Barbara Ganson
Biographic Data
| ID | 685079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Ganson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Ganson |
| SIGNATURE | GANSON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida Atlantic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4908-9283 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
From Green to Red
Despite the ethical stance of new energy proponents, solar installations can, like any large-scale investments, be drivers of violent socio-political and socio-economic conflict in fragile contexts. This poses risks both to people and to successful implementation of a green transition. We first review how “green” energy investments can turn “red” through their entanglement in the political economy of conflict. We then empirically analyze the conf…
Collaborative Solutions in Complex Environments
The contexts in which we at the Centre on Conflict & Collaboration and our students work are marked by chronic sociopolitical tensions between citizens and authorities and identity groups with each other. They are characterized by overwhelmed institutions and ongoing contestation with respect to authority, legitimacy, and even the appropriate use of violence. Thus, “getting to yes” in the workplace, community, or civic space is not only harder, w…
Management in Complex Environments
Systems Perspectives on Business and Peace
We examine three business-related initiatives designed to achieve peace positive impacts in the Cape Town township of Langa. Each was seemingly straightforward in its purpose, logic, and implementation. However, their positive intent was frustrated and their impacts ultimately harmful to their articulated goals. Understanding why this is so can be difficult in violent, turbulent, and information-poor environments such as Langa, confounding progre…
Theorising MSMEs in Contexts of Urban Violence
What are the relationships between and among small businesses, conflict, and peaceful development in contexts of urban violence? Here, the complex formal and informal divisions of economic, political and social power, authority, and legitimacy – and the many grey areas between legality and illegality, necessity and opportunism – create challenging conditions for business operations and for peacebuilding. A grounded understanding is required if pe…
Business (not) for peace
European policy towards Africa assumes a peace-positive role for the private sector in developing countries. Conflicting evidence from fragile and conflict affected states, however, underlies a stark debate over business, peace, development, and extractives sector governance. This study draws from deep dives into about a dozen fragile and conflict affected contexts to add nuance to this conversation and inform future policy. It examines in turn t…
The Rarified Air of the Modern
In The Rarified Air of the Modern, Willie Hiatt tells the engaging story of powered flight in Peru, from the 1910 flight of Jorge Chávez Dartnell as the first person to fly across the Alps through the jet age. Hiatt examines how Peruvians confronted technological modernity through the pursuit of aviation. Although Peru suffered from poor infrastructure, scant resources, dearth of technological expertise, and mountainous and jungle terrain, Peruvi…
Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Apostle of the Guaraní
This essay highlights the accomplishments of one of the foremost Jesuit missionaries in seventeenth-century Paraguay, Antonio Ruiz de Montoya. Born in Lima, Montoya distinguished himself as a chronicler of the first encounters between the Jesuits and the Guaraní Indians of South America. He defended Indian rights by speaking out against Indian slavery. Montoya spent approximately twenty-five years among the Guaraní indigenous peoples who influenc…
Frontiers of Possession
Flight
Virgil Richardson (1916 – 2004) was a Tuskegee Airman, one of the African American pilots of the U.S. Army Air Corps who distinguished themselves during World War II by never losing a single bomber to enemy fighters while flying escort missions over Europe. Richardson was one of the approximately four hundred pilots who received advanced flight training at Tuskegee, Alabama, and were assigned for combat duty overseas. Although he loved flying P-5…
The Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco
Book Review| October 01 2005 The Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco: Identity and Economy By John Renshaw. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xv + 305 pp., preface, introduction, illustrations, maps, glossary, bibliography,index. $65.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.) Barbara Ganson Barbara Ganson Florida Atlantic University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (4): 804–805. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141…
The Guaraní under Spanish Rule in the Río de la Plata
This ethnographic study is a revisionist view of the most significant and widely known mission system in Latin America—that of the Jesuit missions to the Guaraní Indians, who inhabited the border regions of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil. It traces in detail the process of Indian adaptation to Spanish colonialism from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries. The book demonstrates conclusively that the Guaraní were as instrumental in…
The History of the Timucua Indians and Missions
Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization
Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization
Mission Culture on the Upper Amazon
The native peoples of the Moxos region of modern Bolivia began a cultural transformation with their contact by Jesuit missionaries in the mid 17th century. The amalgamation of autocthonous and European modes formed a particular "mission culture" that endured until the Amazonian rubber boom reached Moxos at the end of the 19th century
Following Their Children into Battle
Ella impulsó a su hermano a la pelea, ella siguió a sus hijos al combate... En medio de la noche, su silueta se destacó en el campo funerario de la batalla, pues buscaba, inquieta el cuerpo de su amor entre el osario. E igual que con su esposo compartiera el tálamo nupcial en la morada, con su esposo cayó, fiel compañera, en el lecho mortal de la jornada. She encouraged her brother to fight she followed her children into combat... In middle of th…
The Evueví of Paraguay
The Evueví (commonly known as the “Payaguá”), a Guaycuruan tribe in southern South America, dominated the Paraguay and Paraná rivers for more than three centuries. Non-sedentary, similar in nature to the Chichimecas of northern Mexico and the Araucanians of southern Chile, the Evueví were riverine Indians whose life was seriously disrupted by the westward expansion of the Spanish and Portuguese in the Gran Chaco and Mato Grosso regions. This stud…
The Guaraní under Spanish Rule in the Río de la Plata
This ethnographic study is a revisionist view of the most significant and widely known mission system in Latin America—that of the Jesuit missions to the Guaraní Indians, who inhabited the border regions of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil. It traces in detail the process of Indian adaptation to Spanish colonialism from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries. The book demonstrates conclusively that the Guaraní were as instrumental in…
Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization
Mission Culture on the Upper Amazon
The native peoples of the Moxos region of modern Bolivia began a cultural transformation with their contact by Jesuit missionaries in the mid 17th century. The amalgamation of autocthonous and European modes formed a particular "mission culture" that endured until the Amazonian rubber boom reached Moxos at the end of the 19th century
Following Their Children into Battle
Ella impulsó a su hermano a la pelea, ella siguió a sus hijos al combate... En medio de la noche, su silueta se destacó en el campo funerario de la batalla, pues buscaba, inquieta el cuerpo de su amor entre el osario. E igual que con su esposo compartiera el tálamo nupcial en la morada, con su esposo cayó, fiel compañera, en el lecho mortal de la jornada. She encouraged her brother to fight she followed her children into combat... In middle of th…
The Evueví of Paraguay
The Evueví (commonly known as the “Payaguá”), a Guaycuruan tribe in southern South America, dominated the Paraguay and Paraná rivers for more than three centuries. Non-sedentary, similar in nature to the Chichimecas of northern Mexico and the Araucanians of southern Chile, the Evueví were riverine Indians whose life was seriously disrupted by the westward expansion of the Spanish and Portuguese in the Gran Chaco and Mato Grosso regions. This stud…
Theorising MSMEs in Contexts of Urban Violence
What are the relationships between and among small businesses, conflict, and peaceful development in contexts of urban violence? Here, the complex formal and informal divisions of economic, political and social power, authority, and legitimacy – and the many grey areas between legality and illegality, necessity and opportunism – create challenging conditions for business operations and for peacebuilding. A grounded understanding is required if pe…
Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Apostle of the Guaraní
This essay highlights the accomplishments of one of the foremost Jesuit missionaries in seventeenth-century Paraguay, Antonio Ruiz de Montoya. Born in Lima, Montoya distinguished himself as a chronicler of the first encounters between the Jesuits and the Guaraní Indians of South America. He defended Indian rights by speaking out against Indian slavery. Montoya spent approximately twenty-five years among the Guaraní indigenous peoples who influenc…
Frontiers of Possession
The Evueví of Paraguay
The Evueví (commonly known as the “Payaguá”), a Guaycuruan tribe in southern South America, dominated the Paraguay and Paraná rivers for more than three centuries. Non-sedentary, similar in nature to the Chichimecas of northern Mexico and the Araucanians of southern Chile, the Evueví were riverine Indians whose life was seriously disrupted by the westward expansion of the Spanish and Portuguese in the Gran Chaco and Mato Grosso regions. This stud…
Following Their Children into Battle
Ella impulsó a su hermano a la pelea, ella siguió a sus hijos al combate... En medio de la noche, su silueta se destacó en el campo funerario de la batalla, pues buscaba, inquieta el cuerpo de su amor entre el osario. E igual que con su esposo compartiera el tálamo nupcial en la morada, con su esposo cayó, fiel compañera, en el lecho mortal de la jornada. She encouraged her brother to fight she followed her children into combat... In middle of th…
Mission Culture on the Upper Amazon
The native peoples of the Moxos region of modern Bolivia began a cultural transformation with their contact by Jesuit missionaries in the mid 17th century. The amalgamation of autocthonous and European modes formed a particular "mission culture" that endured until the Amazonian rubber boom reached Moxos at the end of the 19th century
Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization
Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization
The History of the Timucua Indians and Missions
The Guaraní under Spanish Rule in the Río de la Plata
This ethnographic study is a revisionist view of the most significant and widely known mission system in Latin America—that of the Jesuit missions to the Guaraní Indians, who inhabited the border regions of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil. It traces in detail the process of Indian adaptation to Spanish colonialism from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries. The book demonstrates conclusively that the Guaraní were as instrumental in…
The Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco
Book Review| October 01 2005 The Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco: Identity and Economy By John Renshaw. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xv + 305 pp., preface, introduction, illustrations, maps, glossary, bibliography,index. $65.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.) Barbara Ganson Barbara Ganson Florida Atlantic University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (4): 804–805. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141…
Flight
Virgil Richardson (1916 – 2004) was a Tuskegee Airman, one of the African American pilots of the U.S. Army Air Corps who distinguished themselves during World War II by never losing a single bomber to enemy fighters while flying escort missions over Europe. Richardson was one of the approximately four hundred pilots who received advanced flight training at Tuskegee, Alabama, and were assigned for combat duty overseas. Although he loved flying P-5…
Frontiers of Possession
Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Apostle of the Guaraní
This essay highlights the accomplishments of one of the foremost Jesuit missionaries in seventeenth-century Paraguay, Antonio Ruiz de Montoya. Born in Lima, Montoya distinguished himself as a chronicler of the first encounters between the Jesuits and the Guaraní Indians of South America. He defended Indian rights by speaking out against Indian slavery. Montoya spent approximately twenty-five years among the Guaraní indigenous peoples who influenc…
The Rarified Air of the Modern
In The Rarified Air of the Modern, Willie Hiatt tells the engaging story of powered flight in Peru, from the 1910 flight of Jorge Chávez Dartnell as the first person to fly across the Alps through the jet age. Hiatt examines how Peruvians confronted technological modernity through the pursuit of aviation. Although Peru suffered from poor infrastructure, scant resources, dearth of technological expertise, and mountainous and jungle terrain, Peruvi…
Business (not) for peace
European policy towards Africa assumes a peace-positive role for the private sector in developing countries. Conflicting evidence from fragile and conflict affected states, however, underlies a stark debate over business, peace, development, and extractives sector governance. This study draws from deep dives into about a dozen fragile and conflict affected contexts to add nuance to this conversation and inform future policy. It examines in turn t…
Theorising MSMEs in Contexts of Urban Violence
What are the relationships between and among small businesses, conflict, and peaceful development in contexts of urban violence? Here, the complex formal and informal divisions of economic, political and social power, authority, and legitimacy – and the many grey areas between legality and illegality, necessity and opportunism – create challenging conditions for business operations and for peacebuilding. A grounded understanding is required if pe…
Systems Perspectives on Business and Peace
We examine three business-related initiatives designed to achieve peace positive impacts in the Cape Town township of Langa. Each was seemingly straightforward in its purpose, logic, and implementation. However, their positive intent was frustrated and their impacts ultimately harmful to their articulated goals. Understanding why this is so can be difficult in violent, turbulent, and information-poor environments such as Langa, confounding progre…
Management in Complex Environments
From Green to Red
Despite the ethical stance of new energy proponents, solar installations can, like any large-scale investments, be drivers of violent socio-political and socio-economic conflict in fragile contexts. This poses risks both to people and to successful implementation of a green transition. We first review how “green” energy investments can turn “red” through their entanglement in the political economy of conflict. We then empirically analyze the conf…
Collaborative Solutions in Complex Environments
The contexts in which we at the Centre on Conflict & Collaboration and our students work are marked by chronic sociopolitical tensions between citizens and authorities and identity groups with each other. They are characterized by overwhelmed institutions and ongoing contestation with respect to authority, legitimacy, and even the appropriate use of violence. Thus, “getting to yes” in the workplace, community, or civic space is not only harder, w…
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