jacksde@earlham.edu
PAST 10 YEARS
“Infrastructures of Harm: Mixing Oil and Water in Southwest Detroit.” For the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Portland, Oregon, March 25-29, 2025.
"Disturbances in the Waters: The Making and Unmaking of an Anishinaabe Village 'Near the Flinty River' (1815-1915)." For the session, Antebellum Communities at the annual meeting of the Midwestern History Association, Grand Rapids, Michigan, May 30-31, 2024.
"Fields of Waste: Biosolids, 'Sustainability,' and Environmental Injustice in Rural America." For the session Political Ecology of Water and Waste, at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 27-April 1, 2023.
"Sarnia's Toxic Blob: Geosocial Formations of Canada's Oil and Gas Over Space and Time." For the session Geomorphologies for Living with a Changing Planet, organized by Luisa Cortesi and Amy Leigh Johnson for the annual meeting of the American Anthropology Association in Seattle, Washington, Nov 9-13, 2022.
"Recognizing the Swan Creek Black River Ojibwa (19th c): A Borderlands Approach." For the session Indigenous Midwests at the annual meeting of the Midwestern History Association in Grand Rapids, Michigan, May 2022.
"Poop, Manure, Biosolids: The Semiotics of Green Energy Production in the Rural Midwest." For the session Multivalent Shit: New Directions in the Anthropology of Excrement, Defecation, and Manure, organized by Laura Meek and James Smith for the annual meeting of the American Anthropology Association in Baltimore, MD, Nov 17-23, 2021.
"Abstractions and Materialities: The Political Ecology of a Cancer Cluster Along the U.S.-Canada Border." For the session Political Ecologies of Matter Out of Place: Aesthetics and Atmospheres of Pollution/Toxicity , organized by Joshua B. Fisher, and Mary Mostafanezhad for the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Nov 18-24, 2019
"Sense and Sensibility: A Tourism Experience of Materials and Things in the Tar Sands of Alberta, Canada." For the session (Re)assembling the Politics of the Everyday: Things and Materials in Geographical Analysis, organized by Siddharth Menon and Andrew Grant for the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Washington, D.C., April 2019.
"Skin in the Game: Embodied Workers, Corporate Persons, and Risk in Canada's 'Chemical Valley'." For the session Noxious Concepts and Polluted Realities, chaired by Thomas K. Park, for the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology/ PESO, Philadelphia, PA, April 2018
Deborah Davis Jackson