Gregory W. Knapp

Interests

Biography

Gregory Knapp's research, books, and teaching focus on culture, landscapes, and change in the New World. He has long been interested in resource stewardship as conditioned by institutions, cultural goals, and natural conditions and hazards (adaptive dynamics); and in ethnic identity, identity politics, and the (problematic) involvement of this politics with territory.

Dr. Knapp is also concerned about values, and the efforts to create a good society and a right relation between persons and nature. Critical (but not unsympathetic) efforts to assess these efforts take into account life ways, power relations, implicit compromises and contracts, cultural history, and natural history at a variety of scales.

Dr. Knapp teaches undergraduate courses on Latin America and cultural ecology, a summer study abroad course in South America, a graduate course on culture, environment, and development in Latin America, and supervises graduate student field research in Latin America and the American Southwest and West.

Selected Publications

Knapp, G. 2011. “Ethnic Mapping” in Mapping Latin America: Space and Society, 1492-2000, edited by Jordana Dym and Karl Offen, University of Chicago Press.

Knapp, G. 2010. "The Andes: Personal Reflections on Cultural Change, 1977-2010," Journal of Cultural Geography 27:307-316

Knapp, G. 2007. The Legacy of European Colonialism. In T. Veblen, K. Young & A. Ome (Eds.), The Physical Geography of South America (pp.279-288). Oxford University Press.

Knapp, G. 2007.  “Human Ecology,” Encyclopedia of Environment and Society, edited by Paul Robbins. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California.

Knapp, G. & Doolittle, W.E. 2005. Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov, 1938-2003. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 95(2), 462-470.

Knapp, G. and Peter Herlihy (eds.) 2003. Participatory Mapping of Indigenous Lands in Latin America, special issue of Human Organization. Volume 62, number 4.

Knapp, G. (ed.) 2002. Latin America in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Solutions. Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers and University of Texas Press.

Knapp, G. and Cesar Caviedes. 1995 South America. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.

Knapp, G. 1992 Riego Precolonial y Tradicional en la Sierra Norte del Ecuador. Hombre y Ambiente 22 (special issue devoted to this one work). Quito: Ediciones Abya Yala. < ;script src="http://www.utexas.edu/cola/_library/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/themes/advanced/langs/en.js" type="text/javascript"> p>

Knapp, G. 1991 Andean Ecology: Adaptive Dynamics in Ecuador. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.

Knapp, G. 1991 Geografia Quichua de la Sierra del Ecuador. Quito: Ediciones Abya Yala.

Knapp, G. 1988 Ecologia Cultural Prehispanica del Ecuador. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador.

Knapp, G. N. Allan and C. Stadel (eds.). 1988. Human Impact on Mountains. Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield.

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