Student Life - PhD Students -- Bethany Haalboom

DUML, BRL 309
135 Duke Marine Lab Road
Beaufort, NC 28516-9721
Phone: 252-504-7644
Fax: 252-504-7648
email: bjh14@duke.edu

Research Interests: conservation policy; environmental politics; social and environmental movements; political ecology; qualitative methods

Education:

• M.A. School of Geography and Geology, McMaster University
• B.A. School of Geography and Geology, McMaster University

Bio: My research is situated at the interface of politics and human-environment interactions.  I am especially interested in the socio-political responses, particularly in the form of conflict and resistance, of resource dependent coastal communities in the Third World to international and national conservation efforts.  My Ph.D dissertation work explores how two indigenous communities in Suriname and French Guiana are dealing with sea turtle conservation interventions and how these responses are shaped by the complex nature of the communities themselves, power disparities operating at multiple spatial scales, larger indigenous rights movements, and contemporary and historical (post)colonial experiences.  My hope is that this work can contribute to an enhanced understanding of factors facilitating or hindering conservation in the Third World, the critical role of human agency and local capacity in confronting both material and discursive forms of domination, and the ways in which conservation practices serve to uncover and amplify larger social justice issues.

Awards:

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship Award (SSHRC), 2006 ($40,000)
• Mellon Foundation Travel Grant, Latin American Studies, Duke University, 2005 ($500)
• Oak Foundation Fellowship for Conservation Biology and Policy on behalf of the Division of Coastal Systems Sciences and Policy, Nicholas School of the Environment, 2004 ($8,000)
• Geography Departmental Scholarship, McMaster University, 2000-2002 ($15,000)
• Entrance Scholarship, McMaster University, 1996 ($3,000)-declined

Publications:

Campbell, L.M., Haalboom, B.J., and Trow, J.  2007. "Sustainability of Community-Based Conservation: sea turtle egg harvesting in Ostional, (Costa Rica), ten years later." Environmental Conservation 34(2): 122-131.

Haalboom, B.J., Elliott, S., Eyles, J., Muggah, H. 2006. "The Risk Society at Work in the Sydney Tar Ponds," The Canadian Geographer 50(2): 145-272.

Haalboom, B.J., Robinson, K.L., Elliott, S.J., Cameron, R., Eyles, J.  2006. "Research as Intervention in (Heart) Health Promotion," Canadian Journal of Public Health 97(4): 291-295.

Hobbies: Running, soccer, photography, perusing through used bookstores, watching classic films, attempting to play the flute.