Bio

James (Jamie) Lawson received his BA from Trent University and his MA from Dalhousie University. Before beginning his MA, he served as a Parliamentary Intern in Ottawa. His PhD came from York University (Toronto). From 2000 to 2002, he held a research position on forest certification programmes at Auburn University’s School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn, Alabama. Since 2002, he has taught at Memorial University of Newfoundland (St. John’s) and at the University of Victoria, where he is now Assistant Professor.

His research interests have centred on the political economy and ecology of contemporary forest politics and conflict, and on the application of theories of social space and time to the understanding of natural resource policy and politics.

His current research interests include policy reform in the area of First Nations’ economic and decision-making rights in the forest (including ‘aboriginal forest tenures’ and resource governance); workplace health and safety for fallers and allied occupations in the forest industry; and the re-theorization of long-distance trade in natural resources (variously understood in terms of staples or global commodity chains).

Other interests include the politics of forest certification programmes and other instances of non-state governance; the use of critical geography and the historical method in politics and political economy; Canadian public policy; federalism and interest intermediation.

Dr. Lawson teaches courses on Canadian government, environmental policy, and Canadian political economy.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Article-Length Monographs

• Cashore, Benjamin and James Lawson. Comparing Forest Certification Experiences in the US Northeast and the Canadian Maritimes. Orono, MA: CAPP [Canadian-American Public Policy, University of Maine (Orono)], 2003.
• "Ecological Imperialism in the Economy and Ecology of the New Zealand Maori, 1769-1840." International Insights 6.2 (1990): pp. 55-70.

• Lawson, James and Benjamin W. Cashore. “Firm Choices on Sustainable Forestry Forest Certification: The Case of JD Irving, Ltd.” Forest Policy for Private Forestry: Global and Regional Challenges, L. Teeter, B. Cashore, and D. Zhang, eds. Wallingford, UK: CABI Publishing, 2003.
• Lawson, Jamie. “Space, Strategy, and Surprise: Thinking about Temagami Ten Years after the Blockades.” Blockades and Resistance: Studies in Actions of Peace and the Temagami Blockades of 1988-89, Bruce W. Hodgins, Ute Lischke, David T. McNab, eds. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2003.
• Lawson, James, Marcelo Levi, L. Anders Sandberg. "'Perpetual Revenues and the Delights of the Primitive': Change, Continuity, and Forest Policy Regimes in Ontario". Canadian Forest Policy: Adapting to Change, Michael Howlett, ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001.
• "Nastawgan or Not? First Nations Land Management in Temagami and Algonquin Park." Sustainability -- The Challenge: People, Power, and the Environment, L. Anders Sandberg, Sverker Sörlin, eds. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1998. pp. 189-201.

• “Kashechewan and the Legacy of Colonialism” Relay (Jan/Feb 2006): 6-8. Accessible at: http://www.socialistproject.ca/relay/relay09.pdf Last accessed June 30, 2006.
• Lawson, James, Benjamin Cashore. “Research Note: The Application of the Theory of Social Autopoiesis to the Problem of Non-State Sanctioned, Market-Driven (NSMD) Governance.” Auburn University Forest Policy Center, Internal Working Paper Series #120, June 2001. Accessible at: http://www.auburn.edu/academic/forestry_wildlife/forest_policy_ctr/ Last accessed June 30, 2006.
• "The Yukon and Northwest Territories." Canadian Annual Review, 1999. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. “Nunavut.” Canadian Annual Review, 1999. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.
• "The Yukon and Northwest Territories." Canadian Annual Review, 1998. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.
• "The Yukon and Northwest Territories." Canadian Annual Review, 1997. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.
• "The Yukon and Northwest Territories." Canadian Annual Review, 1996. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
• "The Yukon and Northwest Territories." Canadian Annual Review, 1995. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001.
• "The Yukon and Northwest Territories." Canadian Annual Review, 1994. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.
• "The Yukon and Northwest Territories." Canadian Annual Review, 1993. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.
• "The Yukon and Northwest Territories." Canadian Annual Review, 1992. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.
• "The Yukon and Northwest Territories." Canadian Annual Review, 1991. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998.
• "The Yukon and Northwest Territories." Canadian Annual Review, 1990. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.
• "The Yukon and Northwest Territories." Canadian Annual Review, 1989. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995.
• "The Canada-US Softwood Lumber Dispute: A Study of US Trade Law." Canada and the Global Political Economy. Athabaska: Athabaska University Library. (This article also appeared in an edited anthology Canada and the Global Economy, Volume 2. Daniel Drache, ed. Athabaska: Athabaska University Press, 1994.)

• Navarro, Pablo, Barbara Neis, James Lawson, Joshua Pike. Statistical report on forestry and forestry-related WHSCC claims, 1990-2002. Newfoundland & Labrador Forestry Occupational Health and Safety Project, Coasts under Stress, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2004.

• Lawson, James. “What Time Can Tell: The Kaska, the Carrier-Sekani, Newcomers and Forest Relations in Northern British Columbia.” Paper presented at the Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Network Conference, Edmonton, AB, June 20-22, 2006.
• Pike, Joshua, Jeremy Rickards, and Jamie Lawson, “Occupational Health and Safety in Newfoundland Logging Operations – Outcomes from a Pilot Study” Paper presented at Research On Workplace Health And Safety: From The Core To The Margins, SafetyNet, St. John’s, NL, June 7-9, 2006.
• “Power, Political Economy, and Supply Chains: Staples as Media of Power” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, June 2-5, 2005. Accessible at: http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2005/Lawson.pdf Last accessed August 14, 2006.
• “Pressurized Timber: The Policy and Political Economy of Stress as an Occupational Health and Safety Issue for Woodsworkers in the Boreal Forest.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 3-5, 2004. Available at http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2004/Lawson.pdf Last accessed August 14, 2006.
• “Tendential Autonomy in Global Mechanisms of Environmental Governance: The Self-Containment of Stakeholder Conflict in Forest Certification Programmes” Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Montréal, Québec, March 17-20, 2004.
• Lawson, James and Feng Xu. The Emergence and Control of a “SARS Identity”: The Socio-Political Geography of Emergency Health Policy in Global Cities Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Political Studies Association, St. John’s, NL, September 26-8, 2003.
• “Aboriginal Dispossession and the Transformation of Social Space in the Formation of Resource Rent Régimes: Cases Leading to the Ottawa Valley Timber Industry” Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Environmental History, Providence, RI, March 26-30, 2003.
• Lawson, James and Benjamin Cashore. “Forest Certification Experiences in the US Northeast and the Canadian Maritimes: A Comparative Institutional Study.” Paper presented to the Association of Canadian Studies in the United States Annual Conference. San Antonio, Texas, USA. November 14-18, 2001.
• “Emergent Institutional Autonomy in a ‘Non-State Sanctioned, Market Driven’ Forest Certification Program: The Case of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) in the Canadian Maritimes.” Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Political Science Association. Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. October 12-14, 2001.
• Cashore, Benjamin, Graeme Auld, Jamie Lawson, Deanna Newsom, “Political Consumerism, Private Regulations, and Legitimacy: Toward a Theory of How Non-State Market Driven (NSMD) Governance Systems Obtain and Maintain Rule-Making Authority.” Paper presented to the International Seminar on Political Consumerism. City University, Stockholm and Department of Political Science, Stockholm University. May 31 – June 3, 2001.
• Cashore, Benjamin, Graeme Auld, Jamie Lawson, Deanna Newsom. “Forest Certification (Eco-labelling) Programs and their Policy-Making Authority: Explaining Divergence Among North American and European Case Studies.” Paper presented to the International Seminar on Political Consumerism. City University, Stockholm and Department of Political Science, Stockholm University. May 31 – June 3, 2001.
• Lawson, James, Benjamin Cashore. “Forest Certification Experiences in the US Northeast and the Canadian Maritimes: A Comparative Institutional Study” Paper presented to the First International Conference on Private Forestry in the 21st Century, Global Initiatives and Public Policies. Atlanta, GA. March 25-7, 2001.
• "Space, Strategy, and Surprise: Thinking about Temagami Ten Years after the Blockades." Paper presented at the Temagami Blockades Conference. Wanapitei Wilderness Centre, Lake Temagami, ON, Canada. August 26, 1999.
• "A Park and a People, a Forest, a Farmer: A History of Struggles over Algonquin Park." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association. Sherbrooke, PQ, Canada. June 6-8, 1999.
• "Civilizations, Forms of Struggle, and Aboriginal/Settler Relations in Canada: Towards a Conceptual Language." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the ISA Annual Convention. Washington, DC. 16-20 February 1999.
• "Using Gramsci in the Study of Local Conflict in Forest Management." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association. St. John's, NL, Canada. June 8-10, 1997.
• "First Nations, Resource Management and Strategy in Central Ontario: Temagami and Algonquin Park." Paper prepared for the Third Swedish-Canadian Academic Foundation Conference, Environmental Issues in Canada and Sweden: The Challenge of Sustainability. York University, Toronto, ON, Canada. May 15-17, 1996.
• "Ibn Khaldûn and Dynastic Rise and Fall: The Concepts of `umran badawi and `umran hadari and the Making of Canadian Resource History". Paper presented at the York-MUNS Network Symposium, Social Forces and Post-Westphalian Politics. York University, Toronto, ON, Canada. May 4-5, 1995.
• "Triumph of the Mill: The Disruption of US Trade Law and 'Socred Fordism' in the Canada-US Softwood Lumber Dispute." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association. Ottawa, ON, Canada. June 8, 1993.

• “Kashechewan and the Legacy of Colonialism” Relay (Jan/Feb 2006): 6-8. Accessible at: http://www.socialistproject.ca/relay/relay09.pdf
• “Power, Political Economy, and Supply Chains: Staples as Media of Power” Paper presented at the 2005 CPSA Annual General Meeting, Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 2-4, 2005. Accessible at: http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2005/Lawson.pdf
• “Pressurized Timber: The Policy and Political Economy of Stress as an Occupational Health and Safety Issue for Woodsworkers in the Boreal Forest.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 3-5, 2004. Available at http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2004/Lawson.pdf
• Lawson, James, Benjamin Cashore. “Research Note: The Application of the Theory of Social Autopoiesis to the Problem of Non-State Sanctioned, Market-Driven (NSMD) Governance.” Auburn University Forest Policy Center, Internal Working Paper Series #120, June 2001. Accessible at: http://www.auburn.edu/academic/forestry_wildlife/forest_policy_ctr/

• Lawson, James and Feng Xu, “Emergency Health Policy and SARS in Canada and China: A Foucauldian Approach” Governance (forthcoming 2007).

• “Asserting Six Nations Land Rights at Caledonia” Relay (before editors).

Courses

• Political Science 201: Canadian Institutions of Government course outline spring 2011
  
• Political Science 357: Canadian Environmental Policy - Calendar Description