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Professor Aaron Bobrow-StrainContact: Olin E210, 509.527.5996, straina@whitman.edu Education: Ph.D. 2003 University of California, Berkeley, Geography; A.M. 1993 Stanford University, Latin American Studies; B.A. 1992 Macalester College, International Studies Curriculum Vitae (pdf document) Major Interests: • The politics, political economy, and history of the global food system • Dreamwords of the American diet: the conflicting pulls of habit, desire, fear, and dreams that ultimately shape what we put in our mouths • The history of food advice, diet gurus, and home economics • Economic Development in Latin America • The U.S.-Mexico border and migration politcs in the U.S. and Mexico • Histories and theories of Third World development • Critical human geography: space, place, and power |
Courses:
Pol 119. Whitman in the Global Food System
Pol 242. Politics of Development in Latin America
Pol 334. The U.S.-Mexico Border
Pol 335. Cultural Politics of Development in Latin America
Pol 363. Genealogies of Political Economy
Pol 373. Political Ecology of Latin America
Selected Publications:
BOOKS
- 2007 Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas. Durham: Duke University Press.
- In Progress. White Bread: Dreamworlds of the Store-Bought Loaf.
ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS
- Submitted to Food and Foodways (July 2009). "Making White Bread by the Bomb's Early Light: Alimentary Encounters and Food Power in the Early Cold War."
- Forthcoming. "Liquid Fincas: Land, Commerce, and Liquor in North-Central Chiapas (1820-1950)." In Rus, J. and S. Lewis eds. Dangerous Liaisons: A Century of Plantations, Coerced Labor, and Ethnic Relations in Modern Chiapas. Durham: Duke University Press.
- Forthcoming in 2009. "¿Qué harán los ladinos?: finqueros, espacio, y violencia en Chiapas." Anuario de Estudios IndÃgenas XII. (peer-reviewed journal based at the the Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas)
- Forthcoming in 2009. "Desplazando la Finca: Terratenientes, revolución y reforma en Chilón, Chiapas (1920-1962)." Pueblos y Fronteras (peer-reviewed journal based at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).
- 2008. "White Bread Bio-politics: Purity, Health, and the Triumph of Industrial Baking." Cultural Geographies. 15: 97-118.
- 2007. "Kills a Body Twelve Ways: Bread Fear and the Ethics of 'What to Eat?'" Gastronomica: the Journal of Food and Culture. 7(2) 45-52.
- 2005. "Articulations of Rule: Landowners, Revolution, and Territory in Chiapas, Mexico (1930-1962)." Journal of Historical Geography. 31(4) 744-762.
- 2004. "(Dis)accords: Land Invasions, Agrarian Accords, and the Politics of Market-Assisted Land Reform in Chiapas, Mexico." World Development. 32(6) 887-903.
- 2001. “Between a Ranch and a Hard Place: Violence, Scarcity, and Meaning in Chiapas, Mexico.” in Peluso, Nancy Lee and Michael Watts eds. Violent Environments. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
2005. “Articulations of Rule: Landowners, Revolution, and Territory in Chiapas, Mexico (1930-1962).” Journal of Historical Geography. 31(4) 744-762.
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BOOK REVIEWS
2003. Review of S. McCook. States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 21(5) 629-630.
