Sherry Cable
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Current Research
My primary research interests are in environmental sociology, a subfield that examines the cultural and institutional influences on human decisions about environmental use. I am particularly interested in environmental conflict, environmental movements, and the linkages between economic imperatives and environmental degradation.
I'm currently working on two book projects. In one project, I'm applying a sociological perspective in an examination of environmental policy to assess the social structural constraints that pose obstacles to formulating, implementing, and enforcing sustainable environmental policies. In the other book project, Tom Shriver (a graduate of our doctoral program) and I are examining environmental protest in the Czech Republic. We're examining changes in the state's response to environmental protest as the nation moved from being a Soviet satellite state to a neoliberal democracy.
Other works-in-progress include articles on: environmental racism in Oak Ridge, Tennessee; intra-movement conflict in grassroots environmental organizations; grassroots environmental activists' collaborative experiences with professional environmental organizations; access to swimming instruction as a social justice issue in less developed nations/regions.
Recent Publications
Sherry Cable, Sammy H. Zahran, and Donald W. Hastings. 2006. "Drowning in Inequalities: Swimming and Social Justice.” Journal of Black Studies (fortcoming in July).
Sherry Cable. 2006. "Confessions of the parasitic researcher to the man in the cowboy hat." In Academics and Activists: Confronting Ecological and Community Crisis in Appalachia, edited by Lynne Faltraco, Stephanie McSpirit, and Conner Bailey. University Press of Kentucky.
Sherry Cable and Michael Benson. 2005. "Acting locally: Environmental injustice and the emergence of grassroots environmental organizations." Reprint of Social Problems. 40(4): 464-477 [1993] in Social Problems, Law, and Society (Presidential Book Series, Society for the Study of Social Problems), edited by A. Kathryn Stout, Richard A. Dello Buono, and William J. Chambliss. Rowman and Littlefield.
Sherry Cable, Tamara L. Mix, and Donald W. Hastings. 2005. "Mission Impossible? Environmental Justice Movement collaboration with professional environmentalists and academics." In People, Power, and Pollution: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement, edited by David N. Pellow and Robert Brulle. MIT Press.
Donald W. Hastings, Sherry Cable, and Sammy Zahran. 2005. "The globalization and commodification of sport: The transnational spread of Masters Swimming." Sociological Spectrum, Special Issue: A Sociological View of Sport, Leisure, and Recreation 25(2).
Sherry Cable and Tamara L. Mix. 2003. "Economic imperatives and race relations: The rise and fall of the American apartheid system." Journal of Black Studies 34(2): 183-203.
Thomas E. Shriver, Amy L. Chasteen, and Sherry Cable. 2003. "Women's work: Women's involvement in the Gulf War Illness Movement." The Sociological Quarterly 44(4): 639-658.
Sherry Cable, Donald W. Hastings, and Tamara L. Mix. 2002. "Different voices, different venues: Environmental racism claims by activists, researchers and lawyers." Human Ecology Review 9(1): 26-42.
Laurel Holland and Sherry Cable. 2002 "Reconceptualizing social movement abeyance: Internal factors promoting cycles of abeyance and resurgence." Sociological Spectrum 35(3): 297-314.
Thomas Shriver, Sherry Cable, Lachelle Norris, and Donald W, Hastings. 2000. "The role of collective identity in inhibiting mobilization: Solidarity and suppression in Oak Ridge." Sociological Spectrum 20(1):41-64.
Contact Information
Sherry Cable
Associate Professor
PhD. 1985, Pennsylvania State University
The University of Tennessee
919 McClung Tower
Knoxville, TN 37996-0490
Phone: 865-974-7031
E-Mail: scable@utk.edu