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4:02
Firooza Pavri, Ohio State University, Deforestation in the Western Ghats
of India: Issues Revisited.
Saturday, March 28
7:30-9:10 a.m. #515. Critical Geographies
of South Asia I: Contesting State and Community. Organizer: Paul
Robbins, University of Iowa. Chairs: Paul Robbins, University of
Iowa, and Stuart Corbridge, University of Cambridge.
7:30 Glyn Williams, Keele University,
Rethinking Political
Spaces: "State" and "Community" in West Bengal;
7:50 Pratyusha Basu, University of
Iowa, Gendered Ab- sences: Implications
of Privileging Local Communities in Narmada Valley;
8:10 Craig J. Jeffrey, University
of Cambridge, Money Grows on Family Trees: Farmer Capitalists and Associational
Politics in Uttar Pradesh;
8:30 David R. Faust, University of
Minnesota, Reconceptualizing State, Community, and the Politics of Resource
Use: The Case of India.
Discussant: Stuart Corbridge, University
of Cambridge.
7:30-9:00 a.m. #531. Industrial
and Business Networks in Asia (Co-sponsored by China and Economic Geography
Specialty Groups). Organizers: Mary G. McDonald, University of
Hawaii, Henry Wai-Chung Yeung, Nat'l University of Singapore. Chair:
Chi Kin Leung, California State University-Fresno.
7:30 Chi Kin Leung, California State
University-Fresno, Linkage Structures of Manufacturers in Tianjin Municipality,
China;
7:50 David W. Edgington, University
of British Columbia, Roger Hayter, Simon Fraser University, The New Geography
of Japanese Production Systems in Southeast Asia;
8:10 You-tien Hsing, University of
British Columbia, Ethnicity, Identity, and Solidarity: Overseas Chinese
Business Networks;
8:30 Henry Wai-Chung Yeung, Nat'l
University of Singapore, Embeddedness in Transnational Business Network:
Subsidiaries of Hong Kong Firms in Southeast Asia.
9:30-11;10 a.m. #547. Critical
Geographies of South Asia II: Negotiating Community and Environment.
Organizer: Paul Robbins, University of Iowa. Chairs: Paul Robbins,
University of Iowa, James L. Wescoat, Jr., University of Colorado-Boulder.
9:30 Emma Mawdsley, University of
Durham, After Chipko: From Environment to Region in the Uttarakhand;
9:50 Paul Robbins, University of Iowa,
Paper Forests: Imagining and Deploying Exogenous Ecologies in Arid India;
10:10 Kathleen O'Reilly, University
of Iowa, Tracking Community: An Investigation Into Social Environmental
Institutions.
Discussant: James L. Wescoat, Jr.,
University of Colorado- Boulder.
1:15-2:55 p.m. #584. Hazards
in Asia I: Environmental and Socio-Economic Dimensions of Natural Hazards
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on page 6)
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