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Lindsay Shade

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The University of Tennessee | 901 McClung Tower | Knoxville, TN 37996-0490

Lindsay Shade

Assistant Professor

Lindsay is an environmental sociologist with a focus on extractive industries, environmental justice, land politics, and public revenues. Their work draws from popular education traditions to engage grassroots stakeholders in southern Appalachia and northern Ecuador to address community problems related to land. They engage with critical legal studies, decolonial and queer theory, and political economy, and contribute to efforts to transition from extractive to regenerative economies, especially in those areas hardest hit by extraction. Lindsay also has a background in human geography and utilizes cartography skills and geospatial analysis to visualize land and environmental issues.

Education

Ph.D. (Geography) 2017 University of Kentucky – Lexington

Interest Area

environmental sociology, political ecology, extractive industries, Latin America, Appalachia and the US South, political economy and globalization, critical legal theory, property and land tenure

Courses

Environment and Resources

Environmental Justice

Political Economy of Natural Resources and the Environment

Comparative Poverty and Development

Research

Lindsay’s research examines how legal bureaucracies for managing land access and use are implicated in extractive industries and a broadly extractive economy, as well as how inequities in land and resource ownership have sustained longstanding systems of social inequality. They collaborate with impacted communities, environmental justice organizations, and other scholars to advance environmental justice and more equitable forms of access.

Publications

  • Appalachian Land Study Collective (direct authors: Lindsay Shade, Karen Rignall, Lindsay Tarus, Charice Starr). “The role of land in a just transition” In In Pursuit of Just Transition: Reports from the Appalachian Post-Coal Revolution edited by Shaunna Scott and Kathryn Engle. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. In press, 2024.
  • Shade, Lindsay, and Levi Van Sant. 2023. “Geographies of Land Ownership Change in the Rural United States: Challenges, Methods, and Possibilities.” The Professional Geographer 75(5): 844-854. doi:10.1080/00330124.2023.2194367
  • Shade, Lindsay and Javier Ramirez. 2018, “The Strategic Resources-Criminalization Nexus: Ecuador’s Intag Zone.” Human Geography Vol. 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/194277861801100101
  • Shade, Lindsay, Javier Ramirez and Susana Castro. 2018. “El Estado extractivista y el Estado penal: el caso de Intag, Ecuador” (The extractivist state and the penal state: the case of Intag, Ecuador). Ecuador Debate No. 102: 135-173
  • Shade, Lindsay. 2015. “Sustainable development or sacrifice zone? Politics below the surface in post-neoliberal Ecuador” Extractive Industries and Society 2(4):775-784. doi:10.1016/j.exis.2015.07.004