Description
Book SynopsisA collection of ethnographies grounded in second-generation political ecology, which focuses on the interchanges between nature and culture, and the local and the global.
Trade Review“
Reimagining Political Ecology is an important contribution to efforts to build a more nuanced poststructural political ecology and a pertinent reminder that political ecology has benefited enormously from the work of anthropologists.”—Raymond Bryant, author of
The Political Ecology of Forestry in Burma, 1824–1994“Political ecologists have helped configure the fields of environmental governance and environmental justice. This thoughtful, insight-filled collection helps readers rethink some of the main concerns of political ecology. Organized in complementary counterpoint, the essays use evidence from around the world to make fundamental contributions toward a reconsideration of nature/culture relationships. Scholars from both disciplinary and interdisciplinary formations will discover the need to consult and use this volume.”—Arun Agrawal, author of
Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of SubjectsTable of ContentsAbout the Series ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction / Reimagining Political Ecology Culture/Power/History/Nature / Aletta Biersack 3
Beyond Modernist Ecologies
Equilibrium Theory and Interdisciplinary Borrowing: A Comparison of Old and New Ecological Anthropologies / Michael R. Dove 43
Nature and Society in the Age of Postmodernity / Gisli Palsson 70
Constructing and Appropriating Nature
Ecopolitics through Ethnography: The Cultures of Finland’s Forest-Nature / Eeva Berglund 97
The Political Ecology of Fisheries in the Upper Gulf of California / James B. Greenberg 121
“But the Young Men Don’t Want to Farm Any More”: Political Ecology and Consumer Culture in Belize / Richard Wilk 149
Properties of Nature, Properties of Culture: Ownership, Recognition, and the Politics of Nature in a Papua New Guinea Society / Joel Robbins 171
Ethnographies of Nature
Progress of the Victims: Political Ecology in the Peruvian Amazon / Soren Hvalkof 195
Red River, Green War: The Politics of Place Along the Porgera River / Aletta Biersack 233
Between Politics and Poetics: Narratives of Dispossession in Sarawak, East Malaysia / J. Peter Brosius 281
Between Nature and Culture
Rappaport’s Rose: Structure, Agency, and Historical Contingency in Ecological Anthropology / J. Stephen Lansing, John Schoenfelder, and Vernon Scarborough 325
Works Cited 359
Contributors 407
Index 409
