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James Mccarthy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Routledge handbook of Political Ecology
2015Co-Authors: Tom Perreault, Gavin Bridge, James MccarthyAbstract:PART I: INTRODUCTION Editors' introduction Introductory overview: The Origins of Political Ecology Michael Watts PART II: ORIGINS, TRAJECTORIES AND FUTURES OF Political Ecology Activist Political Ecology Ben Wisner Reflections on non-Anglophone Political Ecology Enrique Leff French research traditions on peasant agriculture Denis Gautier & Christian Kull Political Ecology as trickster Paul Robbins The end of critique? Bruce Braun PART III: DOING Political Ecology Ethics and Entanglement Juanita Sundberg Ethics in research beyond the human Rosemary-Claire Collard Relationship and Research Methods Abby Neely & Thoko Nguse Methods in Environmental Science Karl Zimmerer Activism and Direct Action Politics Nik Heynen & Levi Van Sant Political Ecology as praxis Alex Loftus Political Ecology and policy Brent McCusker Policy Networks and Moments of Government Tony Bebbington PART IV: CORE QUESTIONS AND CONCEPTS OF Political Ecology A: Environmental Knowledge Political Ecology and Actor-Network Theory Rebecca Lave Promises of Participation in Science and Political Ecology David Demeritt Indigenous/local environmental knowledge Leah Horowitz Participatory Mapping Joe Bryan Historical approaches Diana Davis B: Environmental Change Capitalist production of socio-natures Noel Castree Risk, hazards and vulnerability Jim Wescoat Climate change and environmental transformation Diana Liverman Environment and development: Reflections from Latin America Astrid Ulloa Livelihoods and social reproduction Ed Carr Political Ecologies of Disease and Health Brian King Environmental degradation and Marginalization Tor Benjaminsen Industrialization and environmental change Stefania Barca International trade, development and environment Alf Hornborg C: Environmental Governance Nature conservation Rod Neumann International Agri-food systems Derek Hall Certification regimes Tad Muttersbaugh Property and commodification Scott Prudham Neoliberalization of nature Karen Bakker Political Ecology and state theory Morgan Robertson Eco-governmentality Gabriela Valdivia Energy and resources Matt Huber Biosecurity Celia Lowe Scales and polities Nathan Sayre D: Environmental Identities Gender/feminist Political Ecology 2 Rebecca Elmhirst Indigeneity Emily Yeh & Joe Bryan Class formation and nature Michael Ekers Nature, difference and the body Julie Guthman & Becky Mansfield E: Environmental Politics Social Movements Wendy Wolford & Sarah Keene Environmental justice Ryan Holifield Environmental conflict Philippe LeBillon Urbanization and environmental imaginaries Erik Swyngedouw Editor's conclusion
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first world Political Ecology lessons from the wise use movement
Environment and Planning A, 2002Co-Authors: James MccarthyAbstract:The author demonstrates, through a case study of the Wise Use movement, that the insights and tools of Political Ecology have much to offer in the study of First World resource conflicts. He uses theories and methods drawn from the literature concerning Political Ecology and moral economies to argue that many assumptions regarding state capacity, individual and collective identities and motivations, and economic and historical relations in advanced capitalist countries are mistaken or incomplete in ways that have led to important dimensions of environmental conflicts in such locales being overlooked. The argument is based mainly on the author's own research on the Wise Use movement in the rural American West of the 1980s and 1990s but also draws on other recent work in Political Ecology, historical and economic geography, and environmental history.
Ryan E. Galt - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The relevance of Regional Political Ecology for agriculture and food systems
Journal of Political Ecology, 2016Co-Authors: Ryan E. GaltAbstract:The region as a concept continues to hold promise as a way of breaking through the many binaries that often divide Political Ecology. Operationalizing a regional Political Ecology approach allows the researcher to generate a large number of insights and conclusions that a more narrow disciplinary (disciplined) focus and non-scalar approach would miss; this is because important biophysical and social processes intersect with each another and work together to produce and/or mediate important outcomes for human and environmental well-being. The article draws on a number of cases to examine what comparison of Political ecological research between regions could look like. I argue for a reinvigorated relationship between regional Political Ecology as an approach and agrifood systems as the object of study, and pose questions that can help shape this endeavor. Keywords: regional Political Ecology, regional comparisons, network Political Ecology, agriculture, food systems, agroEcology
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placing food systems in first world Political Ecology a review and research agenda
Geography Compass, 2013Co-Authors: Ryan E. GaltAbstract:Author(s): Galt, RE | Abstract: In this paper, I review recent Political ecological scholarship on first world agrifood systems and advocate for further development of the field. To do so, I first briefly examine the themes of first world Political Ecology and argue that food systems is an underdeveloped topic in first world Political Ecology relative to other themes because of the existence of agrarian Political economy, a strongly allied field. This requires interrogating and teasing apart the relationship between Political Ecology and agrarian Political economy. I then turn to review the current "Political Ecology of first world food systems" literature, which is both in line with established Political ecological contours - examining global-local connections, conservation and degradation, and the utility of ecological metrics - but also recently extending analysis to alternative food networks and to the body-consumption nexus. In the conclusion, I outline an agenda for Political ecological research praxis focused on increased interdisciplinary work with biophysical and technical scientists; the spatial, social, economic margins; the "invisible middle" of the food industry and the "end" of the food system in human waste and the necessity of mending the metabolic rift; and the need for increased societal engagement by Political ecologists. © 2013 The Author(s) Geography Compass © 2013 John Wiley a Sons Ltd.
Peter A. Walker - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Ecologia política: onde está a política? * Political Ecology: Where is the Politics? **
2012Co-Authors: Peter A. WalkerAbstract:How much practical difference does Political Ecology actually make? What might be the obstacles to a more constructively engaged Political Ecology – to a more fully Political Political Ecology? These are the questions that this essay raises briefly, but does not pretend to answer in any substantial way. Rather, it is hoped and believed that these questions will be discussed at length in future venues.
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Ecologia política: onde está a ecologia? * Political Ecology: Where is the Ecology?
2011Co-Authors: Peter A. WalkerAbstract:While Political Ecology has thrived, its coherence as a field of study and its central intellectual contribu tions remain the subject of sometimes contentious debate. One of the recurrent, and unresolved, questions has been “Where is the Ecology in Political Ecology?”. Indeed, controversy has emerged about whether, in fact, the field has become “politics without Ecology” (BASSETT; ZIMMERER, 2004, p. 103). This brief review examines this question and argues that, despite the claims of critics, there is a great deal of research in Political Ecology that engages biophysical Ecology as a central concern.
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Political Ecology: where is the policy?
Progress in Human Geography, 2007Co-Authors: Peter A. WalkerAbstract:To Political ecologists today, it might seem odd – ridiculous perhaps – to ask whether Political Ecology is sufficiently Political. It has been the better part of two decades since Michael Watts complained that the dominant expressions of Political Ecology of the 1980s displayed ‘a remarkable lack of politics . . . There is almost no sense of contest, struggle, and conflict and how the rough and tumble of everyday life’ shapes human relations with the environment (Watts, 1990: 128–29). Since then, there has been a veritable explosion of scholarship (far too numerous to cite) in Political Ecology that has taken up the challenge to deal in a more sophisticated way with the role of politics in shaping humanenvironment relations. In comparing Political Ecology to other intellectual traditions that attempt to explain environmental problems (such as ecoscarcity and environmental modernization), Robbins (2004) notes that the defining characteristic of the field today is ‘the difference between a Political and an aPolitical Ecology’. So central has politics become in the field that serious critiques have been made that Political Ecology has become ‘politics without Ecology’ (Vayda and Walters, 1999). Yet, it is possible to question whether, by its own definitions of the word ‘politics’, Political Ecology fully lives up to its promise to take politics seriously. In their article ‘Locating the Political in Political Ecology’, Paulson et al. (2003: 209, emphasis added), define politics as ‘the practices and processes through which power, in its multiple forms, is wielded and negotiated’. The authors observe that one of the key challenges of Political Ecology is ‘to develop ways to apply the methods and findings [from Political Ecology research] in addressing social-environmental concerns’ (p. 208). Indeed, this concern to make politics not only a research subject but a practice has long been an explicit and central goal of Political Ecology. Peet and Watts (1996: xi), for example, state that Political Ecology ‘is driven naturally in our case by a normative and Political commitment to the liberatory potential of environmental concerns’. Similarly, Robbins (2004: 13) observes that Political Ecology is explicitly and unapologetically normative, seeking ‘to plant the seeds for reclaiming and asserting alternative ways of managing [resources] . . . The goal . . . is preserving Progress reports
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Reconsidering ‘regional’ Political ecologies: toward a Political Ecology of the rural American West:
Progress in Human Geography, 2003Co-Authors: Peter A. WalkerAbstract:Political Ecology has recently seen a long-overdue movement toward studies of environmental conflicts in advanced capitalist societies, far from the rural African, Latin American, and Asian societies that constitute the great majority of studies in the field. This shift has raised questions about the commonalities and differences between 'first-world' and 'third-world' Political ecologies - questions that present broader challenges and opportunities for the field. The question of commonalities and difference in 'first-world' and 'third-world' Political ecologies is hemispheric; recent research in Political Ecology consists primarily of local-scale studies, leaving the field poorly positioned to address such broad-scale comparative questions. Appropriately, local Political Ecology studies challenge the stability of the 'first-world' and 'third-world' as meaningful geographic frames posed in these questions; but in dismantling these frames without suggesting alternatives for broader-scale analysis there is danger of moving Political Ecology toward even greater emphasis on specificity and difference and pushing consideration of broader-scale processes farther into the background. This is a serious challenge in a field already criticized for sprawling incoherence. This article argues that one response to these challenges is to reconsider the concept of 'regional' Political ecologies. Regional approaches can retain the greatest strengths of recent Political Ecology in revealing the importance of local-scale social dynamics while situating these dynamics within broader scales of regional (and global) processes - providing greater coherence while avoiding such problematic frames as the 'first' and 'third' world. To illustrate, a brief case study and discussion are presented that consider a regional Political Ecology of the rural American West.
Christian A. Kull - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology - French research traditions on peasant agricultural systems: a convergence with Political Ecology?
2015Co-Authors: Denis Gautier, Christian A. KullAbstract:Political Ecology is largely an Anglophone research tradition. It has had, over the years, varying levels of contact and exchange with other linguistic, cultural, and regional research traditions outside its dominant centers in the United Kingdom and United States, via the literature as well as through personal contacts made in the field. Conversely, other national research traditions have been influenced by similar intellectual and contextual forces as those which led to Political Ecology, but have followed different trajectories. In France, for example, many of the key elements of a Political ecological approach are present in the academy - including strong traditions of Marxist anthropology, post-structural inspirations (the names Foucault and Latour are hard to ignore), and field-based studies of agrarian systems - and yet they were never pulled together in the same way as Political Ecology: instead they produced alternative inspirations and communities of practice.
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what makes Ecology Political rethinking scale in Political Ecology
Progress in Human Geography, 2009Co-Authors: Haripriya Rangan, Christian A. KullAbstract:This essay explores the ways in which concepts of `scale' are deployed in Political Ecology to explain the outcomes of ecological and social change. It argues that Political ecologists need to pay ...
Roderick P. Neumann - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Political Ecology III: Theorizing landscape
Progress in Human Geography, 2011Co-Authors: Roderick P. NeumannAbstract:In this last of three reports exploring the incorporation of human geography theory within Political Ecology, I focus on landscape. I begin by surveying recent work on landscape in human geography, which has increasingly stressed non-representational approaches, and then explore how landscape has been treated in Political Ecology. I found that Political Ecology shares with human geography more generally many of the same critical responses to the representational landscape approaches of the 1980s' ‘new cultural geography’. Although shifts in approaches to landscape in Political Ecology and human geography more broadly have often paralleled one another, this has not been an outcome of sustained interaction between the fields. I refer to work in anthropology to illustrate the theoretical and empirical potentialities of a more direct and explicit conversation between Political Ecology and landscape studies in human geography.
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Political Ecology II: theorizing region:
Progress in Human Geography, 2009Co-Authors: Roderick P. NeumannAbstract:In this second of three reports exploring the incorporation of human geography theory within Political Ecology I focus on regions. I review how regions are theorized in human geography and conclude that Political ecologists have used the concept inconsistently. I suggest that three trajectories in recent studies offer possibilities for a more rigorous theorization of regions within Political Ecology: (1) work employing theorizations of the social production of space and the co-constitution of nature, space, and society; (2) engagements with the Political economy of natural resources literature, especially resource conflict; and (3) work linking historical materialist-oriented ‘new’ regional geography with discourse theory.
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Making Political Ecology
2005Co-Authors: Roderick P. NeumannAbstract:Introduction: The Vitality and Promise of Political Ecology Originals and Development of Political Ecology Environment and Development Political Ecology of Nature Conservation Advances and Retreats in Biological Ecology Feminist Political Ecology Environment Politics New Questions, New Direction in Political Ecology Conclusion
