Society in 2011 ($1,000).
Received Honorable Mention for the 2011 Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award from the Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Society.
Reprinted in Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action, edited by Leslie King and Deborah McCarthy Auriffeille (Roman & Littlefield, 2014).
Bell, Shannon Elizabeth and Yvonne A. Braun. 2010. “Coal, Identity, and the Gendering of Environmental Justice Activism in Central Appalachia.” Gender & Society. 24(6):794-813. https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243210387277
Featured in the “Discoveries: New and Noteworthy Social Research” section of the Summer 2011 issue of Contexts, the American Sociological Association’s public outreach journal.
Reprinted in Green Planet Blues: Critical Perspectives on Global Environmental Politics, Sixth Edition, edited by Ken Conca and Geoffrey D. Dabelko. (Routledge, 2019).
Bell, Shannon Elizabeth. 2009. “‘There Ain’t No Bond in Town Like there Used to Be’: The Destruction of Social Capital in the West Virginia Coalfields.” Sociological Forum. 24(3): 631-657. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1573-7861.2009.01123.x
Bell, Shannon Elizabeth. “‘Coal is all West Virginia’s Got’: The Coal Industry’s Propagation of a False Ideology.” Pp. 109-116 in Shirley Stewart Burns, Mari-Lynn Evans, and Silas House (Eds). Coal Country: Rising Up Against Mountaintop Removal Mining. Sierra Club Books/Counterpoint.
Bell, Shannon Elizabeth. 2008. “Photovoice as a Strategy for Community Organizing in the Appalachian Coalfields.” Journal of Appalachian Studies. 14(1-2):34-48.
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