Nancy L. Peluso

Associate Professor

Tel: (510) 643-2796
npeluso@nature.berkeley.edu

 

207 Giannini Hall

University of California

Berkeley, CA 94720-3310

 

Education

Teaching

Research

Publications

Awards

Service

Major Projects

Research Team


Education

Ph.D., Cornell University, Rural Sociology, January 1988

M.Sc., Cornell University, Rural Sociology, August 1983

B.A., Friends World College, Anthropology, January 1977

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Teaching

Associate Professor of Environmental Social Science  Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley (6/97-present)

            *Teach graduate and undergraduate courses in: Social Theory and the Environment, Advanced Readings in Political Ecology

            *Research interests: political ecology, histories of forest politics, state formation and the environment, social and environmental histories, legal and customary systems of resource tenure, Southeast Asia—Indonesia and Malaysia in particular--indigenous peoples' movements.

Acting Associate Professor of Environmental Social Science  Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley (1/96 - 6-97)

Associate Professor of Resource Policy Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, (7/94-1996

Assistant Professor of Resource Policy, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, (7/92-6/94).

Visiting Lecturer, Natural Resource Sociology, Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley (9/88-6/90).

Visiting Lecturer, Natural Resource Sociology, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of California-Berkeley (1/88-5/88).

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Research

Co-Principal Investigator (with Dr. Peter Vandergeest, University of Victoria), Property, Resources, and the Globalization of Legal Systems. (9/93-2/97).

            *Comparative study of natural resource laws/legal systems and customary practices in forests of Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Comparisons made at the national-level of legal and customary changes under colonial and nation-state systems, at the sub-national level between "central" and "peripheral" forest areas, and locally in case study sites of different resource user groups.  Fieldwork, archival work, and document analysis.  

Ciriacy-Wantrup Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley, (7/90-7/92). 

            *Project on "Extraction and Extractive Reserves in Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Research Coordinator/Principal Investigator, Ford Foundation-funded Social Forestry Research for The State Forestry Corporation of Java, and Research Associate, Environmental Studies Center, Gadjah Mada U., Indonesia (10/84-2/86)

            *Designed and supervised social forestry research in 12 case study  forest-edge communities in West and Central Java; conducted my doctoral research in two forest villages and within the State Forestry Corporation.

Investigator, Man & Biosphere Project No. 1 "Interactions Between People and

            Tropical Forests," East Kalimantan, Indonesia (9/79-7/80) “Trade

            in non-timber forest products in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.”

Visiting Researcher, Population Institute (now called Center for Population Research), Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (10/76 - 9/79)

            *Designed and carried out two-year study on economic roles of women market traders in rural Yogyakarta; trained and supervised 5 enumerators.

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Academic Prizes and Grants

1996 Simpson Chair, International and Area Studies Dean's Office, University of California, Berkeley ($10,000 in research funds for two years)

 

1995 Outstanding Scholarly Contribution to Rural Sociology for Rich Forests, Poor People .

 

1994 Award of Merit from the Natural Resources Research Group, Rural Sociological Society.

 

Rich Forests, Poor People selected by Choice as one of the top 10% books reviewed in 1993.

 

Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Support for Common Property Resources Digest, ($107,000 for 3 years). 1995-1997

 

*National Science Foundation, Global Perspectives on Law and Society Program (with Co-PI Dr. Peter Vandergeest, University of Victoria, Canada):  "Property, Resources, and the Globalization of Legal Systems." ($350,000 for 3 years). 1993-1996

 

Rockefeller Brothers Fund (with Co-PI Peter Vandergeest), "Property and Political Ecology in Southeast Asia."  $55,000. 1994.

 

Joint-funding by The Ford Foundation/Social Science Research Council, UNESCO-MAB, The Biodiversity Support Program, and WCI (co-PI with Dr. Christine Padoch, New York        Botanical Garden) for conference and book on conservation and development in Borneo 1991.  ($57,000).

 

Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellowship, School of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley.  "Extraction and Extractive Reserves in Kalimantan: The Political Ecology of a Development Strategy." 1990-91, 1991-92.  ($59,000 over two years). 

 

Lauriston Sharp Award for scholarship and community, Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 1988.

 

Cornell Southeast Asia Program Dissertation write-up grant 1986.

 

Ford Foundation Fellowship for Research and Field Study Coordination 1984-1986 ($44,000 for two years).

 

National Resource Fellowships [graduate tuition and stipend, 3 academic years], 1981-1984.

 

U.S. Forest Service/Man & Biosphere Grant (participating researcher), 1979-80.

 

Ford Foundation Field Research Grant 1976-77.

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Service

Member of:      Rural Sociological Society

                        American Anthropological Association

                        Association for Asian Studies

                        International Association for the Study of Common Property

                        Association of American Geographers

 

Editor, Common Property Resources Newsletter, March 1995-present

Associate Editor, Society and Natural Resources, 1989-1994.

Committee Member, CIES post-doctoral awards, area studies committee, 1994-present.

Selection Committee Member, Kleinhaus Fellowship (given by Rainforest Alliance), 1993. 

Committee Member, Undergraduate Curriculum, ESPM, UCB, 1996-present.

Committee Chair, Curriculum Committee, RIPM Division, ESPM, UCB, 1996-present.

Committee Member, Southeast Asia Council, UCB, 1996-present.

Executive Committee Member, Council on Agrarian Studies, Yale University, 1992-1996.

Council Member, Southeast Asia Council, Yale University, 1992-1996.

Member, Rural Sociological Society's Task Force on Persistent Rural Poverty in the US,sub-group in Poverty in Natural Resource Dependent Areas (1990-92)

Member, Rural Sociological Society's Awards Committee (1990-93) 

Reviewer, Development and Change, Economic Botany, Human Organization, Society     and Natural Resources, Conservation Biology, Human Ecology.

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Publications

Books and Monographs         

 

1997.  Colfer, Carol J. Pierce, with Nancy Peluso and Chin See Chung.  Beyond Slash and Burn:  Building on Indigenous Management of Borneo’s Tropical Rain Forests. Advances in Economic Botany Volume 11. Bronx:The New York Botanical Garden.

           

1996.     Padoch, Christine, and Nancy Lee Peluso. Borneo in Transition: People, Forests, Conservation, and Development.  Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press.

            Includes article: Peluso, Nancy Lee, and Christine Padoch, "Resource Rights in Managed Forests of West Kalimantan, Indonesia."

 

1994.   Peluso, Nancy Lee, Matt Turner, and Louise Fortmann. Introducing Community Forestry: Annotated Listing of Topics and Readings.  Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

 

1993.   Peluso, Nancy Lee. The Impacts of Social and Environmental Change on Indigenous People's Forest Management in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.  Forest, Trees, and People Monograph Series.  Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

 

1992.   Peluso, Nancy Lee. Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java.  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.  (Paperback 1994).

 

Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

 

1999.  Fairfax, Sally K., Fortmann, Louise P., Hawkins, Ann, Huntsinger, Lynn, Peluso, Nancy Lee, and Wolf, Steven A. The Federal Forests Are Not What They Seem: Formal and Informal Claims to Federal Lands. Ecology Law Quarterly. 25(4): 630-646.

 

1998.  Peluso, Nancy Lee. “Counter-Institutions and Environmental Justice.” Forest Policy:                   Ready for Renaissance.  Seattle, Washington: College of Forest Resources, University of  Washington.

 

1998.  Peluso, Nancy Lee, and Peter Vandergeest. “Geneologies of Forest Law and Customary Rights in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.”  Journal of Asian Studies (under review).

 

1998.   "The Role of Forests in Sustaining Smallholders," in John Gordon, Ralph Schmidt, and Joyce Berry, eds., Creating Integrated Forest Strategies.  New Haven: Yale University Press.

 

1996.  Peluso, Nancy Lee.  "Fruit trees and family trees in an Indonesian rainforest: Property rights, ethics of access, and environmental change." Comparative Studies in Society and History 38:3: 510-548. 

 

1995.   Vandergeest, Peter, and Nancy Lee Peluso, "Territorialization and State Power in Thailand," Theory and Society 35:385-426. 

 

1995    Peluso, Nancy Lee, "Forest Policy-Forest Politics:  The Criminalization of Customary Rights in a Bornean Rainforest." in Charles Zerner, ed., Culture and the Question of Rights in Southeast Asia, Smithsonian/Duke University Press.  (in press). 

 

1995.   Peluso, Nancy Lee, "Reserving Value: Conservation Ideology and State Protection of Resources."  in, Peter Vandergeest and Melanie Dupuis, eds., Creating the Countryside:  Concepts of Rurality, Country, and Wilderness. Chapel Hill: Temple University Press. 

 

1995    Peluso, Nancy Lee, "Whose Woods are These?  Counter-Mapping Forest Territories in            Kalimantan, Indonesia."  Antipode 27 (4): 383-406.

           

1995    Peluso, Nancy Lee, Peter Vandergeest, and Lesley Potter, "Social Aspects of Forestry in Southeast Asia:A Review of the Trends in the Scholarly Literature." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 26 (1):196-218.

 

1994.   Peluso, Nancy Lee, Craig Humphrey, and Louise P. Fortmann, "The Rock, the Beach, and the Tidal Pool:  People and Poverty in Natural Resource-Dependent Areas of the United States," Society and Natural Resources 7:1:23-38.

 

1993. Peluso, Nancy Lee, "Coercing Conservation?: The Politics of State Resource Control" Global Environmental Change 3:2 (June):199-218.

            reprinted in: Ronald Lipschultz and Ken Conca (eds.) The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politics.  New York: Columbia University Press. (1993).

1992.  Peluso, Nancy Lee, "The Ironwood Problem: (Mis)-Management and Development of an Extractive Rainforest Product."  Conservation Biology 6:1 (June): 210-219. 

 

1992. Peluso, Nancy Lee,"The Political Ecology of Extraction and Extractive Reserves in East Kalimantan, Indonesia." Development and Change 23:4(October):49-74.

 

1992.  Peluso, Nancy Lee, "Traditions of Forest Control in Java: Implications for Social Forestry and Sustainability."  Natural Resources Journal 32 (4) (October):883-918. Reprinted in:Raymond Bryant (ed.), "The Political Ecology of Resource Management in Southeast Asia" spec. issue, Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters 3 (1993):138-157.

 

1992.  Peluso, Nancy Lee, "Non-timber Forest Products in East Kalimantan, Indonesia: Can Extraction be Reserved?"  In Stephen Schwartzman and Dan Nepstad, eds.  The Role of Non-timber Forest Products in the Tropics:  Conservation and Development Strategies.  Advances in Economic Botany Series.  New York: The New York Botanical Garden. 

 

1992. Peluso, Nancy Lee, "Rattan Industries in East Kalimantan, Indonesia."  in Jeff Campbell (ed.), Case Studies in Small-Scale Forest-Based Industries in Asia.  Rattan, Matchmaking, and Handcrafts. Community Forestry Case Study 4.  Bangkok: Food and Agriculture Organization for the United Nations.

 

1991. Peluso, Nancy Lee, "Women and Natural Resources in Developing Countries" Society and Natural Resources 4: 4 (June) :1-3. 

 

1991. Peluso, Nancy Lee, "Women and Natural Resources in Developing Countries" (Guest Editor) Society and Natural Resources 4 (June). 

           

1991. Menzies, N.K., and Nancy Lee Peluso, "Rights of Access to Upland Forest Resources in Southwest China." Journal of World Forest Resources 6:1 (September): 1-20.

 

1991. Peluso, Nancy Lee, "Colonial Forest Management in Java."  Forest and Conservation History (April):65-75.

 

1990.   Peluso, Nancy Lee, "The History of State Forest Management in Java."  pp. 27-55 in Mark Poffenberger, ed. Keepers of the Forest: Land Management Alternatives in Southeast Asia.  Hartford, CT:Kumarian Press. 

 

1989. Peluso, Nancy Lee, and Mark Poffenberger, "Social Forestry on Java: Reorienting Management Systems."  Human Organization 48:4 (Winter):333-344.

            reprinted in:  Mark Poffenberger, ed., Keepers of the Forest: Land Management Alternatives in Southeast Asia. Hartford, CT:Kumarian. 1992.

 

1986. Jessup, Timothy C., and Nancy Lee Peluso,"Minor Forest Products as Common Property Resources in East Kalimantan, Indonesia," pp. 505-32 in  Common Property Resource Management, edited by the Panel on Common Property Resource Management. Washington, D.C.:National Academy of Sciences.

 

1983. Peluso, Nancy Lee, "Networking in the Commons: A Tragedy for Rattan?"  Indonesia No. 35 (April): 95-108.

 

1982.   Peluso, Nancy Lee, Occupational Mobility and the Economic Roles of Rural Women in Yogyakarta. Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Population Studies Center Monograph, Gadjah Mada University, 1982 (reprinted 1984). 

 

1980. Peluso, Nancy Lee, "Suku Kenyah yang Masih Tertinggal: Migrasi Temporer untuk Mencari Nafkah." ("The Kenyah who Stayed Behind:  Temporary Migration for Subsistence."  pp. 303-310 in Laporan Lokakarya Rapat Kerja Resetelmen Penduduk di Samarinda, Kalimantan Timur 8-12 April 1980, edited by Team Pusat Resetelmen Penduduk, Direktorat Jenderal Kehutanan, Departemen Pertanian.  Jakarta. 

 

1979.  Peluso, Nancy Lee, "Collecting Data on Women's Employment in Rural Yogyakarta."  Learning About Rural Women: Studies in Family Planning Special Issue.  New York: The Population Council, November.

 

1979. Peluso, Nancy Lee, "Putting People into Boxes or Building Boxes Around People?  Approaches to Designing Occupational Categories for Women in Java."  Gadjah Mada University Working Papers Series No. 19.  Yogyakarta: Population Institute, Gadjah Mada University, March. 

 

Reviews and Commentaries

 

1993    Hefner, Robert, The Political Economy of Mountain Java.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.  pp. 165-66 in Indonesia no. 55 (October).

 

1993.  Comment on Padoch, "Tropical Forests" Forum (October).

 

1992    Guha, Ramachandra.  The Unquiet Woods:  Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Indian Himalaya.   Berkeley: University of California Press.  In American Ethnologist (March). 

 

1989    Dove, Michael R., The Real and Imagined Roles of Culture in Development.  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988. In Indonesia No. 47 (April):125-27.

 

1989    Robinson, Kathryn May, Stepchildren of Progress: The Political Economy of Development in an Indonesian Mining Town.  New York: State University of New York Press, 1986.  In Society and Natural Resources 1:403-404

 

1986    Plattner, Stuart (ed.), Markets and Marketing, Monographs in Economic Anthropology, No. 4.  In American Anthropolo­gist 88:4 (December):970-971.

 

1985    Manderson, Lenore (ed.), Women's Work and Women's Roles: Economics and Everyday Life in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.  In ASAA  Review 8:3: 87-89.

 

In preparation:

 

Peluso, Nancy Lee, and Michael Watts, eds.  Violent Environments.  For submission to Routledge, July 1999.

 

Peluso, Nancy Lee, and Emily Harwell.  “Land filled with tears:  Territory and the Cultural Politics of War in Indonesian Borneo.”  for submission to Indonesia, July 1999.

 

Peluso, Nancy Lee, and Peter Vandergeest.  “Geneologies of Forest Law and Customary Rights in Southeast Asia.”  Under revision for Journal of Asian Studies.

 

Vandergeest, Peter, and Nancy Lee Peluso.  “Empires of Forestry in Southeast Asia.”  In preparation for Environment and History. 

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