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Contributors About the Editors Anthony Bebbington is Milton P. and Alice C. Higgins Professor of Environment and Society and Director of the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University. He is also a Research Associate of the Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales, Peru, and a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and has held fellowships from the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, the Free University and Ibero-American Institute of Berlin, the UK Economic and Social Research Council, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, the Fulbright Commission , and the Inter-American Foundation. His work addresses the political ecology of rural change, with a particular focus on extractive industries and socioenvironmental conflicts, social movements, indigenous organizations, and livelihoods. He has worked throughout South and Central America, though primarily in Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia, and more recently in El Salvador. JeffreyT. Bury is an Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California–Santa Cruz. He is a geographer with broad training in development studies, political science, and environment–society traditions in geography. His research interests include the impacts of transnational mining in Peru, climate change and glacier recession in the Central Andes, and new models of conservation in Latin America. He began studying the impacts of transnational gold mining operations in the Peruvian highlands in 1997 and has since completed more than a decade of fieldwork in Latin America. His research has been funded by the National Science 328 Subterranean Struggles Foundation, Economic and Social Research Council, Social Science Research Council, Academy for Educational Development, and the Fulbright Foundation. His recent publications appear in The Annals of the Association of American Geographers, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Climatic Change, Environment and Planning D, The Geographic Journal and The Professional Geographer. About the Contributors Emily Gallagher is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, and has an MS in Horticulture from Cornell University. Her research interests include development geography, rural land use planning, and resource governance in mixed agroforest landscapes . Her current work studying extension services and cocoa-forest mosaics in Ghana is funded by the Institute of International Education (IIE) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as well as the National Science Foundation. Derrick Hindery is Assistant Professor in the Departments of International Studies and Geography at the University of Oregon. His research examines the impacts of global economic restructuring on indigenous peoples and the environment in Latin America and the United States. His work has appeared in Land Use Policy and The Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, and he has recently authored a book on indigenous mobilization, hydrocarbons conflicts, and the environment in Bolivia, as part of the First Peoples publishing initiative (2013, University of Arizona Press). Leonith Hinojosa (PhD, University of Manchester) is Research Fellow at The Open University and Associate Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research addresses the spatial dimensions of growth and development , social policies, extractive industries, and sustainable impact assessment of international trade. She has consulted for UNRISD, IFAD, and other development organizations and has worked with Peruvian nongovernmental organizations. Denise Humpreys Bebbington is Research Assistant Professor of International Development and Director of the Women and Gender Studies [35.169.107.177] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 03:21 GMT) Contributors 329 program at Clark University. Previously she was Latin America Coordinator for Global Greengrants Fund, and Inter-American Foundation Representative to Peru. Her research addresses the expansion of extractive industry and infrastructure development in South America, the responses of socialenvironmental movement organizations, and the political ecology of natural resource extraction. Her publications have appeared in World Development, Development and Change, and Latin American Perspectives, among others. María-Luisa Burneo is a researcher at the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos and a PhD student in Social Anthropology and Ethnology at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, from which she also holds an MA in Anthropology. She has worked for various rural development NGOs in Peru, with a particular emphasis on work with peasant communities in the coastal and highland regions. Her research interests focus on dynamics of change in rural societies, in particular as they relate to territory and land tenure. She has previous work experience coordinating projects across Peru that aim to strengthen decentralization processes. Mariana Montoya has a PhD in Geography from the University of Texas at Austin. Her doctoral...