Wangari Maathai

Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellows Program 2005-2006 Selective Bibliography UC Irvine Libraries

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John Sisson Biological Sciences Librarian [email protected]

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Table of Contents

Books and Book Chapters...... 2 Journal Articles...... 2 Lectures and Speeches...... 3 About Professor Maathai ...... 3 News and Research Articles ...... 3 Interviews...... 5 Biographical Information...... 6 Other Web Documents...... 6

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Books and Book Chapters

Jones, Maggie and Wangari Maathai. "Greening the Desert : Women of Kenya Reclaim Land." In: Reclaim the Earth : Women Speak Out for Life on Earth. Edited by Léonie Caldecott and Stephanie Leland. London: Women's Press, 1983. Langson Library HQ1154 R43 1983

Maathai, Wangari. The Bottom is Heavy Too : Even with the Green Belt Movement : The Fifth Edinburgh Medal Address. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994.

---. The Green Belt Movement. Nairobi, Kenya: National Council of Women of Kenya, 1990s.

---."Prerequisites of an Agenda for People" In: People: from impoverishment to empowerment. Edited by Kirdar, Üner Kirdar and Leonard Solomon Silk. New York: New York University Press, 1995. Langson Library HN17.5 P445 1995

---. "Women, Information, and the Future: The Women of Kenya and the Green Belt Movement." In: A Rising Public Voice: Women in Politics Worldwide. Edited by Brill, Alida. New York: Feminist Press, 1995: 241- 250. Langson Library HQ1236 R57 1995

Maathai, Wangari, and Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya). The Green Belt Movement. Nairobi: The Movement, 1985.

Maathai, Wangari, Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya), and Environment Liaison Centre (International). The Green Belt Movement : Sharing the Approach and the Experience. Nairobi, Kenya: Environment Liaison Centre International, 1988.

---. The Green Belt Movement : Sharing the Approach and the Experience. Rev. ed. New York: Lantern Books, 2003.

---. The Green Belt Movement : Sharing the Approach and the Experience. New expanded ed. New York: Lantern Books, 2004.

Journal Articles

Abzug, B, P .Antrobus, A. Posadskaya, C. Bunch, R. Hassan, F. Kissling, V. Shiva, W. Maathai, and M. Tax. "On Globalizing Gender Justice." Nation 261 n.7 (Sept. 11, 1995): 236. Full text at: http://www.archive.thenation.com

Maathai, Wangari. "The Planet Earth is our Common Home." Women's Studies Quarterly 24 (1996): 102-4. Langson Bound Periodicals HQ1101 W7

Pearce F. and Wangari Maathai. "No, Mr President." New Scientist 167 no. 2248 (July 22, 2000): 42-45. Science Library Drum Q1 N52

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Lectures and Speeches

"Bottlenecks of Development in Africa. (Speech on the occasion of the 4th UN World Women‘s Conference in Beijing, China, August 30- September 15, 1995)." Gifts of Speech. (http://gos.sbc.edu/m/maathai.html ) accessed on March 5, 2006.

"Documents on democracy: Africa. (excerpt from speech by Wangari Maathai, Kenyan Greenbelt Movement leader, at White House conference on Jun 27, 1994)." Journal of Democracy 5 no. 4 (Oct 1994): 184-185. Langson Bound Periodicals JF 1051 J68

"Hon. Prof. Wangari Maathai's Speech During Nelson Mandela 3rd Lecture On 19th July 2005." Kenya Alliance of Resident Associations. (http://kenyakara.org/?q=node/77) accessed March 5, 2006.

"Nobel Peace Prize Lecture December 10, 2004." Nobel Foundation Museum Association. (http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/2004/maathai-lecture-text.html) accessed March 5, 2006.

"The planet earth is our common home. (Kenyan Wangari Maathai of The Commission on Global Governance, Fourth UN Conference on Women, Beijing 1995)." Women's Studies Quarterly 24 no. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 1996): 102-104. Langson Bound Periodicals HQ1101 W7

About Professor Maathai

News and Research Articles

Ahmad, Iftikhar. "Nobel peace Laureate Wangari Maathai: connecting trees, civic education, and peace." Social Education 69 no. 1 (Jan-Feb 2005): 18-22. Full text at: http://find.galegroup.com/itx/infomark.do?&contentSet=IAC- Documents&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=EAIM&docId=A128604231&source=ga le&userGroupName=ucirvine&version=1.0

Amlani, Alnoor. "Prof. Maathai Africa's forest goddess: within a week of winning the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, Professor Wangari Maathai was back at work, criss-crossing the country, dressed as usual in a simple kitenge cloth wrap and sandals. Alnoor Amlani looks back at the career of one of the most feisty forces in modern African history." African Business 303 (Nov 2004): 14-19. Full text at: http://find.galegroup.com/itx/infomark.do?&contentSet=IAC- Documents&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=EAIM&docId=A124644552&source=ga le&userGroupName=ucirvine&version=1.0.

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Galloy, Martine Renee. "Kenyan women and electoral processes: The vagaries of the long road to leadership." Southern African Feminist Review 3 no. 1 (1998): 3-18. Langson Bound Periodicals HQ1800 A35

Graydon, Nicola. "From tiny seeds..." The Ecologist 35 no. 2 (March 2005): 36-39. Science Library Drum W1 EC187

"The hunger project names two women for 1991 Africa Prize." African Woman no. 5 (Autumn, 1991): 25-26.

Kilelu, Catherine W. "Wangari Maathai: A Woman of Distinction." Women & Environments International Magazine. 66/67 (2005): 43. Langson Bound Periodicals HQ 1101 W653

Lappe, Moore Frances and Anna Lappe. "The Woman Who Didn't Listen." Guerrillanews.com (October 14, 2004) ( http://www.guerrillanews.com/articles/article.php?id=716 ) accessed on March 4, 2006.

Michaelson, Marc. "Wangari Maathai and Kenya's Green Belt Movement: Exploring the Evolution and Potentialities of Consensus Movement Mobilization." Social Problems 41 (1994): 540-61. Langson Bound Periodicals HN1 S58 or Full text at: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0037- 7791%28199411%2941%3A4%3C540%3AWMAKGB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F

Mutiso, Clive. "Her Women's Army Defies An Iron Regime." Time 152 no. 24 (Dec 14, 1998): 73. Langson Bound Periodicals AP2 T37 or Full text at: http://find.galegroup.com/itx/infomark.do?&contentSet=IAC- Documents&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=EAIM&docId=A53372530&source=gal e&userGroupName=ucirvine&version=1.0

Robinson, Simon. "Wangari Maathai: Why Green Matters." Time 165 no. 16 (April 18, 2005): 98. Langson Bound Periodicals AP2 T37 or Full text at: http://find.galegroup.com/itx/infomark.do?&contentSet=IAC- Documents&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=EAIM&docId=A131305168&source=ga le&userGroupName=ucirvine&version=1.0.

Salmon K. "Mobilising the mothers. Millennium trailblazers 5: Wangari Maathai." People & the Planet, 8 no. 4 (1999): 22-23.

"Saviors of the plant." Time 137 no. 17 (April 29, 1991): 66-67. (Langson Bound Periodicals AP 2 T37) or Full text at: http://find.galegroup.com/itx/infomark.do?&contentSet=IAC- Documents&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=EAIM&docId=A10620330&source=gal e&userGroupName=ucirvine&version=1.0

Tarasofsky, Richard. "Environment for Peace." The World Today 60.12 (2004): 18-9.

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Udvardy, M. L. "Theorizing Past and Present Women's Organizations in Kenya." World Development 26.9 (1998): 1749-61. Full text at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6VC6-3VNHP19-D- 2&_cdi=5946&_user=4422&_orig=browse&_coverDate=09%2F30%2F1998&_sk=99973 9990&view=c&wchp=dGLbVlz- zSkWz&md5=d7c461565393dd25825f3c5ea4fb9b91&ie=/sdarticle.pdf

"Wangari Maathai of Kenya wins the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize: Wangari Muta Maathai is the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace." Sister Namibia 16 no. 4 (Oct 2004): 34. Langson Bound Periodicals HQ1236.5 N3 S57 or Full text at: http://find.galegroup.com/itx/infomark.do?&contentSet=IAC- Documents&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=EAIM&docId=A128170478&source=ga le&userGroupName=ucirvine&version=1.0

Warah, Rasna. "Kenya's Lone Crusader Wins Nobel Peace Prize." UN Chronicle 41.4 (2004): 58, 62. Langson Bound Periodicals JX1977 A1 U54 or Full text at: http://find.galegroup.com/itx/retrieve.do?contentSet=IAC- Documents&qrySerId=&inPS=true&tabID=T002&prodId=EAIM&searchId=R2&retrieve Format=PDF¤tPosition=1&srcprod=EAIM&userGroupName=ucirvine&resultListT ype=RESULT_LIST&sort=DateDescend&docId=A130971351&noOfPages=2&isAcrobat Available=true

Worthington, Nancy. "Shifting identities in the Kenyan press: representations of Wangari Maathai's media complex protest." Women's Studies in Communication 26 no. 2 (Fall 2003): 143-164. Langson Bound Periodicals P 96 S48 W66 or Full text at: http://find.galegroup.com/itx/infomark.do?&contentSet=IAC- Documents&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=EAIM&docId=A109668723&source=ga le&userGroupName=ucirvine&version=1.0

Interviews

Gilson, Dave. "Root Causes: An Interview with Wangari Maathai." Mother Jones (January 5, 2005) Full text at: http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/2005/01/wangari_maathai.html

Goodwin, Amy. "Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai on the Environment, the War in Iraq, Debt, and Women's Equality: interview with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! Tuesday, March 8th, 2005." Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 6 no. 1 (Summer 2005): 202-215. Langson Bound Periodicals AP2 M47 or Full text at: http://find.galegroup.com/itx/infomark.do?&contentSet=IAC- Documents&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=EAIM&docId=A140489123&source= gale&userGroupName=ucirvine&version=1.0.

Nierenberg, Danielle, and Mia MacDonald. "Don't Get Mad, Get Elected! A conversation with Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai." World Watch 17 no. 3 (2004): 26-7. Full text at: http://find.galegroup.com/itx/infomark.do?&contentSet=IAC-

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Topouzis, Daphne. "Wangari Maathai: empowering the grassroots." Africa Report 35 no. 5 (Nov-Dec 1990): 30-32. Langson Bound Periodicals DT1 A15 or Full text at: http://pao.chadwyck.com/articles/displayItem.do?FormatType=fulltextimages&QueryType =articles&ResultsID=10937B67C841C91DF3&ItemNumber=7.

Biographical Information

The Greenbelt Movement. "About Wangari Maathai." (http://gbmna.org/w.php?id=3) accessed on March 5, 2006.

Nobel Foundation Museum Association. "Wangari Maathai - Biography." (http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/2004/maathai-bio.html) accessed on February 25, 2006.

Wikipedia. "Wangari Maathai." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangari_Maathai) accessed on February 28, 2006.