Liberation Ecologies Environment, Development, Social Movements

includes index and biblioraphy

PART I Renewing political ecology 1 Liberating political ecology MICHAEL WATTS AND RICHARD PEET 2 The political ecology of famine: the origins of the Third World MIKE DAVIS 3 Invisible forests: the political ecology of forest resurgence in El Salvador SUSANNA B. HECHT PART II Discourse and practice 4 Environmental discourses on soil degradation in Bolivia: sustainability and the search for socioenvironmental "middle ground" KARL S. ZIMMERER 5 Purity and pollution: racial degradation and environmental anxieties JAKE KOSEK 6 Eco-governmentality and other transnational practices of a "green" World Bank MICHAEL GOLDMAN PART III Institutions and governance 7 Nature-state-territory: toward a critical theorization of conservation enclosures RODERICK P. NEUMANN 8 Water, markets, and embedded institutions in Western India NAVROZ K. DL`BASH 9 Transition environments: ecological and social challenges to post-socialist industrial development DARA O`ROURKE PART IV Conflict and struggle 10 Violent environments: petroleum conflict and the political ecology of rule in the Niger Delta, Nigeria MICHAEL WATTS 11 Gender and class power in agroforestry systems: case studies from Indonesia and West Africa RICHARD A. SCHROEDER AND KRISNAWATI SURYANATA 12 Gender conflict in Gambian Wetlands JUDITH CARNEY PART V Movement 13 Environment, indigeneity and transnationalism TANIA MURRAY LI 14 From Chipko to Uttaranchal: the environment of protest and development in the Indian Himalaya HARIPRIYA RANGAN 15 Movements and modernizations, markets and municipalities: indigenous federations in rural Ecuador ANTHONY BEBBINGTON 16 Industrial pollution and social movements in Thailand TIM FORSYTH