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Genre/Form: | Kongress |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Nancy Lee Peluso; Michael Watts |
ISBN: | 0801438713 9780801438714 0801487110 9780801487118 |
OCLC Number: | 45202024 |
Description: | ix, 453 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Violent environments / Nancy Lee Peluso and Michael Watts -- Will the circle be unbroken? A critique of the project on environment, population, and security / Betsy Hartmann -- Are "forest" wars in Africa resource conflicts? The case of Sierra Leone / Paul Richards -- Territory, custom, and the cultural politics of ethnic war in west Kalimantan, Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso and Emily Harwell -- States of nature and environmental enclosures in the American west / James McCarthy -- Damaging crops: sabotage, social memory, and the new genetic enclosures / Iain A. Boal -- Between a ranch and a hard place: violence, scarcity, and meaning in Chiapas, Mexico / Aaron Bobrow-Strain -- Petro-violence: community, extraction, and political ecology of a mythic commodity / Michael Watts -- International dimensions of conflict over natural and environmental resources / James Fairhead -- Invisible spaces, violent places: Cold War nuclear and militarized landscapes / Valerie Kuletz -- Violence, environment, and industrial shrimp farming / Susan C. Stonich and Peter Vandergeest -- Victims of "friendly fire" at Russia's nuclear weapons sites / Paula Garb and Galina Komarova -- Disciplining peasants in Tanzania: from state violence to self-surveillance in wildlife conservation / Roderick P. Neumann -- Beyond the bounds? Violence at the margins of new legal geographies / Nandini Sundar -- Written on the body, written on the land: violence and environmental struggles in central India / Amita Baviskar -- Toward a metaphysic of environmental violence: the case of the Bhopal gas disaster / S. Ravi Rajan. |
Responsibility: | edited by Nancy Lee Peluso and Michael Watts. |
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"Provides both a critique of the school of environmental security and alternative ways of understanding the connections between environment and science."-Book News, January 2002 "Violent Environments is a thought-provoking. . .volume that should be read carefully by all those interested in the various debates over environmental security. Many of the book's theoretical arguments and empirical findings provide important and timely challenges to mainstream approaches to studying the environment-violence nexus. Neo-Malthusian critics will find much to build upon in their efforts to develop a more systematic political economy/political ecology alternative."-Colin Kahl, University of Minnesota, Environmental Change and Security Project Report, Issue 8, 2002 "This book calls for a bold new fusion of a multifaceted political economy with environmental and cultural politics to address the real landscapes of violence. Opening up a vast new arena for debate, discussion, and political action, Violent Environments establishes convincing grounds for a thorough rethinking of the subject. The critique it offers is both compelling and desperately needed."-Karl S. Zimmerer, University of Wisconsin "This important book offers a topical, richer and more complex approach to understanding the connections between population and the environment than does the current conventional wisdom. With a healthy variety of case studies and a focus both on a wide range of environmental topics and on the diverse forms of violence associated with environmental relations, Violent Environments is a unique and provocative collection."-Philip McMichael, Cornell University, author of Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective Read more...


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