Expertise:

Natural Resource Management, Decentralization, Botswana, African Politics, diamonds mineral extraction africa

Language(s) spoken:

English

Amy R. Poteete’s research explores socio-ecological and political economic relations in diverse contexts, ranging from Botswana and Sénégal to Montréal and southern Indiana (USA). She is currently working on issues related to commoning and social inclusion in four informal urban green spaces in Montreal: the Champ des Possibles in Mile End; a complex of sites including Boisé Steinberg, Boisé Vimont, and a friche in Hochelaga; the Falaise St. Jacques in Notre Dame de Grace/Sud-Ouest, and the Technoparc wetlands near St. Laurent. Poteete has written extensively on decentralization-centralization, the political economic of development, and electoral politics, particularly in Botswana and Senegal. Another strand of writing concerns methodological issues. She is the coauthor, with Marco A. Janssen and Elinor Ostrom, of Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice (Princeton University Press), which has been translated into Chinese, Spanish, and Portuguese. She received the Dudley Seers Memorial Prize for best article in volume 45 of the Journal of Development Studies for her article, “Is Development Path Dependent or Political? A Reinterpretation of Mineral-Dependent Development in Botswana” (April 2009). Other publications include chapters in edited volumes and articles in a variety of journals,including African Affairs, Development and Change, Electoral Studies, the Journal of Development Studies, the Journal of Modern African Studies, and World Development.

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