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Department of the History of Science<br>
LIFE SCIENCES/ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES WORKING GROUP <br><br>
</font><font size=4><i>Etienne Benson, HSSTS, MIT<br>
</i></font><font size=2>"Territorializing wildlife: animal behavior,
international conservation, and the politics of space during the Cold
War" <br><br>
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Abstract: Etienne will focus on a case study of tiger research in
Nepal's Royal Chitwan National Park in the 1970s, in the context of the
broad themes of his dissertation proposal. These include how
scientists' understandings of animals' use of space influenced
conservation policies, and how, in order to produce those understandings,
scientists themselves had to create and negotiate various human
territorial boundaries -- e.g., the borders between national parks and
surrounding agricultural areas, the borders between 'research sites' and
'tourist attractions', or the borders between nations in the context of
Cold War geopolitics and decolonization. This is related to previous work
Etienne has done on the history of radio- and satellite-tracking tracking
techniques in wildlife biology, which he will discuss in
passing.<br><br>
<div align="center"><font color="#800000"><b>Wednesday April 26, 2006,
12:30-2:00, Science Center 469<br>
Sandwich Lunch Provided<br><br>
Please RSVP to Jane Zhu:
<a href="mailto:jzhu@fas.harvard.edu">jzhu@fas.harvard.edu<br><br>
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Thank you<br>
Jane Zhu<br>
Faculty Assistant <br>
History of Science Department <br>
Science Center 371 <br>
1 Oxford St. <br>
Cambridge, MA 02138 <br><br>
Phone: (617) 384-5800<br>
Fax: (617) 495-3344<br>
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