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Liberation Ecologies » (2nd Edition)

Book cover image of Liberation Ecologies by Richard Peet

Authors: Richard Peet, Michael Watts, Michael Watts
ISBN-13: 9780415312363, ISBN-10: 0415312361
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: May 2004
Edition: 2nd Edition

Author Biography: Richard Peet

Michael Watts is Director of the Institute of International Studies, University of California at Berkeley.

Richard Peet is Professor of Geography, Clark University, Massachusetts.

Book Synopsis

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. I	Renewing political ecology	1
1	Liberating political ecology	3
2	The political ecology of famine : the origins of the Third World	48
3	Invisible forests : the political ecology of forest resurgence in El Salvador	64
Pt. II	Discourse and practice	105
4	Environmental discourses on soil degradation in Bolivia : sustainability and the search for socioenvironmental "middle ground"	107
5	Purity and pollution : racial degradation and environmental anxieties	125
6	Eco-governmentality and other transnational practices of a "green" World Bank	166
Pt. III	Institutions and governance	193
7	Nature-state-territory : toward a critical theorization of conservation enclosures	195
8	Water, markets, and embedded institutions in Western India	218
9	Transition environments : ecological and social challenges to post-socialist industrial development	244
Pt. IV	Conflict and struggle	271
10	Violent Environments : Petroleum Conflict and The political ecology of rule in the Niger Delta, Nigeria	273
11	Gender and class power in agroforestry systems : case studies from Indonesia and West Africa	299
12	Gender conflict in Gambian wetlands	316
Pt. V	Movement	337
13	Environment, indigeneity and transnationalism	339
14	From Chipko to Uttaranchal : the environment of protest and development in the Indian Himalaya	371
15	Movements and modernizations, markets and municipalities : indigenous federations in rural Ecuador	394
16	Industrial pollution and social movements in Thailand	422