MIT Seminar on Environmental and
Agricultural History
“Woodlands, Meadows and a NATO Training Ground: Dioxin as Dénouement”
Joy Parr
Canada Research Chair, Technology, Culture and Risk, Department of
Geography, University of Western Ontario
The NATO training grounds at Gagetown, New Brunswick, just north of
the Maine border, were assembled in 1952 from Acadian mixed forests
and parts of the Saint John River flood plain which had been re-
fashioned by 250 years European settlement into highly valued timber
lots, pastures and arable. This presentation analyses how this
transformation was accomplished and how it was undone considering how
human residents of the area had adapted to their habitat and how their
displacement re-ordered the political, ethnic and sexual economies of
the place.
Friday, April 24, 2009
2:30 to 4:30 pm
Building E51 Room 095
Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, Cambridge
Sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and the Program in Science,
Technology, and Society. For more information or to be put on the
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