Heather Anne Swanson

Research output

Research output per year 2014 2015 2017 2018 2019 2020 2025

• 16 Journal article
• 14 Book chapter
• 3 Anthology
• 1 Book
• 7 More
  • 1 Encyclopedia entry
  • 1 Editorial
  • 1 Literature review
  • 1 Review
  • 1 Pictures, Video and sound recordings (digital)
  • 1 Net publication - Internet publication
  • 1 Working paper

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2025

  Amazon vs the Amazon: Green Capitalist Imaginaries and the Death of Biodiversity

  Caple, Z. & Swanson, H. A., 2025, In: Capitalism, Nature, Socialism. 36, 1, p. 42-63 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Tropical Forest 100%
  • Offset Program 75%
  • Environmental Matters 75%
  • Body Shop 75%
  • Ecosystem Services Change 75%

• Terrestrial links to ocean health

  Swanson, H., Jun 2025, In: Anthropology Today. 41, 3, p. 1-2 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Editorial › peer-review

  • Terrestrial Links 100%
  • Agricultural Runoff 100%
  • Indigenous Knowledge Practices 50%
  • Industrial Carbon Emissions 50%
  • Industrial Agriculture 50%
• 2024

  Hatching Conflicts: Trout Reproduction, Properties of Water, and Property Ownership in South Africa

  Nustad, K., Brown, D. & Swanson, H. A., 2024, In: Ethnos. 89, 3, p. 418-437 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Trout 100%
  • Hatching 100%
  • African 16%
  • Hatchery 16%
  3 Citations (Scopus)

  23 Downloads (Pure)
• 2023

  Reframing the Social, Rethinking the Body, Confronting Biologism

  Cova, V. S. & Swanson, H. A., Sept 2023, The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality. McCallum, C., Posocco, S. & Fotta, M. (eds.). Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, p. 126-152 27 p.

  Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  • Biology 100%
  • Approach 80%
  • Anthropology 40%
  • Contribution 40%
  • Gender 40%

• Rubber Boots Methods Beyond the Field: Transformative Possibilities and Institutional Barriers in University Contexts

  Swanson, H. A., Mar 2023, Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene: Doing Fieldwork in Multispecies Worlds. Bubandt, N., Andersen, A. O. & Cypher, R. (eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, p. 348-370

  Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
• 2022

  Political ecology and the Foucault effect: A need to diversify disciplinary approaches to ecological management?

  Nustad, K. & Swanson, H. A., Jun 2022, In: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. 5, 2, p. 924-946 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Scholars 100%
  • Ecological 100%
  • Political Ecology 100%
  • Social Sciences 100%
  • Empirical 50%
  12 Citations (Scopus)

  91 Downloads (Pure)

• Spawning Modern Fish: Transnational Comparison in the Making of Japanese Salmon

  Swanson, H. A., Oct 2022, Seattle: University of Washington Press. 274 p.

  Research output: Book/anthology/report › Book › Research › peer-review

• The Banality of the Anthropocene

  Swanson, H. A., 2022, Control: Attempting to Tame the World. Ween, G. & Lundblad, M. (eds.). Pax, p. 261-264

  Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research
• 2021

  Creatures of the Lines

  Levy, S. (Producer) & Swanson, H. A. (Producer), Dec 2021

  Research output: Non-textual form › Pictures, Video and sound recordings (digital) › Research

  • Film 100%

• History as grounds for interdisciplinarity: promoting sustainable woodlands via an integrative ecological and socio-cultural perspective

  Swanson, H. A., Svenning, J. C., Saxena, A., Muscarella, R., Franklin, J., Garbelotto, M., Mathews, A. S., Saito, O., Schnitzler, A. E., Serra-Diaz, J. M. & Tsing, A. L., Feb 2021, In: One Earth. 4, 2, p. 226-237 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Review › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Interdisciplinarity 100%
  • Social Scientists 100%
  • Natural Scientist 100%
  • Stressors 100%
  • Case Study 100%
  20 Citations (Scopus)

• Metoder for en flerartsantropologi: At tænke med laks, otolitter og fiskeskæl

  Swanson, H. A., 4 Dec 2021, In: Tidsskriftet Antropologi. 83, p. 131-154 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research

  Open Access
• 2020

  Curious ecologies of knowledge: more-than-human anthropology

  Swanson, H. A., Apr 2020, Curiosity studies: a new ecology of knowledge. Zurn, P. & Shankar, A. (eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, p. 15-36

  Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Translating a title: On other terms

  Chernysheva, L., Danyi, E., de la Cadena, M., Farquhar, J., Joks, S., Kondo, S., Lai, L., Law, J., Lin, W.-Y., Magelhaes, B., Medina, S. M., M'charek, A., Mol, A., Sezneva, O., Swanson, H. & Ostmo, L., 1 Mar 2020, In: Sociological Review. 68, 2, p. 283-286 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  2 Citations (Scopus)

  75 Downloads (Pure)

• Why Railroads Now? Anthropology of Infrastructure and Debates around “Green” Transit

  Swanson, H. A., Dec 2020, In: Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies. 10, 2-3, p. 270-282 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• 鮭鱒論 (salmon trout theory) and the politics of non-Western academic terms

  Kondo, S. & Swanson, H. A., 1 Mar 2020, In: The Sociological Review. 68, 2, p. 435-451 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Non-Western 100%
  • Academic Words 100%
  • Anglophone 100%
  • Salmon 100%
  • Ainu 100%
• 2019

  An Unexpected Politics of Population: Salmon Counting, Science, and Advocacy in the Columbia River Basin

  Swanson, H. A., Aug 2019, In: Current Anthropology. 60, S20, p. S272-S285 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Advocacy 100%
  • River Basin 100%
  • Salmon 100%
  • Anthropology 50%
  • Anthropologists 50%
  17 Citations (Scopus)

  322 Downloads (Pure)

• Multispecies research

  Swanson, H. A., 2019, The Sage encyclopedia of research methods. Atkinson, P., Delamont, S., Cernat, A., Sakshaug, J. W. & Williams, R. A. (eds.). S.l.: SAGE Publications

  Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Encyclopedia entry › Research

• Patterns of Naturecultures: Political Economy and the Spatial Distribution of Salmon Populations in Hokkaido, Japan

  Swanson, H. A., 2019, Frontier Assemblages: The Emergent Politics of Resource Frontiers in Asia. Cons, J. & Eilenberg, M. (eds.). Hoboken: Wiley, p. 117-130 14 p. (Antipode Book Series).

  Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• The entrapment of trap design: materiality, political economy and the shifting worlds of fixed gear fishing equipment

  Swanson, H. A., Dec 2019, In: Journal of Material Culture. 24, 4, p. 401-420

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Materiality 100%
  • Equipment 100%
  • Political Economy 100%
  • Fishing Gear 100%
  • Fishermen 100%
  1 Citation (Scopus)
• 2018

  Domestication Gone Wild: Politics and Practices of Multispecies Relations

  Swanson, H. A. (Editor), Lien, M. E. (Editor) & Ween, G. B. (Editor), 2018, Durham: Duke University Press. 272 p.

  Research output: Book/anthology/report › Anthology › Research › peer-review

• Domestication Gone Wild: Pacific Salmon and the Disruption of the Domus

  Swanson, H. A., 2018, Domestication Gone Wild: Politics and Practices of Multispecies Relations. Swanson, H., Lien, M. & Ween, G. (eds.). Duke University Press, p. 141-158 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• How the Salmon Found its Way Home: Science, State Ownership, and the Domestication of Wild Fish

  Ween, G. & Swanson, H. A., 2018, Domestication Gone Wild: Politics and Practices of Multispecies Relations. Swanson, H., Lien, M. & Ween, G. (eds.). Duke University Press, p. 196-214 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Introduction: Naming the Beast – Exploring the Otherwise

  Lien, M., Swanson, H. A. & Ween, G., 2018, Domestication Gone Wild: Politics and Practices of Multispecies Relations. Swanson, H., Lien, M. & Ween, G. (eds.). Durham: Duke University Press, p. 1-30 30 p.

  Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Landscapes, by Comparison: Practices of Enacting Salmon in Hokkaido, Japan

  Swanson, H. A., 2018, World Multiple: The Quotidian Politics of Knowing and Generating Entangled Worlds. Omura, K., Otsuki, G., Satsuka, S. & Morita, A. (eds.). Oxon: Routledge, p. 105-122 18 p. (Routledge advances in sociology).

  Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Modes of Naturing: or stories of salmon

  Swanson, H. A., Law, J. & Lien, M., 2018, Sage Handbook of Nature. Marsden , T. (ed.). SAGE Publications, p. 868-890 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• The Making of Unstable Ground: The Anthropogenic Geologies of Søby, Denmark

  Højrup, M. & Swanson, H. A., 2018, In: Journal of Ethnobiology. 38, 1, p. 24-38 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Denmark 100%
  • Land Use 50%
  • Environmental History 50%
  • Historical Ecology 50%
  • Social History 50%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

• Transportation infrastructures and arthropod movements: Are Harvestmen (Opiliones) Hitchhiking to Northern Europe?

  Vestbo, S., Toft, S., Swanson, H. A., Olesen, J. M. & Funch, P., 2018, In: Journal of Ethnobiology. 38, 1, p. 55-71 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Opiliones 100%
  • Transportation Infrastructure 100%
  • Introduced Species 22%
  • Europeans 11%
  • Cultural Landscape 11%
  8 Citations (Scopus)
• 2017

  Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene

  Tsing, A. (Editor), Swanson, H. A. (Editor), Gan, E. (Editor) & Bubandt, N. O. (Editor), 2017, Minneapolis / London : University of Minnesota Press.

  Research output: Book/anthology/report › Anthology › Research › peer-review

• Introduction: Bodies Tumbled into Bodies

  Swanson, H. A., Tsing, A., Bubandt, N. O. & Gan, E., 2017, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. Tsing, A., Swanson, H., Gan, E. & Bubandt, N. (eds.). Minneapolis / London: University of Minnesota Press, p. M1-M12 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Introduction: Haunted Landscapes of the Anthropocene

  Tsing, A., Swanson, H. A., Gan, E. & Bubandt, N. O., 2017, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. Tsing, A., Swanson, H., Gan, E. & Bubandt, N. (eds.). Minneapolis / London: University of Minnesota Press, p. G1-G14

  Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Methods for Multispecies Anthropology: Thinking with Salmon Otoliths and Scales

  Swanson, H. A., Jun 2017, In: Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology. 61, 2, p. 81-99 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Salmon 100%
  • Nonhuman 66%
  • Anthropologists 66%
  • Diary 33%
  • Pacific 33%
  59 Citations (Scopus)

• The Banality of the Anthropocene

  Swanson, H. A., 2017, Cultural Anthropology online.

  Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Research

  Open Access

  • Online 100%
  • Cultural Anthropology 100%
  • Banality 100%
  • Anthropocene 100%
• 2016

  Down to Earth: Geosocialities and Geopolitics

  Palsson, G. & Swanson, H. A., 2016, In: Environmental Humanities. 8, 2, p. 149-171 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review

• Review of: Anthropocene as Political Geology: Current Debates over how to tell Time

  Swanson, H. A., 2 Jan 2016, In: Science as Culture. 25, 1, p. 157-163 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Literature review › Research
  24 Citations (Scopus)
• 2015

  Landscapes, by Comparison: Practices of Enacting Salmon in Hokkaido, Japan

  Swanson, H. A., 2015, Århus: Aarhus Universitet, Institut for Kultur og Samfund, p. 22-42, 21 p.

  Research output: Working paper/Preprint › Working paper › Research

  • Salmonine 100%
  12 Citations (Scopus)

• Less Than One But More Than Many: Anthropocene as Science Fiction and Scholarship-in-the-Making

  Swanson, H. A., Bubandt, N. O. & Tsing, A., 2015, In: Environment and Society. 6, 1, p. 149-166 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
  57 Citations (Scopus)

• Placing a Golden Spike at the Golden Spike: Railroads in the Making of the Anthropocene

  Swanson, H. A., 2015, Placing the Golden Spike: Landscapes of the Anthropocene. Hannah, D. & Krajewski, S. (eds.). Milwaukee, Wisconsin: INOVA (Institute of Visual Arts), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, p. 102-111 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research

• Shadow ecologies of conservation: Co-production of salmon landscapes in Hokkaido, Japan, and southern Chile

  Swanson, H. A., May 2015, In: Geoforum. 61, May, p. 101-110 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
  33 Citations (Scopus)

• Who’s in the room? The importance of multidisciplinary spaces for anthropology and STS

  Swanson, H. A., 2015, In: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 5, 1, p. 445-448 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Generative 100%
  8 Citations (Scopus)
• 2014

  Peaches

  Swanson, H. A., 2014, To See Once More the Stars: living in a post-Fukushima world. New Pacific Press, p. 79-81 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research

• To See Once More the Stars: living in a Post-Fukushima world

  Swanson, H. A. (Editor), Naito, D. (Editor), Sayre, R. (Editor) & Takahashi, S. (Editor), 2014, Santa Cruz, CA: New Pacific Press.

  Research output: Book/anthology/report › Anthology › Research

  • Scholars 100%