Laura A Ogden
Biographic Data
| ID | 659837 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura A Ogden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura A |
| FAMILY NAME | Ogden |
| SIGNATURE | OGDEN L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida International University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1362-2023 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Extinction in Uncommon Worlds
Concerns about species extinctions have produced efforts to stabilize these losses and to do so on a planetary scale. These conservation efforts call upon the language and politics of the commons, although in often divergent ways. Using ethnographic research that examines efforts to save the California condor, I analyze the moral claims that animate these conservation practices. The specter of the Sixth Extinction has led conservation communities…
Frontier politics at the world's end
The "world's end" or "el fin del mundo" is a very common representational figure used to describe the Fuegian Archipelago of South America. There are world's end hostels, coffee table books, and scientific expeditions, for example, and the phrase is widely used to describe the region's landscape and geography, Indigenous peoples, biota, and to signal precarity along several registers. In this article, I examine the world's end through the lens of…
Residential housing segregation and urban tree canopy in 37 US Cities
Redlining was a racially discriminatory housing policy established by the federal government’s Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) during the 1930s. For decades, redlining limited access to homeownership and wealth creation among racial minorities, contributing to a host of adverse social outcomes, including high unemployment, poverty, and residential vacancy, that persist today. While the multigenerational socioeconomic impacts of redlining are…
The Anthropologist · A Figure
Loss and Wonder at the World’s End
In Loss and Wonder at the World's End, Laura A. Ogden brings together animals, people, and things-from beavers, stolen photographs, lichen, American explorers, and birdsong-to catalog the ways environmental change and colonial history are entangled in the Fuegian Archipelago of southernmost Chile and Argentina. Repeated algal blooms have closed fisheries in the archipelago. Glaciers are in retreat. Extractive industries such as commercial forestr…
How the Nonhuman World Influences Homeowner Yard Management in the American Residential Macrosystem
The Beaver Diaspora
For decades the role of invasive species has been central to discussions of anthropogenic loss and change. Conceptual debates over whether “native” and “invasive” species are useful to our understanding of dynamic processes of world making have significantly challenged traditional approaches to conservation biology and conservation practices. Yet decommissioning the “invasive species paradigm” requires us to grapple with new ethical and political…
Anishnaabe Aki
The Legacy Effect
Legacies of social and environmental injustices can leave an imprint on the present and constrain transitions for more sustainable futures. In this article, we ask this question: What is the relationship of environmental inequality and histories of segregation? The answer for Baltimore is complex, where past practices of de jure and de facto segregation have created social and environmental legacies that persist on the landscape today. To answer …
Satisfaction, water and fertilizer use in the American residential macrosystem
© The Author(s), 2016. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Environmental Research Letters 11 (2016): 034004, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/034004
Trees Grow on Money
This study examines the distributional equity of urban tree canopy (UTC) cover for Baltimore, MD, Los Angeles, CA, New York, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Raleigh, NC, Sacramento, CA, and Washington, D.C. using high spatial resolution land cover data and census data. Data are analyzed at the Census Block Group levels using Spearman's correlation, ordinary least squares regression (OLS), and a spatial autoregressive model (SAR). Across all cities there is…
Advancing urban sustainability theory and action
Global assemblages, resilience, and Earth Stewardship in the Anthropocene
In this paper, we argue that the Anthropocene is an epoch characterized not only by the anthropogenic dominance of the Earth's ecosystems but also by new forms of environmental governance and institutions. Echoing the literature in political ecology, we call these new forms of environmental governance “global assemblages”. Socioecological changes associated with global assemblages disproportionately impact poorer nations and communities along the…
Animals, Plants, People, and Things
This article defines multispecies ethnography and links this scholarship to broader currents within academia, including in the biosciences, philosophy, political ecology, and animal welfare activism. The article is organized around a set of productive tensions identified in the review of the literature. It ends with a discussion of the “ethnographic” in multispecies ethnography, urging ethnographers to bring a “speculative wonder” to their mode o…
Ecological science and transformation to the sustainable city
Heterogeneity in Residential Yard Care
Swamplife
An integrated conceptual framework for long‐term social–ecological research
The global reach of human activities affects all natural ecosystems, so that the environment is best viewed as a social–ecological system. Consequently, a more integrative approach to environmental science, one that bridges the biophysical and social domains, is sorely needed. Although models and frameworks for social–ecological systems exist, few are explicitly designed to guide a long‐term interdisciplinary research program. Here, we present an…
Anthropology and Environment Section
Environmental Anthropology and Neoliberal Conservation James Igoe
Searching for Paradise in the Florida Everglades
This article explores the process by which the cultural history of Royal Palm Hammock, the most visited site within Everglades National Park, Florida, informs the landscape's natural history. To understand this process, I analyze the scientific literature, including naturalists' fieldwork reports, surveys, fieldnotes and other archival material spanning the late 1800s to the mid-1930s, as well as ethnographic interviews conducted with local Everg…
The Everglades Ecosystem and the Politics of Nature
In this article, I offer an institutional history of the ecosystem concept, tracing shifts in its meaning and application as it has become the key organizing principle for the Everglades restoration program in Florida. Two institutional forms are analyzed here: (1) quasi-governmental organizations, a term I use to describe interagency science collaboratives and community stakeholder organizations, and (2) government bureaucracies, which are the a…
Anthropology and Environment Section
Ecological Anthropology and Disaster Research Anthony Oliver‐Smith
Anthropology and Environment Section
AES in DC•Cultural Resource Management at Everglades National Park
Anthropology and Environment Section
Arctic Sustainability and Climate ChangeColin Thor West
Anthropology and Environment Section
Advancing Conservation in a Social ContextJoshua P Lockyer
The Legacy Effect
Legacies of social and environmental injustices can leave an imprint on the present and constrain transitions for more sustainable futures. In this article, we ask this question: What is the relationship of environmental inequality and histories of segregation? The answer for Baltimore is complex, where past practices of de jure and de facto segregation have created social and environmental legacies that persist on the landscape today. To answer …
Anishnaabe Aki
Ecological science and transformation to the sustainable city
The Everglades Ecosystem and the Politics of Nature
In this article, I offer an institutional history of the ecosystem concept, tracing shifts in its meaning and application as it has become the key organizing principle for the Everglades restoration program in Florida. Two institutional forms are analyzed here: (1) quasi-governmental organizations, a term I use to describe interagency science collaboratives and community stakeholder organizations, and (2) government bureaucracies, which are the a…
Searching for Paradise in the Florida Everglades
This article explores the process by which the cultural history of Royal Palm Hammock, the most visited site within Everglades National Park, Florida, informs the landscape's natural history. To understand this process, I analyze the scientific literature, including naturalists' fieldwork reports, surveys, fieldnotes and other archival material spanning the late 1800s to the mid-1930s, as well as ethnographic interviews conducted with local Everg…
Heterogeneity in Residential Yard Care
Frontier politics at the world's end
The "world's end" or "el fin del mundo" is a very common representational figure used to describe the Fuegian Archipelago of South America. There are world's end hostels, coffee table books, and scientific expeditions, for example, and the phrase is widely used to describe the region's landscape and geography, Indigenous peoples, biota, and to signal precarity along several registers. In this article, I examine the world's end through the lens of…
The Women's Movement in Cuba, 1898-1958
Journal Article The Women's Movement in Cuba, 1898–1958: The Stoner Collection on Cuban Feminism. 13 reels with printed guide. 35 mm microfilm. $910. (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1990.) Get access The Women's Movement in Cuba, 1898–1958: The Stoner Collection on Cuban Feminism. 13 reels with printed guide. 35 mm microfilm. $910. (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1990.) Helen Icken Safa, Helen Icken Safa University of Florida Sear…
Anthropology and Environment Section
Ecological Anthropology and Disaster Research Anthony Oliver‐Smith
Anthropology and Environment Section
AES in DC•Cultural Resource Management at Everglades National Park
Anthropology and Environment Section
Arctic Sustainability and Climate ChangeColin Thor West
Anthropology and Environment Section
Advancing Conservation in a Social ContextJoshua P Lockyer
Anthropology and Environment Section
Biosafety and Social Activism in Central America Thomas Pearson
Anthropology and Environment Section
Environmental Anthropology and Neoliberal Conservation James Igoe
Searching for Paradise in the Florida Everglades
This article explores the process by which the cultural history of Royal Palm Hammock, the most visited site within Everglades National Park, Florida, informs the landscape's natural history. To understand this process, I analyze the scientific literature, including naturalists' fieldwork reports, surveys, fieldnotes and other archival material spanning the late 1800s to the mid-1930s, as well as ethnographic interviews conducted with local Everg…
The Everglades Ecosystem and the Politics of Nature
In this article, I offer an institutional history of the ecosystem concept, tracing shifts in its meaning and application as it has become the key organizing principle for the Everglades restoration program in Florida. Two institutional forms are analyzed here: (1) quasi-governmental organizations, a term I use to describe interagency science collaboratives and community stakeholder organizations, and (2) government bureaucracies, which are the a…
Swamplife
An integrated conceptual framework for long‐term social–ecological research
The global reach of human activities affects all natural ecosystems, so that the environment is best viewed as a social–ecological system. Consequently, a more integrative approach to environmental science, one that bridges the biophysical and social domains, is sorely needed. Although models and frameworks for social–ecological systems exist, few are explicitly designed to guide a long‐term interdisciplinary research program. Here, we present an…
Heterogeneity in Residential Yard Care
Global assemblages, resilience, and Earth Stewardship in the Anthropocene
In this paper, we argue that the Anthropocene is an epoch characterized not only by the anthropogenic dominance of the Earth's ecosystems but also by new forms of environmental governance and institutions. Echoing the literature in political ecology, we call these new forms of environmental governance “global assemblages”. Socioecological changes associated with global assemblages disproportionately impact poorer nations and communities along the…
Animals, Plants, People, and Things
This article defines multispecies ethnography and links this scholarship to broader currents within academia, including in the biosciences, philosophy, political ecology, and animal welfare activism. The article is organized around a set of productive tensions identified in the review of the literature. It ends with a discussion of the “ethnographic” in multispecies ethnography, urging ethnographers to bring a “speculative wonder” to their mode o…
Ecological science and transformation to the sustainable city
Advancing urban sustainability theory and action
Trees Grow on Money
This study examines the distributional equity of urban tree canopy (UTC) cover for Baltimore, MD, Los Angeles, CA, New York, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Raleigh, NC, Sacramento, CA, and Washington, D.C. using high spatial resolution land cover data and census data. Data are analyzed at the Census Block Group levels using Spearman's correlation, ordinary least squares regression (OLS), and a spatial autoregressive model (SAR). Across all cities there is…
Satisfaction, water and fertilizer use in the American residential macrosystem
© The Author(s), 2016. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Environmental Research Letters 11 (2016): 034004, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/034004
The Beaver Diaspora
For decades the role of invasive species has been central to discussions of anthropogenic loss and change. Conceptual debates over whether “native” and “invasive” species are useful to our understanding of dynamic processes of world making have significantly challenged traditional approaches to conservation biology and conservation practices. Yet decommissioning the “invasive species paradigm” requires us to grapple with new ethical and political…
Anishnaabe Aki
The Legacy Effect
Legacies of social and environmental injustices can leave an imprint on the present and constrain transitions for more sustainable futures. In this article, we ask this question: What is the relationship of environmental inequality and histories of segregation? The answer for Baltimore is complex, where past practices of de jure and de facto segregation have created social and environmental legacies that persist on the landscape today. To answer …
How the Nonhuman World Influences Homeowner Yard Management in the American Residential Macrosystem
Residential housing segregation and urban tree canopy in 37 US Cities
Redlining was a racially discriminatory housing policy established by the federal government’s Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) during the 1930s. For decades, redlining limited access to homeownership and wealth creation among racial minorities, contributing to a host of adverse social outcomes, including high unemployment, poverty, and residential vacancy, that persist today. While the multigenerational socioeconomic impacts of redlining are…
The Anthropologist · A Figure
Loss and Wonder at the World’s End
In Loss and Wonder at the World's End, Laura A. Ogden brings together animals, people, and things-from beavers, stolen photographs, lichen, American explorers, and birdsong-to catalog the ways environmental change and colonial history are entangled in the Fuegian Archipelago of southernmost Chile and Argentina. Repeated algal blooms have closed fisheries in the archipelago. Glaciers are in retreat. Extractive industries such as commercial forestr…
Geography (19 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Biology (8 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · History (7 works)