Dr. Kevin St. Martin
Department of Geography

 

Current Research Project:
The Communities at Sea Mapper

 

Spring 2009 Courses:

History and Theory of Geography

Geography Seminar: Geography, Space, and Social Theory

 

Curriculum Vita

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Research Interests:

I am a human geographer whose work is at the intersection of economic geography, political ecology, and critical applications of GIScience. My research concerns the development and institutionalization of economic and environmental discourse. It emerges from a strong background in both social theory and spatial analysis, and it has been clearly and consistently linked to issues of environmental policy. While at Rutgers, I have worked on several well-funded research projects that have in common the regulation and transformation of the marine environment.

In particular, my research uses the paradigmatic case of fisheries in the U.S. Northeast to better understand the power of discourse to shape economic and environmental practices. Within this context I examine the potential for community participation in development and resource management, the relationship between local ecological knowledge and formal science, and the representation of resource dependent communities.

 

Courses:

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems 01:450:321:01 (02)

History and Theory of Geography 01:450:470:01

Geographic Perspectives 16:450:601:01

Community and Economy

Geography Seminar: Geography, Space, and Social Theory

Education:

2000 National Research Council (NRC) Associateship.

1999 Ph.D., Graduate School of Geography, Clark University .

1989 MSc, Geography, University of Massachusetts , Amherst .

1985 BA, Geography, University of Massachusetts , Amherst . Minor: Asian Studies.

Students:

Jeanine M. Kopec-Zanghi, Nathanial Gabriel

Recent Publications:

Schroeder, R.A., K. St. Martin, B. Wilson, and D. Sen. Forthcoming. “Third World Environments, Third World Justice? Expanding the Environmental Justice Agenda” Editorial essay for a special issue of Society and Natural Resources.

St. Martin, K. and M. Hall-Arber. Forthcoming. “The Missing Layer: Geo-technologies, Communities, and Implications for Marine Spatial Planning” Marine Policy.

St. Martin, K. and M. Pavlovskaya. Forthcoming. “Ethnography” chapter in Companion to Environmental Geography, N. Castree, D. Demeritt, D. Liverman, and B. Rhoads eds. (Blackwell).

St. Martin, K. and M. Pavlovskaya. Forthcoming. “Secondary Data: Engaging Numbers Critically,” in Research Methods in Geography: A First Course. J.P. Jones III and B. Gomez eds. (Blackwell).

St. Martin, K. 2008. “Mapping Community Use of Fisheries Resources in the U.S. Northeast” Journal of Maps 2008: 38-41.

St. Martin, K. and M. Hall-Arber. 2008. “Creating a Place for ‘Community’ in New England Fisheries” Human Ecology Review 15(2): 161-170.

St. Martin, K. 2008. “The Difference that Class Makes: Neoliberalization and Non-Capitalism in the Fishing Industry of New England,” reprinted in Privatization: Property and the Remaking of Nature-Society Relations. B. Mansfield ed. (Blackwell).

St. Martin, K. and M. Hall-Arber. 2007. “Environment and Development: (Re)Connecting Community and Commons in New England Fisheries” in Connecting People, Participation and Place: Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods. S. Kindon, R. Pain and M. Kesby eds. (Routledge).

St. Martin, K. 2007.“The Difference that Class Makes: Neoliberalization and Non-Capitalism in the Fishing Industry of New England” Antipode 39(3): 527-549.

St. Martin , K. and J. Wing. 2007. “The Discourse and Discipline of GIS,” Cartographica 42(3): 235-248.

St. Martin, K. 2007.  “Enclosure and Economic Identity in New England Fisheries” in Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural Consequences, N. Heynan, J. McCarthy, S. Prudham, P. Robbins eds. (Routledge), pp. 255-266.

Pavlovskaya, M. and K. St. Martin. 2007. “Feminism and GIS: From a Missing Object to a Mapping Subject” Geography Compass 1(3): 583-606.

St. Martin, K., B. McCay, G. Murry, T. Johnson, and B. Oles. 2007. “Communities, Knowledge, and Fisheries of the Future,” International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 7(2/3): 221-239.

McCay, B., T. Johnson, K. St. Martin, and D. Wilson. 2006. “Gearing Up for Improved Collaboration: The Potentials and Limits of Cooperative Research for Incorporating Fishermen’s Knowledge” in Partnerships for a Common Purpose: Cooperative Fisheries Research and Management, A. N. Read and T. W. Hartley eds. Bethesda, MD: American Fisheries Society, pp. 111-115.

R. Schroeder, K. St. Martin, K. Albert. 2006.  “Political Ecology in North America : An Introduction,” Geoforum 37(2) 163-168.

St. Martin, K. 2006. “The Impact of "Community" on Fisheries Management in the U.S. Northeast,” Geoforum 37(2) 169-184.

St. Martin, K. 2005. “Mapping Economic Diversity in the First World : The Case of Fisheries,” Environment and Planning A 37: 959-979.

St. Martin, K. 2005. “Disrupting Enclosure in New England Fisheries,” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 16(1): 63-80.

St. Martin, K. 2004. “GIS in Marine Fisheries Science and Decision Making,” in Geographic Information Systems in Fisheries, W. L. Fisher and F. J. Rahel eds. Bethesda, MD: American Fisheries Society, pp. 237-258.

St. Martin , K. 2001. “Making Space for Community Resource Management in Fisheries,” The Annals of the Association of American Geographers 91(1): 122-142.

Under Review:

St. Martin, K. “Toward a Cartography of the Commons: Constituting the Political and Economic Possibilities of Place” submitted to Professional Geographer.