Jonna M Yarrington
Biographic Data
| ID | 175994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonna M Yarrington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonna M |
| FAMILY NAME | Yarrington |
| SIGNATURE | YARRINGTON J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Poetics of Denial
This article examines the semiotics of epistemic politics surrounding climate change denial on Tangier Island, Virginia, a shrinking inhabited island in the Chesapeake Bay, USA. Using long-term ethnographic field research, the paper analyzes how islanders’ professed disbelief in climate change functions not as ignorance but as political and poetic positioning. Denial is treated as a symbolic act, not reducible to misinformation or scientific illi…
That sinkin’ feeling
Residents of Tangier Island, Virginia, a subsiding island in the Chesapeake Bay, embody psychosocial dimensions of environmental change. Analysis of ethnographic data shows islanders’ experiences and articulations of anxiety, panic, and despair as “that sinkin’ feeling,” resulting from the stress of living with the long‐term threat of imminent displacement. Islanders generally acknowledge higher‐order causes, such as economic precarity, socio‐spa…
Engineering Vulnerability
Sucre indigèneandsucre colonial
In the early 1800s, the French beet sugar industry was established to provide sugar autarky for France. From the beginning, it competed with French Caribbean cane sugar. Over sixty years, the two complexes produced their own blocs that coexisted and split the French national sugar market, both claiming rights to governmental protection. This article argues that reconsidering the sugar question provides evidence for a shift in the political-econom…
Messages from my father-in-law
Messages from my father-in-law
Sucre indigèneandsucre colonial
In the early 1800s, the French beet sugar industry was established to provide sugar autarky for France. From the beginning, it competed with French Caribbean cane sugar. Over sixty years, the two complexes produced their own blocs that coexisted and split the French national sugar market, both claiming rights to governmental protection. This article argues that reconsidering the sugar question provides evidence for a shift in the political-econom…
Engineering Vulnerability
The Poetics of Denial
This article examines the semiotics of epistemic politics surrounding climate change denial on Tangier Island, Virginia, a shrinking inhabited island in the Chesapeake Bay, USA. Using long-term ethnographic field research, the paper analyzes how islanders’ professed disbelief in climate change functions not as ignorance but as political and poetic positioning. Denial is treated as a symbolic act, not reducible to misinformation or scientific illi…
That sinkin’ feeling
Residents of Tangier Island, Virginia, a subsiding island in the Chesapeake Bay, embody psychosocial dimensions of environmental change. Analysis of ethnographic data shows islanders’ experiences and articulations of anxiety, panic, and despair as “that sinkin’ feeling,” resulting from the stress of living with the long‐term threat of imminent displacement. Islanders generally acknowledge higher‐order causes, such as economic precarity, socio‐spa…
Political science (3 works) · Climate change (2 works) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Adaptation (eye (1 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (1 works)