Research Catalog

Title

Liberation ecologies : environment, development, social movements / edited by Richard Peet and Michael Watts.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Peet, Richard.
• Watts, Michael.

Description

xix, 444 p. : maps; 24 cm.

Subject

• Human ecology > Developing countries > Case studies
• Economic development > Environmental aspects > Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Liberating political ecology / Michael Watts and Richard Peet -- The political ecology of famine : the origins of the Third World / Mike Davis -- Invisible forests : the political ecology of forest resurgence in El Salvador / Susanna B. Hecht -- Environmental discourses on soil degradation in Bolivia : sustainability and the search for socioenvironmental "middle ground" / Karl S. Zimmerer -- Purity and pollution : racial degradation and environmental anxieties / Jake Kosek -- Eco-governmentality and other transnational practices of a "green" World Bank / Michael Goldman -- Nature-state-territory : toward a critical theorization of conversation enclosures / Roderick P. Neumann -- Water, markets, and embedded institutions in Western India / Navroz K. Dubash -- Transition environments : ecological and social challenges to post-socialist industrial development / Dara O'Rourke -- Violent environments : petroleum conflict and the political ecology of rule in the Niger Delta, Nigeria / Michael Watts -- Gender and class power in agroforestry systems : case studies from Indonesia and West Africa / Richard A. Schroeder and Krisnawati Suryanata -- Gender conflict in Gambian wetlands / Judith Carney -- Environment, indigeneity and transnationalism / Tania Murray Li -- From Chipko to Uttaranchal : the environment of protest and development in the Indian Himalaya / Haripriya Rangan -- Movements and modernizations, markets and municipalities : indigenous federations in rural Ecuador / Anthony Bebbington -- Industrial pollution and social movements in Thailand / Tim Forsyth.

Call Number

JBE 05-1705

ISBN

• 0415312353 (alk. paper)
• 0415312361 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2003017832

OCLC

52876430

Title

Liberation ecologies : environment, development, social movements / edited by Richard Peet and Michael Watts.

Imprint

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Edition

2nd ed.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Peet, Richard.

Watts, Michael.

Research Call Number

JBE 05-1705