Victims of "adaptation": climate change, sacred mountains, and perverse resilience (open access)

Victims of "adaptation": climate change, sacred mountains, and perverse resilience

Article proposes the concept of "perverse adaptation", where one actor or institution's adaptation to climate change in fact produces aftershocks and secondary impacts upon other groups.
Date: January 4, 2019
Creator: Dunstan, Adam
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Review of Refugees of Shangri-La by Doria Bramante and Markus Weinfurter (open access)

Review of Refugees of Shangri-La by Doria Bramante and Markus Weinfurter

This article reviews the documentary film "Refugees of Shangri-La" by Doria Bramante and Markus Weinfurter.
Date: June 6, 2018
Creator: Nelson, Andrew S.
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Review of Caste and Kinship in a Modern Hindu Society: The Newar City of Lalitpur, Nepal by Mark Pickett (open access)

Review of Caste and Kinship in a Modern Hindu Society: The Newar City of Lalitpur, Nepal by Mark Pickett

This article reviews the book "Caste and Kinship in a Modern Hindu Society: The Newar City of Lalitpur, Nepal" by Mark Pickett.
Date: June 21, 2018
Creator: Nelson, Andrew S.
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Victims of "adaptation": climate change, sacred mountains, and perverse resilience (open access)

Victims of "adaptation": climate change, sacred mountains, and perverse resilience

This article proposes the concept of "perverse adaptation", where one actor or institution's adaptation to climate change in fact produces aftershocks and secondary impacts upon other groups. Drawing on ethnographic and sociolinguistic research in northern Arizona regarding artificial snowmaking at a ski resort on a sacred mountain, the author elucidates resort supporters' and others' attempts to frame snowmaking as a sustainable adaptation to drought (and, implicitly, climate change) while counterpoising these framings with narratives from local activists as well as Diné (Navajo) individuals.
Date: January 3, 2019
Creator: Dunstan, Adam
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Using a Partial Sum Method and GPS Tracking Data to Identify Area Restricted Search by Artisanal Fishers at Moored Fish Aggregating Devices in the Commonwealth of Dominica (open access)

Using a Partial Sum Method and GPS Tracking Data to Identify Area Restricted Search by Artisanal Fishers at Moored Fish Aggregating Devices in the Commonwealth of Dominica

This article explores research to identify area-restricted search foraging behavior at fish aggregating device (FAD) patches. Movement data were collected from GPS devices placed on foraging trips originating in the artisanal fishing village of Desa Ikan (pseudonym), on the east coast of the Caribbean island nation of the Commonwealth Dominica. The goal of the research is to understand how property rights are emerging after the introduction of fish aggregating device (FAD) technology at the site in 1999.
Date: February 3, 2015
Creator: Alvard, Michael; Carlson, David & McGaffey, Ethan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

User-Centered Design

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation discusses user-centered design for language archives.
Date: November 11, 2017
Creator: Wasson, Christina
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library