The human-environment relationship, often contentious yet very closely intertwined, is one of the most pressing concerns of the twenty first century. Bringing together a range of case studies from both global North and South to illustrate the broad range of current theories on this relationship, this book presents significant cutting-edge research into the continuing (re)definition of political ecology as it relates to environmental contestation.In particular, it examines how various theoretical approaches shape environmental conflicts, how policies and technologies empower and encourage political and ecological outcomes. Covering issues such as mining regulation, climate change, water resource struggles, human displacement, genetic engineering and mapping technologies at a wide range of scales, this edited volume provides a broader, critical understanding of the theoretical frameworks and policies underlying resource and environmental conflicts.
Author(s): Michael K. Goodman, Maxwell T. Boykoff and Kyle T. Evered
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 265
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
List of Maps......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 12
Notes on Contributors......Page 14
Foreword......Page 18
Preface......Page 20
Acknowledgements......Page 22
1 Contentious Geographies: Environmental Knowledge, Meaning, Scale......Page 24
PART 1 TRANSLATING CONTENTIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE AND SCIENCE......Page 48
2 The Contentious World of Jared Diamond’s Collapse......Page 50
3 Fight Semantic Drift!? Mass Media Coverage of Anthropogenic Climate Change......Page 62
4 Whose Scarcity? The Hydrosocial Cycle and the Changing Waterscape of La Ligua River Basin, Chile......Page 82
PART 2 CONFLICTING AND SHIFTING ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGES, LIVELIHOODS, AND POWER......Page 102
5 ‘Environmentality’ in Rajasthan’s Groundwater Sector: Divergent Environmental Knowledges and Subjectivities......Page 104
6 Discursive Spearpoints: Contentious Interventions in Amazonian Indigenous Environments......Page 120
PART 3 ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS: CONTESTED (RE)SCALING OF KNOWLEDGES, PROBLEMS AND NARRATIVES......Page 136
7 Confronting Invisibility: Reconstructing Scale in California’s Pesticide Drift Conflict......Page 138
8 Scale and Narrative in the Struggle for Environment and Livelihood in Vieques, Puerto Rico......Page 154
9 Making Local Places GE-Free in California’s Contentious Geographies of Genetic Pollution and Coexistence......Page 170
PART 4 CONTESTED PRODUCTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, LAW, AND KNOWLEDGE......Page 186
10 Regional Power and the Power of the Region: Resisting Dam Removal in the Pacific Northwest......Page 188
11 Law of Regions: Mining Legislation and the Construction of East and West......Page 210
PART 5 FRAUGHT SPATIAL TECHNOLOGIES AND KNOWLEDGE CONSTRUCTION......Page 224
12 Mapping Boundaries, Shifting Power: The Socio-Ethical Dimensions of Participatory Mapping......Page 226
13 Competing and Conflicting Social Constructions of ‘Land’ in South Africa: The Case of and Implications for Land Reform......Page 242
C......Page 260
H......Page 261
M......Page 262
S......Page 263
W......Page 264
Z......Page 265
