About
BIOGRAPHY
| My research deals with the late-twentieth-century project of road colonization in the Peruvian Amazon. I look at the politics of meaning and the distinct legal, cultural and ecological methods by which space is marked and am especially interested in the overlapping modalities of land tenure that emerged since the 1970s. |
Research
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Latin American History
- Global Political Ecology
- History of Development
- Visual Studies
- Cultural Studies
- Postcolonial Studies
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS:
- “That Appealing and Little Known Valley: Hemispheric Development and Environmental Change in Peru’s Huallaga Valley (1948-1985)” (in progress)
- “The Imagined Life of Cocaine: Local Cultural Ecologies of a Global Drug” (in progress)
Publications
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“Developing Cocaine: Regimes of Environmental Imagining and the End of Benevolent Development in Peru”. In progress
“Preparados para el despegue: aviación y desarrollo en el Valle del Huallaga en Perú. 1948-1987”. istor, journal of the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico. 2017
“Peru’s Amazonian Imaginary: Marginality, Territory and National Integration”. Co-authored with María Teresa Grillo Arbulu (Mount Royal University) InEnvironment and Citizenship in Latin America: Nature, Subjects and Struggles, Ed. Alex Latta and Hannah Wittman. New York: Berghahn Books. 2012
Additional Description
Websitehttp://www.tuckersharon.info