Reading List for Political Ecology

Political Ecology I: Humans & Environment, ontological relations and methodological considerations

Rod Neumann: Making Political Ecology, 'roots and branches'

Paul Robbins: Political Ecology, 'seed and hatchet'

Karl Marx: Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations, 'selections'

John Berger: Pig Earth, 'the value of money'

Political Ecology II: Liberation Ecology, ecological neocolonialism, making of environments and peoples

Political Ecology III: Ecology: Gould, Vandermeer and Perfecto,

Political Ecology IV: The Body, Companions, and Relations:

Political Ecology IV: Conservation

Bassett TJ , 2003, Dangerous pursuits: Hunter associations (donzo ton) and national politics in Cote d'Ivoire AFRICA 73 (1): 1-30 Whatmore and Thorne: Coffee networks IN Globalising Food Bassett TJ , Zueli KB, 2000, Environmental discourses and the Ivorian Savanna Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90 (1): 67-95 Zimmerer. 'Soil Erosion and Labor Shortages in the Andes …’ Hecht, Susanna. 'Environment, Development and Politics: Capital Accumulation and the Livestock Sector in Eastern Amazonia' World Development V 13 #6 pp. 663-684. Robbins P, Robbins. 2001. "Fixed Categories in a Portable Landscape: The Causes and Consequences of Land Cover Categorization" Environment and Planning A. 33(1): 161-179. Castree N, 2002, False antithesis? marxim, nature and actor-networks Antipode Scott, J. Seeing Like a State Sneddon, C.S. 2000 “Sustainability” in Ecological Economics, Ecology and        Livelihoods: A Review, Progress in Human Geography (Vol. 24, no. 4), pp.        521-549. Wade R, Review: Promoting Sustainable Development Freidberg, S. 2001. To Garden, To Market: Gendered meanings of work on an African urban periphery Gender, Place and Culture 8(1):5-24. Agarwal B, 2003, Gender and Land Rights Revisited Journal of Agrarian Studies Pulido L, 2000, Rethinking environmental racism: White privilege and urban development in southern California ANN ASSOC AM GEOGR 90 (1): 12-40 Carney, Judith and Michael Watts.  1991.  'Disciplining Women? Rice, Mechanization, and the evolution of Mandinka gender relations in Senegambia' Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society V16(4) pp.  651-681. Sletto B, 2002, Producing spaces(s), representing landscapes: maps and resource conflicts in Trinidad Cultural Geogrpahies 9: 389-420 Sneddon C, 2003, Reconfiguring scale and power; the Khong-Chi-Mun project in northeast Thailand Environment and Planning A 35 2229-2250 Wolford W, 2003, Families, Fields and Fighting for Land: The Spatial Dynamics of Contention in Rural Brazil Mobilization 8(2) Muradan R, Martinez-Alier J, Correa H, 2003, International capital versus local population: The environmental conflict of the Tambogrande mining project, Peru Society and Natural Resources 16: 775-792 Scott, James C. Seeing Like a State: excerpt Hughes, D, (2001) “Rezoned for business: how eco-tourism unlocked black farmland in eastern Zimbabwe.” Journal of Agrarian Change 1(4): 575-99. Biodiversity, conservation and development in Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania Homewood K, Brockington D GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY 8 (3-4): 301-313 MAY-JUL 1999 Robbins and Sharp. 2003. "Producing and Consuming Chemicals: The Moral Economy of the American Lawn" Economic Geography 79(4): 425-451. Barham E, 2003, Translating terroir: the global challenge of French AOC labeling Journal of Rural Studies 19:127-138 Gouveia L, Aurnas J, 2002, Taming nature, taming workers: constructing the separation between meat consumption and meat production in the US Sociologia Rurlais 42(4): 370-390 Mansfield B, 2003, Fish, factory trawlers, and imitation crab: the nature of quality in the seafood industry JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES19(1): 9-21 Freidberg SE, 2003, Culture, converntions and colonial constructs of rurality in south-north horticultural trades Journal of Rural Studies 19: 97-109 Latour B, Pandora’s Hope Chapters 1 and 2 (in 'readings' area in 1457 POT) Williams, R. Marxism and Literature, The country and the city Castree N, 2002, False antitheses? Marxism, nature and actor-networks ANTIPODE 34(1): 111- 146

 

 

 

Embodying Nature: the Work of Consumption

The Agrarian Question then and now

Agarian questions, alternative Agricultural Trade Networks:

Goodman D, 2003, The quality ‘turn’ and alternative food practices: reflections and agenda Journal of Rural Studies 19: 1-7

Nigh, R. and Hernandez Castillo: Organic Coffee and Mam indigenous producers

Whatmore and Thorne: Coffee networks IN Globalising Food

Pollan M. 2000. ‘The Organic-Industrial Complex’.

Whatmore S, Stassart P, Renting H, 2003, What's alternative about alternative food networks? ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A 35(3): 389- 391

Consumption, class, status

Hollander G, 2003, Re-naturalizing sugar: narratives of place, production and consumption Social and Cultural Geography 4(1): 59-74

Guthman J, 2003, Fast food/organic food: reflexive tastes and the making of 'yuppie chow'
SOC CULT GEOGR 4 (1): 45-58

Capital Concentration in Global Food Systems:
Agro-Industrialization

Martinez S, 1999, From hidden hand to heavy hand: Sugar , the state, and migrant labor in Haiti and the Dominican Republic Latin American Research Review 34 (1): 57-84

Boyd W, Watts M, 'Agro-industrial just-in-time: The chicken industry and postwar American capitalism' In Globalising Food

Biodiversity and Ecological Degradation

Zimmerer K, Peasants preserve biodiversity

Representing environments in flux: case studies from East Africa
Gillson L, Sheridan M, Brockington D
AREA 35 (4): 371-389 DEC 2003