Archive File
Colloquium Series, Fall 1999�2000
September 10
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Center for African Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
�Globalization and African Peasantries�
September 17
Pete Daniel
National Museum of American History
�Bureaucratic Design: The USDA and the Reconfiguration of the Rural South�
September 24
Sutti Ortiz
Anthropology, Boston University
�Power and Bargaining: Laborers and Farmers in Commercial Agriculture�
October 1
Kenneth Kusterer
Sociology, American University
�Small Farmers� Development Strategies, Hers and His�
October 8
John Maarbjerg
History, Yale University
�The Peasant, His Land, and Money: Land Transactions in Late Sixteenth-Century East Bothnia�
October 15
Cindy Hahamovitch
History, The College of William and Mary
��In America Life is Given Away��: Jamaican Farmworkers and the Making of Agricultural Immigration Policy�
October 22
Harold Forsythe
History, Fairfield University
�Kingfish�s Elders: Freedpeople Constructing a World of Institutionalized Power and Meaning in Virginia and the South, 1865-1900�
October 29
James Boyce
Economics, University of Massachusetts/Amherst
�The Globalization of Market Failure: International Trade and Sustainable Agriculture�
November 5
Thomas Bierschenck
Institute for Ethnology and African Studies, University of Mainz
�Domination, Negotiation, and Violence: Reflections on Fieldwork in a Medium-sized West African Town (Parakou, Republic of Benin)�
November 12
Cynthia Radding
History, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
�Cultural Ecologies in Two Colonial Frontiers of the Americas: Nomads and Villagers of Northwestern Mexico and Eastern Bolivia�
November 19
Bill Duesing
Old Solar Farm, Oxford, CT
�Feeding Ourselves: The Imperative for a Local Organic Food System�
December 3
Gaston Gordillo
Anthropology, University of Toronto
�Sugar Plantations and Money Factories: Cultural Experiences of Poverty and Wealth Among the Tobas of the Argentinean Chaco�
Colloquium Series, Fall 1999�2000
January 14
Anthony Bebbington
Geography, University of Colorado/Boulder
�Of Devils and Details: Engaging Alternative Development Thought in the Rural Andes�
January 21
David Gilmartin
History, North Carolina State University
�Water, Work, and Waste: The State and Colonial Irrigation Science in the Indus Basin�
January 28
Cynthia Duncan
Sociology, University of New Hampshire
�The Politics of Modernization in Remote Resource-Dependent Communities�
February 4
Prasenjit Duara
History, University of Chicago
�Colonial Ethnography and the National Project in East Asia, 1930-1949�
February 11
Steven Stoll
History, Yale University
�Dunghill Doctrines: Soil and the Improvement of Agriculture in the Early Republic�
February 18
Richard Grove
History, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
�El Ni�o, Famine, and Agrarian History in South and Southeast Asia: Revisiting the Seventeenth-Century Crisis�
February 25
Henry Bernstein
Programme in Public Policy and Management, School for Oriental and African Studies, University of London
�Telling Environmental Change Like It Is?: Reflections on a Comparative Study in Africa�
March 3
Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek
Anthropology, University of Vienna
�Frontiers, Centers, and Peripheries: Adapting to Changing Fortunes�the Uzbeks of Afghanistan�
March 24
Thandika Mkandawire
Director, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
�Agrarian Capitalism: From Colonial Rule to Structural Adjustment�
March 31
Joan Martinez-Alier
Economics and Economic History, University Autonoma of Barcelona
�Environmental Justice, Sustainability, and Valuation�
April 7
Peter Timmer
Development Studies, University of California/San Diego
�How Well do the Poor Connect to the Growth Process?�
April 14
Jean-Fran�ois Leguil-Bayart
Centre d��tudes et de Recherches Internationales, Paris
�The Paradoxical Invention of Economic Modernity�
April 21
Rohan D�Souza
History, Jawaharlal Nehru University
�The Political Economy of �Flood Control� in Eastern India�