Alice Mah

Alice Mah is Professor of Urban and Environmental Studies at the University of Glasgow. Prior to this she was Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-funded Starting Grant “Toxic Expertise: Environmental Justice and the Global Petrochemical Industry.” Her research and teaching contributions focus on toxic pollution and environmental justice; just and sustainable transformations; and anti-colonial ecological alternatives and futures.

Alice is the author of Red Pockets: An Offering (forthcoming, 2025, Allen Lane); Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation (2023, Duke University Press); Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations are Fuelling the Ecological Crisis (2022, Polity Press); Toxic Truths: Environmental Justice and Citizen Science in a Post-Truth Age (with Thom Davies, 2020, University of Manchester Press); Port Cities and Global Legacies (2014, Palgrave Macmillan), and Industrial Ruination, Community, and Place (2012, University of Toronto Press), winner of the 2013 British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. Her wide-ranging interdisciplinary research has been published in leading academic journals and received awards, including the Philip Leverhulme Prize and the SAGE Prize for Innovation/Excellence.

Research interests:

environmental justice
just and sustainable transformations
urban inequalities and toxic pollution
climate justice and decarbonisation
deindustrialization and post-industrial transformation
sociology of the petrochemical, plastics, and fossil fuel industries
corporate sustainability
degrowth and ecological alternatives/futures