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Mats Widgren
Professor
i Geografi, särskilt Kulturgeografi
E-post: mats.widgren@humangeo.su.se
Telefon: 08-16 48 52
Besöksadress: Rum X316,
Geovetenskapens hus, Frescati
Postadress: Stockholms
universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 106 91 Stockholm
NEWS: Landscape and justice: national research course 2010 SECOND CALL DEC 21st 2010
Undervisning /
Teaching - click for info
Blog: Händelser, tankar, reflektioner,
åsikter
Links
Historisk
geografi och landskapsstudier vid SU
Projekt/Projects
Exploring
precolonial agriculture and intensification: the case of Bokoni, South
Africa (Swedish Research Links,
Univ of Pretoria)
People, Land and Time in
Africa:
Northeast Tanzania 1850-2000: The political ecology of
trade networks, food production and land cover change (with Lowe Börjeson
and Thomas Håkansson.
Landscape
history in a global perspective
Mapping global agricultural history
CREATING (FP7) (led by Bernard
Charlery, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail)
New
Perspectives on Landscapes: A COST-ESF “Network of Networks” (member of
steering group)
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
Senaste publikationer/Recent
publications
In press
Widgren, M.
Besieged paleonegritics or innovative farmers: Historical political ecology
of intensive and terraced agriculture in West Africa and the Sudan. African Studies, submitted
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.
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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