Janette Bulkan

From The West Indian Encyclopedia

In May 2009, Bulkan was awarded a PhD at Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She is now the Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow in international environmental human rights at Colby College, Waterville, Maine, USA.

Janet Bulkan is an anthropologist by training and has work experience in social forestry, participatory community development, teaching and diplomacy. Her most recent full-time job was as Senior Social Scientist with the Iwokrama International Program for Rainforest Conservation and Development in Guyana (March 2000–2003) where she coordinated various projects in participatory resource management, sustainable livelihoods, Makushi linguistics, environmental education, monitoring and evaluation, and cultural diversity awareness and protection. She has published on forest peoples and broader forest issues in Guyana, including in publications and reports issued by Social and Economic Studies (1990), UNDP Program for Forests, PROFOR (2001), Tropenbos (1998, 1999) and New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (1999). She is also a member of the editorial board of Kacike: The Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology (http://www.kacike.org/.

Area of Expertise

Illegal logging

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and forest certification schemes

Indigenous peoples of the Guiana Shield

Goverance and corruption in tropical forested countries

Publications

Forte, Janette, Simone Mangal, and Graham Watkins (2003). El bosque pristino Iwokrama, Guyana. In America Latina y El Caribe: Capacidades necesarias para el manejo de areas protegida. J. Carabias, J. de la Maza, and R. Cadena, eds. pp. 121-135. Mexico City: The Nature Conservancy and IUCN.

Forte, Janette. (2000). Amerindian Languages of Guyana. As Linguas Amazonicas hoje (F. Queixalos & O. Renault-Lescure, eds), 317-333. Sao Paulo: Instituto Socioambiental.

http://www.kacike.org/BulkanNWIG.html

Forte, Janette, née Bulkan (1999) Karikuri: The Evolving Relationship of the Karinya People of Guyana to Gold Mining. New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids Vol 73 (1 & 2). Leiden, Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology.

http://www.kacike.org/ForteAtlas.htm

Bulkan, Janette (2003). Review Essay of 'The Languages of Suriname'. Edited by Eithne B. Carlin and Jacques Arends. Published by KITLV Press, Leiden, The Netherlands. In Kacike: The Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology.

http://www.kacike.org/BulkanTropenbosA.html

Forte, Janette née Bulkan. (1998) Land Use Planning and Social Aspects of Sustainable Forest Management. Seminar Proceedings, ‘Research in tropical rainforests: Its challenges for the future.’ November 1997, 139-149. The Tropenbos Foundation, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Bibliography-Guyana-Anthropology-Mark-Plew&x=20&y=18

Plew, Mark and Forte [Bulkan], Janette, eds. (1998) A Bibliography of Guyana Anthropology. Boise, Idaho: Boise State University.

http://www.illegal-logging.info/item_single.php?item=document&item_id=378&a

Bulkan, J. and J.R. Palmer (2006). ‘Timber tags: the currency of illegal logging and forest corruption in Guiana Shield countries.’

Wilson, Warren, Milner, Jillian, Janette Bulkan and Peter Ehlers (2006). Weaning Practices of the Makushi of Guyana and their Relationship to Infant and Child Mortality: A Preliminary Assessment of International Recommendations. American Journal of Human Biology18:312–324.

http://www.illegal-logging.info/item_single.php?item=document&item_id=641&a

Bulkan, J. and J.R. Palmer (2008). Breaking the rings of forest corruption: steps towards better forest governance. Forests, Trees & Livelihoods 18:103-131.

http://www.illegal-logging.info/item_single.php?item=document&item_id=608&a

Bulkan, J. and Palmer,J.R. Illegal logging by Asian-owned enterprises in Guyana, South America. Briefing paper for Forest Trends’ 2nd Potomac Forum meeting on illegal logging and associated trade, Washington D.C., 14 February 2008.

http://www.illegal-logging.info/uploads/cfa_newsletter.pdf

Palmer,J.R. and Bulkan,J. New colonial masters, Malaysian loggers in South America: how under-valuation of forest resources exposes Guyana to unscrupulous exploitation. CFA News number 38, September 2007, pages 1-2, 11-13 (Commonwealth Forestry Association).

http://www.illegal-logging.info/uploads/Samling_Barama.pdf

Bulkan,J. and J.R. Palmer. Lazy days at international banks: how Credit Suisse and HSBC support illegal logging and unsustainable timber harvesting by Samling/Barama in Guyana, and possible reforms. Report to Chatham House (Royal Institution for International Affairs, London, UK) FLEGT update meeting, 9-10 July 2007.

http://www.centrelink.org/resurgence/guyana.htm

Bulkan, J. and Arif Bulkan (2006). ‘These forests have always been ours’: official and vernacular discourses on Guyana’s Forest Estate. Indigenous Resurgence in the Contemporary Caribbean: Amerindian Survival and Revival 135-155. Edited by Maximilian C. Forte. Peter Lang Publishing.

http://www.yale.edu/forestcertification/pdfs/2006/Confronting%20Sustainability.pdf

Bulkan, Janette, Deanna Newsom, Peter May, Dietmar Stoian, Salvador Anta Fonseca, Jose Joaquin Campos, Fernando Carrera Gambetta, Julio Morales Cancino, Gustavo Pinelo, and Lincoln Quevedo. (2006). Introduction to ‘Forests in Latin America’. In Confronting Sustainability: Forest Certification in Developing and Transitioning Countries. B. Cashore, F. Gale, E. Meidinger, and D. Newsom, eds. New Haven: Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Publications Series.

Bulkan, Janette (2004). Reply to Niesten and Rice’s Comment. International Forestry Review 6(1): 61-63; 65-66.

http://www.iied.org/pubs/display.php?o=13521IIED&n=1&l=1&k=forte%20janette

Mangal, Simone and Janette Forte (Bulkan), in collaboration with the North Rupununi District Development Board, Guyana (2005). Community tradeoffs assessment: for culture-sensitive planning and evaluation. International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). 54 pages.

http://www.cfa-international.org/cfanews/CFN27Dec04.pdf

Bulkan, Janette (2004). Report on Yale Symposium on Impacts of Certification in Developing and Transitioning Countries (June 10-11, 2004). Commonwealth Forestry News. No. 27. December 2004.

http://www.amazon.com/Makusipe-Komanto-Iseru-Sustaining-Makushi/dp/9768160489/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264469593&sr=8-1

Forte, Janette, ed. (1999) Makusipe Komanto Iseru. Sustaining Makushi Way of Life. Georgetown: Makushi Research Unit, North Rupununi District Development Board. ISBN 976-8160-48-9.

http://openlibrary.org/b/OL3977669M/Makusipe_Komanto_Iseru

Bulkan, Janette and Arif Bulkan (2008). ‘Protector of Indians’: assessing Walter Roth’s legacy in policy towards Amerindians in Guyana. The Roth Family: Anthropology and Colonial Administration. Edited by Russell McDougall, and Iain Davidson. UCL Press.

Contact

Colby College

Department:International Studies, Environmental Studies

4000 Mayflower Hill

Waterville, ME 04901-8840

Office: Diamond 245

Phone: 207-859-5352

Fax: 859-5229 (International Studies )

Fax 2: 5229 (Environmental Studies )

Email:Janette.Bulkan@colby.edu