Thomas Perreault
Associate Professor, GeographyContact Information
| Office: | 529 Eggers |
| Phone: | 443-9467 |
| Web Page: | Available here |
| Email: | taperrea at maxwell.syr.edu |
Environmental Research Areas
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Environment and Development
- Environmental Governance
- Latin America
- Political Ecology
- Transnational Environmental Issues and Processes
Environmental Courses
Selected Papers and Abstracts since 2000
- Environment and Development, Thomas Perreault, in Companion to Environmental Geography. Noel Castree, David Demeritt, Diana Liverman and Bruce Rhoads (eds.), Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 442-460., 2009.
- Environmental Governance, Thomas Perreault with Gavin Bridge, Companion to Environmental Geography. Noel Castree, David Demeritt, Diana Liverman and Bruce Rhoads (eds.), Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 475-497., 2009.
- Assessing the Limits of Neoliberal Environmental Governance in Bolivia, Thomas Perreault , Beyond Neoliberalism in Latin America? John Burdick, Philip Oxhorn and Ken Roberts (eds.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 135-156., 2009.
- Custom and contradiction: rural water governance and the politics of usos y costumbres in Bolivia’s irrigators’ movement, Thomas Perreault, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 98(4): 834-854., 2008.
- Geographical Perspectives on Latin American Social Movements: a review and critique, Thomas Perreault, Geography Compass, 2(5): 1363-1385., 2008.
- Popular protest and unpopular policies: state restructuring, resource conflict and social justice in Bolivia, Thomas Perreault, Environmental Justice in Latin America. David Carruthers (ed.), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 239-262., 2008.
- Natural Gas, Indigenous Mobilization, and the Bolivian State, Thomas Perreault, Identities, Conflict and Cohesion Programme Paper No. 12, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), 27pp., 2008.
- Environmental governance, resource protest and social justice in Bolivia, Thomas Perreault, Book chapter in the volume, Environmental Justice in Latin America, edited by David Carruthers (San Diego State University). Forthcoming with MIT Press., 2007.
- Review of B. Kohl and L. Farthing, Impasse in Bolivia: Neoliberal Hegemony and Popular Resistance, Thomas Perreault, Requested book review, forthcoming in Progress in Human Geography., October 2007.
- De la guerra del agua a la guerra del gas: gobernanza de recursos, neoliberalismo, y protesta popular en Bolivia, Thomas Perreault, Book chapter in the volume, Depsués de las Guerras del Agua en Bolivia, edited by Susan Spronk (York University) and Carlos Crespo (Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba). Forthcoming with Plural Editores (La Paz). , 2006.
- Reestructuración del estado y las políticas de escala de la gestión de agua rural en Bolivia., Thomas Perreault, In Rutgerd Boelens (ed.), Políticas Hídricas y Derechos Campesinos e Indígenas, pp. 281-315 (Lima, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos/ Quito, Abya Yala). , 2006.
- Campesino mobilization and the cultural politics of water governance in Bolivia, Thomas Perreault, July 2006.
- From the Guerra Del Agua to the Guerra Del Gas: Resource Governance, Neoliberalism and Popular Protest in Bolivia, Thomas Perreault, Antipode 38 (1),150¨C172 doi:10.1111/j.0066-4812.2006.00569.x , January 2006.
- Geographies of neoliberalism in Latin America, Thomas Perreault with Patricia Martin , (guest editorial and introduction to special issue), Environment and Planning A, 37(2): 191-201. , 2005.
- State Restructuring and the Scale Politics of Rural Water in Bolivia, Thomas Perreault, Environment and Planning A, 37(2): 263-284., 2005.
- Why Chacras (Swidden Gardens) Persist: Agrobiodiversity, Food Security and Cultural Identity in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Thomas Perreault, Human Organization, 64(4), pp. 327-339, December 2005.
- State Restructuring and the Scale Politics of Rural Water Governance in Bolivia, Thomas Perreault, Environment and Planning A, 37(2), pp. 263-284, February 2005.
- Social Capital, Development and Indigenous Politics in Ecuadorian Amazonia, Thomas Perreault, Geographical Review, 93(3), pp. 328-349, July 2003.
- Changing Places: Transnational Networks, Ethnic Politics and Community Development in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Thomas Perreault, Political Geography, 22(1), pp. 61-88, January 2003.
- Making Space: Community Organization, Agrarian Change, and the Politics of Scale in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Thomas Perreault, Latin American Perspectives, 30(1), pp. 96-121, January 2003.