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Katrina Z. S. Schwartz
Assistant Professor
234 Anderson Hall
(352) 273-2371

kzss@ufl.edu

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Publications

Conor O’Dwyer and Katrina Z. S. Schwartz. “Minority Rights After EU Enlargement: A Comparison of Anti-Gay Politics in Poland and Latvia.” Comparative European Politics 8, 2 ( 2010, forthcoming).

Nature and National Identity after Communism: Globalizing the Ethnoscape. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (2006).

"'The Occupation of Beauty': Imagining Nature and Nation in Latvia." East European Politics and Societies 21, 2 (Spring 2007): 259-293.

"'Masters in Our Native Place': The politics of national parks on the road from Communism to 'Europe.'" Political Geography 25, 1 (January 2006): 42-71.

"Wild Horses in a 'European Wilderness': Imagining Sustainable Development in the Post-Soviet Countryside." Cultural Geographies 12, 3 (2005): 292-320.

"Nature, Development, and National Identity: The Battle over Sustainable Forestry in Latvia." Environmental Politics 8,3 (1999): 99-118.

Recent non-refereed publications, invited presentations, and conference papers

Conor O’Dwyer and Katrina Z. S. Schwartz. "Return to (Illiberal) Diversity? Resisting Gay Rights in Poland and Latvia." In Elisabeth Prügl and Markus Thiel, eds., Diversity and European Integration (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2009).

"Tolerance in Latvia. Gay Rights: United in Hostility." Transitions Online, September 21, 2005.

Invited presentations

"Constructing nature and nation in Latvia." Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 15, 2010.

"Questioning the consensus paradigm in ecosystem-based management: the case of Picayune Strand." Howard T. Odum Center for Wetlands, University of Florida, March 2010.

“Minority Rights After EU Enlargement: A Comparison of Anti-Gay Politics in Poland and Latvia.” With Conor O’Dwyer (in absentia). “Diversity and European Integration: A Conference of the Miami European Union Center of Excellence,” Florida International University, April 2008.

“Retreat from Europe? Homophobia, Populism and Party Politics in Poland and Latvia.” With Conor O’Dwyer (in absentia). Institute of European Studies, University of Toronto, March 2007.

Conference papers

"Resisting Everglades Restoration: the politics of property rights in southwest Florida." American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 2010.

"The Everglades after consensus: the politics of implementing large-scale ecosystem restoration." Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, April 2010.

"The Politics of Ecosystem Restoration in the Everglades: Picayune Strand Restoration project." Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences, Madison, Wisconsin, October 2009.

"Adaptive Management as Anti-Politics Machine." With Becky Blanchard and Rachel Pawlitz (in absentia). Society for the Social Studies of Sciences, Crystal City, VA., October 2009.