ISBN:
9780813534770
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (300 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Political Ecology Across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Place, Power, Difference: Multiscale Research at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century; Chapter 2: Politics, Ecologies, Genealogies; Part I: Policy and Environment; Chapter 3: The Fight for the West: A Political Ecology of Land-Use Conflicts in Arizona; Chapter 4: Whose Water?: Political Ecology of Water Reform in Zimbabwe; Chapter 5: The New Calculus of Bedouin Pastoralism in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Chapter 6: Land Tenure and Biodiversity: An Exploration in the Political Ecology of Murang'a District, Kenya
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 7: The Political Ecology of Consumption: Beyond Greed and GuiltPart II: Social Hierarchies in Local-Global Relationships; Chapter 8: Finding the Global in the Local: Environmental Struggles in Northern Madagascar; Chapter 9: Symbolic Action and Soil Fertility: Political Ecology and the Transformation of Space and Place in Tonga; Chapter 10: Gendered Practices and Landscapes in the Andes: The Shape of Asymmetrical Exchanges; Chapter 11: Undermining Modernity: Protecting Landscapes and Meanings among the Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia; Part III: Forest Visions
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 12: Shade: Throwing Light on Politics and Ecology in Contemporary PakistanChapter 13: A Global Political Ecology of Bioprospecting; Chapter 14: The Emergence of Collective Ethnic Identities and Alternative Political Ecologies in the Colombian Pacific Rainforest; Notes on Contributors; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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