Progress 06/01/03 to 09/30/07
Outputs
Cultural aspects of forestry and natural resources in the South are poorly understood. This project assessed the role of forestry and natural resources in shaping southern culture both in the past and present. All components of project are now complete.
Impacts
The project is contributing to a greater understanding of the relationship between labor, land use, and culture in the use and management of forest resources.
Publications
- McDaniel, Josh and Vanessa Casanova. 2005. Forest Management and the H2B Guest Worker Program in the Southeastern United States: An Assessment of Contractors and Their Crews. Journal of Forestry Vol 103. No 3. April/May. Pp114-119.
- McDaniel, JM, and V. Casanova*. 2003. Pines in Lines: Tree Planting, H2B Guest Workers, and Rural. Poverty in Alabama. Southern Rural Sociology 19(1): 73-96.
- Casanova, V. and J. McDaniel. 2005. No Sobra y No Falta: Recruitment Networks and Guest Workers in Southeastern U.S. Forest Industries. Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, vol 34, 1. pp.45-84.
- Lockaby B, Zhang D, Mcdaniel J, Tian H, Pan S 2005. Interdisciplinary research at the Urban-Rural interface: The West ga project Urban Ecosystems, Vol. 8, No. 1. (March 2005), pp. 7-21.
- Mcdaniel J, Alley K 2005. Connecting Local environmental knowledge and land use practices: A human ecosystem approach to urbanization in West Georgia Urban Ecosystems, Vol. 8, No. 1. (March 2005), pp. 23-38.
- Johnson, C.Y. and J.M. McDaniel. 2006. Turpentine Negro. In To Love the Wind and the Rain: Essays in African American Environmental History. D. Glave and M. Stoll, eds. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
- McDaniel J., D. Kennard, & A. 2005. Fuentes Smokey the Tapir: Traditional Fire Knowledge and Fire Prevention Campaigns in Lowland Bolivia. Society and Natural Resources. Volume 18, Number 10 / November-December 2005
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Progress 01/01/04 to 12/31/04
Outputs
All three sections of the project are proceeding well. In the oral history of turpentine project, interviews are completed and I have developed a collaborative relationship with Laurie Sommers of the South GA Folklife Project. We are writing a book under pre-publication contract with the University of Alabama Press. The second project in which I am working involves an examination of the H2B guest worker program in forestry. Along with a graduate student, we have been interviewing and surveying guest worker crews and labor contractors. We have found that forestry has been the largest participant in the guest worker program in the past decade (in terms of visas requested). We have also learned about the connections between guest workers and other non-forestry industries in the South, and about the connections between guest workers and the undocumented workers in the South. A number of publications have resulted from that work. The third project is a look at
environmental knowledge in the West Georgia area, and the relationship between knowledge and land use practices. The first phase of that research is completed in which we found that rural residents had stronger local environmental knowledge when compared to urban and suburban residents, and this was reflected in more responsible land use practices. This has policy implications in terms of the cultural impacts of urbanization in the area, and the effect this will have on land management as more knowledgeable rural residents are displaced by urban and suburban populations. We are now entering into research on the role of policy in shaping land use in the area. We have also developed an expanded project based on this research and submitted it to the NSF-Biocomplexity program for expanded funding. A number of publications have been developed based on this work and they are listed below.
Impacts
The project is contributing to a greater understanding of the relationship between labor, land use, and culture in the use and management of forest resources.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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Progress 01/01/03 to 12/31/03
Outputs
All three sections of the project are proceeding well. In the oral history of turpentine project, I have been identifying informants and doing oral history interviews. I expect to complete the interviews by the end of this year. I have also been collecting archival materials on the history of the turpentine industry, and this forms a large portion of the book I am writing under pre-publication contract with the University of Alabama Press. The second project in which I am working involves an examination of the H2B guest worker program in forestry. Along with a graduate student, we have been interviewing and surveying guest worker crews and labor contractors. We have found that forestry has been the largest participant in the guest worker program in the past decade (in terms of visas requested). We have also learned about the connections between guest workers and other non-forestry industries in the South, and about the connections between guest workers and the
undocumented workers in the South. The third project is a look at environmental knowledge in the West Georgia area, and the relationship between knowledge and land use practices. The first phase of that research is completed in which we found that rural residents had stronger local environmental knowledge when compared to urban and suburban residents, and this was reflected in more responsible land use practices. This has policy implications in terms of the cultural impacts of urbanization in the area, and the effect this will have on land management as more knowledgeable rural residents are displaced by urban and suburban populations. GSY=2
Impacts
The project is contributing to a greater understanding of the relationship between labor, land use, and culture in the use and management of forest resources.
Publications
- McDaniel, J.M., and V. Casanova. (2004) Pines in Lines: Tree Planting, H2B Guest Workers, and Rural Poverty in Alabama. Southern Rural Sociology. In Press.
- McDaniel, J.M. 2003. Portrait of a migrant worker in the US Forest Industry. In, Life Stories of Forest Workers. B. Strehlke, ed. International Labor Office, Chene-Bougeries, Switzerland.
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