Liberation Ecologies
At the beginning of the twenty-first 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, Peet and Watts' innovative book elaborates a political-economic explanation drawing from the most recent advances in social theory. This new edition has been extensively revised to reflect recent changes in debates over...
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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.
Pt. IRenewing political ecology11Liberating political ecology32The political ecology of famine : the origins of the Third World483Invisible forests : the political ecology of forest resurgence in El Salvador64Pt. IIDiscourse and practice1054Environmental discourses on soil degradation in Bolivia : sustainability and the search for socioenvironmental "middle ground"1075Purity and pollution : racial degradation and environmental anxieties1256Eco-governmentality and other transnational practices of a "green" World Bank166Pt. IIIInstitutions and governance1937Nature-state-territory : toward a critical theorization of conservation enclosures1958Water, markets, and embedded institutions in Western India2189Transition environments : ecological and social challenges to post-socialist industrial development244Pt. IVConflict and struggle27110Violent Environments : Petroleum Conflict and The political ecology of rule in the Niger Delta, Nigeria27311Gender and class power in agroforestry systems : case studies from Indonesia and West Africa29912Gender conflict in Gambian wetlands316Pt. VMovement33713Environment, indigeneity and transnationalism33914From Chipko to Uttaranchal : the environment of protest and development in the Indian Himalaya37115Movements and modernizations, markets and municipalities : indigenous federations in rural Ecuador39416Industrial pollution and social movements in Thailand422
