Liberation Ecologies Environment, Development, Social Movements

Name: Liberation Ecologies Environment, Development, Social Movements
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ISBN: 9780415133623

ISBN-10: 0415133629

ISBN-13: 9780415133623

Edition: 1996

Authors: Richard Peet, Michael Watts

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This book explores the impact of political ecology in today's developing world and casts new light on the interrelations of development, social movements and the environment in the South, raising questions and hopes about change on a global scale.

Book details

List price: $63.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/30/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Michael Watts is Class of 1963 Professor of Geography and Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is coeditor of Violent Environments , also from Cornell, author most recently of Curse of the Black Gold , and coauthor of Afflicted Powers .



Preface



Renewing Political Ecology



Liberating Political Ecology




The Political Ecology of Famine: The Origins of the Third World




Invisible Forests: The Political Ecology of Forest Resurgence in El Salvador




Discourse and Practice



Environmental Discourse on Soil Degradation in Bolivia: Sustainability and the Search for Socioenvironmental 'Middle Ground'




Purity and Pollution: Racial Degradation and Environmental Anxieties




Eco-governmentality and other Transnational Practices of a 'Green' World Bank




Institutions and Governance



Nature-State-Territory: Toward a Critical Theorization of Conservation Enclosures




Water, Markets and Embedded Institutions in Western India




Transition Environments: Ecological and Social Challenges to Post-Socialist Industrial Development




Conflict and Struggle



Violent Environments: Petroleum Conflict and The Political Ecology of Rule in the Niger Delta, Nigeria




Gender and Class Power in Agroforestry Systems: Case studies from Indonesia and West Africa




Gender Conflict in Gambian Wetlands




Movement



Environment, Indigeneity and Transnationalism




From Chipko to Uttaranchal: The Environment of Protest and Development in the Indian Himalaya




Movements and Modernizations, Markets and Municipalities: Indigenous Federations in Rural Ecuador




Industrial Pollution and Social Movements in Thailand