marilyn grell-brisk

"The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class – it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity." Ann Julia Cooper.


Publications

2025. The Logics of Antiblackness and Coloniality in the Push for Climate (In)Action. In The Oxford Handbook of Climate Action (online edn, Oxford Academic, 20 Mar. 2025 – ) e.d. Paul Almeida (grell-brisk, marilyn). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197762097.013.0007

2025. Listening Deeply to Indigenous People: A Collaborative Perspective and Reflection Between a Mapuche Machi and Ecologists. Ecology and Evolution (Andrea Monica D. Ortiz, Patricia Huinca Blanco, Carlos Alberto Arnillas, Anni Arponen, Marc W. Cadotte, Javiera Beatriz Chinga, Mariana C. Chiuffo, Sharon Collinge, Kadambari Devarajan, Ken Ehrlich, Marilyn Grell-Brisk, Claudio Guevara, Rebecca W. Kariuki, Heather M. Kharouba, Tara G. Martin, Ana Carolina Prado-Valladares, Helen M. Regan, Nicolás Santos Domínguez, Bruno Eleres Soares, Gisela C. Stotz, Ivette Ulloa Caniú, Kristiina Visakorpi, Marten Winter, Florencia A. Yannelli) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71914

2025. Ecology for a social revolution: Re-defining the role of ecological and environmental science professionals and their responsibilities towards society. Research Ideas and Outcomes 11: e152859 (Yannelli F, Visakorpi K, Arponen A, Arnillas C, Chinga Chamorro J, Chiuffo MC, Collinge SK, Cousens R, Devarajan K, Ehrlich K, grell-brisk marilyn, Kariuki RW, Kharouba HM, Ortiz AMD, Prado-Valladares A, Regan H, Schnabel F, Soares BE, Stotz GC, Williams M, Cadotte MW) DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.11.e152859

2024. The Conguillío Statement on the values and responsibilities of ecologists. EcoEvoRxiv (Arnillas, Carlos Alberto; Stotz, Gisela; Chinga Chamorro, Javiera Beatriz; Collinge, Sharon; Chiuffo, Mariana; Kariuki, Rebecca; Norman, Hazel; Ortiz, Andrea Monica; Regan, Helen M; Visakorpi, Kristiina; Devarajan, Kadambari; Klein, Alexandra-Maria; Schnabel, Florian; Arponen, Anni; Cadotte, Marc W.; Cousens, Roger; Ehrlich, Ken; Grell-Brisk, Marilyn; Hughes, Lesley; Kharouba, Heather M.; Martin, Tara G.; Rumpff, Libby; Eleres Soares, Bruno; Prado-Valladares, Ana Carolina; Williams, Michael; Winter, Marten; Yannelli, Florencia A.; Beyene, Menilek; Fernando, Sula; Hart, Thomas; Santaoja, Minna; Santos Domínguez, Nicolás) DOI: https://doi.org/10.32942/X2B90T

2023. Introduction to the Symposium: Parasitism and the Logics of Anti-Indigeneity and Antiblackness. Journal of World-Systems Research (Marilyn Grell-Brisk) doi: http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/1179/1607

2022. Collective Behavior and Social Movements in Stateless Societies. In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. e.d. David Snow, Donatella della Porta, and Doug McAdam (Christopher Chase-Dunn, Marilyn Grell-Brisk, and Levin Elias Welch). doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470674871.wbespm695

2022. Critical World-Systems Analysis. Thoughts on Organizing Against Antiblackness Accross Global-Local Boundaries. Journal of World-Systems Research (Marilyn Grell-Brisk) doi: https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2022.1103

2021. Blackness, Disposability, and the Black Spirit. Journal of World- Systems Research. 27(1): 345-355. (Marilyn Grell-Brisk) doi: https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2021.1057

2021. Coloniality, Reparations, and Transformative Justice. PEWSNews (Newsletter of the ASA PEWS Section). Issue 1, 2021. (Marilyn Grell-Brisk) Available at: http://www.asapews.org/pn22-1.pdf

2021. Wallerstein, Immanuel (1930-2019). In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. e.d. George Ritzer (Christopher Chase-Dunn and Marilyn Grel-Brisk). doi: 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeos1731 

2020. A data-driven approach for characterizing community scale air pollution exposure disparities in inland Southern California. Journal of Aerosol Science (Khanh Do, Haofei Yu, Jasmin Velasquez, Marilyn Grell-Brisk, Heather Smith, Cesunica Ivey) DOI:10.1016/j.jaerosci.2020.105704

2020. Mind the Gap! Clustered Obstacles to Mobility in Core/Periphery Hierarchy. In Frontiers of Globalization Research: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches. 2nd Edition. e.d. Ino Rossi. New York: Springer. (Marilyn Grell-Brisk and Christopher Chase-Dunn)

2020. For a Global Social Science. Global Perspectives 1(1): 1-8 (Miguel A. Centeno, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Nitsan Chorev, Marilyn Grell-Brisk, Hiroko Inoue, Paul Larcey, Victoria Reyes, and Kristin Surak. https://doi.org/10.1525/001c.11649

2020. Racism and the Evolution of Distant Othering. SocArXiv November 19, 2020. (Marilyn Grell-Brisk, Christopher Chase-Dunn, and Eugene N. Anderson.) Web. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/f7at8

2019. Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations: World-Systems Theory. In Oxford Bibliography in International Relations. e.d. Patrick James. New York: Oxford University Press. (Christopher Chase-Dun, and Marilyn Grell-Brisk) DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199743292-0272 (IROWS pdf version)

2019. “Stratification in the World-Economy: The Semiperiphery and Periphery.” In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialistm and Anti-Imperialism. 2nd Edition. e.d. Immanuel Ness and Zak Cope. London: Palgrave McMillan. (Marilyn Grell-Brisk) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91206-6_72-1

2019. “Salvatore Babones. American Tianxia: Chinese money, American power and the end of history.” Journal of World-Systems Research [Online], (25)2: 503-507. Web. 23 Sep. 2019. doi:https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2019.936.

2019. Arrested Development? Sub-Saharan Africa in the Stratified World-Economy 1965-2015. Journal of Contemporary African Studies 37 (1): 93-111 (Marilyn Grell-Brisk) DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2019.1585525

2019. “Manuela Boatca, Andrea Komlosy, and Hans-Heinrich Nolte, eds. Global Inequalities in World-System Perspective: Theoretical Debates and Methodological Innovations.” Journal of World-Systems Research [Online], (25)1: 194-199. Web. 23 Jul. 2019. doi:https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2019.861.

2018. Eluding National Boundaries: A case study of commodified citizenship and the transnational capitalist class. Societies 8 (35). (Marilyn Grell-Brisk) DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/soc8020035

2017. China and Global Economic Stratification in an Interdependent World. Palgrave Communications 3. DOI: 10.1057/palcomms.2017.87. https://www.nature.com/articles/palcomms201787 (Marilyn Grell-Brisk)

2016. Uneven and Combined Development in the Sociocultural Evolution of World-Systems. In Historical Sociology and World History: Uneven and Combined Development over the long durée, e.d. Alexander Anievas and Kamran Matin. London: Rowman & Littlefield. (Christopher Chase-Dunn and Marilyn Grell-Brisk)

i am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Organizational Studies Field Group and a faculty member of the Critical Action and Social Advocacy (CASA) program at Pitzer College.