RISMLCRRISM-LANDES

Research and Conferences 1986 -
2006

RESEARCH COLLECTIONS

Go  Impact of El Niño and Climate Forecasting on Peruvian and Chilean Fisheries


CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA

Go  Caribbean Education and Society

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 West Indian Migration to New York: Historical, Contemporary, and Transnational
    Perspectives


1997-1998

Impact of El Niño and Climate Forecasting on Peruvian and Chilean Fisheries

Sponsors
International Research Institute for Climate Prediction
RISM

Collaborating with the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, RISM anthropologists participated in this project to evaluate the potential of climate forecast information for improving and sustaining the Peruvian and Chilean fisheries. RISM provided a disciplinary framework, based on the Latin American experience of North American applied anthropology, for organizing and carrying out the project. The RISM anthropology team collaborated with the physical scientists by identifying specific operational needs of the Chavin fishing groups as well as the Instituto del Mar del Perú (IMARPE), the Peruvian fisheries management organization. RISM anthropologists took a central role in presenting and explaining the strengths and limitations of the predictive models to their Peruvian and Chilean collaborators, and in designing efficient training and applications networks to support the project in Peru. The anthropological team also worked closely with the economists to identify potential socioeconomic effects on selected institutions and sectors which may result from different intervention strategies based on climate forecasts and identified the incentives for selecting different intervention strategies.

Publication:

Bakun, A. and K. Broad, eds.
2002. Climate and Fisheries: Interacting Scales, Paradigms and Policy Approaches. New York: Columbia Earth Institute and International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, IRI Publication-IRI-CW/02/1.

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1989

Caribbean Education and Society

This conference provided the opportunity for brought together members of the Faculty of Education of the University of the West Indies and the RISM educational research team engaged in ongoing research in the eastern Caribbean to consider cases and issues of direct interest. Reviews of published educational research on Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, and Grenada were prepared respectively by Anthony Layne, Patricia Mohammed, and George Brizan. Marlene Hamilton's analysis of Jamaican educational research, Derek Gordon's article on access to high school education in postwar Jamaica and Joseph Halliday's discussion of education in St. Kitts and Nevis added valuable comparison and counterpoint to RISM material from the eastern Caribbean. Professor Rex Nettleford's essay on key issues and problems in West Indian education and Professor Errol Miller's detailed prospectus for research provided conferees with invaluable perspective and background. In turn, the RISM anthropologists, with theoretical and methodological insight gained from professional experiences in Africa and Europe and the Caribbean, provided commentary on the presentations of their West Indian colleagues and presented new data and fresh perspectives from their field sites in the eastern Caribbean.

Errol Miller, ed.
1991. Education and Society in the Commonwealth Caribbean. Mona, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies.

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1999

West Indian Migration to New York: Historical, Contemporary, and Transnational Perspectives

Sponsors
Wenner-Gren Foundation
RISM

This conference brought together specialists on West lndian migration from a variety of disciplines to assess the effects of West Indian migration to New York, to evaluate the theoretical frameworks put forward by scholars to understand West Indian migration, and to draw up an agenda for future research. The conference examined contemporary West Indian migration against the backdrop of earlier migrations and broad transnational processes, analyzed the way West Indian migration is transforming New York City and the complex ways that West Indians themselves have been transformed.

Publication
Foner, Nancy, ed.
2001. Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

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