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Emily Wakild
Boise State University, History, Faculty Member
- History, Patagonia, Amazonia, US-Mexico Borderlands, Latin American Studies, Mexico History, and 12 moreConservation Biology, Biodiversity, Ecology, Science Communication, Environmental Education, Human-wildlife conflicts, Conservation, Chile, Environmental History, Human-Animal Relations, Protected areas, and Wildlife Conservationedit
- I'm a social and environmental historian interested in how societies endow landscapes with collective value. Concret... moreI'm a social and environmental historian interested in how societies endow landscapes with collective value. Concretely, I want to understand how, when, and why people make parks. I started out looking at the environmental policies that came out of the Mexican Revolution. I've been slowly moving south looking for appropriate comparisons. I am now beginning research into the role of science and scientists in parks across Amazonia and Patagonia.edit
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Environmental histories of Latin America have reached a critical mass. The breadth, depth, and sophistication of this new literature merit comparisons to less conventionally environmental topics, such as labor and politics, and new... more
Environmental histories of Latin America have reached a critical mass. The breadth, depth, and sophistication of this new literature merit comparisons to less conventionally environmental topics, such as labor and politics, and new strands of environmental research, such as environmental justice. While the field of Latin American environmental history for the twentieth century is far from complete or comprehensive, one of its strengths is the simultaneous consideration of social relationships (including struggles for justice) and the natural world. Rather than a need to catch up with other historiographies that have bifurcated environmental history and environmental justice, this integrated model of investigation places recent scholarship in a strategic place to make history more policy relevant. Going forward, scholars should continue to find and fuse environmental history and environmental justice studies and refrain from letting distinctions among subfields conceal rich thematic harmony.
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... We each bring our individual disciplinary questions to the concept of contestation: Gillian Overing asks questions about medieval places. If perception of place is always ... Page 9. Kirby, Jack Temple. Mockingbird Song: Ecological... more
... We each bring our individual disciplinary questions to the concept of contestation: Gillian Overing asks questions about medieval places. If perception of place is always ... Page 9. Kirby, Jack Temple. Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South. Chapel Hill: ...
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'This book offers a bold new concept, the " nature state " , intended to take its place beside useful terms such as the welfare state or patrimonial state. Building on fresh case studies from every inhabited continent, the volume explores... more
'This book offers a bold new concept, the " nature state " , intended to take its place beside useful terms such as the welfare state or patrimonial state. Building on fresh case studies from every inhabited continent, the volume explores the tangled links between states and the natural world in illuminating ways.' —J.R. McNeill, Georgetown University, USA 'Environmental history takes an important and imaginative stride forward with the concept of a " nature state " introduced here through a rich collection of unusual and varied examples. This innovative approach to theorizing state control over the natural environment in the twentieth century will serve as a productive model for future scholarship on this exciting theme.' —Jane Carruthers, University of South Africa, South Africa This volume brings together case studies from around the globe (including China, Latin America, the Philippines, Namibia, India and Europe) to explore the history of nature conservation in the twentieth century. It seeks to highlight the state, a central actor in these efforts, which is often taken for granted, and establishes a novel concept – the nature state – as a means for exploring the historical formation of that portion of the state dedicated to managing and protecting nature. Following the Industrial Revolution and postwar exponential increase in human population and consumption, conservation in myriad forms has been one particularly visible way in which the government and its agencies have tried to control, manage or produce nature for reasons other than raw exploitation. Using an interdisciplinary approach and including case studies from across the globe, this edited collection brings together geographers, sociologists, anthropologists and historians in order to examine the degree to which sociopolitical regimes facilitate and shape the emergence and development of nature states. This innovative work marks an early intervention in the tentative turn towards the state in environmental history and will be of great interest to students and practitioners of Environmental History, Social Anthropology and Conservation Studies.