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Professor George Martin

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago

Visiting Professor

Short Biography:

George Martin joined CES in 1997. He works in social ecology, urban studies, and development, doing case studies and secondary analysis of data sets, and is a Senior Editor of Capitalism Nature Socialism, published by Taylor & Francis. A US citizen, he lives in New York City, as well as in London and California. George is available to consult on multi-disciplinary research and writing projects.

Selected Publications, 2007-2009

• “The Social and Material Culture of Hyperautomobility” (with P. Freund), Bulletin of Science,Technology & Society, forthcoming
• “The Global Intensification of Motorization and its Impacts on Urban Social Ecologies,” pp. 219-33 in J. Conley & A. McLaren, eds., Car Troubles, Farnham: Ashgate, 2009
• “Fast Cars/Fast Foods: Hyperconsumption and its Health and Environmental Consequences” (with P. Freund), Social Theory and Health 6 (2008):309-22.
• “All Climate Change is Local,” UGEC Viewpoints 1 (2008):14-17 [Urbanization and Global Environmental Change, a Research Project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change]
• “Intellectual Property Rights Systems and the ‘Assemblage’ of Local Knowledge Systems” (with S. Vermeylen & R. Clift), International Journal of Cultural Property 15 (2008):201-21
• “Global motorization, social ecology and China,” Area 39 (2007):66-73.
• “Hyperautomobility, the Social Organization of Space, and Health” (with P. Freund), Mobilities 2 (2007):37-49

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