ArticleSocial movement studies2025
Persistent Chemicals, Persistent Activism: Scientific Opportunity Structures and Social Movement Organizing on Contamination by Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances.
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- The Effect of Individual or Study-Wide Report-Back on Knowledge, Concern, and Exposure-Reducing Behaviors Related to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals.Environmental health perspectives · 2023Trial
- PFAS Policies and Reductions in Drinking Water Contamination Across the United States: Incorporated Policy Perspectives from Los Angeles Residents.Next research · 2026Article
- How can academic researchers more effectively contribute to environmental toxicology and health efforts for regulatory decisions, policymakers, nonprofits, and communities?Journal of toxicology and environmental health. Part B, Critical reviews · 2026Review
- REACHing for PFAS solutions: how two communities responded to drinking water contamination.Journal of environmental studies and sciences · 2025Article
- What do people need to know about endocrine disrupting chemicals and health? A mental models approach using focus groups of community-engaged research teams and a national survey.BMC public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
Engagement with science is a prominent feature for many social movements, yet the dimensions of that scientific engagement and bidirectional relationships between science and advocacy are incompletely theorized in social movement scholarship. While social movement scholarship has previously demonstrated the importance of external political and economic factors for social movement processes and efficacy, we show that the emergence and success of environmental health activism is also dependent on dynamic relationships between scientific evidence and lay demands for particular types of knowledge production and application. Despite decades of industrial production and widespread contamination, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) were a politically obscure class of chemicals until a recent spike in attention from activist, regulatory, and scientific circles. Drawing from in-depth interviews with activists of PFAS-impacted communities, we develop the
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