Devon G. Peņa (PhD 1983, Texas)
Research Interests:
Agroecology; ethnoecology; anthropology of place and place-making; environmental justice and sustainability; environmental history and ecological politics in the intermountain West; social movement theory (Mexico, Southwest USA, Taiwain, China).
"I am currently involved in three research projects: (1) a study of the ethnobotany of urban agricultural spaces in the Los Angeles basin; and (2) a study of the political ecology of Latina/o urbanism; and (3) study of acequia farms and soil and range restoration practices. My most recent community-based service and advocacy work includes the establishment of a new non-profit educational and research foundation, The Acequia Institute, located at our family's historic 200 acre acequia farm in southern Colorado."
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The Acequia Institute website: [click here]
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Selected Publications:
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2005
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Mexican Americans and the Environment: Tierra y Vida. University of Arizona Press.
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2005
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Senior Editor, Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. 4 Volumes. New York: Oxford University Press.
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2005
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"Autonomy, equity, and environmental justice." IN: Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement, eds. David N. Pellow and Robert J. Brulle. Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 131-52.
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2005
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"Tierra y vida: Chicano environmental justice struggles in the Southwest. IN: The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution, ed. Robert D. Bullard, pp. 188-208.
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2003
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"Community Acequias in Colorado's Rio Culebra Watershed: A
Customary Commons in the Domain of Prior Appropriation," University
of Colorado Law Review 74: 101-95. Co-authored with Greg Hicks. (July).
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