James J. Igoe

6047 Silsby Hall
Hanover, NH 03755
Office: 410 Silsby
Telephone: (603) 646-0926
james.j.igoe at dartmouth.edu

B.A. Michigan State University;
M.A. Boston University
Ph.D. Boston University

Areas of Expertise

Cultural anthropology; political ecology; environmental justice; biodiversity conservation; the commodification of nature, globalization, identity, indigenism, and civil society

Recent publications:

BOOKS:

• 2008 Nature Unbound: Capitalism and the Future of Protected Areas. J. Igoe, D. Brockington and R. Duffy. London, UK: Earthscan Publications Limited.
• 2008 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: African NGOs, Donors, and the State, J. Igoe, T. Kelsall (eds). Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
• 2004 Conservation and Globalization: a Study of National Parks and Indigenous Communities from East Africa to South Dakota. Riverside, CA: Wadsworth Publishing.

ARTICLES:

• 2010 A Spectacular Eco-Tour Around the Historic Bloc: Theorizing the Current Convergence of Conservation and Capitalism. J. Igoe, K. Neves, D, Brockington, Antipode 42(3): 486-512 (Special Issue on Conservation and Capitalism).
• 2010 The Spectacle of Nature in the Global Economy of Appearances: Anthropological Engagements with the Spectacular Mediations of Transnational Conservation (2010). Critique of Anthropology 30(4).
• 2009 Special issue of Current Conservation, J. Igoe and S. Sullivan (eds.), which can be accessed at: http://www.currentconservation.org/?page_id=563
• 2007 Whither Communities and Conservation? J. Igoe, C. Fortwangler. International Journal of Biodiversity Science and Management, 3:2 (2007) 65-76.
• 2006 Measuring the Costs and Benefits of Conservation to Local Communities. Journal of Ecological Anthropology, 10:1 72-77.
• 2006 Becoming Indigenous Peoples: Difference, Inequality, and the Globalization of East African Identity Politics. African Affairs, 105:420 399-420.
• 2006 Eviction for Conservation: A Global Overview. J. Igoe, D. Brockington. Conservation and Society, 4:3 (2006) 424-470.

SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES:

• 2009 Appearance in a documentary film A Place Without People. The trailer can be viewed at: http://www.anemon.gr/place.html.
• 2009 Special issue of Current Conservation, J. Igoe and S. Sullivan (eds.), which can be accessed at: http://www.currentconservation.org/?page_id=563
• 2009 keynote speaker for the 2009 meetings of the Middle American Alliance for African Studies. (http://associations.missouristate.edu/maaas/default.htm) Greenwood Cultural Center, cultural heart of Tulsa's Greenwood Historic Neighborhood. The area was known as Black Wall Street in the early 20th century, till the Tulsa Race Riots of 1921 devastated this prosperous neighborhood (http://www.greenwoodculturalcenter.com/). The talk was entitled Thinking About African Environments in the Context of our Current Economic and Ecological Crises. He also gave an interview on Tulsa Public Radio on the same topic, which can be heard at the following link: http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kwgs/news.newsmain/article/1/0/1562365/StudioTulsa/Ongoing.Concerns.---.and.New.Questions.---.about.Africa.and.the.Environment
• 2008 Convener of the Workshop: Problematizing Neoliberal Conservation: Displaced and Disobedient Knowledge. J. Igoe, S. Sullivan. The workshop was funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the International Institute for Environment and Development. The executive summary is available at: www.iied.org/pubs/pdfs/G02526.pdf.
• 2008 Panel on Food Sovereignty at the World Conservation Congress, organized by the International Institute for the Environment and Development. IIED Clips of talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9GADPEHLO0 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgFyg1SaSvc&feature=channel

INTERVIEWS:

Professor James Igoe being interviewed by Andrew Murray from the BBC for a new documentary called Unnatural Histories. This three part series examines how encounters with nature in the American West, East Africa, and the Amazon Basin shape the ways in which people in the west imagine nature and their place in nature. Igoe has written about this very question in his book Conservation and Globalization.

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