Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development and Social MovementsRichard Peet, Michael Watts Liberation Ecologies brings together some of the most exciting theorists in the field to explore the impact of political ecology in today's developing world. The book casts new light on the crucial interrelations of development, social movements and the environment in the South - the 'bigger' half of our planet - and raises questions and hopes about change on the global scale. |
Contents
1 LIBERATING POLITICAL ECOLOGY | 3 |
2 THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF FAMINE | 44 |
3 INVISIBLE FORESTS | 58 |
Part II DISCOURSE AND PRACTICE | 96 |
4 ENVIRONMENTAL DISCOURSES ON SOIL DEGRADATION IN BOLIVIA | 98 |
5 PURITY AND POLLUTION | 115 |
6 ECOGOVERNMENTALITY AND OTHER TRANSNATIONAL PRACTICES OF A GREEN WORLD BANK | 153 |
Part III INSTITUTIONS AND GOVERNANCE | 177 |
Part IV CONFLICT AND STRUGGLE | 248 |
10 VIOLENT ENVIRONMENTS | 250 |
11 GENDER AND CLASS POWER IN AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS | 273 |
12 GENDER CONFLICT IN GAMBIAN WETLANDS | 289 |
Part V MOVEMENT | 307 |
13 ENVIRONMENT INDIGENEITY AND TRANSNATIONALISM1 | 309 |
14 FROM CHIPKO TO UTTARANCHAL | 338 |
15 MOVEMENTS AND MODERNIZATIONS MARKETS AND MUNICIPALITIES | 358 |
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Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements Richard Peet,Michael Watts Limited preview - 2004 |
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 |