Recent Publications
BMJ
Association between financial links to indoor tanning industry and conclusions of published studies on indoor tanning: systematic review, BMJ
AJPH
Financial Conflicts of Interest and Stance on Tobacco Harm Reduction: A Systematic Review, AJPH
Ambio
The environmental externalities of tobacco manufacturing: A review of tobacco industry reporting, Ambio
Current Major Projects
Industrial Epidemics
Understanding industries themselves as disease vectors
Parasitologies
Biological, Energetic, Corporate
Interspecies Politics
The political relevance of biosemiotics
Terra Communis
Indigenous land tenure and decolonizing land
Carbon Taxes
The promises and perils of incorporating pollution into prices
Philosophy
Pragmatism
Epistemologies
(e.g., Feminist, Postcolonial, Indigenous)
Ethics
Phenomenology
Biosemiotics
Interspecies Communication
Interactions between multiple simultaneous semiosic channels
5EA (embodied, embedded, extended, enacted, ecological, affective) Cognitive Science and theories of nonhuman experience
First-Person Science and Participatory Action Research
PUBLIC HEALTH, BUSINESS ETHICS, AND BIOETHICS
Conceptions of harm reduction (i.e. the relationship between market systems and regulation)
Non-voluntary corporate accountability and environmental health
Industry Epidemics (Patterns of corporate subversion of democracy and undermining the rule of law resulting from lexically prioritizing fiduciary interests)
Corporate legitimizing strategies (such as Corporate Social Responsibility) when faced with delegitimized business practices (such as the tobacco industry’s role in the pharmaceuticalization, clinicization, and medicalization of nicotine dependency)
Philosophy
Political Theory
20th-century Political Theory (esp. German)
Democratic Theory
Theories of Action
Justice (esp. Intergenerational, Environmental, Restorative
Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Systems Theory
Complex Systems Theory (influences include: Foerster, Luhmann, Maturana & Varela, Gunderson & Holling)
Interspecies Communication
Critical Animal Studies
Critical Plant Studies
Interspecies Communication
Critical Animal Studies
Critical Plant Studies
Published papers
Please visit my academia.edu profile to read a selection of published papers.