Genese Marie Sodikoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 150375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Genese Marie Sodikoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Genese Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Sodikoff |
| SIGNATURE | SODIKOFF G M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0896-1140 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ethnographic Images of the Plague: Outbreak and the Landscape of Memory in Madagascar
Shrunken Life: Discourses of the Cryptic and the Miniature in Madagascar
As scientists scour remnant habitats and “unmask” cryptic species with DNA barcoding, a boom of species discovery has enchanted the world. In Madagascar, recent discoveries of previously unknown miniature frogs, chameleons, and lemurs often photographed on human fingers or cradled in hands, have captured the public imagination. In this imagery of scale, the giant finger conveys the outsized impact of humanity on Earth, or points to what Susan Ste…
Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters & Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts by Frédéric Keck
Reviewed by: Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters & Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts by Frédéric Keck Genese Marie Sodikoff Frédéric Keck. Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters & Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. 256 pp. Published shortly before the COVID-19 outbreak, Frédéric Keck's multisited, multispecies ethnography offers a wealth of insight into the science of emergent infectious disease and the ways in…
Zoonotic Semiotics: Plague Narratives and Vanishing Signs in Madagascar
Zoonosis calls for a multispecies approach to medical semiotics, a method involving the decipherment of outward symptoms and the construction of narrative. In Madagascar, early detection of bubonic plague outbreaks relies on sightings of sick and dead rats. However, people most vulnerable to plague often do not perceive warning signs, and plague symptoms do not always present in rat and human bodies. In August 2015, a plague outbreak killed 10 re…
The Plague of Inequality in Madagascar
The Low-Wage Conservationist: Biodiversity and Perversities of Value in Madagascar
In the early 1990s, donors began to implement "integrated conservation and development projects" (ICDPs) in Madagascar to stem deforestation, develop ecotourism, and promote forest conservation practices in rural areas. ICDPs recruited agrarian labor to groom and police parks and disseminate rules. In this article, I present a Marxian analysis of biodiversity's value in the global north, focusing on the role of manual workers in a Biosphere Reser…
An Exceptional Strike: A Micro-history of 'People versus Park' in Madagascar
The article presents a microhistory of a work strike in an Integrated Conservation and Development Project (ICDP) located in a rain forest of eastern Madagascar. ICDPs in Madagascar, as in other rain forest countries, are instruments of "green" neoliberal policy, a dominant development paradigm in Africa since the late 1980s. International donors and the Malagasy state are expanding the number of protected areas in Madagascar, and foreign NGOs ty…
Forced and Forest Labor Regimes in Colonial Madagascar, 1926-1936
This article centers on labor in Madagascar and the ways in which colonial labor regimes have shaped forest conservation efforts. During the interwar period, the French colonial state launched two initiatives: it reinvigorated forest conservation measures and it conscripted male youths for public works. I analyze the effects on Malagasy subjects of the state's two-pronged effort to valorize Malagasy labor through compulsory road and rail works an…
Land and languor: Ethical imaginations of work and forest in northeast Madagascar
Since the early twentieth century, the practice of slash‐and‐burn agriculture by Betsimisaraka subsistence farmers of eastern Madagascar, and their reluctance to engage in wage labor processes, have been interpreted by French and other Malagasy people as symptoms Betsimisaraka laziness. Colonial officials' idea of remedying Betsimisaraka laziness justified the imposition of wage work and forest conservation. The paper argues that colonial settler…
Sustainable investments: Women's contributions to natural resource management projects in Africa
Can prospects for improving livelihood security and building sustainable environments in Africa be increased if women have greater influence in decisions about how to manage resources? Anecdotal evidence suggests that this question should be answered in the affirmative, yet few development agencies perform systematic evaluations with gender-disaggregated data despite nearly two decades of development literature describing the pitfalls of failing …
The Low-Wage Conservationist: Biodiversity and Perversities of Value in Madagascar
In the early 1990s, donors began to implement "integrated conservation and development projects" (ICDPs) in Madagascar to stem deforestation, develop ecotourism, and promote forest conservation practices in rural areas. ICDPs recruited agrarian labor to groom and police parks and disseminate rules. In this article, I present a Marxian analysis of biodiversity's value in the global north, focusing on the role of manual workers in a Biosphere Reser…
Forced and Forest Labor Regimes in Colonial Madagascar, 1926-1936
This article centers on labor in Madagascar and the ways in which colonial labor regimes have shaped forest conservation efforts. During the interwar period, the French colonial state launched two initiatives: it reinvigorated forest conservation measures and it conscripted male youths for public works. I analyze the effects on Malagasy subjects of the state's two-pronged effort to valorize Malagasy labor through compulsory road and rail works an…
An Exceptional Strike: A Micro-history of 'People versus Park' in Madagascar
The article presents a microhistory of a work strike in an Integrated Conservation and Development Project (ICDP) located in a rain forest of eastern Madagascar. ICDPs in Madagascar, as in other rain forest countries, are instruments of "green" neoliberal policy, a dominant development paradigm in Africa since the late 1980s. International donors and the Malagasy state are expanding the number of protected areas in Madagascar, and foreign NGOs ty…
Land and languor: Ethical imaginations of work and forest in northeast Madagascar
Since the early twentieth century, the practice of slash‐and‐burn agriculture by Betsimisaraka subsistence farmers of eastern Madagascar, and their reluctance to engage in wage labor processes, have been interpreted by French and other Malagasy people as symptoms Betsimisaraka laziness. Colonial officials' idea of remedying Betsimisaraka laziness justified the imposition of wage work and forest conservation. The paper argues that colonial settler…
Zoonotic Semiotics: Plague Narratives and Vanishing Signs in Madagascar
Zoonosis calls for a multispecies approach to medical semiotics, a method involving the decipherment of outward symptoms and the construction of narrative. In Madagascar, early detection of bubonic plague outbreaks relies on sightings of sick and dead rats. However, people most vulnerable to plague often do not perceive warning signs, and plague symptoms do not always present in rat and human bodies. In August 2015, a plague outbreak killed 10 re…
Sustainable investments: Women's contributions to natural resource management projects in Africa
Can prospects for improving livelihood security and building sustainable environments in Africa be increased if women have greater influence in decisions about how to manage resources? Anecdotal evidence suggests that this question should be answered in the affirmative, yet few development agencies perform systematic evaluations with gender-disaggregated data despite nearly two decades of development literature describing the pitfalls of failing …
Sustainable investments: Women's contributions to natural resource management projects in Africa
Can prospects for improving livelihood security and building sustainable environments in Africa be increased if women have greater influence in decisions about how to manage resources? Anecdotal evidence suggests that this question should be answered in the affirmative, yet few development agencies perform systematic evaluations with gender-disaggregated data despite nearly two decades of development literature describing the pitfalls of failing …
Land and languor: Ethical imaginations of work and forest in northeast Madagascar
Since the early twentieth century, the practice of slash‐and‐burn agriculture by Betsimisaraka subsistence farmers of eastern Madagascar, and their reluctance to engage in wage labor processes, have been interpreted by French and other Malagasy people as symptoms Betsimisaraka laziness. Colonial officials' idea of remedying Betsimisaraka laziness justified the imposition of wage work and forest conservation. The paper argues that colonial settler…
Forced and Forest Labor Regimes in Colonial Madagascar, 1926-1936
This article centers on labor in Madagascar and the ways in which colonial labor regimes have shaped forest conservation efforts. During the interwar period, the French colonial state launched two initiatives: it reinvigorated forest conservation measures and it conscripted male youths for public works. I analyze the effects on Malagasy subjects of the state's two-pronged effort to valorize Malagasy labor through compulsory road and rail works an…
An Exceptional Strike: A Micro-history of 'People versus Park' in Madagascar
The article presents a microhistory of a work strike in an Integrated Conservation and Development Project (ICDP) located in a rain forest of eastern Madagascar. ICDPs in Madagascar, as in other rain forest countries, are instruments of "green" neoliberal policy, a dominant development paradigm in Africa since the late 1980s. International donors and the Malagasy state are expanding the number of protected areas in Madagascar, and foreign NGOs ty…
The Low-Wage Conservationist: Biodiversity and Perversities of Value in Madagascar
In the early 1990s, donors began to implement "integrated conservation and development projects" (ICDPs) in Madagascar to stem deforestation, develop ecotourism, and promote forest conservation practices in rural areas. ICDPs recruited agrarian labor to groom and police parks and disseminate rules. In this article, I present a Marxian analysis of biodiversity's value in the global north, focusing on the role of manual workers in a Biosphere Reser…
The Plague of Inequality in Madagascar
Zoonotic Semiotics: Plague Narratives and Vanishing Signs in Madagascar
Zoonosis calls for a multispecies approach to medical semiotics, a method involving the decipherment of outward symptoms and the construction of narrative. In Madagascar, early detection of bubonic plague outbreaks relies on sightings of sick and dead rats. However, people most vulnerable to plague often do not perceive warning signs, and plague symptoms do not always present in rat and human bodies. In August 2015, a plague outbreak killed 10 re…
Ethnographic Images of the Plague: Outbreak and the Landscape of Memory in Madagascar
Shrunken Life: Discourses of the Cryptic and the Miniature in Madagascar
As scientists scour remnant habitats and “unmask” cryptic species with DNA barcoding, a boom of species discovery has enchanted the world. In Madagascar, recent discoveries of previously unknown miniature frogs, chameleons, and lemurs often photographed on human fingers or cradled in hands, have captured the public imagination. In this imagery of scale, the giant finger conveys the outsized impact of humanity on Earth, or points to what Susan Ste…
Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters & Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts by Frédéric Keck
Reviewed by: Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters & Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts by Frédéric Keck Genese Marie Sodikoff Frédéric Keck. Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters & Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. 256 pp. Published shortly before the COVID-19 outbreak, Frédéric Keck's multisited, multispecies ethnography offers a wealth of insight into the science of emergent infectious disease and the ways in…
Geography (7 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Biology (3 works) · Economics (3 works)