Books | Articles | Chapters | Editorially Reviewed Pieces
Books

Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation
Citation: 2018. Dana E. Powell. Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Landscapes of Power is forthcoming (in 2026) in Mandarin translation, on Left Bank Press (Taipei: Taiwan).

The New Invitation to Anthropology
Citation: 2023. Luke Eric Lassiter, Eric I. Karchmer, and Dana E. Powell. The New Invitation to Anthropology, Fifth Edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Peer Reviewed Articles

Citation: 2024. Mirela G. Tulbure, Júlio Caineta, Brooke Cox, Stephen V. Stehman, Ayse Ercumen, Rebecca Witter, Ryan Emanuel, Dana E. Powell, Kemp Burdette, Sherri White-Williamson, Shea Tuberty. “Earth Observation Data to Support Environmental Justice: Linking Non-permitted Poultry Operations to Social Vulnerability Indices.” GeoHealth. 8 (12): 1-17.

“Renewable Ruse: Bioenergy Development in North Carolina’s Coastal Plains”
Citation: 2024. Dana E. Powell, Jefferson Currie, Danielle M. Koonce, Mac Legerton, and Rebecca Witter. “Renewable Ruse: Bioenergy Development in North Carolina’s Coastal Plains.” Engaging Science, Technology, and Society. 10 (1–2): 32–68.

“Life Beyond Ruin: Diné Presence in the Anthropocene”
Citation: 2024. Dana E. Powell. “Life Beyond Ruin: Diné Presence in the Anthropocene.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal. 11 (1): 71-113.

“The Double Force of Vulnerability: Ethnography and Environmental Justice”
Citation: 2021. Grant M. Gutierrez, Dana E. Powell, and T.L. Pendergrast. “The Double Force of Vulnerability: Ethnography and Environmental Justice.” Environment and Society: Advances in Research. 12 (1): 66-86.

“Making It Home: Solidarity and Belonging in the #NoDAPL/Standing Rock Encampments”
Citation: 2020. Dana E. Powell and Ricki Draper. “Making it Home: Solidarity and Belonging in the NoDAPL/Standing Rock Encampments.” Collaborative Anthropologies 13 (1): 1-45.

“’The Rainbow is our Sovereignty’: Rethinking the Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation”
Citation: 2015. Dana E. Powell. “’The Rainbow is our Sovereignty’: Rethinking the Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation.” Journal of Political Ecology 22: 53-78.

“Models of Engaged Scholarship: an Interdisciplinary Discussion”
Citation: 2010. Dorothy Holland, Dana E. Powell, Eugenia Eng, and Georgina Drew. “Models of Engaged Scholarship: an Interdisciplinary Discussion.” Collaborative Anthropologies 3: 1-36.

Citation: 2009. Dana E. Powell and Andrew Curley. “K’e, Hozhó, and Non-Governmental Politics on the Navajo Nation: Ontologies of Difference Manifest in Environmental Activism.” World Anthropologies Network 4: 109-138.

“Blurring Boundaries: Knowledge-Practices in Contemporary Social Movements”
Citation: 2008. Maribel Casas-Cortés, Michal Osterweil, and Dana E. Powell. “Blurring Boundaries: Knowledge-Practices in Contemporary Social Movements.” Anthropological Quarterly 81 (1): 17-58.
Republished in Spanish as: 2015. Casas-Cortes, M., Osterweil, M., and Powell, D.E. “Fronteras borrosas. Reconocer las Practicas de Concomiento en el Estudio de los Movimientos Sociales,” Chapter 22 in Prácticas otras de conocimiento(s). Entre crisis, entre guerras. Edited by Xochitl Leyva Solano, Jorge Alonso, R. Aída Hernández, Arturo Escobar, Axel Köhler, Aura Cumes, Rafael Sandoval et al. México, Cooperativa Editorial RETOS, Taller Editorial La Casa del Mago, CLACSO, 3 tomos.

“Technologies of Existence: The Indigenous Environmental Justice Movement”
Citation: 2006. Dana E. Powell. “Technologies of Existence: The Indigenous Environmental Justice Movement,” Development 49: 119-124.
Peer Reviewed Book Chapters

“Climate Change in a time of COVID-19: Living and Transforming the Syndemic in the Navajo Nation”
Citation: 2024. Dana E. Powell with Earl Tulley. “Climate Change in a time of COVID-19: Living and Transforming the Syndemic in the Navajo Nation,” in Stranger than Paradise: Reconfiguring Globalization. Edited by Sebastian Hsien-hao Liao. Taipei: National Taiwan University Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences. Page 115-144.

“Situating Energy Justice: Storytelling Risk and Resilience in the Navajo Nation”
Citation: 2022. Dana E. Powell and Bidtah Becker. “Situating Energy Justice: Storytelling Risk and Resilience in the Navajo Nation,” in Energy Democracies for Sustainable Futures. Edited by Majia Nadesan, Martin Pasqualetti and Jennifer Keahey. London: Elsevier. Page 215-224.

“#NoDAPL Encampments: 21st Century Indian City”
Citation: 2022. Dana E. Powell. “#NoDAPL Encampments: 21st Century Indian City,” in Indian Cities: Histories of Indigenous Urbanism. Edited by Kent Blansett, Cathleen Cahill, and Andrew Needham. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. Page 267-289.

“Racing the Reservation: Rethinking Resistance and Development in the Navajo Nation”
Citation: 2018. Dana E. Powell. “Racing the Reservation: Rethinking Resistance and Development in the Navajo Nation,” in Race and Rurality in the Global Economy. Edited by Michaeline Crichlow, Patricia Northover, and Juan Giusti-Cordero. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. Pages 175-197.

Citation: 2017. Dana E. Powell. “Toward Transition? Challenging Extractivism and the Politics of the Inevitable in the Navajo Nation,” in ExtrACTION: Impacts, Responses, and Alternative Futures. Edited by Kirk Jalbert, Anna Willow, David Casagrande, Stephanie Paladino, and Jeanne Simonelli. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press/Routledge. Pages 211-226.

“Transformations in Engaged Ethnography: Knowledge, Networks, and Social Movements”
Citation: 2013. Maribel Casas-Cortés, Michal Osterweil, and Dana E. Powell. “Transformations in Engaged Ethnography: Knowledge, Networks, and Social Movements,” in Insurgent Encounters: Ethnography, Activism, and the Transnational. Edited by Jeffrey S. Juris and Alex Khasnabish. Durham: Duke University Press. Pages 199-228.

“Landscapes of Power: Renewable Energy Activism in Diné Bikéyah”
Citation: 2010. Dana E. Powell and Dailan Jake Long. “Landscapes of Power: Renewable Energy Activism in Diné Bikéyah,” in Indians & Energy: Exploitation and Opportunity in the American Southwest. Edited by Sherry Smith and Brian Frehner. Santa Fe: School of Advanced Research Press. Pages 231-262.
Republished in 2023 as: “Landscapes of Power: Renewable Energy Activism in Diné Bikeyah.” in Sustaining Natures: A Reader in Environmental Anthropology. Edited by Sarah Osterhoudt and Shivi Sivaramakrishnan. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Editorially Reviewed Chapters and Essays

“Recovering Emergence: A Nation Within What?”
Citation: 2022. Dana E. Powell. “Recovering Emergence: A Nation Within What?” The Law and Political Economy Project (LPE) Blog.New Haven: Yale University. December 14, 2022.

“Phantoms within and beyond the Frame: Stirrings of Justice amidst Specters of Rural Capitalism”
Citation. 2022. Rebecca Witter and Dana E. Powell. “Phantoms within and beyond the Frame: Stirrings of Justice amidst Specters of Rural Capitalism.” Engagement: a Blog published by the Anthropology and Environment Society. January 18, 2022.

“Becoming Visible: Infrastructure and Indigeneity in the Dakotas” (in English)
Citation: 2022. Dana E. Powell. “Becoming Visible: Infrastructure and Indigeneity in the Dakotas.” STShandoru: a Blog published by the Taiwan Science and Technology Studies Association. January 6, 2022.

Citation: 2021. Dana E. Powell. “Riparian Sensibilities,” in WET: An Anthology of Water Poems and Prose from the High Desert and Mountains of the Four Corners Region. Edited by Sonja Horoshko, Laurie Hall, et al. Cortez, CO: Sharehouse Press. Page 159-166.

“Commentary: Anthropology of Activism”
Citation: 2020. Dana E. Powell. “Commentary: Anthropology of Activism,” in Anthropology and Activism: New Contexts, New Conversations. Edited by Anna J. Willow and Kelly A. Yotebieng. London: Routledge Press. Page 79-82.

“Climate Stories Collaborative: Storying Climate Change at Appalachian State University”
Citation: 2019. Laura England, Jennie Carlisle, Rebecca Witter, Derek Davidson, and Dana E. Powell. “Climate Stories Collaborative: Storying Climate Change at Appalachian State University.” Practicing Anthropology 41(3): 21-26.

“Reflections on Teaching an Anthropology of Energy”
Citation: 2013. Dana E. Powell. “Reflections on Teaching an Anthropology of Energy,” Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment35(1): 60-63.