Stephen Martin

Ph.D. Student, Geography & Regional Development

M.A. Geography, University of Connecticut, 1998
B.S. Regional Development, University of Arizona, 1994

Phone: (520) 621-1652
FAX: (520) 621-2889
E-mail: scmartin@email.arizona.edu

Harvill Building, Box #2
Tucson, AZ 85721-0076
USA

Office: Harvill 448

Curriculum Vitae

Research

My dissertation research examines conservation subdivisions as a form of neoliberal environmental governance. Climate change, species-area theory, lack of correlation in intertaxa diversity and post-structuralist theories all argue for a need to move beyond reservation and restoration ecology and towards ecologically sustainable human development. As environmental practice is of overwhelming importance, I am also interested in the production of environmental subjects, institutionally and through the material demands of “green” practices and places. I'm also interested in the degree to which the heterogeneous urban landscape produced between conservation and traditional subdivisions functions to preserve or promote biodiversity.

Project Involvement

• Social complexity and the management of the commons. With Dr. Paul Robbins.
• Geographies of insects and institutions: Mosquito governance in the US southwest. With Dr. Andrew Comrie, Dr. John Paul Jones III, Dr. Paul Robbins and Dr. Elizabeth Willott.
• The 1972 Montana Constitutional Convention in review. With Dr. Susan Gilbertz, Montana State University – Billings.