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Dr Oscar Forero

Cesagen: Senior Research Associate

Associated research centres and groups: ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen)

Research Interests

Political Ecology: The interfaces between Environmental Management, Human Ecology and Environmental Policy making.

I have researched into the history of ethnosciences as the basis for developing actor-oriented, interpretative approaches. By attempting to construct the history of livelihood strategies (in Northwest Amazonia, Yucatan Peninsula, Ukrainian émigrés in Bradford-UK and to a less extent of the Mapuche-Pehuenche of Chile) I have been forced to compare the development of `communities´ during different periods of time. Diachronical analysis looked at developmental conditions through time periods defined by the structural (political - economical) and environmental changes. Long-term comparability has been enabled through the combination methods from ethnohistory (including the analysis of archives, audiovisual material, plastic arts and literature), ethnography (including participatory actions research during fieldwork and ICT monitoring throughout the projects´ life), and comparative political and ecological analysis.

Biography

Until 2005 Oscar worked for the Department of Geography at King´s College London in a project linked to the Cultures of Consumption Programme (ESRC / AHRB). He investigated the history of the production and consumption of chewing gum looking at interfaces between identity, cultural change and political economy. From February 2006 and September 2007 Oscar worked for the School of Health and related research in University of Sheffield on the project 'socio-cultural transmission of food values' linked to the Changes Families Changing Food Programme (Leverhulme). His ethnographic work informed the research into the foodways of the Ukrainian diasporic community in Bradford, England. Oscar was also consultant tutor and supervisor in Environmental Management and Sustainable Development at Imperial College London from 2000 to 2007.

Whilst in CESAGEN Oscar has worked in a Darwin Initiative funded project in community based Natural Resource Management Planning. He is member of examination board of SOAS-London and consultant tutor for MSc in environmental management and sustainable development.

Publications

(2007) Forero O.A. and Michael Redclift 'The production and marketing of sustainable forest products: chewing gum in Mexico' Development in Practice (Oxfam Oxford) 17(2)

(2006) Forero O.A. and Michael Redclift 'The role of the Mexican State in the Development of Chicle Extraction in Yucatán and the continuance importance of Coyotaje' Journal of Latin American Studies (CUP Cambridge) No 36, pp 65-93.

(2006) Forero O.A. and Michael Redclift, 'Chicle and the forest frontier in Yucatan' in Frontier Dialectics: Histories of Civil Society and Nature, M. Redclift MIT Press, Cambridge Mass.

(2004) Forero O. A. 'Ak-K'ajlay. El Chicle, Verdadero Final de la Guerrra de Castas' , Nikte T'aan, Palabra en Flor, Academy of the Mayan Culture and Language (Quintana Roo - Mexico), Vl.3, No.2, February.

(2002) Forero O. A. and G. Woodgate 'The semantics of 'Human Security' in Northwest Amazonia: between indigenous peoples' 'Management of the World' and the USA's State Security Policy for Latin America'. In Human Security and the Environment. M. Redclift. Cheltenham - UK and Northampton - USA, Edward Elgar.

(2002) Forero O.A. 'Technology in Northwest Amazonia: Sketches from Inside' in Scientific papers COLFUTURO, Bogotá, Biblioteca Virtual Luis Angel Arango. Read this document.

(2002) Forero O.A. 'Technology in Northwest Amazonia, Views of Views: Sustainability, Environmental Management and Territorial Ordering', in Scientific papers COLFUTURO, Bogotá, Biblioteca Virtual Luis Angel Arango. Read this document.

(2001) Forero O.A. 'The March of the Manikins: Agroforestry practices and spiritual dancing in Northwest Amazonia' in Conference Proceedings, Conservation and Sustainable Development: Comparative Perspectives, Center for Comparative Research, University of Yale, New Haven. Read thisdocument.

(1998) Forero O. A., Laborde R. and Tanimuka J. 'Yaigojé Resguardo Natural Reserve', Conservation Areas and Indigenous Peoples' Rights. In From Principles to Practice: Indigenous Peoples and Biodiversity Conservation in Latin America. IWGIA, FPP and AIDESEP. Copenhagen.

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