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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811584603321

Titolo

Other geographies : the influences of Michael Watts / / edited by Sharad Chari [and four others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-119-18433-9

1-119-18478-9

1-119-18432-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Antipode Book Series

Disciplina

304.2

Soggetti

Human geography

Political ecology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : other Geographies, in the work of Michael Watts / Sharad Chari, Susanne Freidberg, Jesse Ribot, Wendy Wolford and Vinay Gidwani -- Academic journeys in the Black Atlantic : gender, work and environmental transformations / Judith Carney -- Getting back to our roots : integrating critical physical and social science in the early work of Michael Watts / Rebecca Lave -- Binary narratives of capitalism and climate change : dangers and possibilities / Lucy Jarosz -- Aggregate modernities : a critical natural history of contemporary algorithms / Jake Kosek -- Peanuts for cashews? : agricultural diversification and the limits of adaptability in Cote d'Ivoire / Thomas Bassett and Moussa Kone -- Life itself under contract : a biopolitics of partnerships and chemical risk in California's strawberry industry / ulie Guthman -- Commoditization, primitive accumulation, and the spaces of biodiversity conservation / Roderick Neumann -- Stopping the Serengeti Road : social media and the discursive politics of conservation in Tanzania / Benjamin Gardner -- Privatize everything, certify everywhere : Academic assessment and value transfers / Tad Mutersbaugh -- Oil, indigeneity and dispossession / Joe Bryan -- Frontiers : remembering the forgotten lands / Teo Ballve -- Vibrancy of



refuse, piety of refusal : infrastructures of discard in Dakar / Rosalind Fredericks -- Land reclamation as resiliency in post-colonial Phnom Penh / Erin Collins.