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Research
research overview
- My current research falls into four thematic clusters: 1-States and Property: a) Social relations of property and the state, b) Co-evolving state-property systems, c) Police power and ownership, and d) Land reform and restitution/redistribution. 2-Involuntary Land Alienation: a)Terra Nullius and development discourse, b) Tragedy of the commoners, c) The lost/found art of seeing and grabs, and d) Property rights and human rights. 3-Armed Enclosures: a) Military occupation theory, a) Crisis, force, and preemption due to homeland securitization, b) Non-state armed organizations and counter-spacing, and c) New cosmographies of power and new enclosures. 4-New Forms of Ownership: a) Trends in post-property, b) Human hyper-mobility and property on the move, c) The bundles of responsibilities, and d) Public Trust Doctrine and the future of ownership.
research activities
keywords
- Enclosure
- Land grab
- development-induced displacement
- land ownership
- land reform
- land use
- parks and protected areas
- public lands
geographic focus
submitted impact statement
- Understanding the social impacts of the sustained war effort and homeland security policies within the United States
- The equity dimensions of public and private land use planning
- The environmental consequences of global conflict and terrorism
- Community-based education and management of Cayuga Basin waters: learning native ways
Publications
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academic article
- Land Expropriation and Displacement in Bangladesh. Journal of Peasant Studies. 39:971-993. 2012
- Must Biodiversity Hot-Spots Be Social Not-Spots? Win-Win Ecology as Sustainable Social Policy. Journal of Sustainable Development. 4:119-133. 2010
- Residential Preferences: What’s Terrorism Got to Do with It?. Rural Sociology. 75:426-454. 2010
- Naturalising Transgenics: Official Seeds, Loose Seeds and Risk in the Decision Matrix of Gujarati Cotton Farmers. Journal of Development Studies. 43:158-176. 2007
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- University gas leases should respect neighbors . The Ithaca Journal. . 2010
- Old Wine, New Battles for Indian Farmers. Indian Country Today. . 2008
- USDA Loan Policy: A Gallows for Indians. Indian Country Today. :1. 2008
- Child soldiers Coerced into Military Conflicts are Barrier To Peace Process, Two Cornell Researchers Assert. Cornell Chronicle Article in Land Grant Special Issue by Susan Lang. . 2006
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- Green Zones from Above and Below: A Cautionary Tale,” in Greening the Red Zone: Vulnerability, Resilience, and Urgent Biophilia. K. Tidball and M. Krasney (eds.). Springer. 2012.. Springer Publications. 2012
- Nature Conservation and Environmental Management: Working Landscapes in Adirondack Park, US, and Cairngorms National Park, UK.. Rural Transformations & Rural Policies in the US and UK.. 233-252. 2012
- Accumulating Insecurity: A New Politics of Containment. Accumulating Insecurity: Violence and Dispossession in the Making of Everyday Life. 2011
- Accumulating Insecurity: Dispossessing Migrants. Chapter 10, Accumulating Insecurity: Violence and Dispossession in the Making of Everyday Life. 2011
- Community-Based Land Reform: Lessons from Scotland and Reflections on Stewardship . Chapter in The Community Land Trust Reader. 2010
- Land Reform. Grey House Publishing. 538-541. 2008
- Official Seeds, Loose Seeds and Risk: Transgenic Cotton in the Decision Matrix of Gujarati Farmers. Transgenics and the Poor. 2007
- Homeless in the Heartland: American Dreams and Nightmares in Indian Country. International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness. 2006
- Ownership in State Places. The Properties of Property. 40-57. 2006
- Your Park, My Poverty: Using Impact Assessment to Counter the Displacement Effects of Environmental Greenlining. Protected Natural Areas and the Dispossessed. 2003
- Adapting Land Reform to Protected Area Management in the Dominican Republic. Balancing Interests through Adaptive Collaborative Management. 2001
- Community-Based Natural Resource Management. CIIFAD Annual Report. 117-124. 2000
- Property Pluralism . Property and Values. 65-86. 2000
- Regional Sustainability Strategies: Dominican Republic. CIIFAD Annual Report 1994-95. 7-15. 1999
- Ecosystem Management: Who's Entitled?. Who Owns America?. 397-400. 1998
- Land Reform In America. Encyclopedia of Rural America. 397-400. 1998
- Preserving Community Agriculture in a Global Economy. Under the Blade. 1998
- Regional Sustainability Strategies: Dominican Republic. CIFAD Annual Report 1998-1999. 7-12. 1998
- Global Environmental Facility Summary Reports, Annual and Semi-Annual Conservation and Management of Biodiversity in the Coastal Zone of the Dominican Republic. Project no. DOM/94/G31(1995,1996,1997). 1997
- Regional Sustainability Strategies: Dominican Republic. CIIFAD Annual Report 1996-97. 9-16. 1996
- Regional Sustainability Strategies: Dominican Republic. CIFAD Annual Report 1994-1995. 7-15. 1995
- Regional Sustainability Strategies: Dominican Republic. CIFAD Annual Report 1994-95. 9-117. 1995
- Regional Sustainability Strategies: Dominican Republic. CIIFAD Annual Report 1994-95. 4-8. 1995
- Factors Affecting Land Use and Soil Management Practices in El Salvador. Economic and Institutional Analyses of Soil Conservation Projects in Central America and the Caribbean. 191-200. 1994
- Adapting Social Impact Assessment to Protected Area Development. The Social Challenge of Biodiversity Conservation Projects. 1993
- Bio-technology: Rural Policy Implications Of Bovine Growth Hormone Adoption in the United States. The Policy and Politics of the Rural Environment. 119-132. 1993
- Introduction. Instituto Dominicano de Ambientic y Sociedad,S.A.. 1993
- The Northern Forest as a New Commons . Proceedings of Aiken Lecture Series. 87-99. 1993
- Theories in the Study of Natural Resource-Dependent Communities and Persistent Rural Poverty in the United States. Persistent Rural Poverty in America. 142-184. 1993
- From Green Revolution to Gene Revolution: Common Concerns about Agricultural Biotechnology in the First and Third Worlds. Social and Institutional Impacts of Biotechnology on Agriculture: Now and In the Future. 208-221. 1988
- The Social Impacts of Bovine Somatotropin: Emerging Issues. Social And Institutional Impacts of Biotechnology on agriculture: Now and in the Future. 137-159. 1988
- Benefit Cost Analysis: A Labor-Environment Concern. Labor and the Environmental Quality in the United States. 97-142. 1984
- Land Reform in the United States: Old Wine, New Battles. Land Reform, American Style. 15-46. 1984
- The New Lay of the Land. Introduction Who Owns Appalachia? Landownership and its Impact. 1983
- Introduction and Land Ownership, Control and Use as Sources of Social Impacts: The Sokaogon Chippewa Case. Indian-SIA: The Social Impact Assessment of Rapid Resource Development on Native Peoples. 1982
- Local Control versus Social Control in Land Use Planning: Sociological Perspectives. Property and Social Relations. 93-110. 1982
- Housing and the Potential Effects of Mining. Analysis of the Socio-Economic and the Environmental Impacts on Mining and Mineral Development on the Sokaogon Chippewa Community. 117-144. 1980
- The Quiet Revolution in Land Use Control Revisited. The Rural Sociology of the Advanced Societies, Critical Perspectives. 480-526. 1980
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conference paper
- Green Growth Machines: Is Open Space Protection Gentrifying Rural New York. Third Annual Who Owns America Conference. 2001
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conference poster
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- Cumulative Impact Assessment: What it is and Why it Matters 2010
- Community Based Land Reform: Lessons from Scotland. 24-34. 2007
- Naturalizing Transgenics: Official Seeds, Loose Seeds and the risk in the Decision Matrix of Gujarati Cotton Farmers. 158-176. 2007
- Terrorism & Residential Location Preferences in New York State 2007
- Displacing States: Beyond Territorialization and Deterritorialization 2005
- Negotiating Locality: Decentralization and Communal Forest Management in the Guatemalan Highlands. 62-74. 2005
- Theoretical Justifications for Greenlining: Exercises in Utility or Futility 2005
- Conservation Easements as Encumbered Ownership: Issues at Hand. 17. 2004
- A New Kind Of Trouble: Evictions in Eden. 30-42. 2003
- Moving Targets: Displacement, Impoverishment and Development. 7-13. 2003
- Endangered Humans. 80-81. 2002
- Murphree's Law. 4-9. 2002
- From Refuge to Refugee: The African Case. 159-170. 2001
- Estates of Mind: Culture's Many Paths To Land. 51-60. 2000
- Hope for Farmland: From Smart Growth to Smart Ownership. 1-3. 2000
- The Relationship of Land Tenure to Agricultural Practices and the Environment in El Salvador. 9-28. 2000
- The Wandering Commons: A Conservation Conundrum in the Dominican Republic. 1-11. 1997
- Who owns the ecosystem? 1996
- Land & Poverty in the United States. 16-34. 1995
- Ownership: An Overview. 532-546. 1993
- Rethinking SIA: Why Ex Ante Research Isn't Enough. 327-338. 1993
- Returning Land Tenure to the Forefront of Rural Sociology. 529-531. 1993
- Extractive Reserves: Appalachia and Amazonia compared. 58-80. 1992
- Imperiled parks and Imperiled People: Lessons from Japan's Shiretoko National Park. 23-40. 1992
- Toward a Second Agricultural Divide: The restructuring of American Agriculture. 248-263. 1992
- The Cumulative Impact of Dairy Industry Restructuring. 560-567. 1991
- The Social Impacts of Protected Area development on Resident Populations. 1-20. 1990
- Biotechnology and the Small Farm. 33-44. 1988
- Environmentalism as if People Mattered: A Case Study of the Japanese National Trust Movement 1988
- Homelessness and Landlessness: An American Condition. 12-16. 1988
- The Social Dimensions of Shoreline Quality in Upstate New York. 23-38. 1988
- Mobile Home Growth, Regulation and Discrimination in Upstate New York. 532-543. 1987
- Mobile Home Growth, Regulation and Discrimination in the Hinterland 1987
- Community Land Trusts. 34-64. 1986
- Adirondack Landowners Survey 1985
- The Agricultural Ladder: Agrarian Ideology and the Structure of US Agriculture. 59-72. 1985
- The Changing Structure of Female Ownership of Agricultural Land In the US.1946 to 1978. 74-87. 1985
- Adirondack Landowner's Survey. 1-84. 1984
- Competitive Structure and Fiscal Policy. 450-482. 1983
- The Radical Right and Land Use Planning: A political Ecology of Conflict. 211-228. 1983
- The Structure of Agricultural Landownership in the United States, 1946 and 1978. 1-24. 1983
- Social Structural Influences on the Adoption of Selected Land Use 'Innovations'. 27-33. 1982
- In Land We Trust. 98-115. 1980
- Reply to Weber on Local Control of Land Use 1978
- Exporting Pollution: The Case of Japan. 1-15. 1977
- Outdoor Recreation and Environmental Concern: A Restudy. 241-299. 1977
- Attitudes Towards Zoning and State Purchase of Land in 13 Counties of Northwestern and West Central Wisconsin 1976
- Economic and Environmental Concerns in Wisconsin, 1974 1976
- Local Control of Land Use: Profile of a Problem. 371-381. 1976
- Riverway Park Plan for the Kickapoo Valley 1975
- The Use of leader Ratings to assess Community services and the Characteristics in the Kickapoo Valley 1975
- Quality of Life in Kickapoo Valley Communities 1973
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review
- Review of A Civil Republic: Beyond Capitalism and Nationalism 2005
- Review of Land Ownership and the Social System 2004
- Review of Private Property in the 21st Century: The Future of the American Ideal 2004
- Review of Rural Homelessness: Issues, Experiences and Policy Responses 2004
- Review of Ecoagriculture: Strategies to Feed the World and Save Wild Bio-Diversity 2003
- Review of Enchanting a Disenchanged World. 509-518. 2000
- Review of Green Backlash: The History and Politics of the Environment Opposition in the U.S. 3-5. 1998
- Review of the Role of Law in Natural Resource Management by J. Spiertz and M. G. Wiber (eds.). 387-388. 1997
- People and Parks. 86-87. 1993
- Resident People and National Parks by P. C. West and S. R. Brechin. 86-87. 1993
- Review of Green Development. 151. 1992
- Review of Land at Risk in the Third World. 262-263. 1989
- Review of Differential Social Impacts of Rural Resource Development 1988
- Review of the Question of the Commons 1988
- Review of Meeting the Expectations of the Land. 136-137. 1987
- Review of Village Journey. 518-519. 1986
- Review of International Dimensions of Land Reform. 285-286. 1985
- Beyond the Urban Fringe by R. E. Platt and George Macinko 1984
- The Law and the Preservation of Agricultural Land. 342-343. 1984
- The Law and the Preservation of Agricultural Land by E. F. Roberts. 342-343. 1984
- Review of the Law and the Preservation of Agricultural Land 1982
- Review of Capitalism and Human Obsolescence. 81-82. 1981
- Land Banking. 373-374. 1980
- Review of Marx and Engels on Ecology. 178-179. 1980
- Review of Urban Land Banking 1980
- Development by Enclosures: Land Grabbing and Terra Nullius Narratives in Contemporary Ethiopia 2011
- Land Expropriation and Displacement in Bangladesh 2011
- Post-Property: What Is It, What National Security Has to Do with It, and Why it Matters to Development? 2011
- Requiem for the Ownership Society 2011
- Water Sustainability and Climate Change in the Ethiopian Highlands: Simulating Social and Natural Landscapes in the Blue Nile Basin 2010
- Land Use Planning and Regulation, Chapter 2 in Eberts, Paul et al., Socioeconomic Trends, Planning, and Budgeting in Rural Counties, Towns and Small Cities of New York State 2009
- National Security and Property: the War on Terrorism as Mid-Wife to Changes in Ownership 2009
- Terrorism and Residential Preferences: Evidence in New York State 2006
- The Determinants of Planning in Rural New York: The beginning of the End of Home Rule 2005
- Conservation Easements as Encumbered Ownership: Issues at Hand 2004
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Teaching
teaching overview
- property, tenure, dispossession, land reform, environmental sociology, security and land use policy, domestic militarization, home rule, terra nullius narratives, expropriation.
teaching activities
- DSOC-4810: Global Conflict and Terrorism - Spring 2013
- DSOC-7900: Graduate-Level Thesis Research - Spring 2013
- DSOC-7910: Teaching Experience - Spring 2013
- DSOC-8720: Development Sociology - Spring 2013
- DSOC-8900: Master's Level Thesis Research - Spring 2013
- DSOC-9900: Doctoral-Level Thesis Research - Spring 2013
- DSOC-3240: Environment, Society and Land - Fall 2012
- DSOC-7900: Graduate-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2012
- DSOC-7910: Teaching Experience - Fall 2012
- DSOC-8720: Development Sociology - Fall 2012
- DSOC-8900: Master's Level Thesis Research - Fall 2012
- DSOC-9900: Doctoral-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2012
- SOC-3240: Environment, Society and Land - Fall 2012
- STS-3241: Environment, Society and Land - Fall 2012
- DSOC-4810: Global Conflict and Terrorism - Spring 2012
- DSOC-7600: Economy, Ecology and Limits: A Graduate Seminar in Environmental Sociology - Spring 2012
- DSOC-7900: Graduate-Level Thesis Research - Spring 2012
- DSOC-7910: Teaching Experience - Spring 2012
- DSOC-8720: Development Sociology - Spring 2012
- DSOC-8900: Master's Level Thesis Research - Spring 2012
- DSOC-9900: Doctoral-Level Thesis Research - Spring 2012
- NTRES-7600: Economy, Ecology and Limits: A Graduate Seminar in Environmental Sociology - Spring 2012
- DSOC-3240: Environment and Society - Fall 2011
- DSOC-7900: Graduate-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2011
- DSOC-7910: Teaching Experience - Fall 2011
- DSOC-8720: Development Sociology - Fall 2011
- DSOC-8900: Master's-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2011
- DSOC-9900: Doctoral-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2011
- SOC-3240: Environment and Society - Fall 2011
- STS-3241: Environment and Society - Fall 2011
Service
outreach overview
- My interest here is in community-based water management and conservation among Native American communities and Nations. Land and natural resource ownership, access, and tenure; land reform; community-based resource management; environmental justice; social displacement and refugees; indigenous land issues; war, terrorism, and environment. The proposal generated by the above alliance is entitled: "Community-Based Co-Management of New York Water Resources: Forging a Multi-Ethnic, Full Circle Approach." It will combine education, law, and community development to identify water concerns shared by Indian and non-Indian communities and improve inter-ethnic cultural relations through natural resource problem solving. Its side benefit: revitalizing the extension and outreach component of Cornell's American Indian Program. Several NYS Indian leaders of the the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force have degrees from Cornell and helped to forge the "Full Circle" outreach-and-education philosophy of AIP in past years. Extending the conclusions and recommendations from a prior conference on Native Water Law at the CU Law School to an on-going Summer Water Law Institute.
- Provide leadership for Extension activities within Cornell’s American Indian Program under the general theme of community-based learning. The thrust of this work is transboundary in terms of special scales, disciplines, political jurisdiction, and cultural boundaries. It combines education, law, and community development to principally identify water concerns shared by Indian and non-Indian communities and improve inter-ethnic cultural relations through natural resource problem solving. Its side benefit: revitalizing the extension and outreach component of Cornell’s American Indian Program. Several NYS Indian leaders of the the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force have degrees from Cornell and helped to forge the “Full Circle” outreach-and-education philosophy of AIP in past years My outreach efforts target the Cayuga Nation of Indians and their water concerns in several Finger Lakes locations where they reside in east of Cayuga Lake where they operate a farm where university faculty, staff, and students contributed numerous work-days (40 total). It links Cornell faculty and students with peers in 5 area colleges and universities committed to similar work
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research keyword
- Enclosure
- Land grab
- development-induced displacement
- land ownership
- land reform
- land use
- parks and protected areas
- public lands