John Richard Wagner

Assistant Professor, Anthropology

Degrees

  • BA (University of Victoria)
  • MA (University of Victoria)
  • PhD (McGill)

Research Interests

  • vernacular education and language revitalization
  • environmental anthropology
  • political ecology
  • conservation and development
  • property rights
  • water management
  • maritime anthropology
  • local knowledge systems

Research support and/or affiliations

  • Principal investigator a UBC Hampton Collaborative Research Grant entitled: Vernacular Education and Local Ecological Knowledge in Papua New Guinea. Co-investigator Christine Schreyer.
  • Principal Investigator, SSHRC Standard Research Grant, 2005/2008, for a project entitled: “From Abundance to Scarcity: the Political Ecology of Water Use in the Okanagan Valley”.
  • Co-Investigator, SSHRC Aboriginal Research Development Grant, for a project entitled “N’Syilxcan Ethnological History of Okanagan Watershed” (Jeannette Armstrong, Principal Investigator).
  • Research Associate, Social Research for Sustainable Fisheries Project (http://www.stfx.ca/research/srsf/).

Selection of Publications

  • Wagner, John and Kasondra White. 2009. Water and Development in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. Journal of Enterprising Communities 3(4):378-392.
  • Wagner, John. 2008. Landscape Aesthetics, Water and Settler Colonialism in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. Journal of Ecological Anthropology 12:22-38.
  • Wagner, John and Malia Talakai. 2007. Introduction to Customs, Commons, Property and Ecology: Case Studies from Oceania. In John Wagner and Mike Evans, guest editors. Customs, Commons, Property and Ecology: Case Studies from Oceania, a special edition of Human Organization 66(1):1-10. Wagner, John. 2007. Conservation as Development in Papua New Guinea: The View from Blue Mountain. In John Wagner and Mike Evans, guest editors. Customs, Commons, Property and Ecology: Case Studies from Oceania, a special edition of Human Organization 66(1):28-37.
  • Davis, Anthony and John Wagner. 2006. A Right to Fish for a Living? The Case for Coastal Fishing Peoples’ Determination of Access and Participation. Ocean and Coastal Management 49(7-8): 498-510.
  • Davis, Anthony, John Wagner, Kerry Prosper and Mary Jane Paulette. 2005. The Paq’tnkek Mi’kmaq and K’at (American Eel): a case study of cultural relations, meanings and prospects. Native Studies 25(1).
  • Wagner, John. 2005. The politics of accountability: an institutional analysis of the conservation movement in Papua New Guinea. In Anthropology and Consultancy: Issues and Debates. Edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern. Studies in Applied Anthropology. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books.
  • Wagner, John and Anthony Davis. 2004. Property as a social relation: rights of “kindness” and the social organization of lobster fishing among northeastern Nova Scotian Scottish Gaels. Human Organization 63(3): 320-333.
  • Davis, Anthony and John Wagner. 2003. Who knows? On the importance of identifying 'experts' when researching local ecological knowledge. Human Ecology 31(3):463-489.

Teaching Portfolio

UBC Okanagan Calendar Course Descriptions >>

  • ANTH 245: Culture and Environment
  • ANTH 345: Introduction to Ecological Anthropology
  • ANTH 355: Ethnography of Development
  • ANTH 400: History of Anthropology
  • ANTH 407: Ethnographic Fieldwork
  • ANTH 445: Political Ecology

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Contact

ART273
Phone: 250-807-9318
Fax: 250-807-8001
E-mail: john.wagner@ubc.ca

Community, Culture, and Global Studies
Irving K. Barber School of Arts & Sciences
The University of British Columbia Okanagan
3333 University Way
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7

John Wagner