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John Kelly

Pronouns: He/Him/His
Associate Professor
Geography & Environmental Sci University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

John Kelly's office hours

Tuesday
2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Wednesday
3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Thursday
11 p.m. to noon

Remote office hours offered: Virtual (Zoom) appointments are an option. Email me at jkelly@uwlax.edu to set up a virtual meeting, at least two hours before office hours.
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John Kelly Pronouns: He/Him/His

Associate Professor

Geography & Environmental Sci

Specialty area(s)

rural Latin America; indigenous cultures, territorialities, and property rights;  forest-agriculture dynamics; participatory research mapping; protected areas

Current courses at UWL

World Cultural Regions (GEO 110)

Power, Space, and Global Change (formerly Political Geography) (GEO 307)

Contemporary Global Issues (GEO 202)

Earth Environments lab (GEO 101)

Education

BA Geographical Studies, University of Chicago

MLA Landscape Architecture, University of California Berkeley

PhD Geography, University of Kansas

 

Career

Teaching history

World Cultural Regions (GEO 110)

Geography of Latin America and the Caribbean (GEO 318)

Maps and Society (GEO 102)

Power, Space, and Global Change (formerly Political Geography) (GEO 307)

Contemporary Global Issues (GEO 202)

Islamic Asia: Cradle of Civilizations, Geographies of Conflict (GEO 335)

GIS Science I (GEO 305)

Capstone (GEO 401)

Earth Environments lab (GEO 101)

First Year Seminar (Great Cities: Redesigning how Humans Converge) (FYS 100)

Geography of Europe (GEO 304; no longer offered)

Research and publishing

  1. Peter H. Herlihy, John H. Kelly, Andrew M. Hilburn, Aida Ramos Viera, Derek A. Smith, Miguel Aguilar-Robledo, and Jerome E. Dobson. Losing Ground: Indigenous Territoriality and the Núcleo Agrario in Mexico. In In A. Diener and J. Hagen, eds. Invisible Borders in a Bordered World: Power, Mobility, and Belonging, pp. 144-175. London: Routledge.
  1. Kelly, John. Village-scale territorialities in eastern Campeche state, Mexico. In M. K. McCall et al., eds. Territorialising Space in Latin America: Processes and Perceptions, pp. 35-55. Springer: The Latin American Studies Book Series. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-82222-4
  1. Kelly, John. Village-scale reserves in the forest frontier regions of Chenes and Calakmul, Mexico. Journal of Land Use Science 15 (2-3), 203-220. DOI: 10.1080/1747423X.2019.1648578
  1. Kelly, John, Peter Herlihy, Taylor Tappan, Andrew Hilburn, and Matthew Fahrenbruch. From Cognitive Maps to Transparent Static Web Maps: Tools for Indigenous Territorial Control in La Muskitia, Honduras. Cartographica 52 (1), 1-19. DOI: 10.3138/cart.52.1.3811
  1. Kelly, John. Water Sources and Uses on Individual and Common-Use Properties in Talea, Mexico [map]. In Jensen, D., Cowart, A., Powell, S., Roy, M., Sterling, C., Wachtel, M., eds. Water: An Atlas. Oakland, California: Guerilla Cartography.
  1. Kelly, John. Moskitia Hondureña: Tierras Indígenas y Áreas Protegidas [Honduran Mosquita: Indigenous Lands and Protected Areas] [map]. Produced for CA Indígena project, MASTA, FITH, and Alianza Verde, Honduras.
  1. Kelly, John. La Posesión de Tierra y la Producción de Agua [Land Ownership and the Production of Water]. Reflexiones - Revista Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Costa Rica 91 (1), 289-298.
  1. Kelly, John, Peter Herlihy, Derek Smith, Aida Ramos Viera, Andrew Hilburn, and Gerardo Hernandez Cendejas. Indigenous Territoriality at the End of the Social Property Era in Mexico. Journal of Latin American Geography 9 (3), 161-181.

Kudos

published

John Kelly, Geography & Earth Science, co-authored the chapter "Losing Ground: Indigenous Territoriality and the Núcleo Agrario in Mexico" in Invisible Borders in a Bordered World: Power, Mobility, and Belonging published on Sept. 1 by Routledge. John Kelly collaborated with Peter Herlihy and other geographers in this book chapter culminating seven years of binational research. In sum: "while we acknowledge the creative agency of indigenous communities and individuals, the door is closing on the primary means of effective indigenous territoriality, as communal land holdings are converted into private property, and often then sold, in the absence of any legally-recognized regional territories."

Submitted on: Sept. 8, 2022

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Submitted on: Sept. 13, 2021

published

John Kelly, Geography & Earth Science, authored the article "Village-scale reserves in the forest frontier regions of Chenes and Calakmul, Mexico" in Journal of Land Use Science published on Aug. 1 by Taylor & Francis.

Submitted on: Aug. 10, 2020

published

John Kelly, Geography & Earth Science, co-authored the article "From Cognitive Maps to Transparent Static Web Maps: Tools for Indigenous Territorial Control in La Muskitia, Honduras" in "Cartographica" published on April 19, 2017 by University of Toronto Press. As indigenous groups claim a fundamental role in the governance and management of the territories they inhabit, the evolution of digital and web-based maps continues to offer tools that support these activities, while demonstrating to state governments, educators, and others the distinct indigenous concepts and practices. In this article, UWL Assistant Professor Kelly and his co-authors recount the pioneering participatory mapping work they have led with indigenous Miskitu, Tawahka, and Pech communities in Honduras. One of their maps is featured on the cover.

Submitted on: April 20, 2017

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