A5057079331- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Mining and Resource Management
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
- Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Design Education and Practice
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Web Data Mining and Analysis
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Natural Resources and Economic Development
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Politics and Society in Latin America
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Data Visualization and Analytics
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
Monmouth University
2013-2023
University of Vermont
2016
Leiden University
2012-2013
Maastricht University
2009-2010
New York University
2004
Increased conservation action to protect more habitat and species is fueling a vigorous debate about the relative effectiveness of different sorts protected areas. Here we review literature that compares areas managed by states Indigenous peoples and/or local communities. We argue these can be hard comparisons make. Robust comparative case studies are rare, epistemic communities producing them fractured language, discipline, geography. Furthermore distinction between forms protection on...
Heritage-scape: UNESCO, World Heritage, and tourism, by Michael di Giovine, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008, 519 pp., US$44.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0739114353 Di Gi...
Resumen En el Ecuador postneoliberal la ecopolítica esta flanqueada entre extracción petrolífera y minería, siendo primer caso un ejemplo del fracaso de las políticas neoliberales, mientras segundo es reflejo promesas populistas. Este artículo analiza cómo en Intag activismo antiminería refleja este cambio neoliberales desde estado petrolero a “nuevo progresivo” que defiende una agenda prominería. sentido amplio, examina, por lado, forma contraposición estas divisiones ecopolíticas se...
This article examines the nuances of different constructions and meanings “natural resources” in Ecuador. Focusing on biodiverse copper-rich region Intag, I show how once a process commodification natural materials is underway—in place where biophysical specificities soil, minerals, flora map onto extractive, as well “green” economies value—there an emergence what call “metonymic materiality,” discursive frame which one particular aspect material resources becomes iconic place, assuming...
Around the world, we increasingly see often‐deemed incongruent activities of ecotourism, associated environmental conservation and natural resource or fossil fuel extraction happening in same spaces, often supported by institutions. Rather than being incongruent, however, these seemingly uncomfortable bedfellows are transforming livelihoods social, political geographies tandem through what call ‘ecotourism–extraction nexus’. Drawing on case studies from around show that physical, symbolic...
RESUMEN Han surgido nuevas formas mercantilizadas de chamanismo en las comunidades Kichwa debido a la nueva afluencia turistas interesados culturas indígenas Amazonía Ecuatoriana. Los ritos chamanicos son populares entre los porque representan sus fantasías alteridad cultural, pero intercambios económicos y chamanes plantean problemas legitimidad autenticidad. El turismo privilegia aspectos performativos más que tradiciones tradicionalmente han definido al chamán. Como consecuencia ello,...
This article analyzes the commonly deployed imaginary of Amazon as a pharmacopia – cornucopia ethnomedicinal cures unheard in West. Using several fictional narratives (two novels and film) starting point, I explore how Western is discursive variation on environmental “lungs world” vulnerable entity high import need protection. Both “pharmacopia” imaginaries construct global commons. But argue that while narrative conceptually anti-extractivist, within it Amazon’s value attributed to its...
Abstract The frame of “environmentalism” in academic and policy literature on R ussia tends to focus the “formal” environmentalism sector ussia, thereby relegating phenomena such as conservative, eco‐spiritual “ A nastasia” or inging C edars” movement domain religious spiritual studies. Yet this is significant for understanding ecopolitical field contemporary processes meaning‐making within that field. At same time, calling nastasians “environmentalists” would obfuscate flatten thick...
Two unrelated indigenous rainforest cultures are compared in relationship to their experiences with the oil industry territories. Despite geographic separation, Central Africa and western Amazonia, acculturation process its outcomes have been quite similar for Bagyeli Waorani. In both cases, expectations improvements quality of life were high as arrived but tremendous disappointments soon followed. Typically, people blame companies creating unrealistic scenarios not following through...
The Yasuní‐ITT proposal by the government of Ecuador to “keep oil in ground” untouched, highly biodiverse Ishpingo‐Tambococha‐Tiputini sector Yasuni National Park exchange for compensatory 3.6 billion dollars from international community, has been interpreted and analyzed academics media alike as a radical environmental intervention. In this article I argue that ITT initiative it less plan, more performative articulation post‐IMF nationalism. problematize notion heralds shift new paradigm,...
This literature review of biomimicry and related models treating nature as a meta-resource on mega-scale integrates concepts resources abundance. Biomimicry, which lies at the intersection biosciences industrial design, is praxis for drawing designs processes found in using them inspirational sources technologies. Environmental anthropology often focuses such extraction commodification that position governed by an economy scarcity with its existential state characterized attenuation. The...
Ecotourism is primarily perceived and studied as an alternative to resource extraction, even though increasingly the two coexist side by in a nexus. This article investigates how such instances of copresence are marginalized literatures about ecotourism constituting “blind spot“ academic literature. An extensive literature review focuses on existing knowledge trends paradigms production analyzes whether they contribute or can be mobilized nexus perspective. Finally, briefly outlines...
This article analyzes a series of litigations that began with the Aguinda v. Texaco Inc. case as site production new legal subjectivities for indigenous communities in region Ecuadorian Amazon polluted by oil extraction activities. They engage transnational and local structures, contribute to generate scientific knowledge expertise, articulate multiple position them not only homogenous plaintiffs highly publicized lawsuit, but also actors complex relation each other, state. Through such...
This article looks at divergent and competing understandings of temporalities in Estero de Platano, a fishing village the Esmeraldas province Ecuador. Through discussion how time can structure experience exist as cultural capital, I explore issues through an ethnographic lens. Specifically, show way differences between NGO local come to bear on kind knowledge that NGOs produce disseminate about communities. argue management by development actors was part wider project creating new...
Lawsuits are representational arenas, as well legal events. They serve integrative spaces for power relations, symbolic orders, and moral economies. This article focuses on the 'social lives' of two lawsuits brought by indigenous communities to litigate issues arising from oil extraction their territories: Texaco lawsuit in Ecuadorian Amazon Beaver Lake Cree Nation Alberta, Canada. I analyze narratives indigeneity modernity that they challenge, potential order disorder social fabrics beyond...
Abstract This article focuses on the development-themed Manga series entitled 1 World Manga, a Bank/Viz Media project that follows adventures of young orphan boy, who ‘discovers only way to become true warrior is understand challenges facing poor and disadvantaged people he befriends along way’. I argue generates pedagogical meta-narrative ‘development’ engages behavioural situational, rather than ontogenetic structural causes inequality disenfranchisement impede characters' human...