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Cultural and
Political Ecology Newsletter
(CPEN #42 -- Fall
2003)
Last Updated: Mar
2004
Announcements
Calls:
Conferences, meetings, publications
Jobs/scholarships
Meeting
Reports
Members'
News
Book
Reviews & Notes
Announcements
Notes
from the Chair, January 2004
Hi
all,
I just returned from a month in Mexico where the power of work in
Cultural and Political Ecology was impressed on me again and again. Whether
it was in visiting relict chinampas fields in Xochimilco (whose horticultural
production systems are fast being replaced with homes) or considering the
situation of Oaxacan coffee growers (whose situation has never been more
complicated), the benefits of wide reading across the subdiscipline paid off,
even for me, the most barbaric yanqui. And while I was a mere tourist (and an
ignorant one at that; thanks to Sarah Moore for all translation and
interpretation), a visit to a Monarch Butterfly Preserve couldn't help evoke
the wealth of work in the field on forested ejidos and ecotourism. An
enormous exhibition on Humboldt in Mexico
City emphasized the common history of our many lines
of pursuit and held out the ongoing and historically deep promise of
politically critical and empirically rigorous investigation of
nature/culture. The visit, moreover, reinforced the power of our many
methods, including historical demography, archaeology, pedology, participant
observation, interview, and textual analysis, among many. Where could an
understanding of the region's landscapes be without them all? Now if only I
could speak Spanish....
This unity and diversity is of course also in evidence in the range of
sessions sponsored for this year's AAG. The 35 sponsored sessions include
promising groups of papers on a huge range of topics. Be sure to join us for
three special CAPE panel sessions organized
to discuss the past, present, and future of our field at the AAG's centenary
mark. These have been organized to bring together disparate perspectives,
memories, and generational concerns. Also be sure to make the business
meeting, tentatively scheduled for Thursday, 3/18/2004 from 7:00 p.m. - 8:00
p.m. We will complete business in our rapid and orderly manner and elect new
officers for the next two years of service. I am considering buying some
beer....
Finally, I remind everyone that nominations are still open for both the
Netting and Blaut awards, the former directed towards the integration of
Anthropology and Geography over a CAPE career, the latter towards a single
published work of critical importance; each award in the spirit of its
namesake. So too, student competitions for papers and field study awards are
also open until just prior to the meeting. Details, as always, at: http://www.stetson.edu/cape/
A happy New Year to everyone. See you in Philadelphia!
Paul Robbins robbins.30@osu.edu
Winners
of Netting and Blaut awards
The winner of the 2004 Robert McC. Netting Award - in recognition of
distinguished research and professional activities that bridge geography and
anthropology - is Prof. Lawrence Grossman.
A testimonial will be ready shortly after the Philadelphia meeting.
Winner of the 2003 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative
scholarship in cultural and political ecology, as demonstrated by publication
of "Colonialism and Landscape" (2002, Rowman & Littlefield) is
Prof. Andrew Sluyter.
The forthcoming testimonial review will be ready shortly after the Philadelphia meeting
(see cen#44).
Thanks to all the members for their nominations and to the executive for
their thoughtful deliberation.
Calls; conferences, meetings, publications Conservation Ecology journal has been renamed Ecology
and Society. Go here.
Participatory Mapping of Indigenous Lands in Latin
America is a special Issue of Human
Organization, Volume 62, Number 4, Winter 2003. Copies are available for
$15.00/copy. Add $3.50 for postage and handling (domestic). Contact Tom May
for international postage rates. There is a 20% discount for orders of 5
copies or more (for classroom use, for example). Send requests for orders to:
Tom May, Executive Director, Society for Applied Anthropology, PO Box 2436, Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma 73101-2436. <tom@sfaa.net>. Guest Editors are Peter H.
Herlihy and Gregory Knapp.
·
Maps of, by, and for the Peoples of Latin America.
Peter H Herlihy and Gregory Knapp
·
Participatory Research Mapping of Indigenous Lands in Darien, Panama.
Peter H Herlihy
·
Participatory Mapping of Community Lands and Hunting Yields Among the Bugle of Western Panama. Derek A. Smith
·
Mapping Dreams in Nicaragua’s
Bosawas Reserve. Anthony Stocks
·
Mapping the Past and Future: Geomatics and Indigenous Territories in the
Peruvian Amazon. Richard Chase Smith, Margarita Benavides, Mario Pariona, and
Ernesto Tuesta
·
Rights, Resources, and the Social Memory of Struggle: Reflections on the
Study of Indigenous and Black Community Land Rights on Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast.
Edmund T Gordon, Galio C Gurdian, and Charles R Hale
·
Narrating Place and Identity, or Mapping
Miskitu Land
Claims in Northeastern Nicaragua. Karl Offen
Members'
(or those who should be..)
News
The
31 October 2003 issue of Science announces the new Fellows of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, and among them is Kent
Mathewson of the Department of Geography and Anthropology of Louisiana State
University. Kent
joins a handful of geographers who are AAAS Fellows, and LSU Geography and
Anthropology are real proud of him. The only other of the LSU faculty who is
an AAAS Fellow is the distinguished geomorphologist Jes Walker. Kent, as many CAPE
members know, has been very active in the specialty group since the CESG
days, serving as Chair and in various other board capacities over the years
and as newsletter editor for an unprecedented dozen issues.
Andrew
Sluyter, Louisiana State
University
Hires
David Cochran (PhD student, Kansas University)
has been appointed assistant professor, University of Southern
Mississippi.
Simon Batterbury (Assistant Professor, University
of Arizona and nomad political
ecologist) has been appointed lecturer, School
of Geography, Anthropology and
Environmental Sciences, University
of Melbourne, Australia
from July 2004.
Emma Mawdsley (lecturer, University of Durham)
has been appointed lecturer, Birkbeck
College, University of London
from July 2003.
Christian Kull (Assistant Professor, McGill University)
has been appointed senior lecturer, Department of Geography and Environmental
Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne,
Australia
from July 2003.
Michael Steinberg (Assistant
Professor, University of Southern Maine) has been appointed cultural
biogeographer at the US Department of Agriculture's National
Plant Data
Center in Baton Rouge, LA.
In addition to his current research duties with the USDA, he has also been
hired as acquisitions editor for geography and environmental studies at LSU
Press. His new email address is mstein5@lsu.edu
Craig Thorburn (PhD, UCLA) has been appointed
senior lecturer and coordinator of the
Masters Program in International Development and Environmental Analysis, Department of Geography and Environmental
Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne,
Australia
from July 2003.
Book reviews & book announcements All CPESG members, and others, are invited to submit
reviews of books that would be of interest to our Specialty Group. Publishers
are invited to send books to the Editor, and willing reviewers are sought.
Moseley,
W.G. and B.I. Logan. (eds.) 2003. African Environment and Development:
Rhetoric, Programs, Realities. Aldershot,
UK: Ashgate
Publishing Limited. (ISBN 0-7546-3904-5). 256 pgs.
This
edited volume explores the connections between African rural livelihoods,
environmental integrity and broader scale political economy. Including case
studies from Southern, West and East Africa, the book examines a wide range
of livelihood activities (pastoralism, farming, gardening and hunting) and
environmental issues (e.g., dam projects, cash cropping, burning practices,
civil war, pesticide use, oil exploitation, community-based natural resources
management and transnational parks). The studies demonstrate the necessity of
grounding environment and development policy discussions within a broader
understanding of the economy, history, politics and power.
Contents
African
environment and development: an introduction, B. Ikubolajeh Logan and William
G. Moseley. Environmental Narratives and African Realities: Ideology and
power in resource management: from sustainable development to environmental
security in Africa, B. Ikubolajeh Logan; Environmental degradation and 'Poor'
smallholders in the West African Sudano-Sahel: global discourses and local
realities, William G. Moseley; Grounding environmental narratives: the impact
of a century of fighting against fire in Mali, Paul Laris. Political
Economy, Rural Livelihoods and the Environment: War and the environmental
effects of displacement in Southern Africa (1970s-1990s), Emmanuel Kreike;
Pesticides, politics and pest management: toward a political ecology of
cotton in Sub-Saharan Africa, Jim Bingen; A local graft takes hold: the
political ecology of commercial horticultural production in rural Mali,
Stephen R. Wooten; Risk positions and local politics in a Sahelian society:
the Fulbe of the Hayre in central Mali, Mirjam de Bruijn and Han van Dijk. Global
Environmental Politics and Conservation in Africa: Buying (into) and
selling conservation among Maasai in Southern Kenya,
Jennifer E. Coffman; Placing the local in the transnational? Communities and
conservation across borders in Southern Africa, Rachel B. DeMotts; '(S)hell
in Nigeria':
the environmental impact of oil politics in Ogoniland on Shell International,
Phia Steyn; Whither African environment and development?, William G. Moseley;
Index.
Moseley,
W.G. (ed.) 2003. Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial African
Issues. Guilford, CT: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin. (ISBN
0-07-284517-1).
This
is a debate-style reader designed to introduce students to controversies in
African Studies. The readings, representing the arguments of historians,
political scientists, geographers, anthropologists, educators and economists,
reflect a variety of viewpoints and are organized around 20 key issues facing
the African continent today. By requiring students to analyze opposing
viewpoints and reach considered judgments, "Taking Sides" actively
seeks to develop critical thinking skills. You may examine the book's table
of contents and order an examination copy at: http://www.dushkin.com/text-data/catalog/0072845171.mhtml?SECTION=TOC#toc
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