Political Ecology Across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups

Susan Paulson is the director of Latin American studies and an associate professor of anthropology at Miami University.Lisa Gezon is an associate professor and chair of the department of anthropology at the State University of West Georgia.

• Acknowledgments1. Place, Power, Difference: Multiscale Research at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century by Liza L. Gezon and Susan Paulson2. Politics, Ecologies, Genealogies by Susan Paulson, Lisa L. Gezon, and Michael WattsPART ONE: Policy and Environment3. The Fight for the West: A Political Ecology of Land-Use Conflicts in Arizona by Mette J. Brogden and James B. Greenberg4. Whose Water? Political Ecology of Water Reform in Zimbabwe by Anne Ferguson and Bill Derman5. The New Calculus of Bedouin Pastoralism in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by Andrew Gardner6. Land Tenure and Biodiversity: An Exploration in the Political Ecology of Murang'a District, Kenya by A. Fiona D. Mackenzie7. The Political Ecology of Consumption: Beyond Greed and Guilt by Josiah McC. HeymanPART TWO: Social Hierarchies in Local-Global Relationships8. Finding the Global in the Local: Environmental Struggles in Northern Madagascar by Lisa L. Gezon9. Symbolic Action and Soil Fertility: Political Ecology and the Transformation of Space and Place in Tonga by Charles J. Stevens10. Gendered Practices and Landscapes in the Andes: The Shape of Asymmetrical Exchanges by Susan Paulson11. Undermining Modernity: Protecting Landscapes and Meanings among the Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia by Alf HornborgPART THREE: Forest Visions12. Shade: Throwing Light on Politics and Ecology in Contemporary Pakistan by Michael R. Dove13. A Global Political Ecology of Bioprospecting by Hanne Svarstad14. The Emergence of Collective Ethnic Identities and Alternative Political Ecologies in the Colombian Pacific Rainforest by Arturo Escobar and Susan PaulsonNotes on ContributorsIndex

Political ecology is a strong and growing interdisciplinary field of inquiry, and this book makes a welcome and unique contribution. Susan Paulson and Lisa Gezon have put together an engaging and well-written collection that is full of fresh ideas and applications related to current theoretical debate, concepts and methods. - Marianne Schmick (Director, Tropical Conservation and Development Program, University of Florida) Political ecology is a strong and growing interdisciplinary field of inquiry, and this book makes a welcome and unique contribution. Susan Paulson and Lisa Gezon have put together an engaging and well-written collection that is full of fresh ideas and applications related to current theoretical debate, concepts and methods. - Marianne Schmick (Director, Tropical Conservation and Development Program, University of Florida)