How does environmental manipulation impact statemaking capabilities?

Travis Blanchard

This project aims to provide a more nuanced view of how environmental manipulation, such as the destruction of crops, natural resources, or water, enhances territorial control, which in turn facilitates the centralization of state power and the building of institutional capacity. I argue that by engaging in these acts of environmental manipulations these state-makers are engaging in the four functions of statemaking to increase their extraction capabilities which fuel their statemaking, warmaking, and protection capabilities.

Major: 
Political Science and Public Relations
Exhibition Category: 
Arts and Humanities (including Visual Arts)
Exhibition Format: 
Poster Presentation
Campus: 
University Park
Faculty Sponsor: 
Gregory Kruczek
Poster Number: 
16026