Dr. Jeff Baldwin
Assistant Professor
baldwije@sonoma.edu
707-664-2195
Areas of Specialization
- Human-environment inter-relationships
- Tourism Geographies
- Globalizing Economies
- The Caribbean and Latin America
Educational Background
- Ph.D.— Geography, University of Oregon 2003
- M.A.— Geography, University of Oregon 1998
- B.A.— Finance, University of Oregon
Courses
Recent Publications
Baldwin, J. 2007. “Understanding tourist beaches as eco-social landscapes: seeking sustainability through integration of human and non-human wealth production.” Téoros 26, 1: 40-45
Baldwin, J. 2006. “The Culture of Nature through Mississippian Geographies.” Ethics and Environment 11, 2:11-43
Baldwin, J. 2005. “The contested beach: limits to resort development in Antigua, West Indies.” The Seduction of Place, eds. Carolyn Cartier and Alan Lew. Malden, MA; Blackwell: 338-360
Baldwin, J. 2000. “Tourism development, wetland degradation and beach erosion in Antigua, West Indies.” Tourism Geographies 2, 2: 193-218.
Baldwin, J. 1997. Cycling Hawaii. Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International
Recent Papers
Baldwin, J. 2007. “Towards a biospheric political economy.” Association of American Geographers (AAG), San Francisco, CA
Baldwin, J. 2006. "The Culture of Nature through Mississippian Geographies.” Association of Pacific Coast Geographers (APCG), Eugene, OR
Baldwin, J. 2006. “The Liberalization of Indonesian Forest Wealth and the Unintended Creation of Unregulated Space” in the paper session Liberalization, Political Economy, and Nature, AAG, Chicago
Baldwin, J. 2005. “Embodied Spatial Metaphors, Six-legged Frogs, and You: The Role of Metaphors in Biospheric Toxification.” APCG, Phoenix, AZ
Baldwin, J. 2004. “Understanding the Connection between Indonesian Collapse and American Expansion.” Department of Geography Tea Talk Seminars. University of Oregon
Baldwin, J. 2003. “Re-conceiving Wealth for Geographic Analysis: Intersections of Environments, Life, and Ethics.” APCG, Portland, OR
Baldwin, J. 2002. “Deconstructing wealth: ideas of relationship in historic world views.” Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA
Baldwin, J. 2000. “Tourism as a social practice: the production of Antiguan beach resorts.” AAG, Pittsburg, PA
Baldwin, J. 2000. “Implications of globalization on food security in Chiapas, Mexico.” WTO teach-in. Eugene, OR
Baldwin, J. 1999. “Tourism, development, and environmental alteration in Antigua, West Indies.” AAG, Honolulu, HI
Baldwin, J. 1997. “Textual conflict in the mobile American gaze: geographies of resistance to servitude within tourist space in Antigua, West Indies.” Gender/Tourism/Fun? Davis, CA
In My Own Words
I feel that teaching is a very central part of who I am as an academic professional. Through my teaching I endeavor to help students learn how to use geography as an analytic perspective, and as a body of knowledge which is useful in both career development and in inter-personal effectiveness.
I continue to develop two areas of research. The first focuses upon understanding and changing some of the philosophical tenants that support environmentally damaging practices. I am especially interested to show various ways that environmental communities work to provide important services to human economies, and to better understand how social groups could work more cooperatively with those communities. I draw specifically from Marx’s ontological work and from the field of eco-feminism in that pursuit. I also incorporate environmental history, political economy, and political ecology perspectives in that work.
My second field of interest revolves around tourism and the production of touristic landscapes. I have conducted research in Antigua in the West Indies and hope to expand my area of study to other islands in that area. Now that I am at Sonoma State, I plan to pursue a long-standing interest in wine tourism. I am interested in investigating the industry’s environmental implications, the embodied production of touristic spaces by tourism workers and operatives, and the experience of visitors to these spaces. I draw from Henri Lefebvre’s work on the production of space and use qualitative, geophysical, and spatial analysis methods in that research.