Alice Mah

Alice Mah

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British-Columbia, Canada

Mah, A. (2026). Red Pockets: An Offering. Penguin Press. https://www.penguin.com.au/books/red-pockets-9781802061338

Mah, A. (2023). Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478027126

Mah, A. (2022). Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fuelling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It. Polity Press. 

Mah, A. (2021). Future-Proofing Capitalism: The Paradox of the Circular Economy for Plastics. Global Environmental Plastics, 21(2), 121-142. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00594

Mah, A., & Wang, X. (2019). Accumulated Injuries of Environmental Injustice: Living and Working with Petrochemical Pollution in Nanjing, China. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 109(6), 1961–1977. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2019.1574551 

Mah, A. (2017). Environmental justice in the age of big data: challenging toxic blind spots of voice, speed, and expertise. Environmental Sociology, 3(2), 122–133. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2016.1220849

Mah, A. (2014). Port Cities and Global Legacies: Urban Identity, Waterfront Work, and Radicalism. Palgrave Macmillan London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283146

Mah, A. (2014). Industrial Ruination, Community and Place: Lan dscaptes and Legacies of Urban Decline.  University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781442645493, https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781442613577 

Tilsted, J.P., Mah A., Nielson, T.D., Finkill, G. and Bauer, F. (2022) Petrochemical transition narratives: Selling fossil fuel solutions in a decarbonizing world. Energy Research and Social Science, 94, 102800. 

Brown, D., Mah, A., & Walker, G. (2022). The tenacity of trust in petrochemical communities: Reckoning with risk on the Fawley Waterside (1997–2019). EPE: Nature and Space, 5(3), 1207–1229. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211045367

Davies, T., & Mah, A. (2020). Toxic truths: Environmental justice and citizen science in a post-truth age. Manchester University Press. https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526137029/

The University of Glasgow. (n.d.). Professor Alice Mah. Accessed March 30, 2026. https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/alicemah/#biography,researchinterests,publications,articles,teaching

The Sociological Review. (2024, September 2). Interview: Professor Alice Mah. Accessed March 30, 2026. https://thesociologicalreview.org/announcements/news/interview-professor-alice-mah/

Mah, A. (2025, April 29). Travelling to my ancestral home in China unearthed tragedy tinged by the climate crisis – it inspired me to write Red Pockets. The Conversation. Accessed March 30, 2026. https://theconversation.com/travelling-to-my-ancestral-home-in-china-unearthed-tragedy-tinged-by-the-climate-crisis-it-inspired-me-to-write-red-pockets-253987

Yu, C. (2025, June 21). Haunted by my great-grandfather’s second wife – by Alice Mah. Spectator Australia. Accessed March 30, 2026. https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/06/haunted-by-my-great-grandfathers-second-wife-by-alice-mah/