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Governmentality and political ecology

2023
Mobilizing a politico-ecological outlook, the chapter aims at exploring how the category of governmentality – both liberal and neoliberal – can shed light on ecology-related discursive formations that have become mainstream in recent years, namely the green economy and the Anthropocene. Both express an anti-naturalist political rationality.
Leonardi, Emanuele, Pellizzoni, Luigi
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Political ecology: where is the politics? [PDF]

open access: possibleProgress in Human Geography, 2006
To political ecologists today, it might seem odd – ridiculous perhaps – to ask whether political ecology is sufficiently political. It has been the better part of two decades since Michael Watts complained that the dominant expressions of political ecology of the 1980s displayed ‘a remarkable lack of politics . . .
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Political Ecologies of Landscape

2022
Connolly draws on the recent changes in the Malaysian state of Penang to open up new perspectives on urban development, governance and the politics of place. Reviewing the role of residents, activists, planners and other experts in socio-natural changes and urban regeneration, it builds an important new framework of landscape political ecology.
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The Political Ecology of Disease

Review of Radical Political Economics, 1977
Current medical definitions of health and disease are inadequate for an understanding of public health problems. The narrowest attribute causa tion to agents of disease (e.g., germ theory); the widest (e.g., medical ecology) take into account some social factors like behavior and culture. All focus on the individual rather than the collectivity.
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What makes ecology `political'?: rethinking `scale' in political ecology

Progress in Human Geography, 2009
This essay explores the ways in which concepts of `scale' are deployed in political ecology to explain the outcomes of ecological and social change. It argues that political ecologists need to pay closer attention to how scale is produced and used to interpret the experience of spatiotemporal difference and change so as to make ecology the object of ...
Christian A. Kull, Haripriya Rangan
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