Other geographies : the influences of Michael Watts / edited by Sharad Chari [and four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chari, Sharad, editor.

Series:

Antipode book series.

Antipode Book Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human geography.

Political ecology.

Watts, Michael, 1951---Influence.

Watts, Michael.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley Blackwell, 2017.

Summary:

An international group of distinguished scholars pay homage to and build on the work of one of the most influential thinkers of our time, Michael Watts. * Shows how Michael Watts' research, writings, teaching and mentoring have relentlessly pushed boundaries, transforming his chosen field of geography and beyond * Spans an array of topics including the political economy and ecology of African societies, governmentality and territoriality in various Southern contexts, food security, cultural materialist expositions of capitalism, modernity and development across the postcolonial world * Builds on his legacy, exploring its theoretical, analytical, and empirical implications and proposing exciting new possibilities for further exploration in the tracks of Watts

Contents:

Introduction : other Geographies, in the work of Michael Watts / Sharad Chari, Susanne Freidberg, Jesse Ribot, Wendy Wolford and Vinay Gidwani

Academic journeys in the Black Atlantic : gender, work and environmental transformations / Judith Carney

Getting back to our roots : integrating critical physical and social science in the early work of Michael Watts / Rebecca Lave

Binary narratives of capitalism and climate change : dangers and possibilities / Lucy Jarosz

Aggregate modernities : a critical natural history of contemporary algorithms / Jake Kosek

Peanuts for cashews? : agricultural diversification and the limits of adaptability in Cote d'Ivoire / Thomas Bassett and Moussa Kone

Life itself under contract : a biopolitics of partnerships and chemical risk in California's strawberry industry / ulie Guthman

Commoditization, primitive accumulation, and the spaces of biodiversity conservation / Roderick Neumann

Stopping the Serengeti Road : social media and the discursive politics of conservation in Tanzania / Benjamin Gardner

Privatize everything, certify everywhere : Academic assessment and value transfers / Tad Mutersbaugh

Oil, indigeneity and dispossession / Joe Bryan

Frontiers : remembering the forgotten lands / Teo Ballve

Vibrancy of refuse, piety of refusal : infrastructures of discard in Dakar / Rosalind Fredericks

Land reclamation as resiliency in post-colonial Phnom Penh / Erin Collins.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119184331

1119184339

9781119184782

1119184789

9781119184324

1119184320

OCLC:

999644979