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Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group
Sponsored Session
2008 Annual Meeting
Association of American Geographers
Boston, Massachusettes, April 15-19 2008


Title:

Local Knowledge Systems: Cultural, Historical and Political Ecology Perspectives II

Description:

This (second) session focuses on current research on local/ indigenous environmental knowledge systems considered through the lens of cultural, political and/or historical ecology.

Anticipated Attendance:

Illustrated Paper Session

Organizers:

Antoinette WinklerPrins

Chairs:

Mrill Ingram

Participants:

Presenter:

Kimberly E. Medley, Embedded Histories and the Landscape Ecology of Woody Plant Resources at Mt. Kasigau, Kenya

Presenter:

Joanna Wilbur, Discourses of Sustainability and Social Justice in Philippine Agribusiness

Presenter:

Amy Cooke, The Ecology of Learning: transferring indigenous knowledge across Maasai production systems

Presenter:

Janna M. Shackeroff, Historical ecology and human dimensions of the Kona Coast, Hawaii: Contributions of traditional, local and Western scientific ecological knowledge to understanding change

Presenter:

Joshua J Ramisch, 'They Don't Know What They Are Talking About': Engaging the Micro-Politics of Local Soil Fertility Knowledge, Western Kenya

Presenter:

Michaela Beth Palchick, Agricultural Transformation and Livelihood Struggles in South Africa's Western Cape

Presenter:

Thomas A Smucker, Local Knowledge and Agropastoral Livelihood Change: Implications for Vulnerability and Resilience in Kenya's Semi-Arid Areas

Presenter:

Yulanda Y. Hwang, Utilizing Indigenous Community Museums as a Mechanism for Collaboration between Traditional and Scientific Ecological Knowledge

Presenter:

Mrill Ingram, A Soil's Best Friend? A political ecology of invasive earthworms in the Great Lakes Region

 

Sponsorships:

Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group

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