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Contentious Geographies - Maxwell T. Boykoff

Contentious Geographies

Environmental Knowledge, Meaning, Scale

(Autor)

Michael K. Goodman (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
264 Seiten
2008
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7546-4971-7 (ISBN)
CHF 259,95 inkl. MwSt
The human-environment relationship is one of the most pressing concerns of the twenty-first century. Bringing together a range of global case studies to illustrate the broad range of current theories on this relationship, this book presents significant cutting-edge research into the continuing (re)definition of political ecology as it relates to environmental contestation.
The human-environment relationship - intimately intertwined and often contentious - is one of the most pressing concerns of the 21st century. Explored through an array of critical approaches, this book brings together case studies from across the globe to present significant cutting-edge research into political ecologies as they relate to multi-form contestations over environments, resources and livelihoods. Covering a range of issues, such as popular discourses of environmental 'collapse', climate change, water resource struggles, displacement, agro-food landscapes and mapping technologies, this edited volume works to provide a broad and critical understanding of the narratives and policies more subtly shaping and being shaped by underlying environmental conflicts. By exploring the power-laden processes by which environmental knowledge is generated, framed, communicated and interpreted, Contentious Geographies works to reveal how environmental conflicts can be (re)considered and thus (re)opened to enhance efforts to negotiate more sustainable environments and livelihoods.

Dr Michael K. Goodman is a Lecturer in Geography at King's College London, UK, Dr Maxwell T. Boykoff, is a Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, UK and Dr Kyle T. Evered, is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Michigan State University, USA.

Chapter 1 Contentious Geographies: Environmental Knowledge, Meaning, Scale, Michael K. Goodman, Maxwell T. Boykoff, Kyle T. Evered; Part 1 Translating Contentious Environmental Knowledge and Science; Chapter 2 The Contentious World of Jared Diamond’s Collapse, Tim Forsyth; Chapter 3 Fight Semantic Drift!? Mass Media Coverage of Anthropogenic Climate Change, Maxwell T. Boykoff; Chapter 4 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; Chapter 5 ‘Environmentality’ in Rajasthan’s Groundwater Sector: Divergent Environmental Knowledges and Subjectivities, Trevor L. Birkenholtz; Chapter 6 Discursive Spearpoints: Contentious Interventions in Amazonian Indigenous Environments, Logan A. Hennessy; Part 3 Environmental Movements: Contested (Re)Scaling of Knowledges, Problems and Narratives; Chapter 7 Confronting Invisibility: Reconstructing Scale in California’s Pesticide Drift Conflict, Jill Harrison; Chapter 8 Scale and Narrative in the Struggle for Environment and Livelihood in Vieques, Puerto Rico, Karen Schmelzkopf; Chapter 9 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; Chapter 10 Regional Power and the Power of the Region: Resisting Dam Removal in the Pacific Northwest, Eve Vogel; Chapter 11 Law of Regions: Mining Legislation and the Construction of East and West, Johanna Haas; Part 5 Fraught Spatial Technologies and Knowledge Construction; Chapter 12 1An earlier and shorter version of this chapter was published as an Introduction to Mapping Communities: Ethics, Values, Practice (East-West Center, 2005) that documents the collection of case studies covered by our project. Yet another shorter communication was published as ‘Mapping power: ironic effects of spatial information te

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.4.2008
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10 0-7546-4971-7 / 0754649717
ISBN-13 978-0-7546-4971-7 / 9780754649717
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