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Shannon O'Lear
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| Research Interests and Current Projects |
One of my current research project examines why we do not see widespread or sustained environmental resource-related conflict in Azerbaijan as literature on resource conflict would suggest. This project, funded by the National Science Foundation, takes a critical approach to resource conflicts and suggests that a focus on conflict is less useful than asking questions about social, political, and economic dynamics within a particular context. For example, exploring place-specific characteristics and meanings of concepts such as ‘environmental security’ and ‘human security’ leads to a more complex and meaningful inquiry. My work will continue to investigate these themes in the Caucasus region. |
| More information on Dr. O'Lear's research projects is available here. |
| Courses Taught and Teaching Awards |
EVRN 320/GEOG 379: Environmental Policy and Analysis |
GEOG 571/772: Geopolitics of Russia and Eurasia |
| GEOG 571/EVRN 420: Environmental Geopolitics |
GEGO 772: Professional Development in Teaching |
GEOG 571: Geography of Genocide |
| Publications During the Last 5 Years |
| O’Lear, Shannon. 2007. “Azerbaijan’s Resource Wealth: Political Legitimacy and Public Opinion”, The Geographical Journal 173(3), pp. 207-223. In print Sept. 2007; available electronically at: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1475-4959.2007.00242.x |
(Accepted 3 July 2006) O’Lear, Shannon. and Robert Whiting. “Which Comes First, The Nation or The State? An analysis of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict in the Caucasus” at National Identities. |
O’Lear, Shannon and Paul F. Diehl. 2006. “Not Drawn to Scale: Research on Resource and Environmental Conflict” Geopolitics 12:1, pp. 166-182 (roundtable discussion centerpiece) |
O’Lear, Shannon and Angela Gray. 2006. “Asking the right questions: environmental conflict in the case of Azerbaijan”. Area 38:4, pp. 390-401 |
O’Lear, Shannon. 2006. “Resource Concerns for Territorial Conflict”, GeoJournal 64:4 (journal date December 2005; published in August 2006), pp. 297-306 (Shannon O’Lear, Paul F. Diehl, Derrick V. Frazier and Todd L. Allee, guest editors of theme issue on territorial conflict.) |
O’Lear, Shannon. 2004. Resources and Conflict in the Caspian Sea. Geopolitics 9:1, pp. 161-186 |
Stanley D. Brunn and O’Lear, Shannon, 2004. “Political Geography” in A Guide For Teachers of Advanced Placement Human Geography (edited by Robert Bednarz), Jacksonville, AL: National Council for Geographic Education, pp. 19-30. |
O’Lear, Shannon. 2004. “Energy, Territory and Conflict: Research in the Caucasus” chapter in WorldMinds: 100 Geographic Solutions to Saving Planet Earth (edited by Barney Warf), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 31-35 |
O’Lear, Shannon. 2003. Environmental Terrorism: A Critique. Geopolitics 8:3, pp. 127-150 |
O’Lear, Shannon. 2001. Azerbaijan: Territorial Issues and Internal Challenges In Mid-2001. Post Soviet Geography and Economics 42, pp. 305-312 |
S. D. Brunn and S. R. O’Lear. 1999. Research and Communication in the ‘Invisible College’ of the Human Dimensions of Global Change”. Global Environmental Change 9, pp. 285-301 |
O’Lear, Shannon. 1997. Electronic Communication Environmental Policy in Russia and Estonia. Geographical Review 87:2 (April), pp. 275-290 (in print July1998) |
O’Lear, Shannon R. M. 1996. Using Electronic Mail (E-mail) Surveys for Geographic Research: Lessons from a survey of Russian environmentalists, The Professional Geographer 48:2 (May), pp. 213-222 |
