Stephen G. Bunker(1944-2005)
CITIZENSHIP: United States of America
EDUCATION: B.A., Harvard College, June 1966 (Government)M.A., Duke University, August 1968 (Sociology)Ph.D., Duke University, December 1975 (Sociology)
POSITIONS HELD:1989-2005 Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Courses Taught: Staples Exports and Regional Development; SocialEcology of the Amazon Basin; Energy, Environment, and Development;Economy and Ecology, Sociology of National Development
1985-88 Associate Professor (1985), Professor (1987), Department of Sociology,The Johns Hopkins University
Courses Taught: Peasant Societies; Political Sociology; Energy,Environment, and Social Evolution; Macro-Comparative ResearchMethods, Theories of International Development, Sociology ofDevelopment Planning
1978-84 Visiting Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor (1980), AssociateProfessor (1984), Department of Sociology, University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign
Courses Taught: Introductory Sociology; Political Sociology; LatinAmerican Social Organization and Institutions; Introduction to ModernAfrica; Social Change in Developing Areas; Introduction to Statistics;Social Ecology of the Amazon Basin
Other Activities: Advisory committees in Department of Sociology and inAfrican Studies Program, research committee and executive committee forWomen in International Development, research committee for Center forLatin American and Caribbean Studies, various committees forInternational Agriculture
1975-78 Visiting Professor, Nucleo de Altos Estudos Amazonicos, UniversidadeFederal do Para, Belem, Brazil
Courses Taught: Social Science Research Methods, Sociological Theory
Institutional Development: Organizer of committee which elaboratedgeneral research strategy for the Nucleo and prepared projects andproposals for funding by the Ford Foundation, the Superintendencia doDesenvolvimento da Amazonia (SUDAM), the Banco da Amazonia(BASA), the Instituto de Planejamento Economico e Social (IPEA/INPES),and the Universidade Federal do Para; discussion and negotiation withrepresentatives of the Ford Foundation and IPEA for institutional grants
Administration: Member of the "executive college" for the Nucleo'sgraduate programs, member of admissions committee, review of researchproposals submitted by staff members of the Nucleo and by visitingscholars seeking affiliation or support
Outside Activities: Organized and taught courses in Rural Sociology forthe Ministry of Agriculture as special training for administratorsof associated agencies; consulted with the Ministry of Agriculture on thedesign and execution of evaluation research on various colonization andrural development programs in the Amazon; served as outside examinerfor promotions to adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science,Universidade Federal do Para
1973-74 Visiting Professor, Universidad del Valle, Guatemala
Courses Taught: Research Methods and Techniques, Social Psychologyof Small Groups, Urban Sociology, Sociological Theory, The Sociology ofModern Africa
Research Supervision: Supervision of student group research: direction ofresearch project commissioned by the Planning Office of the Republic
1971-72 Instructor, Department of Sociology, Duke University
Courses Taught: Introductory Sociology, The Sociology of Modern Africa
1969-71 Research Associate, Makerere Institute of Social Research, Kampala,Uganda.
1969 Teaching Assistant in Anthropology, Duke University
1968 Research Assistant for Professor John C. McKinney, Department ofSociology, Duke University
1966-68 Organizer and consultant for the Bedford-Stuyvesant Community
Cooperative Center, Brooklyn, New York
1964 Surveyor, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1961 Survey Technician, U.S. Geological Survey, Las Vegas, New Mexico
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS:
2004 UW Graduate School support for comparative research on mountainirrigation systems in Peru and in New Mexico
2002 UW Graduate School support for research on “Wisconsin, the Great Lakesand Globalization.”
2001 Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa support for a collaborative project on themineral economy of Para, Brazil
1993 UW Global Studies Grant for analysis of Japanese Raw Materials AccessStrategies
UW Global Studies support for research circle on Natural ResourcesExtraction
1992-93 Mac Arthur/Ford/SSRC grant for collaborative research on “The NationalImplementation of International Environmental Accords”.
1990-92 National Science Foundation grant for research on "The Politics ofPlanning National Resource Extraction in a Fragile Environment: A Casefrom the Brazilian Amazon"
1990-91 Research Grant on Current Latin American Issues, sponsored by theCenter for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh and theHoward Heinz Endowment to study "The Political Ecology – Economy ofthe International Aluminum Industry: Developmental and EnvironmentalConsequences in the Americas since 1973" (with Bradford Barham andDenis O'Hearn)
1987-88 Sloan Foundation support for research on mining frontiers in BrazilianAmazon, administered by Population Dynamics Program of the JohnsHopkins University
1986 Support for field work in Brazil from the World Wildlife Foundation
1983-84 Support for field work in Peru from the University of Illinois ResearchBoard and Office of International Programs and Studies
1983 Center for International Comparative Studies and Office of InternationalPrograms and Studies support for field work in Uganda
Hewlett Fellowship
Fellowship in the Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinoisat Urbana-Champaign
1980 Summer research grant from the Tinker Foundation and from the Centerfor International Comparative Studies for field work in Brazil
1979 Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Study, Sociology; University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign
1977-78 Research Grant, Universidade Federal do Para
1973-74 Latin American Teaching Fellowship
1972 NSF support for participation in Summer Institute in Visual Anthropologysponsored by Temple University
1971-72 Duke University Graduate Scholarship
1970-71 Shell Foundation International Studies Fellowship
1969-70 Rockefeller Foundation Grant for University Development in Africa andAsia
1967 Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) travel grantfor investigation of Civil Rights incidents
1966-69 NDEA Title IV Fellowship
1961-66 Harvard National Scholarship
RESEARCH:
2003- Environmental Knowledge and Technological Innovation in Peruvian andNew Mexican Irrigation Systems
2001-04 Socio-Economic Impacts of Mining in the Brazilian Amazon, 1977-2003
1993- Global Transport of Raw Materials and Hegemonic Succession
1993- Japanese Strategies for Raw Material Access
1992-93 Brazil's Implementation of International Environmental Accords
1990-93 The Political Economy and Ecology of the International AluminumIndustry
1986-93 Economic, demographic, and ecological consequences of growth poledevelopment strategies around a large mining project in the BrazilianAmazon
1983-84 Irrigation systems in the Peruvian Andes
1983 Local level responses to changing national economic and politicalprograms in Bugisu, Uganda
1980 Ecological, demographic, and social structural consequences of rapideconomic change in the Medio Amazonas region of Brazil
1975-78 Interaction between bureaucratic and local community power systems ofrural development programs in Para, Brazil
1974 Organization and leadership in three types of rural marketing cooperativesin Guatemala
1969-71 Power held and the roles played by the leaders of a Uganda farmers'marketing association, the Bugisu Cooperative Union, and their impact onthe political, social, and economic modernization of Bugisu District
1967 Factors leading to the raid by members of the Alianza Federal deMercedes on a northern New Mexico courthouse, Summer, 1967.Findings reported in the SPSSI Newsletter, Spring 1968
1967 Communication difficulties in a discussion group of professional scientistsand theologians in Raleigh, North Carolina
1966-68 Problems of authority and cooperation in a voluntary association of blacksand whites in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS:
2006 The Snake with Golden Braids; Society, Nature, and Technology inAndean Irrigation. Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, forthcoming
2005 Globalization and the Race for Resources. (Stephen Bunker and PaulCiccantell), Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press
1997 Space and Transport in the World-System (Paul Ciccantell and StephenG. Bunker (eds.) Greenwood Press
1994 States, Firms, and Raw Materials: The World Economy and Ecology ofAluminum. (Bradford Barham, Stephen G. Bunker, and Denis O'Hearn(eds.) Madison: University of Wisconsin Press
1987 Peasants Against the State: The Politics of Market Control in Bugisu,Uganda, 1900-1983. Urbana: University of Illinois PressPaperback edition with new afterword, Chicago: Universityof Chicago Press, 1991. (Received PEWS Award for DistinguishedScholarship, American Sociological Association, 1989)
1985 Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and theFailure of the Modern State. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.Paperback edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988
1983 Double Dependency and Constraints on Class Formation in Bugisu,Uganda. Urbana: African Studies Program, Occasional Papers Series
BOOKS IN PROGRESS:
Restructuring Markets and Reorganizing Nature: The Political Economy and Ecology ofJapan’s Global Search for Raw Materials. (Stephen Bunker and Paul Ciccantell)(submitted for review December 03, responses to suggested changed resubmittedDecember 04)
Nature in the Vortex: Amazonian Raw Materials in Global Production.
Resource Extractive Exports and Regional Underdevelopment (under contract to PineForge Press: but not a high priority.)
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS:
2005 “How Ecologically Uneven Developments Put the Spin on the Treadmill of Production” Organization and Environment 18, 1:38-54
“Japan's Globalization and New Forms of International Inequality: Buildinga Core Economy and Creating Its Peripheries”, (Paul S. Ciccantell andStephen G. Bunker), forthcoming in Albert Bergesen (ed.) and MichelleBata, Inequality in the World System. Under contract to the JohnsHopkins University Press.
“Space, Matter and Technology in the Global Economy” (Stephen G.Bunker and Paul S. Ciccantell), in David Smith (ed.) Problems ofGlobalization; Globalization of Problems. Under negotiation at Universityof Minnesota Press.
“From Amsterdam to Amazonia: How Space and Technology Matter inthe Formation of the Capitalist State.” (Stephen Bunker and PaulCiccantell), Forthcoming in Nature, Raw Materials, and Political Economy,Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Vol 9, JAI /Elsevier Press
“Restructuring Markets and Reorganizing Nature: The Political Economyand Ecology of Japan’s Global Search for Raw Materials. Forthcoming inNature, Raw Materials, and Political Economy. Research in RuralSociology and Development, Vol 9, JAI/Elsevier Press.
“Matter, Space, Energy and Political Economy: The Amazon in the World System.” In Ed Kick and Andrew Jorgensen (eds), Globalization and the
Environment. Brill Press, forthcoming
“The Poverty of Resource Extraction” forthcoming in P. McMichael andF.H. Buttel New Directions in Global Economic Development. Brill
2005 “Space, Matter, and Technology in Globalization Past and Future”(Stephen G. Bunker and Paul S Ciccantell), Pp. 174-211 in C. Chase-Dunn and E.N. Anderson (eds), The Historical Evolution of WorldSystems: New York: Palgrave.
2004 "The Economic Ascent of China and the Potential for Restructuring the Capitalist World-Economy," (Paul Ciccantel and Stephen G. Bunker),
Journal of World-System Research, X, 3: 2-27
2004 “Impactos Ambientais da Estrada de Ferro Carajas e o Programa GrandeCarajas no Sudeste do Para-Brasil” ( M.C. Nunes Coelho, BernardoFerreira, and Stephen Bunker), Pp 1-78 in Carajas, Geologia e OcupacaoHumana, organizado por Vanderley Rui Beisiegel e Joao Batista G.Teixeira. Belem: Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi
2003 “Transporting Raw Materials and Shaping the World-System: CreatingHegemony via Raw Materials Access Strategies in Holland and Japan”(Stephen G. Bunker and Paul Ciccantell), Review XXVI, 4: 339-80
2003 “Generative Sectors and the New Historical Materialism: Economic Ascent and the Cumulatively Sequential Restructuring of the World Economy” (Stephen G. Bunker and Paul Ciccantell). Studies in Comparative International Development37,4:3-30
2003 “Matter, Space, Energy and Political Economy: The Amazon in the World System.” Journal of World System Research,IX, 2: 218-258
2002 “Ferro, Castanha-do-Para, e a Luta pela Terra no Entorno de um Projetode Mineracao na Amazonia Oriental.” (Stephen G. Bunker, Maria CeliaNunes Coelho, and Adaise Gouvea Lopes), Pp. 15-40 in Joao MarcioPalheta de Silva e Marcio Rogerio Silveria, (eds.), Geografia Economicado Brasil: Temas Regionais, Sao Paulo: UNESP
2002 International Inequality in the Age of Globalization: Japanese EconomicAscent and the Restructuring of the Capitalist World Economy.” (PaulCiccantell and Stephen G. Bunker), Journal of World System Research,VIII, 1: 62-89.forthcoming in R. Brown (Ed.). The Politics of Globalization. Madison:University of Wisconsin Press.
2001 “Parcerias Precárias em Ambientes Frageis” Novos Cadernos do NAEA 3,1:5-46
2001 “Coffee and the Guatemalan State” in Christopher Chase- Dunn, N.Amaro, and Susanne Jonas, (eds.) Globalization on the Ground: PostBellum Guatemalan Democracy and Development. Rowman and Littlefield
2001 “Amazon Development” The Oxford Companion to World Politics, 2ndEdition, New York: Oxford University Prep. (Updated from 1992).
2000 “Notas sobre a renda do solo e a tributaçao”. Papers do NAEA 159
1998 "Raw Materials Access Strategies of Rising Hegemons," (Stephen G.Bunker and Paul Ciccantell) in W.Goldfrank (ed.) Ecology in the World-System. Greenwood Press
1998 “Brazil: Regional Inequalities and Ecological Diversity in a FederalSystem.” (Murillo de Aragão and Stephen Bunker), Pp 475-510 in EdithBrown Weiss and Harold K. Jacobson (eds.) Engaging Countries:Strengthening Compliance with International Environmental Accords.Cambridge MA MIT Press
1996 "Raw Materials and the Global Economy: Oversights and Distortions inIndustrial Ecology." Society and Natural Resources. 9:419-429.
1995 "Restructuring Markets, Reorganizing Nature: An Examination ofJapanese Strategies for Access to Raw Materials." (Stephen G. Bunkerand Paul Ciccantell). Journal of World Systems Research Vol I, 10: 1-31..gopher\\csf.colorado.edu\wsystems\journals\\
1995 "Restructuring Space, Time, and Competitive Advantage: Japan and RawMaterials Transport after World War II" (Stephen G. Bunker and PaulCiccantell) in David Smith and Joseph Borocz (eds.) A New World Order?Global Transformation in the Late 20th Century. Westport Conn:Greenwood Press
1994 "An Andean Irrigation System: Ecological Visions and SocialOrganization." Stephen G. Bunker and Linda J. Seligmann, Pp 203-232 inWilliam P. Mitchell and David Guillet (ed). Irrigation at High Altitudes: TheSocial Organization of Water Control Systems in the Andes. Volume12,Society for Latin American Anthropology Publication Series
1994 "Flimsy Joint Ventures in Fragile Environments." Pp. 261-96 in Barham,Bunker, and O'Hearn (see books)
1994 "The Evolution of the World Aluminum Industry (StephenBunker and Paul Ciccantell) Pp. 39-68 in Barham, Bunker, and O'Hearn
1994 "Raw Materials Industries in Resource-Rich Regions" (Barham, Bunkerand O'Hearn) in Barham, Bunker, and O'Hearn
1994 "Problems of Population and Environment in Extractive Economies." Pp.277-302 in Lourdes Arizpe el al., Population and Environment:Rethinking the Debate. Boulder: Westview Press
1994 "The Political Economy and Ecology of Natural Resource Extraction andTrade" Pp. 437-450 in Robert Socolow et al (eds.), Industrial Ecology andGlobal Change. New York Cambridge Press
1994 "Regional Development Theory and the Subordination of ExtractivePeripheries" Pp 112-142 in A.D. Kincaid and Alejandro Portes (eds)Comparative National Development: Society and Economy in the NewGlobal Order. Chapel Hill, UNC Press
1992 "The Social Impact of the Latin American Crises of the 1980s." QuarterlyReview of Economics and Business
1992 "Amazon Development" in Joel Krieger (ed.), The Oxford Companion toWorld Politics. New York: Oxford University Press.
1992 "Natural Resource Extraction and Power Differentials Within a GlobalEconomy" in Sutti Ortiz and Susan Leeds, (eds.) Understanding EconomicProcess. University Press of America
1992 "Strategies of Economic Ascendants for Access to Raw Materials: AComparison of the US and Japan" Stephen G. Bunker and Denis O'Hearn
in Ravi Arvin Palat (ed), Pacific Asia and the Future of the World System.Greenwood Press
1990 "Materias Primas, en el Espacio y por Sector; Fallas en las Teorias deDesarrollo Regional" Pp 175-210 in A. Portes and A. D. Kincaid (eds),Teorias del Desarrollo International. San Jose, Costa Rica: EditorialUniversitaria Centroamericana
1989 "Staples, Links, and Poles in the Construction of Regional DevelopmentTheories." Sociological Forum, 4, 4 (December): 589-610
1989 "The Eternal Conquest." NACLA Report on the Americas, XXIII, 1: 27-40.
1988 "Lineage, District, and Nation: Politics in Uganda's Bugisu CooperativeUnion." in David Brokensha and Peter Little (eds.), The Anthropology ofDevelopment and Change in East Africa. Boulder, Colorado: WestviewPress.
1987 "Ritual, Respect, and Refusal: Drinking Behavior in an Andean Village."Human Organization, 46, 4 (Winter): 334-342.
1986 "On Values in Modes and Models: Reply to Volk." American Journal ofSociology, 91, 6 (May): 1437-1444
1986 "Zentralisierte Planung und die unbeabsichtigte Zerstorung lokalerExportokonomien im brasilianischen Amazonasgebiet." Peripherie, 22/23(Herbst/Winter): 7-28
1986 "Debt and Democratization: Changing Perspectives on the BrazilianState." Latin American Research Review, 21, 3: 206-223
1986 "Organizacion Social y Vision Ecologica en un Sistema de Riego Andino."Stephen G. Bunker and Linda J. Seligmann. Allpanchis, 18, 27: 149-178
1986 "Extracao e Tributacao: O Problema de Carajas." Para Desenvolvimento,19: 11-12
1986 "Property, Protest, and Politics in Bugisu, Uganda." Pp. 271-289 inDonald Crummey (ed.), Banditry, Rebellion, and Social Protest inAfrica. London: James Currey Publisher
1985 "Peasant Responses to a Dependent State: Uganda, 1983." CanadianJournal of African Studies, 19, 2: 371-386
1985 "Misdirected Expertise in an Unknown Environment: StandardBureaucratic Procedures as Inappropriate Technology on the Brazilian
'Planned Frontier'." Pp. 103-118 in John Hemming (ed.), Change in theAmazon Basin Vol. 2: The Frontier After a Decade of Colonization.Manchester, England: University of Manchester Press.
1984 "Modes of Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the ProgressiveUnderdevelopment of an Extreme Periphery: The Brazilian Amazon,1600-1980." American Journal of Sociology, 10, 5 (March): 1017-1064
1984 "Agricultural and Political Change in the Ugandan Economic Crisis."American Ethnologist, 11, 3 (August): 586-589
1984 "Ethics and Methods of Researching Official Corruption: Reply toRabben." Stephen G. Bunker and Lawrence E. Cohen. HumanOrganization, 43, 1 (Spring): 81-84
1984 "Ideologies of Intervention: The Ugandan State and Local Organization inBugisu." Africa, 54, 3: 50-71
1984 "The Exploitation of Labor in the Appropriation of Nature: Toward anEnergy Theory of Value." Pp. 49-73 in Charles Bergquist (ed.), Labor inThe Capitalist World-System. Beverly Hills: Sage Publishers
1984 "Social Welfare Programs in the Brazilian Amazon, 1970-1975." Pp. 65-77 in Steven W. Hughes and Kenneth J. Mijeski (eds.), Politics and PublicPolicy in Latin America. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press
1983 "Dependency, Inequality, and Development Policy: A Case fromBugisu, Uganda." British Journal of Sociology, 34, 2 (June): 182-207
1983 "Center-Local Struggles for Bureaucratic Control in Bugisu, Uganda."American Ethnologist, 10, 4 (November): 749-769
1983 "Collaboration and Competition in Two Colonization Projects: Toward aGeneral Theory of Official Corruption." Stephen G. Bunker and LawrenceE. Cohen. Human Organization, 42, 2: 106-114
1983 "Policy Implementation in an Authoritarian State: A Case from Brazil."Latin American Research Review, 18, 1: 33-58
1983 "The Brazilian State and the Pioneer Frontier." Contemporary Sociology,12, 3 (May): 290-291
1982 "Os Programas de Credito e a Desintegracao Nao-Intencional Nao-Intencional das Economias Extrativas de Exportacao no Medio Amazonasdo Para." Pesquisa e Planejamento Economico, 12, 1 (April): 231-260
1982 "The Cost of Modernity: Inappropriate Bureaucracy, Inequality, andDevelopment Program Failure in the Brazilian Amazon." Journal ofDeveloping Areas, 16, 4 (July): 573-596
1982 "Latin American Migrations and Migrants." Contemporary Sociology, 11,3 (May): 270-273
1981 "Class, Status, and the Small Farmer: Rural Development Programs andthe Advance of Capitalism in Uganda and Brazil." Latin AmericanPerspectives, 28, 8, 1 (Winter): 89-107
1981 "The Impact of Deforestation on Peasant Communities in the MedioAmazonas of Brazil." Studies in Third World Societies, 13: 45-60
1980 "Barreiras Burocraticas e Institucionais a Modernizacao: o Caso daAmazonia." Pesquisa e Planejamento Economico, 10, 2 (August): 555-600.
1980 "Forces of Destruction in Amazonia." Environment, 22, 7 (September):14-20, 34-43
1979 "Power Structures and Exchange between Government Agencies in theExpansion of the Agricultural Sector." Studies in ComparativeInternational Development, XIV, 1: 56-76
1979 "Amazonian Frontier Expansion, 1970-1980." Pp. 44-48 in CulturalSurvival, Inc., Special Report: Brazil, 1, December
1972 "Measurement of Communication Difficulties." Kurt Back, Stephen G.Bunker, and Catherine B. Dunnegan. Sociometry, 35, 3: 347-356
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN PROGRESS OR UNDER REVIEW:
“Theory and Method in Analyzing Comparative National Development and GlobalSystemic Change (Stephen G. Bunker and Paul Ciccantell), under review at ASR
“When Coal, Iron, and Water were Better than Gold: MIDAS and the EconomicDevelopment of Japan. (Paul Ciccantell and S. G. Bunker) Under review at AJS
“The Economic Ascent of China and the Potential for Restructuring the Capitalist WorldEconomy.” (Paul Ciccantell and Stephen Bunker) Under review at Journal of WorldSystem Research
"The Limits of Labor: Reflections on Value in Extractive Economies"
"Notes on Rent and Value"
"The Disarticulation of a Non-Capitalist Mode of Extraction: Iron,Aluminum, and Brazil Nuts"
EDITED COLLECTIONS:
1979 Social Ecology of the Amazon Basin (two volumes). Urbana: Center forLatin American and Caribbean Studies (xerox)
BOOK REVIEWS:
1980 Wayne A. Selcher, Brazil's Multilateral Relations: Between First and ThirdWorlds. Westview Press, 1978, for Studies in Comparative InternationalDevelopment, XV, 4 (Winter): 91-93
1980 Lucile H. Brockway, Science and Colonial Expansion: The Role of theBritish Royal Botanic Gardens. Academic Press, 1979, for AmericanEthnologist, 7, 4 (November): 784-785
1981 Neuma Aguiar (ed.), The Structure of Brazilian Development. TransactionBooks, 1979, for Hispanic American Historical Review, (Feb.): 196
1983 Emilio F. Moran, Developing the Amazon: The Social and EcologicalConsequences of Government-Directed Colonization Along Brazil's Trans-Amazon Highway. Indiana University Press, 1982, for AmericanEthnologist, 10, 1 (Feb.): 190-191
1983 Joan Vincent, Teso in Transformation: The Political Economy of Peasantand Class in Eastern Africa. University of California Press, 1981, forAmerican Ethnologist, 10, 2 (May): 384-385
1983 Richard N. Adams, Paradoxical Harvest: Energy and Explanation inBritish History, 1870-1914. Cambridge University Press, 1982, forContemporary Sociology, 12, 6: 681-682
1984 Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger (eds.), The Invention of Tradition.Cambridge University Press, 1983, for American Ethnologist, 11, 3(August): 595-596
1984 Alain de Janvry, The Agrarian Question and Reformism in Latin America.Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981, for Studies in ComparativeInternational Development, XIX, 3 (Fall): 117-119
1984 Emilio F. Moran (ed.), The Dilemma of Amazonian Development.Westview Press, 1982, for The Journal of Developing Areas, 18, 3: 397-398
1986 Barbara Weinstein, The Amazon Rubber Boom: 1850-1920. StanfordUniversity Press, 1983, for The American Journal of Sociology, 91, 4:1013-1015
1986 Roland Sarti, Long Live the Strong: A History of Rural Society in theApennine Mountains. University of Massachusetts Press, 1985, forContemporary Sociology, 15, 4: 611-612
1986 Norman E. Whitten, Jr., Sicuanga Runa: The Other Side of Developmentin Amazonian Ecuador. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985, for theAmerican Journal of Sociology, 92, 3: 718-720
1986 Donald Worster, Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of theAmerican West. New York: Pantheon, 1985, for ContemporarySociology, 15, 6: 851-852
1987 Michael Barzelay, The Politicized Market Economy: Alcohol inBrazil's Energy Strategy. University of California Press, 1986, forContemporary Sociology, 16, 5 (Sept.): 678
1987 Wayne A. Selcher (ed.), Political Liberalization in Brazil: Dynamics,Dilemmas, and Future Prospects. Boulder, Westview Press, 1986, forInter-Bibliography
1988 Michael Taussig, Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study inTerror and Healing. University of Chicago Press, 1987, for Social ScienceQuarterly, 69, 2: 513-14
1988 Steve Topik, The Political Economy of the Brazilian State, 1889-1930.University of Texas Press, 1987, for Contemporary Sociology,17, 6: 781
1990 Charles Wood and Jose Alberto Magno de Carvalho, The Demography ofInequality. Cambridge University Press, 1988, for ContemporarySociology, 19, 3: 365
1992 John O. Browder (ed.) Fragile Lands of Latin America: Strategies forSustainable Development. Westview Press, 1989, for AmericanAnthropologist.
1992 Warren Dean, Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber: A Study inEnvironmental History. Cambridge University Press, 1987 for Journal ofForest History.
REFEREE SERVICES:
1. Journals: American Sociological Review; American Journal of Sociology;Journal of Political and Military Sociology; Studies in ComparativeInternational Development; American Ethnologist; Radical History Review;The Journal of Developing Areas; Economic Development and Cultural Change;Human Organization; Sociological Theory; Social Science Quarterly;Rural Sociology; Comparative Studies in Society and History
2. Funding Agencies: National Science Foundation, MacArthur Foundation
3. Publishing Houses: Cambridge University Press, Burgess Publishers,Rose Monographs, University of Illinois Press, University of Texas Press,Johns Hopkins University Press, Princeton University Press, University ofPittsburgh Press, Temple University Press
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Member of SSRC International Doctoral Research Fellowship Screening Committee,1979-1982
Coordination of roundtable discussion on "Financial Institutions and theirSocio-Economic Impact" at the Latin Association Studies Meetings, Pittsburgh, April1979
Invited participation in seminar on the ecological effects of the variousdevelopment programs in the Brazilian Amazon at the School of Advanced InternationalStudies, Washington, D.C., May 1979
Discussion of the Brazilian Case for Cultural Survival, Inc.: Ethnic Minorities Workshop,Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., October 1979Discussant for session on "National Development," American Sociological AssociationMeetings, Toronto, 1981
Invited participation in workshop on "Indigenous Peoples and Development Policy,"U.C., Berkeley, April 1982
Discussant for session on "Agents of Economic Reorganization and Impact on ClassStructure:Financial Institutions," International Sociological Association Meetings, Mexico City,1982
Panelist for Latin America and Caribbean Area Study Seminar, American SociologicalAssociation Meetings, San Francisco, 1982
Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology, 1983-85
Discussant for session on "Rural Development in Brazil," Latin American StudiesAssociation Meetings, Albuquerque, 1985
Organizer for regular session on "Rural Sociology," American Sociological AssociationMeetings, New York, 1986
Teacher of Didactic Seminar on "Cross-National Field Research and Qualitative FieldData Collection," American Sociological Association Meetings, Chicago, 1987
Coordinator of PEWS roundtable on "Primary Commodity Exports and NationalDevelopment," American Sociological Association Meetings, Chicago, 1987
Member of Roundtable on "The State and Development: Strategies and Analysis,"American Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago, 1987
Organizer for session on "Commodities and Class in the World System," AmericanSociological Association Meetings, Atlanta, 1988
Discussant for sessions on "Urbanization in the Amazon" and "Marxist Perspectives on
Development" at the meetings of the American Association of Geographers, Baltimore,MD, 1989
Member of Cross-National Research Committee, SSRC, 1990Organizer of conference on "The Political Economy and Ecology of the InternationalBauxite Industry." Madison, WI, May 1990
Member of SSRC project on International Environmental Accords, 1990
Member of SSRC Panel on Marginal Populations, 1990
Member of Selection Committee for Pre-Dissertation Research, SSRC, 1990-1993
Organizer of PEWS conference on "Space and Transportation in the World-System"Manhattan, KS, April 1995
PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCESAND MEETINGS OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
"Student Activism and the Graduate Curriculum," presented for panel discussion at themeetings of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, 1969
"Measurement of Communication Difficulties," Kurt W. Back, Stephen G. Bunker, andCatherine B. Dunnegan, presented at the meetings of the Southern SociologicalSociety, Miami Beach, May 1971
"Forms and Functions of Government Intervention in a Uganda Cooperative Union,"presented at the meetings of the African Studies Association in Denver, November 1971
"Strategies for Upward Mobility in Bugisu District, Uganda," presented at the meetingsof the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, 1972
"Relations Between Government Agencies and their Effects on the Expansion of theAgricultural Front in Para, Brazil," presented at the International Conference of LatinAmericanist Geographers, Paipa, Colombia, 1977
"Relacoes Burocraticas nos Programas de Cooperativismo no Estado do Para,"presented to the Programa Nacional de Pesquisa Economica, Seminario sobreDesenvolvimento Agricola, Belem, Brazil, 1977
"Rural Development Programs and the Expansion of the Agricultural Frontier; Casesfrom Brazil and Uganda," presented at the joint meetings of the Latin American StudiesAssociation and the African Studies Association, Houston, 1977
"Institutional Interdependence and the Failure of Rural Development Programs in Para,Brazil," presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, SanFrancisco, 1978
"Bureaucratic Control and Corruption in Colonization and Rural DevelopmentPrograms," presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association,Boston, 1979
"Subsistence, Surplus, and Ecological Balance: The Promise and Dilemmas of SmallCommunities in the Amazon Basin," presented at the meetings of the Latin AmericanStudies Association, Bloomington, 1980
"The State, Extractive Economies, and the Progressive Underdevelopment of theBrazilian Amazon," presented at the Annual Latin American Conference, Gainesville,1982
"Natural Resources and Subsistence on an Extractive Frontier," presented at themeetings of the Southwestern Anthropological Association, Sacramento, California,1982
"Property, Protest, and Politics in Bugisu, Uganda," presented at the Symposium onRebellion and Social Protest in Africa, Urbana, Illinois, 1982
"Modes of Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Progressive Underdevelopment ofthe Brazilian Amazon: 1600-1980," presented at the meetings of the AmericanSociological Association, San Francisco, 1982
"Misdirected Expertise in an Unknown Environment: Standard Bureaucratic Proceduresas Inappropriate Technology on the Brazilian 'Planned Frontier," presented at the RoyalGeographical Society Symposium, International Congress of Americanists, Manchester,England, 1982
"The Exploitation of Labor in the Appropriation of Nature: Toward an Energy Theory ofValue," presented at the Annual Political Economy of the World System Conference,Durham, N.C., 1983
"Bagisu Agricultural Innovation and Political Organization in the Ugandan EconomicCrisis", presented at the meetings of the African Studies Association, Boston, 1983
"Topographic Perception in the Construction and Maintenance of an Andean IrrigationSystem", presented at the meetings of the Latin American Studies Association,Albuquerque, 1985
"The Socio-Economic Dynamics of Deforestation of the Amazon: Theory and History,"presented at the joint meetings of the American Society for Environmental History andthe Forest History Society, Durham, N.C., 1987
"On the Periphery of the Semi-Periphery: Extractive Exports in Canada and Brazil,"presented at the meetings for the Political Economy of the World System, Urbana, IL,1989
"Staples, Links, and Poles: Construction of a Brazilian Regional Development Ideology,"presented at the meetings of the Latin American Studies Association, Miami, 1989
"The Politics of Conservation in the Amazon," presented at the AAAS meetings in NewOrleans, February 1990
"Paradigm Clash and Political Struggle over the Ecological and Social Consequences ofExtractive Export Economies," presented at the AAG meetings in Toronto, April 1990
"Tropical Raw Materials in a Global Industrial Economy," presented at People, Society,and the Biosphere: A Symposium on the Environment in the Americas, Johns HopkinsUniversity, Baltimore, April 1990
"Natural Resource Extraction and Power Differentials within a Global Economy,"presented at the meetings of the Society for Economic Anthropology, Tucson, April1990
"Flimsy Joint Ventures in a Fragile Environment," presented at the conference on "ThePolitical Ecology and Economy of the International Bauxite Industry, University ofWisconsin-Madison, May 1990
"Strategies of Rising Hegemons for Access to Raw Materials" S.G. Bunker and DenisO'Hearn,presented at PEWS meetings, Hawaii, 1991
"Natural and Technological Constraints in the International Aluminum Industry",presented at the meetings of the ASA, Cincinnati; 1991
"Rent, Value and Extraction as Bases for Environmental Policy Making. ASA,Pittsburgh, 1992
"Commodity Chains in the World Aluminum Industry" with David Smith, PEWSconference, Duke University, April 1992
Stephen G. Bunker and Paul Ciccantell "Restructuring Space, Time, and CompetitiveAdvantage: Japan and Raw Materials Transport after World War II." Paper presented atPEWS Conference, UC-Irvine, April 1994
Stephen G. Bunker and Paul Ciccantell "Restructuring Markets, Reorganizing Nature:An Examination of Japanese Strategies for Access to Raw Materials." Paper presentedat International Sociology Association meetings, Bielefeld, Germany, 1994
Stephen G. Bunker and Paul Ciccantell "Raw Materials Access Stratgies of RisingHegemons" in the World-System, Santa Cruz 1996
Developing a Mining Economy in a Tropical Environment: A Case from Brazil ISA April1, Toronto, April 1996
"Raw Materials in the Global Economy" at conference on CoEvolutionary Theories, EastLansing, April 1996
“Japanese Investment in Latin American Mining and Transport” for Agenda on thePacific Rim, Northwestern University, October 1997
“Coffee and the Guatemalan State” at Conference on the peace accords at theUniversidad del Valle, Guatemala, April 1998
“Iron, Brazil Nuts, and the struggle for Land Around an Amazonian Mining Project,”Oxford England, Reflections on Amazonia III, December 2000.
Stephen Bunker and Paul Ciccantell “Generative Sectors and the New HistoricalMaterialism” ASA, Washington, August 2000
Stephen Bunker and Paul Ciccantell “International Inequality in the Age of Globalization:Japanese Economic Ascent and the Restructuring of the Capitalist World Economy.:ISA, Chicago, February 2001
“Matter, Space, Energy, and Political Economy” PEWS/ASA Anaheim, CA, August 2001
Stephen Bunker and Paul Ciccantell, “Matter, Space, and Technology in GlobalizationPast and Future” PEWS, UC Riverside, May, 2002
“From Amsterdam to Amazonia: How Space and Technology Matter in the Formation ofthe Modern Capitalist State” at conference on Nature, Raw Materials, and PoliticalEconomy, Madison WI, Nov 2002
Paul Ciccantell and Stephen Bunker. “The Economic Ascent of China and the Potentialfor Restructuring the Capitalist World-Economy” American Sociological Association"World Systems" Session, August, 2003
“A Mineracao Amazonica nos Mercados Globais”. Conference on 50 Anos deMineracao, Maraba, Brazil, August, 2003
“Natural Values and the Inevitability of Uneven Development under Capitalism”,Conference of World-System History and Global Environmental Change, Lund,Sweden, September, 2003
“How the Transport of Raw Materials Puts the Spin on the Treadmill of Production”.Conference on Schnaiberg’s Treadmill of Production, Madison, WI November 2003
“How Natural Resource Extraction Impoverishes Regional Communities” NEWDIRECTIONS IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT, Symposium for theXI World Congress for Rural Sociology, Trondheim, Norway, July, 2004
INVITED LECTURES:
"Bureaucratic Impediments in Rural Development and Colonization Programs," at theCenter for Developing Area Studies, McGill University, March 1979
"Class Conflict and Frontier Expansion in the Brazilian Amazon," at the Centerfor Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, April 1980
"Natural Resources, the World Economy, and the Underdevelopment of the Amazon,"at the Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, April 1982
"Whose Human Rights? Subsistence, Natural Law, and the Modern State in LatinAmerica," at Bradley University, November 1982
"Extractive Economies, Energy Flows, and the Underdevelopment of the AmazonBasin," at the University of Chicago, November 1983
"Comunidades Campesinas y la Lucha Contra el Estado," at the Instituto de EstudiosPeruanos, Lima, January 1984
"Las Politicas del Desarrollo de la Selva en Brasil," at the Centro Las Casas, Cuzco,August 1984
"Topographic Perceptions and Environmental Modifications in an Andean AgriculturalSystem," at the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville,February 1985
"Energy Flows and Unequal Exchange," for the Environmental History Group at OberlinCollege, November 1985
"Carajas: Mineral Exports and Regional Development Plans," at SUNY, Albany, October1986
"Regional Development Programs as Legitimizing Myths: Carajas in Brazil," at theCenter for International Studies at MIT, February 1988
"Tropical Products in the World Market: Problems of Space and Time" at FloridaInternational University, Miami, February 1990
"Brazil's Implementation of International Environmental Accords" (with Murilo Aragao)for SSRC conference in Ann Arbor, October, 1992
"Problems of Population and Environmental in Extraction Economics at SSRC aMacArthur Workshop on Population and Environment, Mexico, January, 1992
"The Aluminum Industry in the Brazilian Amazon" American Center of the WoodrowWilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC April, 1992
"Resource Extraction and the Environmental Change in Amazonia: for the SCOPEcommittee, National Academy of Science, Washington, March, 1992
“Mercados Mundiais e Sistemas Globais” at Coimbra University, Portugal, January 1997
“Material Process and Comparative History” Cornell University 1997
“Oil States and Coffee Economies” Varieties of Explanatory Models for CommodityDeterminants of Political Process. University of Michigan, 1998
“A Economia Politica da Extraçáo Mineral no Brasil” NAEA, Belem, Brazil March 1999
“The Developmental State in Global Context: Large States Huge Firms and ComplexComparisons” Queens University, Belfast, May 2000
“Estado, Economia Politica, e Politicas Publicas: Amazonia em uma PerspectivaComparativa” 5 lectures at NAEA, Belem, Brazil, March 2001
“Material Process and Technological Innovation in the Expansion of the World System”UC Riverside, May 2001.
“Globally-Scaled Mining in a Remote Jungle Location.” Copenhagen, Sept., 2003.
Series of five lectures on Transport and Raw Material Flows, Vienna, Austria, April,2004
RESEARCH AREAS AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
National development and underdevelopment, agricultural development plans andprograms, complex organizations, comparative class structure and stratification, energyand environment
LANGUAGE:
Fluency in Spanish and Portuguese
Fluency in Lugisu (Uganda) achieved for field work, 1969-71; speech now fairly rough
Reading ease in French, speech now rough
Swahili and Luganda both elementary
REFERENCES:
Professor Christopher Chase-DunnDepartment of SociologyUniversity of California, Riverside CA92521-0419
Professor Dale TomichDepartment of SociologySUNY-BinghamtonBinghamton NY 13092-6000