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Contentious Geographies: Environmental Knowledge, Meaning, Scale

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The human-environment relationship - intimately intertwined and often contentious - is one of the most pressing concerns of the 21st century. Explored through an array of critical approaches, this book brings together case studies from across the globe to present significant cutting-edge research into political ecologies as they relate to multi-form contestations over environments, resources and livelihoods. Covering a range of issues, such as popular discourses of environmental 'collapse', climate change, water resource struggles, displacement, agro-food landscapes and mapping technologies, this edited volume works to provide a broad and critical understanding of the narratives and policies more subtly shaping and being shaped by underlying environmental conflicts. By exploring the power-laden processes by which environmental knowledge is generated, framed, communicated and interpreted, Contentious Geographies works to reveal how environmental conflicts can be (re)considered and thus (re)opened to enhance efforts to negotiate more sustainable environments and livelihoods.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Contentious Geographies: Environmental Knowledge, Meaning, Scale, Michael K. Goodman, Maxwell T. Boykoff, Kyle T. Evered; Part 1 Translating Contentious Environmental Knowledge and Science; Chapter 2 The Contentious World of Jared Diamond’s Collapse, Tim Forsyth; Chapter 3 Fight Semantic Drift!? Mass Media Coverage of Anthropogenic Climate Change, Maxwell T. Boykoff; Chapter 4 Whose Scarcity? The Hydrosocial Cycle and the Changing Waterscape of La Ligua River Basin, Chile, Jessica Budds; Part 2 Conflicting and Shifting Environmental Knowledges, Livelihoods, and Power; Chapter 5 ‘Environmentality’ in Rajasthan’s Groundwater Sector: Divergent Environmental Knowledges and Subjectivities, Trevor L. Birkenholtz; Chapter 6 Discursive Spearpoints: Contentious Interventions in Amazonian Indigenous Environments, Logan A. Hennessy; Part 3 Environmental Movements: Contested (Re)Scaling of Knowledges, Problems and Narratives; Chapter 7 Confronting Invisibility: Reconstructing Scale in California’s Pesticide Drift Conflict, Jill Harrison; Chapter 8 Scale and Narrative in the Struggle for Environment and Livelihood in Vieques, Puerto Rico, Karen Schmelzkopf; Chapter 9 Making Local Places GE-Free in California’s Contentious Geographies of Genetic Pollution and Coexistence, Dustin Mulvaney; Part 4 Contested Production of Environmental Science, Law, and Knowledge; Chapter 10 Regional Power and the Power of the Region: Resisting Dam Removal in the Pacific Northwest, Eve Vogel; Chapter 11 Law of Regions: Mining Legislation and the Construction of East and West, Johanna Haas; Part 5 Fraught Spatial Technologies and Knowledge Construction; Chapter 12 1An earlier and shorter version of this chapter was published as an Introduction to Mapping Communities: Ethics, Values, Practice (East-West Center, 2005) that documents the collection of case studies covered by our project. Yet another shorter communication was published as ‘Mapping power: ironic effects of spatial information te


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780754649717
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 264
  • Weight: 598 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0754649717
  • Publisher Date: 28 Apr 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Environmental Knowledge, Meaning, Scale
  • Width: 156 mm


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