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Sociocultural Anthropology, Latin America, Mexico, United States, Environment, Social Movements, Globalization, Political Economy, Consumption, Commodity Chains, Organic Agriculture, Cooperatives
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Profile: My dissertation research concerned a community/NGO based environmental movement in Chimalapas forest, Oaxaca. The research looks at the conflicts that emerged when an environmental NGO with a social justice agenda tried to establish a community-based nature reserve with support from the World Wildlife fund. I found that despite a public commitment to grassroots problem-solving, community-based conservation was hindered by the inability of the NGO to institutionalize community desires within a dense and complicated political landscape that ultimately favored neo-liberal and neo-conservative models of development. I continue to be interested in the promise and limitations of progressive politics, especially as they relate to environmental themes and consumer movements. My book on Chimalapas is currently under contract. I am now working on a book on the fair trade movement in the US and Mexico. Research for the current project was funded by the National science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. I am also beginning new research on organic farming cooperatives in western Wisconsin. My teaching interests include social movements, globalization, Latin America, anthropological theory and environmental anthropology.
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Selected Publications:
“Structure and Agency in the Fair Trade Coffee System” Anthropology News, December 2007.
“The Political Economy of the Ecological Native” in American Anthropologist 109 (3), September 2007
The Resilience of Nationalism in a Global Era: Megaprojects in Mexico=s South@ In June Nash, ed. Social Movements: an Anthropological Reader, London and Medford, MA: Blackwell, 2004
"A Distant Jaguar: The Civil Society Project in Chimalapas, Mexico@ Critique of Anthropology 21: 361-381, 2001. |
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