Emma S Norman
Biographic Data
| ID | 456097 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma S Norman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma S |
| FAMILY NAME | Norman |
| SIGNATURE | NORMAN E S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwest Indian College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2549-6666 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Finding Common Ground
Harvesting shellfish is an important cultural and economic activity for coastal Indigenous communities throughout the Salish Sea. However, for the Lhaq’temish People of Lummi Nation, upstream agricultural pollution has rendered this inherent right impossible for almost two decades. In an attempt to reopen the shellfish beds, Lummi Nation leaders developed the Portage Bay Partnership, which aims to address the upstream pollution problem through re…
Renegotiating the Columbia River Treaty
This article builds on regional environmental governance (REG) scholarship to explore alternatives to conventional transboundary agreements. Specifically, we use two narratives to tell the story of one river variously known as Wimahl, Nich’i-Wàna, or Swah’netk’qhu, and, more recently, the Columbia River. We suggest that the state-led narrative of the signing and implementation of the 1964 Columbia River Treaty has obscured Indigenous narratives o…
Uncovering Discursive Framings of the Bangladesh Shipbreaking Industry
Shipbreaking in the Chittagong region of Bangladesh supplies metal to meet the needs of the nation’s construction sector. The shipbreaking industry has received international attention for environmental contamination and workers’ insecurity. However, these issues have been framed without considering the actors that produce them and their associated motives. This paper illuminates the conflicting discourses regarding the industry between two diver…
Advancing human capabilities for water security
Standing Up for Inherent Rights
Time and time again, Indigenous people throughout the world are faced with the need to reassert their way of life, and to "buck" political and social systems that continually marginalize their treaty rights. In this article, I explore the role of Indigenous activism at different scales-personal, tribal, and collective-to intervene in key moments to uphold treaty rights and protect Indigenous ways of life. In defending treaty rights, Indigenous pe…
The Shifting Geopolitics of Water in the Anthropocene
This forum responds to recent calls to hypothesize a geopolitics of the Anthropocene by examining how our notions of geopolitics of water may shift in the context of this new and, at times, divisive framework. The Anthropocene describes the geological epoch in which humans are the dominant actor in the global environmental system and has been a concept that is not without controversy. Taking the Anthropocene as an epistemological divergence where…
To frack or not to frack
Local impacts, global sources
Over the last half century, a multijurisdictional, multiscale system of governance has emerged to address concerns associated with toxic chemicals that have the capacity to bioaccumulate in organisms and biomagnify in food chains, leading to fish consumption advisories. Components of this system of governance include international conventions (such as the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and the Minamata Convention on Mercury…
Resources
This chapter begins by providing defining 'resources'. Drawing on these definitions, it examines how emerging debates about territory, state, economy, science, and nature are leading researchers to interpret resources in new ways. The chapter examines the emerging scholarship on financialization, in terms of resource economies; on resource grabbing, in terms of conflict and violence; and on science, in terms of knowledge, power, and representatio…
Water Flows Toward Power
Water is an invaluable resource, and equitable access to it is a fundamental human right. Disenfranchised groups often lose access to water resources because their interests are not well represented by decision makers. Excluding these groups from resource management policy often results in myopic decisions that contribute to further ecosystem damage. We describe the ecological degradation of Lake Urmia in Iran, which has recently experienced incr…
Fields and Streams
Fields and Streams: Stream Restoration, Neoliberalism, and the Future of Environmental Science." Social & Cultural Geography, 15(5), pp. 584–585
Governing Transboundary Waters
Winner of the Political Geography Specialty Group's 2015 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award! With almost the entire world’s water basins crossing political borders of some kind, understanding how to cooperate with one’s neighbor is of global relevance. For Indigenous communities, whose traditional homelands may predate and challenge the current borders, and whose relationship to water sources are linked to the protection of traditional lifewa…
Water without Borders
Who's counting? Spatial politics, ecocolonisation and the politics of calculation in B oundary B ay
Answering the simple question, ‘who's counting’, reveals much about the spatial and cultural politics of ecosystem management. In this paper, I unite the concept of ‘ecocolonisation’ with the body of work on the politics of calculation. I argue that political technologies – including calculative techniques such as the enumeration of contamination levels – are a form of ecocolonisation that have considerable political effects on Indigenous communi…
Transgressing Scales
This article examines the rescaling of transboundary water governance along the Canada–U.S. border. We draw on recent research in geography on rescaling and borderlands to query two assumptions prevalent in the water governance literature: that a shift in scale downward to the subnational or "local" scale implies greater empowerment for local actors, and that rescaling implies that higher orders of government become less important in water manage…
Global civil society? The Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development
Transboundary environmental management
Political borders, which delineate divergent political, social, economic, and demographic systems, affect the management of shared natural resources. Transboundary environmental management will attract increasing global attention as trends of population growth and natural resource scarcity drive coordinated solutions for environmental problems. Water pollution, in particular, will be a high priority for many nations because of the undisputed impo…
Transgressing Scales
This article examines the rescaling of transboundary water governance along the Canada–U.S. border. We draw on recent research in geography on rescaling and borderlands to query two assumptions prevalent in the water governance literature: that a shift in scale downward to the subnational or "local" scale implies greater empowerment for local actors, and that rescaling implies that higher orders of government become less important in water manage…
To frack or not to frack
Standing Up for Inherent Rights
Time and time again, Indigenous people throughout the world are faced with the need to reassert their way of life, and to "buck" political and social systems that continually marginalize their treaty rights. In this article, I explore the role of Indigenous activism at different scales-personal, tribal, and collective-to intervene in key moments to uphold treaty rights and protect Indigenous ways of life. In defending treaty rights, Indigenous pe…
Global civil society? The Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development
Who's counting? Spatial politics, ecocolonisation and the politics of calculation in B oundary B ay
Answering the simple question, ‘who's counting’, reveals much about the spatial and cultural politics of ecosystem management. In this paper, I unite the concept of ‘ecocolonisation’ with the body of work on the politics of calculation. I argue that political technologies – including calculative techniques such as the enumeration of contamination levels – are a form of ecocolonisation that have considerable political effects on Indigenous communi…
The Shifting Geopolitics of Water in the Anthropocene
This forum responds to recent calls to hypothesize a geopolitics of the Anthropocene by examining how our notions of geopolitics of water may shift in the context of this new and, at times, divisive framework. The Anthropocene describes the geological epoch in which humans are the dominant actor in the global environmental system and has been a concept that is not without controversy. Taking the Anthropocene as an epistemological divergence where…
Transboundary environmental management
Political borders, which delineate divergent political, social, economic, and demographic systems, affect the management of shared natural resources. Transboundary environmental management will attract increasing global attention as trends of population growth and natural resource scarcity drive coordinated solutions for environmental problems. Water pollution, in particular, will be a high priority for many nations because of the undisputed impo…
Finding Common Ground
Harvesting shellfish is an important cultural and economic activity for coastal Indigenous communities throughout the Salish Sea. However, for the Lhaq’temish People of Lummi Nation, upstream agricultural pollution has rendered this inherent right impossible for almost two decades. In an attempt to reopen the shellfish beds, Lummi Nation leaders developed the Portage Bay Partnership, which aims to address the upstream pollution problem through re…
Renegotiating the Columbia River Treaty
This article builds on regional environmental governance (REG) scholarship to explore alternatives to conventional transboundary agreements. Specifically, we use two narratives to tell the story of one river variously known as Wimahl, Nich’i-Wàna, or Swah’netk’qhu, and, more recently, the Columbia River. We suggest that the state-led narrative of the signing and implementation of the 1964 Columbia River Treaty has obscured Indigenous narratives o…
Uncovering Discursive Framings of the Bangladesh Shipbreaking Industry
Shipbreaking in the Chittagong region of Bangladesh supplies metal to meet the needs of the nation’s construction sector. The shipbreaking industry has received international attention for environmental contamination and workers’ insecurity. However, these issues have been framed without considering the actors that produce them and their associated motives. This paper illuminates the conflicting discourses regarding the industry between two diver…
Governing Transboundary Waters
Winner of the Political Geography Specialty Group's 2015 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award! With almost the entire world’s water basins crossing political borders of some kind, understanding how to cooperate with one’s neighbor is of global relevance. For Indigenous communities, whose traditional homelands may predate and challenge the current borders, and whose relationship to water sources are linked to the protection of traditional lifewa…
Transboundary environmental management
Political borders, which delineate divergent political, social, economic, and demographic systems, affect the management of shared natural resources. Transboundary environmental management will attract increasing global attention as trends of population growth and natural resource scarcity drive coordinated solutions for environmental problems. Water pollution, in particular, will be a high priority for many nations because of the undisputed impo…
Global civil society? The Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development
Transgressing Scales
This article examines the rescaling of transboundary water governance along the Canada–U.S. border. We draw on recent research in geography on rescaling and borderlands to query two assumptions prevalent in the water governance literature: that a shift in scale downward to the subnational or "local" scale implies greater empowerment for local actors, and that rescaling implies that higher orders of government become less important in water manage…
Water without Borders
Who's counting? Spatial politics, ecocolonisation and the politics of calculation in B oundary B ay
Answering the simple question, ‘who's counting’, reveals much about the spatial and cultural politics of ecosystem management. In this paper, I unite the concept of ‘ecocolonisation’ with the body of work on the politics of calculation. I argue that political technologies – including calculative techniques such as the enumeration of contamination levels – are a form of ecocolonisation that have considerable political effects on Indigenous communi…
Water Flows Toward Power
Water is an invaluable resource, and equitable access to it is a fundamental human right. Disenfranchised groups often lose access to water resources because their interests are not well represented by decision makers. Excluding these groups from resource management policy often results in myopic decisions that contribute to further ecosystem damage. We describe the ecological degradation of Lake Urmia in Iran, which has recently experienced incr…
Fields and Streams
Fields and Streams: Stream Restoration, Neoliberalism, and the Future of Environmental Science." Social & Cultural Geography, 15(5), pp. 584–585
Governing Transboundary Waters
Winner of the Political Geography Specialty Group's 2015 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award! With almost the entire world’s water basins crossing political borders of some kind, understanding how to cooperate with one’s neighbor is of global relevance. For Indigenous communities, whose traditional homelands may predate and challenge the current borders, and whose relationship to water sources are linked to the protection of traditional lifewa…
Resources
This chapter begins by providing defining 'resources'. Drawing on these definitions, it examines how emerging debates about territory, state, economy, science, and nature are leading researchers to interpret resources in new ways. The chapter examines the emerging scholarship on financialization, in terms of resource economies; on resource grabbing, in terms of conflict and violence; and on science, in terms of knowledge, power, and representatio…
To frack or not to frack
Local impacts, global sources
Over the last half century, a multijurisdictional, multiscale system of governance has emerged to address concerns associated with toxic chemicals that have the capacity to bioaccumulate in organisms and biomagnify in food chains, leading to fish consumption advisories. Components of this system of governance include international conventions (such as the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and the Minamata Convention on Mercury…
Advancing human capabilities for water security
Standing Up for Inherent Rights
Time and time again, Indigenous people throughout the world are faced with the need to reassert their way of life, and to "buck" political and social systems that continually marginalize their treaty rights. In this article, I explore the role of Indigenous activism at different scales-personal, tribal, and collective-to intervene in key moments to uphold treaty rights and protect Indigenous ways of life. In defending treaty rights, Indigenous pe…
The Shifting Geopolitics of Water in the Anthropocene
This forum responds to recent calls to hypothesize a geopolitics of the Anthropocene by examining how our notions of geopolitics of water may shift in the context of this new and, at times, divisive framework. The Anthropocene describes the geological epoch in which humans are the dominant actor in the global environmental system and has been a concept that is not without controversy. Taking the Anthropocene as an epistemological divergence where…
Renegotiating the Columbia River Treaty
This article builds on regional environmental governance (REG) scholarship to explore alternatives to conventional transboundary agreements. Specifically, we use two narratives to tell the story of one river variously known as Wimahl, Nich’i-Wàna, or Swah’netk’qhu, and, more recently, the Columbia River. We suggest that the state-led narrative of the signing and implementation of the 1964 Columbia River Treaty has obscured Indigenous narratives o…
Uncovering Discursive Framings of the Bangladesh Shipbreaking Industry
Shipbreaking in the Chittagong region of Bangladesh supplies metal to meet the needs of the nation’s construction sector. The shipbreaking industry has received international attention for environmental contamination and workers’ insecurity. However, these issues have been framed without considering the actors that produce them and their associated motives. This paper illuminates the conflicting discourses regarding the industry between two diver…
Finding Common Ground
Harvesting shellfish is an important cultural and economic activity for coastal Indigenous communities throughout the Salish Sea. However, for the Lhaq’temish People of Lummi Nation, upstream agricultural pollution has rendered this inherent right impossible for almost two decades. In an attempt to reopen the shellfish beds, Lummi Nation leaders developed the Portage Bay Partnership, which aims to address the upstream pollution problem through re…
Political science (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Environmental Science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Corporate governance (6 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Environmental resource management (6 works)