Forthcoming Books
Carrillo, Ian. 2026 The Business of Racism: Labor and Environment in Brazil’s Racial Capitalism. Duke University Press. Publication date May 19. https://dukeupress.edu/the-business-of-racism
Books
Fox, Jordan, Ian Carrillo, Jean Philippe Sapinsky, and Diana Stuart (eds.). 2026. Environmental Sociology Now. University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/books/environmental-sociology-now/paper.
Peer–Reviewed Journal Articles
Carrillo, Ian and Annabel Ipsen.* 2026. "Redefining Discrimination: Reactionary Colorblindness and the Dismantling of Environmental Policy." Socius 12. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231251411361. *Equal Authorship
Carrillo, Ian. 2025. “Ambiguity, Consciousness, and Plantation Afterlives in Brazil’s Racial Capitalism.” The Journal of Peasant Studies 52(1):1-20. https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.ou.edu/10.1080/03066150.2024.2407172
Carrillo, Ian, katrina quisumbing king, and Kai A. Schafft. 2021. “Race, Ethnicity, and 21st Century Rural Sociological Imaginings: A Special Issue Introduction.” Rural Sociology 86(3):419-433. https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12402
Carrillo, Ian and Annabel Ipsen.* 2021 “Worksites as Sacrifice Zones: Structural Precarity and Covid-19 in US Meatpacking.” Sociological Perspectives 64(5):726-746. https://doi.org/10.1177/0731121421101202 *Equal Authorship
Carrillo, Ian and David Pellow. 2021. “Critical Environmental Justice and the Nature of the Firm.” Agriculture and Human Values 38:815-826. doi.org/10.1007/s10460-021-10193-2
Carrillo, Ian. 2021. “Racialized Organizations and Colorblind Racial Ideology in Brazil.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 7(1):56-70. https://doi.org/10.1177/2332649220943223
Carrillo, Ian. 2021. “The Racial Fix and Environmental State Formation.” Current Sociology 69(5):641-659. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392120913099
Carrillo, Ian. 2017. “When Farm Work Disappears: Labor and Environmental Change in the Brazilian Sugar–Energy Industry.” Environmental Sociology 3(1):42-53. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2016.1221172
Carrillo, Ian. 2014. “New Developmentalism and the Challenges to Long-Term Stability in Brazil.” Latin American Perspectives 41(5): 59-74. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X14543791
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
Carrillo, Ian. 2026. “Racial Capitalism and the Environment.” Pp. 93-110, in Environmental Sociology Now. Edited by Jordan Fox, Ian Carrillo, Jean Philippe Sapinsky, and Diana Stuart. University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/books/environmental-sociology-now/paper.
Carrillo, Ian. 2022. “The Environmental State and the Racial State in Tension: Does Racism Impede Environmentalism?” Pp. 365-80, in The Handbook of Anti-Environmentalism. Edited by David Tindall, Mark C.J. Stoddart, and Riley Dunlap. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Edited Special Journal Issues
Carrillo, Ian, katrina quisumbing king, and Kai Schafft (eds.). 2021. "Rurality, Race, and Ethnicity." Special issue in Rural Sociology 86(3)
Public Sociology
Carrillo, Ian. 2022. “Racism and Anti-Environmentalism in US Politics.” Global Dialogue 12(1) [link]
Carrillo, Ian. 2021. “Power and Race in Brazil’s Labor-Environment Nexus.” Footnotes 49(3) [link]
Carrillo, Ian and Annabel Ipsen. 2021. "Meatpacking work: creating structural precarity and sacrifice zones in COVID-19." Work in Progress. [link]
Carrillo, Ian. 2026 The Business of Racism: Labor and Environment in Brazil’s Racial Capitalism. Duke University Press. Publication date May 19. https://dukeupress.edu/the-business-of-racism
Books
Fox, Jordan, Ian Carrillo, Jean Philippe Sapinsky, and Diana Stuart (eds.). 2026. Environmental Sociology Now. University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/books/environmental-sociology-now/paper.
Peer–Reviewed Journal Articles
Carrillo, Ian and Annabel Ipsen.* 2026. "Redefining Discrimination: Reactionary Colorblindness and the Dismantling of Environmental Policy." Socius 12. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231251411361. *Equal Authorship
Carrillo, Ian. 2025. “Ambiguity, Consciousness, and Plantation Afterlives in Brazil’s Racial Capitalism.” The Journal of Peasant Studies 52(1):1-20. https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.ou.edu/10.1080/03066150.2024.2407172
Carrillo, Ian, katrina quisumbing king, and Kai A. Schafft. 2021. “Race, Ethnicity, and 21st Century Rural Sociological Imaginings: A Special Issue Introduction.” Rural Sociology 86(3):419-433. https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12402
Carrillo, Ian and Annabel Ipsen.* 2021 “Worksites as Sacrifice Zones: Structural Precarity and Covid-19 in US Meatpacking.” Sociological Perspectives 64(5):726-746. https://doi.org/10.1177/0731121421101202 *Equal Authorship
Carrillo, Ian and David Pellow. 2021. “Critical Environmental Justice and the Nature of the Firm.” Agriculture and Human Values 38:815-826. doi.org/10.1007/s10460-021-10193-2
Carrillo, Ian. 2021. “Racialized Organizations and Colorblind Racial Ideology in Brazil.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 7(1):56-70. https://doi.org/10.1177/2332649220943223
Carrillo, Ian. 2021. “The Racial Fix and Environmental State Formation.” Current Sociology 69(5):641-659. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392120913099
Carrillo, Ian. 2017. “When Farm Work Disappears: Labor and Environmental Change in the Brazilian Sugar–Energy Industry.” Environmental Sociology 3(1):42-53. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2016.1221172
Carrillo, Ian. 2014. “New Developmentalism and the Challenges to Long-Term Stability in Brazil.” Latin American Perspectives 41(5): 59-74. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X14543791
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
Carrillo, Ian. 2026. “Racial Capitalism and the Environment.” Pp. 93-110, in Environmental Sociology Now. Edited by Jordan Fox, Ian Carrillo, Jean Philippe Sapinsky, and Diana Stuart. University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/books/environmental-sociology-now/paper.
Carrillo, Ian. 2022. “The Environmental State and the Racial State in Tension: Does Racism Impede Environmentalism?” Pp. 365-80, in The Handbook of Anti-Environmentalism. Edited by David Tindall, Mark C.J. Stoddart, and Riley Dunlap. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Edited Special Journal Issues
Carrillo, Ian, katrina quisumbing king, and Kai Schafft (eds.). 2021. "Rurality, Race, and Ethnicity." Special issue in Rural Sociology 86(3)
Public Sociology
Carrillo, Ian. 2022. “Racism and Anti-Environmentalism in US Politics.” Global Dialogue 12(1) [link]
Carrillo, Ian. 2021. “Power and Race in Brazil’s Labor-Environment Nexus.” Footnotes 49(3) [link]
Carrillo, Ian and Annabel Ipsen. 2021. "Meatpacking work: creating structural precarity and sacrifice zones in COVID-19." Work in Progress. [link]