Marissa Bell 

Human-Environment Geographer 

Energy Justice Scholar 

Nuclear Waste Researcher 

Publications 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:  

Bell, MZ (Forthcoming) "We are a nuclear community”: The Ethical, Political Economic, and Social Relations of Canadian Nuclear Waste Siting. " Antipode. 

Bell, MZ & Lewis, NA. (2022) Universities claim to value community-engaged scholarship, so why do they discourage it? Public Understanding of Science. 

Bell, MZ. (2022) The Epistemic Tensions of Nuclear Waste Siting in a Nuclear Landscape. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. August 9, 2022

Bell, MZ & Macfarlane, A. (2022) “Fixing” the Nuclear Waste Problem? The New Political Economy of Spent Fuel Management in the United States. Energy Research and Social Science. 91: September 2022, 102728 

Bell, MZ. (2021) Spatialising Procedural Justice: Fairness and Local Knowledge Mobilisation in Nuclear Waste Siting. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, 26:1, 165-180,

Bell, MZ. (2012) Croatia's Neoliberal Trajectory: The Applicability of Variegated Neoliberalism in the Croatian Post-socialist Context. Middle States Geographer, 2012, 46:1-9.

Manuscripts Under review:

Bell, MZ. & Lewis, NA. (Under Review) What can land grant institutions teach us about the functioning of democratic systems? 

Policy Briefs: 

Bell, MZ. (2021) Local Recommendations and Lessons learned from Canadian Nuclear Waste Siting: The Importance of Contextually-Aware Practices

Edited Volumes:

Sonnis-Bell, MZ., Bell, D. and Ryan, M. (2018) Strangers, Aliens, Foreigners: The Politics of Othering from Migrants to Corporations. Brill Rodopi, Leiden.

Book Chapters:

Bell, MZ. (2022) Navigating a Nuclear Past Where Archives Are Missing. In: Robert Anderson (ed.) Hiding in Plain Sight: Uncovering Nuclear Histories. Simon Fraser University Digital Publishing.

Sonnis-Bell, MZ. (2018) Introduction: Arbitrary Constructions and Real Consequences of the Self and Other. In: M. Bell, D. Bell and M. Ryan (eds.) Strangers, Aliens, Foreigners. The Politics of Othering from Migrants to Corporations. Brill Rodopi, Leiden.

Sonnis-Bell, MZ. (2018) Fighting Against the Wind: Politics of “the Local” and Corporate Othering in Community Activism Against Wind Energy Installation in Upstate New York. In: M. Sonnis-Bell, D. Bell and M. Ryan (eds.) Strangers, Aliens, Foreigners. The Politics of Othering from Migrants to Corporations. Brill Rodopi, Leiden.

Bell, DE and Bell MZ. (2017) Port Hope Burning: Cameco, the Uranium Medical Research Centre, and a Local Populace Caught In-Between. In: L. MacDowell (ed.) Nuclear Portraits: Communities, the Environment, and Public Policy. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Conference Papers:

Bell, MZ. (2022) Temporalities, Political Economies, and Marginality in Nuclear Waste Storage in Canada. American Association of Geographers. 

Bell, MZ. (2016) Fighting Against the Wind: Politics of “the Local” and Corporate Othering in Community Activism Against Wind Energy Installation in Upstate New York. 7th Global Strangers, Aliens and Foreigners, Conference. Oxford, U.K. 14–16 July.

Bell, MZ and Yang, ZJ. (2015) Nuclear Energy in the Media: Examining Fukushima’s Influence on Debates over the future of Nuclear. Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA. 6–10 December.

Bell, MZ. (2011) Istria at the Edge of an EU Applicant State: Regional Identity and Perceptions. National Conference for Undergraduate Research, Ithaca, NY.