Editorial Essays & Introductions

Checker, Melissa, Gary McDonogh and Cynthia Isenhour, 2011. Introduction to Sustainability in the City: Ethnographic Approaches. A Special Issue of City & Society 23(2):113-116 (Melissa Checker, Gary McDonogh, Cynthia Isenhour, eds.).

Checker, Melissa, David Vine and Alaka Wali, 2010. “A Sea Change in Anthropology? Public Anthropology Reviews,” American Anthropologist 112(1):5-6.

Checker, Melissa, David Vine and Alaka Wali, 2010. “Introducing Public Anthropology Reviews,” American Anthropologist, 112 (2): 308.

Book Reviews

Checker, Melissa, 2011, Review of Spaces of Environmental Justice, edited by Ryan Holifield, Michael Porter, and Gordon Walker (John Wiley and Sons, 2010). Environment and Society 2(1).

Checker, Melissa, 2010. Review of Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantyown by Javier Auyero and Debora Alejandra Swistun (Oxford University Press, 2009). Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 15(1): 230–232.

Checker, Melissa, 2009. Review of Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement by Phil Brown (Columbia University Press, 2007). Medical Anthropological Quarterly 23(1):70-73.

Checker, Melissa, 2008. Review of Grounded Globalism: How the U.S. South Embraces the World by James L. Peacock (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2007). Anthropological Science 115(2):187-188.

Checker, Melissa, 2006. Review of Stony the Road to Change: Black Mississippians and the Culture of Social Relations by Marilyn Thomas-Houston (Cambridge University Press, 2005). American Anthropologist 108(3):622.