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Protecting the Wild, 2015
How do historians balance exceptions against broader patterns to understand their significance? F... more How do historians balance exceptions against broader patterns to understand their significance? From the perspective of the image above, you can see the rising jagged peaks and the nothofagus forests below, but you do not catch a glimpse of the havoc exotic beavers have brought to the water coursing through peat bogs, nor are there indications that this range rises out of an island at the tip of South America. Mountains provide an illustrative way of thinking about historical scale. Setting and serendipity influence inhabiting communities that are molded by barriers and conduits the mountains create. But mountains alone don't explain how beavers ended up in Valdivieso. Mountains shape rather than determine the course of human history, and yet the contiguity of their features opens avenues of comparison, especially regarding time and space. 2 Instead of digging into their strata, let us consider mountains as metaphors for the challenges associated with the multiple levels of analysis an environmental history project might consider.
in Christopher R. Boyer, ed., A Land between Waters: Environmental Histories of Modern Mexico, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press 2012), 2012
Environmental histories of Latin America have reached a critical mass. The breadth, depth, and so... 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.
Hispanic American Historical Review, Jan 1, 2012
in Bernhard Gissibl, Sabine Hoehler, and Patrick Kupper, eds. Civilizing Nature: Towards a Global History of National Parks, Berghahn Books, 2012.
Environmental History, Jan 1, 2009
A Companion to Mexican History and Culture, Jan 1, 2011
Protecting the Wild, 2015
How do historians balance exceptions against broader patterns to understand their significance? F... more How do historians balance exceptions against broader patterns to understand their significance? From the perspective of the image above, you can see the rising jagged peaks and the nothofagus forests below, but you do not catch a glimpse of the havoc exotic beavers have brought to the water coursing through peat bogs, nor are there indications that this range rises out of an island at the tip of South America. Mountains provide an illustrative way of thinking about historical scale. Setting and serendipity influence inhabiting communities that are molded by barriers and conduits the mountains create. But mountains alone don't explain how beavers ended up in Valdivieso. Mountains shape rather than determine the course of human history, and yet the contiguity of their features opens avenues of comparison, especially regarding time and space. 2 Instead of digging into their strata, let us consider mountains as metaphors for the challenges associated with the multiple levels of analysis an environmental history project might consider.
in Christopher R. Boyer, ed., A Land between Waters: Environmental Histories of Modern Mexico, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press 2012), 2012
Environmental histories of Latin America have reached a critical mass. The breadth, depth, and so... 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.
Hispanic American Historical Review, Jan 1, 2012
in Bernhard Gissibl, Sabine Hoehler, and Patrick Kupper, eds. Civilizing Nature: Towards a Global History of National Parks, Berghahn Books, 2012.
Environmental History, Jan 1, 2009
A Companion to Mexican History and Culture, Jan 1, 2011
Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, Jan 1, 2007
This article argues that governmental modernization strategies in Mexico during the Porfiriato re... more This article argues that governmental modernization strategies in Mexico during the Porfiriato relied on calculated manipulations of nature. Using examples of urban gardens, public parks, and drainage works, this article explains how Porfirian scientists José Yves Limantour and Miguel Ángel de Quevedo tried to reformulate Mexican nature and its citizens. Rather than expelling all vestiges of nature from Mexico City, these scientists reordered and reformulated the natural world to fit their ideas about modernity. The control and display of nature marked an important strategy for a regime dedicated to order and progress.
This dissertation analyzes the creation of national parks in Mexico between 1934 and 1940 as a pr... more This dissertation analyzes the creation of national parks in Mexico between 1934 and 1940 as a program of national unity and federal resource control on the heels of revolutionary upheaval. In radical new ways, national park formation marked a complementary relationship between revolutionary social change and the environment. The creation, administration, and defense of these parks symbolized larger processes reordering how regulatory legitimacy came about and what factors shaped policy implementation. The parks, mostly within one or two hours of Mexico City, protected temperate forests but overlapped with longstanding communities. While some scientists critiqued peasant forest use techniques, the inclusive politics of the revolutionary government and the vibrant opinions of residents prevented their eviction from these national spaces. By articulating visions of their patrimony and zealously debating their rights to national territory, peasants, scientists, industrialists, and bureaucrats transformed revolutionary reforms into conspicuous environmental policy. This purposeful inclusion allowed citizens to forge national identity with explicit attention to the natural world.
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... We each bring our individual disciplinary questions to the concept of contestation: Gillian O... 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: ...
Journal of World History, Jan 1, 2011
Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of …, Jan 1, 2008
A Contracorriente, Jan 1, 2011
Hispanic American Historical Review, 90:4 (Nov 2010).
'This book offers a bold new concept, the " nature state " , intended to take its place beside us... 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.