Liberation ecologies : environment, development, social movements

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Author:

Watts, Michael.

ISBN:

9780415133616

9780415133623

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

Physical Description:

xii, 273 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Contents:

1. Liberation Ecology: Development, sustainability, and environment in an age of market triumphalism /Richard Peet and Michael Watts -- 2. Constructing Nature: Elements for a poststructural political ecology / Arturo Escobar -- 3. Improved Seeds and Constructed Scarcity / Lakshman Yapa -- 4. Movements, Modernizations, and Markets: Indigenous organizations and agrarian strategies in Ecuador / Anthony Bebbington -- 5. Discourses on Soil Loss in Bolivia: Sustainability and the search for socioenvironmental "middle ground" / Karl S. Zimmerer -- 6. Marxism, Culture, and Political Ecology: Environmental struggles in Zimbabwe's Eastern Highlands / Donald S. Moore -- 7. Defining Deforestation in Madagascar /Lucy Jarosz -- 8. Converting the Wetlands, Engendering the Environment: The intersection of gender with agrarian change in Gambia / Judith A. Carney.

9. Gender and Class Power in Agroforestry Systems: Case Studies from Indonesia and West Africa / Richard A. Schroeder and Krisnawati Suryanata -- 10. From Chipko to Uttaranchal: Development, environment, and social protest in the Garhwal Himalayas, India /Haripriya Rangan -- 11. The Political Ecology of Agrarian Reform in China: The case of Heilongjiang Province / Joshua S. S. Muldavin -- 12. Conclusion: Towards a theory of liberation ecology / Michael Watts and Richard Peet.

Subject Term:

Human ecology -- Developing countries -- Case studies.

Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Case studies.

Added Author:

Watts, Michael.

Peet, Richard.

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This text brings together theorists in the field in order to explore the impact of political ecology in today's developing world. The book casts new light on the crucial interrelations of development, social movements and the environment in the South - the bigger half of our planet - and raises questions and hopes about change on the global scale. The case material is drawn from across the developing world, from Latin America, Africa and Asia. The issues raised in contemporary political, economic and social theory are illustrated through these case studies. Ultimately, Liberation Ecologies questions what we understand by development, be it mainstream or alternative, and seeks to renew our sense of nature's range of possibilities.