Political Ecology Across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups

Acknowledgments

1. Place, Power, Difference: Multiscale Research at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century by Liza L. Gezon and Susan Paulson
2. Politics, Ecologies, Genealogies by Susan Paulson, Lisa L. Gezon, and Michael Watts

PART ONE: Policy and Environment
3. The Fight for the West: A Political Ecology of Land-Use Conflicts in Arizona by Mette J. Brogden and James B. Greenberg
4. Whose Water? Political Ecology of Water Reform in Zimbabwe by Anne Ferguson and Bill Derman
5. The New Calculus of Bedouin Pastoralism in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by Andrew Gardner
6. Land Tenure and Biodiversity: An Exploration in the Political Ecology of Murang'a District, Kenya by A. Fiona D. Mackenzie
7. The Political Ecology of Consumption: Beyond Greed and Guilt by Josiah McC. Heyman

PART TWO: Social Hierarchies in Local-Global Relationships
8. Finding the Global in the Local: Environmental Struggles in Northern Madagascar by Lisa L. Gezon
9. Symbolic Action and Soil Fertility: Political Ecology and the Transformation of Space and Place in Tonga by Charles J. Stevens
10. Gendered Practices and Landscapes in the Andes: The Shape of Asymmetrical Exchanges by Susan Paulson
11. Undermining Modernity: Protecting Landscapes and Meanings among the Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia by Alf Hornborg

PART THREE: Forest Visions
12. Shade: Throwing Light on Politics and Ecology in Contemporary Pakistan by Michael R. Dove
13. A Global Political Ecology of Bioprospecting by Hanne Svarstad
14. The Emergence of Collective Ethnic Identities and Alternative Political Ecologies in the Colombian Pacific Rainforest by Arturo Escobar and Susan Paulson

Notes on Contributors
Index