LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM

Seminar on Latin American Studies: 
Introduction to the Political Ecology of Sustainable Development 
in Amazonia

Prof. Jorge Marcone
Latin American Studies Program
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
 
01:590:402.   
Seminar on Latin American Studies   
Spring 1998   
 #69934   
Tuesdays 9:50-11:10, Hickman 205, DC   
Fridays 9:50-11:10, Hickman 210, DC
Prof. Marcone 
Tues. & Fri. 11:30 - 12:30 
Carpender House 301 
2-9412 x 33 
jmarcone@rci.rutgers.edu

Objective

Activities

  1. Selection of a topic, and a partner or team.
  2. Proposal and Bibliography.
  3. Student Seminar.
  4. Final Paper.
  5. Publication of the final paper as a  Web page.

Grading

Proposal and Bibliography 20%
Student Seminar 20%
Final Paper, First Draft 20%
Final Paper, Web Site 20%
Class Participation  20%
 

Calendar

JANUARY CLASS ASSIGNMENT
Tues 20 Introduction  - Veja, # 1527, Dec. 24, 1997. Issue on Amazonia.
Fri 23 Current Amazonian Affairs:
Amazon Journal
dir. Geoffrey O'Connor (1995)
 - Raymond Williams, selection from Keywords. A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. Revised Edition. New York: Oxford UP, 1983.
 
Tues 27   "Ecology" and "Environmentalism"  - Raymond Williams, "Ideas of Nature," Problems in Materialism and Culture. London: Verso, 1980.
Fri 30  "Ecology" and "Environmentalism"  - Anna Bramwell, Introduction and "The Manichean Ecologist," Ecology in the 20th Century: A History. New Haven: Yale UP, 1989.
FEBRUARY CLASS ASSIGNMENT
Tues 3 "Ecology" and "Environmentalism" - Leopoldo Zea, "Naturaleza y cultura." Casa de las Americas XXXIV, #192 (julio-septiembre) 1993. 
Fri 6  Sustainable Development - Kari Keipi, "Reducing Deforestation in Latin America," Economic Development and Environmetal Protection in L.A. Eds. Joseph Tulchin and Andrew I. Rudman. Boulder: Lynne Reiner, 1991.
Tues 10  Sustainable Development - John O. Browder, "Alternative Rainforest Uses,"  Economic Development and Environmetal Protection in L.A. Eds. Joseph Tulchin and Andrew I. Rudman. Boulder: Lynne Reiner, 1991. 
Fri 13  Political Ecology 
of Sustainable Development
 - Richard Peet and Michael Watts, "Liberation Ecology: Development, Sustainability,and Environment in an Age of Market Triumphalism." Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements. London: Routledge, 1996. 
Tues 17  Political Ecology 
of Sustainable Development
  - Richard Peet and Michael Watts, "Liberation Ecology." (cont.)
Fri 20 No classes Conference: LA CHISPA (LSU)
Tues 24  Political Ecology 
of Sustainable Development
 - Arturo Escobar, "Constructing Nature: Elements for a Poststructural Political Ecology." Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements. London: Routledge, 1996. 
Fri 27  Political Ecology 
of Sustainable Development
 - Arturo Escobar, "Constructing Nature: Elements for a Poststructural Political Ecology." (cont.)

Turn in Proposal and Bibliography

MARCH STUDENT SEMINARS ASSIGNMENT
Tues 3 Student Seminar:  
Maritza Gonzalez y Paola Roncancio. 
"Biodiversidad en la 
Amazonia colombiana
"
 - Gonzalo Halffter and Exequiel Ezcurra, "La diversidad biologica de Ibero-america."
Fri 6  Continuation  - "Colombia, al rescate de los parques naturales," AUPEC (Agencia Universitaria de Periodismo Cientifico).
Tues 10 Student Seminar:  
Corali Torres y Brian Rockwell 
"Sustainable Development in the Amazon: Looking at the aspects of industrial development in the 21st century."
 - L. F. Sedrez, and H. Acselrad. "Sustainability: Discourses and Disputes", Workshop on Sustainability: Non-Governmental Perspectives, IBASE/WEED, Rio de Janeiro, February 15, 1995. Download it from L. F. Sedrez page.
Fri 13  Continuation - N. Patrick Peritore, "Biotechnology: Political Economy and Environmetnal Impacts." Biotechnology in Latin America: Politics, Impacts and Risks. Eds. N. Patrick Peritore and Ana Karina Galve-Peritore. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1995.
Tues 17 No classes Spring Break
Fri 20 No classes Spring Break
Tues 24  El  hombre y su medio: la selva,
prod. CETUC (Peru)
Reserva de Biosfera del Manu,

dir. Alejandro Guerrero
   
Fri 27 Student Seminar:  
Celia Morante y Liz Cerne 
"Oil  Industry and Ecuador's Amazonian Peoples"
- Maria Fernanda Espinoza, "The March for Life, Territory and Dignity: Ethnicity, Nationhood and Environmentalism in the Ecuadorian Amazon," Unpublished manuscript. 
Tues 31  Continuation     
APRIL STUDENT SEMINARS ASSIGNMENT
Fri 3 No classes Distinguished Lecturer Series (RU)
Tues 7 Student Seminar: 
Joe Aloi y Harmony Thompson 
"The World Bank and Indigenous 
People in the Amazon
"
 - D. Michael Warren, Using Indigenous Knowledge in Agricultural Development. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Discussion Papers, #127. 
Fri 10  Continuation  - Leslie E. Sponsel, "Relationships Among the World System, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecological Anthropology in the Endangered Amazon." Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Amazonia. Ed. Leslie E. Sponsel. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 1995.

Turn in Final Paper, First Draft

Tues 14 Follow-up Final Papers.    
Fri 17 No classes Conference: Center for the Study of Theory and Criticism (CAN)
Tues 21 Student Seminar: 
Magalis Azcona y Melissa Tinsman 
"Interrogando las Imagenes 
de la Amazonia a traves del Consumo
"
 - Candace Slater, "Amazonia as Edenic Narrative." Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature. Ed. W. Cronon. New York: Norton, 1995.
Fri 24  Continuation  - "Declaracion de Principios" and "Plan de Accion," from the Americas Summit, Miami, 1994.
Tues 28 Designing your Website. 
Computer Lab at the Language Institute.
 - Lise Fernanda Sedrez, "US NGOs and The Representation of the Amazon: The  Experience of Coalition."
MAY CLASS ASSIGNMENT
Fri 1 Designing your Website. 
Computer Lab at the Language Institute.
      
Fri 8 Turn in Final Paper, as a Web site.      
 

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