Dorothy C. Holland

August 2, 2011

Activities relevant to research on identity and environmentalism:

Publications:

Allen, K., V. Daro, and D. Holland. 2007. Becoming an environmental justice activist. In Environmental justice and environmentalism: The social justice challenge to the environmental movement, ed. R. Sandlerand P. Pezzullo, 105-134. Cambridge, Ma.: MIT Press.

Holland, D. 2003. Multiple identities in practice: On the dilemmas of being a hunter and an environmentalist in the USA. Special issue, Multiple Identifications and the Self, ed. T. van Meijl and H. Driesson. Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology 42: 23-41.

Kempton, W. and D. Holland. 2003. Identity and sustained environmental practice. In Identity and the natural environment: The psychological significance of nature, ed. S. Clayton and S. Opotow, 317-341. Cambridge, Ma.: The MIT Press.

Guldbrandsen, T. and D. Holland. 2001. Encounters with the supercitizen: Neoliberalism, environmental activism, and the American Heritage Rivers Initiative. Special issue, ed. Krista Harper. The Anthropological Quarterly 74(3):124-134.

Kempton, W., D. Holland, K. Bunting-Howarth, E. Hannan, and C. Payne. 2001. Local environmental groups: A systematic enumeration in two geographical areas. Rural Sociology 66(4), pp 557-578.

Kitchell, A, W. Kempton, D. Holland, and D. Tesch. 2000. Identities and actions within environmental groups. Human Ecology Review 7(2).

Recent conferences, lectures and papers:

2002Multiple identities in practice: On the difficulties of being Black and Green, a hunter and an environmentalist in US America. Keynote lecture, workshop on Multiple Identifications and the Self. University of Nijmegen, Netherlands, May 31.

2002Identities and environmental action. Invited lecture, Instituteof Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Lancaster, U.K., May 21.

2000Co-Organizer (with Arturo Escobar) of the session, Meaning, Subjects, and Networks: Environmental Social Movements and the Anthropology of Activism. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November.

2000Holland, D., K. Allen, and V. Daro. Cultural politics/intimate politics: Local activism and the production of environmental publics in the United States. Paper presented at the session, Meaning, Subjects, and Networks: Environmental Social Movements and the Anthropology of Activism. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November.

2000Framing issues and actors in environmental conflicts. Presentation for panel, The Media’s Role in Shaping Public Opinion. Conference on the Environment, Myths and Realities in Environmental Conflicts, Charleston, W. Va., October 12.

1999Co-Organizer (with Willett Kempton) of panel, New Social Movements and the Local: Developing Environmental Identities and Structures for Social Change. Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November.

1999Holland, D., and T. Gulbrandsen. Encounters with the Super Citizen: Neoliberalism and environmental activism in the United States. Paper presented at session, New Social Movements and the Local: Developing Environmental Identities and Structures for Social Change. Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November.

1999Identity and environmental struggles: The historical production of subjectivity in practice. Invited lecture, Program in Culture and Cognition, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., April 2.

1998Co-organizer of conference, Environmentalism and Social Justice in North Carolina. Chapel Hill, N.C., April 18.

1997 Black, poor, green: Environmentalism and the politics of exclusion. Invited, senior lecture at the Conference on Structuring Diversity, Institute of Anthropology, Copenhagen, Denmark, December 5-6.

1997Holland, D., and W. Kempton. Identity and environmental action: The U.S. environmental movement as a context of behavorial change. Invited lecture, Institute of Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, Md., March.

1996Holland, D., and W. Kempton. Identities and worlds of environmental action. Paper presented at the session, Energy and Environmental Policy: Global, National, and Local Tensions. Annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Baltimore, Md., March 28.

Grants and projects:

2005Carolina Environmental Program, Course Development Funds for updating Anthropology 06: Environmentalism and American Society.

1998 John T. Lupton Opportunities Fund (for Course Development), Environmental Consciousness and Action. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. $4,000.

1996-2002 National Science Foundation. Identity and Environmental Action: The U.S. Environmental Movement as a Context of Behavioral Change, $177,876, SRB# 9615505.