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Dennis Conway | Faculty

Dennis Conway Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography

Office: SB 301
TEL: 855-0571
Email: conway@indiana.edu

Education

Ph.D., 1976, University of Texas at Austin

Research

  • Development
  • Transnational migration
  • Migration-development relationships
  • Caribbean tourism- alternative models

Current Projects

  • Return of the ‘Next Generations’ to Trinidad and Tobago: Are Young Transnational Professionals Making a Difference ‘Back Home’?

Representative Publications

  • Dennis Conway and Robert B. Potter (editors) Return Migration of the ‘Next Generations’: Twenty-First Century Transnational Mobility. Aldershot, UK and Burlington USA: Ashgate, July, 2009.
  • Dennis Conway and Nik Heynen (editors) Globalization’s Contradictions: Geographies of discipline, destruction and transformation. Abingdon, Oxford: Routledge/Taylor and Francis, August 2006.
  • Robert B. Potter, Dennis Conway and Joan Phillips (editors), The Experience of Return Migration: Caribbean Perspectives. Aldershot, UK and Burlington USA: Ashgate, October, 2005.
  • Bhattarai Keshav, Dennis Conway and Mahmoud Yousef (2009) Determinants of deforestation in Nepal’s Central Development Region. Forthcoming in the Journal of Environmental Management
  • Ellen Quirke, Robert B Potter and Dennis Conway (2009) Transnationalism and the Caribbean community in the UK: theoretical perspectives. Forthcoming in the Open Geography Journal  
  • Potter Robert B. and Dennis Conway (2009) Development. Chapter 35 in John Agnew and David Livingstone (eds)  Handbook of Geographical Knowledge: Critical Geographical Concepts and Controversies, Russell Sage. Forthcoming, Fall,
  • Conway Dennis (2009) The Caribbean Diaspora. In Richard S. Hillman and Thomas J. D’Agostino (eds) Understanding the Contemporary Caribbean, Second Edition. Boulder, Colorado and Kingston, Jamaica: Lynne Reinner and Ian Randle Publishers, pp. 367-390.
  • Conway Dennis, Robert B. Potter and Godfrey St. Bernard (2009) Repetitive visiting as a pre-return  transnational strategy among youthful Trinidadian returnees. Mobilities, 14(2): 249-273
  • Potter Robert B., Dennis Conway and Godfrey St. Bernard (2009) Transnationalism personified: young returning Trinidadians, ‘in their own words’. Tidschrift voor Economische en  Sociale Geografie, 100(1): 101-113. 
  • Conway Dennis, Robert B. Potter and Godfrey St. Bernard (2008) Dual citizenship or dual identity? Does ‘transnationalism’ supplant ‘nationalism’ among returning Trinidadians? Global Networks, 8(4): 373-397            
  • Bhattarai Keshav and Dennis Conway (2008) Evaluating land use dynamics and forest cover change in  Nepal’s Bara district (1973-2003), Human Ecology, 36(1): 81-95.
  • Conway Dennis and Todd Lindley (2008) The unruliness of global migration under globalization. Chapter 2 in Harold V Baines and James R Ursah (eds) Globalization: Understanding, Management and Effects, Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, January, 2009 [on-line early, December, 2008].
  • Potter Robert B. and Dennis Conway (2008) The development potential of Caribbean young return migrants: ‘making a difference back home…’ In Ton van Naerssen, Ernst Spaan and Annelies Zoomers (editors),Global Migration and Development,New York and Abingdon, Oxford: Routledge, pp. 213-230.
  • Conway Dennis, Bruce Boucek and Paul Lorah (2008) Environmental protection mechanisms in small island developing states and policy implications derived from scale issues: some Eastern Caribbean examples. In Emilio F. Moran and Mateus Batistella (eds) Geoinformação e Monitoramento Ambiental na América Latina/ Environmental Monitoring in Latin America,SENAC, Sao Paulo, Brazil [in Portuguese], pp.133-162.
  • Conway Dennis (2007) The importance of remittances for the Caribbean’s future transcends their macroeconomic influences, Global Development Studies, 4: 3-4 (Winter 2006 – Spring 2007): 41-76.
  • Conway Dennis (2007) Caribbean transnational migration behaviour: reconceptualising its ‘strategic flexibility.’ Population, Space and Place, 13: 415-431.
  • Conway Dennis and Robert B. Potter (2007) Caribbean transnational return migrants as agents of change, Blackwell Geography Compass, 1/1: 25 - 45.
  • Conway Dennis (2007) Irregular migrant workers. In Vandana Desai and Robert B. Potter (eds) The Companion to Development Studies, Second Edition. London: Hodder Arnold, pp. 229-234.
  • Cohen Jeffrey H., Richard C. Jones and Dennis Conway (2005) Why remittances shouldn’t be blamed for rural underdevelopment in Mexico, Critique of Anthropology, 25(1): 87-95.
  • Connell John and Dennis Conway (2000) Migration and remittances in island microstates: a comparative perspective on the South Pacific and the Caribbean. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 24(1): 52-78.

Service

  • The Editorial Advisory Board of Progress in Development Studies (Edward Arnold), 1999 to present.
  • The Editorial Advisory Board of The Open Geography Journal (Bentham Open), 2008  to present.

Student Theses

  • Benjamin Timms, “Renegotiating Peasant Ecology: Responses to Relocation from Celaque National Park, Honduras.”  Ph.D. March, 2007.
  • Frank Marshalek, Cuban Economic Reform: ‘Informal spaces’ in a Transitional Socialist Economy, Ph.D. in progress
  • Todd Lindley (Geography) InterCountry Adoption in the Philippines and the United States: Global networks and local processes. Ph.D. in progress.
  • Peter Hossler. Hungry for Peace: Integrating Resources into a More Comprehensive Understanding of the War in Mozambique. M.A. 2004.
  • Joseph Rodman. Return Migration to Grenada: Transnational Developments. M.A. 2005.
  • Benjamin Schultz Latino Growth and Demographic Trends in Non-Traditional Destinations of Kentucky. M.A. 2007.
  • Kristen Lonard-Johnston. Gentrification: A Socio-economic Construction in Indianapolis, Indiana. M.A. 2008.