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Violent Environments
Nancy Lee Peluso (Ed.)
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Description for Violent Environments
Paperback. Editor(s): Peluso, Nancy Lee; Watts, Michael. Num Pages: 464 pages, 12. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 646.
Do environmental problems and processes produce violence? Current U.S. policy about environmental conflict and scholarly work on environmental security assume direct causal links between population growth, resource scarcity, and violence. This belief, a staple of governmental decision-making during both Clinton administrations and widely held in the environmental security field, depends on particular assumptions about the nature of the state, the role of population growth, and the causes of environmental degradation.The conventional understanding of environmental security, and its assumptions about the relation between violence and the environment, are challenged and refuted in Violent Environments. Chapters by geographers, historians, anthropologists, and sociologists include accounts of ethnic war in Indonesia, petro-violence in Nigeria and Ecuador, wildlife conservation in Tanzania, and friendly fire at Russia's nuclear weapons sites. 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, including tropical forests and oil reserves, and environmental processes (such as deforestation, conservation, or resource abundance) are constituted by and in part constitute the political economy of access to and control over resources. Violent Environments demands new approaches to an international set of complex problems, powerfully arguing for deeper, more ethnographically informed analyses of the circumstances and processes that cause violence.
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Weight
646g
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801487118
SKU
V9780801487118
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About Nancy Lee Peluso (Ed.)
Nancy Lee Peluso is Professor of Environmental Social Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the coeditor of Violent Environments and coeditor, with Joseph Nevins, of Taking Southeast Asia to Market: Commodities, Nature, and People in the Neoliberal Age, both from Cornell, and the author of Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java. Michael Watts is Class of 1963 Professor of Geography and Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is coeditor of Violent Environments, also from Cornell, author most recently of Curse of the Black Gold, and coauthor of Afflicted Powers.
Reviews for Violent Environments
This important book offers a topical, richer and more complex approach to understanding the connections between population and the environment than does the current conventional wisdom. With a healthy variety of case studies and a focus both on a wide range of environmental topics and on the diverse forms of violence associated with environmental relations, Violent Environments is a unique and provocative collection. -Philip McMichael, Cornell University, author of Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective This book calls for a bold new fusion of a multifaceted political economy with environmental and cultural politics to address the real landscapes of violence. Opening up a vast new arena for debate, discussion, and political action, Violent Environments establishes convincing grounds for a thorough rethinking of the subject. The critique it offers is both compelling and desperately needed. -Karl S. Zimmerer, University of Wisconsin Violent Environments is a thought-provoking. . .volume that should be read carefully by all those interested in the various debates over environmental security. Many of the book's theoretical arguments and empirical findings provide important and timely challenges to mainstream approaches to studying the environment-violence nexus. Neo-Malthusian critics will find much to build upon in their efforts to develop a more systematic political economy/political ecology alternative. -Colin Kahl, University of Minnesota, Environmental Change and Security Project Report, Issue 8, 2002 Provides both a critique of the school of environmental security and alternative ways of understanding the connections between environment and science. -Book News, January 2002