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2014, Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities
Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities
Decolonizing the Archive: Digitizing Native Literature with Students and Tribal Communities2014 •
The New England Quarterly
Beyond "Sectional Superiority" 1 : Memorializing Black History in Northern New England2023 •
eve allegra raimon A T the same time as White nationalism is on the rise in the United States, the "lost cause" narrative of the heroic Confederacy is under considerable strain, judging by the fate of recent monuments. 2 For the second time, the House of Representatives voted in June 2021 to remove statues honoring "Confederate and other white supremacist leaders" from public display at the Capitol, including the likenesses of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, Jefferson Davis, and a dozen other figures associated with the Confederacy or other white supremacist causes. 3 In July of the same year, the Charlottesville, Virginia City Council removed statues of generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, the symbols at the center of the deadly Great thanks go to
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Drs. Marla Jaksch (TCNJ; DHi Networked Faculty Fellow) and Angel David Nieves (DHi) are special guest editors for Issue 6 (2014) of the Journal for Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, “Intersections of Heritage, Development, Digital Technologies, & Pedagogy in Africa & the African Diaspora.” Recent scholarship in development studies has highlighted the importance of new digital technologies as tools for furthering social justice while at the same time revealing continued economic and educational inequalities across the African Diaspora. The introductory essay, written by Jaksch and Nieves, “Africa is a Country? Digital Diasporas, ICTs, and Heritage Development Strategies for Social Justice,” provides a useful framework for readers unfamiliar with these emerging research practices.
As the magnitude, complexity, and urgency of many sustainability problems increase, there is a growing need for universities to contribute more effectively to problem solving. Drawing upon prior research on social-ecological systems, knowledge-action connections, and organizational innovation, we developed an integrated conceptual framework for strengthening the capacity of universities to help society understand and respond to a wide range of sustainability challenges. Based on experiences gained in creating the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions (Mitchell Center), we tested this framework by evaluating the experiences of interdisciplinary research teams involved in place-based, solutions-oriented research projects at the scale of a single region (i.e., the state of Maine, USA). We employed a multiple-case-study approach examining the experiences of three interdisciplinary research teams working on tidal energy development, adaptation to climate change, and forest vulnerability to an invasive insect. Drawing upon documents, observations, interviews, and other data sources, three common patterns emerged across these cases that were associated with more effective problem-solving strategies. First, an emphasis on local places and short-term dynamics in social-ecological systems research provides more frequent opportunities for learning while doing. Second, iterative stakeholder engagement and inclusive forms of knowledge co-production can generate substantial returns on investment, especially when researchers are dedicated to a shared process of problem identification and they avoid framing solutions too narrowly. Although these practices are time consuming, they can be accelerated by leveraging existing stakeholder relationships. Third, efforts to mobilize interdisciplinary expertise and link knowledge with action are facilitated by an organizational culture that emphasizes mutual respect, adaptability, and solutions. Participation of faculty associated with interdisciplinary academic programs, solutions-oriented fields, and units with partnership-oriented missions hastens collaboration within teams and between teams and stakeholders. The Mitchell Center also created a risk-tolerant culture that encouraged organizational learning. Solutions-focused programs at other universities can potentially benefit from the lessons we learned.
Environment and Society: Advances in Research
The Double Force of Vulnerability: Ethnography and Environmental Justice2021 •
This article reviews ethnographic literature of environmental justice (EJ). Both a social movement and scholarship, EJ is a crucial domain for examining the intersections of environment, well-being, and social power, and yet has largely been dominated by quantitative and legal analyses. A minority literature in comparison, ethnography attends to other valences of injustice and modes of inequality. Th rough this review, we argue that ethnographies of EJ forward our understanding of how environmental vulnerability is lived, as communities experience and confront toxic environments. Following a genealogy of EJ, we explore three prominent ethnographic thematics of EJ: the production of vulnerability through embodied toxicity; the ways that injustice becomes embedded in landscapes; and how processes like research collaborations and legal interventions become places of thinking and doing the work of justice. Finally, we identify emergent trends and challenges, suggesting future research directions for ethnographic consideration.
Environment and Society
The Double Force of VulnerabilityThis article reviews ethnographic literature of environmental justice (EJ). Both a social movement and scholarship, EJ is a crucial domain for examining the intersections of environment, well-being, and social power, and yet has largely been dominated by quantitative and legal analyses. A minority literature in comparison, ethnography attends to other valences of injustice and modes of inequality. Through this review, we argue that ethnographies of EJ forward our understanding of how environmental vulnerability is lived, as communities experience and confront toxic environments. Following a genealogy of EJ, we explore three prominent ethnographic thematics of EJ: the production of vulnerability through embodied toxicity; the ways that injustice becomes embedded in landscapes; and how processes like research collaborations and legal interventions become places of thinking and doing the work of justice. Finally, we identify emergent trends and challenges, suggesting future research di...
Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies
Mapping Race and Urban Ecologies: Collaborative Engagements with Critical Geography, Urban Studies, and Digital Humanities2023 •
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Overview: The rapid warming of the Arctic and melting of Arctic sea and land ice will have ramifications around the globe. Shipping routes through an ice-free Northwest Passage in combination with modifications to ocean circulation and regional climate patterns linked to Arctic ice melt will affect trade, fisheries, tourism, coastal ecology, air and water quality, animal migration, and demographics not only in the Arctic but also in lower latitude coastal regions such as New England. With profound changes on the horizon, this is a critical opportunity for New England to prepare for uncertain yet inevitable economic and environmental impacts of Arctic change. In order to detect and respond to the challenges that New England will face as the nation’s eastern gateway to the Arctic, it will be necessary to modify traditional observational networks and models. This workshop pairs two of NSF’s 10 Big Ideas: Navigating the New Arctic and Growing Convergence Research at NSF. During this eve...
Journal of Applied Communication Research
Fueling and Delinking from Energy Coloniality in Puerto RicoResilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities
Ursula Heise and Her Work: Toward a Rhizomatic Review2015 •
Journal of Victorian Culture
Digitizing Indigenous History: Trends and Challenges2014 •
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The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice
Storytelling environmental justice2017 •
Annals of Leisure Research
Sport as a cultural offset in Aboriginal Australia?2019 •
41st Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. ‘Landscapes & Environments’, organizado pela British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS), entre o 4 e o 6 de janeiro de 2012 em Oxford (Reino Unido).
Academic knowledge on the theatrical field. Anomalies and deficits through a case study2012 •
Gender, Place & Culture
A feminist exploration of ‘populationism’: engaging contemporary forms of population control2019 •
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The Politics of Biography in Africa
Frieda von Bülow and Bibi Titi Mohamed. (De)Colonized Feminism in TanzaniaStudies in American Indian Literatures 24(3): 138-141
Book Review: The Life and Writings of Betsey Chamberlain: Native American Mill Worker by Judith A. Ranta2012 •
Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Rhetorical spaces in memorial places: The cemetery as a rhetorical memory place/space2005 •
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MLA Annual Convention, panel on ‘Persistence and Renewal: Italian Novels, 1600-1900’
Blending politics and literature: the nationalistic novels of Gabriele d'Annunzio (1863-1938)2021 •
Digital Creativity
Infrastructures of abstraction: how computer science education produces anti-political subjects2019 •
NeMLA Annual Meeting. Toronto, Ontario, May 1, 2015
The Eiffel Tower as Poetical Chronotope of the Historical Avant-garde2017 •
American Anthropologist
Cultural Expertise? Anthropologist as Witness in Defense of Indigenous and Afro‐Descendant Rights2020 •