Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social MovementsRichard Peet, Michael Watts At the beginning of the 21st century, the environment and the future of development continue to be issues of crucial importance. Most explanations of environmental crisis emphasize the role of population growth, thus focusing their attention on the poor. By comparison, Liberation Ecologies elaborates a political-economic explanation drawing from the most recent advances in social theory. The new edition has been extensively revised to reflect recent changes in debates over the real definitions of 'development' and 'environment', and contains nine completely new chapters. |
Contents
Liberating political ecology | 1 |
The political ecology of famine the origins of the Third World | 46 |
Invisible forests the political ecology of forest resurgence in El Salvador | 62 |
Discourse and practice | 103 |
Environmental discourses on soil degradation in Bolivia sustainability and the search for socioenvironmental middle ground | 105 |
Purity and pollution racial degradation and environmental anxieties | 123 |
Ecogovernmentality and other transnational practices of a green World Bank | 164 |
Institutions and governance | 191 |
Conflict and struggle | 269 |
Violent environments petroleum conflict and the political ecology of rule in the Niger Delta Nigeria | 271 |
Gender and class power in agroforestry systems case studies from Indonesia and West Africa | 297 |
Gender conflict in Gambian Wetlands | 314 |
Movement | 335 |
Environment indigeneity and transnationalism | 337 |
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Naturestateterritory toward a critical theorization of conservation enclosures | 193 |
Water markets and embedded institutions in Western India | 216 |
Transnation environments ecological and social challenges to postsocialist industrial development | 242 |
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Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development and Social Movements Richard Peet,Michael Watts Limited preview - 2004 |
Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development and Social Movements Richard Peet,Michael Watts Limited preview - 2002 |
Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development and Social Movements Richard Peet,Michael Watts Limited preview - 2004 |
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References to this book
Critical Political Ecology: The Politics of Environmental Science Tim Forsyth No preview available - 2003 |