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An ideal book for those coming to the anthropology of drugs for the
first time, filling a surprisingly big gap in the literature
Includes many case studies, such as drug tourism, the opioid crisis
and 'county lines' in the UK as well as global examples from the
Philippines, Mexico, North America and Europe Helps connect the
anthropology of drugs to issues highly relevant to professional
working in drug treatment, health, social work and mental health
An ideal book for those coming to the anthropology of drugs for the
first time, filling a surprisingly big gap in the literature
Includes many case studies, such as drug tourism, the opioid crisis
and 'county lines' in the UK as well as global examples from the
Philippines, Mexico, North America and Europe Helps connect the
anthropology of drugs to issues highly relevant to professional
working in drug treatment, health, social work and mental health
Humanity's future may rest on how we deal with climate change,
environmental problems, and their impacts on society. Terrestrial
Transformations: A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature
recognizes that such problems have social, political, and cultural
contexts, and that politics, money, and power have physical impacts
on nature and society that cannot be ignored. This book brings
together a set of chapters that provide an overview of the
political ecology approach, illustrating its theoretical
underpinnings, central concepts, methods, and major interests. The
authors examine the political contexts of a broad range of
environmental and social problems, drawing attention to the
political and economic forces driving environmental and ecological
problems, how societies are transformed as they attempt to cope and
adapt to a changing nature, and who pays the price.
In her new book, Gezon argues that local events continuously
redefine and challenge global processes of land use and land
degradation. She challenges analytical distinctions between
separate 'local' and 'global' spaces, rather proposing that the
global is one aspect of the local, to the extent that people in any
given locale must act within the parameters of policies,
authorities, and material conditions that have sources outside of
the reach of immediate local networks. Her ethnographic study of
Antankarana-identifying rice farmers and cattle herders in northern
Madagascar weaves together an analysis of remotely sensed images of
land cover over time with ethnographies of situated negotiations
between human actors. She focuses in particular on the interplay of
political authorities-including family-based elders, a regional
indigenous authority, and an NGO charged with enforcement of
conservation policies-in the context of specific contests over
resource access. Gezon takes a micro-political approach in
evaluating conflicts that result in a change in control over local
resources by global or supra-national policies, capital, or
personnel. Her book will be particularly valuable to researchers
and students in anthropology, geography, sociology, and
environmental studies, and those involved in conservation and
resource management.
Humanity's future may rest on how we deal with climate change,
environmental problems, and their impacts on society. Terrestrial
Transformations: A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature
recognizes that such problems have social, political, and cultural
contexts, and that politics, money, and power have physical impacts
on nature and society that cannot be ignored. This book brings
together a set of authors whose chapters provide an overview of the
political ecology approach, illustrating its theoretical
underpinnings, central concepts, methods, and major interests. The
chapters in this collection examine the political contexts of a
broad range of environmental and social problems, drawing attention
to the political and economic forces driving environmental and
ecological problems, how societies are transformed as they attempt
to cope and adapt to a changing nature, and who pays the price.
"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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