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Making Peace with Nature: The Greening of the Korean Demilitarized Zone
Through my ongoing research on the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), I am engaging with broader questions about the “nature” of militarized landscapes and the production of their ecological value. In this piece, I examine how South Korean state and NGO projects configure the DMZ as a unique site of biodiversity that could provide the basis for sustainable development and also peace on the Korean peninsula. Continue reading
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Tagged biodiversity, conservation, engagement, militarized ecologies, neoliberal nature, NGOs, South Korea
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Cloaking, not Bleaching: the Back Story from Inside Bureaucracy
…good bureaucracies do not bleach out local context. Instead, they create big, simplified umbrellas that cloak the complex, dynamic range of local circumstances and thereby give the staff of government bureaucracies the space to address local circumstances despite changes in political direction. I base this assertion on twenty-five years’ experience working with USAID, and on the literature on good governance. Continue reading
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Tagged biodiversity, bureaucracy, conservation, consultancy, development, engagement, United States, USAID
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Genese Marie Sodikoff on forest conservation, Malagasy worker-peasants and biodiversity
ENGAGEMENT editor Rebecca Garvoille recently caught up with Genese Marie Sodikoff, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, to discuss her new book, Forest and Labor in Madagascar: From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere (2012, Indiana University Press), and its broader contributions to forest conservation and socio-environmental justice debates in Madagascar. This interview is the fourth installment in an ENGAGEMENT series exploring how environmental-anthropological book projects inspire meaningful engagements in study sites across the globe. Continue reading
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Tagged africa, biodiversity, books, colonialism, conservation, development, engagement, forestry, interview, Madagascar, socio-environmental justice, worker-peasants
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