Peer-Reviewed Publications
Anderson, R., G. Griggs, C. Lester, K. Patsch, and K. Steinhardt. 2024. The past, present, and future of Seacliff State Beach: Adapting to long-term sea level rise on California’s Central Coast. Shore & Beach, 92(2), 10-25.
Jazwa, C., A. Ainis, R. Anderson, K. Bulhusen Muñoz, E. Reyes Estrada, and H. Fujita. 2023. Settlement Chronology and Subsistence Patterns in Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Journal of Field Archaeology 48(8): 605-622.
Anderson, R. 2023. Time, Seawalls, and Money: An anthropology of rising seas and eroding coasts. Environment and Society 14(1): 23-42.
Anderson, R. 2023. Pearls Before Swine Flu: Crisis and the Politics of Resilience in Cabo Pulmo, BCS, Mexico. American Anthropologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13869
Lester, C., G. Griggs, K. Patsch, and R. Anderson. 2022. Shoreline Retreat in California: Taking a Step Back. Journal of Coastal Research 38(6): 1207-1230.
Anderson, R. 2022. The Taboo of Retreat: The Politics of Sea Level Rise, Managed Retreat, and Coastal Property Values in California. Economic Anthropology 9(2): 284-296.
Anderson, R., O. Carter, K. Pearce, and L. Capdevila. 2022. User perceptions of the Pleasure Point Seawall in Santa Cruz County, California. Journal of Coastal Research 38(4): 828-843.
Anderson, R., K. Patsch, C. Lester, and G. Griggs. 2020. Adapting to Shoreline Retreat: Finding a Path Forward. Shore & Beach 88(4): 13-33.
Griggs, G., K. Patsch, C. Lester, and R. Anderson. 2020. Groins, Sand Retention, and the Future of Southern California’s Beaches. Shore & Beach 88(2): 1-23.
Anderson, R., and Seth Mallios. 2020. Historical Photography and Its Impacts on the Life and Legends of Nate Harrison. The Journal of San Diego History 66(1): 27-40.
Anderson, R. 2019. Beyond “Success”: Community, Governance, and the Future of Cabo Pulmo National Park. Human Organization 78(2): 147-157.
Anderson, R. 2017. Roads, value, and dispossession in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Economic Anthropology 4:7-21.
Anderson, R. 2016. Islands within an almost island: History, myth, and aislamiento in Baja California, Mexico. Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures 10(1):33-47.
Anderson, R. 2015. Sustainability, ideology, and the politics of development in Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Journal of Political Ecology 22: 239-254.
Jackson, J. B. and R. Anderson. 2014. Anthropology and Open Access. Cultural Anthropology, Volume 29(2):236-263.
Editor-Reviewed Publications
Anderson, R. 2021. Stories on the Edge of the Sea. Home/Field, Journal for the Anthropology of North America.
Anderson, R. 2021. South Jetty, Oceanside California, 2019. Journal for the Anthropology of North America. DOI: 10.1002/nad.12138
Anderson, R. 2019. Climate Change, Sea Level Rise, and the Slow Erosion of “Home.” Practicing Anthropology 41(3): 38-41.
Anderson, R. 2018. The Unstable Edge: Anthropology, Speculative Fiction, and the Incremental Threat of Sea Level Rise. Cultural Anthropology, Theorizing the Contemporary.
Anderson, R. 2017. Climate Skepticism, Denial, and the Question of Belief. EnviroSociety.
Anderson, R. 2015. Hope versus critical awareness? Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything and the Politics of Climate Change in the Classroom. Anthropology News.
Anderson, R. 2013. From one place to another. Anthropology of Work Review, Volume 34(2):91-93.
Anderson, R. 2011. Landscapes of Wealth and Desire. OAC Working Papers Series #9. ISSN 2045-5763.
Select Online Publications
Anderson, R. 2023. The economic and social meanings of rebuilding on an unruly coast. The Exchange.
Anderson, R. 2023. Summer anthropologies #1: The Nameless Summer. Anthrodendum.
Anderson, R. 2023. Adventures in chatGPT: Meet David Wilkie, Anthropologist. Anthrodendum.
Anderson, R. 2021. Fragments of Reparation and Recognition in the Golden State. Anthrodendum.
Anderson, R. 2019. The not-so-natural-beach. Anthrodendum.
Anderson, R. 2019. Accumulation by media saturation. Anthrodendum.
Anderson, R. 2018. All the value that washes into the sea. Anthrodendum.
Anderson, R. 2018. About those Ancestry dot com commercials. Anthrodendum.
Anderson, R. 2017. Surfing versus the commodification of everything. Savage Minds.
Anderson, R. 2015. Sustainability is everything—and nothing. Savage Minds.
Anderson, R. 2012. The politics of (uneven) development on the East Cape of Baja California Sur,
Mexico. Anthropologies #15.
Anderson, R. 2011. Value, social conflict, and tourism. Savage Minds.