Political ecology across spaces, scales, and social groups / edited by Susan Paulson and Lisa L. Gezon.

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Environmental issues have become increasingly prominent in local struggles, national debates, and international policies. In response, scholars are paying more attention to conventional politics and to more broadly defined relations of power and difference in the interactions between human groups and their biophysical environments. Such issues are at the heart of the relatively new interdisciplinary field of political ecology, forged at the intersection of political economy and cultural ecology. This volume provides a toolkit of vital concepts and a set of research models and analytic.

Place, power, difference: multiscale research at the dawn of the twenty-first century / Lisa L. Gezon and Susan Paulson -- Politics, ecologies, genealogies / Susan Paulson, Lisa L. Gezon, and Michael Watts -- The Fight for the west: a political ecology of land-use conflicts in Arizona / Mette J. Brodgen and James B. Greenberg -- Whose water? Political ecology of water reform in Zimbabwe / Anne Ferguson and Bill Derman -- The new calculus of Bedouin pastoralism in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia / Andrew Gardner -- Land tenure and biodiversity: an exploration in the political ecology of Murang'a district, Kenya / A. Fiona D. Mackenzie -- The political ecology of consumption: beyond greed and guilt / Josiah McC. Heyman -- Finding the global in the local: environmental struggles in northern Madagascar / Lisa L. Gezon -- Symbolic action and soil fertility: political ecology and the transformation of space and place in Tonga / Charles J. Stevens -- Gendered practices and landscapes in the Andes: the shape of asymmetrical exchanges / Susan Paulson -- Undermining modernity: protecting landscapes and meanings among the Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia / Alf Hornborg -- Shade: throwing light on politics and ecology in contemporary Pakistan / Michael R. Dove -- A global political ecology of bioprospecting / Hanne Svarstad -- The emergence of collective ethnic identities and alternative political ecologies in the Colombian Pacific rainforest / Arturo Escobar and Susan Paulson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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