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Mary Mellor (born 1946) is a British academic and activist, who is Emeritus Professor in Social science at Northumbria University, where she was the founding chair of the Sustainable Cities Research Institute. She has published widely on ecofeminism, sustainability and economics. In 2017 she was awarded the Bernardo Aguilar Award from the United States Society for Ecological Economics.
As of 2024, Mellor is Emeritus Professor in Social science at Northumbria University, where she was the founding chair of the Sustainable Cities Research Institute. She has published widely on ecofeminism, sustainability and economics. An activist, as well as an academic, Mellor participated in the protest at Greenham Common peace camp. John Barry described her as "one of the main social theorists" in the field of gender and the environment. In 2017 she was awarded the Bernardo Aguilar Award from the United States Society for Ecological Economics.
The 2008 financial crisis led to another series of books and papers that link gender equality, sufficiency provisioning and ecological sustainability with a critique of neoliberal money and finance. The Future of Money went further, arguing against the "privatisation of money" and discussing the possibilities that alternative approaches may give, such as an "ecofeminist political economy". Jeremy Leaman described the book as an "excellent book, elegantly and cogently written", which argued that money needed to be reclaimed from the profit-driven and repurposed for social inclusion. Mellor expanded this argument in Debt or Democracy, where she argued that private sector control of the creation of money through loans needs to be brought back into public control. 2019's Money: Myths, Truths and Alternatives examined the social value of money and its connections to neoliberalism. This work is written for a general readership and, according to sociologist David Blaazer, argues for monetary reform to reclaim the state's role in contrast to the power of private finance.Mellor, Mary, and Finn Brunton. "Reviewed by David Blaazer." Australian Humanities Review (2020).
In addition to these works, Mellor has also published on worker's cooperatives and their histories, and toured Japan, Australia, the United States of America and the Netherlands after the publication of her 1992 work Breaking the Boundaries. Interviewed in the Green European Journal discussing the COVID-19 pandemic, Mellor described how issues for women had increased due to what she termed 'patriarchy in the home' and 'patriarchy of the wider economy'. Both focussed on the unfair expectations on women to shoulder Caregiver both privately and publicly.
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