William G. Moseley
Encyclopedia
William G. Moseley is an author, scholar and professor of geography at Macalester College
in Saint Paul
, Minnesota
. He is a development and human-environment geographer
with particular expertise in political ecology
, tropical agriculture
, environment and development policy, livelihood security, and West Africa
and Southern Africa
. Before becoming an academic, he worked for ten years in the field of international development. Moseley’s books include: Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization and Poverty in Africa (Ohio University Press, 2008) , with Leslie Gray; The Introductory Reader in Human Geography: Contemporary Debates and Classic Writings (Blackwell, 2007), with David Lanegran and Kavita Pandit; four editions of Taking Sides: Clashing Views on African Issues (McGraw-Hill, 2004, 2006, 2008 & 2011); and African Environment and Development: Rhetoric, Programs, Realities (Ashgate, 2004), with Ikubolajeh Logan. He has also published over 60 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters, as well as numerous newspaper op-eds. He previously served as editor of the African Geographical Review
.
Macalester College
Macalester College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was founded in 1874 as a Presbyterian-affiliated but nonsectarian college. Its first class entered September 15, 1885. The college is located on a campus in a historic residential neighborhood...
in Saint Paul
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Saint Paul is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota. The city lies mostly on the east bank of the Mississippi River in the area surrounding its point of confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Minneapolis, the state's largest city...
, Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
. He is a development and human-environment geographer
Geographer
A geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society.Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography...
with particular expertise in political ecology
Political ecology
Political ecology is the study of the relationships between political, economic and social factors with environmental issues and changes. Political ecology differs from apolitical ecological studies by politicizing environmental issues and phenomena....
, tropical agriculture
Tropical agriculture
Worldwide more human beings gain their livelihood from agriculture than any other endeavor; the majority are self-employed subsistence farmers living in the tropics...
, environment and development policy, livelihood security, and West Africa
West Africa
West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the UN definition of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries and an area of approximately 5 million square km:-Flags of West Africa:...
and Southern Africa
Southern Africa
Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. Within the region are numerous territories, including the Republic of South Africa ; nowadays, the simpler term South Africa is generally reserved for the country in English.-UN...
. Before becoming an academic, he worked for ten years in the field of international development. Moseley’s books include: Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization and Poverty in Africa (Ohio University Press, 2008) , with Leslie Gray; The Introductory Reader in Human Geography: Contemporary Debates and Classic Writings (Blackwell, 2007), with David Lanegran and Kavita Pandit; four editions of Taking Sides: Clashing Views on African Issues (McGraw-Hill, 2004, 2006, 2008 & 2011); and African Environment and Development: Rhetoric, Programs, Realities (Ashgate, 2004), with Ikubolajeh Logan. He has also published over 60 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters, as well as numerous newspaper op-eds. He previously served as editor of the African Geographical Review
African Geographical Review
The African Geographical Review , is a peer reviewed academic journal published twice per year by the Africa Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers....
.