Cynthia Simmons

Biographic Data

ID3609684
NAMECynthia Simmons
GIVEN NAMESCynthia
FAMILY NAMESimmons
SIGNATURESIMMONS C
AFFILIATIONSBoston College
ORCID0000-0002-5015-066X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS34
TOTAL CITATIONS139
AUTHOR COUNT34
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX5

  • Stimulating reciprocity

    Open AccessJoel E Correia, Justino Piaguage Lucitante et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2025

    Human–plant relations shed light on forms of reciprocity in Indigenous territorial stewardship. This article shows how Cofán, Siona and Siekopai (also Secoya or Airo Pai in Peru) Indigenous Peoples in the western Amazon collect, cultivate and use yoco ( Paullinia yoco ) to promote communal conviviality, reclaim once‐threatened cultural practices and advance new forms of collective stewardship to promote social‐ecological well‐being. Yoco is a caf…

  • Globalized supply chains

    Open AccessYankuic Galván-Miyoshi, Cynthia S Simmons et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2022Cited by: 2References: 1

  • Avoiding Amazonian Catastrophes

    Open AccessRobert Toovey Walker, Cynthia S Simmons et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2019

  • Steven Maddox, Saving Stalin’s imperial city

    Cynthia SimmonsARTICLECanadian Slavonic Papers2016References: 1

    Steven Maddox, Saving Stalin’s imperial city: historic preservation in Leningrad, 1930–1950." Canadian Slavonic Papers, 58(2), pp. 195–196

  • Contentious Land Change in the Amazon's Arc of Deforestation

    Stephen Aldrich, Robert Toovey Walker et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the Association of…2012Cited by: 20References: 76

    Land change in the Amazon is driven by numerous factors including fiscal incentives, infrastructure, transportation costs, migration, and household decision making. Largely missing from the story to date, however, is the role of contentious social processes, including contention over land resources. By employing a case study of land conflict over a largeholding in southeastern Pará, Brazil, and a regional-scale statistical model, we describe cont…

  • The social viability and environmental sustainability of direct action land reform settlements in the Amazon

    Open AccessFlavia L Leite, Flavia Leite et al.ARTICLEEnvironment Development and…2011

  • The Amazonian Theater of Cruelty

    Robert Toovey Walker, Robert Walker et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the Association of…2011Cited by: 4References: 2

    This article deploys the “Theater of Cruelty,” articulated by the French surrealist Antonin Artaud, as a conceptual heuristic to explicate the empirical world of contemporary Amazonia, in particular the “South of Pará,” a site of land war and forest destruction, which the Theater of Cruelty posits as a single dramatic event. We pursue this explication via direct physical immersion, in the form of a travelogue following State Road PA-150 from Mara…

  • Intraregional Migration, Direct Action Land Reform, and New Land Settlements in the Brazilian Amazon

    Open AccessStephen G Perz, Flavia Leite et al.ARTICLEBulletin of Latin American Research2010Cited by: 10References: 10

    This article analyses migration histories of residents in rural settlements of the Brazilian Amazon that resulted from direct action land reform (DALR), which involves organised land occupations. Our analysis evaluates two hypotheses. The 'urban migration' expectation asserts that urban experience is important for DALR participation, which links rural and urban areas via migration for land occupations. The 'DALR efficacy' hypothesis argues that m…

  • Doing it for Themselves

    Open AccessCynthia S Simmons, Cynthia Simmons et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2009Cited by: 16References: 12

  • Ranching and the new global range

    Open AccessRobert Toovey Walker, Robert Walker et al.ARTICLEGeoforum2008Cited by: 57References: 15

  • Women's Work and the Growth of Civil Society in Post-War Bosnia

    Open AccessCynthia SimmonsARTICLENationalities Papers2007References: 4

    Civil society, to the extent that it exists today in Bosnia, has developed alongside the recasting of women's roles in public life. Researchers equate civil society in Bosnia today almost exclusively with non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The early post-war NGOs grew out of the peace movement that took shape before and during the open conflict of 1992–1995. Peace organizations evolved to a large extent from feminist organizing and organizati…

  • Theorizing Land Cover and Land Use Change

    Marcellus M Caldas, Marcellus Caldas et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the Association of…2007Cited by: 24References: 88

    This article addresses deforestation processes in the Amazon basin, using regression analysis to assess the impact of household structure and economic circumstances on land use decisions made by colonist farmers in the forest frontiers of Brazil. Unlike many previous regression-based studies, the methodology implemented analyzes behavior at the level of the individual property, using both survey data and information derived from the classificatio…

  • Refining landscape change models through outlier analysis in the Muskegon watershed of Michigan

    Patricia L Machemer, Patricia Machemer et al.ARTICLELandscape Research2006References: 32

    Balancing natural resource protection and urban development is of concern to researchers, planners and citizens who are aware of the environmental, social and economic impacts of urban land use. Land-use change models can assist in finding this balance. An objective of this research was to build a better model of land-use change by integrating quantitative and qualitative techniques. A modelling approach is presented that combines statistical log…

  • This Was Not Our War

    Cynthia Simmons, Swanee HuntARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…2006

    September 11, 001, I was sitting at my desk, writing captions for my photographs of shelled buildings in Sarajevo, for the Bosnian edition of this book.With shock written across her face, a colleague summoned me to the tv.I watched as a plane hit the second World Trade Center tower.Then I returned to my desk, not daring to say aloud what I was thinking: ''Now maybe we'll understand what the people in Bosnia felt.''How naïve.Wasting no time on re…

  • The Second Book

    Cynthia Simmons, Muharem BazduljARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…2006

  • Writing The Siege Of Leningrad

    Cynthia Simmons, Nina Perlina et al.BOOKWriting the Siege of Leningrad2003

  • Writing the Siege of Leningrad

    Tatiana Smorodinska, Cynthia S Simmons et al.ARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…2003

  • A Multicultural, Multiethnic, and Multiconfessional Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Open AccessCynthia SimmonsARTICLENationalities Papers2002Cited by: 4References: 3

    In early 1992, the “three m's” (tri m) , which denoted a multicultural, multiethnic, and multiconfessional Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), became the rallying cry against the forces of disintegration, or more accurately, of partition. These identifying characteristics or national ideals could not avert catastrophe. Indeed, BiH's liminal position at the crossroads of cultures, religions, and history rendered it the most vulnerable of republics in th…

  • Gender Politics in the Western Balkans

    Cynthia S Simmons, Cynthia Simmons et al.ARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…2001

  • Baedeker barbarism

    Open AccessCynthia SimmonsARTICLEHuman Rights Review2000Cited by: 1

  • Studies in Poetics

    Cynthia Simmons, Elena Semeka-PankratovARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…1998

  • Cafe Europa

    Cynthia S Simmons, Cynthia Simmons et al.ARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…1998

  • For Henry Kucera

    Sharon Flank, Andrew W Mackie et al.ARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…1998

  • Lifting the Siege

    Cynthia SimmonsARTICLECanadian Slavonic Papers1998

    Lifting the Siege: Women's Voices on Leningrad (1941-1944)* I. THE SIEGE AS A GENDERED EXPERIENCE AND THE EARLY HISTORY In this last decade of the twentieth century, intellectual inquiry has survived the rage of subversion for subversion's sake and has settled, for the most part, with the type of revision of our knowledge that is not anarchistic; rather it is contextual and polyphonic. History is everywhere being rewritten. The discovery and inte…

  • Their Fathers' Voice

    Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, Cynthia SimmonsARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…1996