Rebecca Hardin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 77944 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rebecca Hardin |
| NOMBRES | Rebecca |
| APELLIDO | Hardin |
| FIRMA | HARDIN R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9047-5821 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 108 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Co-learning approaches to talking and thinking about “peecycling
Narratives of linearity and control have driven conventional wastewater management and modern agriculture, resulting in widespread contamination and ecological damage. In response, a growing movement to reclaim the nutrient cycle emphasizes circularity and the entanglements between our bodies, the “shadow places” where our “waste” travels, and the ecosystems that sustain us. Parallel linear narratives of diffusionist knowledge dissemination have …
Electronics sustainability
Introduction to special issue
Leveraging integrative research for inclusive innovation
This report describes the evolution of a qualitative research design used in a study that integrated academic and non-academic expertise and involved multiple stakeholders concerned with the diversion of human urine from the waste stream for its re-use in agriculture. The study took place in two regions of the U.S., New England and the Upper Midwest (most specifically Vermont and Michigan) and suggests the importance of ethnographic perspectives …
Perceptions of Local Vulnerability and the Relative Importance of Climate Change in Rural Ecuador
Collaborative Creation and Implementation of a Michigan Sustainability Case on Urban Farming in Detroit
The University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) seeks to transform sustainability learning through new curricular tools that incorporate multimedia sources, build both scientific and professional skills, and nurture partnerships with practitioners for extended engaged learning beyond the classroom. The Michigan Sustainability Cases (MSCs) bring case-based teaching to the sustainability field and redefine cases by makin…
Mercury Levels in Human Hair and Farmed Fish near Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Communities in the Madre de Dios River Basin, Peru
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has been an important source of income for communities in the Madre de Dios River Basin in Peru for hundreds of years. However, in recent decades, the scale of ASGM activities in the region has increased dramatically, and exposures to a variety of occupational and environmental hazards related to ASGM, including mercury, are becoming more widespread. The aims of our study were to: (1) examine patterns …
A National Adaptation Programme of Action
This innovative sustainability case on Ethiopia’s National Adaptation Programme of Action was created through collaboration among professionals, scholars, students and media design professionals under the auspices of the Michigan Sustainability Case (MSC) initiative. It comprises a terse narrative about a decision maker, multimedia sources including a podcast that link to and enrich the text, and an engaged learning exercise that walks users thro…
Towards a revolution in sustainability education
The challenges of sustainability and sustainable development are multifaceted and complex. Addressing them in the long run requires a revolution in the training of future generations of learners so that they can devise solutions for sustainability dilemmas in environments characterized by uncertainty, information deficits, and asymmetric power relationships. Such a revolution is under way in many disciplines. Within the field of sustainability st…
Evolution of the environmental justice movement
To complement a recent flush of research on transnational environmental justice movements, we sought a deeper organizational history of what we understand as the contemporary environmental justice movement in the United States. We thus conducted in-depth interviews with 31 prominent environmental justice activists, scholars, and community leaders across the US. Today’s environmental justice groups have transitioned from specific local efforts to …
From the Michigan Coalition to transnational collaboration
This article identifies the top 40 most influential environmental conflict cases in the US while also showcasing innovative mixed methods for more rigorous participatory collaborative work on environmental conflicts. University of Michigan students and faculty collaborated with Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT), a European Union mapping initiative, to identify US cases for their wider study. We began with an inten…
Q Fever Risk Across a Dynamic, Heterogeneous Landscape in Laikipia County, Kenya
Performing Royalty in Contemporary Africa
Sovereignty and governance in contemporary Africa are hotly contested issues with important-even dire-consequences for all those interested in the continent's markets, resources, people, and welfare. This article focuses not on questions of how authority is assigned or removed but on how it is shaped, worn, and performed for diverse audiences, particularly in the arena of "traditional governance." Here, the Bafokeng "ethnic corporation" meets Afr…
Transforming Ethnographic Knowledge
The ethnographic methods that anthropologists first developed to study other cultures fieldwork, participant observation, dialogue are now being adapted for a broad array of applications, such as business, conflict resolution and demobilization, wildlife conservation, education, and biomedicine. In Transforming Ethnographic Knowledge, anthropologists trace the changes they have seen in ethnography as a method and as an intellectual approach, and …
Collective contradictions of "corporate" environmental conservation
Relationships emerging between corporate actors and environmental conservation organizations range from partnerships in field operations to gifts brokered at the upper echelons of corporate and nongovernmental organization (NGO) management. Drawing on Mauss's original formulation of "the gift," I consider the social consequences and contexts of these relationships, over various territorial and temporal scales. I argue that recent critiques of con…
Concessionary Politics
The origin of concessionary politics that shape forest use and management in equatorial Africa can be traced to precolonial and colonial practices. Yet these political processes are constantly being reinvented, and their consequences for ecological and social systems reach far into the future. Gleaned from fieldwork among residents of a protected area and logging zone in Central African Republic (CAR), this concept relates village-level analysis …
Corporate Lives
The introduction to this special issue of Current Anthropology calls for more anthropological attention to how the corporate form shapes and is shaped by daily life. It also traces anthropologists’ engagements with corporations over time. We present transformations in traditionally corporate arenas, such as mining and textile production, alongside parallel developments in transnational cooperatives, organic production systems, and ethnic deployme…
Narrative, Humanity, and Patrimony in an Equatorial African Forest
In the Name of Humanity
Scientists, activists, state officials, NGOs, and others increasingly claim to speak and act on behalf of "humanity." The remarkable array of circumstances in which humanity is invoked testifies to the category's universal purchase. Yet what exactly does it mean to govern, fight, and care in the name of humanity? In this timely collection, leading anthropologists and cultural critics grapple with that question, examining configurations of humanit…
Changing Governance of the World's Forests
Major features of contemporary forest governance include decentralization of forest management, logging concessions in publicly owned commercially valuable forests, and timber certification, primarily in temperate forests. Although a majority of forests continue to be owned formally by governments, the effectiveness of forest governance is increasingly independent of formal ownership. Growing and competing demands for food, biofuels, timber, and …
Biological and Cultural Anthropology of a Changing Tropical Forest
In this article, we integrate approaches from biological and cultural anthropology to describe changing relationships between humans and animals in the Dzanga-Ndoki Park and Dzanga-Sangha Dense Forest Reserve (RDS), Central African Republic (CAR). Recent decades have seen a rapid proliferation of human activities, with striking tensions between logging and conservation economies. Our data suggest that certain animals and humans initially adapted …
Présentation
Translating the forest
Corporate Lives
The introduction to this special issue of Current Anthropology calls for more anthropological attention to how the corporate form shapes and is shaped by daily life. It also traces anthropologists’ engagements with corporations over time. We present transformations in traditionally corporate arenas, such as mining and textile production, alongside parallel developments in transnational cooperatives, organic production systems, and ethnic deployme…
Concessionary Politics
The origin of concessionary politics that shape forest use and management in equatorial Africa can be traced to precolonial and colonial practices. Yet these political processes are constantly being reinvented, and their consequences for ecological and social systems reach far into the future. Gleaned from fieldwork among residents of a protected area and logging zone in Central African Republic (CAR), this concept relates village-level analysis …
Biological and Cultural Anthropology of a Changing Tropical Forest
In this article, we integrate approaches from biological and cultural anthropology to describe changing relationships between humans and animals in the Dzanga-Ndoki Park and Dzanga-Sangha Dense Forest Reserve (RDS), Central African Republic (CAR). Recent decades have seen a rapid proliferation of human activities, with striking tensions between logging and conservation economies. Our data suggest that certain animals and humans initially adapted …
Performing Royalty in Contemporary Africa
Sovereignty and governance in contemporary Africa are hotly contested issues with important-even dire-consequences for all those interested in the continent's markets, resources, people, and welfare. This article focuses not on questions of how authority is assigned or removed but on how it is shaped, worn, and performed for diverse audiences, particularly in the arena of "traditional governance." Here, the Bafokeng "ethnic corporation" meets Afr…
From the Michigan Coalition to transnational collaboration
This article identifies the top 40 most influential environmental conflict cases in the US while also showcasing innovative mixed methods for more rigorous participatory collaborative work on environmental conflicts. University of Michigan students and faculty collaborated with Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT), a European Union mapping initiative, to identify US cases for their wider study. We began with an inten…
Towards a revolution in sustainability education
The challenges of sustainability and sustainable development are multifaceted and complex. Addressing them in the long run requires a revolution in the training of future generations of learners so that they can devise solutions for sustainability dilemmas in environments characterized by uncertainty, information deficits, and asymmetric power relationships. Such a revolution is under way in many disciplines. Within the field of sustainability st…
Collective contradictions of "corporate" environmental conservation
Relationships emerging between corporate actors and environmental conservation organizations range from partnerships in field operations to gifts brokered at the upper echelons of corporate and nongovernmental organization (NGO) management. Drawing on Mauss's original formulation of "the gift," I consider the social consequences and contexts of these relationships, over various territorial and temporal scales. I argue that recent critiques of con…
Présentation
Présentation
Biological and Cultural Anthropology of a Changing Tropical Forest
In this article, we integrate approaches from biological and cultural anthropology to describe changing relationships between humans and animals in the Dzanga-Ndoki Park and Dzanga-Sangha Dense Forest Reserve (RDS), Central African Republic (CAR). Recent decades have seen a rapid proliferation of human activities, with striking tensions between logging and conservation economies. Our data suggest that certain animals and humans initially adapted …
Changing Governance of the World's Forests
Major features of contemporary forest governance include decentralization of forest management, logging concessions in publicly owned commercially valuable forests, and timber certification, primarily in temperate forests. Although a majority of forests continue to be owned formally by governments, the effectiveness of forest governance is increasingly independent of formal ownership. Growing and competing demands for food, biofuels, timber, and …
Narrative, Humanity, and Patrimony in an Equatorial African Forest
In the Name of Humanity
Scientists, activists, state officials, NGOs, and others increasingly claim to speak and act on behalf of "humanity." The remarkable array of circumstances in which humanity is invoked testifies to the category's universal purchase. Yet what exactly does it mean to govern, fight, and care in the name of humanity? In this timely collection, leading anthropologists and cultural critics grapple with that question, examining configurations of humanit…
Collective contradictions of "corporate" environmental conservation
Relationships emerging between corporate actors and environmental conservation organizations range from partnerships in field operations to gifts brokered at the upper echelons of corporate and nongovernmental organization (NGO) management. Drawing on Mauss's original formulation of "the gift," I consider the social consequences and contexts of these relationships, over various territorial and temporal scales. I argue that recent critiques of con…
Concessionary Politics
The origin of concessionary politics that shape forest use and management in equatorial Africa can be traced to precolonial and colonial practices. Yet these political processes are constantly being reinvented, and their consequences for ecological and social systems reach far into the future. Gleaned from fieldwork among residents of a protected area and logging zone in Central African Republic (CAR), this concept relates village-level analysis …
Corporate Lives
The introduction to this special issue of Current Anthropology calls for more anthropological attention to how the corporate form shapes and is shaped by daily life. It also traces anthropologists’ engagements with corporations over time. We present transformations in traditionally corporate arenas, such as mining and textile production, alongside parallel developments in transnational cooperatives, organic production systems, and ethnic deployme…
Transforming Ethnographic Knowledge
The ethnographic methods that anthropologists first developed to study other cultures fieldwork, participant observation, dialogue are now being adapted for a broad array of applications, such as business, conflict resolution and demobilization, wildlife conservation, education, and biomedicine. In Transforming Ethnographic Knowledge, anthropologists trace the changes they have seen in ethnography as a method and as an intellectual approach, and …
Performing Royalty in Contemporary Africa
Sovereignty and governance in contemporary Africa are hotly contested issues with important-even dire-consequences for all those interested in the continent's markets, resources, people, and welfare. This article focuses not on questions of how authority is assigned or removed but on how it is shaped, worn, and performed for diverse audiences, particularly in the arena of "traditional governance." Here, the Bafokeng "ethnic corporation" meets Afr…
Q Fever Risk Across a Dynamic, Heterogeneous Landscape in Laikipia County, Kenya
Evolution of the environmental justice movement
To complement a recent flush of research on transnational environmental justice movements, we sought a deeper organizational history of what we understand as the contemporary environmental justice movement in the United States. We thus conducted in-depth interviews with 31 prominent environmental justice activists, scholars, and community leaders across the US. Today’s environmental justice groups have transitioned from specific local efforts to …
From the Michigan Coalition to transnational collaboration
This article identifies the top 40 most influential environmental conflict cases in the US while also showcasing innovative mixed methods for more rigorous participatory collaborative work on environmental conflicts. University of Michigan students and faculty collaborated with Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT), a European Union mapping initiative, to identify US cases for their wider study. We began with an inten…
A National Adaptation Programme of Action
This innovative sustainability case on Ethiopia’s National Adaptation Programme of Action was created through collaboration among professionals, scholars, students and media design professionals under the auspices of the Michigan Sustainability Case (MSC) initiative. It comprises a terse narrative about a decision maker, multimedia sources including a podcast that link to and enrich the text, and an engaged learning exercise that walks users thro…
Towards a revolution in sustainability education
The challenges of sustainability and sustainable development are multifaceted and complex. Addressing them in the long run requires a revolution in the training of future generations of learners so that they can devise solutions for sustainability dilemmas in environments characterized by uncertainty, information deficits, and asymmetric power relationships. Such a revolution is under way in many disciplines. Within the field of sustainability st…
Mercury Levels in Human Hair and Farmed Fish near Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Communities in the Madre de Dios River Basin, Peru
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has been an important source of income for communities in the Madre de Dios River Basin in Peru for hundreds of years. However, in recent decades, the scale of ASGM activities in the region has increased dramatically, and exposures to a variety of occupational and environmental hazards related to ASGM, including mercury, are becoming more widespread. The aims of our study were to: (1) examine patterns …
Collaborative Creation and Implementation of a Michigan Sustainability Case on Urban Farming in Detroit
The University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) seeks to transform sustainability learning through new curricular tools that incorporate multimedia sources, build both scientific and professional skills, and nurture partnerships with practitioners for extended engaged learning beyond the classroom. The Michigan Sustainability Cases (MSCs) bring case-based teaching to the sustainability field and redefine cases by makin…
Leveraging integrative research for inclusive innovation
This report describes the evolution of a qualitative research design used in a study that integrated academic and non-academic expertise and involved multiple stakeholders concerned with the diversion of human urine from the waste stream for its re-use in agriculture. The study took place in two regions of the U.S., New England and the Upper Midwest (most specifically Vermont and Michigan) and suggests the importance of ethnographic perspectives …
Perceptions of Local Vulnerability and the Relative Importance of Climate Change in Rural Ecuador
Electronics sustainability
Introduction to special issue
Translating the forest
Co-learning approaches to talking and thinking about “peecycling
Narratives of linearity and control have driven conventional wastewater management and modern agriculture, resulting in widespread contamination and ecological damage. In response, a growing movement to reclaim the nutrient cycle emphasizes circularity and the entanglements between our bodies, the “shadow places” where our “waste” travels, and the ecosystems that sustain us. Parallel linear narratives of diffusionist knowledge dissemination have …
Political science (16 obras) · Sociology (15 obras) · Geography (10 obras) · Economics (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Engineering (6 obras) · Public relations (6 obras) · Corporate governance (5 obras) · Ecology (5 obras)