Thomas Shriver

Campbell, M., Adams, A. E., & Shriver, T. E. (2023). Critical Environmental Justice and Pandemic Events: Florida Farm Work during COVID-19. Environmental Justice, 3. https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2022.0093

Szabo, A., Shriver, T. E., & Adams, A. E. (2023). Discursive strategies and activist framing in anti-mining campaigns. Local Environment, 3, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2023.2184779

Adams, A. E., Saville, A., & Shriver, T. E. (2023, December 11). Folk art, storytelling, and space: Collective memory and pesticide exposure. ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E-NATURE AND SPACE, Vol. 12. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231217883

Adams, A. E., Saville, A., & Shriver, T. E. (2023). Race, Toxic Exposures, and Environmental Health: The Contestation of Lupus among Farmworkers. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 64(1), 136–151. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465221132787

Bray, L. A., Membrez-Weiler, N. J., & Shriver, T. E. (2022). Agrochemical Exposure & Environmental Illness: Legal Repression of Latin American Banana Workers. SOCIOLOGICAL QUARTERLY, 63(2), 359–378. https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2020.1841585

Longest, L., Adams, A. E., & Shriver, T. E. (2022). Barriers to women's collective identity formation in contaminated communities. ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY, 8(4), 413–423. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2022.2070904

Szabo, A., Shriver, T. E., & Longo, S. (2022). Environmental threats and activism against extractive industries: The case of gold mining in Rosia Montana, Romania. JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES, 92, 26–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.03.017

Longest, L., Shriver, T. E., & Adams, A. E. (2021). Cultivating quiescence in risk communities: coal ash contamination and cancer in two cities. Environmental Politics, 31(7), 1182–1202. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2021.1996729

Wickham, G. M., & Shriver, T. E. (2021). Emerging contaminants, coerced ignorance and environmental health concerns: The case of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS, 43(3), 764–778. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13253

Shriver, T. E., Bray, L. A., Wilcox, A., & Szabo, A. (2021). Human Rights and Dissent in Hybrid Environments: The Impact of Shifting Rights Regimes. The Sociological Quarterly, 63(3), 541–561. https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2021.1909444

Shriver, T. E., Adams, A. E., & Longest, L. (2021). “Cursed by Coal”: Climate Change and the Battle over Mining Limits in the Czech Republic. Society & Natural Resources, 35(2), 111–128. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2021.2003494

Shriver, T. E., Wilcox, A., & Bray, L. A. (2020). Elite Cultural Work and Discursive Obstruction of Human Rights Activism. SOCIAL CURRENTS, 7(1), 11–28. https://doi.org/10.1177/2329496519870554

Shriver, T. E., Longo, S. B., & Adams, A. E. (2020). Energy and the Environment The Treadmill of Production and Sacrifice Zones in Czechoslovakia. SOCIOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT, 6(4), 493–513. https://doi.org/10.1525/sod.2020.6.4.493

Bodenhamer, A., & Shriver, T. E. (2020). Environmental Health Advocacy and Industry Obstruction: The Case of Black Lung Disease. RURAL SOCIOLOGY, 85(3), 757–779. https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12319

Shriver, T. E., Adams, A. E., & Longo, S. (2020). 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.

Shriver, T. E., Messer, C. M., Whittington, J. R., & Adams, A. E. (2020). Industrial pollution and acquiescence: living with chronic remediation. ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS, 29(7), 1219–1238. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2019.1654239

Messer, C. M., & Shriver, T. E. (2020). Manufacturing American Identity Among Immigrant Workers: Colorado Fuel & Iron Company at the Turn of the 20(th) Century. JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY, 33(2), 184–197. https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12271

Shriver, T. E., Szabo, A. M., & Bray, L. A. (2020). Opportunity and threat behind the Iron Curtain: The failed diffusion of human rights activism in Romania. INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGY, 35(6), 739–757. https://doi.org/10.1177/0268580920928925

Adams, A. E., Shriver, T. E., Bray, L. A., & Messer, C. M. (2020). Petrochemical Pollution and the Suppression of Environmental Protest. SOCIOLOGICAL INQUIRY, 90(3), 646–668. https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12321

Adams, A. E., Shriver, T. E., & Longest, L. (2020). Symbolizing Destruction Environmental Activism, Moral Shocks, and the Coal Industry. NATURE + CULTURE, 15(3), 249–271. https://doi.org/10.3167/nc.2020.150302

Bray, L. A., Shriver, T. E., & Adams, A. E. (2019). Framing authoritarian legitimacy: elite cohesion in the aftermath of popular rebellion. SOCIAL MOVEMENT STUDIES, 18(6), 682–701. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2019.1597698

Messer, C. M., Adams, A. E., & Shriver, T. E. (2019). Living with chronic contamination: a comparative analysis of divergent psychosocial impacts. NATURAL HAZARDS, 99(2), 895–911. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-019-03781-3

Bray, L. A., Shriver, T. E., & Adams, A. E. (2019). Mobilizing Grievances in an Authoritarian Setting: Threat and Emotion in the 1953 Plzen Uprising. SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES, 62(1), 77–95. https://doi.org/10.1177/0731121418791771

Shriver, T. E., Adams, A. E., & Bray, L. A. (2019). Political Power and Manufacturing Consent: The Case of the 1953 Plzen Protests. SOCIOLOGICAL QUARTERLY, 60(1), 26–45. https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2018.1526046

Adams, A. E., Shriver, T. E., Saville, A., & Webb, G. (2018). Forty years on the fenceline: community, memory, and chronic contamination. ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY, 4(2), 210–220. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2017.1414660

Shriver, T. E., Bray, L. A., & Adams, A. E. (2018). Legal Repression of Protesters: The Case of Worker Revolt in Czechoslovakia. Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 23(3), 307–328. https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671x-23-3-307

Allen, J. S., Longo, S. B., & Shriver, T. E. (2018). Politics, the State, and Sea Level Rise: The Treadmill of Production and Structural Selectivity in North Carolina's Coastal Resource Commission. SOCIOLOGICAL QUARTERLY, 59(2), 320–337. https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2018.1436945

Messer, C. M., Shriver, T. E., & Adams, A. E. (2018). The Destruction of Black Wall Street: Tulsa's 1921 Riot and the Eradication of Accumulated Wealth. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY, 77(3-4), 789–819. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajes.12225

Shriver, T. E., & Bodenhamer, A. (2018). The enduring legacy of black lung: environmental health and contested illness in Appalachia. SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS, 40(8), 1361–1375. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12777

Sanchez, H. K., Adams, A. E., & Shriver, T. E. (2017). Confronting Power and Environmental Injustice: Legacy Pollution and the Timber Industry in Southern Mississippi. SOCIETY & NATURAL RESOURCES, 30(3), 347–361. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2016.1264034

Messer, C. M., Shriver, T. E., & Beamon, K. K. (2017). Official Frames and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921: The Struggle for Reparations. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 4(3), 386–399. https://doi.org/10.1177/2332649217742414

Messer, C. M., Shriver, T. E., & Adams, A. E. (2017). The legacy of lead pollution: (dis)trust in science and the debate over Superfund. ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS, 26(6), 1132–1151. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2017.1304812

Adams, A. E., & Shriver, T. E. (2016). Challenging Extractive Industries: How Political Context and Targets Influence Tactical Choice. SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES, 59(4), 892–909. https://doi.org/10.1177/0731121416641683

Longo, S. B., Clark, B., Shriver, T. E., & Clausen, R. (2016). Sustainability and Environmental Sociology: Putting the Economy in its Place and Moving Toward an Integrative Socio-Ecology. SUSTAINABILITY, 8(5). https://doi.org/10.3390/su8050437

Adams, A. E., & Shriver, T. E. (2016). Tactics and Targets: Explaining Shifts in Grassroots Environmental Resistance. Social Currents, 4(3), 265–281. https://doi.org/10.1177/2329496516663225

Messer, C. M., Shriver, T. E., & Adams, A. E. (2015). Collective Identity and Memory: A Comparative Analysis of Community Response to Environmental Hazards. RURAL SOCIOLOGY, 80(3), 314–339. https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12069

Shriver, T. E., Adams, A. E., & Longo, S. B. (2015). Environmental Threats and Political Opportunities: Citizen Activism in the North Bohemian Coal Basin. SOCIAL FORCES, 94(2), 699–722. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/sov072

Adams, A. E., Shriver, T., & Messer, C. M. (2015). Movement-countermovement dynamics in a land use controversy. Human Ecology Review, 21(1), 3–25. https://doi.org/10.22459/her.21.01.2015.01

Shriver, T. E., Adams, A. E., & Messer, C. M. (2014). Power, Quiescence, and Pollution. Social Currents, 1(3), 275–292. https://doi.org/10.1177/2329496514540133

Cable, S., Shriver, T. E., & Mix, T. (2014). 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.

Shriver, T. E., & Adams, A. E. (2013). Collective identity and the subjective terrain of political opportunities: movement dissension over participation in party politics. Mobilization, 18(1), 65–82.

Shriver, T. E., Adams, A. E., & Einwohner, R. L. (2013). Motherhood and opportunities for activism before and after the czech velvet revolution. Mobilization, 18(3), 267–288.

Brame, W. J., & Shriver, T. E. (2013). Surveillance and social control: the FBI's handling of the Black Panther Party in North Carolina. CRIME LAW AND SOCIAL CHANGE, 59(5), 501–516. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-013-9426-1

Messer, C. M., Adams, A. E., & Shriver, T. E. (2012). Corporate Frame Failure and the Erosion of Elite Legitimacy. The Sociological Quarterly, 53(3), 475–499. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-8525.2012.01238.x

Shriver, T. E., Adams, A. E., & Cable, S. (2012). Discursive Obstruction and Elite Opposition to Environmental Activism in the Czech Republic. Social Forces, 91(3), 873–893. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/sos183

Zschau, T., Adams, A. E., & Shriver, T. E. (2012). Reframing the Biotechnology Debate: The Deconstructive Efforts of the Council for Responsible Genetics. Symbolic Interaction, 35(2), 221–239. https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.12

Messer, C. M., & Shriver, T. E. (2012). Resident Framing and the Public Sphere: Community Conflict over Radioactive Waste. In J. Swarts (Ed.), Political and Military Sociology (Vol. 38, pp. 77–100). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315126562-4

Miller, A. C., & Shriver, T. E. (2012). Women's childbirth preferences and practices in the United States. Social Science & Medicine, 75(4), 709–716. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.03.051

Adams, A. E., & Shriver, T. E. (2011). Collective Identity and Gendered Activism in the Czech Environmental Movement: The South Bohemian Mothers' Struggle against Nuclear Power. https://doi.org/10.1108/s0163-786x(2011)0000032011

Shriver, T. E., & Adams, A. E. (2010). Cycles of Repression and Tactical Innovation: The Evolution of Environmental Dissidence in Communist Czechoslovakia. The Sociological Quarterly, 51(2), 329–354. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-8525.2010.01174.x

Messer, C. M., Shriver, T. E., & Kennedy, D. (2010). ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS AND COMMUNITY DISSENSION IN RURAL OKLAHOMA. Sociological Spectrum, 30(2), 159–183. https://doi.org/10.1080/02732170903496034

Adams, A. E., & Shriver, T. E. (2010). Un]Common Language: The Corporate Commodification of Alternative Agro-Food Movement Frames. Journal of Rural Social Sciences, 25(2), 33–57.

Cable, S., & Shriver, T. E. (2010). Wounded by Friendly Fire. Current Sociology, 58(1), 45–66. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392109348545

Messer, C. M., & Shriver, T. E. (2009). Corporate Responses to Claims of Environmental Misconduct: The Case of Phelps Dodge and Blackwell, Oklahoma. Deviant Behavior, 30(7), 647–668. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639620802589814

Shriver, T. E., & Messer, C. (2009). Dissension and Factionalism in the Czech Environmental Movement. International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, 46(2), 283–304.

Shriver, T. E., Cable, S., & Messer, C. (2009). Environmental Protest in the Czech Republic: Social Control in a Democratizing Nation. International Journal of Sociological Research, 2(1), 1–22.

Shriver, T. E., & Peaden, C. (2009). 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. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920801973789

Vincent, S. G., & Shriver, T. E. (2009). 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. https://doi.org/10.3844/ajessp.2009.164.178

Shriver, T. E., & Messer, C. M. (2009). Ideological Cleavages and Schism in the Czech Environmental Movement. Human Ecology Review, 16(2), 161–171.

Messer, C. M., Shriver, T. E., & Kennedy, D. (2009). Official Frames and Corporate Environmental Pollution. Humanity & Society, 33(4), 273–291. https://doi.org/10.1177/016059760903300402

Shriver, T. E., & Webb, G. R. (2009). 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. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1549-0831.2009.tb00392.x

Mix, T., Cable, S., & Shriver, T. E. (2009). Social Control and Environmental Health Movements: The Soft Repression of Ill Nuclear Weapons Workers. Human Ecology Review, 16(2), 172–183.

Shriver, T. E., Cable, S., & Kennedy, D. (2008). Mining for Conflict and Staking Claims: Contested Illness at the Tar Creek Superfund Site. Sociological Inquiry, 78(4), 558–579. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-682x.2008.00258.x

Cable, S., Shriver, T. E., & Mix, T. L. (2008). Risk Society and Contested Illness: The Case of Nuclear Weapons Workers. American Sociological Review, 73(3), 380–401. https://doi.org/10.1177/000312240807300302

Brame, W. J., & Shriver, T. E. (2008). 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.

Shriver, T., & Cable, S. (2008). The institutional context of Gulf War illness claims: A commentary on Cohn, Dyson and Wessely. Social Science & Medicine, 67(11), 1650–1653. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.07.004

Mix, T. L., & Shriver, T. E. (2007). Neighbors, nuisances and noxious releases: Community conflict and environmental hazards in the atomic city. The Social Science Journal, 44(4), 630–644. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soscij.2007.10.004

E. Shriver, T., & D. Waskul, D. (2006). Managing the Uncertainties of Gulf War Illness: The Challenges of Living with Contested Illness. Symbolic Interaction, 29(4), 465–486. https://doi.org/10.1525/si.2006.29.4.465

Shriver, T. E., & Kennedy, D. K. (2005). Contested Environmental Hazards and Community Conflict Over Relocation*. Rural Sociology, 70(4), 491–513. https://doi.org/10.1526/003601105775012679

Shriver, T. E. (2005). 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.

Sarabia, D., & Shriver, T. E. (2004). MAINTAINING COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT: CONFRONTING NEGATIVE PUBLIC PERCEPTION AND FACTIONAL DIVISIONS WITHIN THE SKINHEAD SUBCULTURE. Sociological Spectrum, 24(3), 267–294. https://doi.org/10.1080/02732170390258614

Shriver, T. E., Miller, A. C., & Cable, S. (2003). Women's Work: Women's Involvement in the Gulf War Illness Movement. The Sociological Quarterly, 44(4), 639–658. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-8525.2003.tb00529.x

Shriver, T. E., Chasteen, A. L., & Adams, B. D. (2002). Cultural and Political Constraints in the Gulf War Illness Social Movement. Sociological Focus, 35(2), 123–143. https://doi.org/10.1080/00380237.2002.10570694

Shriver, T. E., Webb, G., & Adams, B. (2002). Environmental Exposures, Contested Illness, and Collective Action: The Controversy Over Gulf War Illness. Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, 27(1), 73–105.

Steward, G. A., Jr., Shriver, T. E., & Chasteen, A. L. (2002). Participant Narratives and Collective Identity in a Metaphysical Movement. Sociological Spectrum, 22(1), 107–135. https://doi.org/10.1080/027321701753284305

White, D. A., & Shriver, T. E. (2002). The Communication of Bad News as Turning Points in Identity: Patient Narratives on HIV Status Disclosure. Journal of Applied Sociology, 19(2), 124–142.

Shriver, T. E. (2001). Environmental Hazards and Veterans'Framing of Gulf War Illness. Sociological Inquiry, 71(4), 403–420. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-682x.2001.tb01123.x

Shriver, T. E. (2000). Risk and Recruitment: Patterns of Social Movement Mobilization in a Government Town. Sociological Focus, 33(3), 321–337. https://doi.org/10.1080/00380237.2000.10571173

Kebede, A. S., Shriver, T. E., & Knottnerus, J. D. (2000). Social Movement Endurance: Collective Identity and the Rastafari. Sociological Inquiry, 70(3), 313–337. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-682x.2000.tb00911.x

Shriver, T. E., Cable, S., Norris, L., & Hastings, D. W. (2000). The Role of Collective Identity in Inhibiting Mobilization: Solidarity and Suppression in Oak Ridge. Sociological Spectrum, 20(1), 41–64. https://doi.org/10.1080/027321700280026

Cable, S., Shriver, T. E., & Hastings, D. W. (1999). The Silenced Majority: Governmental Social Control on the Oak Ridge Nuclear Reservation. Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, 7, 59–81.

Shriver, T. E. (1998). 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. https://doi.org/10.1086/210055

Shriver, T. E., White, D. A., & Kebede, A. S. (1998). Power, Politics, and the Framing of Environmental Illness. Sociological Inquiry, 68(4), 458–475. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-682x.1998.tb00480.x

Shriver, T. E., White, D., & Kebede, A. S. (1998). Power, Politics, and the Framing of Environmental Illness. In R. McNeal Jr. & K. Tiemann (Eds.), Readings in Sociology. Boston, MA: Pearson Custom Publishing.

Chasteen, A. L., & Shriver, T. E. (1998). 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.

Shriver, T. E., & Cable, S. (1995). 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.

Cable, S., & Shriver, T. (1995). Production and extrapolation of meaning in the environmental justice movement. Sociological Spectrum, 15(4), 419–442. https://doi.org/10.1080/02732173.1995.9982110

Cable, S., & Shriver, T. E. (1995). 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.

Stotik, J., Shriver, T. E., & Cable, S. (1994). Social Control and Movement Outcome: The Case of Aim. Sociological Focus, 27(1), 53–66. https://doi.org/10.1080/00380237.1994.10571009

Merrifield, J., Smith, M. K., Rea, K., & Shriver, T. E. (1993). Longitudinal Study of Adult Literacy Participants in Tennessee. Knoxville, TN: Center for Literacy Studies.

Carnes, S., Garkovich, C., & Shriver, T. E. (1991). Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program Focus Groups: A Manual (No. ORNL/ TM-11769). Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory.