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Liévanos, Raoul S. 2023. "Racialized Hazardous Space: A Critical Race Urban-Environmental Sociology of Residential Security in the Depression Era." City & Community (Online First Copy to be Included in the Special Issue: "Environmentalizing Urban Sociology").
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Liévanos, Raoul S. and Julie Sze. 2021. "Stockton Isn't Flint, Or Is It? Race and Space in Comparative Crisis Driven Urbanization." Pp. 80-119 in Urban Emergency (Mis) Management and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Flint, MI in Context, edited by G. Cassano and T. Benz. Boston, MA: Brill Publishers.
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Lubitow, Amy, Liévanos, Raoul S., Erika Carpenter, and Julius Alexander McGee. 2021. "Transformative Transportation Survey Methods: Enhancing Household Transportation Survey Methods for Hard-to-Reach Populations." Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 98: 102953.
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Liévanos, Raoul S., Elisabeth Wilder, Lauren Richter, Jennifer Carrera, and Michael Mascarenhas, eds. 2021. Special Issue: "Race and the Environment." Environmental Sociology 7(2).
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Liévanos, Raoul S., Elisabeth Wilder, Lauren Richter, Jennifer Carrera, and Michael Mascarenhas. 2021. "Challenging the White Spaces of Environmental Sociology." Environmental Sociology 7(2):103-109.
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Liévanos, Raoul S., Clare R. Evans, and Ryan Light. 2021. “An Intercategorical Ecology of Lead Exposure: Complex Environmental Health Vulnerabilities in the Flint Water Crisis.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18(5), 2217.
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Davies, Anna, Gregory Hooks, Janelle Knox-Hayes, and Raoul S. Liévanos, eds. 2020. Special Issue: "Riskscapes and the Socio-Spatial Challenges of Climate Change." Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society 13(2).
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Anna Davies, Gregory Hooks, Janelle Knox-Hayes, and Raoul S. Liévanos. 2020. “Riskscapes and the Socio-Spatial Challenges of Climate Change.” Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society 13(2):197-213.
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Liévanos, Raoul S. 2020. “Racialised Uneven Development and Multiple Exposure: Sea-Level Rise and High-Risk Neighbourhoods in Stockton, CA.” Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society 13(2):381-404.
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Budd, Elizabeth E., Raoul S. Liévanos, and Brigette Amidon. 2020. “Open Campus Policies: How Built, Food, Social, and Organizational Environments Matter for Oregon’s Public High School Students' Health.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17(2), 469.
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Lubitow, Amy, Raoul S. Liévanos, Julius McGee, and Erika Carpenter. 2019. Developing Data, Models, and Tools to Enhance Transportation Equity: Limitations and Opportunities in Household Travel Survey Methods - Final Report, NITC-RR-1122. Portland, OR: National Institute for Transportation and Communities.
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Project brief: Lubitow, Amy, Julius McGee, Kelly Clifton, Raoul S. Liévanos, and Erika Carpenter. 2019. Advancing Transportation Equity: Through Inclusive Travel Survey Data Methods - Project Brief 1122. Portland, OR: National Institute for Transportation and Communities.
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Liévanos, Raoul S., Amy Lubitow, and Julius Alexander McGee. 2019. "Misrecognition in a Sustainability Capital: Race, Representation, and Transportation Survey Response Rates in the Portland Metropolitan Area." Sustainability 11(16), 4336.
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Liévanos, Raoul S. 2019. “Green, Blue, Yellow, and Red: The Relational Racialization of Space in the Stockton Metropolitan Area.” Pp. 224-253 in Relational Formations of Race: Theory, Method and Practice, edited by N. Molina, D. Martinez HoSang, and R. Gutiérrez. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
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Liévanos, Raoul S., Pierce Greenberg, and Ryan Wishart. 2018. “In the Shadow of Production: Coal Waste Accumulation and Environmental Inequality Formation in Eastern Kentucky.” Social Science Research 71:37-55.
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Liévanos, Raoul S. and Christine Horne. 2017. “Unequal Resilience: The Duration of Electricity Outages.” Energy Policy 108:201-211.
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Liévanos, Raoul S. 2015. “Race, Deprivation, and Immigrant Isolation: The Spatial Demography of Air-Toxic Clusters in the Continental United States.” Social Science Research 54:50-67.
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Liévanos, Raoul S., Jonathan K. London, and Julie Sze. 2011. “Uneven Transformations and Environmental Justice: Regulatory Science, Street Science, and Pesticide Regulation in California.” Pp. 201-228 in Technoscience and Environmental Justice: Expert Cultures in a Grassroots Movement, edited by G. Ottinger and B. R. Cohen. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press.
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Shilling, Fraser M., Jonathan K. London, and Raoul S. Liévanos. 2009. “Marginalization by Collaboration: Environmental Justice as a Third Party in and beyond CALFED.” Environmental Science and Policy 12(6): 694-709.
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London, Jonathan K., Julie Sze, and Raoul S. Liévanos. 2008. “Problems, Promise, Progress, and Perils: Critical Reflections on Environmental Justice Policy Implementation in California.” UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy 26(2): 255-289.
Professor Liévanos earned his A.A. in Liberal Arts from Allan Hancock College (2002); his B.A. in Sociology from Fresno State University (2004); and his M.A. in Sociology (2007), graduate certification in Air Quality and Health (2010), and Ph.D. in Sociology (2013) at the University of California, Davis. Previously, he lectured in the Center for Public Policy and in the Department of Culture and Communication at Drexel University (2011-2013), and he was an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington State University (2013-2016). He was an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon (UO) from 2016-2020 before promotion to Associate of Sociology (2020-present). At UO, he is also a participating faculty member in the Environmental Studies Program (2017-present) and on the graduate faculty in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies (2020-present). He maintains a regional affiliation with the University of Washington Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (2014-present). His professional service has included various editorial duties for Sociological Perspectives, Environmental Sociology, and the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. For the the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Environmental Sociology (SES) he has served as a member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Racial Equity (2017-2021) and elected chair of the Membership Committee (2019-2021). In May 2023, he was elected Chair-Elect of the ASA SES for a 3-year-term that will span positions of Chair-Elect, Chair, and Past-Chair for the section.
His research focuses primarily on the organizational, institutional, demographic, and spatial dynamics of environmental and housing market inequalities and on the social movements and policy processes that attempt to address such inequalities in the United States. These interests are reflected in his ongoing projects on (1) relational and intersectional approaches to studying various forms of inequality, (2) cumulative pollution burden, (3) energy injustice and unequal resilience in the electrical grid, and (4) the political and technoscientific aspects of environmental justice policy development and implementation. His general interests are also evident in a string of publications from 2020-2023 on "riskscapes," "racialized crisis driven urbanization," and "racialized hazardous space" that constitute his new "critical race urban-environmental sociology" approach.
You can learn more about Professor Liévanos's background and work at the UO by clicking here for a summer 2021 Oregon Quarterly story about him and by clicking here for a spring 2022 UO Today interview with him, conducted by Paul Peppis, Director of the UO Oregon Humanities Center.
- Environment, Health, and Risk
- Community and Urban Sociology
- Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
- Science and Technology Studies
- Organizations, Institutions, and Social Movements
- Spatial Pattern Analysis
- Qualitative Methods
- Historical-Comparative Sociology
- Environment, Health, and Risk
- Urban Sociology
- Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
- Social Theory
- Spatial Analysis
- Science and Technology Studies