Other Geographies

Sharad Chari, PhD is Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of California at Berkeley, and Visiting Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand. Susanne Freidberg, PhD is Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College. Vinay Gidwani, PhD is Professor of Geography and Global Studies at the University of Minnesota. Jesse Ribot, PhD is Professor of Geography, Anthropology and Natural Resources and Environmental Studies at the University of Illinois. Wendy Wolford, PhD is Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University.

• Series Editors’ Preface viiNotes on Contributors ixIntroduction: Other Geographies, in the work of Michael Watts 1Sharad Chari, Susanne Freidberg, Jesse Ribot, Wendy Wolford and Vinay Gidwani1 Academic Journeys in the Black Atlantic: Gender, Work and Environmental Transformations 29Judith Carney2 Getting Back to our Roots: Integrating Critical Physical and Social Science in the Early Work of Michael Watts 43Rebecca Lave3 Binary Narratives of Capitalism and Climate Change: Dangers and Possibilities 55Lucy Jarosz4 Aggregate Modernities: A Critical Natural History of Contemporary Algorithms 63Jake Kosek5 Peanuts for Cashews? Agricultural Diversification and the Limits of Adaptability in Côte d’Ivoire 79Thomas J. Bassett and Moussa Koné6 Life Itself Under Contract: A Biopolitics of Partnerships and Chemical Risk in California’s Strawberry Industry 97Julie Guthman7 Commoditization, Primitive Accumulation and the Spaces of Biodiversity Conservation 111Roderick P. Neumann8 Stopping the Serengeti Road: Social Media and the Discursive Politics of Conservation in Tanzania 127Benjamin Gardner9 Privatize Everything, Certify Everywhere: Academic Assessment and Value Transfers 143Tad Mutersbaugh10 Oil, Indigeneity and Dispossession 157Joe Bryan11 Frontiers: Remembering the Forgotten Lands 169Teo Ballvé12 Vibrancy of Refuse, Piety of Refusal: Infrastructures of Discard in Dakar 185Rosalind Fredericks13 Reclamation, Displacement and Resiliency in Phnom Penh 199Erin CollinsIndex 215