[E&E seminars] MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History, April 24, 2009

[Margo Collett]

MIT Seminar on Environmental and

Agricultural History



“Woodlands, Meadows and a NATO Training Ground: Dioxin as Dénouement”



Joy Parr

Canada Research Chair, Technology, Culture and Risk, Department of  
Geography, University of Western Ontario



The NATO training grounds at Gagetown, New Brunswick, just north of  
the Maine border, were assembled in 1952 from Acadian mixed forests  
and parts of the Saint John River flood plain which had been re- 
fashioned by 250 years European settlement into highly valued timber  
lots, pastures and arable.  This presentation analyses how this  
transformation was accomplished and how it was undone considering how  
human residents of the area had adapted to their habitat and how their  
displacement re-ordered the political, ethnic and sexual economies of  
the place.



Friday, April 24, 2009

2:30 to 4:30 pm

Building E51 Room 095

Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, Cambridge



Sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and the Program in Science,  
Technology, and Society. For more information or to be put on the  
mailing list, please contact Margo Collett at mcollett at mit.edu. 
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