Liberation Ecologies

by Peet; Richard

• ISBN13: 9780415312356
• ISBN10: 0415312353
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-05-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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. Bringing together some of the leading researchers in development, the book discusses the theory, growth, and impact of political ecology. In-depth case material drawn from across the developing world is used to explore the realities and impact of sustainability, while emphasizing both the environment and social theory as areas of contention and struggle.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	x
List of contributors	xii
Preface to the second edition	xiii
Acknowledgments	xix
PART I Renewing political ecology	1	(104)
1 Liberating political ecology	3	(45)
MICHAEL WATTS AND RICHARD PEET
2 The political ecology of famine: the origins of the Third World	48	(16)
MIKE DAVIS
3 Invisible forests: the political ecology of forest resurgence in El Salvador	64	(41)
SUSANNA B. HECHT
PART II Discourse and practice	105	(88)
4 Environmental discourses on soil degradation in Bolivia: sustainability and the search for socioenvironmental "middle ground"	107	(18)
KARL S. ZIMMERER
5 Purity and pollution: racial degradation and environmental anxieties	125	(41)
JAKE KOSEK
6 Eco-governmentality and other transnational practices of a "green" World Bank	166	(27)
MICHAEL GOLDMAN
PART III Institutions and governance	193	(78)
7 Nature-state-territory: toward a critical theorization of conservation enclosures	195	(23)
RODERICK P. NEUMANN
8 Water, markets, and embedded institutions in Western India	218	(26)
NAVROZ K. DUBASH
9 Transition environments: ecological and social challenges to post-socialist industrial development	244	(27)
DARA O'ROURKE
PART IV Conflict and struggle	271	(66)
10 Violent environments: petroleum conflict and the political ecology of rule in the Niger Delta, Nigeria	273	(26)
MICHAEL WATTS
11 Gender and class power in agroforestry systems: case studies from Indonesia and West Africa	299	(17)
RICHARD A. SCHROEDER AND KRISNAWATI SURYANATA
12 Gender conflict in Gambian Wetlands	316	(21)
JUDITH CARNEY
PART V Movement	337	(102)
13 Environment, indigeneity and transnationalism	339	(32)
TANIA MURRAY LI
14 From Chipko to Uttaranchal: the environment of protest and development in the Indian Himalaya	371	(23)
HARIPRIYA RANGAN
15 Movements and modernizations, markets and municipalities: indigenous federations in rural Ecuador	394	(28)
ANTHONY BEBBINGTON
16 Industrial pollution and social movements in Thailand	422	(17)
TIM FORSYTH
Index	439