Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements

by Peet, Richard; Watts, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780415133623
• ISBN10: 0415133629
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-09-01
• 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

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

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