“Para o sociólogo, não existe neutralidade possível: o intelectual deve optar entre o compromisso com os exploradores ou com os explorados.” (For the sociologist, there is no possible neutrality: the intellectual must choose between a commitment to the exploiters or to the exploited.)
--Florestan Fernandes
"There is a political knowing that comes out of anger" -- Rachel Watkins
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Schroering, Caitlin. 2021. “Constructing Another World: Solidarity and the Right to Water.” Studies in Social Justice,15(1):102-128. https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v15i1.2435
Schroering, Caitlin and Suzanne Staggenborg. 2021. “Volunteer and Staff Participants in Social Movements: A Comparison of Two Local Coalitions.” Social Movement Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2021.1967127.
Rivas, Marcela González, and Caitlin Schroering. 2021. "Pittsburgh's Translocal Social Movement: A Case of the New Public Water." Utilities Policy, 71: 101230.
Banerjee, Tarun and Caitlin Schroering. 2020. “Responsible for Whom? The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Firm Vulnerability and Responsiveness to Social Movement Activism.” Sociological Focus,53:4, 337-358, DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2020.1823915
Murphy, Michael and Caitlin Schroering. 2020. “Refiguring the Plantationocene: Racial Capitalism, World-Systems Analysis, and Global Socioecological Transformation.” Journal of World-Systems Research, 26(2), 400-415. https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2020.983
Schroering, Caitlin. 2019. "Resistance and Knowledge Production: Social Movements as Producers of Theory and Praxis." Revista CS, 29, 73-102. https://doi.org/10.18046/recs.i29.3181
Schroering, Caitlin and Suzanne Staggenborg. 2021. “Volunteer and Staff Participants in Social Movements: A Comparison of Two Local Coalitions.” Social Movement Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2021.1967127.
Rivas, Marcela González, and Caitlin Schroering. 2021. "Pittsburgh's Translocal Social Movement: A Case of the New Public Water." Utilities Policy, 71: 101230.
Banerjee, Tarun and Caitlin Schroering. 2020. “Responsible for Whom? The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Firm Vulnerability and Responsiveness to Social Movement Activism.” Sociological Focus,53:4, 337-358, DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2020.1823915
Murphy, Michael and Caitlin Schroering. 2020. “Refiguring the Plantationocene: Racial Capitalism, World-Systems Analysis, and Global Socioecological Transformation.” Journal of World-Systems Research, 26(2), 400-415. https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2020.983
Schroering, Caitlin. 2019. "Resistance and Knowledge Production: Social Movements as Producers of Theory and Praxis." Revista CS, 29, 73-102. https://doi.org/10.18046/recs.i29.3181
Book Reviews
Schroering, Caitlin. 2021. Book Review: Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe by Andreas Bieler. Capital & Class, 45(4):608-609. doi:10.1177/03098168211048569c
Schroering, Caitlin. 2018. Book Review: Green Gentrification: Urban Sustainability and the Struggle for Environmental Justice, Society & Natural Resources, DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2018.1517915
Schroering, Caitlin. 2018. Book Review: Green Gentrification: Urban Sustainability and the Struggle for Environmental Justice, Society & Natural Resources, DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2018.1517915
Professional and Popular Writing
2023 Guy, M., Schroering, C., Bain, D., Elliott, E., González Rivas, M., Maseru, N., Smith, J., Donnovan, D., Musil, T., Roberts, A., Naccarati-Chapkis, M., Hartwell, M., and Chaney, C. Measuring Up: Grading drinking water quality, affordability, and transparency practices in Allegheny County Water Systems. Available: https://dscholarship.pitt.edu/45129/4/Water%20Report%20June%202023%20Full.pdf
2023 Caitlin Schroering, Dalila Alves Calisto, Tamires Almeida Cruz de Paula, and Gabriel A. Gonçalves. “Das considerações”: o fazer-se da escala e da consciência da luta socioambiental. Três experiências das expressões dos conflitos envolvendo o direito à água, Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens (MAB).” Book of course proceedings for “Cidade Educadora: Território, Intersetorialidade E Transdisciplinaridades”. Escola do Parlamento, Câmara Municipal de São Paulo.
2022 Caitlin Schroering. “The Drop Colcom Campaign.” Sierra Club Pennsylvania. Available: https://www.sierraclub.org/pennsylvania/blog/2022/10/drop-colcom-campaign
Schroering, Caitlin. 2022. “Pedagogies of Resistance: Blurring the Boundaries of Activist-Teacher in the Classroom.”
NiCHE. https://niche-canada.org/2022/07/26/pedagogies-of-resistance-blurring-the-boundaries-of-activist-teacher-in-the-classroom/?fbclid=IwAR2BQjkmgSAaO81z0AIdo6N4hqe48B7YHOZ9q-8i1gTG_qoLnXn7Tx4z6ZE
Schroering, Caitlin and Rob Robinson. 2022. “Reflexões sobre um dos piores crimes socioambientais do Brasil sob uma ótica internacional.” MAB. https://mab.org.br/2022/01/28/reflexoes-sobre-um-dos-piores-crimes-socioambientais-do-brasil-sob-uma-otica-internacional/
Schroering, Caitlin and Letícia Oliveira. 2021.“Shared Experiences Of Dam Failures And Blackouts In Brazil And The United States.” MAB. https://mab.org.br/2021/07/14/shared-experiences-of-dam-failures-and-blackouts-in-brazil-and-the-united-states/
Schroering, Caitlin. “Academia, activism and Pittsburgh’s water: My scholarship cannot be neutral.” PublicSource.https://www.publicsource.org/academic-activist-pitt-pwsa-lead-water/?fbclid=IwAR08wm43s2QbsbBXlEXjdGfePh4GPMG9Nh56yPxx6RGI9zVpT-ZwwSLG68I
Schroering, Caitlin. 2021. “Inside the Struggle for Water Sovereignty in Brazil.” ROAR Magazine/Journal of Resistance Studies. https://roarmag.org/essays/brazil-mab-water-sovereignty/
Schroering, Caitlin. 2020. “À Beira Do Colapso: A Situação Das Barragens Nos Estados Unidos.” MAB. https://mab.org.br/2020/06/08/a-beira-do-colapso-a-situacao-das-barragens-nos-estados-unidos/
Schroering, Caitlin. 2020. "A Year After Brazil Dam Collapse, Communities Still Calling for Accountability." Truthout. https://truthout.org/articles/a-year-after-brazil-dam-collapse-communities-still-calling-for-accountability/
Schroering, Caitlin. 2019. Water is a Human Right! Grassroots Resistance to Corporate Power. Journal of World-Systems Research, 25(1), 28-34. doi:https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2019.899
Schroering, Caitlin. 2019. “Brazil Dam Collapse is a Human Rights Disaster and Crime.” Truthout. Available from: https://truthout.org/articles/brazil-dam-collapse-is-a-human-rights-disaster-and-crime/
Smith, Jackie and Caitlin Schroering. 2018. “Global Peasant Declaration Represents Huge Advance for Human Rights.” Common Dreams. Available from: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/12/18/global-peasant-declaration-represents-huge-advance-human-right
Schroering, Caitlin. 2018. “Capitalism and Patriarchy: Gendered Dimensions of the Global Economy, Water Conflicts, and Transnational Activist Networks” Shortened Version appeared in PEWS News Newsletter , Issue 1, Fall 2018.
Schroering, Caitlin. 2008. "Alcoa in Juruti, Brazil: A Case of Environmental Injustice and Colonialism?" SIT Digital Collections. Paper 36. Available from: http://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection/36
2023 Caitlin Schroering, Dalila Alves Calisto, Tamires Almeida Cruz de Paula, and Gabriel A. Gonçalves. “Das considerações”: o fazer-se da escala e da consciência da luta socioambiental. Três experiências das expressões dos conflitos envolvendo o direito à água, Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens (MAB).” Book of course proceedings for “Cidade Educadora: Território, Intersetorialidade E Transdisciplinaridades”. Escola do Parlamento, Câmara Municipal de São Paulo.
2022 Caitlin Schroering. “The Drop Colcom Campaign.” Sierra Club Pennsylvania. Available: https://www.sierraclub.org/pennsylvania/blog/2022/10/drop-colcom-campaign
Schroering, Caitlin. 2022. “Pedagogies of Resistance: Blurring the Boundaries of Activist-Teacher in the Classroom.”
NiCHE. https://niche-canada.org/2022/07/26/pedagogies-of-resistance-blurring-the-boundaries-of-activist-teacher-in-the-classroom/?fbclid=IwAR2BQjkmgSAaO81z0AIdo6N4hqe48B7YHOZ9q-8i1gTG_qoLnXn7Tx4z6ZE
Schroering, Caitlin and Rob Robinson. 2022. “Reflexões sobre um dos piores crimes socioambientais do Brasil sob uma ótica internacional.” MAB. https://mab.org.br/2022/01/28/reflexoes-sobre-um-dos-piores-crimes-socioambientais-do-brasil-sob-uma-otica-internacional/
Schroering, Caitlin and Letícia Oliveira. 2021.“Shared Experiences Of Dam Failures And Blackouts In Brazil And The United States.” MAB. https://mab.org.br/2021/07/14/shared-experiences-of-dam-failures-and-blackouts-in-brazil-and-the-united-states/
Schroering, Caitlin. “Academia, activism and Pittsburgh’s water: My scholarship cannot be neutral.” PublicSource.https://www.publicsource.org/academic-activist-pitt-pwsa-lead-water/?fbclid=IwAR08wm43s2QbsbBXlEXjdGfePh4GPMG9Nh56yPxx6RGI9zVpT-ZwwSLG68I
Schroering, Caitlin. 2021. “Inside the Struggle for Water Sovereignty in Brazil.” ROAR Magazine/Journal of Resistance Studies. https://roarmag.org/essays/brazil-mab-water-sovereignty/
Schroering, Caitlin. 2020. “À Beira Do Colapso: A Situação Das Barragens Nos Estados Unidos.” MAB. https://mab.org.br/2020/06/08/a-beira-do-colapso-a-situacao-das-barragens-nos-estados-unidos/
Schroering, Caitlin. 2020. "A Year After Brazil Dam Collapse, Communities Still Calling for Accountability." Truthout. https://truthout.org/articles/a-year-after-brazil-dam-collapse-communities-still-calling-for-accountability/
Schroering, Caitlin. 2019. Water is a Human Right! Grassroots Resistance to Corporate Power. Journal of World-Systems Research, 25(1), 28-34. doi:https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2019.899
Schroering, Caitlin. 2019. “Brazil Dam Collapse is a Human Rights Disaster and Crime.” Truthout. Available from: https://truthout.org/articles/brazil-dam-collapse-is-a-human-rights-disaster-and-crime/
Smith, Jackie and Caitlin Schroering. 2018. “Global Peasant Declaration Represents Huge Advance for Human Rights.” Common Dreams. Available from: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/12/18/global-peasant-declaration-represents-huge-advance-human-right
Schroering, Caitlin. 2018. “Capitalism and Patriarchy: Gendered Dimensions of the Global Economy, Water Conflicts, and Transnational Activist Networks” Shortened Version appeared in PEWS News Newsletter , Issue 1, Fall 2018.
Schroering, Caitlin. 2008. "Alcoa in Juruti, Brazil: A Case of Environmental Injustice and Colonialism?" SIT Digital Collections. Paper 36. Available from: http://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection/36