Violent environments
The conventional understanding of environmental security, and its assumptions about the relation between violence and the environment, are challenged and refuted in Violent Environments in chapters by geographers, historians, anthropologists, and sociologists . Violent Environments portrays violence as a site-specific phenomenon rooted in local histories and societies, yet connected to larger processes of material transformation and power relations. The authors argue that specific resource environments and environmental processes are constituted by and in part constitute the political economy of access to and control over resources. [from publisher's advertisement]
Kongress Berkeley (Calif.) 1998
ix, 453 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
9780801438714, 9780801487118, 0801438713, 0801487110
45202024
Violent environments / Nancy Lee Peluso and Michael Watts
Will the circle be unbroken? A critique of the project on environment, population, and security / Betsy Hartmann
Are "forest" wars in Africa resource conflicts? The case of Sierra Leone / Paul Richards
Territory, custom, and the cultural politics of ethnic war in west Kalimantan, Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso and Emily Harwell
States of nature and environmental enclosures in the American west / James McCarthy
Damaging crops: sabotage, social memory, and the new genetic enclosures / Iain A. Boal
Between a ranch and a hard place: violence, scarcity, and meaning in Chiapas, Mexico / Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Petro-violence: community, extraction, and political ecology of a mythic commodity / Michael Watts
International dimensions of conflict over natural and environmental resources / James Fairhead
Invisible spaces, violent places: Cold War nuclear and militarized landscapes / Valerie Kuletz
Violence, environment, and industrial shrimp farming / Susan C. Stonich and Peter Vandergeest
Victims of "friendly fire" at Russia's nuclear weapons sites / Paula Garb and Galina Komarova
Disciplining peasants in Tanzania: from state violence to self-surveillance in wildlife conservation / Roderick P. Neumann
Beyond the bounds? Violence at the margins of new legal geographies / Nandini Sundar
Written on the body, written on the land: violence and environmental struggles in central India / Amita Baviskar
Toward a metaphysic of environmental violence: the case of the Bhopal gas disaster / S. Ravi Rajan