Mark Hudson

• GPE 2700 - Perspectives in Global Political Economy
• GPE 4700 - Studies in Global Political Economy
• SOC 2240 - Sociology of Globalization
• SOC 3838 -- Ecology and Society

• PhD (Sociology), University of Oregon, 2007
• MES (Environmental Studies), York University, 1998
• BA Honours (Economics), University of Manitoba, 1995

Research interests

• Environmental sociology
• Climate politics
• Inequality
• Labour
• Marxist political economy

Research summary

My research is about relations between human societies and non-human nature. In particular, I'm interested in how capitalism organizes these relations, the consequences of these relations for both humans and for non-humans, and the ways in which those relations are challenged and resisted. I'm currently working with colleagues in economics on a series of quantitative and historical studies of how unionization affects various dimensions of inequality--health, income, and environmental, with researchers at the International Institute for Sustainable Development and the CCPA-MB on how to reorient the building sector as part of a just transition from fossil fuels, and writing about workers' perspectives about climate change and energy transition. In the past, I've done field research and written about coffee production in Chiapas, Mexico and the Fair Trade system, about the political economy of wildland fire in the western US, about the environmental consequences of neoliberal capitalism and consumerism. 

Research affiliations/groups

• Member, Critical Environments Research Group 
• Member, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics 
• Research Associate, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba 

Books

• Hudson, Ian, and Hudson, Mark. (2021). Consumption. Polity Press, What is Political Economy? Series. 
• Chernomas, R., Hudson I, and Hudson, M. (2019) Neoliberal Lives: work, politics, nature, and health in the contemporary US (forthcoming, June 2019, Manchester University Press). 
• Hudson, Mark, Hudson, Ian, and Fridell, Mara (2013). Fair Trade, Sustainability, and Social Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, International Political Economy Series. 225 pp. 
• Hudson, Mark (2011). Fire Management in the American West: Forest politics and the rise of megafires. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. 214 pp.

Recent book chapters

• Hudson, M. (2022). “Fighting to Lose: Political Struggles for Climate Justice,” in Antony, W., J. Antony, and L. Samuelson (eds.) Power and Resistance: Critical Thinking About Canadian Social Issues 7th edition. Winnipeg: Fernwood Press. 
• Hudson, M. (2021). “Landscapes of Risk: Financial Representations of Catastrophe,” in Carroll, W. (ed.) Regimes of Obstruction: How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy. Athabasca: Athabasca University Press. 

Selected articles

• Anupam Das, Ian Hudson, and Mark Hudson. (2023) “Interprovincial Unionization and the Environment,” Labour/Le Travail 92 (Fall): 53–80.
• Hudson, Mark, and Bowness, Evan. (2020) “Fossil Fuel and Finance: A Community Divided?” The Extractive Industries and Society. 
• Fridell, Mara, Hudson, Ian, and Hudson, Mark (2008). “With Friends Like These…: The Corporate Response to Fair Trade Coffee.” Review of Radical Political Economics 40(1): 8-34. 
• Hudson, Ian and Hudson, Mark (2003). “Removing the Veil? Commodity Fetishism, Fair Trade, and the Environment,” in Organization and Environment 16(4): 413-440.