Natural Resource Extraction and Violence Against Women: Drilling Down on Patriarchy
Meet the Author Series Webinar: July 15, 2026
2:00pm - 3:3pm Eastern Time
This webinar focuses on a timely global issue. Natural Resource Extraction and Violence Against Women in Rural Places: Drilling Down on Patriarchy (Routledge, 2026) is a book by Walter S. DeKeseredy, Joseph F. Donnermeyer, and Jayne Mooney that examines the link between natural resource extraction industries (like those in Canadian "boomtowns") and increased violence against women in rural areas, arguing that patriarchal structures are a key factor. The book uses a feminist and rural criminology framework to analyze how these industries exacerbate existing gendered inequalities, drawing on both theory and personal accounts to explore the issue.
Moderator:
Dr. Claire Renzetti, University of Kentucky
Dr. Claire M. Renzetti is Professor of Sociology and the Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair for Studies of Violence Against Women (Emerita) at the University of Kentucky. Her research focuses on the violent victimization experiences of socially and economically marginalized women and girls. She is editor of the peer-reviewed, international and interdisciplinary journal Violence Against Women (SAGE Publications), which she founded in 1995. Dr. Renzetti is also the editor of the Gender and Justice book series for University of California Press, co-editor of the Interpersonal Violence book series for Oxford University Press, and editor of the Family and Gender-based Violence book series for Cognella. She has written or edited 28 books as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles based on her research.
Panelists:
Dr. Walter S. DeKeseredy, West Virginia University
Walter S. DeKeseredy is Fellow of the American Society of Criminology (ASC), Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, add Director of the Research Center on Violence at West Virginia University. He has published 32 books, over 159 scientific journal articles and 100 scholarly book chapters on violence against women and other social problems. In 2008, the ASC’s Division on Critical Criminology (DCC) gave him the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014, he received the Critical Criminal Justice Scholar Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences' (ACJS) Section on Critical Criminal Justice and in 2015, he received the Career Achievement Award from the ASC's Division on Victimology. In 2023, he received the Ralph Weisheit Lifetime Achievement Award from the ASC’s Division on Rural Criminology.
Dr. Joseph F. Donnermeyer, The Ohio State University
Dr. Joseph F. Donnermeyer is a professor emeritus in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University and an adjunct professor at both the Center of Research on Violence at West Virginia University and the Centre for Rural Criminology at University of New England., New South Wales. He is a co-founder of both the International Society for the Study of Rural Crime and the Division of Rural Criminology in the American Society of Criminology. During the Autumn, 2024, he was a visiting academic with the Faculty of Law, University of Bialystok, Poland.
Dr. Jayne Mooney, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Jayne Mooney is Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and is on the doctoral faculties of Gender and Women’s Studies and Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her scholarship focuses on gender and violence, the history of crime and punishment, and critical criminology. Recent publications include the monograph, The Theoretical Foundations of Criminological Theory: Place, Time, and Context, as well as a series of articles on the social history of Rikers Island jail complex in NYC. She is Co-Editor in Chief of Critical Criminology: An International Journal, Co-Director of the Social Change and Transgressive Studies Project and the Critical Social History Project, CUNY.