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Greening Sociology

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To characterize my life before entering academia, I usually quip: “I was a community organizer on environmental justice campaigns for Greenpeace for three years. I burned out so, I decided to go to graduate school”. Most academic audiences chuckle at the idea of graduate school as a more relaxing existence. However, I would not trade my experience as a community organizer for the Greenpeace Toxics Campaign in the 1990s. Those experiences have defined both my teaching philosophy and research agenda.

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    Samuel Day Fassbinder

  2. Hamline University, Minnesota, USA

    Anthony J. Nocella II

  3. Antioch University Los Angeles, USA

    Richard Kahn

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Ducre, K.A. (2012). Greening Sociology. In: Fassbinder, S.D., II, A.J.N., Kahn, R. (eds) Greening the Academy. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-101-6_3

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