Colorado State University (2002 - present)

University of Montana (1984 - 2002)

Off-Campus Faculty, Linfield College - Good Samaritan School of Nursing B.S. Program, 2255 N.W. Northrup, Portland, OR 97210, and Elderhostel Program, Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, OR

Political Science Department, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306

Political Science Department, University of Montana

Political Science Dept., Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131

Political Science Dept., Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281

Western Electric Cable Plant, Phoenix, AZ

University of Hawaii		1976-1980	Ph.D.	1980	Political Science
	"Politics After Technology: A Review of the Political Theory of Environmental Concerns in the U.S., With Comments on an Aesthetics of Politics," Dissertation, 1980.
Arizona State Univ.		1972-1976	M.A.	1976	Political Science
	The Politics of Maurice Merleau-Ponty: A Response to Marx's Conception of Praxis," Thesis.
Univ. of Nebraska		1966-1971	B.S.	1971	Engineering
Hastings NB High School		1963-1966		1966	Diploma

        

Everybody Knows: Cynicism in America (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1999), issued in paperback, 2001.

In the Nature of Things: Language, Politics, and the Environment, with co-editor Jane Bennett, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993). Includes an introduction by the authors.

Knowing Nukes: Politics and Culture of the Atom (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992).

Jean Baudrillard: The Disappearance of Art and Politics, with co-editor William Stearns, (London: Macmillan, 1992). Published in the U.S. by St. Martin's.

"Review Essay: GREEN NATURALISM: The Politicization Of Environmental Theory: The Environment: Between Theory And Practice, by Avner De-Shalit (Oxford University Press), Beneath The Surface: Criticalessays In The Philosophy Of Deep Ecology, by Eric Katz, Andrew Light, and David Rothenburg, eds. (Cambridge: MIT Press), Conservation Reconsidered: Nature, Virtue, And American Liberal Democracy by Charles T. Rubin, ed. (Rowman & Littlefield), Toward A Naturalistic Political Theory: Aristotle, Hume, Dewey, Evolutionary Biology, And Deep Ecology, by Terry Hoy (Praeger), Manmade Breast Cancers, by Zillah Eisenstein (Cornell University Press)", in Political Theory 31:6 (December 2003), 871-882.

"The Irrepressible Lightness and Joy of Being Green: Empire and Environmentalism," Strategies 16:2 (2003), 147-161. Also published in Jodi Dean and Paul Passavant, eds. Empire's New Clothes: Reading Hardt and Negri (New York: Routledge, 2003).

"Jagged Terrain: Cronon, Soulé, and the Struggle over Nature and Deconstruction in Environmental Theory," Strategies 13:1 (Winter 2000), 23-38.

"American Governmentality: Michel Foucault and Public Administration," American Behavioral Scientist 41:1 (September 1997), 28-42 (with R. McGreggor Cawley).

"The County Supremacy and Militia Movements: Federalism as an Issue on the Radical Right," Publius: The Journal of American Federalism 26(3):161-176.

"Praising Minnesota: The Coens' 'Fargo' and the Pressures of Stoic Community." Theory and Event 1:2 (Spring 1997), online at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/

"Cynical Nature: Politics and Culture After the Demise of the Natural," Alternatives 18:2 (Spring 1993).

"Immodest Modesty: Antinuclear Discourse, Lifestyle Politics, and Intervention Strategies," International Studies Quarterly 34 (September 1990).

"John Dewey's Social Aesthetics as a Precedent for Environmental Thought," Environmental Ethics, 9 (Fall 1987).

"James Watt and the Environmentalists: A Clash of Ideologies," (with R. McGreggor Cawley), Policy Studies Journal 14 (December 1985).

"There Must Be Some Way Out of Here: Strategy, Ethics, and Environmental Politics," in Warren Magnusson and Kara Shaw, eds. A Political Space: Reading the Global through Clayoquot Sound (University of Minnesota Press, 2003), 67-90.

"Rodney King and the Awkward Pause: Interpretation and Politics," in R.L. Rutsky and Bradley J. Macdonald, eds., Strategies for Theory: From Marx to Madonna (New York: SUNY Press, 2003), 199-216. A similar version was previously published in Strategies 11/12 (Fall 1998), 94-107.

"The Tragedy of the Ethical Commons: Demoralizing Environmentalism," in Jane Bennett and Michael J. Shapiro, eds., The Politics of Moralizing (New York: Routledge, 2002), 113-140.

"Angry White Men: Right Exclusionary Nationalism and Left Identity Politics," with Andrew Light, in Tamar Mayer, ed., Gender Ironies of Nationalism (Routledge, 2000).

"Michel Foucault and Public Administration," in Mario A. Rivera and Gary M. Woller, eds., Public Administration in a New Era: Postmodern and Critical Perspectives (Burke, VA: Chatelaine Press, 2000), 25-42 (with R. McGreggor Cawley). This is a reprint of "American Governmentality: Michel Foucault and Public Administration," American Behavioral Scientist 41:1 (Sept. 1997), 28-42.

"Edward Abbey's Inadvertent Postmodernism: Theory, Autobiography, and Politics," in Peter Quigley, ed., Coyote in the Maze: Tracking Edward Abbey in a World of Words (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1998), 119-136.

"(For)getting a Life: Testimony, Identity, and Power," in Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, eds., Getting a Life: The Everyday Uses of Autobiography in Postmodern America (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1996).

"'Suppose Kuwait's Main Product Was Broccoli' (The Street Demonstration in U.S. Politics)," Frederick M. Dolan and Thomas L. Dumm (eds.), Rhetorical Republic: Representing American Politics (Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1993).

"The Great Wild Hope: Nature, Environmentalism, and the Open Secret," (with R. McGreggor Cawley) in In the Nature of Things: Language, Politics, and the Environment, listed above, 1993.

"Federal Land Policy: The Conservative Challenge and Environmentalist Response," (with R. McGreggor Cawley), in Phillip O. Foss (ed.), Federal Lands Policy (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1987).

"Review: Uncertain Hazards: Environmental Activists and Scientific Proof, by Sylvia Noble Tesh (Cornell University Press)," in Canadian Journal of Political Science 34:3 (September 2001) 657-8.

"Review: Where We Live, Work and Play: The Environmental Justice Movement and the Struggle for a New Environmentalism, by Patrick Novotny. (Praeger)," in American Political Science Review 95:3 (September 2000), 722.

Review: Acting in Concert: Music, Community, and Political Action, by Mark Mattern. (Rutgers University Press)," in American Political Science Review 94:4 (December 2000), 932-933.

"Review essay: Opening of the American Mind: Review of Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," in Theory & Event 4:2, Spring, 2000. Online at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/tae

"Review: The Heart of Altruism: Perceptions of a Common Humanity, by Kristen Renwick Monroe (Princeton University Press)," in The Journal of Politics 59:3 (August 1997), 957-959.

"Making White, Making Black: Michael Rogin's Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot, Noel Ignatiev's How the Irish Became White, Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, in Theory & Event 1:1 (Winter 1997), online at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_&_event

"Tales of Unity, Frustration, and violence in these United States: Review of united states by Thomas L. Dumm (Cornell Univ. Press, 1994)," American Quarterly Review (September, 1996).

"Montana," in "Proceedings of the WPSA Roundtable on State-Local Budgeting," University of Utah monograph, 1992. (This revises the presentation listed below.)

"Montana," in "Proceedings of the WPSA Roundtable on State-Local Budgeting," University of Utah monograph, 1991. (This revises the presentation listed below.)

"Review: Language and Political Understanding, by Michael Shapiro (Harvard University Press)," Social Science Journal 15 (July 1983).

Colloquium presentation to the Whitman College Government and Politics department, via video and sound remote delivery, December 2003.

"Everybody Knows: Cynicism in America," "Everybody Knows: Cynicism in America," Colloquium presentation to

"Everybody Knows: Cynicism in America," Colloquium presentation to East West Center International Cultural Studies Program, University of Hawaii at Manoa, February 2000.

"Reconsidering Environmentalism in the U.S.," presentation to University of Hawaii at Manoa Political Science Colloquium, February 2000.

"Cynical America: Altered Political Categories in an Age of Resentment, Realignment, and Failed Recuperation," presented to the Theory Returns Colloquium, University of Hawaii Political Science Department, Honolulu, March 10, 1995.

Presentation on science and ethics, Andrew W. Mellon Workshop on Normative Perspectives on the History and Social Studies of Modern Life Science, M.I.T. Program in Science, Technology, and Society, May 1993.

"Ideology, Politics, and the Postmodern," and "Cynicism and American Politics," presented at Political Science colloquia, University of Wyoming, March 3-4, 1993.

"Cynicism, Politics, and Postmodernism," presented to an interdisciplinary studies faculty seminar, Goucher College, February 11, 1993.

"The Cynical American," presented to a visiting faculty colloquium, Amherst College, November 18, 1992.

"Think Globally, Act Globally: Globalization's Intervention in to American Environmentalism," presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, August 2003.

"The Green Paradox: Identity, Democracy, and the Functions of Environmental Justice," presented at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Long Beach, March 2002.

"Channeling the Trees: Making (or Discovering) Nature's History," presented at the conference, "From Radical to Normal: Environmental Policy in the American West," sponsored by the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment in Bozeman, Montana, May, 2001.

"Jagged Terrain: Nature in Environmental Theory and Politics," presented to the panel, "The Persistence of Nature" at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, March 1999.

"Genealogy of Conspiracy: Conspiracy Thinking as a Mode of Political Culture," presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, August 1997.

"The Indelible Cynicism of Politics: Contention in an Age of Abused Belief," delivered to the "Cynicism and Idealism in Contemporary American Politics" panel, American Political Science Association, San Francisco, August 30, 1996.

"Legal and Political Foundations of Freemen and Constitutionalist Movements," delivered to the 1996 James R. Browning Symposium ("The Militia: Constitutional and Criminal Law Perspectives"), University of Montana School of Law, October 4, 1996.

"Right Wing Militancy, Legitimacy, and the Politics of Resentment," presented to the "Politics of Masculinity" panel, Western Political Science Association meeting, San Francisco, March 14, 1996.

"Nature, Whole Earth, and the Alibi of the Real: Postmodern Criticism Confronts Environmentalist Politics," presented at the 1994 American Political Science Association annual meeting, New York, September 1994.

"Rodney King and the Awkward Pause," presented at the Western Political Science Association annual meeting, Albuquerque, March 1994.

"Cynical Nature: Politics and Culture After the Demise of the Natural," presented at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago, Sept. 1992.

"Fiscal Crisis in Montana," presented on the State Budget Roundtable at the Western Political Science Association annual meeting, San Francisco, March, 1992.

"Encounters with Justice: Foucault and the Limits of Critique," presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., August 1991. (This is a major revision of "Foucault/Power," listed below.)

"Foucault/ Power: Surveillance, Justice, and Political Theory," presented at the Western Political Science Association annual meeting, Seattle, April, 1991. (This is a major revision of "Foucault's Last Reminder," listed below.)

"Taxation Issues in Montana," presented as part of the State Budget Roundtable at the Western Political Science Association annual meeting, Seattle, March, 1991.

"The Great Wild Hope: Nature, Environmentalism, and the Open Secret" (with R. McGreggor Cawley), presented at the Southern Political Science Association annual meeting, Atlanta, November, 1990.

"Foucault's Last Reminder: The Roles of Power in Postmodernity," presented at the Southern Political Science Association meeting, Memphis, November, 1989.

"Our Babel: Postmodern Politics, Public opinion, Naturalism, and John Dewey's 'American Century'," presented at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, Atlanta, September, 1989.

"Wilderness and 'The High-Priced Man'," (with R. McGreggor Cawley), presented at the Western Social Science Association annual meeting, Denver, April, 1988. Revised version presented at Discourses of Power Conference, Phoenix, October, 1988.

"Deconstructing Destruction: Nuclear Criticism, Post-Structuralism, and the Freeze." presented at the American Political Science Assoc. meeting, Chicago, Sept. 1987.

"The Bomb's Body: Nuclear Criticism, Robots, and Star Wars," presented at the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association annual meeting, Spokane, October 1987.

"Post-Structuralism/ Post-Traditionalism: The Discursive Response to Hermeneutics," presented at the Western Political Science Association Meeting, Eugene, 1986.

"James Watt and the Environmentalists: An Analysis of a Public Policy Debate," (with R. McGreggor Cawley), presented at the Western Political Science Association annual meeting, Las Vegas, April 1985.

"Think Globally, Act Locally: Speculations on Environmentalist Ideology," presented at the Western Political Science Association annual meeting, San Diego, 1982.

Member, American Political Science Association

Member, Foundations of Political Theory Organized Section, APSA

Member, Western Political Science Association

 

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