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Anne Rademacher |
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Department of Social and Cultural Analysis New York University |
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Anne M. Rademacher
Assistant Professor Environmental Studies Program & Metropolitan Studies Program Department of Social and Cultural Analysis New York University 20 Cooper Square, Room 488 New York, NY 10003, USA ar131@nyu.edu
SUMMARY
Environmental anthropologist with a focus on urban ecology and political transformation; dissertation research and fieldwork in Kathmandu, Nepal; current research interests include conservation-development initiatives in urban areas, rural-to-urban migration and displacement, sustainable design in urban areas, modern ecology and statemaking, and the cultural dimensions of scientific knowledge.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Joint Degree in Anthropology and Environmental Studies, 2005. Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. With distinction.
M.E.S. Environmental Studies, 1998.Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, USA.
B.A. History, 1992. Carleton College, Northfield, MN, USA. Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. DISSERTATION
Culturing Urban Ecology: Development, Statemaking, and River Restoration in Kathmandu. Committee: Helen Siu (Co-chair), Michael Dove (Co-chair), Carol Carpenter, Stacy Leigh Pigg, Eric Worby. 2005.
HONORS AND AWARDS
The Golden Dozen Teaching Award, New York University College of Arts and Sciences, 2008.
The Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship, awarded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 2007. declined.
New York University Research Challenge Fund Grant, awarded by the New York University Office of Sponsored Programs, 2006.
The Graduate Prize, awarded by the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational Anthropology (SUNTA) of the American Anthropological Association, 2005.
The Roy A. Rappaport Prize, awarded by the American Anthropological Association Anthropology and Environment Section, 2001.
United States Environmental Protection Agency Science to Achieve Results Fellowship, 2000-2003.
Yale Center for International and Area Studies Pre-dissertation and Dissertation Fellowships, 2000, 2001.
Yale Program in Agrarian Studies Research Grant, 1997, 2000.
Tropical Resources Institute Research Grant, 1997, 2000.
Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, 1992-93.
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS
In progress. “Trading National for Natural: Making ‘Asia’ through Regional Conservation.”
In progress. “Housing in the Urban Age: Inequality and Aspiration in Mumbai.” With Nikhil Anand.
Forthcoming. Reigning the River: Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu. Duke University Press.
In press. “Restoration and Revival: Remembering the Bagmati Civilization,” In Guneratne, Arjun (ed). Symbolic Ecologies: Nature and Society in the Himalaya. Oxford.
2009. “When is Housing an Environmental Problem? Reforming Informality in Kathmandu.” Current Anthropology, 50 (4), 513-534.
2009. “Marking Remembrance: Nation and Ecology in Two Riverbank Pillars in Kathmandu.” In Walkowitz, Daniel and Lisa Maya Knauer (eds). Narrating the Nation in Public Spaces: Memory, Race, and Empire. Duke University Press.
2008. “Fluid City, Solid State: Urban Environmental Territory in a State of Emergency.” City and Society 20(1).
2008. “The Rural in the Urban: Human Settlements, River Territories and a Contingent State in Kathmandu.” In Social Sciences in a Multicultural World: Proceedings of the International Conference Held on 11-13 December 2006, Kathmandu. SASON/NCCR (Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research): Kathmandu. Pp. 367-374.
2008. “The Concept of Human Agency in Contemporary Conservation and Development Discourses,” with Michael R. Dove, Andrew Mathews, Jonathan Padwe, and Keely Maxwell. In McCay, Bonnie, Susan Lees, and Paige West (eds). Against the Grain: The Vayda Tradition in Human Ecology and Ecological Anthropology. Rowan and Littlefield.
2007. “Farewell to the Bagmati Civilization: Losing Riverscape and Nation in Kathmandu.” National Identities 9:1.
2007. “A ‘Chaos’ Ecology: Democratization and Urban Environmental Decline in Kathmandu.” In Lawoti, Mahendra (ed). Contentious Politics and Democratization in Nepal: The Maoist Insurgency, Identity Politics, and Social Mobilization since 1990. Delhi: Sage Publications.
2007. “Revisiting the Concept of Western Versus Non-Western Environmental Knowledge,” with Michael R. Dove, Marina Campos, Andrew Mathews, Laura Yoder, Steve Rhee, and Daniel Smith. In Paul Sillitoe (ed). Local Science Versus Global Science: Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge in International Development. Berghahn Books.
2005. Review of Rankin, Katharine. “The Cultural Politics of Markets: Economic Liberalization and Social Change in Nepal.” American Anthropologist 107 (3).
2005. “Assessing the Impacts of Conflict on Conservation and Livelihoods in Nepal.” Concept paper. Kathmandu: IUCN-Nepal. 2005. “The Growth of Capacity in IUCN in Asia.” with Members of the IUCN in Asia Management Team. Report submitted to the International Center for Development Policy Management on behalf of the IUCN Asia Regional Program. 2005. “Environmental Education and Land-based Pollution Assessment in the Indus Delta.” Concept paper. Karachi: IUCN-Pakistan. 2004. “Improving Livelihoods through Integrated Coastal Zone Management in 2004. “Rural-to-Urban Migration and Displacement in Pakistan: Understanding the Implications for Sustainable Environmental Management.” Concept paper. Karachi: IUCN-Pakistan.
2004. “Anticipating the Impacts of Globalization on Environmental Conservation in Pakistan.” Concept paper. Karachi: IUCN-Pakistan.
2002. “Retelling Worlds of Poverty: Reflections on Transforming Participatory Research for a Global Narrative,” with Raj Patel. In Brock, Karen, and Rosemary McGee (eds). Knowing Poverty: Critical Reflections on Participatory Research and Policy. London: Earthscan.
2002. “The Global Mobilization of Environmental Concepts: Problematizing the Western-Non-Western Divide,” with Michael R. Dove, Marina Campos, Andrew Mathews, Laura Yoder, Steve Rhee, and Daniel Smith. In Helaine Selin (ed). Nature Across Cultures: Non-Western Views of Nature and the Environment. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
2000. Voices of the Poor: Volume I. with Deepa Narayan, Raj Patel, Kai Shaft, and Sarah Koch-Schulte. New York: The World Bank/Oxford University Press.
1998. “Urban Migration, Urban Restoration: Settlements of the Landless Poor and Urban River Restoration in Kathmandu, Nepal.” Journal of the Tropical Resources Institute Vol.17. 1993. “Promoting Women's Political Participation in Nepal.” Internal Report: U.S. Aid for International Development and Asia Foundation-Nepal.
1993. Democracy, Development, and NGOs in Nepal. with Deepak Tamang. Kathmandu: Jeewan Support Press. 1992. Review of Chand, Diwaker. “Development through Nongovernmental Organizations in Nepal.” Contributions to Nepalese Studies, 19(2). PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS2009. “Ecologies of Invasion: Urban Environmental Improvement and Slum Housing.” Invited Lecture, NYU College of Arts and Sciences Scholars Lecture Series, New York University, March 31.
2009. “Housing, Reform, and the Urban Environment.” Third Urban Representations Conference, East China Normal University, Shanghai, March 14.
2009. “When is Housing an Environmental Problem? Reforming Informality in Kathmandu.” Invited Lecture, New York University Department of Anthropology Colloquium, New York University, March 5.
2009. “Greening the Urban Revolution: Sustainable Design in Bangalore and Mumbai.” Research Agenda presented to the research network on “Citizenship, Civility, and Environmental Sustainability Across Urban Asia”, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Yale University, January 31.
2008. “A Mandala Resilient? National Order Inscribed and Contested in Urban Environmental Territory, Kathmandu.” Paper presented to the Comparative Ecological Nationalisms Workshop, Yale University, April 26.
2008. “Scale and History in the Urban Age.” Invited Lecture, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, FES 80157/ANTH 598 Social Science of Development and Conservation, April 24.
2008. “Trading National for Natural: Reconstructing ‘Asia’ through Regional Conservation.” Paper presented to the Annual Meetings of the Association for Asian Studies as part of the panel, “The Meanings of ‘Asia’ in Transnational Movements: Identity, Location and Activism,” April 5.
2007. “Ecological Processes and Coastal Cities.” Invited lecture to the Rachana Sansad Institute of Environmental Architecture, Mumbai, India, November 18.
2007. “Carrying Capacity and Urban Environments.” Invited lecture to the Rachana Sansad Institute of Environmental Architecture, Mumbai, India, July 29.
2007. “A Mandala Resilient? National Order Inscribed and Contested in Urban Environmental Territory, Kathmandu.” Paper presented to the Joint Meetings of the American Ethnological Society and Canadian Anthropology Society as part of the panel, “Comparative Ecological Nationalisms,” May 11.
2006. “Reigning the River: Urban Ecology and National Space in Nepal’s Capital City.” Invited lecture, Rutgers University Department of Geography, December 11.
2006. “A Chaos Ecology in Kathmandu.” Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association as part of the panel, “Do Governments Need Rebels? Do Bureaucracies Need Failure? The Cultural Politics of Order and Success in Nature, Development, and the State,” November 19.
2006. “The Ecology of Invasion: Cultural Territories and Urban Environmental Improvement in Kathmandu.” Invited lecture, Remaking the Nature/Culture Borderlands Lecture Series, Bard College Department of Anthropology, May 4.
2006. “The Rural in the Urban: Human Settlements, River Territories, and Urban Ecology in Kathmandu.” Invited lecture, University of California-Santa Cruz Department of Environmental Studies, January 11.
2006. “Reinventing a Nation, Restoring a Riverscape: Promoting Bagmati Civilization in Kathmandu.” Paper presented to the panel, “Rivers and Nationalism.”120th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Philadelphia, January 6.
2005. “Losing Riverscape and Nation in Kathmandu.” Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association as part of the panel, “National Environments: Nature and the Politics of Belonging.” December 2.
2005. “A ‘Chaos’ Ecology: Equating Democratization with Urban Environmental Degradation in Kathmandu.” Paper presented to the 34th South Asia Conference, Madison, as part of the panel, “Contentious Politics and Democratization in Nepal.” October 6.
2005. “The Rural in the Urban: Human Settlements, River Territories, and Urban Ecology in Kathmandu.” Invited lecture, New York University, May 4.
2005. “The Rural in the Urban: Human Settlements, River Territories, and Urban Ecology in Kathmandu.” Invited lecture, Harvard University, April 26.
2005. “Alternative Modernities and Urban Ecology in Kathmandu.” Invited lecture, Yale University Department of Anthropology, April 20.
2004. “Remembering the Bagmati Civilization.” Paper presented to the Thirty-third Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison. October 15.
2004. “Human Settlements, River Territories, and Urban Ecology in Kathmandu.” Paper presented to the South Asia Student Colloquium, Yale University. October 7.
2004. "Culturing Urban Ecology: Development, Statemaking, and River Restoration in Kathmandu. Public presentation as a requirement of the dissertation defense, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. September 24.
2004. "Restoration and Revival: Remembering the Bagmati Civilization." Paper presented to the conference, 'Constructing Nature at the Roof of the World: Cultural Understandings of Environment in High Asia.' Macalester College. July 29-August 1.
2004. Commentary on Nancy Jacobs, “Flocking Together: Ornithologists and Research Assistants in Early Twentieth-Century Africa.” Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University. April 16.
2003. “The Bagmati Needs a SAARC: Environmental Control in a State of Emergency in Kathmandu.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association as part of the panel, “Power/Knowledge and Power/Ignorance: State Environmental (Mis)Representations and the Control of Nature,” Anne Rademacher and Andrew S. Mathews, Co-organizers. November 19.
2003. “Beyond Discourse Analysis: The ‘Bagmati Civilization’ and River Restoration in Kathmandu.” Invited lecture, CSBR 360: Environmental Anthropology: Ecological Knowledge, Political Ecology, and the Development Encounter, Yale College. November 5.
2003. “Past, Present, and Future Ecologies: Humans and Habitat in Urban River Restoration in Kathmandu.” Invited lecture, Program in International Development, Community, and Environment Fall Lecture Series, Clark University. October 1.
2003. “Farewell to the Bagmati Civilization: Culturing Ecology in Kathmandu.” Paper presented to the Nineteenth Annual Doctoral Conference, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, February 21.
2002. Commentary on Amita Baviskar, “The Dream Machine: The Model Development Project and the Remaking of the State.” Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University. September 27.
2001. Commentary on J. Peter Brosius, “Between Politics and Poetics: Narratives of Dispossession in Sarawak, East Malaysia.” Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University. February 16.
2000. “Ecological Pasts and Futures.” Invited lecture for FES 747: Society and Environment: Introduction to Theory and Method.
2000. “Competing Constructions of Degradation and Restoration on the Bagmati and Bishnumati Rivers, Kathmandu.” Paper presented at the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
TEACHING
Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow, New York University, 2005-07; Assistant Professor, New York University, 2007-present. V99.0103: Cities in Global Context; V99.0501-003: Research Strategies in Social and Cultural Analysis; V18.0090: Urban Environmentalism; V36.0101: Environment and Society; V36.0450: Topics in Environmental Values and Society: Thinking Globally, 2009.
Instructor, Yale College, spring 2005. CSES 390:Finding Nature in the Megacity: Humans and Habitat in the Twenty-first Century.
Teaching Fellow, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, fall 2004. FES 795: Cities and Sustainability in the Developing World.
Co-Instructor, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, spring 2003. FES 999b: Ecology in Practice: Issues in Conservation and Development in Asia. Designed and taught with Aban Marker Kabraji, Regional Director of the World Conservation Union-Asia, and visiting faculty to the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
Teaching Fellow, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, fall 2000. FES 747: Society and Environment: Introduction to Theory and Method.
Teaching Fellow, Yale College and Yale Bass Writing Program, fall 1998. FES 199a: Introduction to Environmental Studies.
INDEPENDENT STUDY AND HONORS ADVISING
2009. Timothy Savas, Independent Study course, Program in Environmental Studies, New York University. An Ethnographic Study of Urban Agriculture in New York City. Spring.
2009. Jared Genova. Honors Program in Social and Cultural Analysis/Metropolitan Studies, New York University. Green is the new middle way: reimagining the Swedish model in terms of ecologically sustainable development.
2009. Drew McDonald. Honors Program in Social and Cultural Analysis/Metropolitan Studies, New York University. The Upper East Side Gets a Waste Station: Environmental Revenge or Environmental Justice?
2008. Tiana Thomas. Honors Program in Social and Cultural Analysis/Metropolitan Studies, New York University. Creating a Green Gowanus? Enacting Ecologically Sound Initiatives in the Reclamation of Public Place.
2008. Jeremy Sorgen. Honors Program in Social and Cultural Analysis/Metropolitan Studies, New York University. Informality and the Problem of Housing: A Case Analysis of Bogota.
2008. Aaron Lackowski, Honors Program in Honors Program in Social and Cutural Analysis/Metropolitan Studies, New York University. Battling Seattle: Visionary Aims, Excusionary Claims, and Strategic Representations of a 'Global' Moment.
2008. Daniel Menezes, Honors Program in Social and Cutural Analysis/Metropolitan Studies, New York University. Surviving Katrina: Neoliberalism, Reform, and Resistance in Post-disaster New Orleans. (second reader)
2008. Douglas Chiu, Honors Program in Social and Cutural Analysis/Metropolitan Studies, New York University. Toilet & Taboo: Public Toilets as Tools for Urban Development and Improvement. (second reader)
2007. Darren Patrick, Honors Program in Social and Cutural Analysis/Metropolitan Studies, New York University. On Edge: Environment and Sexuality on the West Side Waterfront since 1969.
2007. Meghna Shah, Honors Program in Social and Cultural Analysis/Metropolitan Studies, New York University. Grassroots Greening on the Lower East Side.
2006. Benjamin Roberts, The Gallatin School, New York University. Identity and International Development. Fall.
2006. Daniel Menzes, Independent Study course, Program in Social and Cultural Analysis/Metropolitan Studies, New York University. Urban Ecology in the Developing World. Fall.
2005-6. Elena Frank, Honors Program in Honors Program in Social and Cultural Analysis Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, New York University. What Women Want: New Perspectives on the Work-Family Dilemma.
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Co-Principle Investigator. “Citizenship, Civility, and Sustainability in Urban Asia.” Research Network Grant, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2009-2011. With K. Sivaramakrishnan, Department of Anthropology, Yale University.
“Greening the Urban Revolution: An Ethnography of Green Design in Mumbai and Bangalore.” Exploratory research activities conducted in fall 2007 and fall 2008; formal research activities expected to commence in fall 2010.
Consultant, IUCN-The World Conservation Union: Asia Regional Program, Nepal Program, Pakistan Program, 2004-present. Assisted in the development of conservation-development project ideas, concept papers, and project proposals.
Independent Dissertation Research, Kathmandu, Nepal, periods in 1999, 2000, and 2001-03. Conducted semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and survey administration among state and development officials, river activists, and rural-to-urban migrants for the project, “Culturing Urban Ecology: Development, Statemaking, and River Restoration in Kathmandu.”
Research Assistant, The World Bank Consultations with the Poor Project, spring 1999. Coded and analyzed qualitative data on poverty in 170 countries.
Research Assistant, Lumanti Support Group for Shelter, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2001 and 2003. Assisted with program development and communications.
Research Assistant, Yale University, summer 1998. Participated in the design, pre-testing, and execution of the Greater New Haven Watershed Project social survey. Coordinated survey data collection from 6,000 households in eighteen sub-watersheds in Greater New Haven, Connecticut, and assisted in methodological design and data management.
Research Associate, U.S. National Park Service Social Science Program, summer 1997. With Dr. Gary Machlis, researched and planned a water and energy conservation pilot project for Albright Training Center in Grand Canyon National Park. Prepared a final project plan for presentation to the National Park Service and the U.S.-South Africa Bi-national Commission.
Independent Master’s Degree Research, Kathmandu, Nepal, fall 1997. Conducted semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and survey data collection for the project, “Restoration as Development: Urban Growth, River Restoration, and Riparian Settlements in the Upper Bagmati Basin.”
Research Associate, The Asia Foundation-Nepal Women in Politics Program, fall 1993. Collected and analyzed field data on emerging women's non-governmental organizations in Nepal.
Research Assistant, Service Extension and Action Research for Communities in the Hills (SEARCH), Kathmandu, Nepal, 1993-4.Worked with Director Deepak Tamang to produce the book Democracy, Development, and NGOs in Nepal.
Research Fellow, The Thomas J. Watson Foundation, 1992-3. Conducted research in Kathmandu, Nepal on the emergent non-governmental sector in the wake of Nepal’s democratic revolution of 1990.
LANGUAGES
Nepali (fluent spoken and proficient written) Hindi (elementary spoken and written) French (proficient written)
MEMBERSHIPS
Executive Committee Secretary, Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies Member, Association for Asian Studies |