13 A Global Political Ecology of Bioprospecting

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1 Place, Power, Difference: Multiscale Research at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century 1
5. 2 Politics, Ecologies, Genealogies 17
6. PART ONE. Policy and Environment
7. 3 The Fight for the West: A Political Ecology of Land-Use Conflicts in Arizona 41
8. 4 Whose Water? Political Ecology of Water Reform in Zimbabwe 61
9. 5 The New Calculus of Bedouin Pastoralism in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 76
10. 6 Land Tenure and Biodiversity: An Exploration in the Political Ecology of Murang’a District, Kenya 94
11. 7 The Political Ecology of Consumption: Beyond Greed and Guilt 113
12. PART TWO. Social Hierarchies in Local-Global Relationships
13. 8 Finding the Global in the Local: Environmental Struggles in Northern Madagascar 135
14. 9 Symbolic Action and Soil Fertility: Political Ecology and the Transformation of Space and Place in Tonga 154
15. 10 Gendered Practices and Landscapes in the Andes: The Shape of Asymmetrical Exchanges 174
16. 11 Undermining Modernity: Protecting Landscapes and Meanings among the Mi’kmaq of Nova Scotia 196
17. PART THREE. Forest Visions
18. 12 Shade: Throwing Light on Politics and Ecology in Contemporary Pakistan 217
19. 13 A Global Political Ecology of Bioprospecting 239
20. 14 The Emergence of Collective Ethnic Identities and Alternative Political Ecologies in the Colombian Pacific Rainforest 257
21. Notes on Contributors 279
22. Index 283