Community Economies

Elizabeth (Za) Barron

Contact Details:

 

Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University:

http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/people.php

http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/people/fellows/elizabeth-barron/

Qualifications

PhD  Geography, Rutgers University

MS    Forest Resources, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Research Areas:

Environmental governance, environmental knowledges, political ecology, science and technology studies.

My long-term reserch interests are at the intersection of environmental knowledge, environmental governance and conservation. I am interested in delineating and understanding different knowledge systems, and ways in which this work can contribute to ecological and social dimensions of natural resource management, conservation, and sustainability. The exploration of the limits of systems approaches through critical theoretical analysis is the other major componment of my research.

I have two research projects currently underway. The first is an interdisciplinary approach to developing adaptive co-management of fungal resources in the mid-Atlantic United States. The second examines the effects rapidly changing technologies in molecular biology are having on our understanding of biodiversity, and the implications for conservation policy at national and international levels.

Publications

(Re)envisioning nontimber forest “products” and economic practice

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Building on the concept of econo-sociality (Gibson-Graham and Roelvink 2009), we propose the related concept of econo-ecology to explore and interpret diverse knowledges and practices of the environment using a range of case studies centered on interrelationships between humans, plants and fungi in the United States and Scotland.

 

Barron, E.S. and M.R. Emery. DRAFT. (Re)envisioning nontimber forest “products” and economic practice. In: Gerda Roelvink, Kevin St. Martin and J.K. Gibson-Graham (eds.), Performing Diverse Economies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Beyond green capitalism: Providing an alternative discourse for the environmental movement and natural resource management

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In this paper interpreting mushroom hunting as part of the diverse economy facilitates its place independent of environmental protection strategies like “green capitalism,” which fail in part because they ignore non-capitalist resource use and extraction activities that do not fit within market oriented approaches to resource management.

 

Barron, E.S. 2005. Beyond green capitalism: Providing an alternative discourse for the environmental movement and natural resource management. Middle States Geographer, 38, 69-76.