Thomas K Park

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• Park, T. K., & Greenberg, J. B. (2020). Terrestrial Transformations: A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature. Lanham, New York, London: Lexington Books.
• Park, T. K., & Greenberg, J. B. (2017). Hidden Interests in credit and finance: power, ethics and social capital across the last millennium. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield.
• Park, T. K., & Boum, A. (2016). Historical Dictionary of Morocco. Third edition. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press/ Rowman and Littlefield.
• Park, T. K., & Boum, A. (2006). Historical Dictionary of Morocco.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: Historical Dictionary of Morocco. 2nd Edition. The Scarecrow Press, Inc. Lanham, Maryland. Toronto. Oxford. 2006;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;
• Park, T. K. (1993).

  Privatization and development: the case of the Dirol Plain

  . Elsevier.
• Park, T. K. (1993). Risk and Tenure in Arizd Lands: the political ecology of development in the Senegal River Basin.. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
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  Edited volume with several chapters in which I am the sole author or co-author and one which is my translation from French.

Chapters

• Park, T. K., & Greenberg, J. B. (2020). The Anthropocene and other noxious concepts. In Terrestrial Transformations A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature(pp 15-32). Lanham, New York, London: Lexington Books.
• Park, T. K., & Greenberg, J. B. (2020). The Political Ecology of Climate Change. In Terrestrial Transformations A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature(pp 33-50). Lanham, New York, London: Lexington Books.
• Park, T. K., Baro, M., & Niang, A. (2020). Digitaol Sensing and Human-Environment Relationships in the Face of Climate Variability in Senegal and Mauritania. In Terrestrial Transformations A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature(pp 51-64). Lanham, New York, London: Lexington Books.
• Park, T. K., Cisneros, L., Nell, E., & Mjahed, M. (2013). Urban Sociology in Poor Cities of Africa and the Middle East : a New Methodology Inspired by Robert E. Park's Urban Ecological Approach. In The Chicago School Diaspora: Epistemology and Substance(p. 398). Montreal: McGill Queens University Press.
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  ;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Please specify if you select "Other collaborative" : This is a chapter in a book under review. Final revisions were sent in in January 2011. While I wrote the entire chapter it draws on key work by three collaborators: Edward Nell (New School), Louis Cisnaros and Mourad Mjahed - former grad students at U of A (Physics and Anthropology, respectively).;Full Citation: Urban Sociology in Poor Cities of Africa and the Middle East : a New Methodology Inspired by Robert E. Park's Urban Ecological Approach. In The Chicago School Diaspora: Epistemology and Substance. Jacqueline Low and Gary Bowden (Eds) under peer review at McGill Queens University Press.
• Park, T. K., Cisneros, L., Nell, E., & Mjahed, M. (2013). Urban Sociology in Poor Cities of Africa and the Middle East : a New Methodology Inspired by Robert E. Park's Urban Ecological Approach.. In The Chicago School Diapora. Epistemology and Substance.(pp 199-209). Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press.
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  ;Your Role: I wrote the entire chapter appearing in The Chicago School Diaspora: Epistemology and Substance. Jacqueline Low and Gary Bowden (Eds) McGill-Queens University Press. 2013. The co-authors contributed to the development of the idea in various ways.;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Edward Nell is a Professor of Economics at the New School, Luis Cisneros is a Post Doc at ASU and Mourad Mjahed has been working of a Fulbright obligation to Morocco by being responsible for language training at Peace Corps in Rabat, Morocco.;
• Park, T. K. (2008). Samir Amin.
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  ;Your Role: author;Full Citation: Entry for Samir Amin in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Ed. William A. Darity, Jr. Vol. 1. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008. pp.110-111.;
• Park, T. K. (2007). Fatima Mernissi.
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  ;Your Role: author;Full Citation: Fatima Mernissi. Entry in Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa. Ed. Michael R. Fischbach. Gale Cengage. ;
• Park, T. K. (1997). Indirass and the Political Ecology of Flood Recession Agriculture. In Ecology of Practice Studies of food Crop Production in Sub-Saharan West Africa. A. Endre Nyerges, editor(pp 77-95). Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach Publishers.
• Park, T. K., Baro, M., Ngaido, T., Ngaido, T., & Baro, M. A. (1993).

  Crisis of nationalism in Mauritania

  . In Risk and Tenure in Arid Lands(p. 35). Elsevier.
• Park, T. K., Baro, M., Ngaido, T., & Baro, M. A. (1991).

  Les conflits fonciers et la crise du nationalisme en Mauritanie

  . In Risk and Tenure in Arid Lands French translation of Chapter 4, Crisis of nationalism in Mauritania(p. 35). Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin--Madison.

Journals/Publications

• Park, T. K. (2020). Rip Van Winkle and the Pluriverse. Hespéris-Tamuda, LV(2), 289-307.
• Park, T. K. (2010).

  Social Transformations and West African Forms of Slavery

  . Current Anthropology, 51(5), 715-716. doi:10.1086/655865
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  In Benedetta Rossi’s Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories, “trajectories” reconfiguring slavery refers to the ways in which traditional forms of slavery have left their imprint on the present and does not include completely new forms of subjugation, exploitation, or enslavement, such as child labor, prostitution, elite capture, or international domination by states or corporations. This stimulating collection for West African scholars provides an abundance of examples of the transformations in traditional forms of slavery covering the range of possibilities, from formerly subjugated groups that now have the upper hand over their former masters to situations where traditional forms of symbolic and financial domination still prevail. Rossi defines the book’s focus as categorical slavery in contradistinction to metaphorical slavery, the latter being the extension of the general idea of a hierarchical and exploitative relation to other situations lacking any historical roots in traditional categories of master and slave. Nevertheless, one chapter (by Alice Bellagamba) provides an interesting look at modern metaphors of slavery (e.g., a discourse on civil servants as slaves in the Gambia) and another (by Tom McCaskie) deals with African American claims to pan-African cultural ties to the Egyptian concept of Maat. Reconfiguring Slavery has an introduction and chapter by Rossi, as well as chapters by eight other authors: Martin A. Klein, McCaskie, Bellagamba, Jean Schmitz, Christine Hardung, Olivier Leservoisier, Eric Hahonou, and Philip Burnham. It examines historical trajectories in West Africa in general (Klein), Ghana (McCaskie), Gambia (Bellagamba), the Senegal River Valley and Dakar (Schmitz), Benin (Hardung), Mauritania Halpulaaren society (Leservoisier), Niger and Benin (Hohonou), Niger (Rossi), and Cameroon and Trinidad (Burnham). Rossi notes that slavery is both many things to many people and problematic to define, yet she opts, nevertheless, for a definition based on the lowest common denominator: “Slavery refers to the individual or communal ownership of an-
• Park, T. K. (2009). Long Distance Trade. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World.
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  an encyclopedia article, authors invited by editors, articles reviewed by editors and guidelines for length recommended.;Full Citation: Entry for “Long Distance Trade” in the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, (Brill, 2009). ;
• Park, T. K. (2009). Peddlars. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic.
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  An encyclopedia article, authors selected by editors, articles reviewed by editors and guidelines for length recommended. ;Full Citation: Entry for “Peddlars” in the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, (Brill, 2009). ;
• Park, T. K. (2009). Safi. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World.
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  An Encyclopedia published by Brill, authors selected by editors and submissions reviewed by editors, guidelines on length. ;Full Citation: Entry for “Safi” in the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, (Brill, 2009).;
• Baro, M., Greenberg, J. B., Marsh, S., Mjahed, M., Nell, E. J., Park, T. K., & Shmelev, S. (2003).

  Research on Urbanization in the Developing World: New Directions

  . Journal of Political Ecology, 10(1), 69-94. doi:10.2458/v10i1.21654
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  Perspective on Current Results NSF funded a three year project (#9817743) from 1999 to 2003 (one year no cost extension) to develop a way, using remote sensing, to create an accurate sampling framework to study large urban centers in the developing world. The project used satellite imagery from the early 1980s through 1999 to create a classification system for urban habitation in six cities (Marrakech Morocco, Dakar Senegal, Bamako Mali, Niamey Niger, Dodoma Tanzania, and Gaborone Botswana). The use of multiple images makes it possible to create urban classes such as squatter settlement present in 1982, low income housing present in 1992 but not in 1982, or villas appearing after 1992. Multiple urban classes based on date of appearance and quality of housing plus the ability, using the latest image, to sample from all residential areas and to know how much housing fits into each class makes it possible to design a sampling framework to study an important number of urban issues. The original project was primarily a methodological project designed to see if using this technology we would indeed find strong correlations between quality and date of appearance of housing and a variety of socio-economic variables and environmental concerns. NSF also funded a project conference (#0138217) held in Dakar, Senegal (5-10 January 2002) to which project participants from Morocco, Senegal, Mali, Niger, Tanzania and Botswana contributed papers and powerpoint presentations. In addition a delegation of five senior government figures and university scholars from Mauritania attended and presented an exceedingly well researched powerpoint presentation on Nouakchott focusing on urban growth and environmental issues that was intended to highlight the value of implemting our methodology in Mauritania. Many representatives from various administrative levels (federal and municipal) in Dakar also attended and made presentations. A number of the papers have been published (Lesetedi 2003, Lupalo 2003, Mjahed and Christopherson 2003, Park and Baro 2003, Sardier 2003) but the majority of the power point presentations of GIS results have not yet been reworked into articles. The clear statistical evidence that the core project expectation of a tight relationship between habitation quality, location, and date of construction was not only reasonable but well supported are provided in Park and Baro (2003, this issue). This article asked first if the methodology was accurately picking out housing that had less in-class variation than between class variation (referring to the urban classes developed using satellite imagery). Then it asked if there was nevertheless value in selecting members of each class from a variety of neighborhoods and locales around the city. Using a Kruskal Wallis analysis we concluded that not only were variations in the housing variables (room size, construction material, provision of urban services, rent, number of rooms and other variables) consistently picked up by the classification system but additional variation could be captured within each class by selecting points based on location within the city fabric. Using a similar approach we also examined the degree to which the sampling framework captured homogeneity in a variety of socio-economic variables (income, expenses per capita, monthly expenses, number of persons in the household, ratio of producers to consumers, and others) within each class and across the city. In both the case of the socio-economic variables and the housing variables the probability of the null hypothesis (that the classification system does not effectively group households into homogenous units both in terms of habitation variables and socio-economic ones was extremely small (see Table 1). This paper thus provides the core analysis substantiating the value of the methodology but also supports a secondary component of the methodology which was to not rely entirely on the classification system but to combine it with location so that households in a single habitation class are drawn from the maximal spatial extent of that class in order to capture the full range of variability within the class (Marsh et al 2003, this issue). The small modules on a variety of topics included in the six city surveys were not intended to collect definitive data, in fact they were entirely designed to test the utility of the new methodology. The PI (Park) in conjunction with two graduate students (Mjahed and Cisneros) also created an agent based model (using the modeling software REPAST) to address a question of interest to researchers in Africa: why is there such enormous variation in household size in African cities. The starting premise of this model was that there may be several viable economic strategies within the urban space of African cities and these make it reasonable to have small, intermediate
• Baro, M., Park, T. K., & Shmelev, S. (2003).

  The Six Cities Project: developing a methodology of surveying densely populated areas using social science assisted and diachronic remote sensing based classification of habitation

  . Journal of Political Ecology, 10(1), 1-23. doi:10.2458/v10i1.21647
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  This paper provides a statistical evaluation of the methodology of the NSF funded Six Cities Project. The project develops a methodology for surveying densely inhabited areas by processing diachronic remote sensing imagery to create habitation strata or urban classes. These classes become part of a sampling strategy which gives every pixel associated with habitation a specified chance of selection and then draws a representative sample of pixels. These pixels become center points for household surveys which can study a variety of issues including health, environment, livelihood strategies, demographics and household labor, expenditures and income. The methodology lends itself to GIS construction and the generation of data that can be easily compared and can be of maximal use to municipalities, governments, scholars and NGOs. It also provides a long term basis for inexpensive surveys that can have a high claim to reliability and representativity. Key words: remote sensing, urbanism, survey methodology, National Science Foundation, health, environment, livelihood strategies, demographic, household labor, expenditures, income, Africa, Middle East, Morocco, Senegal, Mali, Niger, Tanzania, Botswana, Marrakech, Dakar, Bamako, Niamey, Dodoma,  Gaborone.
• Orr, B. J., Eiswerth, B. A., Farah, M. H., Marsh, S. E., Park, T. K., Rautenkranz, D. S., & Shmelev, S. (2003).

  Development of Sampling Procedures Based Upon Satellite Derived Land Cover History for the NSF Digital African Cities Project

  . Journal of Political Ecology, 10(1), 63-68. doi:10.2458/v10i1.21653
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  This article discusses the sampling scheme employed by the Six Cities project to ensure that all areas of habitation have a chance of being selected, that we know what that chance is, and that we are able to critically evaluate the sampling strategy after it has been carried out. A weighting strategy that is slightly different from one used only to do research is therefore employed. The article describes a procedure for generating two kinds of random sample points for areas of change and of no change. Finally, a few simple rules for incorporating socioeconomic, demographic, and other relevant information into the sampling frame without introducing bias into the sample are discussed. Key words: sampling strategies; random sampling; sampling bias; local knowledge; Six Cities project; remote sensing; urban areas in Africa
• Park, T. K., & Shmelev, S. (2003).

  Urbanization Past and Future

  . Journal of Political Ecology, 10(1), 1-6. doi:10.2458/v10i1.21655
• Ilahiane, H., & Park, T. K. (2001).

  SOURCES FOR THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC STUDY OF RURAL MOROCCO

  . International Journal of Middle East Studies, 33(2), 271-290. doi:10.1017/s0020743801002057
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  This paper explores the utility of 19th- and 20th-century taxation and court records as tools for mapping the changing social topography of rural Morocco. Little serious work has been done with such records to date, and it is hoped that this paper will encourage more researchers to use this material.1 As a subset of the Moroccan official record, legal and tax records obviously have an epistemological character differing from that of private correspondence and even other administrative records. Yet in the post-modern era, it is obvious that this cannot be simply reduced to the official record providing us with truth while private correspondence is a mixture of fiction and possible truth. All sources need to be scrutinized both in the traditional ways of the historian and, more generally, as reflecting social forces conceived broadly.
• Park, T. K. (2000).

  Serving the Master: Slavery and Society in Nineteenth-Century Morocco , by Mohammed Ennaji. Translated by Seth Graebner. 166 pages, map, endnotes, bibliography, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. $49.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-312-21152-X

  . Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 34(1), 103-104. doi:10.1017/s0026318400042759
• Park, T. K., & Pazzanita, A. G. (1998).

  Historical Dictionary of Morocco

  . International Journal of African Historical Studies, 31(2), 412. doi:10.2307/221119
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  Historical Dictionary of Morocco. Second Edition. By Thomas K. Park and Aomar Bourn. Historical Dictionaries of Africa, No. 95. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2006. Pp. Ixxii, 675, 31 maps. $115.00. Midway through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the Kingdom of Morocco continues to attract the attention of serious students of North Africa. The Moroccan state, under the post-1999 leadership of King Mohamed VI, has embarked on a number of political and social reforms, such as long overdue enhancements to the status of women and the establishment of a widely noted Truth and Reconciliation Commission which has attempted to expose (and make amends for, if possible) the massive violations of human rights committed under the 1961-99 rule of King Hassan II, Mohamed VFs father and predecessor. In addition, the still-unresolved Western Sahara conflict has continued to distract Rabat, having maneuvered itself into an uncompromising and isolated position in 2003 when it strongly rejected a compromise internal autonomy plan for the territory formulated by former U.S. secretary of State James A. Baker III, and also ruled out a United Nations referendum of self-determination that the world body had been unsuccessfully trying to conduct since 1991. And looming over the entire picture was Morocco's glaring social and economic inequalities, thought by some to have been partly responsible for the Moroccan nationals who took part in the Casablanca terrorist attacks of May 2003 and the Madrid commuter railway bombings in March 2004 that killed nearly 200 people. With all these factors and more at work, Morocco deserves-indeed, demands-a thorough reference-oriented treatment, something that is performed (in the main effectively) by the second edition of Thomas K. Park's Historical Dictionary of Morocco, this time co-authored by Aomar Boum, a Moroccan who hails from the historic M'Hamid oasis in the south of the country and is a doctoral candidate at the University of Arizona in Tucson. In a review of Park's first edition of the dictionary (IJAHS Vol. 31 No. 2 [1998], 412-13), this reviewer took issue with a variety of characteristics of that volume, among which was the spotty coverage of postcolonial Morocco. Happily, the authors of this edition have produced a work that far surpasses the prior dictionary, as recent events and personages as well as the full gamut of economic, political, and social issues are given attention. Separate entries thoroughly discuss Moroccan elites, the arts, agriculture and industry, music and the news media, natural resources, the country's many respected universities, and religious issues, including Morocco's significant Jewish minority. Moreover, specific entries are devoted to leftist and Islamist movements, political parties in general (accompanied by the results of parliamentary elections since independence), and the structure of the state bureaucracy. Park and Bourn also give the reader biographical data of a wide variety of persons, not only from precolonial and colonial times, but also inside and outside the present governmental and commercial structure who are-for better or worse-prominent fixtures in modern Moroccan society. …
• Park, T. K. (1992). Early Trends toward Class Stratification: Chaos, Common Property, and Flood Recession Agriculture. American Anthropologist, New Series,, Vol. 94,(No. 1 (Mar., 1992)), pp. 90-117.
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  In societies based on flood recession agriculture in arid regions,economic stratification,institutionalized ways of sloughing off population, and common property are particularly valuable risk management options. Using ethnographic data from the Senegal River Basin and historical data from the Nile Valley, I argue that tendencies toward stratification were inherent in riverine societies practicing flood recession agriculture. Thus, early stratification occurred long before population pressure reached significant levels and well before regional trade, extensive storage capacity, or elaborate water-management infrastructure became economically significant. The article is in- tended to help explain why a numberof civilizations developed in arid riverine contexts.
• Park, T. K. (1992). Moroccan Migration and Mercantile Money. Human Organization, Vol. 51(No. 3), 205-213.
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  Through a study of out migration in two areas of Morocco, the author examines the heterogeneity of the mercantile economy. The analysis first establishes that the impacts of mercantile activity in the two areas of Morocco are diametrically opposed, and then searchers for an historical explanation. This centers attention on the activities of rapacious officials such as Glaoui and other "grand cards" in the late 19th century and during the French Protectorate ending in 1956. The quantitative analysis strongly supports the contention that dependency or world systems arguments underplay the significance of local historical dynamics.
• Park, T. K. (1990).

  Archeology: The Ecology of Survival: Case Studies from Northeast African History. Douglas H. Johnson and David M. Anderson, eds

  . American Anthropologist, 92(1), 220-221. doi:10.1525/aa.1990.92.1.02a00280
• Park, T. K. (1989).

  General/Theoretical Anthropology: Hierarchy, History, and Human Nature: The Social Origins of Historical Consciousness. Donald E. Brown

  . American Anthropologist, 91(3), 778-779. doi:10.1525/aa.1989.91.3.02a00330
• Park, T. K. (1988).

  ESSAOUIRA: THE FORMATION OF A NEW ELITE 1940-1980

  . African Studies Review, 31(3), 111-132. doi:10.2307/524076
• Park, T. K. (1988).

  Indigenous responses to economic development in Mauritania

  . Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 17(1), 53-74.
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  This article focuses on the development of an irrigated perimeter in Foum Gleita, Mauritania and the responses of three ethnic groups and the national bureaucracy to the development. The perimeter is gravity fed from a lake created by damming the Gorgol Noir river. The indigenous responses depend both on ethnic affiliation, historical patterns of land tenure, the egalitarian nature of the distribution scheme adopted for the perimeter, and the complexities of the local political situation. I place my article in the context of a critique of world systems theory.
• Park, T. K. (1988). Essaouira: The Formation of a New Elite 1940-1980.. African Studies Review, vol. 31(No. 3), 111-132.
• Park, T. K. (1987).

  Bargaining for Reality: The Construction of Social Relations in a Muslim Community , by Lawrence Rosen. 192 pages, references, index. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago1984. $20.00/$8.95.

  . Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 21(1), 33-34. doi:10.1017/s0026318400017971
• Park, T. K. (1987).

  Property, Social Structure, and Law in the Modern Middle East, edited by Ann Elizabeth Mayer. 262 pages, index. State University of New York Press, Albany1985. $34.50/$14.95.

  . Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 21(1), 31-32. doi:10.1017/s002631840001796x
• Park, T. K. (1985). Pyrrhonism in Anthropological and Historical Research. History in Africa, Vol. 12 (1985), 225-252.
• Park, T. K. (1983). A Report on the State of Moroccan Archives. History in Africa, Vol. 10 (1983), 395-409.

Presentations

• Park, T. K. (2012, 2012-03-01). Trust, power, and evasion in systems of credit.. SfAA. Baltimore, MD.
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  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the SfAA in Baltimore, MD.;Your Role: I wrote the paper.;Refereed: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;
• Park, T. K. (2011, 2012-03-01). UrbanSociology in Poor Cities of Africa and the Middle East: A new methodology inspired by Robert E Park's Urban ecological approach suggesting insights into resilience within urban and rural contexts.. Resilience 2011 Conference: Resilience 2011 conference. ASU, Tempe AZ.
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  This paper synthesizes insights from two NSF projects I have had: an Urban project 1998-2002 and a rural project 2008-2012.;Submitted: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Park, T. K. (2011, 2012-10-01). Resilient Social Ecological Systems: bridging the rural urban dichotomy.. CSSSA (Computational Social Science Society) Conference. Oct. 9-12 2011.. Santa Fe, NM.
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  This paper was peer reviewed and placed on line by CSSSA. As I was also asked to be a reviewer for the conference I would guess, on the basis of the set of papers I reviewed, that about 40% of submittals were accepted.;Refereed: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Park, T. K. (2009, 2009-05-01). Panning Panarchy: an urban political ecology take on panarchy's Ptolemaic planet. EPSCoR All-Hands Meeting. Anchorage, Alaska.
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  Keynote address to this NSF-funded conference.;Invited: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Park, T. K. (2008, 2008-03-01). Urban Sociology in Poor Cities of Africa and the Middle East: a new methodology inspired by Robert E. Park's Urban Ecological Approach.. Qualitatives 2008: The Chicago School & Beyond -- May 21st to 24th 2008. Frederickton, New Brunswich, Canada.
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  Abstract: This paper contextualizes an NSF funded project (1998-2003) to develop a methodology to study large, poor urban areas that uses diachronic remote sensing to reconstruct change in urban housing and then uses this reconstruction to develop a sampling methodology that can facilitate the study of entire cities at low cost. By using spatial distribution, environmental assessments and qualitative assessments of housing a sampling frame can be created to study a variety of socio-economic and health issues. I discuss linkages between the new methodology and the early 20th century approaches developed by the Chicago School and suggest that while modern rapidly growing cities in poor countries do not show the same spatial patterns as early 20th century Chicago nevertheless many of the key concerns of the Chicago School are still important components of urban research which can help provide data that has real comparative value. ;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;

Reviews

• Park, T. K. (2010. Social Transformations and West African Forms of Slavery..
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  ;Full Citation: Social Transformations and West African Forms of Slavery. Review of Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories. edited by Benedetta Rossi. Liverpool University Press 2009. Current Anthropology Volume 51, Number 5, 2010 pp. 715-716.;
• Park, T. K. (2010. The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery: Social learning in a post-disaster environment..
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  ;Full Citation: Review of, The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery: Social learning in a post-disaster environment. By Emily Chamlee-Wright. New York: Routledge Advances in Herodox Economics, 2010. Conversations on Philanthropy. Volume VII, 2010. Reviews, pp. 92-96.;

Others

• Park, T. K. (2009). I am collaborating with the NSF CoMSES Computational Modeling in Socioecological Sciences) network c.
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  I am collaborating with the NSF CoMSES Computational Modeling in Socioecological Sciences) network centered at ASU to develop the Open ABM (agent based model) system and developing a sophisticated urban ABM which I hope to develop more fully with a future NSF grant circa January 2011.
• Park, T. K. (2010). Hidden Interests: a History of Credit in the Atlantic and Mediterranean..
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  My collaborator and I (Dr. James Greenberg) have completed 18 chapters and are doing final revisions, graphics and maps. I finished the drafts during my sabbatical (Fall 2010) and Jim will finish all final revisions during his sabbatical (Fall 2011). We now have about 700 book pages completed. ;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Full Citation: BOOK: Hidden Interests: a History of Credit in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. We have not submitted it yet but plan to do so next Fall (2011);Status: Under Revision (Revise and Resubmit);
• Park, T. K. (2010). Most of 2010 was spent writing my book, Hidden interests. This involved improving my skills or acqui.
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  Most of 2010 was spent writing my book, Hidden interests. This involved improving my skills or acquiring some in a number of languages including Latin, Greek, Akadian and Sumerian. The hard work on each chapter is now completed and we are polishing chapters and adding historical contextualization or illustrations.
• Park, T. K. (2010). Urban Sociology in Poor Cities of Africa and the Middle East : a New Methodology Inspired by Robert E. Park's Urban Ecological Approach.
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  ;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Please specify if you select "Other collaborative" : This is a chapter in a book under review. Final revisions were sent in in January 2011. While I wrote the entire chapter it draws on key work by three collaborators: Edward Nell (New School), Louis Cisnaros and Mourad Mjahed - former grad students at U of A (Physics and Anthropology, respectively). ;Full Citation: Urban Sociology in Poor Cities of Africa and the Middle East : a New Methodology Inspired by Robert E. Park's Urban Ecological Approach. In The Chicago School Diaspora: Epistemology and Substance. Jacqueline Low and Gary Bowden (Eds) under peer review at McGill Queens University Press. Final revisions submitted January 2011.;Status: Submitted But Not Yet Accepted;
• Park, T. K. (2011). Greening in the Sahel.
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  The PIs are now working on publications related to the research - the third major ethnographic research was completed in January February 2012 and all major publications have been waiting for that data set.;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Full Citation: Analysis not yet completed;
• Park, T. K. (2011). Hidden Interests: a History of Credit in the Atlantic and Mediterranean..
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  My collaborator and I (Dr. James Greenberg) have completed 18 chapters and are doing final revisions, graphics and maps. I finished the drafts during my sabbatical (Fall 2010) and Jim has finished most of his revisions during his sabbatical (Fall 2011). We now have about 700 book pages completed.;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Full Citation: BOOK: Hidden Interests: a History of Credit in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. We have not submitted it yet but plan to do so in Summer 2012;Status: Under Revision (Revise and Resubmit);
• Park, T. K. (2011). The first half of 2011 was mostly spent writing my book, Hidden interests. This involved improving m.
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  The first half of 2011 was mostly spent writing my book, Hidden interests. This involved improving my skills or acquiring some in a number of languages including Latin, Greek, Akadian and Sumerian. The hard work on each chapter is now completed and we are polishing chapters and adding historical contextualization or illustrations. I had quadruple bypass surgery in May 2011 and only managed to teach my courses in the Fall so I did no writing or research other than present a peer reviewed paper in Santa Fe.
• Park, T. K., Baro, M., Herrmann, S., Niang, A., Diouf, A. A., & Hadji, A. (2010). DĂ©sertification ou reverdissement? Compte rendu et rĂ©sultats prĂ©liminaires d'une Ă©tude dans le Sine et le Saloum..
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  ;Your Role: The powerpoint primarily (95%) presents data collected and analyzed under my direction in rural Senegal during January 2010.;Full Citation: Désertification ou reverdissement? Compte rendu et résultats préliminaires d'une étude dans le Sine et le Saloum. Powerpoint presented to the faculty of the Centre de Suive Ecologique 5 February 2010.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Reports and presentations (in French) related to NSF grant “Desertification” or “Greening”? written with field assistants Aminata Niang, Abdoul Aziz Diouf and Amadou Hadji. Key inputs by Dr. Stefanie Herrmann (Office of Arid Lands Studies) and Dr. Mamadou Baro School of Anthropology) were made in this powerpoint presentation. Abdoul Aziz Diouf and Amadou Hadji are Senegalese who worked as project assistants in the field but have no affiliation with U of A;
• Park, T. K., Niang, A., Diouf, A. A., & Hadji, A. (2010). Synthèse Familles des Transhumants.
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  ;Your Role: Report presenting data collected under my supervision and analyzed under my direction in rural Senegal.;Full Citation: Synthèse Familles des Transhumants, Communauté Rurale; Ndiago. Arrondissement Mbadakhoune, Département de Guinguineo, Région de Kaolack. 10 pages.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Reports and presentations (in French) related to NSF grant “Desertification” or “Greening”? written with field assistants Aminata Niang, Abdoul Aziz Diouf and Amadou Hadji. Abdoul Aziz Diouf and Amadou Hadji are Senegalese who worked as project assistants in the field but have no affiliation with U of A. ;
• Park, T. K., Niang, A., Diouf, A. A., & Hadji, A. (2010). Synthèse Village de Bokki Dior.
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  ;Your Role: Report presenting data collected under my supervision and analyzed under my direction in rural Senegal.;Full Citation: Synthèse Village de Bokki Dior, Communauté Rurale; Ribot Escale. Arrondissement Lour Escale, Département de Kounghel, Région de Kaffrine. 10 pages.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Reports and presentations (in French) related to NSF grant “Desertification” or “Greening”? written with field assistants Aminata Niang, Abdoul Aziz Diouf and Amadou Hadji. Abdoul Aziz Diouf and Amadou Hadji are Senegalese who worked as project assistants in the field but have no affiliation with U of A. ;
• Park, T. K., Niang, A., Diouf, A. A., & Hadji, A. (2010). Synthèse Village de Bondie.
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  ;Your Role: Report presenting data collected under my supervision and analyzed under my direction in rural Senegal.;Full Citation: Synthèse Village de Bondie, Communauté Rurale; Gnibi. Arrondissement Gnibi, Département de Mmalem Hodar, Région de Kaffrine. 10 pages.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Reports and presentations (in French) related to NSF grant “Desertification” or “Greening”? written with field assistants Aminata Niang, Abdoul Aziz Diouf and Amadou Hadji. Abdoul Aziz Diouf and Amadou Hadji are Senegalese who worked as project assistants in the field but have no affiliation with U of A. ;
• Park, T. K., Niang, A., Diouf, A. A., & Hadji, A. (2010). Synthèse Village de Diatmel.
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  ;Your Role: Report presenting data collected under my supervision and analyzed under my direction in rural Senegal.;Full Citation: Synthèse Village de Diatmel, Communauté Rurale; Gaint Pathe. Arrondissement Missira, Département de Kounghel, Région de Kaffrine. 10 pages.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Reports and presentations (in French) related to NSF grant “Desertification” or “Greening”? written with field assistants Aminata Niang, Abdoul Aziz Diouf and Amadou Hadji. Abdoul Aziz Diouf and Amadou Hadji are Senegalese who worked as project assistants in the field but have no affiliation with U of A. ;
• Park, T. K., Niang, A., Diouf, A. A., & Hadji, A. (2010). Synthèse Village de Keur Mor Ngone Fall.
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  ;Your Role: Report presenting data collected under my supervision and analyzed under my direction in rural Senegal.;Full Citation: Synthèse Village de Keur Mor Ngone Fall, Communauté Rurale; Ngathie. Arrondissement Kahone, Département de Guinguineo, Région de Kaolack. 10 pages.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Reports and presentations (in French) related to NSF grant “Desertification” or “Greening”? written with field assistants Aminata Niang, Abdoul Aziz Diouf and Amadou Hadji. Abdoul Aziz Diouf and Amadou Hadji are Senegalese who worked as project assistants in the field but have no affiliation with U of A. ;
• Park, T. K., Niang, A., Diouf, A. A., & Hadji, A. (2010). Synthèse Village de Ngouk Khoube.
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  ;Your Role: Report presenting data collected under my supervision and analyzed under my direction in rural Senegal.;Full Citation: Synthèse Village de Ngouk Khoube, Communauté Rurale; Medinatoul Salam 2. Arrondissement Nganda, Département de Kaffrine, Région de Kaffrine. 10 pages.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Reports and presentations (in French) related to NSF grant “Desertification” or “Greening”? written with field assistants Aminata Niang, Abdoul Aziz Diouf and Amadou Hadji. Abdoul Aziz Diouf and Amadou Hadji are Senegalese who worked as project assistants in the field but have no affiliation with U of A. ;
• Park, T. K., Niang, A., Diouf, A. A., & Hadji, A. (2010). Synthèse Village de Touba Wene Ayre.
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  ;Your Role: Report presenting data collected under my supervision and analyzed under my direction in rural Senegal.;Full Citation: Synthèse Village de Touba Wene Ayre, Communauté Rurale; Misira. Arrondissement Misira, Département de Kounghel, Région de Kaffrine. 10 pages.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Reports and presentations (in French) related to NSF grant “Desertification” or “Greening”? written with field assistants Aminata Niang, Abdoul Aziz Diouf and Amadou Hadji. Abdoul Aziz Diouf and Amadou Hadji are Senegalese who worked as project assistants in the field but have no affiliation with U of A. ;
• Park, T. K., Niang, A., Diouf, A. A., & Hadji, A. (2010). Synthèse Village de Wendou Gniwa.
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  ;Your Role: Report presenting data collected under my supervision and analyzed under my direction in rural Senegal.;Full Citation: Synthèse Village de Wendou Gniwa, Communauté Rurale; Ndiago. Arrondissement Mbadakhoune, Département de Guinguineo, Région de Kaolack. 10 pages.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Reports and presentations (in French) related to NSF grant “Desertification” or “Greening”? written with field assistants Aminata Niang, Abdoul Aziz Diouf and Amadou Hadji. Abdoul Aziz Diouf and Amadou Hadji are Senegalese who worked as project assistants in the field but have no affiliation with U of A. ;
• Park, T. K., Niang, A., Diouf, A. A., & Hadji, A. (2010). Synthèse Village de Wouro Ndioundia.
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  ;Your Role: Report presenting data collected under my supervision and analyzed under my direction in rural Senegal.;Full Citation: Synthèse Village de Wouro Ndioundia, Communauté Rurale; Mbar. Arrondissement Colobane, Département de Gossas, Région de Fatick. 10 pages.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Reports and presentations (in French) related to NSF grant “Desertification” or “Greening”? written with field assistants Aminata Niang, Abdoul Aziz Diouf and Amadou Hadji. Abdoul Aziz Diouf and Amadou Hadji are Senegalese who worked as project assistants in the field but have no affiliation with U of A. ;
• Park, T. K., Niang, A., Diouf, A. A., & Hadji, A. (2010). Synthèse des Synthèses.
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  ;Your Role: Report presenting data collected under my supervision and analyzed under my direction in rural Senegal.;Full Citation: Synthèse des Synthèses. (General Overview). 10 pages;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Reports and presentations (in French) related to NSF grant “Desertification” or “Greening”? written with field assistants Aminata Niang, Abdoul Aziz Diouf and Amadou Hadji. Abdoul Aziz Diouf and Amadou Hadji are Senegalese who worked as project assistants in the field but have no affiliation with U of A. ;