Dana E Powell
Biographic Data
| ID | 170311 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dana E Powell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dana E |
| FAMILY NAME | Powell |
| SIGNATURE | POWELL D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Appalachian State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-4274-3414 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Echoes of Empire
Environmental injustice remains a pressing issue in marginalized communities. This article, therefore, explores the pervasiveness of colonial environmental injustice in the postcolonial era with a focus on detrimental effects on marginalized communities in Thyolo and Mulanje districts of the Republic of Malawi in Southern Africa. During colonial rule, these areas were subjected to land confiscation and resource extraction, establishing environmen…
Advancing an Environmental Justice-Centered Approach to Understanding Cumulative Impacts
In recent decades, environmental justice experts have advanced understanding of cumulative impacts, defined as the harm that can result when multiple forms of environmental and socioeconomic distress converge on a place and compound through time. Concurrently, U.S. industry leaders have launched climate mitigation projects that often exacerbate environmental injustice in overburdened communities. We consider this critical disconnect, drawing from…
The Promises and Pitfalls of “Clean Energy Transitions
To avert the worst forms of climate catastrophe, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has called for immediate action toward achieving net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases that trap heat and warm the planet. In response, multiple forms of climate action and research, including emergent forms of climate modeling, have manifested in response to calls for “clean energy transitions.” During such “transitions,” however, the existing …
Renewable Ruse
Rural communities in eastern North Carolina are responding to the emergence of bioenergy development as an extension of environmental injustices, rather than sustainable solutions to climate change as presented by state and industry actors. We examine how biomass and biogas development entrench logics of extraction, rather than transition, as they are built as extensions of pre-existing concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in a landscap…
Life Beyond Ruin
This essay is concerned with the overdetermination of frameworks of "ruin" and "loss" in studies of the Anthropocene and the epistemic-political effects of such framings for Indigenous Peoples. While planetary harm is well established, the unique effects of crisis-oriented research on Indigenous Peoples demands critical reflection. I argue that such persistent frameworks of ruin/loss in fact open a space for "settler sustainabilities" to get smug…
The Double Force of Vulnerability
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. Through this review, we argue that ethnographies …
Making It Home
The movement to defend tribal sovereignty and resist construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (#NoDAPL) in Standing Rock, North Dakota, was a fleeting yet deeply significant site of experimentation in collaboration and solidarity. We argue, through the paired concepts of kinship and home, that central to #NoDAPL’s lasting significance is the way that allies in the resistance camps worked across various registers of difference to align interests…
Storying Climate Change at Appalachian State University
A convergence of concern about climate change, the desire to engage students in more substantive critical discourse about climate (in)action, and the need for more generative responses kindled the creation of the transdisciplinary, university-wide Climate Stories Collaborative at Appalachian State University. We share the origin, rationale, and activities of the Collaborative, including the classroom experiences of several faculty participants. B…
Racing the Reservation
Prácticas otras de conocimiento(s)
Esta obra colegiada tiene un encuentro luminoso con la liberación de los pueblos oprimidos. Su destino está trazado: va a convertirse en una obra de referencia y lo será cada vez más en la medida en que los años pasen. Es una obra de nuestro tiempo, en lo que nuestro tiempo ofrece de más genuina esperanza a los pueblos oprimidos, de más articulada visión de los retos de la liberación, de más consistente diseño de los caminos sentipensantes de la …
Prácticas otras de conocimiento(s)
En este tomo II escribimos consultoras activistas, feministas pos y decoloniales, investigadores(as) activistas, activistas investigadores(as), así como profesores investigadores latinoamericanos(as), socialistas y latinoamericanistas. Cada uno(a), a nuestra manera, situamos y problematizamos nuestras prácticas de conocimiento, deteniéndonos unas en las dimensiones epistémicas, éticas, de género y de poder; otros, en las metodológicas, políticas,…
Toward Transition?
This chapter explores how longstanding extractive legacies and discrepancies of energy access in the Dine (Navajo) Nation are being challenged through transition efforts in the early twenty-first century. Extraction has become just that in Navajo energy and economic development. The footprint of the burgeoning energy industry became increasingly visible on Navajo territory in the latter half of the twentieth century, with coal mine expansions, oi…
The rainbow is our sovereignty
This article offers a political-ecological reflection on Navajo (Diné) sovereignty, emphasizing lived and territorial interpretations of sovereignty, expanding our standard, juridical-legal notions of sovereignty that dominate public discourse on tribal economic and energy development. Operating from a critical analysis of settler colonialism, I suggest that alternative understandings of sovereignty – as expressed by Diné tribal members in a rang…
Transformations in Engaged Ethnography
Reflections on Teaching an “Anthropology of Energy
Models of Engaged Scholarship
Models of Engaged Scholarship:An Interdisciplinary Discussion Dorothy Holland (bio), Dana E. Powell (bio), Eugenia Eng (bio), and Georgina Drew (bio) Surely, scholarship means engaging in original research. But the work of the scholar also means stepping back from one's own investigation, looking for connections, building bridges between theory and practice, and communicating one's knowledge effectively. (Boyer 1990, 16) Ernest Boyer, an oft-cite…
Blurring Boundaries
Social movements are arising in unexpected places, producing effects not normally associated with our traditional understandings of either politics or movements. No longer, and perhaps never, solely the highly visible, modernist expressions of resistance to the state, movements are not only enacting politics through protest and cultural contestation, but are generating diverse knowledges. From heated debates over the meaning of Italy's alter-glob…
Blurring Boundaries
Social movements are arising in unexpected places, producing effects not normally associated with our traditional understandings of either politics or movements. No longer, and perhaps never, solely the highly visible, modernist expressions of resistance to the state, movements are not only enacting politics through protest and cultural contestation, but are generating diverse knowledges. From heated debates over the meaning of Italy's alter-glob…
Models of Engaged Scholarship
Models of Engaged Scholarship:An Interdisciplinary Discussion Dorothy Holland (bio), Dana E. Powell (bio), Eugenia Eng (bio), and Georgina Drew (bio) Surely, scholarship means engaging in original research. But the work of the scholar also means stepping back from one's own investigation, looking for connections, building bridges between theory and practice, and communicating one's knowledge effectively. (Boyer 1990, 16) Ernest Boyer, an oft-cite…
The rainbow is our sovereignty
This article offers a political-ecological reflection on Navajo (Diné) sovereignty, emphasizing lived and territorial interpretations of sovereignty, expanding our standard, juridical-legal notions of sovereignty that dominate public discourse on tribal economic and energy development. Operating from a critical analysis of settler colonialism, I suggest that alternative understandings of sovereignty – as expressed by Diné tribal members in a rang…
The Double Force of Vulnerability
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. Through this review, we argue that ethnographies …
Making It Home
The movement to defend tribal sovereignty and resist construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (#NoDAPL) in Standing Rock, North Dakota, was a fleeting yet deeply significant site of experimentation in collaboration and solidarity. We argue, through the paired concepts of kinship and home, that central to #NoDAPL’s lasting significance is the way that allies in the resistance camps worked across various registers of difference to align interests…
Reflections on Teaching an “Anthropology of Energy
Blurring Boundaries
Social movements are arising in unexpected places, producing effects not normally associated with our traditional understandings of either politics or movements. No longer, and perhaps never, solely the highly visible, modernist expressions of resistance to the state, movements are not only enacting politics through protest and cultural contestation, but are generating diverse knowledges. From heated debates over the meaning of Italy's alter-glob…
Models of Engaged Scholarship
Models of Engaged Scholarship:An Interdisciplinary Discussion Dorothy Holland (bio), Dana E. Powell (bio), Eugenia Eng (bio), and Georgina Drew (bio) Surely, scholarship means engaging in original research. But the work of the scholar also means stepping back from one's own investigation, looking for connections, building bridges between theory and practice, and communicating one's knowledge effectively. (Boyer 1990, 16) Ernest Boyer, an oft-cite…
Transformations in Engaged Ethnography
Reflections on Teaching an “Anthropology of Energy
The rainbow is our sovereignty
This article offers a political-ecological reflection on Navajo (Diné) sovereignty, emphasizing lived and territorial interpretations of sovereignty, expanding our standard, juridical-legal notions of sovereignty that dominate public discourse on tribal economic and energy development. Operating from a critical analysis of settler colonialism, I suggest that alternative understandings of sovereignty – as expressed by Diné tribal members in a rang…
Toward Transition?
This chapter explores how longstanding extractive legacies and discrepancies of energy access in the Dine (Navajo) Nation are being challenged through transition efforts in the early twenty-first century. Extraction has become just that in Navajo energy and economic development. The footprint of the burgeoning energy industry became increasingly visible on Navajo territory in the latter half of the twentieth century, with coal mine expansions, oi…
Racing the Reservation
Prácticas otras de conocimiento(s)
Esta obra colegiada tiene un encuentro luminoso con la liberación de los pueblos oprimidos. Su destino está trazado: va a convertirse en una obra de referencia y lo será cada vez más en la medida en que los años pasen. Es una obra de nuestro tiempo, en lo que nuestro tiempo ofrece de más genuina esperanza a los pueblos oprimidos, de más articulada visión de los retos de la liberación, de más consistente diseño de los caminos sentipensantes de la …
Prácticas otras de conocimiento(s)
En este tomo II escribimos consultoras activistas, feministas pos y decoloniales, investigadores(as) activistas, activistas investigadores(as), así como profesores investigadores latinoamericanos(as), socialistas y latinoamericanistas. Cada uno(a), a nuestra manera, situamos y problematizamos nuestras prácticas de conocimiento, deteniéndonos unas en las dimensiones epistémicas, éticas, de género y de poder; otros, en las metodológicas, políticas,…
Storying Climate Change at Appalachian State University
A convergence of concern about climate change, the desire to engage students in more substantive critical discourse about climate (in)action, and the need for more generative responses kindled the creation of the transdisciplinary, university-wide Climate Stories Collaborative at Appalachian State University. We share the origin, rationale, and activities of the Collaborative, including the classroom experiences of several faculty participants. B…
Making It Home
The movement to defend tribal sovereignty and resist construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (#NoDAPL) in Standing Rock, North Dakota, was a fleeting yet deeply significant site of experimentation in collaboration and solidarity. We argue, through the paired concepts of kinship and home, that central to #NoDAPL’s lasting significance is the way that allies in the resistance camps worked across various registers of difference to align interests…
The Double Force of Vulnerability
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. Through this review, we argue that ethnographies …
Renewable Ruse
Rural communities in eastern North Carolina are responding to the emergence of bioenergy development as an extension of environmental injustices, rather than sustainable solutions to climate change as presented by state and industry actors. We examine how biomass and biogas development entrench logics of extraction, rather than transition, as they are built as extensions of pre-existing concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in a landscap…
Life Beyond Ruin
This essay is concerned with the overdetermination of frameworks of "ruin" and "loss" in studies of the Anthropocene and the epistemic-political effects of such framings for Indigenous Peoples. While planetary harm is well established, the unique effects of crisis-oriented research on Indigenous Peoples demands critical reflection. I argue that such persistent frameworks of ruin/loss in fact open a space for "settler sustainabilities" to get smug…
Advancing an Environmental Justice-Centered Approach to Understanding Cumulative Impacts
In recent decades, environmental justice experts have advanced understanding of cumulative impacts, defined as the harm that can result when multiple forms of environmental and socioeconomic distress converge on a place and compound through time. Concurrently, U.S. industry leaders have launched climate mitigation projects that often exacerbate environmental injustice in overburdened communities. We consider this critical disconnect, drawing from…
The Promises and Pitfalls of “Clean Energy Transitions
To avert the worst forms of climate catastrophe, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has called for immediate action toward achieving net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases that trap heat and warm the planet. In response, multiple forms of climate action and research, including emergent forms of climate modeling, have manifested in response to calls for “clean energy transitions.” During such “transitions,” however, the existing …
Echoes of Empire
Environmental injustice remains a pressing issue in marginalized communities. This article, therefore, explores the pervasiveness of colonial environmental injustice in the postcolonial era with a focus on detrimental effects on marginalized communities in Thyolo and Mulanje districts of the Republic of Malawi in Southern Africa. During colonial rule, these areas were subjected to land confiscation and resource extraction, establishing environmen…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Mining and Resource Management (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Environmental justice (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Law (4 works)