Professor George Martin

Visiting Professor

Organisation

Montclair State University, New Jersey

Email

martingt@mail.montclair.edu

Biography

George Martin is a US citizen who lives in New York City, as well as in London and California. He studied English & Russian Literature as an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University, then Social Work & Social Policy as a master’s student at the University of Chicago, where he subsequently received a PhD in Sociology.

George joined CES in 1997 on a one-year Visiting "Laing" Lectureship.  Following this he was appointed as a Visiting Professor in the Centre for Environmental Strategy.  George's research interests are: 

Substance: Urban environmental sociology, transport, development and indigenous peoples
Method: Case studies and secondary analysis of data sets

Selected Publications

“The Social and Material Culture of Hyperautomobility” (with P. Freund), Bulletin of Science,
Technology & Society 29 (December, 2009):476-82.
“Fast Cars/Fast Foods: Hyperconsumption and its Health and Environmental Consequences”
(with P. Freund), Social Theory and Health 6 (November, 2008):309-22.
“All Climate Change is Local,” UGEC Viewpoints 1 (August, 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 (May, 2008): 201-21.
“Global motorization, social ecology and China,” Area 39 (March, 2007):66-73.
“Hyperautomobility, the Social Organization of Space, and Health” (with P. Freund), Mobilities 2 (March, 2007):37-49.
“Intellectual Property, Indigenous Knowledge, and Biodiversity” (with S. Vermeylen), Capitalism Nature Socialism 16 (September, 2005): 27-48.
“The Global Diffusion of Motorized Urban Sprawl: Implications for China and Shanghai,” in H. Feng, L. Yu & W. Solecki, eds., Urban Dimensions of Environmental Change: Science,
Exposures, Policies, and Technologies. Monmouth, NJ: Science Press, 2005, pp. 122-29.
“Moving bodies: injury, dis-ease and the social organisation of space” (with P. Freund), Critical
Public Health 11 (September, 2001):203-14. Reprinted in J. Green & R. Labonte, eds., Critical Perspectives in Public Health. London: Routledge, 2008, pp. 228-35.
“Driving South: The Globalization of Auto Consumption and its Social Organization of Space”
(with P. Freund), Capitalism Nature Socialism 11 (December, 2000):51-71. Reprinted in L. King & D. McCarthy, eds., Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, 2009, pp. 226-39.

The Ecology of the Automobile (with P. Freund). Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1993.

Affiliations

Professor, Department of Sociology, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ 07043, US
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz 95064, US
Senior Editor, Capitalism Nature Socialism (Routledge/Taylor & Francis)
Visiting Professor, Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH