Emily Wakild
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 121891 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Emily Wakild |
| PRENOMES | Emily |
| SOBRENOME | Wakild |
| ASSINATURA | WAKILD E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Boise State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1806-0832 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Porous Conservation
This article analyzes the changing relations between national parks and people in Latin America between the 1930s and the present. In this region, conservation policies initially showed flexibility, eventually adopted a restrictive model but for the most part failed to enforce it, and, after political struggles to expand rights and benefits, developed alternative conservation initiatives. Rather than fortresses, these historical eras demonstrate …
Frederico Freitas. Nationalizing Nature
Journal Article Frederico Freitas. Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border. Get access Frederico Freitas. Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 315. Paper $29.99. Emily Wakild Emily Wakild Boise State University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic …
Before Biodiversity
Almost a century ago, long before biodiversity expressed a scientific value for nature, Latin American countries began establishing national parks. Today, they represent over 6 percent of Latin America's landmass. By considering national park creation across a broad regional span and six crucial decades, this article explains a mode of state formation focused on caring for nature instead of just exploiting it. It examines how national parks expan…
Extinction and Its Interventions in the Americas
This forum argues that environmental historians ought to pay more attention to animal extinction—the disappearance of a lineage of life—than they have to date. Examining the pre-and post-extinction contexts of charismatic terrestrial vertebrates in the Americas certainly underscores the power humans have had over other animals and their habitats. Yet, the contingencies and unexpected results of conservation efforts merit no less attention. Indeed…
Why We Can (and Should!) All Teach Climate History
This article reviews some of the reasons why history teachers choose not to teach about climate change. The authors suggest that climate change can be an integral part of a history course and they offer examples of energy, cultural identities, and wildland fire as places to weave climate into traditional history classes. Teaching about climate change does not only have to be about scientific data or geophysical facts; the moral, emotional, and cu…
Learning from the llama
The llama (Lama glama) is the largest domesticated animal species from South America and is today found worldwide. Andean peoples have used the llama for millennia for meat, wool, packing, spiritual etc. In order to know the history of the llama, we must learn about the peoples that have known the animal and the ways those relationships have changed over time. While also considering closely related species, including alpaca, guanaco, and vicuña, …
Saving the Vicuña
This article examines national efforts to protect wildlife in the twentieth century. Its focus is the vicuña, a small llama-like species native to the Andes, which nearly went extinct due to the high economic value of its wool. Instead, the Peruvian national government—despite significant regime shifts—intervened to put in place and then perpetuate a series of conservation measures, including trade restrictions and a territorial reserve, that pro…
A Panorama of Parks
Darwin's Man in Brazil
The Nature State
Nature State
La Frontera
La Frontera: Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile's Frontier Territory, by Thomas Miller Klubock. Durham & London, Duke University Press, 2014. ix, 385 pp. $27.95 US (paper). Thomas Klubock has written an excellent book based upon exhaustive research that pieces together the social and environmental effects caused by large scale transformations to forests during a sustained period of nation-building and state development in southern Chile. He…
Acts of Courage, Acts of Culture
In 1940 Mexico had more national parks than any country in the world. Nestled among pine and fir forests, sprawling across volcanoes in the shadow of Mexico City, these parks bore the mark of a particular kind of conservation. Linked to the Mexican Revolution, a vibrant and widespread battle for social justice from 1910 to 1940, the most representative government in the nation’s history created parks as one of many components of a pervasive polic…
The Sociable Sciences
The Sociable Sciences reconstructs the social world of naturalists who traveled to or within Chile in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Patience Schell superbly tells a chronological narrative using overlapping biographies of the preeminent figures involved in the often thrilling and wonder-filled enterprise of natural history fieldwork. She situates these naturalists in the historiography of science and of friendships. Schell typifies…
Environmental Justice, Environmentalism, and Environmental History in Twentieth‐Century Latin America
Environmental histories of Latin America have reached a critical mass. The breadth, depth, and sophistication of this new literature merit comparisons to less conventionally environmental topics, such as labor and politics, and new strands of environmental research, such as environmental justice. While the field of Latin American environmental history for the twentieth century is far from complete or comprehensive, one of its strengths is the sim…
Civilizing Nature
Social Landscaping in the Forests of Mexico
This article reinterprets the pivotal presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas of Mexico, (1934-40) through the prism of environmental history. The Cárdenas administration is best known for its use of land reform, creation of mass organizations, and the nationalization of key industries to fulfill what it understood as the "promises" of the revolution. Yet such assertions render the natural world invisible. We show that a fundamental element of Cárdenas's a…
Jungle Laboratories
Despite the birth control pill’s position as a symbol of modern scientific advancement, Mexico’s role in the production of synthetic steroids and the global pharmaceutical science that led to the pill has been regrettably overlooked. Fortunately, Gabriela Soto Laveaga corrects this. By exploring the history of a forgotten medicinal yam that grows wild in Mexico’s southern tropical states — and the powerful and lucrative diosgenin source material …
Border Chasm
The failure of the Mexican government to agree to a joint park along the border with the United States has been portrayed as a lack of consciousness about conservation within Mexico. Yet in the 1930s the Mexican government created and administered forty national parks elsewhere in the country. The absence of a joint border park gives cause to examine the larger historical context to compare interpretations of national parks and reasons for their …
F arming and the F ate of W ild N ature
(2008). Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature: Essays in Conservation-based Agriculture edited by Daniel Imhoff and Jo Ann Baumgartner. Food, Culture & Society: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 248-250
Naturalizing Modernity
This article argues that governmental modernization strategies in Mexico during the Porfiriato relied on calculated manipulations of nature. Using examples of urban gardens, public parks, and drainage works, this article explains how Porfirian scientists José Yves Limantour and Miguel Ángel de Quevedo tried to reformulate Mexican nature and its citizens. Rather than expelling all vestiges of nature from Mexico City, these scientists reordered and…
Social Landscaping in the Forests of Mexico
This article reinterprets the pivotal presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas of Mexico, (1934-40) through the prism of environmental history. The Cárdenas administration is best known for its use of land reform, creation of mass organizations, and the nationalization of key industries to fulfill what it understood as the "promises" of the revolution. Yet such assertions render the natural world invisible. We show that a fundamental element of Cárdenas's a…
Extinction and Its Interventions in the Americas
This forum argues that environmental historians ought to pay more attention to animal extinction—the disappearance of a lineage of life—than they have to date. Examining the pre-and post-extinction contexts of charismatic terrestrial vertebrates in the Americas certainly underscores the power humans have had over other animals and their habitats. Yet, the contingencies and unexpected results of conservation efforts merit no less attention. Indeed…
Environmental Justice, Environmentalism, and Environmental History in Twentieth‐Century Latin America
Environmental histories of Latin America have reached a critical mass. The breadth, depth, and sophistication of this new literature merit comparisons to less conventionally environmental topics, such as labor and politics, and new strands of environmental research, such as environmental justice. While the field of Latin American environmental history for the twentieth century is far from complete or comprehensive, one of its strengths is the sim…
Border Chasm
The failure of the Mexican government to agree to a joint park along the border with the United States has been portrayed as a lack of consciousness about conservation within Mexico. Yet in the 1930s the Mexican government created and administered forty national parks elsewhere in the country. The absence of a joint border park gives cause to examine the larger historical context to compare interpretations of national parks and reasons for their …
Naturalizing Modernity
This article argues that governmental modernization strategies in Mexico during the Porfiriato relied on calculated manipulations of nature. Using examples of urban gardens, public parks, and drainage works, this article explains how Porfirian scientists José Yves Limantour and Miguel Ángel de Quevedo tried to reformulate Mexican nature and its citizens. Rather than expelling all vestiges of nature from Mexico City, these scientists reordered and…
Before Biodiversity
Almost a century ago, long before biodiversity expressed a scientific value for nature, Latin American countries began establishing national parks. Today, they represent over 6 percent of Latin America's landmass. By considering national park creation across a broad regional span and six crucial decades, this article explains a mode of state formation focused on caring for nature instead of just exploiting it. It examines how national parks expan…
Saving the Vicuña
This article examines national efforts to protect wildlife in the twentieth century. Its focus is the vicuña, a small llama-like species native to the Andes, which nearly went extinct due to the high economic value of its wool. Instead, the Peruvian national government—despite significant regime shifts—intervened to put in place and then perpetuate a series of conservation measures, including trade restrictions and a territorial reserve, that pro…
Learning from the llama
The llama (Lama glama) is the largest domesticated animal species from South America and is today found worldwide. Andean peoples have used the llama for millennia for meat, wool, packing, spiritual etc. In order to know the history of the llama, we must learn about the peoples that have known the animal and the ways those relationships have changed over time. While also considering closely related species, including alpaca, guanaco, and vicuña, …
Naturalizing Modernity
This article argues that governmental modernization strategies in Mexico during the Porfiriato relied on calculated manipulations of nature. Using examples of urban gardens, public parks, and drainage works, this article explains how Porfirian scientists José Yves Limantour and Miguel Ángel de Quevedo tried to reformulate Mexican nature and its citizens. Rather than expelling all vestiges of nature from Mexico City, these scientists reordered and…
F arming and the F ate of W ild N ature
(2008). Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature: Essays in Conservation-based Agriculture edited by Daniel Imhoff and Jo Ann Baumgartner. Food, Culture & Society: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 248-250
Border Chasm
The failure of the Mexican government to agree to a joint park along the border with the United States has been portrayed as a lack of consciousness about conservation within Mexico. Yet in the 1930s the Mexican government created and administered forty national parks elsewhere in the country. The absence of a joint border park gives cause to examine the larger historical context to compare interpretations of national parks and reasons for their …
Jungle Laboratories
Despite the birth control pill’s position as a symbol of modern scientific advancement, Mexico’s role in the production of synthetic steroids and the global pharmaceutical science that led to the pill has been regrettably overlooked. Fortunately, Gabriela Soto Laveaga corrects this. By exploring the history of a forgotten medicinal yam that grows wild in Mexico’s southern tropical states — and the powerful and lucrative diosgenin source material …
Civilizing Nature
Social Landscaping in the Forests of Mexico
This article reinterprets the pivotal presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas of Mexico, (1934-40) through the prism of environmental history. The Cárdenas administration is best known for its use of land reform, creation of mass organizations, and the nationalization of key industries to fulfill what it understood as the "promises" of the revolution. Yet such assertions render the natural world invisible. We show that a fundamental element of Cárdenas's a…
Environmental Justice, Environmentalism, and Environmental History in Twentieth‐Century Latin America
Environmental histories of Latin America have reached a critical mass. The breadth, depth, and sophistication of this new literature merit comparisons to less conventionally environmental topics, such as labor and politics, and new strands of environmental research, such as environmental justice. While the field of Latin American environmental history for the twentieth century is far from complete or comprehensive, one of its strengths is the sim…
Acts of Courage, Acts of Culture
In 1940 Mexico had more national parks than any country in the world. Nestled among pine and fir forests, sprawling across volcanoes in the shadow of Mexico City, these parks bore the mark of a particular kind of conservation. Linked to the Mexican Revolution, a vibrant and widespread battle for social justice from 1910 to 1940, the most representative government in the nation’s history created parks as one of many components of a pervasive polic…
The Sociable Sciences
The Sociable Sciences reconstructs the social world of naturalists who traveled to or within Chile in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Patience Schell superbly tells a chronological narrative using overlapping biographies of the preeminent figures involved in the often thrilling and wonder-filled enterprise of natural history fieldwork. She situates these naturalists in the historiography of science and of friendships. Schell typifies…
La Frontera
La Frontera: Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile's Frontier Territory, by Thomas Miller Klubock. Durham & London, Duke University Press, 2014. ix, 385 pp. $27.95 US (paper). Thomas Klubock has written an excellent book based upon exhaustive research that pieces together the social and environmental effects caused by large scale transformations to forests during a sustained period of nation-building and state development in southern Chile. He…
The Nature State
Nature State
A Panorama of Parks
Darwin's Man in Brazil
Saving the Vicuña
This article examines national efforts to protect wildlife in the twentieth century. Its focus is the vicuña, a small llama-like species native to the Andes, which nearly went extinct due to the high economic value of its wool. Instead, the Peruvian national government—despite significant regime shifts—intervened to put in place and then perpetuate a series of conservation measures, including trade restrictions and a territorial reserve, that pro…
Why We Can (and Should!) All Teach Climate History
This article reviews some of the reasons why history teachers choose not to teach about climate change. The authors suggest that climate change can be an integral part of a history course and they offer examples of energy, cultural identities, and wildland fire as places to weave climate into traditional history classes. Teaching about climate change does not only have to be about scientific data or geophysical facts; the moral, emotional, and cu…
Learning from the llama
The llama (Lama glama) is the largest domesticated animal species from South America and is today found worldwide. Andean peoples have used the llama for millennia for meat, wool, packing, spiritual etc. In order to know the history of the llama, we must learn about the peoples that have known the animal and the ways those relationships have changed over time. While also considering closely related species, including alpaca, guanaco, and vicuña, …
Extinction and Its Interventions in the Americas
This forum argues that environmental historians ought to pay more attention to animal extinction—the disappearance of a lineage of life—than they have to date. Examining the pre-and post-extinction contexts of charismatic terrestrial vertebrates in the Americas certainly underscores the power humans have had over other animals and their habitats. Yet, the contingencies and unexpected results of conservation efforts merit no less attention. Indeed…
Frederico Freitas. Nationalizing Nature
Journal Article Frederico Freitas. Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border. Get access Frederico Freitas. Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 315. Paper $29.99. Emily Wakild Emily Wakild Boise State University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic …
Before Biodiversity
Almost a century ago, long before biodiversity expressed a scientific value for nature, Latin American countries began establishing national parks. Today, they represent over 6 percent of Latin America's landmass. By considering national park creation across a broad regional span and six crucial decades, this article explains a mode of state formation focused on caring for nature instead of just exploiting it. It examines how national parks expan…
Porous Conservation
This article analyzes the changing relations between national parks and people in Latin America between the 1930s and the present. In this region, conservation policies initially showed flexibility, eventually adopted a restrictive model but for the most part failed to enforce it, and, after political struggles to expand rights and benefits, developed alternative conservation initiatives. Rather than fortresses, these historical eras demonstrate …
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