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• 1. [Article] Assessing Natural Resource Values Using the Damage Schedule Approach: Fishing and Other Resource Uses of the Maya People in Quintana Roo, Mexico

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  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Assessing Natural Resource Values Using the Damage Schedule Approach: Fishing and Other Resource Uses of the Maya People in Quintana Roo, Mexico Author: Cima-Velázquez, Ana, Charles, Tony, Chuenpagdee, Ratana, Arce Ibarra, Ana Minerva No poster available. Title: Assessing Natural Resource Values Using the Damage Schedule Approach: Fishing and Other Resource Uses of the Maya People in Quintana Roo, Mexico Author: Cima-Velázquez, Ana, Charles, Tony, Chuenpagdee, Ratana, Arce Ibarra, Ana Minerva No poster available. Close

• 2. [Article] Archaeological Evidence for Resilience of Pacific Northwest Salmon Populations and the Socioecological System Over the Last ~7,500 Years

  Archaeological data on the long history of interaction between indigenous people and salmon have rarely been applied to conservation management. When joined with ethnohistoric records, archaeology provides ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Archaeological Evidence for Resilience of Pacific Northwest Salmon Populations and the Socioecological System Over the Last ~7,500 Years Author: Campbell, Sarah K., Butler, Virginia L. Year: 2010 Archaeological data on the long history of interaction between indigenous people and salmon have rarely been applied to conservation management. When joined with ethnohistoric records, archaeology provides an alternative conceptual view of the potential for sustainable harvests and can suggest possible social mechanisms for managing human behavior. Review of the ~7,500-year-long fish bone record from two subregions of the Pacific Northwest shows remarkable stability in salmon use. As major changes in the ecological and social system occurred over this lengthy period, persistence in the fishery is not due simply to a lack of perturbation, but rather indicates resilience in the ecological--human system. Of several factors possibly contributing to resilience, low human population size and harvesting pressure, habitat enhancement, and suppression of competing predators do not appear to be of major importance. Flexible resource use, including human use of a range of local resources, many of which are linked in a food web with salmon, likely contributed to resilience. Most important were the beliefs and social institutions (including ownership, regulation, rituals, and monitoring) that placed restraints on salmon use as a common pool resource. In contrast, only a small fraction of our modern society relies economically on or has direct interaction with the fish, which limits our concern and willingness to fundamentally change behaviors that contribute to habitat degradation and loss, the main challenges facing salmon populations today. Salmon recovery efforts may benefit substantially from investing more resources into establishing links between community groups and actual fish populations, which would create a sense of proprietorship, one of the keys to resilience in the indigenous salmon fishery. Title: Archaeological Evidence for Resilience of Pacific Northwest Salmon Populations and the Socioecological System Over the Last ~7,500 Years Author: Campbell, Sarah K., Butler, Virginia L. Year: 2010 Archaeological data on the long history of interaction between indigenous people and salmon have rarely been applied to conservation management. When joined with ethnohistoric records, archaeology provides an alternative conceptual view of the potential for sustainable harvests and can suggest possible social mechanisms for managing human behavior. Review of the ~7,500-year-long fish bone record from two subregions of the Pacific Northwest shows remarkable stability in salmon use. As major changes in the ecological and social system occurred over this lengthy period, persistence in the fishery is not due simply to a lack of perturbation, but rather indicates resilience in the ecological--human system. Of several factors possibly contributing to resilience, low human population size and harvesting pressure, habitat enhancement, and suppression of competing predators do not appear to be of major importance. Flexible resource use, including human use of a range of local resources, many of which are linked in a food web with salmon, likely contributed to resilience. Most important were the beliefs and social institutions (including ownership, regulation, rituals, and monitoring) that placed restraints on salmon use as a common pool resource. In contrast, only a small fraction of our modern society relies economically on or has direct interaction with the fish, which limits our concern and willingness to fundamentally change behaviors that contribute to habitat degradation and loss, the main challenges facing salmon populations today. Salmon recovery efforts may benefit substantially from investing more resources into establishing links between community groups and actual fish populations, which would create a sense of proprietorship, one of the keys to resilience in the indigenous salmon fishery. Close

• 3. [Article] Colonization, Statemaking, and Development: A Political Ecology of the Saru River Development Project, Hokkaido, Japan

  Although dam construction has been an integral tool in development initiatives for nearly a century, dams can have significant negative impacts on local residents, particularly those who are permanently ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Colonization, Statemaking, and Development: A Political Ecology of the Saru River Development Project, Hokkaido, Japan Author: Ioannides, Michael J. Year: 2017 Although dam construction has been an integral tool in development initiatives for nearly a century, dams can have significant negative impacts on local residents, particularly those who are permanently displaced from their homes and must be resettled elsewhere. Dams have unique impacts on indigenous peoples. As a result, many dam construction projects become flashpoints for organized resistance among indigenous peoples. This thesis examines a case that exemplifies indigenous resistance to dam construction: the Saru River Development Project in Hokkaido, Japan, involving the Nibutani Dam (completed 1997) and the Biratori Dam (under construction). This project has been famously opposed by indigenous Ainu landholders. Although much has been written about the legal and political significance of the Ainu’s resistance to the Saru River Development Project, information on the project’s impacts on local Ainu residents is scattered across many disparate sources, and no comprehensive English-language account has yet been produced. This thesis seeks to fill this gap in the literature by cataloging the impacts of the Saru River Development Project as comprehensively as possible and synthesizing available facts into a holistic account. This thesis organizes these impacts according to the newly-published Matrix Framework (Kirchherr and Charles 2016), enabling it to be more easily compared with other case studies of dam construction around the world. This thesis documents the ways in which inadequate social impact assessment and mitigation efforts may compound the effects of an enduring colonial legacy, contributing to resentment and resistance against development projects on the part of indigenous peoples. It suggests important lessons for improving social impact assessment and mitigation measures, not only for the Saru River Development Project itself, but for any future development project involving indigenous peoples. It also contributes to anthropological knowledge regarding the role of development projects as primary drivers of cultural change in indigenous communities. The roots of the Saru River Development Project originate in the history of Japan’s colonial invasion of Hokkaido. Political ecology provides a powerful lens through which to examine this history, allowing its influence on Hokkaido’s present-day social-ecological systems to become apparent. In this thesis, I develop a theory of statemaking and subjectmaking that is used to analyze the historical continuities that exist between colonial-era modernization efforts and contemporary development projects, including this one. This historical focus is especially crucial, given the current political climate and the international rise of the far-right, which has increasingly come to embrace a romanticized view of colonial history. By producing historical accounts that shed light on colonial violence, anthropologists can play an active role in combating the resurgence of colonial governmentality. Such historically-focused anthropology, with an explicit focus on “decolonizing” the discourse of contemporary development, is therefore of critical importance—perhaps now more than ever. Title: Colonization, Statemaking, and Development: A Political Ecology of the Saru River Development Project, Hokkaido, Japan Author: Ioannides, Michael J. Year: 2017 Although dam construction has been an integral tool in development initiatives for nearly a century, dams can have significant negative impacts on local residents, particularly those who are permanently displaced from their homes and must be resettled elsewhere. Dams have unique impacts on indigenous peoples. As a result, many dam construction projects become flashpoints for organized resistance among indigenous peoples. This thesis examines a case that exemplifies indigenous resistance to dam construction: the Saru River Development Project in Hokkaido, Japan, involving the Nibutani Dam (completed 1997) and the Biratori Dam (under construction). This project has been famously opposed by indigenous Ainu landholders. Although much has been written about the legal and political significance of the Ainu’s resistance to the Saru River Development Project, information on the project’s impacts on local Ainu residents is scattered across many disparate sources, and no comprehensive English-language account has yet been produced. This thesis seeks to fill this gap in the literature by cataloging the impacts of the Saru River Development Project as comprehensively as possible and synthesizing available facts into a holistic account. This thesis organizes these impacts according to the newly-published Matrix Framework (Kirchherr and Charles 2016), enabling it to be more easily compared with other case studies of dam construction around the world. This thesis documents the ways in which inadequate social impact assessment and mitigation efforts may compound the effects of an enduring colonial legacy, contributing to resentment and resistance against development projects on the part of indigenous peoples. It suggests important lessons for improving social impact assessment and mitigation measures, not only for the Saru River Development Project itself, but for any future development project involving indigenous peoples. It also contributes to anthropological knowledge regarding the role of development projects as primary drivers of cultural change in indigenous communities. The roots of the Saru River Development Project originate in the history of Japan’s colonial invasion of Hokkaido. Political ecology provides a powerful lens through which to examine this history, allowing its influence on Hokkaido’s present-day social-ecological systems to become apparent. In this thesis, I develop a theory of statemaking and subjectmaking that is used to analyze the historical continuities that exist between colonial-era modernization efforts and contemporary development projects, including this one. This historical focus is especially crucial, given the current political climate and the international rise of the far-right, which has increasingly come to embrace a romanticized view of colonial history. By producing historical accounts that shed light on colonial violence, anthropologists can play an active role in combating the resurgence of colonial governmentality. Such historically-focused anthropology, with an explicit focus on “decolonizing” the discourse of contemporary development, is therefore of critical importance—perhaps now more than ever. Close