Hillary L Angelo

About

Hillary Angelo is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on the social dimensions of environmental issues, exploring how concepts of sustainability and environmental responsibility become integrated into societal norms and practices. She investigates the cultural and social processes that influence environmental behavior and policy, examining how ideas about 'green' practices become embedded in social life. Her work emphasizes understanding the social construction of environmental values and the ways in which environmental concerns are communicated and adopted within communities. Through her scholarship, she contributes to the broader understanding of environmental sociology, highlighting the intersections between social change, cultural values, and ecological sustainability.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Geography
• Environmental planning
• Economic growth
• Economics
• Economic geography
• Philosophy
• Environmental ethics
• Epistemology

Selected publications

• Why does everyone think cities can save the planet?

  Urban Studies · 2020 · 259 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  This article identifies and explains an underlying transition in global urban policy and discourse from the city as a sustainability problem to the city as a sustainability solution. We argue that contemporary policy discourses of cities saving the planet should be understood in the context of three major historical developments which have their roots in the 1970s and which intensified throughout the 1990s. The first is sprawl: the urban sustainability policy agenda in the Global North has been…

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• How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens

  2021 · 74 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  Publisher

• OUT IN SPACE: Difference and Abstraction in Planetary Urbanization

  International Journal of Urban and Regional Research · 2020 · 56 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  Abstract A common thread has emerged in recent critiques of planetary urbanization. Whether on empirical, epistemological or theoretical grounds, critics tend to posit ‘difference against abstraction’, arguing that planetary urbanization—as an abstract theory of large‐scale phenomena—occludes ‘everyday’ embodied, small‐scale and place‐based forms of social difference in its production and/or application. Here we engage with this critique as two queer, feminist scholars sympathetic both to critic…

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• Missing the Housing for the Trees: Equity in Urban Climate Planning

  Journal of Planning Education and Research · 2022-01-28 · 31 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  This paper examines equity’s incorporation into Climate Action Plans (CAPs), an increasingly important part of the urban sustainability planning landscape. We conduct a content analysis of 170 California CAPs and compare the plans’ treatment of equity to city characteristics such as size and income inequality. We find that equity language correlates with an increased presence of more systemic policy interventions, such as dense and/or affordable housing, in CAPs. However, the majority of CAPs “m…

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• Relational geographies of urban unsustainability: The entanglement of California’s housing crisis with WUI growth and climate change

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2024-07-29 · 19 citations

  articleOpen access

  One of California's most pressing social and environmental challenges is the rapid expansion of the wildlands-urban interface (WUI). Multiple issues associated with WUI growth compared to more dense and compact urban form are of concern-including greatly increased fire risk, greenhouse gas emissions, and fragmentation of habitat. However, little is understood about the factors driving this growth in the first place and, specifically, its relationship to urban-regional housing dynamics. This pape…

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Frequent coauthors

• David Wachsmuth

  McGill University

  8 shared

• Adam Millard‐Ball

  2 shared

• Serena Campbell

  University of California, Santa Cruz

  2 shared

• Emily Murai

  University of California, Santa Cruz

  2 shared

• James Sirigotis

  University of California, Santa Cruz

  2 shared

• Flora Lu

  2 shared

• Key MacFarlane

  2 shared

• Richard Sennett

  2 shared

Labs

• Center for Critical Urban and Environmental StudiesPI

Education

• Ph.D.

  University of California, Santa Cruz

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