Leah Sophie Horowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 683763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leah Sophie Horowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leah Sophie |
| FAMILY NAME | Horowitz |
| SIGNATURE | HOROWITZ L S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3287-5891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 281 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Scope-shifting: Bureaucracy, Energy Justice and the Dakota Access Pipeline
Through a study of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) environmental assessment (EA) of the Dakota Access Pipeline's crossing of Lake Oahe near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, this paper explores regulatory agencies’ “interpretive implementation.” We find that, in implementing the National Environmental Policy Act and Executive Order 12898 on Environmental Justice, USACE “scope-shifted”—facultatively expanding and contracting the scope…
The double movement and the triple-helix: Divestment, decommodification, and the Dakota Access Pipeline
This paper investigates divestment movements' attempts to influence investment decisions. I use the example of #DefundDAPL, which targeted private-sector funding of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), an oil conduit crossing the Missouri River a half-mile from the Standing Rock Reservation. I analyze activists' engagements with banks as a manifestation of Karl Polanyi's second movement, that is, resistance to environmental destruction and human ri…
Global Standards, Corporate Diagrams and Indigenous Agency: ExxonMobil in Russia and Alaska
This paper examines how a transnational corporation (TNC) translates global standards and corporate policies into programs at sites of extraction. We explore this question through a comparative analysis of ExxonMobil’s operations in two different politico-economic contexts: the Sakhalin-1 project in Russia and the Point Thomson project on the North Slope of Alaska, with field work on Sakhalin Island in 2013–2015 and in Alaska in 2015–2018. Theore…
"Conflicts of interests" within and between elite assemblages in the legal production of space: Indigenous cultural heritage preservation and the Dakota Access Pipeline
This paper represents a "studying-up" of the controversy over federal regulatory processes regarding protection of Lakota and Dakota cultural heritage in permitting the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). To analyse this controversy, I engage with interest-convergence theory, a component of Critical Race Theory, alongside a critique of its arguably simplistic definition of "white interests." Agreeing that we need a finer-grained understanding of elite…
Indigenous-led grassroots engagements with oil pipelines in the U.S. and Russia: The NoDapl and Komi movements
Networks play an important role in the Indigenous rights movement’s strategies and in Indigenous groups’ engagements with industry actors, the State, and NGOs. We seek to extend the concept of Governance Generating Networks (GGN) to incorporate Indigenous grassroots movements, and evaluate multiscale interactions and processes of network-generated governance across scales. We compare the NoDAPL movement led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in the…
Indigenous rights and the persistence of industrial capitalism: Capturing the law–ideology–power triple-helix
This article examines the power relations that unfold when Indigenous-led struggles invoke settler-colonial law toward protection from industry’s impacts. Building on Critical Race Theory, I posit a ‘triple-helical’ relationship between law, power, and ideology, which coproduce one another, mediated by nudges from individual agents. I argue that the triple-helix of Indigenous rights to protection from industry’s impacts has stagnated, due to indu…
Indigenous peoples’ relationships to large-scale mining in post/colonial contexts: Toward multidisciplinary comparative perspectives
Power, cooptation, and the multiplicity of response assemblages: An example from New Caledonia
This commentary provides an empirical example that supports Briassoulis’s ‘response assemblage’ (RA) conceptualization but also suggests an extension of this framework. It uses an example of different approaches to protecting New Caledonia’s coral reefs—the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s World Heritage List and Rhéébù Nùù, an indigenous group targeting a multinational mining and refinery project—to demonstrate …
It shocks me, the place of women’: Intersectionality and mining companies’ retrogradation of indigenous women in New Caledonia
Indigenous women’s social positionings are complex and dynamic, informed by culture and post-colonial politics; gender and ethnicity intersect with age, socio-economic status, and social hierarchies. This article uses an ethnographic study of Kanak women’s engagements with mining in New Caledonia, to examine three questions. First, how do indigenous women’s dynamic social positionings shape their possibilities for negotiation with and resistance …
Enforcement encourages participation in resource management: Explaining a fisheries management paradox in Hawaii
This paper uses a case study of fisheries co‐management in Hawaii to explore barriers to community participation in resource management and the reasons for these impediments. Our study suggests that while fishers may disobey regulations to maximise personal gain, they may also understand the necessity for regulations and desire more stringent enforcement. This seeming paradox reflects the tension between a recognised need to conserve resources th…
Rhizomic Resistance Meets Arborescent Assemblage: Unesco World Heritage and the Disempowerment of Indigenous Activism in New Caledonia
This article draws on Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of arborescent and rhizomic assemblages to examine encounters between large-scale conservation and grassroots resistance to industry. I explore how the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) World Heritage listing of New Caledonia's reefs contributed to the demise of Rhéébù Nùù, an indigenous activist group that had been targeting a multinational mining pro…
Cap Bocage: When a mountain fell into the sea
This documentary by Jim Marbrook, a filmmaker and television studies lecturer from Auckland, opens with the view from a helicopter flying along a coastline in New Caledonia, a French possession in
Beliefs about Ecological Impacts Predict Deer Acceptance Capacity and Hunting Support
Ecological impacts of deer overbrowsing often lead resource managers to recommend deer control through hunting, which may be strongly opposed by local residents. Adaptive impact management argues that understanding wildlife impacts of concern to the public can improve wildlife management. However, research on public wildlife acceptance capacity for deer, and on support for hunting, has emphasized concerns about household impacts and deer well-bei…
Culturally articulated neoliberalisation: Corporate social responsibility and the capture of indigenous legitimacy in New Caledonia
This paper expands our understandings of corporate social responsibility ( CSR ) as a form of roll‐out neoliberalism, building on analyses of CSR initiatives as elements of a capitalist system actively working to create its own social regularisation – to secure a socio‐politico‐economic context supporting capitalist development. Using an ethnographic analysis of the rise and fall of an indigenous protest group that targeted a multinational mining…
Toward Empathic Agonism: Conflicting Vulnerabilities in Urban Wetland Governance
Critics of attempts to achieve consensus through Habermasian 'communicative rationality' dismiss this as unachievable due to participants' selfishness and irrationality, and the inevitability of power relations. Instead, Mouffe advocates 'agonistic pluralism', a dynamic process of continual debate grounded in mutual respect. In this paper I argue that, for this to succeed, we need to recognize and embrace the role of emotion in moral reasoning. H…
Translation Alignment: Actor‐Network Theory, Resistance, and the Power Dynamics of Alliance in New Caledonia
This study of resistance to multinational mining in New Caledonia expands actor‐network theory's concept of translation by exploring ways that power dynamics affect alliances and the translations that both support and challenge them. Examining relationships among an indigenous protest group, environmentalist grassroots organizations, a human rights lawyer, the mining company, and the provincial government, I argue that power often requires allian…
Power, Profit, Protest: Grassroots Resistance to Industry in the Global North
Marginal Women, Marginal Rights: Impediments to Gender-Based Persecution Claims by Asylum-seeking Women in Australia
Women's experiences of violence often remain invisible or discounted in asylum law and practice. Gender is absent as an overt ground for protection under the Refugee Convention and readings of the Convention have commonly excluded it. Although Australia's Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) has acknowledged women's special protection needs with instruments such as the Guidelines on Gender Issues for Decision Makers (DIAC 1996, 2010),…
Interpreting Industry's Impacts: Micropolitical Ecologies of Divergent Community Responses
Where governments have failed to protect their citizens from the environmental and social impacts of industrial development, social movements have often arisen in response. However, other community members may defend — sometimes violently — the same corporations that are targeted by their peers. The contributions to this cluster explore some of the ways in which communities disagree about how to respond to the ecological impacts of industry, thei…
Twenty years is yesterday”: Science, multinational mining, and the political ecology of trust in New Caledonia
Environmental violence and crises of legitimacy in New Caledonia
Destroying God’s Creation or Using What He Provided: Cultural Models of a Mining Project in New Caledonia
Large-scale surveys have identified a negative association between Christian fundamentalism and environmental concern. In contrast to this broad-brush approach, I used a cultural models framework, informed by political ecology, to examine the statements of a small sample of fundamentalist Kanak villagers about their reactions to a particular instance of potential environmental degradation in New Caledonia (South Pacific) in the form of a multinat…
It's up to the clan to protect”: Cultural heritage and the micropolitical ecology of conservation in New Caledonia
This case study from New Caledonia explores the motivations of local people in initiating co-managed conservation projects on customary lands. Kanak villagers viewed “conservation” largely as a means of reinforcing their cultural identity through preservation of their cultural heritage, grounded in the landscape. However, at the same time, they hoped to promote economic development. Ironically, thus, they found it necessary to welcome outside inf…
Converging Networks and Clashing Stories: South Africa's Agricultural Biotechnology Debate
The debate over agricultural biotechnology in South Africa is not only polarized, but also complicated by the increasingly blurry boundaries of food governance. This was particularly apparent during the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), held in Johannesburg in August 2002. This article explores how the politics and policies surrounding genetic modification (GM) in South Africa have taken shape within a range of overlapping transnati…
Conservation and the Social Sciences
Twenty years is yesterday”: Science, multinational mining, and the political ecology of trust in New Caledonia
Culturally articulated neoliberalisation: Corporate social responsibility and the capture of indigenous legitimacy in New Caledonia
This paper expands our understandings of corporate social responsibility ( CSR ) as a form of roll‐out neoliberalism, building on analyses of CSR initiatives as elements of a capitalist system actively working to create its own social regularisation – to secure a socio‐politico‐economic context supporting capitalist development. Using an ethnographic analysis of the rise and fall of an indigenous protest group that targeted a multinational mining…
Environmental violence and crises of legitimacy in New Caledonia
Indigenous peoples’ relationships to large-scale mining in post/colonial contexts: Toward multidisciplinary comparative perspectives
It's up to the clan to protect”: Cultural heritage and the micropolitical ecology of conservation in New Caledonia
This case study from New Caledonia explores the motivations of local people in initiating co-managed conservation projects on customary lands. Kanak villagers viewed “conservation” largely as a means of reinforcing their cultural identity through preservation of their cultural heritage, grounded in the landscape. However, at the same time, they hoped to promote economic development. Ironically, thus, they found it necessary to welcome outside inf…
It shocks me, the place of women’: Intersectionality and mining companies’ retrogradation of indigenous women in New Caledonia
Indigenous women’s social positionings are complex and dynamic, informed by culture and post-colonial politics; gender and ethnicity intersect with age, socio-economic status, and social hierarchies. This article uses an ethnographic study of Kanak women’s engagements with mining in New Caledonia, to examine three questions. First, how do indigenous women’s dynamic social positionings shape their possibilities for negotiation with and resistance …
Interpreting Industry's Impacts: Micropolitical Ecologies of Divergent Community Responses
Where governments have failed to protect their citizens from the environmental and social impacts of industrial development, social movements have often arisen in response. However, other community members may defend — sometimes violently — the same corporations that are targeted by their peers. The contributions to this cluster explore some of the ways in which communities disagree about how to respond to the ecological impacts of industry, thei…
Translation Alignment: Actor‐Network Theory, Resistance, and the Power Dynamics of Alliance in New Caledonia
This study of resistance to multinational mining in New Caledonia expands actor‐network theory's concept of translation by exploring ways that power dynamics affect alliances and the translations that both support and challenge them. Examining relationships among an indigenous protest group, environmentalist grassroots organizations, a human rights lawyer, the mining company, and the provincial government, I argue that power often requires allian…
Integrating Indigenous Resource Management with Wildlife Conservation: A Case Study of Batang Ai National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia
Rhizomic Resistance Meets Arborescent Assemblage: Unesco World Heritage and the Disempowerment of Indigenous Activism in New Caledonia
This article draws on Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of arborescent and rhizomic assemblages to examine encounters between large-scale conservation and grassroots resistance to industry. I explore how the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) World Heritage listing of New Caledonia's reefs contributed to the demise of Rhéébù Nùù, an indigenous activist group that had been targeting a multinational mining pro…
Power, Profit, Protest: Grassroots Resistance to Industry in the Global North
Perceptions of Nature and Responses to Environmental Degradation in New Caledonia
The history of the Kanak is inscribed in their landscape's features, which commemorate the passage and adventures of human and spiritual ancestors. Kanak speak of their natural surroundings as forming an essential part of their cultural heritage. Some young Kanak blame Western economic activities for environmental degradation, which they link to the loss of their culture. Kanak statements and actions concerning nature and the environment relate t…
La micropolitique de la mine en Nouvelle-Calédonie: Analyse des conflits autour d’un projet minier au sein d’une communauté kanak
Cet article examine la micropolitique, au sein d'une communauté kanak, relative à un projet minier. Vu son importance politique et économique, les résidants locaux ont approuvé le projet dans l'ensemble. Des disputes ont cependant éclaté au sein des villages autour du massif. Dans le monde kanak, le prestige est acquis par la capacité de se dire membre d'un clan parmi les premiers arrivés dans un lieu, et donc en mesure de prendre toute décision …
Indigenous-led grassroots engagements with oil pipelines in the U.S. and Russia: The NoDapl and Komi movements
Networks play an important role in the Indigenous rights movement’s strategies and in Indigenous groups’ engagements with industry actors, the State, and NGOs. We seek to extend the concept of Governance Generating Networks (GGN) to incorporate Indigenous grassroots movements, and evaluate multiscale interactions and processes of network-generated governance across scales. We compare the NoDAPL movement led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in the…
Converging Networks and Clashing Stories: South Africa's Agricultural Biotechnology Debate
The debate over agricultural biotechnology in South Africa is not only polarized, but also complicated by the increasingly blurry boundaries of food governance. This was particularly apparent during the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), held in Johannesburg in August 2002. This article explores how the politics and policies surrounding genetic modification (GM) in South Africa have taken shape within a range of overlapping transnati…
Indigenous rights and the persistence of industrial capitalism: Capturing the law–ideology–power triple-helix
This article examines the power relations that unfold when Indigenous-led struggles invoke settler-colonial law toward protection from industry’s impacts. Building on Critical Race Theory, I posit a ‘triple-helical’ relationship between law, power, and ideology, which coproduce one another, mediated by nudges from individual agents. I argue that the triple-helix of Indigenous rights to protection from industry’s impacts has stagnated, due to indu…
Toward Empathic Agonism: Conflicting Vulnerabilities in Urban Wetland Governance
Critics of attempts to achieve consensus through Habermasian 'communicative rationality' dismiss this as unachievable due to participants' selfishness and irrationality, and the inevitability of power relations. Instead, Mouffe advocates 'agonistic pluralism', a dynamic process of continual debate grounded in mutual respect. In this paper I argue that, for this to succeed, we need to recognize and embrace the role of emotion in moral reasoning. H…
The double movement and the triple-helix: Divestment, decommodification, and the Dakota Access Pipeline
This paper investigates divestment movements' attempts to influence investment decisions. I use the example of #DefundDAPL, which targeted private-sector funding of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), an oil conduit crossing the Missouri River a half-mile from the Standing Rock Reservation. I analyze activists' engagements with banks as a manifestation of Karl Polanyi's second movement, that is, resistance to environmental destruction and human ri…
"Conflicts of interests" within and between elite assemblages in the legal production of space: Indigenous cultural heritage preservation and the Dakota Access Pipeline
This paper represents a "studying-up" of the controversy over federal regulatory processes regarding protection of Lakota and Dakota cultural heritage in permitting the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). To analyse this controversy, I engage with interest-convergence theory, a component of Critical Race Theory, alongside a critique of its arguably simplistic definition of "white interests." Agreeing that we need a finer-grained understanding of elite…
Power, cooptation, and the multiplicity of response assemblages: An example from New Caledonia
This commentary provides an empirical example that supports Briassoulis’s ‘response assemblage’ (RA) conceptualization but also suggests an extension of this framework. It uses an example of different approaches to protecting New Caledonia’s coral reefs—the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s World Heritage List and Rhéébù Nùù, an indigenous group targeting a multinational mining and refinery project—to demonstrate …
Marginal Women, Marginal Rights: Impediments to Gender-Based Persecution Claims by Asylum-seeking Women in Australia
Women's experiences of violence often remain invisible or discounted in asylum law and practice. Gender is absent as an overt ground for protection under the Refugee Convention and readings of the Convention have commonly excluded it. Although Australia's Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) has acknowledged women's special protection needs with instruments such as the Guidelines on Gender Issues for Decision Makers (DIAC 1996, 2010),…
Scope-shifting: Bureaucracy, Energy Justice and the Dakota Access Pipeline
Through a study of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) environmental assessment (EA) of the Dakota Access Pipeline's crossing of Lake Oahe near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, this paper explores regulatory agencies’ “interpretive implementation.” We find that, in implementing the National Environmental Policy Act and Executive Order 12898 on Environmental Justice, USACE “scope-shifted”—facultatively expanding and contracting the scope…
Global Standards, Corporate Diagrams and Indigenous Agency: ExxonMobil in Russia and Alaska
This paper examines how a transnational corporation (TNC) translates global standards and corporate policies into programs at sites of extraction. We explore this question through a comparative analysis of ExxonMobil’s operations in two different politico-economic contexts: the Sakhalin-1 project in Russia and the Point Thomson project on the North Slope of Alaska, with field work on Sakhalin Island in 2013–2015 and in Alaska in 2015–2018. Theore…
Enforcement encourages participation in resource management: Explaining a fisheries management paradox in Hawaii
This paper uses a case study of fisheries co‐management in Hawaii to explore barriers to community participation in resource management and the reasons for these impediments. Our study suggests that while fishers may disobey regulations to maximise personal gain, they may also understand the necessity for regulations and desire more stringent enforcement. This seeming paradox reflects the tension between a recognised need to conserve resources th…
Integrating Indigenous Resource Management with Wildlife Conservation: A Case Study of Batang Ai National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia
Perceptions of Nature and Responses to Environmental Degradation in New Caledonia
The history of the Kanak is inscribed in their landscape's features, which commemorate the passage and adventures of human and spiritual ancestors. Kanak speak of their natural surroundings as forming an essential part of their cultural heritage. Some young Kanak blame Western economic activities for environmental degradation, which they link to the loss of their culture. Kanak statements and actions concerning nature and the environment relate t…
Daily, Immediate Conflicts: An Analysis of Villagers' Arguments about a Multinational Nickel Mining Project in New Caledonia1
Local communities are not the homogenous entities, unanimously opposed to industrial development, that academic and popular literature often portray them to be. In this paper, I discuss my research in New Caledonian villages near a potential mining project. I analyse the diversity of individuals' responses to industrial activities, the intra‐community conflicts that this development triggered or exacerbated, and the discourses that people impleme…
Anthropology and Environment Section
Conservation and the Social Sciences
La micropolitique de la mine en Nouvelle-Calédonie: Analyse des conflits autour d’un projet minier au sein d’une communauté kanak
Cet article examine la micropolitique, au sein d'une communauté kanak, relative à un projet minier. Vu son importance politique et économique, les résidants locaux ont approuvé le projet dans l'ensemble. Des disputes ont cependant éclaté au sein des villages autour du massif. Dans le monde kanak, le prestige est acquis par la capacité de se dire membre d'un clan parmi les premiers arrivés dans un lieu, et donc en mesure de prendre toute décision …
Converging Networks and Clashing Stories: South Africa's Agricultural Biotechnology Debate
The debate over agricultural biotechnology in South Africa is not only polarized, but also complicated by the increasingly blurry boundaries of food governance. This was particularly apparent during the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), held in Johannesburg in August 2002. This article explores how the politics and policies surrounding genetic modification (GM) in South Africa have taken shape within a range of overlapping transnati…
Destroying God’s Creation or Using What He Provided: Cultural Models of a Mining Project in New Caledonia
Large-scale surveys have identified a negative association between Christian fundamentalism and environmental concern. In contrast to this broad-brush approach, I used a cultural models framework, informed by political ecology, to examine the statements of a small sample of fundamentalist Kanak villagers about their reactions to a particular instance of potential environmental degradation in New Caledonia (South Pacific) in the form of a multinat…
It's up to the clan to protect”: Cultural heritage and the micropolitical ecology of conservation in New Caledonia
This case study from New Caledonia explores the motivations of local people in initiating co-managed conservation projects on customary lands. Kanak villagers viewed “conservation” largely as a means of reinforcing their cultural identity through preservation of their cultural heritage, grounded in the landscape. However, at the same time, they hoped to promote economic development. Ironically, thus, they found it necessary to welcome outside inf…
Environmental violence and crises of legitimacy in New Caledonia
Twenty years is yesterday”: Science, multinational mining, and the political ecology of trust in New Caledonia
Marginal Women, Marginal Rights: Impediments to Gender-Based Persecution Claims by Asylum-seeking Women in Australia
Women's experiences of violence often remain invisible or discounted in asylum law and practice. Gender is absent as an overt ground for protection under the Refugee Convention and readings of the Convention have commonly excluded it. Although Australia's Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) has acknowledged women's special protection needs with instruments such as the Guidelines on Gender Issues for Decision Makers (DIAC 1996, 2010),…
Interpreting Industry's Impacts: Micropolitical Ecologies of Divergent Community Responses
Where governments have failed to protect their citizens from the environmental and social impacts of industrial development, social movements have often arisen in response. However, other community members may defend — sometimes violently — the same corporations that are targeted by their peers. The contributions to this cluster explore some of the ways in which communities disagree about how to respond to the ecological impacts of industry, thei…
Translation Alignment: Actor‐Network Theory, Resistance, and the Power Dynamics of Alliance in New Caledonia
This study of resistance to multinational mining in New Caledonia expands actor‐network theory's concept of translation by exploring ways that power dynamics affect alliances and the translations that both support and challenge them. Examining relationships among an indigenous protest group, environmentalist grassroots organizations, a human rights lawyer, the mining company, and the provincial government, I argue that power often requires allian…
Power, Profit, Protest: Grassroots Resistance to Industry in the Global North
Toward Empathic Agonism: Conflicting Vulnerabilities in Urban Wetland Governance
Critics of attempts to achieve consensus through Habermasian 'communicative rationality' dismiss this as unachievable due to participants' selfishness and irrationality, and the inevitability of power relations. Instead, Mouffe advocates 'agonistic pluralism', a dynamic process of continual debate grounded in mutual respect. In this paper I argue that, for this to succeed, we need to recognize and embrace the role of emotion in moral reasoning. H…
Beliefs about Ecological Impacts Predict Deer Acceptance Capacity and Hunting Support
Ecological impacts of deer overbrowsing often lead resource managers to recommend deer control through hunting, which may be strongly opposed by local residents. Adaptive impact management argues that understanding wildlife impacts of concern to the public can improve wildlife management. However, research on public wildlife acceptance capacity for deer, and on support for hunting, has emphasized concerns about household impacts and deer well-bei…
Culturally articulated neoliberalisation: Corporate social responsibility and the capture of indigenous legitimacy in New Caledonia
This paper expands our understandings of corporate social responsibility ( CSR ) as a form of roll‐out neoliberalism, building on analyses of CSR initiatives as elements of a capitalist system actively working to create its own social regularisation – to secure a socio‐politico‐economic context supporting capitalist development. Using an ethnographic analysis of the rise and fall of an indigenous protest group that targeted a multinational mining…
Cap Bocage: When a mountain fell into the sea
This documentary by Jim Marbrook, a filmmaker and television studies lecturer from Auckland, opens with the view from a helicopter flying along a coastline in New Caledonia, a French possession in
Enforcement encourages participation in resource management: Explaining a fisheries management paradox in Hawaii
This paper uses a case study of fisheries co‐management in Hawaii to explore barriers to community participation in resource management and the reasons for these impediments. Our study suggests that while fishers may disobey regulations to maximise personal gain, they may also understand the necessity for regulations and desire more stringent enforcement. This seeming paradox reflects the tension between a recognised need to conserve resources th…
Rhizomic Resistance Meets Arborescent Assemblage: Unesco World Heritage and the Disempowerment of Indigenous Activism in New Caledonia
This article draws on Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of arborescent and rhizomic assemblages to examine encounters between large-scale conservation and grassroots resistance to industry. I explore how the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) World Heritage listing of New Caledonia's reefs contributed to the demise of Rhéébù Nùù, an indigenous activist group that had been targeting a multinational mining pro…
Power, cooptation, and the multiplicity of response assemblages: An example from New Caledonia
This commentary provides an empirical example that supports Briassoulis’s ‘response assemblage’ (RA) conceptualization but also suggests an extension of this framework. It uses an example of different approaches to protecting New Caledonia’s coral reefs—the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s World Heritage List and Rhéébù Nùù, an indigenous group targeting a multinational mining and refinery project—to demonstrate …
It shocks me, the place of women’: Intersectionality and mining companies’ retrogradation of indigenous women in New Caledonia
Indigenous women’s social positionings are complex and dynamic, informed by culture and post-colonial politics; gender and ethnicity intersect with age, socio-economic status, and social hierarchies. This article uses an ethnographic study of Kanak women’s engagements with mining in New Caledonia, to examine three questions. First, how do indigenous women’s dynamic social positionings shape their possibilities for negotiation with and resistance …
Indigenous peoples’ relationships to large-scale mining in post/colonial contexts: Toward multidisciplinary comparative perspectives
Indigenous-led grassroots engagements with oil pipelines in the U.S. and Russia: The NoDapl and Komi movements
Networks play an important role in the Indigenous rights movement’s strategies and in Indigenous groups’ engagements with industry actors, the State, and NGOs. We seek to extend the concept of Governance Generating Networks (GGN) to incorporate Indigenous grassroots movements, and evaluate multiscale interactions and processes of network-generated governance across scales. We compare the NoDAPL movement led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in the…
Political science (22 works) · Law (20 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Mining and Resource Management (16 works) · Politics (14 works) · Ecology (13 works) · Indigenous (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Geography (11 works) · Environmental ethics (10 works)