photo.jpgMark Bonta

Associate Professor of Geography
Senior Faculty Associate, Center for Community and Economic Development

Program Coordinator, Master of Secondary Education – Social Sciences Track

Division of Social Sciences and History 
PO Box 3264, Kethley Hall 221
Delta State University 
Cleveland, Mississippi 38733
Tel 662.846.4069 [w] 662.588.0921[h] 
Fax 846.4099 




 

 

 

 

Current projects

 

Research interests

 

Classes taught

 

 

 

Publications

 

 

Ethno-ornithology / ornithogeography

 

Ethno-ornithology and conservation. Chapter 2 in S. Tidemann & A. Gosler, eds. Ethno-ornithology: Birds and indigenous people, culture and society. London, UK: Earthscan Publications, 2010

On the transmutation of human knowledge about birds in 16th-century Honduras. Chapter 8 in S. Tidemann & A. Gosler, eds. Ethno-ornithology: Birds and indigenous people, culture and society. London, UK: Earthscan Publications., 2010

Ornithophilia: Thoughts on geography in birding. Geographical Review 100(2):139-151, 2010

Valorizing the relationships between people and birds: Experiences and lessons from Honduras. Ornitologia Neotropical 19(Suppl.), The Neotropical Ornithological Society, 2008

Seven Names for the Bellbird: Conservation Geography in Honduras. Texas A&M Press, College Station, 2003. Seven Names for the Bellbird @ Amazon.com

 

 

ETHNOBOTANY / PLANT GEOGRAPHY

 

Ethnobotany of Honduran cycads. In A.P. Vovides, D.W. Stevenson & R. Osborne (eds), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Cycad Biology (Xalapa, Mexico, 2005). Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 97: 120–142, 2007

Cycads in the vernacular—a compendium of local names (Bonta, M. & R. Osborne). In A.P. Vovides, D.W. Stevenson & R. Osborne (eds), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Cycad Biology (Xalapa, Mexico, 2005). Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 97: 143–175, 2007

An emended description of Dioon mejiae Standl (Haynes, J.L. & M. Bonta). In A.P. Vovides, D.W. Stevenson & R. Osborne (eds), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Cycad Biology (Xalapa, Mexico, 2005). Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 97:  418–443, 2007

Ethnobotany and conservation of Tiusinte (Dioon mejiae Standl. & L. O. Williams, Zamiaceae) in Northeastern Honduras (Bonta, M., O. Flores Pinot, D. Graham, J. Haynes, & G. Sandoval). Journal of Ethnobiology 26(2): Fall/Winter, 2006

 

 

geophilosophy

 

Rhizome of Boehme and Deleuze / Esoteric precursors of the god of complexity. SubStance 39(1):62-75, 2010

The multitude and its döppelganger: An exploration of global smooth space. ACME: An International E-journal for Critical Geographies 8(2):245-277 (in “Geographies of the Multitude” special issue, ed. J. Lepofsky), 2009

Taking Deleuze into the field: Machinic ethnography for the social sciences. Review essay in Deleuze Studies 3:135-142, 2009

Deleuze and Space, invited review. (Eds. I. Buchanan & G. Lambert, U Toronto Press, 2005), Annals of the Association of American Geographers 97(4): 811-813, 2007

‘Geography’ (pp. 243-246) & ‘Lefebvre, Henri’ (pp. 356-357). Entries in the Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press (J. Protevi, ed.), 2005. Published by Yale University Press as A Dictionary of Continental Philosophy,  2006

Deleuze and Geophilosophy: A Guide and Glossary (Bonta, M. and J. Protevi). Edinburgh University Press & Columbia University Press, 2004. Extract from 'Deleuze and Geophilosophy' (page 3); Deleuze and Geophilosophy @ Amazon.com

 

 

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE / CONSERVATION GEOGRAPHY

 

Cycad conservation, peasant subsistence, and the military coup in Honduras (Graham, D. & M. Bonta). Society and Natural Resources 24(2): 193-200, 2011

Invited review of Deleuze and Environmental Damage: Violence of the Text (M. Halsey, Ashgate, Advances in Criminology series, 2006). Geographical Review 98(4):573-576, 2008

Becoming-forest, becoming-local: Transformations of a protected area in Honduras. Geoforum 36(1):95-112, 2005. In special themed issue, ‘Critical Geographies of the Caribbean and Latin America’ (Eds. P. Kingsbury & B. Sletto)

Death toll one: An ethnography of hydropower and human rights violations in Honduras. GeoJournal 60(1):19-30, 2004. In special themed issue, ‘Interrogating the Globalization Project’ (Ed. R. Honey)

Jealous conservationists: Terratenientes and wildlife protection in Olancho, Honduras. In ‘Cultural and Physical Expositions: Geographic Studies in the Southern United States and Latin America’ (Eds. M. Steinberg & P. Hudson), Geoscience and Man 36:87-95. LSU: Geoscience and Man Publications, 2002

 

 

CULTURal-historical geography

 

The “Tambla” (Humuya) gomphothere (Honduras): The first report of fossil vertebrates in Central America (Lucas, S. G., M. Bonta, R. Rogers, & G. F. Alvarado). Revista Geológica de América Central 44:141-151, 2011

‘Tierra del oro y del talento cuna’: Causas y consecuencias del destino que se manifestó en los mapas hondureños de William V. Wells. Boletín de la AFEHC No. 48, January 2011, Asociación para el Fomento de los Estudios Históricos en Centroamérica. Special edition, Los mapas en la historia centroamericana, guest editor Karl Offen.

The dilemma of indigenous identity construction: The case of the newly-recognized Nahoa of Olancho, Honduras. Temas de Geografía Latinoamericana, Reunión CLAG-Morelia, pp. 49-86, P. S. Urquijo Torres & N. Barrera-Bassols, eds. Publ. by: Centro de Investigaciones en Geográfia Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Morelia; Instituto Nacional de Ecología, Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales; Conference of Latin Americanists Geographers; Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de Estado de Michoacán. 2009

On Olancho: Geographers, spatial identities, and the construction of a region. P. H. Herlihy, K. Mathewson, & C. S. Revels, eds., ‘Ethno- and Historical Geographic Studies in Latin America: Essays Honoring William V. Davidson.’ Geoscience and Man 40:193-206. LSU: Geoscience Publications, 2008

 

 

 

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