

public scholarship, journalism
Articles and essays
At the Edge of the Map: A Louisiana Tribe Confronts the LNG Boom
Stabroeknews, July 28, 2025
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Fraying Ties: Louisiana's Shrimp and Petroleum Festival at Eighty-Nine
Oxford American Magazine, June 1, 2025
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Lessons from Our Mother Trees: in our elder's wisdom is a guide for surviving the future
https://countryroadsmagazine.com/art-and-culture/people-places/lessons-from-our-mother-trees/
Country Roads Magazine, May 1, 2025
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As Trump's EPA ends 'environmental justice,' minority communities may pay a price
Reuters, April 23, 2025
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A Legacy of Resistance Lives on in Cancer Alley
Yale Climate Connections, April 9, 2025
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The Rising Hunger of AI Data Centers Accelerates the Need for Clean Energy to Meet Demand
DeSmog.com, Jan 28, 2025
Resilient New Orleans regains its stride, hardly missing a beat after truck attack
Reuters.com, Jan 3, 2025
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Hurricane Francine Lands in Louisiana, Hitting New Orleans
Reuters.com, Sept 11, 2024
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Finding Hope in a Precarious Place
Nola.com, May 30, 2024
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We Need to Reclaim the Muddy Waters of the Louisiana Gulf Coast
DeSmog, May 24, 2024
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Q&A with Ned Randolph, author of Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta
UC Press Blog, May 14, 2024​
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How federal tax dollars meant to fight climate change could end up boosting Louisiana’s fossil fuel production
The Conversation, March 31, 2024
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Industry-backed carbon capture won't solve climate crisis
Nola.com, Dec 1, 2023
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Capturing methane would be a win for the state's bottom line, and for the environment
Nola.com, Dec 1, 2023
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Teaching Through the Doom
Inside Higher Ed, January 29, 2020
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The Katrina Effect and the Ethical Extraction of Louisiana
https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/the-katrina-effect-and-the-ethical-extraction-of-louisiana
Society and Space, October 20, 2020
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Op-ed: Battered by Hurricanes and Pollution, It Is Time for Louisiana to Imagine Life Beyond Oil
https://www.desmog.com/2020/10/10/hurricanes-nurdles-pollution-louisiana-beyond-oil/
DeSmog, Oct 10, 2020
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Can you say anthropocene?
https://www.vianolavie.org/2019/11/01/can-you-say-anthropocene/
ViaNolaVie, Nov 01, 2019
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Mapping the environment of coronavirus: a lesson plan
The Lens, April 16, 2020
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West Coast states to fight climate change even if Trump does not
Reuters, December 13, 2016
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Older News Articles
https://sites.google.com/view/nedrandolph/news-articles
Article compilation
Academic Journal articles
The Muddy Underbelly: the Fight for Health, Heritage, and Justice in Louisiana's Mississippi River Parishes
Edited Volume: Soundings on America's Arterial River. (University Press of Mississippi). 2026. Forthcoming.
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Pipeline logics and culpability: Establishing a continuum of harm for Sacrifice Zones
Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, Second Edition, Elsevier forthcoming January, 2026
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Muddy foil: a history of extraction and resistance in the lower Mississippi River Delta
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14791420.2020.1867321
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, March 2021
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Modeling authority over a drowning coast
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644016.2022.2113357
Environmental Politics, October 2022
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Making Live and Letting Die in COVID-19: The Biopolitics of Race, Space and Freedom
https://spectrajournal.org/articles/10.21061/spectra.v8i2.178
Spectra, July, 2021
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Pipeline Logic and Culpability: Establishing a Continuum of Harm for Sacrifice Zones
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2021.652691/full
Front. Environ. Sci., July, 2021
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License to Extract: How Louisiana’s Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast is Sinking It
Lateral, Fall 2018
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River Activism, “Levees-Only” and the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1179
Media History and Democracy, February 2018
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Podcasts & Zooms


Episode 268: Behind the Lens: Author Ned Randolph Discusses the Electrical Grid and AI
Lens Nola, March 21, 2025
Episode 201: Down the River – Author Ned Randolph Explores “The Big Muddy”
Louisiana Life Insider, October 17, 2024
Discussion with Alabama Rivers Alliance: Water is Life Summer Zoom Series
https://vimeo.com/1000966348?share=copy
Alabama Rivers Alliance, August, 2024
