Nelta Edwards
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685915 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nelta Edwards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nelta |
| FAMILY NAME | Edwards |
| SIGNATURE | EDWARDS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alaska Anchorage |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Leverage of the Weak
Film Review
Nuclear Colonialism and the Social Construction of Landscape in Alaska
How does the social construction of landscape justify nuclear testing? Characterizations of the landscape such as remote, empty, and sparsely populated serve to erase the mostly non-white people who live in these places. However, when given the opportunity to speak, people affected by nuclearism reject these characterizations. Here I describe the selection of two nuclear test sites in Alaska in order to link them to nuclear test sites in the Paci…
Using Nail Polish to Teach about Gender and Homophobia
How might teachers help students investigate the relationship between gender and homophobia? This article describes an exercise that uses fingernail polish to do just that. The authors uses anecdotal evidence to describe the exercise in which students pair with someone of the opposite gender and paint each other’s fingernails. Additionally, the author uses a randomly selected sample of 19 students to formally evaluate the teaching goals of this a…
Public Meetings on Contamination
Using Nail Polish to Teach about Gender and Homophobia
How might teachers help students investigate the relationship between gender and homophobia? This article describes an exercise that uses fingernail polish to do just that. The authors uses anecdotal evidence to describe the exercise in which students pair with someone of the opposite gender and paint each other’s fingernails. Additionally, the author uses a randomly selected sample of 19 students to formally evaluate the teaching goals of this a…
Public Meetings on Contamination
Using Nail Polish to Teach about Gender and Homophobia
How might teachers help students investigate the relationship between gender and homophobia? This article describes an exercise that uses fingernail polish to do just that. The authors uses anecdotal evidence to describe the exercise in which students pair with someone of the opposite gender and paint each other’s fingernails. Additionally, the author uses a randomly selected sample of 19 students to formally evaluate the teaching goals of this a…
Nuclear Colonialism and the Social Construction of Landscape in Alaska
How does the social construction of landscape justify nuclear testing? Characterizations of the landscape such as remote, empty, and sparsely populated serve to erase the mostly non-white people who live in these places. However, when given the opportunity to speak, people affected by nuclearism reject these characterizations. Here I describe the selection of two nuclear test sites in Alaska in order to link them to nuclear test sites in the Paci…
Film Review
Leverage of the Weak
Engineering (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Asian Industrial and Economic Development (1 works)