Power, Land, and Materiality: Global Studies in Historical-Political Ecology as a Framework for Assessing Policies for ”Sustainable Development (led by Alf Hornborg, Human Ecology, Lund University)

Avslutade project/Recently completed projects

Islands of agricultural intensification: The social, ecological and historical contexts

Conference presentations

Widgren, Mats: Mapping Global Agricultural History. Paper presented at the 14th International Conference of Historical Geographers 23–27 August 2009, Kyoto, Japan

Widgren. Mats: Mapping precolonial African agricultural systems Paper presented at 3rd European Conference on African Studies, Leipzig, 4 to 7 June 2009 Panel: Historical Roots of Poverty and Well-Being in African Countries

Senaste publikationer/Recent publications

2010

Widgren, Mats 2010. Mapping Global Agricultural History. In Kinda, A., Komeie, T. Mnamide, S., Mizoguchi, T. & Uesugi, K. (eds) Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of Historical Geographers, Kyoto 2009. Kyoto University Press 2010. 211-212. Link to manuscript.

Widgren, Mats(2010) 'Besieged Palaeonegritics or Innovative Farmers: Historical Political Ecology of Intensive and Terraced Agriculture in West Africa and Sudan', African Studies, 69: 2, 323 — 343 Link to manuscript

Widgren, M. (2010). Reading the prehistoric landscape. Ymer 130, 69-86

2009

Widgren, M. Agrarhistoria och klimat – nya samband och nya utmaningar. I Agrarhistoria på många sätt. 28 studier om människan och jorden. Festskrift till Janken Myrdal. Stockholm: KSLA , s. 17-22

Debate/popular science:

Benjaminsen, T.A., Bryceson, I. Dahlberg, A., Holmgren, K. , Johansson, L., Widgren, M. Östberg, W. (2009) Svenskt bistånd ska rädda miljöfarligt etanolprojekt. Dagens Nyheter 14 april 2009. English translation

2008

Holmgren, K., Börjeson, L., Dahlberg. A., Muzuka, A., Norström E., Öberg. H. Risberg, J., Ryner, M., Sitoe, S., Westerberg, L.O. Widgren, M., Yanda, P. (2008) The Vulnerable Continent (PLATINA): Historical perspectives on Africa´s Climate, Environment and Societies. In Meeting global challenges in research cooperation. Proceedings of a conference and workshop in Uppsala, May 27-29, 2008. Uppsala: Collegium for Development Studies, Uppsala University. pp. 585-596.

Widgren, M., N. Thomas Håkansson & Lowe Börjeson (guest editors): Special issue of International Journal of African Historical Studies, 41/3, 2008: The Political Ecology of Trade, Food Production and, Landscape Transformations in Northeast Tanzania: 1850-2000

Håkansson, T., Widgren, M. Börjeson. L. (2008) Introduction: Historical and Regional Perspectives on Landscape Transformations in Northeastern Tanzania 1850-2000. International Journal of African Historical Studies):41/3, 369-382.

Widgren, M. (2008) Geografi är ingen från naturgeografin och kulturgeografin skild särart. Geografiska Notiser, 66, nr 1, 8-10.

2003-2007

Widgren, M. 2007. Review of Sing C. Chew ‘The Recurring Dark Ages: Ecological Stress, Climate Changes and Systems Transformation. Environment and History 13, 503-506.

Håkansson, T. & Widgren, M. (2007) Labour and landscapes: The political economy of landesque capital in 19th century Tanganyika. Geografiska Annaler 89B (3) 233-248).

Widgren, M (2007) Pre-colonial landesque capital: a global perspective. In Hornborg, A., Martinez-Alier, J. and Mcneill, J.R. (eds), Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek. Manuscript

Widgren, M. (2006). Reading property in the landscape. Norsk Geografisk Tidskrift – Norwegian Journal of Geography Vol. 60, 57-64.

Widgren, M. & Sutton, J. (eds) (2004) Islands of intensive agriculture in Eastern Africa. Oxford: James Currey publishers. BUY

(Read reviews by Kenneth Lynch, Chris Conte, James Giblin, Jamie Monson, Bob Munson, Michael Sheridan and Stephanie Wynne-Jones.)

Widgren M. (2005) Fimbulvintern - fanns den? I Arkeologi och naturvetenskap (red. Carin Bunte, Björn E. Berglund, Lars Larsson] Nyhamnsläge: Gyllenstiernska Krapperupstift., 2005, s. 62- 70. Manuskript

Widgren, M. (2004) bin Laden and the irrigation tunnels – two perspectives on sustainable social development. Fredrik Lundmark (ed) Culture, security and sustainable social development. Stockholm: Gidlund. p. 207-220. Manuscript in Swedish More info on the book

Widgren, M. (2004) Can landscapes be read? In H. Palang, H. Sooväli, M. Antrop, G. Setten (eds) European rural landscapes : persistence and change in a globalising environment. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, 455-465. Read Buy the book

Widgren, M. (red) 2003. Röjningröseområden på sydsvenska höglandet. Arkeologiska, kulturgeografiska och vegetationshistoriska undersökningar. Meddelanden nr 117, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet). 216 s.

Widgren, M. (2003) Historisk geografi i Afrika: utmaningar och lärdomar. Inträdesföredrag den 4 juni 2002). Kungl. Vitterhets historie och antikvitetsakademiens årsbok 2003, s. 86-96.

Widgren, Mats (2003) Sjutton år av historisk geografisk forskning i Stockholm. I Ulf Jansson (red) Med landskapet i centrum. Meddelande 119, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet, s. 19-34.

Previous publications on separate webpage

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