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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given
area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject
in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of
travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This timely Research
Agenda highlights how slow violence, unlike other forms of conflict
and direct, physical violence, is difficult to see and measure. It
explores ways in which geographers study, analyze and draw
attention to forms of harm and violence that have often not been at
the forefront of public awareness, including slow violence
affecting children, women, Indigenous peoples, and the environment.
Demonstrating a range of research methods and theoretical
perspectives, this Research Agenda looks at the topic of slow
violence through qualitative fieldwork, document analysis,
geospatial technologies and cartographic analysis and
representation. Key case studies consider slow violence in the form
of social injustice, environmental alteration, and harmful
human-environment interactions. The chapters also highlight how
physical infrastructure, social and legal practices, places that
have experienced armed conflict, and groups of people being labeled
or marginalised can foster forms of slow violence. Scholars and
students of human geography, particularly those looking at
decolonization, environmental and social justice and different
geographic methods for research, will find this book to be a
beneficial read. It will also be useful for those studying
structural harm and indirect violence more widely.
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given
area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject
in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of
travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Challenging the
mainstream view of the environment as either threatening or
valuable, this book considers how geographic knowledge can be
applied to offer a more nuanced understanding. Framed within
geopolitics and using a range of methodologies, the chapters
encapsulate different approaches to demonstrate how selective forms
of knowledge, measurement, and spatial focus both embody and
stabilize power, shaping how people perceive and respond to
changing features of human-environment interactions. With key case
studies analyzed throughout, this will be a timely read for
geography and environmental studies scholars. It will also be
beneficial to those studying political science and regional
studies, as well as those working in NGOs and think tanks.
Contributors include: L. Acton, B. Blue, L.M. Campbell, S. Dalby,
O. Evrard, C.A. Fox, N.J. Gray, M. Himley, C. Johnson, F. Lasserre,
P. Le Billon, M. Mostafanezhad, S. O'Lear, L. Olman, B. Schneider,
L. Shykora, C. Sneddon, J. Swann-Quinn, M. Tadaki, P.-L. Tetu, S.D.
VanDeveer
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given
area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject
in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of
travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This timely Research
Agenda highlights how slow violence, unlike other forms of conflict
and direct, physical violence, is difficult to see and measure. It
explores ways in which geographers study, analyze and draw
attention to forms of harm and violence that have often not been at
the forefront of public awareness, including slow violence
affecting children, women, Indigenous peoples, and the environment.
Demonstrating a range of research methods and theoretical
perspectives, this Research Agenda looks at the topic of slow
violence through qualitative fieldwork, document analysis,
geospatial technologies and cartographic analysis and
representation. Key case studies consider slow violence in the form
of social injustice, environmental alteration, and harmful
human-environment interactions. The chapters also highlight how
physical infrastructure, social and legal practices, places that
have experienced armed conflict, and groups of people being labeled
or marginalised can foster forms of slow violence. Scholars and
students of human geography, particularly those looking at
decolonization, environmental and social justice and different
geographic methods for research, will find this book to be a
beneficial read. It will also be useful for those studying
structural harm and indirect violence more widely.
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given
area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject
in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of
travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Challenging the
mainstream view of the environment as either threatening or
valuable, this book considers how geographic knowledge can be
applied to offer a more nuanced understanding. Framed within
geopolitics and using a range of methodologies, the chapters
encapsulate different approaches to demonstrate how selective forms
of knowledge, measurement, and spatial focus both embody and
stabilize power, shaping how people perceive and respond to
changing features of human-environment interactions. With key case
studies analyzed throughout, this will be a timely read for
geography and environmental studies scholars. It will also be
beneficial to those studying political science and regional
studies, as well as those working in NGOs and think tanks.
Contributors include: L. Acton, B. Blue, L.M. Campbell, S. Dalby,
O. Evrard, C.A. Fox, N.J. Gray, M. Himley, C. Johnson, F. Lasserre,
P. Le Billon, M. Mostafanezhad, S. O'Lear, L. Olman, B. Schneider,
L. Shykora, C. Sneddon, J. Swann-Quinn, M. Tadaki, P.-L. Tetu, S.D.
VanDeveer
"Change the system, not the climate" is a common slogan of climate
change activists. Yet when this idea comes into the academic and
policy realm, it is easy to see how climate change discourse
frequently asks the wrong questions. Reframing Climate Change
encourages social scientists, policy-makers, and graduate students
to critically consider how climate change is framed in scientific,
social, and political spheres. It proposes ecological geopolitics
as a framework for understanding the extent to which climate change
is a meaningful analytical focus, as well as the ways in which it
can be detrimental, detracting attention from more productive lines
of thought, research, and action. The volume draws from multiple
perspectives and disciplines to cover a broad scope of climate
change. Chapter topics range from climate science and security to
climate justice and literacy. Although these familiar concepts are
widely used by scholars and policy-makers, they are discussed here
as frequently problematic when used as lenses through which to
study climate change. Beyond merely reviewing current trends within
these different approaches to climate change, the collection offers
a thoughtful assessment of these approaches with an eye towards an
overarching reconsideration of the current understanding of our
relationship to climate change. Reframing Climate Change is an
essential resource for students, policy-makers, and anyone
interested in understanding more about this important topic. Who
decides what the priorities are? Who benefits from these
priorities, and what kinds of systems or actions are justified or
hindered? The key contribution of the book is the outlining of
ecological geopolitics as a different way of understanding
human-environment relationships including and beyond climate change
issues.
"Change the system, not the climate" is a common slogan of climate
change activists. Yet when this idea comes into the academic and
policy realm, it is easy to see how climate change discourse
frequently asks the wrong questions. Reframing Climate Change
encourages social scientists, policy-makers, and graduate students
to critically consider how climate change is framed in scientific,
social, and political spheres. It proposes ecological geopolitics
as a framework for understanding the extent to which climate change
is a meaningful analytical focus, as well as the ways in which it
can be detrimental, detracting attention from more productive lines
of thought, research, and action. The volume draws from multiple
perspectives and disciplines to cover a broad scope of climate
change. Chapter topics range from climate science and security to
climate justice and literacy. Although these familiar concepts are
widely used by scholars and policy-makers, they are discussed here
as frequently problematic when used as lenses through which to
study climate change. Beyond merely reviewing current trends within
these different approaches to climate change, the collection offers
a thoughtful assessment of these approaches with an eye towards an
overarching reconsideration of the current understanding of our
relationship to climate change. Reframing Climate Change is an
essential resource for students, policy-makers, and anyone
interested in understanding more about this important topic. Who
decides what the priorities are? Who benefits from these
priorities, and what kinds of systems or actions are justified or
hindered? The key contribution of the book is the outlining of
ecological geopolitics as a different way of understanding
human-environment relationships including and beyond climate change
issues.
This thought-provoking and clearly argued text provides a critical
geopolitical lens for understanding global environment politics. A
subfield of political geography, environmental geopolitics examines
how environmental themes are used to support geopolitical arguments
and physical realities of power and place. Shannon O'Lear considers
common, problematic traits of such familiar but widely
misunderstood narratives about human-environment relationships.
Mainstream themes about human-environment relationships include
narratives about presumed connections between human population
trends and resource scarcity; ways in which conflict and violence
are linked to resource use or environmental degradation; climate
security; and the application of science to solve environmental
problems. O'Lear questions these narratives, arguing that the role
or meaning of the environment is rarely specified, humans' role in
these situations tends to be considered selectively, and little
attention is paid to spatial dimensions of human-environment
relationships. She shows that how we tend to think about
environmental concerns often obscure value judgments and constrain
more dynamic approaches to human-environment relationships.
Environmental geopolitics demonstrates how we can question familiar
assumptions to generate more just and creative approaches to our
many relationships with the environment.
This thought-provoking and clearly argued text provides a critical
geopolitical lens for understanding global environment politics. A
subfield of political geography, environmental geopolitics examines
how environmental themes are used to support geopolitical arguments
and physical realities of power and place. Shannon O'Lear considers
common, problematic traits of such familiar but widely
misunderstood narratives about human-environment relationships.
Mainstream themes about human-environment relationships include
narratives about presumed connections between human population
trends and resource scarcity; ways in which conflict and violence
are linked to resource use or environmental degradation; climate
security; and the application of science to solve environmental
problems. O'Lear questions these narratives, arguing that the role
or meaning of the environment is rarely specified, humans' role in
these situations tends to be considered selectively, and little
attention is paid to spatial dimensions of human-environment
relationships. She shows that how we tend to think about
environmental concerns often obscure value judgments and constrain
more dynamic approaches to human-environment relationships.
Environmental geopolitics demonstrates how we can question familiar
assumptions to generate more just and creative approaches to our
many relationships with the environment.
Shannon O'Lear brings a geographer's perspective to environmental
politics. The book considers issues of climate change, energy, food
security, toxins, waste, and resource conflict to explore how
political, economic, ideological and military power have
contributed to the generation of environmental issues and the
formation of dominant narratives about them. The book encourages
the reader to think critically about the power dynamics that shape
(and limit) how we think about environmental issues and to expand
the reader's understanding of why it matters that these issues are
discussed at particular spatial scales. Applying a geographer's
sense of scale and power leads to a better understanding of the
complexity of environmental issues and will help formulate
mitigation and adaptation strategies. The book will appeal mainly
to advanced students and researchers from a geography background,
but also to social and political scientists who wish to look at the
topic from this different perspective.
Shannon O'Lear brings a geographer's perspective to environmental
politics. The book considers issues of climate change, energy, food
security, toxins, waste, and resource conflict to explore how
political, economic, ideological and military power have
contributed to the generation of environmental issues and the
formation of dominant narratives about them. The book encourages
the reader to think critically about the power dynamics that shape
(and limit) how we think about environmental issues and to expand
the reader's understanding of why it matters that these issues are
discussed at particular spatial scales. Applying a geographer's
sense of scale and power leads to a better understanding of the
complexity of environmental issues and will help formulate
mitigation and adaptation strategies. The book will appeal mainly
to advanced students and researchers from a geography background,
but also to social and political scientists who wish to look at the
topic from this different perspective.
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