June Jones

Profile

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June Ann Jones is an assistant professor of instruction in environmental studies. She has taught courses in environmental politics, political theory, philosophy, and US politics. She also serves as the coordinator of the Environmental Studies minor for the School of Interdisciplinary Studies.

Research Interests

Dr. Jones is a political theorist and a scholar of US and global environmental politics who focuses on theories of sustainable political community. Her dissertation research examined the ideas of the peasant and the farmer in the US agricultural imaginary and addressed how capitalism and settler colonialism have complicated efforts to embrace more sustainable practices and subjectivities in agriculture today and in the past. Her current research examines the idea of “home” and the promise of an ecological democracy, drawing on insights from environmentalist, feminist, decolonization, and degrowth literatures and movements.

Offered Courses

• ISIS3334 Environment in America
• AMS4379 Sustainable Democracy
• BIS3320 The Nature of Intellectual Inquiry

Selected Publications

2023. “Who Speaks for the Farmer in the Green New Deal?” In RE: Reflections and Explorations: Volume 3, edited by Max Stephenson and Lyusyena Kirakosyan. Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech Publishing.

2022, September. Book Review of Alexander Dunlap and Jostein Jakobsen’s The Violent Technologies of Extraction: Political Ecology, Critical Agrarian Studies and the Capitalist Worldeater in Anarchist Studies

2022, June 21. Book Review of Vaclav Smil’s Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made in Environmental Politics https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2022.2091422

2020, October 16. Book Review of Adam Theron-Lee Rensch’s No Home for You Here: A Memoir of Class and Culture in Marx and Philosophy Review of Books