Julie Maldonado
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635308 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie Maldonado |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie |
| FAMILY NAME | Maldonado |
| SIGNATURE | MALDONADO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8165-4396 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Lessons from Place: Indigenous-Led Rematriation for Strengthening Climate Adaptation and Resilience
This commentary weaves lessons from a network of Indigenous and allied partners in Hawaiʻi, California, Louisiana, and Borikén (Puerto Rico) responding to ongoing colonial legacies and intensifying capitalist- and climate-driven impacts that threaten Indigenous lifeways, sovereignty, and place-connections. Through a relationality and abundance lens, we share place-based examples of Indigenous reclamation through rematriation, or restoration of sa…
Converging together to confront multiple intersecting and cascading disasters: A network of mutual aid approach
Purpose The Disaster Justice Network (DJN) is a volunteer network that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic to lend support and share critical information that was not easily accessed for the 2020 and 2021 Hurricanes Laura, Delta, Zeta and Ida recovery processes in coastal Louisiana. We discuss lessons learned on navigating challenges, questions and the possibilities for reducing harms and how these insights potentially transfer to other webs of …
Climate Justice and Climate Adaptation in California: Indigenous Community Climate Adaptation Leadership and Opportunities for Scientific Collaboration
Climate and weather-related disasters in California illustrate the need for immediate climate change action—both mitigation to reduce impacts and adaptation to protect our communities, relatives, and the ecosystems we depend upon. Indigenous frontline communities face even greater threats from climate impacts due to historical and political legacies of environmental injustice. Climate change adaptation actions have proven challenging to implement…
Addressing the challenges of climate-driven community-led resettlement and site expansion: Knowledge sharing, storytelling, healing, and collaborative coalition building
Presently coastal areas globally are becoming unviable, with people no longer able to maintain livelihoods and settlements due to, for example, increasing floods, storm surges, coastal erosion, and sea level rise, yet there exist significant policy obstacles and practical and regulatory challenges to community-led and community-wide responses. For many receiving support only at the individual level for relocation or other adaptive responses, indi…
Imagining a More Just World: Interview with Julie Maldonado
It is difficult to canonize anthropology and anthropological concepts, in part because of the creative tensions within the discipline's contradictions: a desire and deep respect for local knowledge with a global, comparative perspective, what might be called the "anthropological imagination." Firmly rooted in-and in defense of-an inclusive vision of humanity, an anthropological imagination inspires "radical empathy." It offers the scaffolding of …
Disaster and Climate Change-Related Displacements and Resettlements
This chapter focuses on displacement and resettlement associated principally with disasters and climate change. The aforementioned processes constitute imminent risks and human rights crises, and in the case of climate change these are most pronounced for coastal peoples around the globe. The novelty lies in the invocation of climate change to legitimize resettlement. Resettlements are politically charged environments involving complex negotiatio…
A Story of “Rising Voices” and Intercultural Collaboration
Until recently, the voices and wisdom of Indigenous peoples have been largely excluded from climate change science, decision making, and governance. Encouragingly, a shift has emerged in the last few decades. Today, a number of scientists realize the critical importance and value of Indigenous peoples' wisdom, observations, insights, and knowledge. This shift in awareness is visible in initiatives from climate assessments to university- and agenc…
Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone: Standing on Vanishing Land in Coastal Louisiana
"Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone is an ethnographic examination of the lived experience of rapid environmental change in coastal Louisiana, USA. Writing from a political ecology perspective, Maldonado explores the effects of changes to localized climate and ecology on the Isle de Jean Charles, Grand Caillou/Dulac, and Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribes. Focusing in particular on wide ranging displacement effects, she argues that changes to…
What Can We Learn from Practitioners' Stories
Corexit to Forget It
This chapter illustrates how the capitalist-driven political-economic structure manufactures the vulnerability of coastal Louisiana&s;s communities, transforming the region-once a place of refuge for displaced native peoples and ethnic minorities-into energy sacrifice zone that risks setting the stage for future disasters. Based on ethnographic research conducted primarily between October 2011 and September 2012 with tribes in coastal Louisiana, …
Action: What's New and “Breaking” in Action and Agency around Environmental Issues
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Katherine O'Donnell, Gretchen M. Herrmann, Jan Peter Laurens Loovers, Jamie San Andrés, Julie Raymond, Elizabeth F. Hall, Todd Sanders, Elisabet Dueholm Rasch, Michiel Köhne, Alexander Ervin, Julie Maldonado, Betsy Taylor, Mary Hufford, …
The Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network: Grow Where You Are
Disaster capitalism
The term "disaster capitalism," launched in 2005 by activist journalist Naomi Klein, still has resonance within social movement circles. Yet its proliferation in media and social movements risks a confusion and weakening of the core concept and critiques. As anthropologists who value local communities' understanding of their own social world, how do we confront such a concept? What are our roles, both in clarifying and understanding the concept? …
Considering culture in disaster practice
In disaster-related policies and practices, culture is often treated as tangible, homogenous, static. The diversity of communities and places, on-the-ground actions and networks for how things are actually accomplished, intricacies of local politics and maneuvering and layers of socio-historical inequalities, are often missing from expert calculations and official frameworks for action. The basic but most important first question goes unasked: "W…
A multiple knowledge approach for adaptation to environmental change: Lessons learned from coastal Louisiana's tribal communities
Environmental changes, such as sea level rise, are forcibly displacing communities around the world. Forced displacement, inadequate governance mechanisms to address relocation and economic-based adaptation and restoration efforts are leading to devastating social, cultural, health, and economic consequences for the people and communities affected. This article focuses on three tribal communities in coastal Louisiana that are experiencing rapid e…
The impact of climate change on tribal communities in the US: Displacement, relocation, and human rights
A New Path Forward: Researching and Reflecting on Forced Displacement and Resettlement: Report on the International Resettlement Conference: Economics, Social Justice, and Ethics in Development-Caused…
Disaster capitalism
The term "disaster capitalism," launched in 2005 by activist journalist Naomi Klein, still has resonance within social movement circles. Yet its proliferation in media and social movements risks a confusion and weakening of the core concept and critiques. As anthropologists who value local communities' understanding of their own social world, how do we confront such a concept? What are our roles, both in clarifying and understanding the concept? …
Considering culture in disaster practice
In disaster-related policies and practices, culture is often treated as tangible, homogenous, static. The diversity of communities and places, on-the-ground actions and networks for how things are actually accomplished, intricacies of local politics and maneuvering and layers of socio-historical inequalities, are often missing from expert calculations and official frameworks for action. The basic but most important first question goes unasked: "W…
A New Path Forward: Researching and Reflecting on Forced Displacement and Resettlement: Report on the International Resettlement Conference: Economics, Social Justice, and Ethics in Development-Caused…
A multiple knowledge approach for adaptation to environmental change: Lessons learned from coastal Louisiana's tribal communities
Environmental changes, such as sea level rise, are forcibly displacing communities around the world. Forced displacement, inadequate governance mechanisms to address relocation and economic-based adaptation and restoration efforts are leading to devastating social, cultural, health, and economic consequences for the people and communities affected. This article focuses on three tribal communities in coastal Louisiana that are experiencing rapid e…
Addressing the challenges of climate-driven community-led resettlement and site expansion: Knowledge sharing, storytelling, healing, and collaborative coalition building
Presently coastal areas globally are becoming unviable, with people no longer able to maintain livelihoods and settlements due to, for example, increasing floods, storm surges, coastal erosion, and sea level rise, yet there exist significant policy obstacles and practical and regulatory challenges to community-led and community-wide responses. For many receiving support only at the individual level for relocation or other adaptive responses, indi…
A New Path Forward: Researching and Reflecting on Forced Displacement and Resettlement: Report on the International Resettlement Conference: Economics, Social Justice, and Ethics in Development-Caused…
The impact of climate change on tribal communities in the US: Displacement, relocation, and human rights
A multiple knowledge approach for adaptation to environmental change: Lessons learned from coastal Louisiana's tribal communities
Environmental changes, such as sea level rise, are forcibly displacing communities around the world. Forced displacement, inadequate governance mechanisms to address relocation and economic-based adaptation and restoration efforts are leading to devastating social, cultural, health, and economic consequences for the people and communities affected. This article focuses on three tribal communities in coastal Louisiana that are experiencing rapid e…
Action: What's New and “Breaking” in Action and Agency around Environmental Issues
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Katherine O'Donnell, Gretchen M. Herrmann, Jan Peter Laurens Loovers, Jamie San Andrés, Julie Raymond, Elizabeth F. Hall, Todd Sanders, Elisabet Dueholm Rasch, Michiel Köhne, Alexander Ervin, Julie Maldonado, Betsy Taylor, Mary Hufford, …
The Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network: Grow Where You Are
Disaster capitalism
The term "disaster capitalism," launched in 2005 by activist journalist Naomi Klein, still has resonance within social movement circles. Yet its proliferation in media and social movements risks a confusion and weakening of the core concept and critiques. As anthropologists who value local communities' understanding of their own social world, how do we confront such a concept? What are our roles, both in clarifying and understanding the concept? …
Considering culture in disaster practice
In disaster-related policies and practices, culture is often treated as tangible, homogenous, static. The diversity of communities and places, on-the-ground actions and networks for how things are actually accomplished, intricacies of local politics and maneuvering and layers of socio-historical inequalities, are often missing from expert calculations and official frameworks for action. The basic but most important first question goes unasked: "W…
Corexit to Forget It
This chapter illustrates how the capitalist-driven political-economic structure manufactures the vulnerability of coastal Louisiana&s;s communities, transforming the region-once a place of refuge for displaced native peoples and ethnic minorities-into energy sacrifice zone that risks setting the stage for future disasters. Based on ethnographic research conducted primarily between October 2011 and September 2012 with tribes in coastal Louisiana, …
Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone: Standing on Vanishing Land in Coastal Louisiana
"Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone is an ethnographic examination of the lived experience of rapid environmental change in coastal Louisiana, USA. Writing from a political ecology perspective, Maldonado explores the effects of changes to localized climate and ecology on the Isle de Jean Charles, Grand Caillou/Dulac, and Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribes. Focusing in particular on wide ranging displacement effects, she argues that changes to…
What Can We Learn from Practitioners' Stories
Disaster and Climate Change-Related Displacements and Resettlements
This chapter focuses on displacement and resettlement associated principally with disasters and climate change. The aforementioned processes constitute imminent risks and human rights crises, and in the case of climate change these are most pronounced for coastal peoples around the globe. The novelty lies in the invocation of climate change to legitimize resettlement. Resettlements are politically charged environments involving complex negotiatio…
A Story of “Rising Voices” and Intercultural Collaboration
Until recently, the voices and wisdom of Indigenous peoples have been largely excluded from climate change science, decision making, and governance. Encouragingly, a shift has emerged in the last few decades. Today, a number of scientists realize the critical importance and value of Indigenous peoples' wisdom, observations, insights, and knowledge. This shift in awareness is visible in initiatives from climate assessments to university- and agenc…
Imagining a More Just World: Interview with Julie Maldonado
It is difficult to canonize anthropology and anthropological concepts, in part because of the creative tensions within the discipline's contradictions: a desire and deep respect for local knowledge with a global, comparative perspective, what might be called the "anthropological imagination." Firmly rooted in-and in defense of-an inclusive vision of humanity, an anthropological imagination inspires "radical empathy." It offers the scaffolding of …
Addressing the challenges of climate-driven community-led resettlement and site expansion: Knowledge sharing, storytelling, healing, and collaborative coalition building
Presently coastal areas globally are becoming unviable, with people no longer able to maintain livelihoods and settlements due to, for example, increasing floods, storm surges, coastal erosion, and sea level rise, yet there exist significant policy obstacles and practical and regulatory challenges to community-led and community-wide responses. For many receiving support only at the individual level for relocation or other adaptive responses, indi…
Climate Justice and Climate Adaptation in California: Indigenous Community Climate Adaptation Leadership and Opportunities for Scientific Collaboration
Climate and weather-related disasters in California illustrate the need for immediate climate change action—both mitigation to reduce impacts and adaptation to protect our communities, relatives, and the ecosystems we depend upon. Indigenous frontline communities face even greater threats from climate impacts due to historical and political legacies of environmental injustice. Climate change adaptation actions have proven challenging to implement…
Lessons from Place: Indigenous-Led Rematriation for Strengthening Climate Adaptation and Resilience
This commentary weaves lessons from a network of Indigenous and allied partners in Hawaiʻi, California, Louisiana, and Borikén (Puerto Rico) responding to ongoing colonial legacies and intensifying capitalist- and climate-driven impacts that threaten Indigenous lifeways, sovereignty, and place-connections. Through a relationality and abundance lens, we share place-based examples of Indigenous reclamation through rematriation, or restoration of sa…
Converging together to confront multiple intersecting and cascading disasters: A network of mutual aid approach
Purpose The Disaster Justice Network (DJN) is a volunteer network that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic to lend support and share critical information that was not easily accessed for the 2020 and 2021 Hurricanes Laura, Delta, Zeta and Ida recovery processes in coastal Louisiana. We discuss lessons learned on navigating challenges, questions and the possibilities for reducing harms and how these insights potentially transfer to other webs of …
Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Climate change (5 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Economic Justice (4 works)