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Email: hputnam@ku.edu


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Publications/Presentations

 

Research Interests

Publications

Putnam, Heather R. (forthcoming). Certification. In Golson, J. Geoffrey, Paul Robbins and Dustin Mulvaney (eds). Green Food. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Putnam, Heather R. (forthcoming). Integrated Pest Management. In Golson, J. Geoffrey, Paul Robbins and Dustin Mulvaney (eds). Green Business. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Putnam, Heather R. (forthcoming). Production and Commodity Chains. In Golson, J. Geoffrey, Paul Robbins and Dustin Mulvaney (eds). Green Consumerism. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Putnam, Heather. (forthcoming). Sugar Cane.
In Golson, J. Geoffrey, Paul Robbins and
Dustin Mulvaney (eds). Green Food. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Putnam, Heather R. (forthcoming). Underdevelopment. In Warf, Barney (ed) Encyclopedia of Geography. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Putnam, Heather. 2009 (forthcoming).
Dependency Theory. In Warf, Barney (ed)
Encyclopedia of Geography. Thousand
Oaks: Sage Publications.

Putnam, Heather R. and Christopher M. Bacon. (In review 2009) Consumer/Producer Links: Can Nicaraguan coffee cooperatives re-mobilize solidarity ties through agroecotourism and fair trade?

Putnam, Heather R. 2009. Book Review: Brewing Justice: fair trade coffee, sustainability, and survival by Dr. Daniel Jaffee. Cultural Geographies 16(2).

Kerry Burton, Ian Cook & Heather Putnam.
(forthcoming) The geographer's guide to
collaborative collaboration. in Dan Raven-Ellison (ed). The geographer's guide...

Putnam, Heather. 2007. Book Review:
Brewing Justice: fair trade coffee, sustainability,
and survival by Dr. Daniel Jaffee.
Published onlinein Fair Grounds Newsletterhttp://www.peacecoffee.com/pcfg/
0709/index.html#review

Papers Presented at Professional Meeting

·       Is Autoethnography an Effective Way to Study Fair Trade? Latin American Studies Association Conference. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. June 2009.
·       The Paradox of Consumer/Producer Links: Negotiating Globalization in Matagalpa, Nicaragua. Annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Las Vegas, NV. March 2009.
·       Fair Trade and Agroecotourism: Potentials, Pitfalls and Paradox.  Conference of Latin American Geographers (CLAG). Granada, Nicaragua. 9 January 2009.
·  A Tale of Two Cooperatives: Place and Access in Fairtrade Coffee Certification. Annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Boston, MA. April 2008.
·   Context and Culture: A Brazilian Coffee Cooperative Encounters Fairtrade Certification. Annual meeting of Brazilian Studies Association, March 2008.
·   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.

Other Presentations

·   Certified Places: Creating a Comparative Study of Alternative Market Certifications and Rural Development. Geography Brownbag Lecture. University of Kansas, November 13, 2008.
·   Viral Connections: Doing a multi-sited ethnography of fair trade coffee networks. Invited lecture, May 2008. Human Geography Seminar Series, Department of Geography, University of Exeter, UK
·   A Brief Journey through Fairtrade: Coffee Cooperatives in Nicaragua, Fairtrade Fortnight Event, Department of Geography, University of Exeter, February 26, 2008
·   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, Department of Geography, University of Kansas, October 2005.

 

Trade, environment and development; Latin America; East Africa; coffee; cooperativism and alternative commodity networks; ethnography; critical realism; material cultural geographies

Honors/Awards

Pruitt Fellowship for Dissertation Research from the Society of Women Geographers, 2009-2010 (Uganda, $12,000).

Howard Baumgartel Peace and Justice Award, The University of Kansas, 2009 (Uganda, $2500).

Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant, Summer 2009 (Brazil, $1250).

Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow (African Studies), The University of Kansas, 2008-2009 (KiSwahili, $15,000)

Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow (African Studies), The University of Kansas, Summer 2008 (KiSwahili, $6500)

Visiting Scholarship, Department of Geography, University of Exeter, England (£3200)

KU Center for Latin American Studies Field Research Grant 2007 (Brazil, $2000)

Field Research Grant, Department of Geography, KU, Summer 2007 ($1000)

KU Center for Latin American Studies Summer Research Grant 2006 (Nicaragua, $1800)

Title VI National Resource Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Latin American Studies), The University of Kansas, 2005-06 (Portuguese, $14,500)


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