Thomas Eugene Shriver

The Ecological-Symbolic Perspective and Ontological Security: An Analysis of Lead Contamination

Shriver, T. E., Adams, A. E., & Messer, C. M. (2026, February 1). Society & Natural Resources, Vol. 2.

Barriers to Hurricane Recovery in Frontline Communities: Climate Injustice on Florida’s West Coast

Yianilos, I., Adams, A. E., & Shriver, T. E. (2025, June 4). Environmental Justice, Vol. 6.

Corrosive Communities: Tension and (Mis)trust in Anticipation of Technological Disasters

Annual Meetings of the European Sociological Association. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the European Sociological Association, Porto, Portugal.

Local Environmental Movements

In C. Overdevest (Ed.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Sociology. Edward Elgar.

The Impacts of Landscape Loss on Industrial Communities: Solastalgia in Coal Regions

Adams, A. E., & Shriver, T. E. (2024, August 23). Social Currents, Vol. 11, pp. 422–436.

A Battle of Risks: Institutional and Activist Framings of the Risks of Chemical Weapons Incineration in the United States

Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Critical Environmental Justice and Pandemic Events: Florida Farm Work during COVID-19

Environmental Justice, 17(4), 240–246.

Discursive strategies and activist framing in anti-mining campaigns

Local Environment, 3, 1–13.

Folk art, storytelling, and space: Collective memory and pesticide exposure

ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E-NATURE AND SPACE, 7(3), 1299–1317.

Illuminating ‘Invisible’ Risk: Iterative Risk Framing in Environmentalists’ Response to the U.S. Army’s Chemical Demilitarization Program

Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Legacy Pollution, Collective Memory and Distrust in a Military Community: The Case of Aberdeen Proving Ground

Annual Meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, Maryland.

Barriers to women’s collective identity formation in contaminated communities

Longest, L., Adams, A. E., & Shriver, T. E. (2022, April 27). Environmental Sociology, Vol. 8, pp. 413–423.

Environmental threats and activism against extractive industries: The case of gold mining in Rosia Montană, Romania

Szabo, A., Shriver, T. E., & Longo, S. (2022, March 25). Journal of Rural Studies, Vol. 92, pp. 26–34.

Everyday Resilience: An Ethics of Care as Meaning Making in Women’s Experiences of Environmental Illness

Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Birmingham, Alabama.

Obstacles to Women’s Environmental Activism in Contaminated Communities

Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, California.

Race, Toxic Exposures, and Environmental Health: The Contestation of Lupus among Farmworkers

Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 64(1), 136–151.

Cultivating quiescence in risk communities: coal ash contamination and cancer in two cities

Environmental Politics, 31(7), 1182–1202.

Emerging contaminants, coerced ignorance and environmental health concerns: The case of per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)

Wickham, G. M., & Shriver, T. E. (2021, February 26). Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol. 43, pp. 764–778.

Gendering Quiescence: Barriers to Women’s Mobilization

Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Human Rights and Dissent in Hybrid Environments: The Impact of Shifting Rights Regimes

The Sociological Quarterly, 63(3), 541–561.

Locked In Vs. Locked Out: Environmental Justice Activism in Rural Industrial Communities

Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, Louisiana.

“Cursed by Coal”: Climate Change and the Battle over Mining Limits in the Czech Republic

Society & Natural Resources, 35(2), 111–128.

Agrochemical Exposure & Environmental Illness: Legal Repression of Latin American Banana Workers

Bray, L. A., Membrez-Weiler, N. J., & Shriver, T. E. (2020, December 2). Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 63, pp. 359–378.

Energy and the Environment

Shriver, T. E., Longo, S. B., & Adams, A. E. (2020, January 1). Sociology of Development, Vol. 6, pp. 493–513.

Environmental Health Advocacy and Industry Obstruction: The Case of Black Lung Disease

Bodenhamer, A., & Shriver, T. E. (2020, January 14). Rural Sociology, Vol. 85, pp. 757–779.

Environmental Threats and Political Opportunities: Citizen Activism in the North Bohemian Coral Basin

In L. King & D. McCarthy Auriffeille (Eds.), Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action (4th ed., pp. 254–271). Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Manufacturing American Identity Among Immigrant Workers: Colorado Fuel & Iron Company at the Turn of the 20^th Century

Messer, C. M., & Shriver, T. E. (2020, May 31). Journal of Historical Sociology, Vol. 33, pp. 184–197.

Opportunity and threat behind the Iron Curtain: The failed diffusion of human rights activism in Romania

Shriver, T. E., Szabo, A. M., & Bray, L. A. (2020, October 20). International Sociology, Vol. 35, pp. 739–757.

Symbolizing Destruction

Adams, A. E., Shriver, T. E., & Longest, L. (2020, October 30). Nature and Culture, Vol. 15, pp. 249–271.

Elite Cultural Work and Discursive Obstruction of Human Rights Activism

Shriver, T. E., Wilcox, A., & Bray, L. A. (2019, August 16). Social Currents, Vol. 7, pp. 11–28.

Framing authoritarian legitimacy: elite cohesion in the aftermath of popular rebellion

Bray, L. A., Shriver, T. E., & Adams, A. E. (2019, April 2). Social Movement Studies, Vol. 18, pp. 682–701.

Industrial pollution and acquiescence: living with chronic remediation

Shriver, T. E., Messer, C. M., Whittington, J. R., & Adams, A. E. (2019, August 15). Environmental Politics, Vol. 29, pp. 1219–1238.

Living with chronic contamination: a comparative analysis of divergent psychosocial impacts

Messer, C. M., Adams, A. E., & Shriver, T. E. (2019, September 6). Natural Hazards, Vol. 99, pp. 895–911.

Petrochemical Pollution and the Suppression of Environmental Protest

Adams, A. E., Shriver, T. E., Bray, L. A., & Messer, C. M. (2019, August 13). Sociological Inquiry, Vol. 90, pp. 646–668.

Legal Repression of Protesters: The Case of Worker Revolt in Czechoslovakia

Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 23(3), 307–328.

Mobilizing Grievances in an Authoritarian Setting: Threat and Emotion in the 1953 Plzeň Uprising

Bray, L. A., Shriver, T. E., & Adams, A. E. (2018, August 3). Sociological Perspectives, Vol. 62, pp. 77–95.

Political Power and Manufacturing Consent: The Case of the 1953 Plzeň Protests

Shriver, T. E., Adams, A. E., & Bray, L. A. (2018, October 16). Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 60, pp. 26–45.

Politics, the State, and Sea Level Rise: The Treadmill of Production and Structural Selectivity in North Carolina’s Coastal Resource Commission

Allen, J. S., Longo, S. B., & Shriver, T. E. (2018, April 3). Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 59, pp. 320–337.

The Destruction of Black Wall Street: Tulsa's 1921 Riot and the Eradication of Accumulated Wealth

Messer, C. M., Shriver, T. E., & Adams, A. E. (2018, May 1). American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 77, pp. 789–819.

The enduring legacy of black lung: environmental health and contested illness in Appalachia

Shriver, T. E., & Bodenhamer, A. (2018, June 28). Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol. 40, pp. 1361–1375.

Confronting Power and Environmental Injustice: Legacy Pollution and the Timber Industry in Southern Mississippi

Sanchez, H. K., Adams, A. E., & Shriver, T. E. (2017, January 12). Society & Natural Resources, Vol. 30, pp. 347–361.

Forty years on the fenceline: community, memory, and chronic contamination

Adams, A. E., Shriver, T. E., Saville, A., & Webb, G. (2017, December 25). Environmental Sociology, Vol. 4, pp. 210–220.

Official Frames and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921: The Struggle for Reparations

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 4(3), 386–399.

Resident Framing and the Public Sphere: Community Conflict over Radioactive Waste

In J. Swarts (Ed.), Political and Military Sociology (Vol. 38, pp. 77–100).

The legacy of lead pollution: (dis)trust in science and the debate over Superfund

Messer, C. M., Shriver, T. E., & Adams, A. E. (2017, March 20). Environmental Politics, Vol. 26, pp. 1132–1151.

Challenging Extractive Industries

Adams, A. E., & Shriver, T. E. (2016, April 12). Sociological Perspectives, Vol. 59, pp. 892–909.

Sustainability and Environmental Sociology: Putting the Economy in its Place and Moving Toward an Integrative Socio-Ecology

Longo, S., Clark, B., Shriver, T., & Clausen, R. (2016, May 3). Sustainability, Vol. 8.

Tactics and Targets: Explaining Shifts in Grassroots Environmental Resistance

Social Currents, 4(3), 265–281.

Collective Identity and Memory: A Comparative Analysis of Community Response to Environmental Hazards

Messer, C. M., Shriver, T. E., & Adams, A. E. (2015, March 27). Rural Sociology, Vol. 80, pp. 314–339.

Environmental Threats and Political Opportunities: Citizen Activism in the North Bohemian Coal Basin

Shriver, T. E., Adams, A. E., & Longo, S. B. (2015, May 20). Social Forces, Vol. 94, pp. 699–722.

Movement–Countermovement Dynamics in a Land Use Controversy

Adams, A. E., Shriver, T. E., & Messer, C. M. (2015, February 25). Human Ecology Review, Vol. 21, pp. 3–25.

Power, Quiescence, and Pollution

Social Currents, 1(3), 275–292.

Risk Society and Contested Illness: The Case of Oak Ridge Nuclear Workers

In L. King & D. McCarthy (Eds.), Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action (3rd ed., pp. 267–286). Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Collective identity and the subjective terrain of political opportunities: movement dissension over participation in party politics

Mobilization, 18(1), 65–82.

Motherhood and opportunities for activism before and after the czech velvet revolution

Mobilization, 18(3), 267–288.

Surveillance and social control: the FBI’s handling of the Black Panther Party in North Carolina

Brame, W. J., & Shriver, T. E. (2013, March 6). Crime Law and Social Change, Vol. 59, pp. 501–516.

Corporate Frame Failure and the Erosion of Elite Legitimacy

The Sociological Quarterly, 53(3), 475–499.

Discursive Obstruction and Elite Opposition to Environmental Activism in the Czech Republic

Social Forces, 91(3), 873–893.

Reframing the Biotechnology Debate: The Deconstructive Efforts of the Council for Responsible Genetics

Symbolic Interaction, 35(2), 221–239.

Women's childbirth preferences and practices in the United States

Social Science & Medicine, 75(4), 709–716.

Collective Identity and Gendered Activism in the Czech Environmental Movement: The South Bohemian Mothers' Struggle against Nuclear Power

Cycles of Repression and Tactical Innovation: The Evolution of Environmental Dissidence in Communist Czechoslovakia

The Sociological Quarterly, 51(2), 329–354.

ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS AND COMMUNITY DISSENSION IN RURAL OKLAHOMA

Sociological Spectrum, 30(2), 159–183.

Un]Common Language: The Corporate Commodification of Alternative Agro-Food Movement Frames

Journal of Rural Social Sciences, 25(2), 33–57.

Wounded by Friendly Fire

Current Sociology, 58(1), 45–66.

Corporate Responses to Claims of Environmental Misconduct: The Case of Phelps Dodge and Blackwell, Oklahoma

Deviant Behavior, 30(7), 647–668.

Dissension and Factionalism in the Czech Environmental Movement

International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, 46(2), 283–304.

Environmental Protest in the Czech Republic: Social Control in a Democratizing Nation

International Journal of Sociological Research, 2(1), 1–22.

Frame Disputes in a Natural Resource Controversy: The Case of the Arbuckle Simpson Aquifer in South-Central Oklahoma

Society & Natural Resources, 22(2), 143–157.

Framing Contests in Environmental Decision-making: A Case Study of the Tar Creek (Oklahoma) Superfund Site

American Journal of Environmental Sciences, 5(2), 164–178.

Ideological Cleavages and Schism in the Czech Environmental Movement

Human Ecology Review, 16(2), 161–171.

Official Frames and Corporate Environmental Pollution

Humanity & Society, 33(4), 273–291.

Rethinking the Scope of Environmental Injustice: Perceptions of Health Hazards in a Rural Native American Community Exposed to Carbon Black

Rural Sociology, 74(2), 270–292.

Social Control and Environmental Health Movements: The Soft Repression of Ill Nuclear Weapons Workers

Human Ecology Review, 16(2), 172–183.

Mining for Conflict and Staking Claims: Contested Illness at the Tar Creek Superfund Site

Sociological Inquiry, 78(4), 558–579.

Risk Society and Contested Illness: The Case of Nuclear Weapons Workers

American Sociological Review, 73(3), 380–401.

The National-Local Interface of Social Control: The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Winston-Salem Branch of the Black Panther Party

Journal of Political and Military Sociology, 36(2), 247–268.

The institutional context of Gulf War illness claims: A commentary on Cohn, Dyson and Wessely

Social Science & Medicine, 67(11), 1650–1653.

Neighbors, nuisances and noxious releases: Community conflict and environmental hazards in the atomic city

The Social Science Journal, 44(4), 630–644.

Managing the Uncertainties of Gulf War Illness: The Challenges of Living with Contested Illness

Symbolic Interaction, 29(4), 465–486.

Contested Environmental Hazards and Community Conflict Over Relocation*

Rural Sociology, 70(4), 491–513.

Risk and Recruitment: Patterns of Social Movement Mobilization in a Government Town

In L. King & D. McCarthy (Eds.), Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action (pp. 341–356). Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

MAINTAINING COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT: CONFRONTING NEGATIVE PUBLIC PERCEPTION AND FACTIONAL DIVISIONS WITHIN THE SKINHEAD SUBCULTURE

Sociological Spectrum, 24(3), 267–294.

Women's Work: Women's Involvement in the Gulf War Illness Movement

The Sociological Quarterly, 44(4), 639–658.

Cultural and Political Constraints in the Gulf War Illness Social Movement

Sociological Focus, 35(2), 123–143.

Environmental Exposures, Contested Illness, and Collective Action: The Controversy Over Gulf War Illness

Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, 27(1), 73–105.

Participant Narratives and Collective Identity in a Metaphysical Movement

Sociological Spectrum, 22(1), 107–135.

The Communication of Bad News as Turning Points in Identity: Patient Narratives on HIV Status Disclosure

Journal of Applied Sociology, 19(2), 124–142.

Environmental Hazards and Veterans'Framing of Gulf War Illness

Sociological Inquiry, 71(4), 403–420.

Risk and Recruitment: Patterns of Social Movement Mobilization in a Government Town

Sociological Focus, 33(3), 321–337.

Social Movement Endurance: Collective Identity and the Rastafari

Sociological Inquiry, 70(3), 313–337.

The Role of Collective Identity in Inhibiting Mobilization: Solidarity and Suppression in Oak Ridge

Sociological Spectrum, 20(1), 41–64.

The Silenced Majority: Governmental Social Control on the Oak Ridge Nuclear Reservation

Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, 7, 59–81.

Don't Burn It Here: Grassroots Challenges to Trash Incinerators. By Edward  J. Walsh, Rex  Warland, and D.  Clayton Smith. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii+292. $50.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

[Review of Don't Burn it Here: Grassroots Challenges to Trash Incinerators, by E. J. Walsh, R. Warland, & D. C. Smith]. American Journal of Sociology, 104(2), 544–546.

Power, Politics, and the Framing of Environmental Illness

Sociological Inquiry, 68(4), 458–475.

Power, Politics, and the Framing of Environmental Illness

In R. McNeal Jr. & K. Tiemann (Eds.), Readings in Sociology. Boston, MA: Pearson Custom Publishing.

Race, Rap and Resistance: A Social Movement Analysis of the Wu Tang

Challenge: A Journal of Research on African American Men, 9(2), 1–24.

Government Reveals Mercury Releases from Oak Ridge National Laboratory

In F. N. Magill (Ed.), Great Events from History II: Ecology and the Environment (pp. 1714–1718). Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, Inc.

Production and extrapolation of meaning in the environmental justice movement

Sociological Spectrum, 15(4), 419–442.

The Creation of TVA: A Grassroots Bureaucracy?

In F. N. Magill (Ed.), Great Events from History II: Ecology and the Environment (pp. 268–272). Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, Inc.

Social Control and Movement Outcome: The Case of Aim

Sociological Focus, 27(1), 53–66.

Longitudinal Study of Adult Literacy Participants in Tennessee

Knoxville, TN: Center for Literacy Studies.

Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program Focus Groups: A Manual

(No. ORNL/ TM-11769). Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory.