Geisler, Charles C
Professor
My objectives are the following:
Extension/outreach in AIP: Secure funding for an inter-racial network in NYS committed to better Indian water law, to community-based water management, to water education, and practical environmental justice in Indian and non-Indian communities.
Teaching: Maintain reputation of Global Conflict and Terrorism and effect its transition to Development Sociology.
Research: Initiate research in the area of war and the environment; complete research on Indian Farmer Discrimination; complete research on In-situ displacement and “Alienage”; plan Special Issue of Cornell University Law Review on American Indian Water Law in the Eastern US.
research
research and scholarship focus
WIthin the framework of ownership and control (see above), I am devoting myself to research new forms of ownership in society and the conditions that generate or suppress them. I am also currently interested in "win-win" ecology or the ways in which conservation can be effected beyond the borders of protected areas and in the environmental consequences of war and terrorism.
research areas
- conservation biology | collaborative research area (CALS)
- development sociology | collaborative research area (CALS)
- international development | collaborative research area (CALS)
- land use | collaborative research area (CALS)
- rural development | collaborative research area (CALS)
international geographic focus
- Germany | country
- Honduras | country
- Netherlands | country
- Spain | country
domestic geographic focus
- Dominica | territory
submitted impact statement
- Understanding the social impacts of the sustained war effort and homeland security policies within the United States | 2007 Impact statement
- Community-based education and management of Cayuga Basin waters: learning native ways | 2006 Impact statement
- The environmental consequences of global conflict and terrorism | 2005 Impact statement
- The equity dimensions of public and private land use planning | 2004 Impact statement
affiliations
head of
- American Indian Studies | minor graduate field
faculty appointment in
- Development Sociology (D SOC) | Cornell department
member of graduate field
- American Indian Studies | minor graduate field
- Conservation and Sustainable Development | minor graduate field
- Development Sociology | graduate field
- International Agriculture and Rural Development | graduate field
- International Development | graduate field
other Cornell affiliations
- American Indian Program | academic program office
- Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI) | research center
teaching
teaching focus
I am committed to teaching public sociology though courses on environmental sociolgy and on the sociology of violence. Courses Taught:|DSOC 324, Society and the Environment; DSOC 481, Global Conflict and Terrorism
teaches
- DSOC 4970 - Independent Study in Development Sociology (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- DSOC 6210 - Foundations of Environmental Sociology (W 10:10:AM-01:10:PM) | fall 2009 class
- DSOC 7900 - Graduate-Level Thesis Research (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- DSOC 8720 - Development Sociology (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- DSOC 8900 - Master's-Level Thesis Research (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- DSOC 9900 - Doctoral-Level Thesis Research (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- DSOC 4810 - Global Conflict and Terrorism (TR 02:55:PM-04:10:PM) | spring 2009 class
- DSOC 4970 - Independent Study in Development Sociology (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- DSOC 6940 - Special Topics in Development Sociology (W 11:30:AM-01:00:PM) | spring 2009 class
- DSOC 7900 - Graduate-Level Thesis Research (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- DSOC 7910 - Teaching Experience (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- DSOC 8720 - Development Sociology (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- DSOC 8900 - Master's-Level Thesis Research (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- DSOC 9900 - Doctoral-Level Thesis Research (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- NTRES 6940 - Graduate Special Topics in Natural Resources (W 11:30:AM-01:00:PM) | spring 2009 class
- DSOC 6400 - Community and Changing Property Institutions (R 01:25:PM-04:25:PM) | fall 2008 class
service
outreach focus
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
background
featured in
- Child soldiers coerced into military conflicts are barrier to peace process | Cornell Chronicle feature
- Einaudi Center funds research on food crisis, World Trade Organization, biofuels and more | Cornell Chronicle feature
- Scholars to address 'Militarizing Everyday Life' | Cornell Chronicle feature
publications
selected publications (listing in progress)
- "Official Seeds, Loose Seeds, and Risk: Transgenic Cotton in the Decision Matrix of Gujarati Farmers. " Chapter in R. Herring (ed.), India's Biotechnology (Provisional Title). London: Routledge (2006). 2006
- "Homeless in the Heartland: American Dreams and Nightmares in Indian Country, " with Lance George. Chapter in Paul Cloke and Paul Milbourne (eds.), International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness. London: Routledge (2005). 2006
- "Negotiating Locality: Decentralization and Communal Forest Management in the Guatemalan Highlands, " with Hannah Wittmann. Human Organization (2005) 64, V. 1:62-74. 2005
- "Your Park, My Poverty: Using Impact Assessment to Counter the Displacement Effects of Environmental Greenlining. " Ch. 13 in S. Brechin and P. West (eds.), Protected Natural Areas and the Dispossessed. Albany: SUNY Press (2003). 2003
- "A New Kind of Trouble: Evictions in Eden, " International Social Science Journal 175 (March, 2003): 30-42. 2003
- "Moving Targets: Displacement, Impoverishment, and Development, " with Shelley Feldman and Louise Silberling, International Social Science Journal 175 (March, 2003): 7-13. 2003
- "Murphree's Law, " Common Property Resource Digest 60 (March 2002):4-9. 2002
- "Endangered Humans. " Foreign Policy (May/June):80-81 (reprinted in Spanish-Language Edition of FP (Junio 2002:14-15) and Primicia (May 27, 2002:28-29). 2002
- Biological Diversity: Balancing Interests through Adaptive Collaborative Management. L. Buck, C. Geisler, J. Schelhas, and E. Wollenberg (eds.) Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. 2001
- "Adapting Land Reform to Protected Area Management in the Dominican Republic, " Ch. 5 in L. Buck, C. Geisler, J. Schelhas, and E. Wallenberg (eds.) Biological Diversity: Balancing Interests through Adaptive Collaborative Management. Boca Raton: CRC Press. 2001
- "Community-Based Natural Resource Management, " (with Norman Uphoff), CIIFAD Annual Report 2000-2001:117-124. 2001
- "Rethinking Land Reform in South Africa: An Alternative Approach to Environmental Justice, " with Essy Letsoalo, Social Research Online (2001): 1, 3. 2001
- "From Refuge to Refugee: The African Case. " with Ragendra de Sousa, Journal of Public Adminstration and Development 21: 159-170 (also appeared as Land Tenure Center Working Paper No. 38 (July, 2000): Madison: University of Wisconsin. 2001
- Property and Values. C. Geisler, G. Daneker (eds.) Washington, D.C.: Island Press. 2000
- "Estates of Mind: Culture's Many Paths to Land, " Society and Natural Resources, " 13:51-60. 2000
- "Property Pluralism. " Pp. 65-86 in Property and Values by C. Geisler and D. Daneker (eds.) Washington, D.C.: Island Press. 2000
speaker at Cornell event
Keywords: american indian extension/outreach, civil society, conservation policies, development-induced displacement, GM crops, homeland security, land ownership, land reform, land use, land use planning, land use policies, natural resource management, natural resource sociology, parks and protected areas, public lands, refugees, watershed management