M Schmink
Biographic Data
| ID | 2172 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Schmink |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmink |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMINK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7150-2863 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 192 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Multidimensional forests: Complexity of forest-based values and livelihoods across Amazonian socio-cultural and geopolitical contexts
Palm Oil Diaspora: Afro-Brazilian Landscapes and Economies on Bahia's Dende Coast by Case Watkins
Watkins’ book provides a master lesson in interdisciplinary history, constructing a detailed analysis of long-term geographical, political, social, and ecological relationships across the Afro-Brazilian diaspora. It is grounded in stories of real people like the enslaved, Brazilian-born Benta, and the landscapes that they inhabit. Drawing on geography and anthropology, Afro-Brazilian and Atlantic studies, and political ecology, Watkins combines e…
Challenges and opportunities of trilateral co‐operation: Collaboration by the USA, Brazil and Mozambique on horticultural research, 2011–2015
From contested to 'green' frontiers in the Amazon? A long-term analysis of São Félix do Xingu, Brazil
The Amazonian frontier, shaped by developmentalist policies in the 1970s and 1980s and a socio-environmental response in the 1990s, has historically been a site of widespread violence and environmental destruction. After the imposition of new environmental governance measures in the mid-2000s, deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon dropped to historic lows. Many analyses of this 'greening' of Amazonia operate within a limited historical pers…
Anos do Legado de Chico Mendes
The Same, but Different: Indigenous Knowledge Retention, Erosion, and Innovation in the Brazilian Amazon
Women's rights to land and communal forest tenure: A way forward for research and policy agenda in Latin America
In this synthesis paper, the authors of this Special Section contribute towards a collective research and policy agenda on rural and indigenous women's forest and land rights in Latin America. Based on the key lessons from the empirical evidence, we map out a way forward for the research agenda and suggest a few key institutional and policy priorities for rural Latin America
Reconnecting art and science for sustainability: Learning from indigenous knowledge through participatory action-research in the Amazon
Athayde, S., J. Silva-Lugo, M. Schmink, A. Kaiabi, and M. Heckenberger, 2017. Reconnecting art and science for sustainability: learning from indigenous knowledge through participatory action-research in the Amazon. Ecology and Society 22(2):36. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09323-220236
Amazon entrepreneurs: Women’s economic empowerment and the potential for more sustainable land use practices
The Importance of Caring Caring for Place: Ecology, Ideology, and Emotion in Traditional Landscape Management . By E. N. Anderson. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast, 2014
Differentiated citizenship” and the persistence of informal rural credit systems in Amazonia
Charles Wagley's legacy of Interdisciplinary Graduate Research and Training Programs at the University of Florida
When Charles Wagley moved from Columbia University to the University of Florida (UF) in 1972, he established the Tropical South America Program. In this program he began an enduring legacy at UF of interdisciplinarity, collaborative research and training focused on the problems and solutions of tropical development, and support for students as future leaders. Reaching out to agricultural researchers and other social science disciplines, Wagley la…
"Adaptive Resistance," Conservation, and Development in the Brazilian Amazon: Contradictions of Political Organization and Empowerment in the Kaiabi Diaspora
Indigenous peoples have been active players in the process of securing land rights and conserving about 21 percent of the Brazilian Amazon. In this article, we examine advances and contradictions in the process of "adaptive resistance" by Amazonian indigenous peoples in terms of their seeking alliances and funding from outside allies, adapting institutions and social organization, and reconstructing self-representations for securing and managing …
Conservation and Development in Latin America and Southern Africa: Setting the Stage
Romero, C., S. Athayde, J. E. Collomb, M. DiGiano, M. Schmink, S. Schramski, and L. Seales. 2012. Conservation and development in Latin America and Southern Africa: setting the stage. Ecology and Society 17(2): 17. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04863-170217
Forest Citizens: Changing Life Conditions and Social Identities in the Land of the Rubber Tappers
In the past few decades, a new era of socioenvironmental institutions and policies has promoted experimentation with alternative proosals for managing land and resources in the Amazon region. The rubber tappers' home state of Acre was transformed by the florestania policies of the "forest government" regimes that built on the rubber tappers' identity and history to promote forest-based development and to extend citizenship rights. Beginning in 19…
Editors' Foreword: Contemporary Debates on Ecology, Society, and Culture in Latin America
Editors' Foreword: Contemporary Debates on Ecology, Society, and Culture in Latin America Marianne Schmink (bio) and José Ramón Jouve-Martín (bio) For the past two decades, studies on ecology, society, and culture in Latin America have multiplied rapidly, mirroring the increasing importance of ecological and environmental debates worldwide. The environment has become the object of a multidisciplinary research endeavor in which the natural science…
Rubber tapper citizens: Emerging places, policies, and shifting rural-urban identities in Acre, Brazil
In the 1970s and 1980s, a strong social movement of rubber tappers in the Amazonian state of Acre achieved remarkable policy goals, gaining new forms of land rights as well as political representation through their alliance with indigenous groups, environmentalists, political parties and human rights advocates. Allies of the social movement entered politics and took state power in 1999 as the “Forest Government,” building on the rubber tapper's l…
New Amazonian geographies: Emerging identities and landscapes
Common stereotypes of a homogeneous Amazonia belie the complexity and diversity of peoples and landscapes across the region. Although often invisible to the outside world, diverse peoples—indigenous, traditional, migrant, urban dwellers and others—actively construct their identities and shape cultural and political landscapes in diverse ways throughout the region. This volume combines political ecology, with its emphasis on identity, politics, an…
This Land Is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil. Wendy Wolford
Deforestation drivers in Southwest Amazonia: Comparing smallholder farmers in Iñapari, Peru, and Assis Brasil, Brazil
Broad interpretation of land use and forest cover studies has been limited by the biophysical and socio-economic uniqueness of the landscapes in which they are carried out and by the multiple temporal and spatial scales of the underlying processes. We coupled a land cover change approach with a political ecology framework to interpret trends in multi-temporal remote sensing of forest cover change and socio-economic surveys with smallholders in th…
Cows versus rubber: Changing livelihoods among Amazonian extractivists
An Exploratory Framework for the Empirical Measurement of Resilience
Experiments in Forest-Based Development in Western Amazonia
The state government of Acre, Brazil, has integrated ecological, cultural, social, and economic forest values into a comprehensive forest policy to manage Acre's abundance of comparatively pristine forests, while couching specific goals and the processes for achieving them within a broader sustainable development framework. Inspired by the rubber tapper culture and social movement, policy implementation has been advanced with broad support from n…
No Longer Invisible, But Still Enigmatic: Amazonian Peasant Identities and Cosmographies
(2003). No Longer Invisible, But Still Enigmatic: Amazonian Peasant Identities and Cosmographies. Reviews in Anthropology: Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 223-237
Emergences: Women's Struggles for Livelihood in Latin America
Household Economic Strategies: Review and Research Agenda
Within a number of disciplines such as anthropology, demography, economics, history, and sociology, renewed interest recently has been manifested in research on family and domestic groups. In contrast to traditional studies that sought universal patterns of family structure and function, contemporary research tends to devote greater attention to the diversity of historically specific patterns (Yanagisako 1979). Many scholars are currently focusin…
Land conflicts in Amazonia
Persistent conflict between small-farmer migrants and the owners of large estates has characterized frontier expansion in the Brazilian Amazon region. These two groups respond to distinct government policy initiatives and hold antagonistic ideological perspectives regarding the appropriation, use, and function of land. To address land conflicts, government intervention has taken on an increasingly political and ideological cast. The evolution and…
Cows versus rubber: Changing livelihoods among Amazonian extractivists
Experiments in Forest-Based Development in Western Amazonia
The state government of Acre, Brazil, has integrated ecological, cultural, social, and economic forest values into a comprehensive forest policy to manage Acre's abundance of comparatively pristine forests, while couching specific goals and the processes for achieving them within a broader sustainable development framework. Inspired by the rubber tapper culture and social movement, policy implementation has been advanced with broad support from n…
From contested to 'green' frontiers in the Amazon? A long-term analysis of São Félix do Xingu, Brazil
The Amazonian frontier, shaped by developmentalist policies in the 1970s and 1980s and a socio-environmental response in the 1990s, has historically been a site of widespread violence and environmental destruction. After the imposition of new environmental governance measures in the mid-2000s, deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon dropped to historic lows. Many analyses of this 'greening' of Amazonia operate within a limited historical pers…
Women's rights to land and communal forest tenure: A way forward for research and policy agenda in Latin America
In this synthesis paper, the authors of this Special Section contribute towards a collective research and policy agenda on rural and indigenous women's forest and land rights in Latin America. Based on the key lessons from the empirical evidence, we map out a way forward for the research agenda and suggest a few key institutional and policy priorities for rural Latin America
Rubber tapper citizens: Emerging places, policies, and shifting rural-urban identities in Acre, Brazil
In the 1970s and 1980s, a strong social movement of rubber tappers in the Amazonian state of Acre achieved remarkable policy goals, gaining new forms of land rights as well as political representation through their alliance with indigenous groups, environmentalists, political parties and human rights advocates. Allies of the social movement entered politics and took state power in 1999 as the “Forest Government,” building on the rubber tapper's l…
New Amazonian geographies: Emerging identities and landscapes
Common stereotypes of a homogeneous Amazonia belie the complexity and diversity of peoples and landscapes across the region. Although often invisible to the outside world, diverse peoples—indigenous, traditional, migrant, urban dwellers and others—actively construct their identities and shape cultural and political landscapes in diverse ways throughout the region. This volume combines political ecology, with its emphasis on identity, politics, an…
Reconnecting art and science for sustainability: Learning from indigenous knowledge through participatory action-research in the Amazon
Athayde, S., J. Silva-Lugo, M. Schmink, A. Kaiabi, and M. Heckenberger, 2017. Reconnecting art and science for sustainability: learning from indigenous knowledge through participatory action-research in the Amazon. Ecology and Society 22(2):36. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09323-220236
Dependent Development and the Division of Labor by Sex: Venezuela
Because the values associated with sex roles are particularly tenacious, women's emancipation is likely to be one of the last frontiers of any social movement, and thus serves as a crude index of social change. More importantly, a focus on women's role in development reflects a great deal about the internal or invisible workings of a society that underlie the more visible formal structures. Researchers have observed a positive relationship betwee…
"Adaptive Resistance," Conservation, and Development in the Brazilian Amazon: Contradictions of Political Organization and Empowerment in the Kaiabi Diaspora
Indigenous peoples have been active players in the process of securing land rights and conserving about 21 percent of the Brazilian Amazon. In this article, we examine advances and contradictions in the process of "adaptive resistance" by Amazonian indigenous peoples in terms of their seeking alliances and funding from outside allies, adapting institutions and social organization, and reconstructing self-representations for securing and managing …
Women in Brazilian Abertura Politics
Anos do Legado de Chico Mendes
Conservation and Development in Latin America and Southern Africa: Setting the Stage
Romero, C., S. Athayde, J. E. Collomb, M. DiGiano, M. Schmink, S. Schramski, and L. Seales. 2012. Conservation and development in Latin America and Southern Africa: setting the stage. Ecology and Society 17(2): 17. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04863-170217
Amazon entrepreneurs: Women’s economic empowerment and the potential for more sustainable land use practices
Differentiated citizenship” and the persistence of informal rural credit systems in Amazonia
Multidimensional forests: Complexity of forest-based values and livelihoods across Amazonian socio-cultural and geopolitical contexts
No Longer Invisible, But Still Enigmatic: Amazonian Peasant Identities and Cosmographies
(2003). No Longer Invisible, But Still Enigmatic: Amazonian Peasant Identities and Cosmographies. Reviews in Anthropology: Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 223-237
Dependent Development and the Division of Labor by Sex: Venezuela
Because the values associated with sex roles are particularly tenacious, women's emancipation is likely to be one of the last frontiers of any social movement, and thus serves as a crude index of social change. More importantly, a focus on women's role in development reflects a great deal about the internal or invisible workings of a society that underlie the more visible formal structures. Researchers have observed a positive relationship betwee…
El desarrollo dependiente y la división del trabajo por sexo: Venezuela
Women in Brazilian Abertura Politics
Land conflicts in Amazonia
Persistent conflict between small-farmer migrants and the owners of large estates has characterized frontier expansion in the Brazilian Amazon region. These two groups respond to distinct government policy initiatives and hold antagonistic ideological perspectives regarding the appropriation, use, and function of land. To address land conflicts, government intervention has taken on an increasingly political and ideological cast. The evolution and…
Agricultural Decision Making: Anthropological Contributions to Rural Development. Peggy F. Barlett, ed
Household Economic Strategies: Review and Research Agenda
Within a number of disciplines such as anthropology, demography, economics, history, and sociology, renewed interest recently has been manifested in research on family and domestic groups. In contrast to traditional studies that sought universal patterns of family structure and function, contemporary research tends to devote greater attention to the diversity of historically specific patterns (Yanagisako 1979). Many scholars are currently focusin…
Linguistic Anthropology: Unseasonal Migrations: The Effects of Rural Labor Scarcity in Peru . Jane L. Collins
Contact: The Yanomami Indians of Brazil. 1989. A film
Contact: The Yanomami Indians of Brazil. 1989. A film by GEOFFREY O'CONNOR and BRUCE ALBERT. 28 Minutes, color. Purchase $295 (video only); rental $55 from Filmmakers Library, 124 East 40th Street, New York, NY 10016 (212/808‐4980; FAX 212/808‐4983
Contact: The Yanomami Indians of Brazil:Contact: The Yanomami Indians of Brazil
The Pacaa Nova: Clash of Cultures on the Brazilian Frontier
Emancipating the Female Sex: The Struggle for Women's Rights in Brazil, 1850-1940
Changing Tropical Forests: Historical Perspectives on Today's Challenges in Central and South America
Changing Tropical Forests: Historical Perspectives on Today's Challenges in Central and South AmericaTropical Rainforests: Latin American Nature and Society in Transition
Bush Base: Forest Farm: Culture, Environment and Development. Elisabeth CROLL and David Parkin
Emergences: Women's Struggles for Livelihood in Latin America
Emergences: Women’s Struggles for Livelihood in Latin America
Experiments in Forest-Based Development in Western Amazonia
The state government of Acre, Brazil, has integrated ecological, cultural, social, and economic forest values into a comprehensive forest policy to manage Acre's abundance of comparatively pristine forests, while couching specific goals and the processes for achieving them within a broader sustainable development framework. Inspired by the rubber tapper culture and social movement, policy implementation has been advanced with broad support from n…
No Longer Invisible, But Still Enigmatic: Amazonian Peasant Identities and Cosmographies
(2003). No Longer Invisible, But Still Enigmatic: Amazonian Peasant Identities and Cosmographies. Reviews in Anthropology: Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 223-237
An Exploratory Framework for the Empirical Measurement of Resilience
Cows versus rubber: Changing livelihoods among Amazonian extractivists
Deforestation drivers in Southwest Amazonia: Comparing smallholder farmers in Iñapari, Peru, and Assis Brasil, Brazil
Broad interpretation of land use and forest cover studies has been limited by the biophysical and socio-economic uniqueness of the landscapes in which they are carried out and by the multiple temporal and spatial scales of the underlying processes. We coupled a land cover change approach with a political ecology framework to interpret trends in multi-temporal remote sensing of forest cover change and socio-economic surveys with smallholders in th…
Forest Citizens: Changing Life Conditions and Social Identities in the Land of the Rubber Tappers
In the past few decades, a new era of socioenvironmental institutions and policies has promoted experimentation with alternative proosals for managing land and resources in the Amazon region. The rubber tappers' home state of Acre was transformed by the florestania policies of the "forest government" regimes that built on the rubber tappers' identity and history to promote forest-based development and to extend citizenship rights. Beginning in 19…
Editors' Foreword: Contemporary Debates on Ecology, Society, and Culture in Latin America
Editors' Foreword: Contemporary Debates on Ecology, Society, and Culture in Latin America Marianne Schmink (bio) and José Ramón Jouve-Martín (bio) For the past two decades, studies on ecology, society, and culture in Latin America have multiplied rapidly, mirroring the increasing importance of ecological and environmental debates worldwide. The environment has become the object of a multidisciplinary research endeavor in which the natural science…
Rubber tapper citizens: Emerging places, policies, and shifting rural-urban identities in Acre, Brazil
In the 1970s and 1980s, a strong social movement of rubber tappers in the Amazonian state of Acre achieved remarkable policy goals, gaining new forms of land rights as well as political representation through their alliance with indigenous groups, environmentalists, political parties and human rights advocates. Allies of the social movement entered politics and took state power in 1999 as the “Forest Government,” building on the rubber tapper's l…
New Amazonian geographies: Emerging identities and landscapes
Common stereotypes of a homogeneous Amazonia belie the complexity and diversity of peoples and landscapes across the region. Although often invisible to the outside world, diverse peoples—indigenous, traditional, migrant, urban dwellers and others—actively construct their identities and shape cultural and political landscapes in diverse ways throughout the region. This volume combines political ecology, with its emphasis on identity, politics, an…
Political science (26 works) · Geography (24 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (17 works) · Ecology (16 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (14 works) · Economics (14 works) · Amazon rainforest (12 works) · Archaeology (10 works) · Law (10 works)