Dorothy C. Holland

August 2, 2011

Activities relevant to local democracy, activism and the public sphere:

Publications:

Holland, D., D. Nonini, C. Lutz, L. Bartlett, M. Frederick, T. Guldbrandsen, and E. Murillo. 2007. Local democracy under siege: Activism, public interests and private politics. New York: New York University Press.

Guldbrandsen, T., and D. Holland. 2001. Encounters with the supercitizen: Neoliberalism, environmental activism, and the American Heritage Rivers Initiative. Special issue, ed. K. Harper. The Anthropological Quarterly 74(3):124-134.

Recent conferences, lectures and papers:

2008 Organizer, CIRA conference, Local Democracy, Local Food: Building a Collaborative Mandate for Research on Food & Justice in NC. Chapel Hill, NC, Saturday, November 15, 2008.

2007 Counter sources for democracy: Local alternatives to neoliberal visions. Paper presented at the symposium, Local Democracy under Siege: Activism, Public Interests and Private Politics. Primary Organizer, Donald M. Nonini; Secondary Organizer, Dorothy Holland. AES/CASCA Joint Conference, Toronto, May 11.

2006 Translating research on neoliberalism into action. Invited lecture, Social Policy Seminar. Social Policy Program, the Open University, Milton-Keynes, U.K., April 24.

2001 Not-for-profit visions of the public good: Activism and democracy in North Carolina. Paper presented at a public workshop/conference, Local Democracy? An Uncertain Future?. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. March 2. Also presented at the Latané Human Science Symposium, 21st Century Activism? Political Action, Governance, and the Non-profit Sector. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., March 30. [Available at www.unc.edu/depts/ucis/events/upcoming/demo_workshop.htm.]

2001 Networks & fields: Anthropology, global civil society and the North Carolina Project. Invited lecture, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Calif., March 12.

2001 Co-Organizer (with Catherine Lutz and Donald Nonini) of the public workshop, Local Democracy? An Uncertain Future? University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., March 2-3.

1999 Holland, D., M. Frederick, T. Guldbrandsen, C. Lutz, and D. Nonini. Downsizing democracy. Invited presentation, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, N.C., April 12.

1998 Citizen activism and the public good in North Carolina. Paper presented at the session, Restructuring Democracy. Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, December 4. Also presented at the conference, North Carolina Studies of Social Change and Social Conservatism. Department of Anthropology, Appalachian State University, Boone, N.C., November 6.

1998 Overview of the North Carolina Project. Presentation at the conference, Transnationalism and Public Culture: Bridging Academic and Activist Worlds. Sponsored by the Department of Cultural Anthropology and the Center for International Studies, Duke University, Durham, N.C., May.

1997 Environmental rhetorics of defense: Who gets the trash in North Carolina? Paper presented at the session, The Cultural Production of Exclusion: Dramas of Contestation and the Public Sphere in the American South. Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 23.

1997 Globalism, North Carolina, and the public sphere. Presentation to the Task Force on Regionalism and Globalism in Comparative Perspective, Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany, June.

1996 Estrangement from the public sphere: Economic change, democracy and social divisions in North Carolina. Invited lecture, School of Education, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo., January 26.

Grants and projects:

2008 Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharff Memorial Prize for the Critical Study of North America for Local Democracy Under Siege

2007 Scholarly Publications, Artistic Exhibitions, and Performances Fund. $1,000 to subsidize publication of Local Democracy Under Siege: Activism, Public Interests and Private Politics.

1996-2001 National Science Foundation. Estrangement from the Public Sphere: Economic Change, Democracy and Social Division in North Carolina (with Catherine Lutz and Donald Nonini), $228,086, SBR-9514912.

1994 University Research Council, UNC-CH. Cultural Production and Social Divisions in North Carolina Communities. $1800.