Noah Theriault
Biographic Data
| ID | 88436 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noah Theriault |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noah |
| FAMILY NAME | Theriault |
| SIGNATURE | THERIAULT N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carnegie Mellon University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0727-8799 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Weaponizing Nature, Naturalizing Violence: Anthropologies of Ecofascism
After decades of denial and obstruction, the global Right is increasingly willing to acknowledge that climate change is a threat to lives and lifeways everywhere. Moreover, some seize on the specter of ecological collapse to advance fascistic politics. Mass shootings by White men who propose that eliminating racialized people will ease environmental pressures—including in Christchurch and El Paso—have been the most spectacular manifestations of t…
Eco-fascism or the everyday churn of late capitalism
Postcolonial Configurations: Dictatorship, the Racial Cold War, and Filipino America
What do the Marcos dictatorship, the Cold War, and Filipino American subjectivity have in common? In Postcolonial Configurations, Josen Masangkay Diaz argues that these historical phenomena are all rooted in a postcolonial liberal order that remains deeply racialized, extractive, and complicit with authoritarianism. How we remember and recount them, she suggests, implicates us in the ongoing making and unmaking of US geopolitical domination in th…
Panoptic na Pag-unlad”? On the Perils and Potentials of “Smart” Urbanism in Manila
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints is an internationally refereed journal that publishes scholarly articles and other materials on the history of the Philippines and its peoples, both in the homeland and overseas. It believes the past is illuminated by historians as well as scholars from other disciplines; at the same time, it prefers ethnographic approaches to the history of the present. It welcomes works that are theoret…
The Creatures Collective: Manifestings
This piece explores the work and entanglements of our research collective, formed in 2016. First, we collectively articulate the ethos and the motivations that inform the ways in which we labor to engage with complex, plural, multi-vocal experiences of extinction, "the Anthropocene," and earth violence as they are felt and known across the diverse communities we represent. Then, drawing on more than three years of work across relations that tie u…
Toxic Research: Political Ecologies and the Matter of Damage
In a world saturated by toxic substances, the plight of exposed populations has figured prominently in a transdisciplinary body of work that we call political ecologies of toxics. This has, in turn, sparked concerns about the unintended consequences of what Eve Tuck calls "damage-centered research," which can magnify the very harms it seeks to mitigate. Here, we examine what political ecologists have done to address these concerns. Beginning with…
Living protocols: Remaking Worlds in the Face of Extinction
We are members of the Creatures Collective, a transnational group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, activists, artists, and communities who are collaborating to challenge the world-breaking violence of extinction by directly and collaboratively fostering alternatives to the dominant biodiversity-conservation paradigm. In this collection, we ask how, as co-researchers with(in) Indigenous communities, we can contribute to the remaking of r…
Concealing protocols: Conservation, Indigenous survivance, and the dilemmas of visibility
In an effort to recast themselves as proponents of human rights, transnational conservation organizations increasingly look to Indigenous communities as sources of labour, knowledge, and legitimacy. In many cases, the resulting relationships are fraught with stark power imbalances and premised on flawed understandings of Indigenous practices. As a result, even the most 'people-centered' conservation interventions too often serve to accelerate the…
Unravelling the strings attached: Philippine indigeneity in law and practice
After the fall of the Marcos regime in 1986, Philippine policymakers became the first in Asia to recognise indigeneity and Indigenous rights. By law, Indigenous groups throughout the archipelago now have priority rights to their ‘ancestral domains’, but in return they are expected to maintain an ‘ecological balance’ and cooperate with environmental regulations. As in many other parts of the world, the conditionalities of recognition mean that inv…
A forest of dreams: Ontological multiplicity and the fantasies of environmental government in the Philippines
How do invisible beings in the forested hinterlands complicate the work of bureaucrats in the capital? What do dreams and the beings who visit them have to do with state power? Despite a deepening commitment to posthumanism, political ecologists have rarely opened our accounts of more-than-human assemblages to what have conventionally been termed "supernatural" or "metaphysical" forms of agency. To counter this lingering ethnocentrism, I argue he…
(Inter)facing the Anthropocene: Representing an Interdisciplinary Interaction
(Inter)facing the AnthropoceneRepresenting an Interdisciplinary Interaction Zev Trachtenberg (bio), Antonio J. Castro (bio), Kiza Gates (bio), Asa Randall (bio), Ingo Schlupp (bio), Lynn Soreghan (bio), Noah Theriault (bio), and Meghan Wieters (bio) Introduction Click for larger view View full resolution http://habitationanthropocene.oucreate.com This article presents a project that explored the question: How shall we talk about the Anthropocene?…
The political ecology of conservation, social change and dispossession on a Philippine frontier - By Wolfram Heinz: Book Reviews
The Micropolitics of Indigenous Environmental Movements in the Philippines: Indigenous Environmental Movements in the Philippines
Indigenous movements face what Stuart Kirsch has called the ‘risks of counterglobalization’, which can distort their objectives into an all-or-nothing position with respect to development. In this contribution, I explore a case from the Philippines, where a movement originally conceived in terms of indigenous rights grew to include a more diverse mix of constituents and claims. This trajectory has made the movement vulnerable to charges of inauth…
The Moral Force of Indigenous Politics: Critical Liberalism and the Zapatistas by Courtney Jung
A forest of dreams: Ontological multiplicity and the fantasies of environmental government in the Philippines
How do invisible beings in the forested hinterlands complicate the work of bureaucrats in the capital? What do dreams and the beings who visit them have to do with state power? Despite a deepening commitment to posthumanism, political ecologists have rarely opened our accounts of more-than-human assemblages to what have conventionally been termed "supernatural" or "metaphysical" forms of agency. To counter this lingering ethnocentrism, I argue he…
The Creatures Collective: Manifestings
This piece explores the work and entanglements of our research collective, formed in 2016. First, we collectively articulate the ethos and the motivations that inform the ways in which we labor to engage with complex, plural, multi-vocal experiences of extinction, "the Anthropocene," and earth violence as they are felt and known across the diverse communities we represent. Then, drawing on more than three years of work across relations that tie u…
Concealing protocols: Conservation, Indigenous survivance, and the dilemmas of visibility
In an effort to recast themselves as proponents of human rights, transnational conservation organizations increasingly look to Indigenous communities as sources of labour, knowledge, and legitimacy. In many cases, the resulting relationships are fraught with stark power imbalances and premised on flawed understandings of Indigenous practices. As a result, even the most 'people-centered' conservation interventions too often serve to accelerate the…
Living protocols: Remaking Worlds in the Face of Extinction
We are members of the Creatures Collective, a transnational group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, activists, artists, and communities who are collaborating to challenge the world-breaking violence of extinction by directly and collaboratively fostering alternatives to the dominant biodiversity-conservation paradigm. In this collection, we ask how, as co-researchers with(in) Indigenous communities, we can contribute to the remaking of r…
The Micropolitics of Indigenous Environmental Movements in the Philippines: Indigenous Environmental Movements in the Philippines
Indigenous movements face what Stuart Kirsch has called the ‘risks of counterglobalization’, which can distort their objectives into an all-or-nothing position with respect to development. In this contribution, I explore a case from the Philippines, where a movement originally conceived in terms of indigenous rights grew to include a more diverse mix of constituents and claims. This trajectory has made the movement vulnerable to charges of inauth…
Toxic Research: Political Ecologies and the Matter of Damage
In a world saturated by toxic substances, the plight of exposed populations has figured prominently in a transdisciplinary body of work that we call political ecologies of toxics. This has, in turn, sparked concerns about the unintended consequences of what Eve Tuck calls "damage-centered research," which can magnify the very harms it seeks to mitigate. Here, we examine what political ecologists have done to address these concerns. Beginning with…
Unravelling the strings attached: Philippine indigeneity in law and practice
After the fall of the Marcos regime in 1986, Philippine policymakers became the first in Asia to recognise indigeneity and Indigenous rights. By law, Indigenous groups throughout the archipelago now have priority rights to their ‘ancestral domains’, but in return they are expected to maintain an ‘ecological balance’ and cooperate with environmental regulations. As in many other parts of the world, the conditionalities of recognition mean that inv…
Eco-fascism or the everyday churn of late capitalism
Panoptic na Pag-unlad”? On the Perils and Potentials of “Smart” Urbanism in Manila
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints is an internationally refereed journal that publishes scholarly articles and other materials on the history of the Philippines and its peoples, both in the homeland and overseas. It believes the past is illuminated by historians as well as scholars from other disciplines; at the same time, it prefers ethnographic approaches to the history of the present. It welcomes works that are theoret…
The Moral Force of Indigenous Politics: Critical Liberalism and the Zapatistas by Courtney Jung
The political ecology of conservation, social change and dispossession on a Philippine frontier - By Wolfram Heinz: Book Reviews
The Micropolitics of Indigenous Environmental Movements in the Philippines: Indigenous Environmental Movements in the Philippines
Indigenous movements face what Stuart Kirsch has called the ‘risks of counterglobalization’, which can distort their objectives into an all-or-nothing position with respect to development. In this contribution, I explore a case from the Philippines, where a movement originally conceived in terms of indigenous rights grew to include a more diverse mix of constituents and claims. This trajectory has made the movement vulnerable to charges of inauth…
A forest of dreams: Ontological multiplicity and the fantasies of environmental government in the Philippines
How do invisible beings in the forested hinterlands complicate the work of bureaucrats in the capital? What do dreams and the beings who visit them have to do with state power? Despite a deepening commitment to posthumanism, political ecologists have rarely opened our accounts of more-than-human assemblages to what have conventionally been termed "supernatural" or "metaphysical" forms of agency. To counter this lingering ethnocentrism, I argue he…
(Inter)facing the Anthropocene: Representing an Interdisciplinary Interaction
(Inter)facing the AnthropoceneRepresenting an Interdisciplinary Interaction Zev Trachtenberg (bio), Antonio J. Castro (bio), Kiza Gates (bio), Asa Randall (bio), Ingo Schlupp (bio), Lynn Soreghan (bio), Noah Theriault (bio), and Meghan Wieters (bio) Introduction Click for larger view View full resolution http://habitationanthropocene.oucreate.com This article presents a project that explored the question: How shall we talk about the Anthropocene?…
Unravelling the strings attached: Philippine indigeneity in law and practice
After the fall of the Marcos regime in 1986, Philippine policymakers became the first in Asia to recognise indigeneity and Indigenous rights. By law, Indigenous groups throughout the archipelago now have priority rights to their ‘ancestral domains’, but in return they are expected to maintain an ‘ecological balance’ and cooperate with environmental regulations. As in many other parts of the world, the conditionalities of recognition mean that inv…
Living protocols: Remaking Worlds in the Face of Extinction
We are members of the Creatures Collective, a transnational group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, activists, artists, and communities who are collaborating to challenge the world-breaking violence of extinction by directly and collaboratively fostering alternatives to the dominant biodiversity-conservation paradigm. In this collection, we ask how, as co-researchers with(in) Indigenous communities, we can contribute to the remaking of r…
Concealing protocols: Conservation, Indigenous survivance, and the dilemmas of visibility
In an effort to recast themselves as proponents of human rights, transnational conservation organizations increasingly look to Indigenous communities as sources of labour, knowledge, and legitimacy. In many cases, the resulting relationships are fraught with stark power imbalances and premised on flawed understandings of Indigenous practices. As a result, even the most 'people-centered' conservation interventions too often serve to accelerate the…
The Creatures Collective: Manifestings
This piece explores the work and entanglements of our research collective, formed in 2016. First, we collectively articulate the ethos and the motivations that inform the ways in which we labor to engage with complex, plural, multi-vocal experiences of extinction, "the Anthropocene," and earth violence as they are felt and known across the diverse communities we represent. Then, drawing on more than three years of work across relations that tie u…
Toxic Research: Political Ecologies and the Matter of Damage
In a world saturated by toxic substances, the plight of exposed populations has figured prominently in a transdisciplinary body of work that we call political ecologies of toxics. This has, in turn, sparked concerns about the unintended consequences of what Eve Tuck calls "damage-centered research," which can magnify the very harms it seeks to mitigate. Here, we examine what political ecologists have done to address these concerns. Beginning with…
Panoptic na Pag-unlad”? On the Perils and Potentials of “Smart” Urbanism in Manila
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints is an internationally refereed journal that publishes scholarly articles and other materials on the history of the Philippines and its peoples, both in the homeland and overseas. It believes the past is illuminated by historians as well as scholars from other disciplines; at the same time, it prefers ethnographic approaches to the history of the present. It welcomes works that are theoret…
Postcolonial Configurations: Dictatorship, the Racial Cold War, and Filipino America
What do the Marcos dictatorship, the Cold War, and Filipino American subjectivity have in common? In Postcolonial Configurations, Josen Masangkay Diaz argues that these historical phenomena are all rooted in a postcolonial liberal order that remains deeply racialized, extractive, and complicit with authoritarianism. How we remember and recount them, she suggests, implicates us in the ongoing making and unmaking of US geopolitical domination in th…
Weaponizing Nature, Naturalizing Violence: Anthropologies of Ecofascism
After decades of denial and obstruction, the global Right is increasingly willing to acknowledge that climate change is a threat to lives and lifeways everywhere. Moreover, some seize on the specter of ecological collapse to advance fascistic politics. Mass shootings by White men who propose that eliminating racialized people will ease environmental pressures—including in Christchurch and El Paso—have been the most spectacular manifestations of t…
Eco-fascism or the everyday churn of late capitalism
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Environmental ethics (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Indigenous (6 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works)