K Whitney Mauer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4257056 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Whitney Mauer |
| GIVEN NAMES | K Whitney |
| FAMILY NAME | Mauer |
| SIGNATURE | MAUER K W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7921-0024 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Unsettling Resilience
This study challenges dominant, academic conceptualization of resilience in light of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe's (LEKT) experiences of ecosystem restoration. Resilience has gained traction in social science as a framework for a community's response to environmental, social, and political disturbances, the contours of which are not well understood in Indigenous contexts. Interviews with LEKT members on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State…
Undamming the Elwha River
For the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, the Elwha River is life. However, since the river was dammed, the community has been greatly affected. The dams on the Elwha River demonstrate how such infrastructures serve to reinforce and structure inequality
Monopoly’s winners and losers
Indian Country Poverty
This article examines place-based poverty in Indian Country, emphasizing that reservation characteristics are influenced by the system of federal Indian policy that affects American Indian self-determination and antipoverty strategies within reservation boundaries. Using data from the American Community Survey five-year file, 2006-10, I model poverty rates using multivariate, nested regression along key dimensions associated with American Indian …
What Does a Casino Mean to a Tribe
Using data from the 1990 and 2000 U.S. Census of Population and Housing, we examine five social and economic characteristics of individuals and households living on reservations in Arizona and New Mexico that have a casino to those that do not. This research differs in two ways from previous studies that have attempted to assess the social and economic impacts of Indian gaming. First, the unit of observation and analysis is the reservation, not a…
Unsettling Resilience
This study challenges dominant, academic conceptualization of resilience in light of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe's (LEKT) experiences of ecosystem restoration. Resilience has gained traction in social science as a framework for a community's response to environmental, social, and political disturbances, the contours of which are not well understood in Indigenous contexts. Interviews with LEKT members on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State…
What Does a Casino Mean to a Tribe
Using data from the 1990 and 2000 U.S. Census of Population and Housing, we examine five social and economic characteristics of individuals and households living on reservations in Arizona and New Mexico that have a casino to those that do not. This research differs in two ways from previous studies that have attempted to assess the social and economic impacts of Indian gaming. First, the unit of observation and analysis is the reservation, not a…
Indian Country Poverty
This article examines place-based poverty in Indian Country, emphasizing that reservation characteristics are influenced by the system of federal Indian policy that affects American Indian self-determination and antipoverty strategies within reservation boundaries. Using data from the American Community Survey five-year file, 2006-10, I model poverty rates using multivariate, nested regression along key dimensions associated with American Indian …
What Does a Casino Mean to a Tribe
Using data from the 1990 and 2000 U.S. Census of Population and Housing, we examine five social and economic characteristics of individuals and households living on reservations in Arizona and New Mexico that have a casino to those that do not. This research differs in two ways from previous studies that have attempted to assess the social and economic impacts of Indian gaming. First, the unit of observation and analysis is the reservation, not a…
Indian Country Poverty
This article examines place-based poverty in Indian Country, emphasizing that reservation characteristics are influenced by the system of federal Indian policy that affects American Indian self-determination and antipoverty strategies within reservation boundaries. Using data from the American Community Survey five-year file, 2006-10, I model poverty rates using multivariate, nested regression along key dimensions associated with American Indian …
Undamming the Elwha River
For the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, the Elwha River is life. However, since the river was dammed, the community has been greatly affected. The dams on the Elwha River demonstrate how such infrastructures serve to reinforce and structure inequality
Monopoly’s winners and losers
Unsettling Resilience
This study challenges dominant, academic conceptualization of resilience in light of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe's (LEKT) experiences of ecosystem restoration. Resilience has gained traction in social science as a framework for a community's response to environmental, social, and political disturbances, the contours of which are not well understood in Indigenous contexts. Interviews with LEKT members on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State…
Political science (4 works) · Dam removal (3 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Geography (2 works)