Life Beyond Ruin: Toward an Environmental Justice Energy Ethic

▲Speaker─Dr. Dana Powell
Visiting Associate Professor,Center for International Indigenous Affairs,National Dong Hwa University
Associate Professor,Department of Anthropology,Appalachian State University/Boone,North Carolina
▲Date ─ 2021.12.07 (Tue) 1-3 p.m
▲Venue ─ 101 Conference room,CHSS building,TMU
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Dr. Dana Powell is an environmental anthropologist who studies the cultural politics of energy infrastructure in rural and indigenous communities. Her commitment to environmental justice is grounded in feminist and indigenous political ecology, decolonial theory, phenomenology, and collaborative ethnography. Powell is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Appalachian State University in western North Carolina, USA, and is currently a 2021-2022 MOST Visiting Associate Professor in the Center for International Indigenous Affairs, College of Indigenous Studies, National Dong Hwa University in Taiwan. She lives on the NDHU campus in Shoufeng, with her spouse medical anthropologist Eric Karchmer, three young sons, and Formosan mountain dog, Chi-Chi.