University of Calgary

William Holden

  • Associate Professor

Currently Teaching

Not currently teaching any courses.

Research Interests:

Research interests include: memoryscapes, the Philippines, the meteorological hazards of anthropogenic climate change, the efficacy of mining as a development strategy, insurgency/ counterinsurgency warfare, extrajudicial killings, performative violence, and counter hegemonic discourses after the "end of history."

Biography:

Dr. Holden (an inactive member of the Law Society of Alberta) joined the Geography Department on an initial term  cross-appointment as an Assistant Professor with the B.Sc in Environmental Science program on 1 September 2004, was promoted to Associate Professor on 1 April 2010, was granted tenure on 1 July 2010, and was appointed a Research Associate with the Canadian Institute of Resources Law in August 2012. This followed an eight-year stint as an awarding winning Instructor in the Department of Economics, six years teaching law at a private vocational college, time spent as an associate counsel in a law firm, articles as a student at law with the Attorney General of Ontario, and employment as a general duty kitchen worker at Banff National Army Cadet Camp.

Dr. Holden was nominated for the Students' Union Teaching Excellence Award in: 1996-1997, 1997-1998, 1998-1999, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008,  2010-2011, and 2012-2013. Dr. Holden received Students' Union Teaching Excellence Award Honorable Mentions in: 2001-2002, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, and 2005-2006. Dr. Holden received Students' Union Teaching Excellence Awards in 1996-1997 and 2012-2013. Dr. Holden received the Faculty of Social Sciences Distinguished Teacher Award in 1999, received the Students' Union Presidential Citation in 2000, was nominated for the Mount Royal College Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award (while teaching as a sessional instructor at Mount Royal College) in 2000, was nominated for the Faculty of Arts Teaching Award in 2015, and was nominated for the Killam Award in Undergraduate Mentorship in 2016.

 Dr. Holden was listed in Maclean's Magazine's Guide to Canadian Universities profile of the University of Calgary as a "popular professor" in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006.

While a PhD student, Dr. Holden won the award for best presentation by a PhD student at the Geography Department conference in March 2001 and received the Graduate Faculty Council Scholarship in both 2001 and 2002.

During the 2012-2013 academic year Dr. Holden was a finalist for the University of Calgary's Teaching Leadership Sustainability ON Award.

In September 2013 and September 2014, Dr. Holden had the honor of giving the ceremonial "first lecture" to all in-coming students in the Faculty of Arts at new student orientation.

In the Fall of 2015, Dr. Holden was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Geography at San Diego State University in San Diego, California.

In the Fall of 2019, Dr. Holden was a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at University of the Philippines Diliman in Quezon City, Philippines.

Recent Publications

Holden, W.N. (2023). "Bonnie and Clyde's Extrajudicial Killing: Gibsland, Louisisana's Dark Tourism." Journal of Heritage Research 18 (5): 658-675.

Holden, W.N. (2023). "Book Review. Gies, E. Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge." Canadian Water Resources Journal 48 (3): 340-344.

Holden, W.N. (2023). "Book Review. Lasco, G. (ed). Drugs and Philippine Society." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 54 (2): 340-342.

Holden, W.N. (2023). "Climate Change, Neoauthoritarianism, Necropolitics, and State Failure: The Duterte Regime in the Philippines." Asian Geographer 40 (2): 145-167.

Holden, W.N. (2023). "Book Review: McGuire, B. Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant's Guide." The Canadian Geographer 67 (2): 145-167.

Holden, W.N. (2023). "Book Review: Reed, J.S. The US Volunteers in the Southern Philippines: Counterinsurgency, Pacification, and Collaboration, 1899-1901." Southeast Asian Studies 12 (1): 194-198.

Holden, W.N. (2023). "Fear and Loathing in the Philippines: The Ethics of Researching President Rodrigo Duterte's War on Drugs." In. M. Adorjan and R. Ricciardelli (eds.) Ethical Dilemmas in International Criminolgical Research. London: Routledge: 149-164.

Holden, W.N. (2022). "Book Review: Hazelton, J.L. Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinusrgeny Warfare." Small Wars & Insurgencies 33 (8): 1444-1448.

Holden, W.N. (2022). "Book Review: Rafael, V.L. The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte." Advances in Southeast Asian Studies 15 (1): 133-137.

Holden, W.N. (2021). "The Punisher of the Philippines: President Rodrigo Duterte, an Avenger Social Bandit." Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society 49 (3-4): 205-221.

Holden, W.N. (2021). President Rodrigo Duterte and the War on Drugs: Fear and Loathing in the Philippines. Lanham Maryland: Lexington Books.

Holden, W.N., and C.A. Montevecchio (2021). "Hardrock Mining, Climate Change, and Conflict: Reflections Through the Lens of Catholic Social Thought." In G.F. Powers and C.A. Montevecchio (eds.) Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining: Integral Peace, Development, and Ecology. London: Routledge: 240-256.

Holden, W.N. (2021). “Book Review: Canilao, M.A.P. The Philippines. Remote Sensing the Margins of the Gold Trade: Ethnohistorical Archaeology and GIS Analysis of Five Gold Trade Networks in Luzon, Philippines, in the Last Millennium BP.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 52 (3): 570-572.

Nadeau, K.M. and W.N. Holden (2021). "Faith-Based Approaches to Poverty and Climate Change Resilience in the Philippines." In McNicol, B.J. (ed.) Sustainable Planet, Issues and Solutions for Our Environment's Future. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-Clio: 549-557.

Holden, W.N. (2020). "The Bells of Balangiga: From Massacre to Memoryscape." Canadian Journal of Tropical Geography 7 (2): 1-7.

Holden, W.N., and  K. M. Nadeau (2020). "Catholic Responses to Peacebuilding, Climate Change, and Extractive Industries." Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture 24 (2): 85-130.

Holden, W.N., and  K. M. Nadeau (2020). "Rise of Inequality in the United States After the 'End of History': Resounding Echoes of the Prophet Amos's Cry for Justice and its Relevance Today (A Preliminary Reflection)." Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society 48 (1): 1-20.

Holden, W.N. (2020). "The Role of Geography in Counterinsurgency Warfare: The Philippine American War, 1899-1902." Geojournal 85 (4): 423-437.

Holden, W.N. (2019). "Endogenous Exacerbation of an Exogenous Problem: Climate Change, Environmental Degradation, and Unsustainable Development Practices in the Philippines." Asian Geographer. 36 (1): 1-27.

Holden, W.N. (2018). "Climate Change, Typhoons, and Climate Injustice: Evidence from Super Typhoon Haiyan on Samar." Canadian Journal of Tropical Geography. 5 (2): 34-43.

Holden, W.N., and  K. M. Nadeau (2018). "Reflections on Pope Francis's Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home." Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society. 46 (1 & 2): 97-127.

Holden, W.N. (2018). "Typhoons, Climate Change, and Climate Injustice in the Philippines." Austrian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 11 (1): 117-139.

Bravante, M.A. and W.N. Holden (2018). "Austronesian Archipelagic Linguistic Diversity amid Globalization in the Philippines." In Brunn, S. et al. (eds.) Handbook of the Changing World Language Map. Cham, Switzerland: Springer: 1-17.

Holden, W.N. and S.J. Marshall (2018). "Climate Change and Typhoons in the Philippines: Extreme Weather Events in the Anthropocene." In Samui, P.,  D. Kim, and C. Ghosh (eds.) Integrating Disaster Science and Management: Global Case Studies in Mitigation and Recovery. Cambridge: Elsevier: 407-421.

Holden, W.N. and W.O. Mansfield (2018). "Laudato Si: A Scientifically Informed Church of the Poor Confronts Climate Change." Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion 22 (1): 28-55.

Eadon, J.K. and W.N. Holden (2017). "The Philippine American War of 1899-1902: A Case Study in Adherence to the Fundamental Principles of Counterinsurgency Warfare." The Canadian Army Journal 17 (2): 70-92.

Holden, W.N., K. M. Nadeau, and E. Porio (2017). Ecological Liberation Theology: Faith-Based Approaches to Poverty and Climate Change in the Philippines. Springer Briefs in Geography. New York: Springer.

Holden, W.N. (2016). "Alberta's Special Areas: Drought and Adaption on the Canadian Plains." Montana: the Magazine of Western History 66 (4): 46-57.

Holden, W.N. (2015). "Deep Roots of Revolution: The New People's Army in the Bicol Region of the Philippines." Canadian Journal of Tropical Geography 2 (2): 1-15.

Holden, W.N. (2015). "Mining Amid Typhoons: Large-Scale Mining and Typhoon Vulnerability in the Philippines." The Extractive Industries and Society 2 (3): 445-461.

Holden, W.N. (2015). The Special Areas Act: Alberta's Dust Bowl in a Changing Climate. Calgary: Canadian Institute of Resources Law.

Holden, W.N. (2015). "From the Church of the Powerful to the Church of the Poor: Liberation Theology and Catholic Praxis in the Philippines." In Brunn, S. (ed.) The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics, Volume IV. Berlin: Springer: 3095-3114.

Holden, W.N. (2014). "The New People's Army and Neoliberal Mining in the Philippines: A Struggle against Primitive Accumulation." Capitalism Nature Socialism 25 (3): 61-83.

Holden, W.N. (2014). "The True Believers in the Land of Promise: The New People's Army in Mindanao." Asia Mindanaw 1 (1) 115-154.

Holden, W.N. (2013)."The Least of My Brethren: Mining, Indigenous Peoples, and the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines." Worldviews, Environment, Culture, Religion 17 (3): 205-238.

Nadeau, K.M. and W.N. Holden (2013). "The Basic Ecclesial Community Movement in Mindanao: A Case Study." East Asian Pastoral Review 50 (2): 127-146.

Holden, W.N. (2013). "Book Review. Free Burma: Transnational Legal Action and Corporate Accountability. By John G. Dale." Social & Cultural Geography 14 (3): 360-361.

Holden, W.N. (2012). "Miners in a Dangerous Place: Australian and Canadian Mining Companies in the Philippines." Australasian Canadian Studies 30 (1-2): 35-63.

Holden, W.N. (2012)."Ecclesial Opposition to Large-Scale Mining on Samar: Neoliberalism Meets the Church of the Poor in a Wounded Land." Religions 3 (3): 833-861.

Holden, W.N. (2012). "A Neoliberal Landscape of Terror: Extrajudical Killings in the Philippines." Acme: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 11 (1): 145-176.

Holden, W.N. and R.D. Jacobson (2012). Mining and Natural Hazard Vulnerability in the Philippines: Digging to Development or Digging to Disaster? London: Anthem Press.

Holden, W.N. (2011). "Neoliberalism and State Terrorism in the Philippines: the Fingerprints of Phoenix." Critical Studies on Terrorism, 4 (3): 331-350.

Holden, W.N., K.M. Nadeau, and R.D. Jacobson (2011). "Exemplifying Accumulation by Dispossession: Mining and Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines." Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 93 (2): 141-161.

Holden, W.N. (2011). "A Lack of Faith in Technology? Civil Society Opposition to Large-Scale Mining in the Philippines." The International Journal of Science in Society, 2 (2): 274-299.

Holden, W.N. and R.D. Jacobson (2011). "Ecclesial Opposition to Nonferrous Metals Mining in Guatemala and the Philippines: Neoliberalism Encounters the Church of the Poor." In Brunn, S. (ed.) Engineering the Earth: The Impacts of MegaEngineering Projects. Dordreccht, Netherlands: Kluwer: 383-411.

Holden, W.N. and K.M. Nadeau (2010). "Philippine Liberation Theology and Social Development in Anthropological Perspective." Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society. 38 (2): 89-129.

Holden, W.N. (2010). "Civil Society." In Warf, B. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage: 414-416

Jacobson, R.D. and W.N. Holden (2010). "The Roman Catholic Church: Committed to the Poor in Guatemala." The Canadian Geographer. 54 (3): 378-380.

Holden, W.N. (2009). "Ashes from the Phoenix: State Terrorism and the Party-List Groups in the Philippines." Contemporary Politics. 15 (4): 377-393.

Holden, W.N. and A.L. Norman (2009). "Public Response to a Student Study of the Feasibility of Nuclear Power: Distrust of Science in a Postmodern World." The International Journal of Science in Society. 1 (1): 79-91.

Bravante, M.A. and W.N. Holden (2009). "Going Through the Motions: The Environmental Impact Assessment of Nonferrous Metals Mining Projects in the Philippines." The Pacific Review. 22 (4): 523-547.

Holden, W.N. (2009). "Post Modern Public Administration in the Land of Promise: the Basic Ecclesial Community Movement of Mindanao." Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion. 13 (2): 180-218.

Ingelson, A., W.N. Holden, and M.A. Bravante. (2009). "Philippine Environmental Impact Assessment, Mining, and Genuine Development." Law, Environment, and Development Journal. 5 (1): 1-15.

Holden, W.N. and R.D Jacobson. (2009). "Ecclesial Opposition to Nonferrous Mining in Guatemala: Neoliberalism Meets the Church of the Poor in a Shattered Society." The Canadian Geographer. 53 (2): 145-164.

Holden, W.N. (2009). "Nuclear Energy: the Power of the Promethean Fire." In D. Draper and M. Reed Our Environment: A Canadian Perspective (Fourth Edition). Toronto: Nelson: 463-464.

Holden, W.N. and R.D Jacobson. (2008). "Civil Society Opposition to Nonferrous Metals Mining in Guatemala." Voluntas. 19 (4): 325-350.

Holden, W.N. (2007) "Civil Society Opposition to Nonferrous Metals Mining in the Philippines." In Hussain, A. and S.S. Mishra (eds.) Global Civil Society: Perspectives and Initiatives. Hyderabad, India: The Icfai University Press: 127-160.

Holden, W.N., and A. Ingelson (2007). "Disconnect between Philippine Mining Investment Policy and Indigenous Peoples' Rights." Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law. 25 (4):375-391.

Holden, W.N. and R.D. Jacobson (2007). "Mining Amid Armed Conflict: Nonferrous Metals Mining in the Philippines." The Canadian Geographer. 51 (4):475-500.

Holden, W.N., R.D. Jacobson, and K. Moran (2007). "Civil Society Opposition to Nonferrous Metals Mining in Montana." Voluntas. 18 (3): 266-292.

Holden, W.N. and R.D. Jacobson (2007). "Ecclesial Opposition to Mining on Mindanao: Neoliberalism Encounters The Church of the Poor in the Land of Promise." Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion. 11(2): 155-202.

Holden, W.N. and R.D. Jacobson (2007). "Ecclesial Opposition to Nonferrous Metals Mining in the Philippines: Neoliberalism Encounters Liberation Theology." Asian Studies Review. 31(2): 133-154.

Holden, W.N. (2006). "One Concept and Two Countries: Federal Government Jurisdiction to Make Environmental Law in Australia and Canada." Australian Canadian Studies. 24 (1): 51-81.

Holden, W.N. and R.D. Jacobson (2006). "Mining Amid Decentralization: Local Governments and Mining in the Philippines." Natural Resources Forum. 30: 188-198.

Ingelson, A., A. Urzua, and W.N. Holden (2006) "Mine Operator Liability for the Spill of an Independent Contractor in Peru." Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law. 24 (1): 53-65.

Holden, W.N. (2005). "Civil Society Opposition to Nonferrous Metals Mining in the Philippines." Voluntas. 16 (3): 223-249.

Holden, W.N. (2005). "Indigenous Peoples and Nonferrous Metals Mining in the Philippines." The Pacific Review. 18 (3): 417-438.

Research Groups

  • Civil Society Opposition to Nonferrous Metals in the Philippines
  • The Basic Ecclesial Community Movement in the Philippines
  • Civil Society Opposition to Nonferrous Metals in the Philippines
  • The Basic Ecclesial Community Movement in the Philippines
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