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Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Other Geographies, in the Work of Michael Watts -- Chapter 1 Academic Journeys in the Black Atlantic: Gender, Work and Environmental Transformations -- Gender and Agrarian Transitions -- African Rice and Knowledge Systems in the Americas -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Getting Back to our Roots: Integrating Critical Physical and Social Science in the Early Work of Michael Watts -- Introduction -- Early Political Ecology and the Integration of Critical Social and Physical Science -- The Post-Structural Turn -- New Engagements: Critical Physical Geography -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Binary Narratives of Capitalism and Climate Change: Dangers and Possibilities -- Silent Violence: The Persistence of Hunger and Famine -- Binaries in Cultural Narratives of People and Nature -- Binaries in This Changes Everything -- References -- Chapter 4 Aggregate Modernities: A Critical Natural History of Contemporary Algorithms -- A Critical Natural History and the Algorithm -- The California Meeting -- The Making of the Aggregate Bee -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Peanuts for Cashews? Agricultural Diversification and the Limits of Adaptability in Côte d'Ivoire -- Introduction -- Peasants, Capital and the State: The political economy of maladaptation -- Expanding the Portfolio: Agricultural diversification and adaptive capacity -- The Expansion of Cashew Cultivation in Côte d'Ivoire -- Production and Market Relations of Cotton and Cashews -- Market Structures and Producer Prices in the Cashew Economy -- Peasant Commodity Production and Exchange -- State Taxation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References
Chapter 6 Life Itself Under Contract: A Biopolitics of Partnerships and Chemical Risk in California's Strawberry Industry -- Watts and the Agrarian Question -- From Sharecropping to Partnering in California's Strawberry Industry -- Toward a Biopolitics of Contract Farming -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 Commoditization, Primitive Accumulation and the Spaces of Biodiversity Conservation -- The Argument -- The Location -- Ivory -- Rubber -- Beeswax -- Displacement -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8 Stopping the Serengeti Road: Social Media and the Discursive Politics of Conservation in Tanzania -- Power, Meaning and Knowledge: Michael Watts and Political Ecology -- Introduction -- The Serengeti Road -- 'Worldwide Opposition' and Scientific Expertise -- 'If we can't save the Serengeti, what can we save?' -- The Knowledge/Practice of Conservation -- The Serengeti Shall not Die -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9 Privatize Everything, Certify Everywhere: Academic Assessment and Value Transfers -- Certify Everywhere -- Pipes and Tubes -- Transferring Value Across Frontiers -- Semiotics of Rent Extraction -- Assessments, Performance and Governance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10 Oil, Indigeneity and Dispossession -- Extractivism and the Southern Question -- Spacing Indigeneity from Ogoniland to Sumak Kawsay -- Conclusion: Extractivism, Indigeneity and Marxism -- References -- Chapter 11 Frontiers: Remembering the Forgotten Lands -- Producing the Frontier -- Economies of Violence and Governable Spaces -- Conclusion: Macondo Meets Mad Max? -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 12 Vibrancy of Refuse, Piety of Refusal: Infrastructures of Discard in Dakar -- Violence of Disposability -- Technologies of Community -- Piety of Refusal -- Infrastructure's Political Address -- Notes -- References
Chapter 13 Reclamation, Displacement and Resiliency in Phnom Penh -- Land Reclamation and Racial Quarterization in Colonial Phnom Penh -- Land Reclamation as Nation Building Apparatus in the Post-Colonial City -- Accumulation by Land Reclamation in the Post-Socialist City -- Resiliency in the Time of Climate Change -- Notes -- References -- Index -- EULA