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Research Interests & Work in Progress

• Restructuring of Biodiversity Conservation
• New cultural ecologies of consumption
• Cultural Identity in Northern Pakistan

Teaching Interests & Responsibilities

• Disapora Studies and Transnationalism
• Environmental Conservation and Sustainable Development

Affiliations

• Editorial Advisory Board, ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geography
• 2004-Present Chair, Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy, Theme on Culture and Conservation, IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature)
• 2002-2004 Chair, Socialist and Critical Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers

Awards & Grants

• 2008 SSHRC Grants in Aid of Workshops and Conferences. $18, 000.
• 2008 The Christensen Fund, Werner Gren Foundation, National Science Foundation (with Eleanor Sterling, American Museum of Natural History, Luisa Maffi, Terra Lingua) $180, 000.
• 2007 University of Toronto Connaught New Staff Matching Grant. $55, 026.

Publications

• (forthcoming) Business, Biodiversity and New 'Fields' of Conservation: The Wolrd Conservation Congress and the Renegotiation of Organizational Order. Conservation and Society.
• (forthcoming) Landscapes of Diversity: Development and Vulnerability to Food Insecurity in Subsistence Agroecosystems of Northern Pakistan, In Kugelman, M. (ed) Hunger Pains: Pakistan's Food Insecurity. Washington D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
• 2010 The Devil is in the (bio) Diversity: Private Sector 'Engagement' and the Restructuring of Biodiversity Conservation. Antipode, 42(3), 512-49.
• 2008 Environmental Degradation, Social Marginalization and the Institutional Dynamics of Vulnerability in the October 8, 2005 Earthquake, Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Final Research Report to the International Development Research Center.
• 2006 Memories of Tibet: Transnationalism, Transcultural ant the Cultural Politics of Identity Production in Northern Pakistan, India Review 5(2), 190-219.
• 2005 "Global Hunting Grounds: Power, Scale and Ecology in the Negotiation of Conservation". Cultural Geographies 12(3), 259-291.