Werner, Marion, Kees Jansen, Jessie K. Luna, and Nathalie Jas. 2026. “The global pesticide complex: Infrastructure, fragility, and frontiers of agrarian change.” Journal of Agrarian Change. (Open access).
Korbéogo, Gabin and Jessie K. Luna. 2025.“Inégalités Environnementales en Afrique de l’Ouest.”Mande Studies, 27: 111-138. Download author pre-print.
Spooner, Sarah, et al. (34 authors). 2025. “The Zoo Sphere of Influence Model.” Biological Conservation: Perspectives, 111429.
McKay, Ben, Georgina Catacora-Vargas, Antonio Castellanos Navarrete, Rachel Bezner Kerr and Jessie Luna. 2025. “Challenging Agroecology - Promise and Pitfalls for Agrarian Studies,” Journal of Agrarian Change, 25(3).
Luna, Jessie K. 2023. “Why are there African huts at the zoo? The racialized spectacle of
conservation.” Environmental Sociology 9(4): 427-444. Download author pre-print.
Luna, Jessie K., Becca Chalit Hernandez, and Abdoulaye Sawadogo. 2021. “The paradoxes of purity in organic agriculture in Burkina Faso.” Geoforum 127:46-56. Download author pre-print.
Stein, Serena and Jessie K. Luna. 2021. “Toxic sensorium: Agrochemicals in the African
Anthropocene.” Environment and Society 12:87-107. (Open access).
Luna, Jessie K. and Brian Dowd-Uribe. 2020. “Knowledge politics and the Bt cotton success narrative in Burkina Faso.” World Development 136(105127). Download author pre-print.
Luna, Jessie K. 2020. “Peasant essentialism in GMO debates: Bt cotton in Burkina Faso.” Journal of Agrarian Change 20(4): 579-597. Download author pre-print.
Luna, Jessie K. 2020. “‘Pesticides are our children now’: Cultural change and the technological treadmill in the Burkina Faso cotton sector.” Agriculture and Human Values 37(2): 449-462. Download author pre-print.
Luna, Jessie K. 2019. “The ease of hard work: Embodied neoliberalism among Rocky Mountain fun runners.” Qualitative Sociology 42(2): 251–271. Download author pre-print.
Luna, Jessie K. 2019. “The chain of exploitation: Intersectional inequalities, capital accumulation, and resistance in Burkina Faso’s cotton sector.” The Journal of Peasant Studies 46(7):1413-1434. Download author pre-print.
Luna, Jessie K. 2018. “Getting out of the dirt: Racialized modernity and environmental inequality in the cotton sector of Burkina Faso.” Environmental Sociology 4 (3): 221-34. Download author pre-print.
Hunter, Lori M., Jessie K. Luna, and Rachel M. Norton. 2015. “The environmental dimensions of migration.” Annual Review of Sociology 41: 377-97. Download author pre-print.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
Luna, Jessie K. and Gabin Korbéogo. 2023. “Environmental inequality in West Africa,” chapter in the Handbook of Inequality and the Environment, edited by Michael J. Lynch, Michael A. Long, and Paul B. Stretesky. Edward Elgar Publishers.
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This chapter is intended for use in teaching, and provides an overview of colonialism, structural adjustment, and environmental inequality in West Africa with a focus on case studies of pesticides and land privatization in Burkina Faso. Download author version here.
Book reviews
Luna, Jessie K. 2025. “Decolonizing African Agriculture: Food Security, Agroecology and the Need for Radical Transformation, by William G. Moseley.” In the AAG Review of Books.
Luna, Jessie K. 2025. “Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the
Green Revolution in Africa, by Aaron Eddens.” In Antipode.
Luna, Jessie K. 2022. “A Man Among Other Men: Racial Capitalism and the Crisis of Black
Masculinity, by Jordanna Matlon.” In Perspectives, the Sociology Theory section newsletter.