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

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• VerfasserIn: Paulson, Susan,; Brodgen, Mette,; Derman, William,; Dove, Michael,; Ferguson, Anne,; Gardner, Andrew,; Gezon, Lisa L.,; Greenberg, James,; Heyman, Josiah,; Hornborg, Alf,; Mackenzie, Fiona,; Stevens, Charles,; Svarstad, Hanne,
• MitwirkendeR: Brogden, Mette J.,; Derman, Bill,; Dove, Michael R.,; Escobar, Arturo,; Ferguson, Anne,; Gardner, Andrew,; Gezon, Lisa L.,; Greenberg, James B.,; Heyman, Josiah McC.,; Hornborg, Alf,; Mackenzie, A. Fiona D.,; Paulson, Susan,; Stevens, Charles J.,; Svarstad, Hanne,; Watts, Michael,
• HerausgeberIn: Gezon, Lisa L.,; Paulson, Susan,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Place, Power, Difference: Multiscale Research at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century -- 2 Politics, Ecologies, Genealogies -- PART ONE. Policy and Environment -- 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 -- PART TWO. Social Hierarchies in Local-Global Relationships -- 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 -- PART THREE. Forest Visions -- 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