Contentious Geographies
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Contentious Geographies
Environmental Knowledge, Meaning, Scale
Evered, Dr. Kyle T.; Goodman, Professor Michael K.; Boykoff, Dr. Maxwell T.; McDonald, Professor Adrian
Taylor & Francis Ltd
04/2008
264
Dura
Inglês
9780754649717
15 a 20 dias
Presents research into the (re)definition of political ecology as it relates to environmental contestation. This book examines how various theoretical approaches shape environmental conflicts, how policies and technologies empower and encourage political and ecological outcomes.
Contents: Foreword; Preface; Contentious geographies: environmental knowledge, meaning, scale, Michael K. Goodman, Maxwell T. Boykoff and Kyle T. Evered; Part 1 Translating Contentious Environmental Knowledge and Science: The contentious world of Jared Diamond's Collapse, Tim Forsyth; Fight semantic drift!? Mass media coverage of anthropogenic climate change, Maxwell T. Boykoff; Whose scarcity? The hydrosocial cycle and the changing waterscape of La Ligua river basin, Chile, Jessica Budds. Part 2 Conflicting and Shifting Environmental Knowledges, Livelihoods, and Power: 'Environmentality' in Rajasthan's groundwater sector: divergent environmental knowledges and subjectivities, Trevor L. Birkenholtz; Discursive spearpoints: contentious interventions in Amazonian indigenous environments, Logan A. Hennessy. Part 3 Environmental Movements: Contested (Re)Scaling of Knowledges, Problems and Narratives: Confronting invisibility: reconstructing scale in California's pesticide drift conflict, Jill Harrison; Scale and narrative in the struggle for environment and livelihood in Vieques, Puerto Rico, Karen Schmelzkopf; Making local places GE-free in California's contentious geographies of genetic pollution and coexistence, Dustin Mulvaney. Part 4 Contested Production of Environmental Science, Law, and Knowledge: Regional power and the power of the region: resisting dam removal in the Pacific Northwest, Eve Vogel; Law of regions: mining legislation and the construction of East and West, Johanna Haas. Part 5 Fraught Spatial Technologies and Knowledge Construction: Mapping boundaries, shifting power: the socio-ethical dimensions of participatory mapping, Jefferson Fox, Krisnawati Suryanata, Peter Hershock and Albertus Hadi Pramono; Competing and conflicting social constructions of 'land' in South Africa: the case of and implications for land reform, Brent McCusker; Index.
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Presents research into the (re)definition of political ecology as it relates to environmental contestation. This book examines how various theoretical approaches shape environmental conflicts, how policies and technologies empower and encourage political and ecological outcomes.
Contents: Foreword; Preface; Contentious geographies: environmental knowledge, meaning, scale, Michael K. Goodman, Maxwell T. Boykoff and Kyle T. Evered; Part 1 Translating Contentious Environmental Knowledge and Science: The contentious world of Jared Diamond's Collapse, Tim Forsyth; Fight semantic drift!? Mass media coverage of anthropogenic climate change, Maxwell T. Boykoff; Whose scarcity? The hydrosocial cycle and the changing waterscape of La Ligua river basin, Chile, Jessica Budds. Part 2 Conflicting and Shifting Environmental Knowledges, Livelihoods, and Power: 'Environmentality' in Rajasthan's groundwater sector: divergent environmental knowledges and subjectivities, Trevor L. Birkenholtz; Discursive spearpoints: contentious interventions in Amazonian indigenous environments, Logan A. Hennessy. Part 3 Environmental Movements: Contested (Re)Scaling of Knowledges, Problems and Narratives: Confronting invisibility: reconstructing scale in California's pesticide drift conflict, Jill Harrison; Scale and narrative in the struggle for environment and livelihood in Vieques, Puerto Rico, Karen Schmelzkopf; Making local places GE-free in California's contentious geographies of genetic pollution and coexistence, Dustin Mulvaney. Part 4 Contested Production of Environmental Science, Law, and Knowledge: Regional power and the power of the region: resisting dam removal in the Pacific Northwest, Eve Vogel; Law of regions: mining legislation and the construction of East and West, Johanna Haas. Part 5 Fraught Spatial Technologies and Knowledge Construction: Mapping boundaries, shifting power: the socio-ethical dimensions of participatory mapping, Jefferson Fox, Krisnawati Suryanata, Peter Hershock and Albertus Hadi Pramono; Competing and conflicting social constructions of 'land' in South Africa: the case of and implications for land reform, Brent McCusker; Index.
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