Anna J Willow
Biographic Data
| ID | 478235 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna J Willow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna J |
| FAMILY NAME | Willow |
| SIGNATURE | WILLOW A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Anthropological Optimism: Engaging the Power of What Could Go Right
Anthropological Optimism: Engaging the Power of What Could Go Right
Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory by Brittany Luby
Reviewed by: Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory by Brittany Luby Anna J. Willow (bio) Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory by Brittany Luby University of Manitoba Press, 2020 BRITTANY LUBY'S INTEREST IN hydroelectric development's impacts on northwestern Ontario Anishinaabe communities is deeply personal. Herself a product of the diaspora of Dalles 38C First Nations members who left th…
Anthropology and Activism: New Contexts, New Conversations
This book offers a comprehensive and current look at the complex relationship between anthropology and activism. Activism has become a vibrant research topic within anthropology and many scholars now embrace their own roles as engaged social actors, which has compelled reflexive attention to the anthropology/activism intersection and its implications. With contributions by emerging scholars as well as leading activist anthropologists, this volume…
Destruction and Disjuncture: Ironies of Apology, Exhibition, and Ethnography along British Columbia's Dammed Peace River
In June 2016, BC Hydro (British Columbia's provincially-owned electric utility) opened a new exhibit at the W. A. C. Bennett Dam Visitor Centre. The Our Story, Our Voice gallery brought the hardships endured by the region's First Nations citizens as a result of the fifty-year-old dam to light. A carefully crafted apology from BC Hydro's Deputy CEO figured prominently in the gallery's opening ceremony. But with a controversial new dam threatening …
Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene by Dominic Boyer, and: Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene by Cymene Howe
Reviewed by: Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene by Dominic Boyer, and: Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene by Cymene Howe Anna J. Willow Dominic Boyer, Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. 249 pp. Cymene Howe, Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. 241 pp. We live in troubling times. Our climate is changing rapidly. A sixth g…
Environmental Activism
Environmentalism implies a belief that the environment should be protected from the damaging impacts of human activities. This broad objective has inspired activist undertakings ranging from legal challenges and political lobbying to direct action and strategic alliances. Environmentalism takes diverse forms in different times, places, and political contexts. In particular, anthropologists have explored how non‐Western methods and motives for env…
Spirits of the Rockies: Reasserting an Indigenous Presence in Banff National Park by Courtney W. Mason
Collaborative Conservation and Contexts of Resistance: New (and Enduring) Strategies for Survival
Living with legacies of unjust land and resource policy, coping with side effects of industrial production systems that threaten the continuance of land-based subsistence and culture, and weighing options that are largely limited by external political, economic, and legal frameworks, Native North American leaders have become adept at following multiple paths toward the same ultimate goal—the survival of their people. How, I ask here, have indigen…
The Shifting Topology of Environmentalism: Human-Environment Relationships and Conceptual Trends in Two North American Organizational Histories
This article approaches environmentalism as a way of positioning ourselves in relation to the world around us. It traces transformations in how two prominent North American environmental groups—the Nature Conservancy and the Sierra Club—conceptualize environmentalism's objects, objectives, and ideal human-environment relationship. Historical narratives highlighting how and why these organizations have redrawn their conceptual maps demonstrate tha…
The contested landscape of unconventional energy development: A report from Ohio's shale gas country
Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies SarahStrauss, StephanieRupp, and ThomasLove, editors. 2013. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press
Doing Sovereignty in Native North America: Anishinaabe Counter-Mapping and the Struggle for Land-Based Self-Determination
Strong Hearts, Native Lands: The Cultural and Political Landscape of Anishinaabe Anti-Clearcutting Activism
Indigenizing Invasive Species Management: NativeNorthAmericans and theEmeraldAshBorer (EAB) Beetle
In the 1990s, an invasive beetle called the emerald ash borer (EAB) traveled fromAsia to Michigan inadvertently concealed inside wooden packing crates used for international cargo shipments. When the beetle's presence was confirmed in 2002, regional infestations were already well established. For many northeasternAmericanIndian communities, black ash basketry is a significant component of a self-conscious cultural identity. BecauseEABhas the pote…
Conceiving Kakipitatapitmok: The Political Landscape of Anishinaabe Anticlearcutting Activism
Landscape anthropology has explored relationships between peoples and places as well as culturally specific ways of experiencing and imagining the world that infuse these relationships. Departing from Kakipitatapitmok, the site of a direct-action blockade maintained at Grassy Narrows First Nation since 2002, I employ analytical frameworks inspired by the landscape genre to consider the physical and conceptual "place" of Anishinaabe anticlearcutti…
Cultivating Common Ground: Cultural Revitalization in Anishinaabe and Anthropological Discourse
Cultivating Common GroundCultural Revitalization in Anishinaabe and Anthropological Discourse Anna J. Willow (bio) Into each life, it is said, some rain must fall.... But Indians have been cursed above all other people in history. Indians have anthropologists. Vine Deloria, Jr., Custer Died for Your Sins Something important is happening beside a small muck-bottomed lake sixty miles of slow winding road to the north of Lake of the Woods. Since Dec…
Clear-Cutting and Colonialism: The Ethnopolitical Dynamics of Indigenous Environmental Activism in Northwestern Ontario
Since December 2002 members of Grassy Narrows First Nation have maintained a blockade to slow the pace of clear-cut logging in their traditional territory. This article situates contemporary anti-clear-cutting activism at Grassy Narrows in its ethnohistorical and ethnopolitical context. It considers the blockade not as a manifestation of inherent indigenous environmentality but as a complex phenomenon predicated on Anishinaabe people's desires fo…
Troubling Water: Shale Energy and Waterscape Transformation in a North American Extraction Zone
As hydraulic fracturing to facilitate shale energy extraction expands into new regions, how people think about water's multifaceted relationships to their lands and lives is being complicated and confounded. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 31 concerned residents of Ohio (United States), I argue that extraction “troubles” water in ways that extend far beyond empirical documentation of toxic contamination. My account illuminates how physical an…
The contested landscape of unconventional energy development: A report from Ohio's shale gas country
Conceiving Kakipitatapitmok: The Political Landscape of Anishinaabe Anticlearcutting Activism
Landscape anthropology has explored relationships between peoples and places as well as culturally specific ways of experiencing and imagining the world that infuse these relationships. Departing from Kakipitatapitmok, the site of a direct-action blockade maintained at Grassy Narrows First Nation since 2002, I employ analytical frameworks inspired by the landscape genre to consider the physical and conceptual "place" of Anishinaabe anticlearcutti…
Doing Sovereignty in Native North America: Anishinaabe Counter-Mapping and the Struggle for Land-Based Self-Determination
Clear-Cutting and Colonialism: The Ethnopolitical Dynamics of Indigenous Environmental Activism in Northwestern Ontario
Since December 2002 members of Grassy Narrows First Nation have maintained a blockade to slow the pace of clear-cut logging in their traditional territory. This article situates contemporary anti-clear-cutting activism at Grassy Narrows in its ethnohistorical and ethnopolitical context. It considers the blockade not as a manifestation of inherent indigenous environmentality but as a complex phenomenon predicated on Anishinaabe people's desires fo…
Anthropological Optimism: Engaging the Power of What Could Go Right
Cultivating Common Ground: Cultural Revitalization in Anishinaabe and Anthropological Discourse
Cultivating Common GroundCultural Revitalization in Anishinaabe and Anthropological Discourse Anna J. Willow (bio) Into each life, it is said, some rain must fall.... But Indians have been cursed above all other people in history. Indians have anthropologists. Vine Deloria, Jr., Custer Died for Your Sins Something important is happening beside a small muck-bottomed lake sixty miles of slow winding road to the north of Lake of the Woods. Since Dec…
Anthropology and Activism: New Contexts, New Conversations
This book offers a comprehensive and current look at the complex relationship between anthropology and activism. Activism has become a vibrant research topic within anthropology and many scholars now embrace their own roles as engaged social actors, which has compelled reflexive attention to the anthropology/activism intersection and its implications. With contributions by emerging scholars as well as leading activist anthropologists, this volume…
Destruction and Disjuncture: Ironies of Apology, Exhibition, and Ethnography along British Columbia's Dammed Peace River
In June 2016, BC Hydro (British Columbia's provincially-owned electric utility) opened a new exhibit at the W. A. C. Bennett Dam Visitor Centre. The Our Story, Our Voice gallery brought the hardships endured by the region's First Nations citizens as a result of the fifty-year-old dam to light. A carefully crafted apology from BC Hydro's Deputy CEO figured prominently in the gallery's opening ceremony. But with a controversial new dam threatening …
Troubling Water: Shale Energy and Waterscape Transformation in a North American Extraction Zone
As hydraulic fracturing to facilitate shale energy extraction expands into new regions, how people think about water's multifaceted relationships to their lands and lives is being complicated and confounded. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 31 concerned residents of Ohio (United States), I argue that extraction “troubles” water in ways that extend far beyond empirical documentation of toxic contamination. My account illuminates how physical an…
Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies SarahStrauss, StephanieRupp, and ThomasLove, editors. 2013. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press
Strong Hearts, Native Lands: The Cultural and Political Landscape of Anishinaabe Anti-Clearcutting Activism
Indigenizing Invasive Species Management: NativeNorthAmericans and theEmeraldAshBorer (EAB) Beetle
In the 1990s, an invasive beetle called the emerald ash borer (EAB) traveled fromAsia to Michigan inadvertently concealed inside wooden packing crates used for international cargo shipments. When the beetle's presence was confirmed in 2002, regional infestations were already well established. For many northeasternAmericanIndian communities, black ash basketry is a significant component of a self-conscious cultural identity. BecauseEABhas the pote…
Troubling Water: Shale Energy and Waterscape Transformation in a North American Extraction Zone
As hydraulic fracturing to facilitate shale energy extraction expands into new regions, how people think about water's multifaceted relationships to their lands and lives is being complicated and confounded. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 31 concerned residents of Ohio (United States), I argue that extraction “troubles” water in ways that extend far beyond empirical documentation of toxic contamination. My account illuminates how physical an…
Clear-Cutting and Colonialism: The Ethnopolitical Dynamics of Indigenous Environmental Activism in Northwestern Ontario
Since December 2002 members of Grassy Narrows First Nation have maintained a blockade to slow the pace of clear-cut logging in their traditional territory. This article situates contemporary anti-clear-cutting activism at Grassy Narrows in its ethnohistorical and ethnopolitical context. It considers the blockade not as a manifestation of inherent indigenous environmentality but as a complex phenomenon predicated on Anishinaabe people's desires fo…
Cultivating Common Ground: Cultural Revitalization in Anishinaabe and Anthropological Discourse
Cultivating Common GroundCultural Revitalization in Anishinaabe and Anthropological Discourse Anna J. Willow (bio) Into each life, it is said, some rain must fall.... But Indians have been cursed above all other people in history. Indians have anthropologists. Vine Deloria, Jr., Custer Died for Your Sins Something important is happening beside a small muck-bottomed lake sixty miles of slow winding road to the north of Lake of the Woods. Since Dec…
Indigenizing Invasive Species Management: NativeNorthAmericans and theEmeraldAshBorer (EAB) Beetle
In the 1990s, an invasive beetle called the emerald ash borer (EAB) traveled fromAsia to Michigan inadvertently concealed inside wooden packing crates used for international cargo shipments. When the beetle's presence was confirmed in 2002, regional infestations were already well established. For many northeasternAmericanIndian communities, black ash basketry is a significant component of a self-conscious cultural identity. BecauseEABhas the pote…
Conceiving Kakipitatapitmok: The Political Landscape of Anishinaabe Anticlearcutting Activism
Landscape anthropology has explored relationships between peoples and places as well as culturally specific ways of experiencing and imagining the world that infuse these relationships. Departing from Kakipitatapitmok, the site of a direct-action blockade maintained at Grassy Narrows First Nation since 2002, I employ analytical frameworks inspired by the landscape genre to consider the physical and conceptual "place" of Anishinaabe anticlearcutti…
Strong Hearts, Native Lands: The Cultural and Political Landscape of Anishinaabe Anti-Clearcutting Activism
Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies SarahStrauss, StephanieRupp, and ThomasLove, editors. 2013. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press
Doing Sovereignty in Native North America: Anishinaabe Counter-Mapping and the Struggle for Land-Based Self-Determination
The contested landscape of unconventional energy development: A report from Ohio's shale gas country
Collaborative Conservation and Contexts of Resistance: New (and Enduring) Strategies for Survival
Living with legacies of unjust land and resource policy, coping with side effects of industrial production systems that threaten the continuance of land-based subsistence and culture, and weighing options that are largely limited by external political, economic, and legal frameworks, Native North American leaders have become adept at following multiple paths toward the same ultimate goal—the survival of their people. How, I ask here, have indigen…
The Shifting Topology of Environmentalism: Human-Environment Relationships and Conceptual Trends in Two North American Organizational Histories
This article approaches environmentalism as a way of positioning ourselves in relation to the world around us. It traces transformations in how two prominent North American environmental groups—the Nature Conservancy and the Sierra Club—conceptualize environmentalism's objects, objectives, and ideal human-environment relationship. Historical narratives highlighting how and why these organizations have redrawn their conceptual maps demonstrate tha…
Spirits of the Rockies: Reasserting an Indigenous Presence in Banff National Park by Courtney W. Mason
Environmental Activism
Environmentalism implies a belief that the environment should be protected from the damaging impacts of human activities. This broad objective has inspired activist undertakings ranging from legal challenges and political lobbying to direct action and strategic alliances. Environmentalism takes diverse forms in different times, places, and political contexts. In particular, anthropologists have explored how non‐Western methods and motives for env…
Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene by Dominic Boyer, and: Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene by Cymene Howe
Reviewed by: Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene by Dominic Boyer, and: Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene by Cymene Howe Anna J. Willow Dominic Boyer, Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. 249 pp. Cymene Howe, Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. 241 pp. We live in troubling times. Our climate is changing rapidly. A sixth g…
Anthropology and Activism: New Contexts, New Conversations
This book offers a comprehensive and current look at the complex relationship between anthropology and activism. Activism has become a vibrant research topic within anthropology and many scholars now embrace their own roles as engaged social actors, which has compelled reflexive attention to the anthropology/activism intersection and its implications. With contributions by emerging scholars as well as leading activist anthropologists, this volume…
Destruction and Disjuncture: Ironies of Apology, Exhibition, and Ethnography along British Columbia's Dammed Peace River
In June 2016, BC Hydro (British Columbia's provincially-owned electric utility) opened a new exhibit at the W. A. C. Bennett Dam Visitor Centre. The Our Story, Our Voice gallery brought the hardships endured by the region's First Nations citizens as a result of the fifty-year-old dam to light. A carefully crafted apology from BC Hydro's Deputy CEO figured prominently in the gallery's opening ceremony. But with a controversial new dam threatening …
Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory by Brittany Luby
Reviewed by: Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory by Brittany Luby Anna J. Willow (bio) Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory by Brittany Luby University of Manitoba Press, 2020 BRITTANY LUBY'S INTEREST IN hydroelectric development's impacts on northwestern Ontario Anishinaabe communities is deeply personal. Herself a product of the diaspora of Dalles 38C First Nations members who left th…
Anthropological Optimism: Engaging the Power of What Could Go Right
Anthropological Optimism: Engaging the Power of What Could Go Right
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Environmental ethics (9 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · History (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works)