Other Geographies – The Influences Of Michael Watt s

Sharad Chari, PhD is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of California at Berkeley, and Research Associate at WiSER, University of the Witwatersrand. Susanne Freidberg, PhD is Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College. Vinay Gidwani, PhD is Professor of Geography and Global Studies at the University of Minnesota. Jesse Ribot, PhD is Professor of Geography, Anthropology and Natural Resources and Environmental Studies at the University of Illinois. Wendy Wolford, PhD is Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University.

Introduction: Other Geographies, in the work of Michael Watts Sharad Chari, Susanne Freidberg, Jesse Ribot, Wendy Wolford and Vinay Gidwani 1. Academic Journeys in the Black Atlantic: Gender, Work and Environmental Transformations Judith Carney 2. Getting back to our roots: Integrating critical physical and social science in the early work of Michael Watts Rebecca Lave 3. Binary narratives of capitalism and climate change: Dangers and possibilities Lucy Jarosz 4. Aggregate Modernities: A Critical Natural History of Contemporary Algorithms Jake Kosek 5. Peanuts for Cashews? Agricultural Diversification and the Limits of Adaptability in Cote d Ivoire Thomas Bassett and Moussa Kone 6. Life itself under contract: A biopolitics of partnerships and chemical risk in California s strawberry industry Julie Guthman 7. Commoditization, Primitive Accumulation, and the Spaces of Biodiversity Conservation Roderick Neumann 8. Stopping the Serengeti Road: Social Media and the Discursive Politics of Conservation in Tanzania Benjamin Gardner 9. Privatize everything, certify everywhere: Academic assessment and value transfers Tad Mutersbaugh 10. Oil, indigeneity and dispossession Joe Bryan 11. Frontiers: Remembering the Forgotten Lands Teo Ballve 12. Vibrancy of Refuse, Piety of Refusal: Infrastructures of Discard in Dakar Rosalind Fredericks 13. Land Reclamation as Resiliency in Post-Colonial Phnom Penh Erin Collins