"Political ecology is a strong and growing interdisciplinary field
of inquiry, and this book makes a welcome and unique contribution.
Susan Paulson and Lisa Gezon have put together an engaging and
well-written collection that is full of fresh ideas and
applications related to current theoretical debate, concepts, and
methods."-Marianne Schmink, director, Tropical Conservation and
Development Program, University of Florida "Political ecology and
ecologists are sure to benefit from this splendid array of
rigorous, richly contextualized, and far-reaching accounts that
injects a masterful blend of political analysis and attention to
the lifeworlds of diverse peoples worldwide into environmental
studies."-Karl Zimmerer, professor and chair, Department of
Geography and Institute for Environmental Studies, University of
Wisconsin, Madison "An ingenious mix of genealogy and the unfolding
future of political ecology, bringing fresh insights to the
dynamics of place, power, and people across the globe."-Dianne
Rocheleau, coeditor of Feminist Political Ecology: Global Issues
and Local Experiences As environmental issues become increasingly
prominent in local struggles, national debates, and international
policies, scholars are paying more attention to conventional
politics and to more broadly defined relations of power and
difference in the interactions between human groups and their
biophysical environments. Such issues are at the heart of the
relatively new interdisciplinary field of political ecology, forged
at the intersection of political economy and cultural ecology. This
volume provides a toolkit of vital concepts and a set of research
models and analytic frameworks for researchers at all levels.
Pointing to the entangled relationship between humans, politics,
economies, and environments at the dawn of the twenty-first
century, opening chapters trace rich traditions of thought and
practice that inform current approaches to political ecology. The
twelve case studies that follow explore sites located around the
world as they describe uses of and conflicts over resources
including land, water, soil, trees, biodiversity, money, knowledge,
and information. Susan Paulson is the director of Latin American
studies and an associate professor of anthropology at Miami
University. Lisa Gezon is an associate professor and chair of the
department of anthropology at the State University of West Georgia.
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