Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Boston, March 1998
Tony Bebbington and myself have arranged the following conference session,
that may be of interest to list members.
Access to Resources and Environmental Histories in Latin America and Africa
Sponsored by the Cultural Ecology Specialty Group of the AAG, with possible
support from 'Land Degradation and Development' journal (Wiley Pubs.)
Organized by;
Tony Bebbington (Geography & IBS, University of Colorado, Boulder)
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Simon Batterbury (Geography & Earth Sciences, Brunel University, UK)
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Discussants;
Billie Lee Turner (Clark University)
Judy Carney (UCLA)
Speakers:
Andrew Sluyter, Penn State
Georgina Endfield and Sara O'Hara, University of Sheffield, UK
Simon Batterbury, N Taylor, M Weigl, Brunel University, UK
Lisa Naughton, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Emily Young, University of Arizona
Dan Klooster, Princeton University
Christian Lund, Roskilde University, Denmark
Anthony Bebbington, University of Colorado
Session I:
Access to Resources and Environmental Histories in Latin
America and Africa I: Resource control and environmental histories
Chair: Anthony Bebbington
Discussant: Billie Lee Turner
Andrew Sluyter, Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, PA 16802. Internet: [log in to unmask]
Insights into Cultural-Ecological Imperialism from the
Sixteenth-Century Livestock Invasion of Veracruz, Mexico.
Georgina H. Endfield and Sarah L. O'Hara, Department of Geography,
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S10 2TN.
Internet: [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] An
archival investigation of colonial impacts in Michoacan, west central
Mexico.
Keyword: environmental change, archives, Mexico
Simon Batterbury, Nik Taylor & Micha Weigl, Department of Geography &
Earth Sciences, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middx UB8 3PH, UK.
[log in to unmask] Zarma Livelihoods: Social and
Environmental change in the 20th century in south-west Niger.
Key words: Niger, environmental history, political ecology
Lisa Naughton, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI 53706-1491. Internet: [log in to unmask] Whose
animals? Indigenous versus colonial wildlife ownership in western
Uganda.
Keyword: environmental history, property rights, Africa
Session II:
Access to Resources and Environmental Histories in Latin
America and Africa II: Resource access and local environments
Chair: Simon Batterbury
Discussants: Judy Carney, Billie Lee Turner
Emily H. Young, Department of Geography and Regional Development,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721. Internet:
[log in to unmask] A Feminist Political Ecology of Marine Resource
Conservation in Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Key words: gender, political ecology, marine resource conservation
Daniel Klooster, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton
University, Princeton, NJ 08544. Internet: [log in to unmask] A
Mexican Experience with Community Forestry: natural resource
alienation despite community management.
Keyword: Latin America Mexico, forestry community, environment
development
Christian Lund, International Development Studies (51), Roskilde
University, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark. e-mail: [log in to unmask] A
Question of Honour - Protection of Property and Institutional
Competition in Land Struggles in Northern Burkina Faso.
Keywords: land tenure disputes, politico-legal institutions, Burkina
Faso
Anthony Bebbington, Department of Geography and Institute of
Behavioral Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
80309-0260. Internet: [log in to unmask] Rethinking resource
control in Andean environments: social capital, state and market
Key words: Andes; cultural ecology; local institutions
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Another AAG session is also going ahead, as you may be aware:
ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN AFRICA
Organizer and Chair: T. Bassett (U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Peter Walker (U. of Oregon, Eugene) "Environment and Political Change
in Southern Africa"
Leslie Gray (U. of California, Berkeley) "Creating Tenure Security:
Land Rights and Investment in Soil Quality in Southwestern Burkina
Faso"
Thomas J. Bassett (U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) & Koli Bi Zueli
(U. De Cocody) "Rereading the Ivorien Savanna, 1950-1990"
Matthew D. Turner (U. of Wisconsin) "Historic Changes in the
Organization of Agropastoral Production in the Vicinity of Parc W in
Niger (1940-present)"
Discussant: James McCann (Boston University).
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Simon Batterbury, Geography & Earth Sciences,
Brunel University,
Uxbridge, Middx UB8 3PH
UK
(0044) +1895 274000
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/geo
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