Korbéogo, Gabin and Jessie K. Luna. 2025. “Inégalités Environnementales en Afrique de l’Ouest.”
Mande Studies, 27: 111-138.
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.
Luna, Jessie K., Becca Chalit Hernandez, and Abdoulaye Sawadogo. 2021. “The paradoxes of purity
in organic agriculture in Burkina Faso.” Geoforum 127:46-56.
Stein, Serena and Jessie K. Luna. 2021. “Toxic sensorium: Agrochemicals in the African
Anthropocene.” Environment and Society 12:87-107.
Luna, Jessie K. and Brian Dowd-Uribe. 2020. “Knowledge politics and the Bt cotton success narrative
In Burkina Faso.” World Development 136(105127).
Luna, Jessie K. 2020. “Peasant essentialism in GMO debates: Bt cotton in Burkina Faso.” Journal of
Agrarian Change 20(4): 579-597.
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.
Luna, Jessie K. 2019. “The ease of hard work: Embodied neoliberalism among Rocky Mountain fun
runners.” Qualitative Sociology 42(2): 251–271.
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.
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.
Hunter, Lori M., Jessie K. Luna, and Rachel M. Norton. 2015. “The environmental dimensions of
migration.” Annual Review of Sociology 41: 377-97.
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.
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.