Daniel Jaffee

Daniel Jaffee is an environmental and rural sociologist and Associate Professor of Sociology at Portland State University. His research examines social conflicts over the commodification of water; the social, environmental, and economic impacts of bottled and packaged water; and social movements around bottled water and water justice, both in the global North and the South. His current book, Unbottled, was published by University of California Press in September 2023. He also studies the international fair trade movement and system, examining the benefits and limitations of participation in fair trade markets for small-scale commodity producers, as well as the contested politics of fair trade and agrifood certification, and social movements around food and agriculture. His first book, Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival, received the C. Wright Mills Book Award. He received his Ph.D. in 2006 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.