"Imagining a More Just World"

[Mark Schuller]

Hello all,

 

I can’t believe school has already started. I  hope people are finding balance, and reserving time for self-care as we lurch forward toward another school year. I think of this community often, how it sustained me in my journey.

 

And often we don’t read about activist anthropologists’ social justice journey.

 

If people have some time, and looking for inspiration or something to share with students as we’re struggling to put our current unease into words, Annals of Anthropological Practice *just* published an interview conducted by my Anthropology and Contemporary World Problems students based on Julie’s book, Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone. Many thanks not only to Julie but to Annals editor John Brett for not only taking a chance on this for the peer review process but his behind-the-scenes work in correcting omissions from the COVID-skeleton production crew.

 

Anyway it might be worth your read…  https://doi.org/10.1111/napa.12136

 

Do take good care everyone.  

 

In justice, and solidarity,

 

Mark Schuller, Professor

Anthropology and Center for Nonprofit and NGO Studies

Northern Illinois University

DeKalb, IL 60115

msch...@niu.edu

 

President, Haitian Studies Association 

 

http://www.anthropolitics.org

Twitter: @anthropolitiks

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/mark-schuller

http://potomitan.net/

 

 

[christi...@gmail.com]

Congrats, Julie!

 

Many thanks, Mark.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Human Rights/Social Justice Anthropologists" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to hrsjanthro+...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hrsjanthro/CH2PR04MB66954BAD13E2104D73BD6145A5540%40CH2PR04MB6695.namprd04.prod.outlook.com.

[Barbara Rose Johnston]

Thank you for your message. 

 I am unavailable to reply at the moment -- immersed in the reality of Santa Cruz mountain fire and related evacuation from my Fall Creek home.

With hopes of better days,

Barbara

[James Phillips]

Thank you Mark, Julie, and students. The work for social justice is at the core of our survival and creativity as humans.

Jim

 

--

[Kristina Peterson]

Wahoo for Julie!!!!

Lowlander Center

Supporting Lowland People and Places through 

Education, Advocacy and Applied Research
www.lowlandercenter.org

www.coastalresettlement.org
304-266-2517

 

---

From: hrsja...@googlegroups.com <hrsja...@googlegroups.com> on behalf of christi...@gmail.com <christi...@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 12:05 PM
To: hrsja...@googlegroups.com <hrsja...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: RE: "Imagining a More Just World"

 

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hrsjanthro/004401d67bcb%2416d873b0%2444895b10%24%40gmail.com.

[Sheila Dauer]

Hi Barbara

I was concerned to read about you needing to evacuate from your home due to the Fall Creek fire.  How are you and your family? I know you also had family and friends affected by the COVID virus.  I hope that has abated.   Has the fire been contained?  I look forward to hearing that you have some relief from these serious issues. 

Warmly

Sheila

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hrsjanthro/564121220.5664.1598466227374%40wamui-jasmine.atl.sa.earthlink.net.

[christi...@gmail.com]

Dear Barbara,

So sorry to learn that you must evacuate your home due to the Santa Cruz fire. I hope you will not lose your home and will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.

 

Best, Christine Ho

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hrsjanthro/564121220.5664.1598466227374%40wamui-jasmine.atl.sa.earthlink.net.

[Barbara Rose Johnston]

Dear Christine,

Thank you for your kind thoughts. I too hope the home survives in relatively livable condition. Surreal to be in this role after a lifetime of disaster response work from the other end of things. 

as ever

Barbara

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hrsjanthro/00e601d67bf0%24f6473e80%24e2d5bb80%24%40gmail.com.

[David Blake Willis]

Dear Barbara,

Sending you our prayers and healing spirits, too, from the Central Valley...

We are also affected by the fires... Air issues our side, with many losses nearby in the Vacaville area.

We are right below the flight path for the Fire Tankers take-off... One after another for more than a week now...


With Our Prayers,



David


David Blake Willis, PhD
Professor of Anthropology and Education
Faculty, HD-ODC | School of Leadership Studies
Fielding Graduate University
2020 De la Vina Street | Santa Barbara, CA 93105 USA
Tel: 650.278.1671
dwi...@fielding.edu | www.fielding.edu

________________________________________
From: hrsja...@googlegroups.com [hrsja...@googlegroups.com] on behalf of Barbara Rose Johnston [bjoh...@igc.org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 4:05 PM

msch...@niu.edu<mailto:msch...@niu.edu>

President, Haitian Studies Association<https://www.haitianstudies.org/>

http://www.anthropolitics.org<http://www.anthropolitics.org/>
Twitter: @anthropolitiks<http://www.twitter.com/anthropolitiks>

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/mark-schuller
http://potomitan.net/


--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Human Rights/Social Justice Anthropologists" group.

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to hrsjanthro+...@googlegroups.com<mailto:hrsjanthro+...@googlegroups.com>.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hrsjanthro/CH2PR04MB66954BAD13E2104D73BD6145A5540%40CH2PR04MB6695.namprd04.prod.outlook.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hrsjanthro/CH2PR04MB66954BAD13E2104D73BD6145A5540%40CH2PR04MB6695.namprd04.prod.outlook.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Human Rights/Social Justice Anthropologists" group.

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to hrsjanthro+...@googlegroups.com<mailto:hrsjanthro+...@googlegroups.com>.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hrsjanthro/564121220.5664.1598466227374%40wamui-jasmine.atl.sa.earthlink.net<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hrsjanthro/564121220.5664.1598466227374%40wamui-jasmine.atl.sa.earthlink.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Human Rights/Social Justice Anthropologists" group.

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to hrsjanthro+...@googlegroups.com<mailto:hrsjanthro+...@googlegroups.com>.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hrsjanthro/00e601d67bf0%24f6473e80%24e2d5bb80%24%40gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hrsjanthro/00e601d67bf0%24f6473e80%24e2d5bb80%24%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Human Rights/Social Justice Anthropologists" group.

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to hrsjanthro+...@googlegroups.com<mailto:hrsjanthro+...@googlegroups.com>.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hrsjanthro/1315665824.9809.1598483115651%40wamui-charming.atl.sa.earthlink.net<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hrsjanthro/1315665824.9809.1598483115651%40wamui-charming.atl.sa.earthlink.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>.

[Barbara Rose Johnston]

Thanks David! Very much appreciate the thoughts, prayers and shared experience. 

After so many decades of pervasive climate change denial I suspect there are few folks who now dismiss the unfolding reality…

Stay safe! 

Barbara

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to hrsjanthro+...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hrsjanthro/e0f2262a7dfa4b12a4863a705f34ae9f%40fielding.edu.

[Mark Schuller]

Oh dear. I was afraid of that. A couple other colleagues and family members have also had to evacuate. Wishing you peace and fortitude. Scary times indeed.

 

Hugs,

 

Mark Schuller, Professor

Anthropology and Center for Nonprofit and NGO Studies

Northern Illinois University

DeKalb, IL 60115

msch...@niu.edu

 

President, Haitian Studies Association 

 

http://www.anthropolitics.org

Twitter: @anthropolitiks

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/mark-schuller

http://potomitan.net/

 

 

From: hrsja...@googlegroups.com <hrsja...@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Barbara Rose Johnston
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 1:24 PM
To: hrsja...@googlegroups.com

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hrsjanthro/564121220.5664.1598466227374%40wamui-jasmine.atl.sa.earthlink.net.

[christi...@gmail.com]

Dear David,
I know you are in the thick of things too, especially with smoke/air issues. It must be hard to forget about it when you can hardly breathe and the Fire Tankers keep taking flight. Sending you my prayers too.

Hugs, Christine

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to hrsjanthro+...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hrsjanthro/e0f2262a7dfa4b12a4863a705f34ae9f%40fielding.edu.

[Sheila Dauer]

Hi Barbara

I wrote you when I first saw your repply to Mark but I am not sure you received it.  I hope that you and your family will be safe and that the fires will stay away from your house.  I am thinkig of you and wish I could do something concrete to help you.  Let me know if there is anything I can do.

Much love

Sheila

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 2:23 PM Barbara Rose Johnston <bjoh...@igc.org> wrote:

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hrsjanthro/564121220.5664.1598466227374%40wamui-jasmine.atl.sa.earthlink.net.

[Julie Maldonado]

Sending love, healing, and safety to all those facing immediate disaster threats, and multiple overlapping pandemics. Barbara, you know you got shelter and a home with us if decide to head south at all! We've had some blue skies peaking out once again here and feels like a whole new world of possibilities...

much love,

Julie

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hrsjanthro/CAKijv76-dkbQeG7nRfz%2Bv0P4ug5aQZdBn3-NGc8nq-RkaamYTQ%40mail.gmail.com.

[Kristina Peterson]

Glad you can give Barbara shelter.

The hurricane may go from a Cat 4 to a 5  (3 mph off from being a 5 ) 

by the time it hits tonight.  The physical destruction will take with it

many small communities that will not be able to come back.  The 

environmental disaster may outpace the physical damage-   massive

displacement, not just temporary but permanent.  

Kristina J Peterson

Lowlander Center

Supporting Lowland People and Places through 

Education, Advocacy and Applied Research
www.lowlandercenter.org

www.coastalresettlement.org
304-266-2517

 

---

From: hrsja...@googlegroups.com <hrsja...@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Julie Maldonado <jkm...@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 9:00 PM
To: hrsja...@googlegroups.com <hrsja...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: "Imagining a More Just World"

 

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hrsjanthro/CAECzttuAYX051LtnwMh3r%2Bm22ta2vxuk1n4vxPsJYBNvcT7WgA%40mail.gmail.com.

[David Blake Willis]

Thanks so much, Christine...

It is getting a little better... Thanks for asking... We may be able to get out of the house today for the first time since Aug 16.

Look here for California Fires from Space: https://mashable.com/article/california-fires-images-smoke-2020/... We are in Sacramento right in the path of all of the smoke...

Not to mention this, which breaks our hearts: https://www.facebook.com/pebblebeachcalifornia/photos/a.241607596737984/652231315675608/

More has to be done... We can all follow Dolores Huerta's lead....


With Our Prayers for Jacob Blake, Wisconsin, Louisiana/Texas, and All Those Affected by Covid-19,

David


David Blake Willis, PhD
Professor of Anthropology and Education
Faculty, HD-ODC | School of Leadership Studies
Fielding Graduate University
2020 De la Vina Street | Santa Barbara, CA 93105 USA
Tel: 650.278.1671
dwi...@fielding.edu | www.fielding.edu

________________________________________

From: hrsja...@googlegroups.com [hrsja...@googlegroups.com] on behalf of christi...@gmail.com [christi...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 6:39 PM

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hrsjanthro/012101d67c12%24f82a36e0%24e87ea4a0%24%40gmail.com.

[christi...@gmail.com]

Kristina,

Wishing you and everyone in Louisiana good luck and safety and only minor damage. I live in hurricane country also.

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hrsjanthro/BY5PR17MB3585293126E5E0264A9060FAC7550%40BY5PR17MB3585.namprd17.prod.outlook.com.

[Kristina Peterson]

Thanks Christine

Currently it is the petro-chemicals that we are

contending with...... ugh....

Kristina J Peterson

Lowlander Center

Supporting Lowland People and Places through 

Education, Advocacy and Applied Research
www.lowlandercenter.org

www.coastalresettlement.org
304-266-2517

 

---

From: hrsja...@googlegroups.com <hrsja...@googlegroups.com> on behalf of christi...@gmail.com <christi...@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2020 3:11 PM
To: hrsja...@googlegroups.com <hrsja...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: RE: "Imagining a More Just World"

 

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hrsjanthro/008801d67cae%2437c3a250%24a74ae6f0%24%40gmail.com.

[christi...@gmail.com]

Julie  -  heartiest congratulations!!! Christine

 

From: hrsja...@googlegroups.com <hrsja...@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Julie Maldonado
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 10:01 PM
To: hrsja...@googlegroups.com

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hrsjanthro/CAECzttuAYX051LtnwMh3r%2Bm22ta2vxuk1n4vxPsJYBNvcT7WgA%40mail.gmail.com.