Barbara Herr Harthorn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3633574 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Herr Harthorn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara Herr |
| FAMILY NAME | Harthorn |
| SIGNATURE | HARTHORN B H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2635-4232 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Health risk perception and shale development in the UK and US
In this paper, we examine discourse in public deliberations in pre-development locales in the UK and US about advantages and disadvantages of future shale development (‘fracking’). We aimed to understand how people anticipate potential health effects, broadly construed, of environmental toxicity and disturbance in the context of planned, but not yet implemented, energy development. In day-long deliberations with small, diverse groups in two citie…
Urgency in energy justice: Contestation and time in prospective shale extraction in the United States and United Kingdom
Using role play to explore energy perceptions in the United States and United Kingdom
Perceiving resilience: Understanding People's Intuitions About the Qualities of Air, Water, and Soil
Satterfield, T., M. B. Collins, and B. Herr Harthorn. 2018. Perceiving resilience: understanding people’s intuitions about the qualities of air, water, and soil. Ecology and Society 23(4):47. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10637-230447
Nanotechnology
The science and engineering field of nanotechnology develops new materials at the molecular scale (1 nanometer equals 1 billionth of a meter) where they display novel exploitable physical, chemical, and/or optical properties. Development programs for these materials, devices, and systems are in progress in over 70 countries worldwide. Nanotechnology has attracted social theoretical attention as both an object and a field. Nanotechnologies have dr…
Cross-National Comparative Communication and Deliberation About the Risks of Nanotechnologies
This chapter presents some of the methodological and philosophical challenges faced when conducting public engagement with emerging technologies. The intellectual origins and challenges of conducting upstream public engagement for science communication are discussed, illustrated through the case of nanotechnologies. A series of cross-national workshops held simultaneously in the United States and the UK are described. Findings included that benef…
Public perceptions of hydraulic fracturing for shale gas and oil in the United States and Canada
The United States and Canada have been at the forefront of shale oil and gas development via hydraulic fracturing. Understanding public perceptions is important given the role that they may play in future policy decisions in both North America and other parts of the world where shale development is at a much earlier stage. We review 58 articles pertaining to perceptions, published between 2009 and 2015. Studies report mixed levels of awareness of…
Seeing futures now: Emergent US and UK views on shale development, climate change and energy systems
Shale development – extraction of oil and gas from shale rock formations using hydraulic fracturing or ‘fracking’ – has become a critical focus for energy debates in the US and UK. In both countries, potential industry expansion into new areas for shale extraction is expected to produce a wide range of environmental and social impacts and to change the configuration of future energy systems. To engage with emergent views on these complex, multi-s…
From Biotech to Nanotech: Public Debates about Technological Modifi cation of Food
Technological modifications of food are being marketed as novel products that will enhance consumer choice and nutritional value. A recent manifestation is nanotechnology, entering the global food chain through food production, pesticides, vitamins, and food packaging. This article presents a detailed literature review on risk and benefit perceptions of technological developments for food and agriculture, including our own research from US delibe…
Anthropological Research at the UCSB Center for Nanotechnology in Society
On Oct 6, 2005, the National Science Foundation announced its new awards under the Nanotechnology in Society initiative. Their banner headline read "New Grants Are Awarded to Inform the Public and Explore the Implications of Nanotechnology", in an effort to "...greatly expand efforts to inform the general public about nanotechnology, and to explore the implications of that fast-moving field for society as a whole" (NSF 2005). Two new Nanoscale Sc…
Nano-Buzz: Societal Dimensions of Emerging Technologies
Risk, culture, and health inequality: Shifting perceptions of danger and blame
Foreword: The Social Meanings of by Dorothy Nelkin Introduction and Overview Introduction: Health and the Social and Cultural Construction of by Laury Oaks and Barbara Herr Harthorn Harm Reduction: A Core Concern for Medical Anthropology by Mark Nichter The Cultivation of Fear Autonomy, Danger and Choice: The Moral Imperative of an At Risk Pregnancy for a Group of Low Income Latinas in Texas by Linda Hunt and Katherine de Voogd The Risks of Testt…
Toward Spatially Integrated Social Science
This article outlines the motivation for a spatial approach as a novel focus for cross-disciplinary interaction and research in the social and behavioral sciences. The authors review the emerging interest in space and place in the recent social science literature and develop a vision for a spatially integrated social science. This vision provides the conceptual basis for a program of six activities designed to promote a spatial perspective: learn…
California Farmworkers: Dilemmas in Developing Interventions for Health and Medical Care Concerns
This article explores possible interventions to address the expressed health and medical care concerns of a pilot sample of Mexican-origin farmworkers in Santa Barbara County and research-based assessments of health needs of the population. Using a medical and political ecology model that situates the US farmworkers and dependents in this study as an economically peripheral community within the policentric global economy, the article explores the…
Many Mirrors: Body Image and Social Relations and Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fiji
Many Mirrors: Body Image and Social Relations. Nicole Sault. ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,1994(cloth and paper), xvi. 346 pp. Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fiji. Anne E. Becker. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995(cloth and paper), xvi. 206 pp
Public perceptions of hydraulic fracturing for shale gas and oil in the United States and Canada
The United States and Canada have been at the forefront of shale oil and gas development via hydraulic fracturing. Understanding public perceptions is important given the role that they may play in future policy decisions in both North America and other parts of the world where shale development is at a much earlier stage. We review 58 articles pertaining to perceptions, published between 2009 and 2015. Studies report mixed levels of awareness of…
Seeing futures now: Emergent US and UK views on shale development, climate change and energy systems
Shale development – extraction of oil and gas from shale rock formations using hydraulic fracturing or ‘fracking’ – has become a critical focus for energy debates in the US and UK. In both countries, potential industry expansion into new areas for shale extraction is expected to produce a wide range of environmental and social impacts and to change the configuration of future energy systems. To engage with emergent views on these complex, multi-s…
Urgency in energy justice: Contestation and time in prospective shale extraction in the United States and United Kingdom
Using role play to explore energy perceptions in the United States and United Kingdom
Many Mirrors: Body Image and Social Relations and Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fiji
Many Mirrors: Body Image and Social Relations. Nicole Sault. ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,1994(cloth and paper), xvi. 346 pp. Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fiji. Anne E. Becker. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995(cloth and paper), xvi. 206 pp
California Farmworkers: Dilemmas in Developing Interventions for Health and Medical Care Concerns
This article explores possible interventions to address the expressed health and medical care concerns of a pilot sample of Mexican-origin farmworkers in Santa Barbara County and research-based assessments of health needs of the population. Using a medical and political ecology model that situates the US farmworkers and dependents in this study as an economically peripheral community within the policentric global economy, the article explores the…
Toward Spatially Integrated Social Science
This article outlines the motivation for a spatial approach as a novel focus for cross-disciplinary interaction and research in the social and behavioral sciences. The authors review the emerging interest in space and place in the recent social science literature and develop a vision for a spatially integrated social science. This vision provides the conceptual basis for a program of six activities designed to promote a spatial perspective: learn…
Risk, culture, and health inequality: Shifting perceptions of danger and blame
Foreword: The Social Meanings of by Dorothy Nelkin Introduction and Overview Introduction: Health and the Social and Cultural Construction of by Laury Oaks and Barbara Herr Harthorn Harm Reduction: A Core Concern for Medical Anthropology by Mark Nichter The Cultivation of Fear Autonomy, Danger and Choice: The Moral Imperative of an At Risk Pregnancy for a Group of Low Income Latinas in Texas by Linda Hunt and Katherine de Voogd The Risks of Testt…
Anthropological Research at the UCSB Center for Nanotechnology in Society
On Oct 6, 2005, the National Science Foundation announced its new awards under the Nanotechnology in Society initiative. Their banner headline read "New Grants Are Awarded to Inform the Public and Explore the Implications of Nanotechnology", in an effort to "...greatly expand efforts to inform the general public about nanotechnology, and to explore the implications of that fast-moving field for society as a whole" (NSF 2005). Two new Nanoscale Sc…
Nano-Buzz: Societal Dimensions of Emerging Technologies
From Biotech to Nanotech: Public Debates about Technological Modifi cation of Food
Technological modifications of food are being marketed as novel products that will enhance consumer choice and nutritional value. A recent manifestation is nanotechnology, entering the global food chain through food production, pesticides, vitamins, and food packaging. This article presents a detailed literature review on risk and benefit perceptions of technological developments for food and agriculture, including our own research from US delibe…
Seeing futures now: Emergent US and UK views on shale development, climate change and energy systems
Shale development – extraction of oil and gas from shale rock formations using hydraulic fracturing or ‘fracking’ – has become a critical focus for energy debates in the US and UK. In both countries, potential industry expansion into new areas for shale extraction is expected to produce a wide range of environmental and social impacts and to change the configuration of future energy systems. To engage with emergent views on these complex, multi-s…
Nanotechnology
The science and engineering field of nanotechnology develops new materials at the molecular scale (1 nanometer equals 1 billionth of a meter) where they display novel exploitable physical, chemical, and/or optical properties. Development programs for these materials, devices, and systems are in progress in over 70 countries worldwide. Nanotechnology has attracted social theoretical attention as both an object and a field. Nanotechnologies have dr…
Cross-National Comparative Communication and Deliberation About the Risks of Nanotechnologies
This chapter presents some of the methodological and philosophical challenges faced when conducting public engagement with emerging technologies. The intellectual origins and challenges of conducting upstream public engagement for science communication are discussed, illustrated through the case of nanotechnologies. A series of cross-national workshops held simultaneously in the United States and the UK are described. Findings included that benef…
Public perceptions of hydraulic fracturing for shale gas and oil in the United States and Canada
The United States and Canada have been at the forefront of shale oil and gas development via hydraulic fracturing. Understanding public perceptions is important given the role that they may play in future policy decisions in both North America and other parts of the world where shale development is at a much earlier stage. We review 58 articles pertaining to perceptions, published between 2009 and 2015. Studies report mixed levels of awareness of…
Urgency in energy justice: Contestation and time in prospective shale extraction in the United States and United Kingdom
Using role play to explore energy perceptions in the United States and United Kingdom
Perceiving resilience: Understanding People's Intuitions About the Qualities of Air, Water, and Soil
Satterfield, T., M. B. Collins, and B. Herr Harthorn. 2018. Perceiving resilience: understanding people’s intuitions about the qualities of air, water, and soil. Ecology and Society 23(4):47. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10637-230447
Health risk perception and shale development in the UK and US
In this paper, we examine discourse in public deliberations in pre-development locales in the UK and US about advantages and disadvantages of future shale development (‘fracking’). We aimed to understand how people anticipate potential health effects, broadly construed, of environmental toxicity and disturbance in the context of planned, but not yet implemented, energy development. In day-long deliberations with small, diverse groups in two citie…
Political science (11 works) · Engineering (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Business (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (4 works) · Engineering ethics (4 works) · Geography (4 works)