RESEARCH COLLECTIONS
Impact
of El Niño and Climate Forecasting on Peruvian and Chilean
Fisheries
CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA
Caribbean
Education and Society
West
Indian Migration to New York: Historical, Contemporary, and Transnational
Perspectives
1997-1998
Impact of El Niño and Climate Forecasting on Peruvian
and Chilean Fisheries
Sponsors
International Research Institute for Climate Prediction
RISM
Collaborating with the International Research Institute for Climate
Prediction, RISM anthropologists participated in this project
to evaluate the potential of climate forecast information for
improving and sustaining the Peruvian and Chilean fisheries. RISM
provided a disciplinary framework, based on the Latin American
experience of North American applied anthropology, for organizing
and carrying out the project. The RISM anthropology team collaborated
with the physical scientists by identifying specific operational
needs of the Chavin fishing groups as well as the Instituto del
Mar del Perú (IMARPE), the Peruvian fisheries management
organization. RISM anthropologists took a central role in presenting
and explaining the strengths and limitations of the predictive
models to their Peruvian and Chilean collaborators, and in designing
efficient training and applications networks to support the project
in Peru. The anthropological team also worked closely with the
economists to identify potential socioeconomic effects on selected
institutions and sectors which may result from different intervention
strategies based on climate forecasts and identified the incentives
for selecting different intervention strategies.
Publication:
Bakun, A. and K. Broad, eds.
2002. Climate and Fisheries: Interacting Scales, Paradigms
and Policy Approaches. New York: Columbia Earth Institute
and International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, IRI
Publication-IRI-CW/02/1.
1989
Caribbean Education and Society
This conference provided the opportunity for brought together
members of the Faculty of Education of the University of the West
Indies and the RISM educational research team engaged in ongoing
research in the eastern Caribbean to consider cases and issues
of direct interest. Reviews of published educational research
on Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, and Grenada were prepared respectively
by Anthony Layne, Patricia Mohammed, and George Brizan. Marlene
Hamilton's analysis of Jamaican educational research, Derek Gordon's
article on access to high school education in postwar Jamaica
and Joseph Halliday's discussion of education in St. Kitts and
Nevis added valuable comparison and counterpoint to RISM material
from the eastern Caribbean. Professor Rex Nettleford's essay on
key issues and problems in West Indian education and Professor
Errol Miller's detailed prospectus for research provided conferees
with invaluable perspective and background. In turn, the RISM
anthropologists, with theoretical and methodological insight gained
from professional experiences in Africa and Europe and the Caribbean,
provided commentary on the presentations of their West Indian
colleagues and presented new data and fresh perspectives from
their field sites in the eastern Caribbean.
Errol Miller, ed.
1991. Education and Society in the Commonwealth Caribbean.
Mona, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University
of the West Indies.
1999
West Indian Migration to New York: Historical, Contemporary,
and Transnational Perspectives
Sponsors
Wenner-Gren Foundation
RISM
This conference brought together specialists on West lndian migration
from a variety of disciplines to assess the effects of West Indian
migration to New York, to evaluate the theoretical frameworks
put forward by scholars to understand West Indian migration, and
to draw up an agenda for future research. The conference examined
contemporary West Indian migration against the backdrop of earlier
migrations and broad transnational processes, analyzed the way
West Indian migration is transforming New York City and the complex
ways that West Indians themselves have been transformed.
Publication
Foner, Nancy, ed.
2001. Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
