Geography
4742-002: Political Ecology
Revised class
schedule
UPDATED:
Tues Oct 21 Guest lecture on the
science of El Nino by Dr. Kevin Trenberth
(Mike Davis, Late
Victorian Holocausts, pp. 213-276)
Thurs Oct 23 The
political ecology of famine (continued)
Discussion/debate on market forces and part 3, pp. 213-276
Discussant for part 3: Mario
Tuesday October 28 The political ecology of famine (continued)
Discussion on part 4 and book as a whole.
Discussant for Part 4: Julie
Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts pp. 279-375.
Thurs Oct 30 Environmental
security/IPAT and Malthus revisited
Discussant: Kenny (?)
(1) Kaplan,
Robert. 1994. "The Coming Anarchy". Atlantic
Monthly 273(2). Note: the entire article is included in the reader,
but for class you are only responsible for pp. 52-61.
(2) Peluso, Nancy Lee and Michael Watts. 2001.
"Violent Environments" in Peluso and
Related
Dalby, Simon. 1996. "The Environment as Geopolitical
threat: Reading Robert Kaplan's 'Coming Anarchy' Ecumene.
3(4):472-496.
Tues Nov 4 Environmental security, continued
Discussant: Chris (?)
Paper 2 - Critical review due
(1) James Fairhead.
2001. "International Dimensions of conflict over natural and environmental
resources." Violent Environments, pp. 237-260.
Thurs Nov 6
The political ecology of oil
Discussant: Amber
(1) Michael
Watts. 2001. "Petro-violence: community,
extraction and political ecology of a mythic commodity" Violent
Environments, pp. 189-212.
Tues Nov 11
Property rights at home
Discussant: Mark
(1)
Fortmann, Louise. 1996. “Bonanza! The unasked questions:
domestic land tenure through international lenses”.Society
and Natural Resources 9: 537-47.
(2)
Thurs Nov 13. Property and
community resource management at home
Discussant: Andy
(1)
St. Martin, Kevin. 2001. “Making space for community resource
management in fisheries.” Annals of the Association of American
Geographers 91(1):122-142.
(2)
Sheridan, T. E. 2001. “Cows, condos and the contested commons: the
political ecology of ranching on the Arizona-Sonora borderlands.” Human Organization 60(2):141-152.
Tues Nov. 18
Political ecology in "developed" countries
Discussant: Ian
(1) McCarthy, James 2002. "First World political ecology: lessons from the
Wise Use movement". Environment and Planning A, 34: 1281-1302.
(2) )(*) Walker, Peter A. 2003
"Reconsidering 'regional' political ecologies: toward a political ecology
of the rural American West." Progress in Human
geography. 27(1):7-24. Available online through Chinook/Ingenta/Progress in Human Geography
Thursday November 20 Wise
use (continued)
Discussant: Carrie
(1)
McCarthy, James. 1998. "Environmentalism, Wise Use and the
nature of accumulation in the rural West." In Braun B. and Castree, N. editors, Remaking reality.
(2)
McCarthy, James. 2001. “Environmental enclosures and the state of
nature in the American West.” In Violent Environments
Tuesday Nov. 25 The
social construction of nature in the
Discussant: Tim
Paper 3: book review due
(1) Jennifer Price.
1996 "Looking for nature at the mall: a field guide to the Nature
company." in William Cronon (ed.) Uncommon
Ground: Rethinking the
(2) Richard
White.1006 "Are you an environmentalist or do you work for a living?': Work and nature." In Uncommon Ground, pp.
171-183.
Thurs Nov
27 no class - Thanksgiving
Tues Dec 2 no
class
Thurs Dec 4 Guest lecture on
US Public Lands by Professor Bill Travis
Tues Dec 9 The commodification of
nature in the
Discussant: Andrea
(1) Robertson,
Morgan M. 2000. "No net loss: wetland restoration and the incomplete
capitalization of nature." Antipode 32(4): 463-493.
Thurs Dec 11 Review of the field,
conclusions and wrap-up
Discussant: Dan
(1) Piers Blaikie. 1999. "A review
of political ecology: issues, epistemology and analytical narratives." Zeitcshrift fur Wirtschaftsgeographie,
pp. 131-147.
(2) Watts, Michael.2001. "Political Ecology" Companion to Economic
geography. T. Barnes and E. Sheppard (eds.) pp. 257-274.
Paper 4 due Monday December
15 at