{"id":2951,"date":"2018-05-01T15:21:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T19:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/?post_type=cu_people&p=2951"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:13:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:13:51","slug":"danielle-dinovelli-lang","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/people\/danielle-dinovelli-lang\/","title":{"rendered":"Danielle Dinovelli-Lang"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a sociocultural and environmental anthropologist primarily concerned with the co-production of nature and difference in colonial situations, especially as condensed in Southeast Alaska, where I have conducted fieldwork since 2004. My dissertation, Nature, Value and Territory in Alaskan Subsistence Politics: The View from Brown Bear Bay<\/u> (Columbia University 2010) examined the politics driving ongoing debates about the definition and extent of subsistence hunting and fishing rights in rural Alaska. These politics concern not just differential access to limited resources but, more fundamentally, the lines separating objects of management from subjects of politics. A key dynamic that emerged from this research is the power of nonhuman animals to legitimize or delegitimize competing forms of environmental governance. The often-unpredictable ways in which this dynamic has been playing out across coastal Alaska\u2014and in the emergent Anthropocene\u2014is one of the topics I have been co-investigating with Karen H\u00e9bert (Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies) since 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I supervise graduate students interested in environmental politics, broadly conceived, including but not limited to resource extraction, colonialism, human-animal relations, political ontology, labor and materialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am cross-appointed with the Institute for Political Economy and am affiliated with both the Digital Humanities and Northern Studies graduate programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Co-author with Karen H\u00e9bert, \u201cGender, the Environment and Industrial Labor.\u201d (2018) Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks, Gender: Space<\/u>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Other Otter: Relational Being at the Edge of Empire.\u201d (2016) in <\/em>Anthropology and Alterity: <\/u>Responding to the Other<\/u>, Bernhard Leistle, Ed. London: Routledge. pp. 107-123.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guest Editor with Patrick Gallagher, Special issue on \u201cValue.\u201d (2014) Environment and Society<\/em> 5<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Return of the Animal: Posthumanism, Indigeneity, Anthropology.\u201d Environment and <\/em>Society<\/em> 4<\/strong> (2013). pp. 137-156.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected web-based publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEcological Labor.\u201d with Karen H\u00e9bert. Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology<\/em>, July 2018. https:\/\/culanth.org\/fieldsights\/ecological-labor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Biggest, the Best, the Most, the Last: Alaska on the Edge.\u201d with Karen H\u00e9bert. Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology<\/em>, July 2016. https:\/\/culanth.org\/fieldsights\/the-biggest-the-best-the-most-the-last-alaska-on-the-edge<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWorking With: Part 2.\u201d with Karen H\u00e9bert. Envirosociety <\/em>February 2016. http:\/\/www.envirosociety.org\/2016\/02\/working-with-part-ii-on-the-work-of-collaboration-in-coastal-alaska<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWorking With.\u201d with Karen H\u00e9bert. Envirosociety<\/em> April 2015. http:\/\/www.envirosociety.org\/2015\/04\/working-with<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Theses supervised<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Dan Houser (PhD 2018) \u201cFeeding the Wrong Wolf: Work, Gender, and Generosity in a Northern Alberta Oil and Gas Community\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tyler Hale (MA 2016) \u201cMore Than Material: The Vibrancy of the Car in the Volkswagen Diesel Scandal\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karina Auclair (MA 2016) \u201cTensions on Erraid: How the Need for \u201cHuman Sustainability\u201d Challenges an Intentional Spiritual Community\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grant MacNeil (MA 2015) \u201cThe Construction of Identity Among Inuit Men in Ottawa Through Foodways\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johanne Horsfall (MA 2014) \u201cSignifying Difference: Muslim Experiences with Dogs in Canada\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tabitha Williams (MA 2013) \u201cLife History of a Calumet: Social History through the Life History of An Object\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2952,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Danielle","cu_people_last_name":"Dinovelli-Lang","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[110],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-2951","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-anthropology"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor","cu_people_degree":"Ph.D. (Columbia)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"Danielle_DiNovelli@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"2614","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/2951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/2951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=2951"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=2951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}