Conservation & Extinction in Madagascar
Division of Global Affairs Colloquium Announcement
Topic: The Politics of Conservation and Extinction in Madagascar
Speaker: Professor Genese Sodikoff
Date: November 5, 2009
Time: 5pm-7pm
Venue: CLJ, 123 Washington Street, Chancellor’s Conference Room 502
Genese Sodikoff is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Rutgers University-Newark. Her research has focused on rain forest conservation and international development in Africa, specifically the Comoros (1989-1991) and Madagascar (1994-2002).
Over several periods of fieldwork in Madagascar since 1994, she has examined the significance and role of low-wage labor in rain forest conservation projects, as well as the politics of biodiversity loss. Her teaching and research interests include political ecology, conservation and development, agrarian economies, biotic and cultural extinction, human-animal relations, labor regimes, green capitalism, historical anthropology, medical anthropology, and Africa and the Indian Ocean islands.
At present, Genese is finalizing a book manuscript entitled, “Workers of the Vanishing World: Labor and Rain Forest Conservation in Madagascar.”
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