2-0375 CLAIMING NATURE: 'RACE', ETHNICITY AND THE POLITICS OF BELONGING

Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 14:00-17:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

Organizers: Marc A Boglioli (Drew University) and Allan Charles Dawson (Drew University)

Chairs: Marc A Boglioli (Drew University) and Allan Charles Dawson (Drew University)

Discussants: Aisha Khan (NEW YORK UNIVERSITY) and John F Collins (Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center)

14:00

The Succor of the 'Wild': Maroons and Nature In Brazil and Elsewhere

Allan Charles Dawson (Drew University)

14:15

Sakha As “Children of Nature”: Environmental Imaginaries and Indigenous Identity In Eastern Siberia

Susan M Hicks (University of British Columbia)

14:30

Preserving Roots and Losing Land In Northern New Mexico

Thomas H Guthrie (Guilford College)

14:45

Artifacts of the Past: How the Legacies of National Park Creation Haunt the Contemporary Landscape Politics of Belonging In the Florida Everglades

Rebecca I Garvoille (Florida International University)

15:00

Race and the Constitution of Space In Prince Rupert, BC

Arianne Loranger-Saindon (University of British Columbia)

15:15

Claiming the “Wastelands”: From Caste to Ethnicity In Chilika Lake, India

Eial Dujovny (Center for Integrative Conservation Research – University of Georgia)

15:30

Discussant

John F Collins (Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center)

15:45

Break

16:00

Pure Vermont: The Racial Politics of Belonging In a Rural Euro-American Homeland

Marc A Boglioli (Drew University)

16:15

Matagi: Images of the Hunting Tradition In Northeastern Japan

Scott R Schnell (University of Iowa)

16:30

Are the Fulani Nomads Losing Out?: Place, Space, ‘Race’ and Ethnicity In Cameroon

José C.M. van Santen (Leiden University)

16:45

Return to Conquest: Indigenous Protest and Ethnicity In the Anti-Mining Movement of Guatemala

Timothy J Smith (Appalachian State University)

17:00

The Interpretation of Ancestral Landscapes to Instantiate Belonging within Puerto Rican Taíno Activism

Sherina Feliciano-Santos (Vassar College)

17:15

“Sou Nativo!”: Carving Identity and Creating Space In the Atlantic Forest of Bahia, Brazil

Colleen M Scanlan Lyons (Associate Director/Center for the Study of Conflict, Collaboration, and Creative Governance (3CG), University of Colorado, Boulder and Faculty/Presidents' Leadership Institute, University of Colorado)

17:30

Discussant

Aisha Khan (NEW YORK UNIVERSITY)

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