David Chang
Biographic Data
| ID | 796146 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Chang |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Chang |
| SIGNATURE | CHANG D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6851-9261 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Evaporative coolers and wildfire smoke exposure: A climate justice issue in hot, dry regions
Low-income families in dry regions, including in the Southwestern United States, frequently cool their homes with evaporative (“swamp”) coolers (ECs). While inexpensive and energy efficient compared to central air conditioners, ECs pull unfiltered outdoor air into the home, creating a health hazard to occupants when wildfire smoke and heat events coincide. A community-engaged research project to reduce wildfire smoke in homes was conducted in Cal…
A field guide to climate anxiety: How to keep your cool on a warming planet, by Sarah Jacquette Ray
In September, 2019, Greta Thunberg delivered an impassioned speech at the United Nations. Fighting through tears of indignation, Thunberg excoriated world leaders for their inaction on climate chan
Albrecht, “Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World”
Reclaiming Kalākaua: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on a Hawaiian Sovereign by Tiffany Lani Ing
Reviewed by: Reclaiming Kalākaua: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on a Hawaiian Sovereign by Tiffany Lani Ing David A. Chang (bio) Reclaiming Kalākaua: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on a Hawaiian Sovereign by Tiffany Lani Ing University of Hawai'i Press, 2019 FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY to the present day, depictions of the Hawaiian monarchs have been closely tied to depictions of the Hawaiian Kingdom and even the Hawaiian lāhui (the Hawaiian n…
Separation and Unity: Zen Koan in Environmental Theory and Education
The ecological crisis has been traced to a rupture in the human-nature relationship, which sees the natural world as inert materials that serve human utility. This prevailing sense of separation is thoroughly embedded in Western culture through engrained metaphors that reinforce a view of the Earth as a subject of human mastery. To counter the disjuncture between humans and nature, some theorists have suggested a unitive view of nature, while oth…
Be the village: Exploring the ethics of having children
The rapid increase in human population is one of the underlying factors driving the ecological crisis. Despite efforts on the part of educators to raise awareness of environmental issues, the ecological impact of a burgeoning population – and the ethical implications of having children – remains an unbroachable topic. Nevertheless, the increase in human numbers is central to questions of sustainability: How can a species expect to survive in a fi…
To whom does this place belong? Whiteness and diversity in outdoor recreation and education
Dominant Western cultural narratives of the outdoors imbue ‘natural’ places as sites of recreation, adventure, and respite from an otherwise fast-paced ‘unnatural’ world. This paper explores the seeming lack of racial and ethnic diversity among advocates of outdoor leisure and education in Canada, a characteristic that may reflect the preponderance of white, middle-class constituents in mainstream environmental movements in the West. Through crit…
A Book of Ecological Virtues: Living Well in the Anthropocene
Despite our brief tenure on planet Earth, Homo sapiens have reached an epoch—the Anthropocene—that is characterised by our species’ uncanny ability to spoil our own nest. In the face of this somber reality of ecological degradation and massive species extinction, the editors ask the critical question, “What does living well look like in the Anthropocene?” It is vitally important that we turn towards the cultivation of eco-virtues, a new set of va…
Life of Blossom: Living Poetically in the Anthropocene
Scientists indicate that we are living in the Anthropocene, an epoch marked by unprecedented human impact on the planet. Our ecological predicament poses a significant challenge to human consciousness as we experience a pivotal moment in planetary history. Following the work of Mary Oliver, Carl Leggo, Kathleen Dean Moore, and other poetic luminaries, we consider what it means to live poetically in the Anthropocene, to experience beauty and meani…
Encounters with suchness: Contemplative wonder in environmental education
Much of the current literature on environmental education links the outdoors with experiences of wonder, which connotes a range of experiences from fascination to curiosity, excitement to delight. Most of these associations fall within a nexus of positive valences that render the discourse of wonder in glowing light. However, pedagogical recommendations that unfurl from ‘wonder’ can often reproduce anthropocentric attitudes toward the natural wor…
The Korean War Prisoners Who Chose Neutral Nations: An Introduction
At the end of the Korean War, 76 Korean and 12 Chinese prisoners of war ( pow s) refused to return to either side of their divided countries. Instead, they sought asylum in neutral nations that were yet to be determined. Situating this theme issue’s three articles in the larger Korean War historiography, this introduction provides a chronology of major events that culminated in the 88 pow s’ departure from Korea and voyage to India on 9 February …
Public Housing on the Periphery: Vulnerable Residents and Depleted Resilience Reserves post-Hurricane Sandy
The Good Written Word of Life: The Native Hawaiian Appropriation of Textuality
Native Hawaiians vigorously embraced the written word: Hawaiian was placed into a standardized written form by American missionaries working with Hawaiian converts in the 1820s, and a few decades later Hawai'i was one of the most literate nations in the world. Why did Native Hawaiians show such enthusiasm for written language? The Hawaiian commitment to texts did not begin with the arrival of missionaries among them; in fact, Hawaiians' appreciat…
The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration
What if we were to understand indigenous people as the active agents of global exploration, rather than the passive objects of that exploration? What could such a new perspective on the project of global exploration reveal about the meaning of geographical understanding and its place in struggles over power in the context of colonialism? The World and All the Things upon It addresses these questions by tracing how Kānaka Maoli (indigenous Hawaiia…
Diminishing footprints: Exploring the local and global challenges to place-based environmental education
An efficacious response to the ecological crisis requires a thorough examination of our material entitlements and a willingness to reduce our ecological impact by diminishing current levels of consumption. Drawing on the example of air pollution in China, I present a case for the reduction of consumption and impact as a worthy outcome of place-based environmental education. I consider the challenges that place-based educators face in initiating a…
Indigenous Biography, Genealogy, and Webs of Relation
Indigenous Biography, Genealogy, and Webs of Relation David A. Chang (bio) A response to K. Tsianina Lomawaima, "A Principle of Relativity through Indigenous Biography." Biography 39.3 (Summer 2016): 248–69 Two of the things that fascinate me about Tsianina Lomawaima's powerful piece are the ways she invokes the relationship of the individual to the collective (in the metaphor of the constellation), and the ways that Indigenous biography connects…
We Will Be Comparable to the Indian Peoples”: Recognizing Likeness between Native Hawaiians and American Indians, 1834–1923
This article identifies nineteenth-century Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) thought about American Indians as an important element in the development of the contemporary Hawaiian sense of Kānaka as part of a broader world of Indigenous people in resistance to colonialism. A Kanaka recognition of Hawaiians’ own likeness to American Indians emerged from a series of overlapping shifts in the representation of Indians in Hawaiian-language texts. Since …
Borderlands in a World at Sea: Concow Indians, Native Hawaiians, and South Chinese in Indigenous, Global, and National Spaces
Journal Article Borderlands in a World at Sea: Concow Indians, Native Hawaiians, and South Chinese in Indigenous, Global, and National Spaces Get access David A. Chang David A. Chang David A. Chang is associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 98, Issue 2, September 2011, Pages 384–403, https://doi.org/…
An Equal Interest in the Soil: Creek Small-Scale Farming and the Work of Nationhood, 1866-1889
An Equal Interest in the Soil":Creek Small-Scale Farming and the Work of Nationhood, 1866–1889 David A. Chang (bio) One day in 1866 the McIntosh family learned that they were free. Prior to that day Jackson and Hagar McIntosh and their eight children had labored for their owner, Roley McIntosh. He was the micco (generally translated as "king") of the town of Coweta in the Creek Nation in present day Oklahoma. Roley McIntosh, like some of the weal…
Where Will the Nation Be at Home? Race, Nationalisms, and Emigration Movements in the Creek Nation
Claiming Kin
Bedouin Arab mothers' aspirations for their children's education in the context of radical social change
Seasonality of births among Bedouin Arabs residing in the Negev Desert of Israel
From 1 January 1981 to 31 December 1982 information on all births to Bedouin Arab women residing in the Negev Desert of Israel showed a previously unreported seasonal pattern. The peak season, November-February, coincided with the period of cool temperatures and the Bedouin Arab cultural seasons of winter and spring. This pattern is different from those of Jewish and Christian groups in the same region, a difference not attributable to religion a…
To whom does this place belong? Whiteness and diversity in outdoor recreation and education
Dominant Western cultural narratives of the outdoors imbue ‘natural’ places as sites of recreation, adventure, and respite from an otherwise fast-paced ‘unnatural’ world. This paper explores the seeming lack of racial and ethnic diversity among advocates of outdoor leisure and education in Canada, a characteristic that may reflect the preponderance of white, middle-class constituents in mainstream environmental movements in the West. Through crit…
Public Housing on the Periphery: Vulnerable Residents and Depleted Resilience Reserves post-Hurricane Sandy
Borderlands in a World at Sea: Concow Indians, Native Hawaiians, and South Chinese in Indigenous, Global, and National Spaces
Journal Article Borderlands in a World at Sea: Concow Indians, Native Hawaiians, and South Chinese in Indigenous, Global, and National Spaces Get access David A. Chang David A. Chang David A. Chang is associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 98, Issue 2, September 2011, Pages 384–403, https://doi.org/…
Encounters with suchness: Contemplative wonder in environmental education
Much of the current literature on environmental education links the outdoors with experiences of wonder, which connotes a range of experiences from fascination to curiosity, excitement to delight. Most of these associations fall within a nexus of positive valences that render the discourse of wonder in glowing light. However, pedagogical recommendations that unfurl from ‘wonder’ can often reproduce anthropocentric attitudes toward the natural wor…
Diminishing footprints: Exploring the local and global challenges to place-based environmental education
An efficacious response to the ecological crisis requires a thorough examination of our material entitlements and a willingness to reduce our ecological impact by diminishing current levels of consumption. Drawing on the example of air pollution in China, I present a case for the reduction of consumption and impact as a worthy outcome of place-based environmental education. I consider the challenges that place-based educators face in initiating a…
We Will Be Comparable to the Indian Peoples”: Recognizing Likeness between Native Hawaiians and American Indians, 1834–1923
This article identifies nineteenth-century Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) thought about American Indians as an important element in the development of the contemporary Hawaiian sense of Kānaka as part of a broader world of Indigenous people in resistance to colonialism. A Kanaka recognition of Hawaiians’ own likeness to American Indians emerged from a series of overlapping shifts in the representation of Indians in Hawaiian-language texts. Since …
An Equal Interest in the Soil: Creek Small-Scale Farming and the Work of Nationhood, 1866-1889
An Equal Interest in the Soil":Creek Small-Scale Farming and the Work of Nationhood, 1866–1889 David A. Chang (bio) One day in 1866 the McIntosh family learned that they were free. Prior to that day Jackson and Hagar McIntosh and their eight children had labored for their owner, Roley McIntosh. He was the micco (generally translated as "king") of the town of Coweta in the Creek Nation in present day Oklahoma. Roley McIntosh, like some of the weal…
Bedouin Arab mothers' aspirations for their children's education in the context of radical social change
Seasonality of births among Bedouin Arabs residing in the Negev Desert of Israel
From 1 January 1981 to 31 December 1982 information on all births to Bedouin Arab women residing in the Negev Desert of Israel showed a previously unreported seasonal pattern. The peak season, November-February, coincided with the period of cool temperatures and the Bedouin Arab cultural seasons of winter and spring. This pattern is different from those of Jewish and Christian groups in the same region, a difference not attributable to religion a…
Bedouin Arab mothers' aspirations for their children's education in the context of radical social change
Where Will the Nation Be at Home? Race, Nationalisms, and Emigration Movements in the Creek Nation
Claiming Kin
An Equal Interest in the Soil: Creek Small-Scale Farming and the Work of Nationhood, 1866-1889
An Equal Interest in the Soil":Creek Small-Scale Farming and the Work of Nationhood, 1866–1889 David A. Chang (bio) One day in 1866 the McIntosh family learned that they were free. Prior to that day Jackson and Hagar McIntosh and their eight children had labored for their owner, Roley McIntosh. He was the micco (generally translated as "king") of the town of Coweta in the Creek Nation in present day Oklahoma. Roley McIntosh, like some of the weal…
Borderlands in a World at Sea: Concow Indians, Native Hawaiians, and South Chinese in Indigenous, Global, and National Spaces
Journal Article Borderlands in a World at Sea: Concow Indians, Native Hawaiians, and South Chinese in Indigenous, Global, and National Spaces Get access David A. Chang David A. Chang David A. Chang is associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 98, Issue 2, September 2011, Pages 384–403, https://doi.org/…
We Will Be Comparable to the Indian Peoples”: Recognizing Likeness between Native Hawaiians and American Indians, 1834–1923
This article identifies nineteenth-century Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) thought about American Indians as an important element in the development of the contemporary Hawaiian sense of Kānaka as part of a broader world of Indigenous people in resistance to colonialism. A Kanaka recognition of Hawaiians’ own likeness to American Indians emerged from a series of overlapping shifts in the representation of Indians in Hawaiian-language texts. Since …
The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration
What if we were to understand indigenous people as the active agents of global exploration, rather than the passive objects of that exploration? What could such a new perspective on the project of global exploration reveal about the meaning of geographical understanding and its place in struggles over power in the context of colonialism? The World and All the Things upon It addresses these questions by tracing how Kānaka Maoli (indigenous Hawaiia…
Diminishing footprints: Exploring the local and global challenges to place-based environmental education
An efficacious response to the ecological crisis requires a thorough examination of our material entitlements and a willingness to reduce our ecological impact by diminishing current levels of consumption. Drawing on the example of air pollution in China, I present a case for the reduction of consumption and impact as a worthy outcome of place-based environmental education. I consider the challenges that place-based educators face in initiating a…
Indigenous Biography, Genealogy, and Webs of Relation
Indigenous Biography, Genealogy, and Webs of Relation David A. Chang (bio) A response to K. Tsianina Lomawaima, "A Principle of Relativity through Indigenous Biography." Biography 39.3 (Summer 2016): 248–69 Two of the things that fascinate me about Tsianina Lomawaima's powerful piece are the ways she invokes the relationship of the individual to the collective (in the metaphor of the constellation), and the ways that Indigenous biography connects…
Public Housing on the Periphery: Vulnerable Residents and Depleted Resilience Reserves post-Hurricane Sandy
The Good Written Word of Life: The Native Hawaiian Appropriation of Textuality
Native Hawaiians vigorously embraced the written word: Hawaiian was placed into a standardized written form by American missionaries working with Hawaiian converts in the 1820s, and a few decades later Hawai'i was one of the most literate nations in the world. Why did Native Hawaiians show such enthusiasm for written language? The Hawaiian commitment to texts did not begin with the arrival of missionaries among them; in fact, Hawaiians' appreciat…
A Book of Ecological Virtues: Living Well in the Anthropocene
Despite our brief tenure on planet Earth, Homo sapiens have reached an epoch—the Anthropocene—that is characterised by our species’ uncanny ability to spoil our own nest. In the face of this somber reality of ecological degradation and massive species extinction, the editors ask the critical question, “What does living well look like in the Anthropocene?” It is vitally important that we turn towards the cultivation of eco-virtues, a new set of va…
Life of Blossom: Living Poetically in the Anthropocene
Scientists indicate that we are living in the Anthropocene, an epoch marked by unprecedented human impact on the planet. Our ecological predicament poses a significant challenge to human consciousness as we experience a pivotal moment in planetary history. Following the work of Mary Oliver, Carl Leggo, Kathleen Dean Moore, and other poetic luminaries, we consider what it means to live poetically in the Anthropocene, to experience beauty and meani…
Encounters with suchness: Contemplative wonder in environmental education
Much of the current literature on environmental education links the outdoors with experiences of wonder, which connotes a range of experiences from fascination to curiosity, excitement to delight. Most of these associations fall within a nexus of positive valences that render the discourse of wonder in glowing light. However, pedagogical recommendations that unfurl from ‘wonder’ can often reproduce anthropocentric attitudes toward the natural wor…
The Korean War Prisoners Who Chose Neutral Nations: An Introduction
At the end of the Korean War, 76 Korean and 12 Chinese prisoners of war ( pow s) refused to return to either side of their divided countries. Instead, they sought asylum in neutral nations that were yet to be determined. Situating this theme issue’s three articles in the larger Korean War historiography, this introduction provides a chronology of major events that culminated in the 88 pow s’ departure from Korea and voyage to India on 9 February …
Separation and Unity: Zen Koan in Environmental Theory and Education
The ecological crisis has been traced to a rupture in the human-nature relationship, which sees the natural world as inert materials that serve human utility. This prevailing sense of separation is thoroughly embedded in Western culture through engrained metaphors that reinforce a view of the Earth as a subject of human mastery. To counter the disjuncture between humans and nature, some theorists have suggested a unitive view of nature, while oth…
Be the village: Exploring the ethics of having children
The rapid increase in human population is one of the underlying factors driving the ecological crisis. Despite efforts on the part of educators to raise awareness of environmental issues, the ecological impact of a burgeoning population – and the ethical implications of having children – remains an unbroachable topic. Nevertheless, the increase in human numbers is central to questions of sustainability: How can a species expect to survive in a fi…
To whom does this place belong? Whiteness and diversity in outdoor recreation and education
Dominant Western cultural narratives of the outdoors imbue ‘natural’ places as sites of recreation, adventure, and respite from an otherwise fast-paced ‘unnatural’ world. This paper explores the seeming lack of racial and ethnic diversity among advocates of outdoor leisure and education in Canada, a characteristic that may reflect the preponderance of white, middle-class constituents in mainstream environmental movements in the West. Through crit…
Reclaiming Kalākaua: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on a Hawaiian Sovereign by Tiffany Lani Ing
Reviewed by: Reclaiming Kalākaua: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on a Hawaiian Sovereign by Tiffany Lani Ing David A. Chang (bio) Reclaiming Kalākaua: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on a Hawaiian Sovereign by Tiffany Lani Ing University of Hawai'i Press, 2019 FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY to the present day, depictions of the Hawaiian monarchs have been closely tied to depictions of the Hawaiian Kingdom and even the Hawaiian lāhui (the Hawaiian n…
A field guide to climate anxiety: How to keep your cool on a warming planet, by Sarah Jacquette Ray
In September, 2019, Greta Thunberg delivered an impassioned speech at the United Nations. Fighting through tears of indignation, Thunberg excoriated world leaders for their inaction on climate chan
Albrecht, “Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World”
Evaporative coolers and wildfire smoke exposure: A climate justice issue in hot, dry regions
Low-income families in dry regions, including in the Southwestern United States, frequently cool their homes with evaporative (“swamp”) coolers (ECs). While inexpensive and energy efficient compared to central air conditioners, ECs pull unfiltered outdoor air into the home, creating a health hazard to occupants when wildfire smoke and heat events coincide. A community-engaged research project to reduce wildfire smoke in homes was conducted in Cal…
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (14 works) · History (12 works) · Geography (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (7 works) · History (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Environmental ethics (6 works)