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
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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