Political Ecology Across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups / Arturo Escobar, Lisa L. Gezon, Susan Paulson, Alf Hornborg, Michael Dove, Anne Ferguson, Fiona Mackenzie, Josiah Heyman, Andrew Gardner, Mette Brodgen, Hanne Svarstad, James Greenberg, William Derman, Charles Stevens; Lisa L. Gezon, Susan Paulson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paulson, Susan, Author.

Brodgen, Mette, Author.

Derman, William, Author.

Dove, Michael, Author.

Ferguson, Anne, Author.

Gardner, Andrew, Author.

Gezon, Lisa L., Author.

Greenberg, James, Author.

Heyman, Josiah, Author.

Hornborg, Alf, Author.

Mackenzie, Fiona, Author.

Stevens, Charles, Author.

Svarstad, Hanne, Author.

Contributor:

Gezon, Lisa L., Editor.

Paulson, Susan, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political ecology--Case studies.

Political ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2004]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Environmental issues have become increasingly prominent in local struggles, national debates, and international policies. In response, scholars are paying more attention to conventional politics and to more broadly defined relations of power and difference in the interactions between human groups and their biophysical environments. Such issues are at the heart of the relatively new interdisciplinary field of political ecology, forged at the intersection of political economy and cultural ecology. This volume provides a toolkit of vital concepts and a set of research models and analytic frameworks for researchers at all levels. The two opening chapters trace rich traditions of thought and practice that inform current approaches to political ecology. They point to the entangled relationship between humans, politics, economies, and environments at the dawn of the twenty-first century and address challenges that scholars face in navigating the blurring boundaries among relevant fields of enquiry. The twelve case studies that follow demonstrate ways that culture and politics serve to mediate human-environmental relationships in specific ecological and geographical contexts. Taken together, they describe uses of and conflicts over resources including land, water, soil, trees, biodiversity, money, knowledge, and information; they exemplify wide-ranging ecological settings including deserts, coasts, rainforests, high mountains, and modern cities; and they explore sites located around the world, from Canada to Tonga and cyberspace.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

1 Place, Power, Difference: Multiscale Research at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century

2 Politics, Ecologies, Genealogies

3 The Fight for the West: A Political Ecology of Land-Use Conflicts in Arizona

4 Whose Water? Political Ecology of Water Reform in Zimbabwe

5 The New Calculus of Bedouin Pastoralism in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

6 Land Tenure and Biodiversity: An Exploration in the Political Ecology of Murang’a District, Kenya

7 The Political Ecology of Consumption: Beyond Greed and Guilt

8 Finding the Global in the Local: Environmental Struggles in Northern Madagascar

9 Symbolic Action and Soil Fertility: Political Ecology and the Transformation of Space and Place in Tonga

10 Gendered Practices and Landscapes in the Andes: The Shape of Asymmetrical Exchanges

11 Undermining Modernity: Protecting Landscapes and Meanings among the Mi’kmaq of Nova Scotia

12 Shade: Throwing Light on Politics and Ecology in Contemporary Pakistan

13 A Global Political Ecology of Bioprospecting

14 The Emergence of Collective Ethnic Identities and Alternative Political Ecologies in the Colombian Pacific Rainforest

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

1-283-59197-9

9786613904423

0-8135-4254-5

OCLC:

804665123