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Office: 223A Lindley Hall
Phone: 864-5543
Email: hputnam@ku.edu

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Publications

Papers Presented at Professional Meeting

  • Meaning and Progress in the Fair Trade Network in a session entitled Shifting Agrifood Systems 5: Labor, Gender and the Limits of Certification, annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, April 2007.
  • Creating Real Meaning: the dialogue between northern consumers and Fair Trade farmers in Matagalpa, Nicaragua in a session entitled The Cultural Logic of Alternative Foods, annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, March 2006.

Presentations

  • Reflecting on the Multiple Meanings, Representations, and Realities of Fair Trade, Third Annual Convergence of United Students for Fair Trade, Denver, CO, February 17, 2006.
  •  Using The Global To Develop The Local: Fair Trade and Community-Based Tourism in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, Brown Bag Lecture, Latin American Studies, University of Kansas, November 2005.
  • Using The Global To Develop The Local: Fair Trade and Community-Based Tourism in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, Brown Bag Lecture, Department of Geography, University of Kansas, October 2005.
 

Trade, environment and development; Latin America; Africa; the cultural geography of alternative commodity chains; critical realism