Political Ecology in Marine and Terrestrial Contexts - The Social Science of Natural Resource Management

Monday 23 April 2007

10.00	Introduction and presentation
10.30	Common Property Debate: A review Professor Erling Berge, Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
11.30	Discussion
12.00	Lunch
13.00	Political Ecology: A Northern Perspective Ass. Professor David Anderson
14.00	Political Ecology in Swedish Sápmi Professor Hugh Beach, Institute of Cultural Anthropology & Ethnology, Uppsala University
15.00	Coffee break
15.15-16.15	Presentation of papers/abstracts
16.30	Effects of petroleum development on Nenets Reindeer Herding in Northern Russia: indigenous and scientific perspectives Ass. Professor Bruce Forbes, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi
17.30	An Indigenous Perspective on National Parks and Sami Reindeer Mangement in Norway Jan Åge Riseth, Senior Researcher, Norut Social Science Research and Nordic Sami Institute
19.00	Reception at Árdna Organizer: Centre for Sami Studies

Tuesday April 24, 2007

09.00	Fisheries Cooperatives and the Commons - a focus on the Mexican fishing cooperatives Professor Bonnie J. McCay, Department of Human Ecology Cook Campus, Rutgers University
10.30	In the Power of Power: A Understated Aspect of Fishery and Costal Management Professor Svein Jentoft, MaReMa, Norwegian College of Fishery Science
11.30	Discussion
12.00	Lunch
12.30	Beyond Natural Resource Management: The Pronetic Dimension Professor Svein Jentoft, MaReMa, Norwegian College of Fishery Science
13.00	Title to be announced Professor Petter Holm, MaReMa, Norwegian College of Fishery Science
13.45	Coffee break
14.00	Neoliberalism and the Commons:  from Concessions to Individual Transferable Quotas Professor Bonnie J. McCay, Department of Human Ecology Cook Campus, Rutgers University
15.00	Political Ecology of fisheries Ass. Professor Einar Eythorsson, Tromsø Museum, University of Tromsø
15.45	Panel debate Professor Svein Jentoft Professor Bonnie McCay

Reading list:

1. Agrawal, A. 2001 Common Property Institutions and Sustainable Governance of Resources, World Development, Vol. 29, No 10:1649-1672
   
   
2. Beach, H. 2000, Reindeer-Pastoralism Politics in Sweden: Protecting the Environment and Designing the Herder. in Negotiating Nature, eds. Alf Hornborg & Gísli Pálsson, Lund Studies in Human Ecology 2. Lund university Press.
   ISBN: 91-7966-582-9
   
   
3. Beach, H. 2004, Political Ecology in Swedish Saamiland. in Cultivating Arctic Landscapes: Knowing and Managing Animals in the Circumpolar North. eds. David Anderson and Mark Nuttall. Berghahn Press, Oxford. ISBN 1-57181-754-0
   
   
4. Beach, H. 2006, with F. Stammler, Human-Animal Relations in Pastoralism, in Humans and Reindeer on the Move, special edition of Nomadic Peoples, eds. Stammler, F. and Beach, H. Volume 10, Issue 2/2006 (This last ref is in press now, not to be cited.)
   
   
5. Berge, E. 2001 "Allmenningens tragedie" - frå metafor til teori. Ein Litteraturoversikt, side 113-141 i Sosiologisk Årbok 2001 (bind 1), Oslo, Universitetet i Oslo, ISSN 0808-288X, sjå også http://www.sv.ntnu.no/iss/Erling.Berge/
   
   
6. Berglund, E & David Anderson "Towards an Ethnography of Ecological Underprivilege" in Anderson, David G. & Berglund Eeva. Ethnographies of Conservation Oxford: Berghahn Books, p. 1-15 [15 pages]
   
   
7. Braun, B. 2000. Producing Vertical Territory: Geology and Governmentality in Late Victorian Canada. Ecumene 7, no. 1: 7-46
   
   
8. Dietz, T.,E. Ostrom, and P. C. Stern 2003 The Struggle to Govern the Commons, Science Vol 302: 1907-1912
   
   
9. Escobar, Arturo. 1999. After Nature: Steps to an anti-essentialist political ecology. Current Anthropology 40, no. 1: 1-30 [30 pages]
   
   
10. Eythorsson, Einar. Coastal Communities and ITQ Management. The Case of Icelandic Fisheries. Sociologia Ruralis, Vol. 36, no 2. 1996
    
    
11. Eythorsson, Einar. Metaphors of Property. The commoditisation of fishing rights under quota management regimes. Symes, David (ed)1998: Northern Waters: Management Issues and Practice. Fishing News Books/Blackwell Science, Oxford
    
    
12. Eythorsson, Einar. The Coastal Sami: a 'Pariah Caste' og the Norwegian Fisheries? A Reflection on Ethnicity and Power in Norwegian Resource Management. Jentoft, S, H. Minde, & R. Nilsen (eds)2003: Indigenous Peoples. Resource Managent and Global Rights. Eburon, Delft.
    
    
13. Forbes, B.C. (Accepted article) Equity, vulnerability and resilience in social-ecological systems: a contemporary example from the Russian Arctic. Research in Social Problems and Public Policy (Autumn 2007).
    
    
14. Forbes, B.C., N. Fresco, A. Shvidenko, K. Danell and F.S. Chapin III (2004) Geographic variations in anthropogenic drivers that influence the vulnerability and resilience of high latitude social-ecological systems. Ambio 33:377-382.
    
    
15. Forbes, B.C. (1999) Land use and climate change in the Yamal-Nenets region of northwest Siberia: some ecological and socio-economic implications. Polar Research 18(2):1-7.
    
    
16. Holm, Petter and Nielsen, Kåre Nolde (2006) Framing fish, making Markets: The construction of Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs), Norwegian College of Fishery Science, University of Tromsø
    
    
17. Holm, Petter. Rettighetsstatus for fiskeressursene i et samfunnsperspektiv - En utredning for Strukturutvalget. Norges fiskerihøgskole (2006)
    
    
18. Hornborg A. 2005. Undermining modernity: protecting landscapes and meanings among the Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia. In Political Ecology Across Spaces, Scales and Social Groups, ed. S Paulson, L Gezon, pp. 196- 214. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press
    
    
19. Jentoft, Svein. Beyond fisheries management: The Phronetic dimension. Marine Policy 30 (2006) 671- 680
    
    
20. Jentoft, Svein. IN THE POWER OF POWER - The Understated Aspect of Fisheries and Coastal Management. Forthcoming in HUMAN ORGANIZATION (2007)
    
    
21. Jentoft, Svein. Painting the floor with a hammer: Technical fixes in fisheries management. Marine Policy 30 (2006) 534- 543
    
    
22. Jentoft, Svein. Limits of governability: Institutional implications for fisheries and coastal governance. Marine Policy
    
    
23. Krech, S. 2005 Reflections on Conservation, Sustainability, and Environmentalism in Indigenous North America American Anthropologist vol 107 (1) 78-87 [9 pages]
    
    
24. Mackenzie, A Fiona D and Dalby, Simon. 2003. Moving Mountains: Commuinty and Resistance in the Isle of Harris, Scotland and Cape Breton,Canada. Antipode: vol 35 (2) 310-333
    
    
25. Riseth, J.Å. (Accepted article) An Indigenous Perspective on National Parks and Sámi Reindeer Management in Norway. Forthcoming in: Geographical Research. June 2007.
    
    
26. Riseth, J.Å. 2005. "So the last shall be first, and the first last"? Sámi Reindeer Management vs. other land users in Mid-Scandinavia. Chapter 3 in: Cant, G., J. Inns & A. Goodall . Discourses and Silences: Indigenous Peoples, Risks and Resistance. Department of Geography, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 35-55. ISBN 0-473-01628-0
    
    
27. Riseth, Jan Åge. 2005. Nature protection and the colonial legacy - Sámi reindeer management versus urban recreation: the case of Junkerdal-Balvatn, Northern Norway. In: Tiina Peil and Michael Jones (eds) Landscape, Law and Justice Proceedings of a conference organised by the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo 15-19 June 2003 The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture. Serie B: Skrifter vol. CXVIII (118). Novus forlag, Oslo, 173-186.
    
    
28. West, Paige, Igoe, James, Brockington, Dan. 2006. 'Parks and peoples: The social impact of protected areas' Annual Review Of Anthropology vol 35 (251): 277.