On Sustainability
Religion in Society
Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
Global Studies
Robert FletcherAbout Jesse Montes
MICRO-BIO
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A Canadian academic lecturing at the Royal Thimphu College, Bhutan. Research interests include landscape ethnoecology, political ecology, and development studies. While previous work has explored the socio-cultural impacts of the ecotourism sector i...More
EXPERIENCE
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King's University
- Sessional Instructor
- Environment
- September 2018 to December 2018
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Royal Thimphu College
- Senior Lecturer
- Environment
- July 2013 to Present
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Plateau Perspectives
- Technical Advisor
- Environment
- March 2012 to Present
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British Columbia Ministry of Environment
- Environmental Management Officer
- Community Waste
- August 2008 to March 2012
EDUCATION
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Wageningen University and Research
- PhD
- November 2015 to Present
Defence date is scheduled for November 1, 2019. Research is based in Bhutan, exploring the ecotourism sector through a Foucauldian post-structuralist framework in which subjectivities and discourses play a critical role for inquiry. Additionally, cosmology and ethnoecology have been employed in order to understand key cultural framings that surpass much of Foucault's 'western' based approach.
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University of Manitoba
- Masters of Natural Resource Management
- August 2006 to June 2008
Masters research was conducted in Kenya, exploring community involvement in environmental impact assessment processes for small scale water supply projects. Research was based on Communicative and Transformative adult learning theories and applied to resource management scenarios.
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King's University
- BA Environmental Studies & Psychology
- August 1998 to June 2002
Undergraduate degree with honours. This included a stint of summer field work in Honduras in which I was engaged with a local NGO developing material for a natural history museum.
