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The Cultural and Political Ecology
Specialty Group (CAPE) is a sub-group of scholars within the Association of
American Geographers (AAG). CAPE was
originally organized as the Cultural Ecology Specialty Group (CESG) in 1980
with the aim "To promote and conduct scholarly activities on cultural
ecological topics ranging from pre-history to third world development, and
from environmental to economic problems." The tradition of cultural
ecology as scholarship is characterized by efforts to integrate the theories
and methodologies of biologists, anthropologists, and geographers through the
practical study of peoples in place. In 2002 members voted to include the
term "Political" in the specialty group title to reflect the
growing intersection of research interests among those working in cultural
ecology and the burgeoning field of political ecology. Political ecological
scholarship seeks to explicitly integrate and contrast the theories and
methodologies of economics, cultural studies, and political science into the
traditional modes of thought comprised by cultural ecology. The change of
title explicitly acknowledges the growing importance of new methodologies and
paradigms in human environment research as characterized by the CAPE mission
statement (printed at the top of the page). Topics of special
interest to members of CAPE include but are not limited to:
The CAPE Web Environment CAPE distributes several student
awards at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers.
Awards for student papers presented at the national meeting serve as an
important milestone for many junior professional geographers. Field Study
Awards provided research funds for the early stages of thesis or dissertation
fieldwork. For information on application and a list of past recipients
please visit the Awards link. Honors for noteworthy achievement are
given when Cape Officers feel recognition for meritorious achievement is
warranted. This generally occurs on an annual basis. Testimonials are
presented for each of the honorees. National conferences of the AAG are held
each spring. For details visit the AAG meeting website where a
calendar of events will be available. A long line of
webmasters/newsletter editors have contributed to the current manifestation
of this site. Robert Kuhlken at Central Washington University, who served as
an editor of the Cultural Ecology Newsletter (CEN) from 1994-1998, authored
the first webpage for what was then known as the Cultural Ecology Specialty
Group. This was later modified by Simon Batterbury between 1998 and 2004
(late of U of Arizona, now at Univ. of Melbourne), and by Eric Perramond
between 2004 and 2005 (Colorado College). The responsibilities of CAPE
newsletter editor and webmaster continue to be folded into a single position
and are currently executed by Tony Abbott (Stetson University). The CAPE Listserv http://lists.psu.edu/archives/aag-cesg-l.html |
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