Research on Human Rights and Environmental Justice
While most of my work focuses on genocide and atrocity, a sub-stream of my research addresses human rights with an emphasis on children, as well as environmental justice. Most of this work was collaboratively undertaken earlier in my career, though human rights and environmental justice continue to be critical issues today.
June, Taylor, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, and Nicole Fox. 2024. “Criminalizing Climate Change: Defining and Responding to Ecocide.” Pages 143-154. Resolving the Climate Crisis: US Social Scientists Speak Out. Edited by Kristin Haltinner and Dilshani Sarathchandra. Routledge.
Nyseth Brehm, Hollie and David Pellow. 2020. Focus on Social Problems: A Contemporary Reader. Edited by Mindy Stombler and Amanda M. Jungels. Oxford University Press.
Nyseth Brehm, Hollie and Elizabeth Heger Boyle. 2018. “The Global Adoption of National Policies Protecting Children from Violent Discipline in Schools and Homes, 1950-2011.” Law & Society Review 52(1):206-233.
Pellow, David N. and Hollie Nyseth Brehm. 2015. “From the New Ecological Paradigm to Total Liberation: The Emergence of a Social Movement Frame.” The Sociological Quarterly 56(1):185-212.
Nyseth Brehm, Hollie and David Pellow. 2014. “Environmental Inequalities.” Pages 115-132 in Color Lines and Racial Angles. Edited by Douglas Hartmann and Christopher Uggen. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
Pellow, David N. and Hollie Nyseth Brehm. 2014. “Direct Action: Confrontation, Sabotage, and Property Destruction.” Chapter 4 in David N. Pellow’s Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Kim, Minzee, Wesley Longhofer, Elizabeth Heger Boyle, and Hollie Nyseth Brehm. 2013. “When Do Laws Matter? National Minimum‐Age‐of‐Marriage Laws, Child Rights, and Adolescent Fertility, 1989–2007.” Law & Society Review 47(3):589-619.
Pellow, David N. and Hollie Nyseth Brehm. 2013. “An Environmental Sociology for the 21st Century.” Annual Review of Sociology 39:229-250.
Nyseth Brehm, Hollie and David N. Pellow. 2013. “Environmental Justice: Pollution, Poverty, and Marginalized Communities.” Pages 308-320 in the Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics. Edited by Paul Harris. Routledge. Updated for the second edition in 2022.
Boyle, Elizabeth Heger and Hollie Nyseth. 2011. “Why the Underutilization of Child Rights in Global Mobilization? The Cases of Female Genital Cutting Practices and User Fees for Education.” Pages 91-120 in Human Rights: New Possibilities/New Problems. Edited by Austin Sarat. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Nyseth, Hollie, Sarah Shannon, Kia Heise and Suzy Maves McElrath. 2011. “Embedded Sociologists.” Contexts 10(2):44-50.