Tidball@Cornell: Snake Handling Comes Under Scrutiny

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Snake Handling Comes Under Scrutiny

My work from the 1990's on Serpent-handling in Appalachia has resurfaced in a news piece on a public radio station in Louisville, KY. Follow the link below.

Snake Handling Comes Under Scrutiny

For more on Serpent-handling and my research, see The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture article on the subject.

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Selected Publications

KG Tidball 2014 Seeing the forest for the trees: Hybridity and social-ecological symbols, rituals and resilience in post-Katrina New Orleans. Part of a special issue “Exploring Social-Ecological Resilience through the Lens of the Social Sciences: Contributions, Critical Reflections and Constructive Debate,” Ecology and Society, 19(4) 25.

KG Tidball and RC Stedman. 2013. "Positive dependency and virtuous cycles: From resource dependence to resilience in urban social-ecological systems" Ecological Economics, Vol. 86:292-299.

Krasny, ME and KG Tidball. 2012. “Civic ecology: a pathway for Earth Stewardship in cities” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Volume 10, Issue 5.

Tidball, KG and ME Krasny. 2012. “Civic Ecology, resilience, and citizen science in disaster zones” in Janis Dickinson and Rick Bonny (editors) Citizen Science: Public Collaboration in Environmental Research, Cornell University Press.

Tidball, KG. 2012. Urgent Biophilia: Human-Nature Interactions and Biological Attractions in Disaster Resilience. Ecology & Society, Vol. 17(2):5.

Navarro, M and KG Tidball. 2012. Challenges of Biodiversity Education: A Review of Education Strategies for Biodiversity Education. International Electronic Journal of Environmental Education, Vol. 2, Iss 1.

Tidball, KG and ED Weinstein. 2011. Applying the Environment Shaping Methodology: Conceptual and Practical Challenges. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Vol. 5, Iss 4.

Tidball, KG and ME Krasny. 2011. Toward an Ecology of Environmental Education and Learning. Ecosphere, 2(2):Article 21.

Tidball, KG and ME Krasny. 2010. Urban Environmental Education from a Social-Ecological Perspective: Conceptual Framework. Cities and the Environment, 3:1, Article 11.

Tidball, KG. 2010. Greening in the Red Zone: Green Space and Disaster Resistance, Recovery and Resilience. Anthropology News, Commentary, Volume 51, Issue 7.

Christine Alfsen, Laura Dickinson, Keith Tidball, Vahan Galoumian, and Moramay Navarro. 2010. The URBIS Partnership Proposal for a Global Urban Designation. Policy Matters, 17: 41-45.

Tidball, KG, ME Krasny, E Svendsen, L Campbell, and K Helphand. 2010. Stewardship, Learning, and Memory in Disaster Resilience. “Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems: the Role of Learning and Education,” Special Issue of Environmental Education Research, 16(5): 341-357.