Doing Political Ecology

Gregory L. Simon is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Denver. He has held positions at ETH Zurich, Stanford University, University of Colorado Boulder, and UCLA. His research examines the development and governance of social-environmental risks and vulnerabilities. Kelly Kay is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her PhD from Clark University and has held academic appointments at UC Berkeley and The London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research is concerned with the political economy of the environment.

0.Introduction. Section I - Politicizing Environmental Management. 1.Sustaining Nature: Climate change and the catastrophe to come in Kiribati. 2.Producing Nature: Where Biophysical Materialities Meet Social Dynamics. 3.Governing Nature: Political ecology and the knotty tangle of environmental governance prelims. 4.Contesting Nature: Nature as a field of power, difference and resistance. Section II: Making Nature Knowable. 5.Constructing Nature: Construal, constitution, composition and the politics of ecology. 6.Narrating Nature: Decolonizing Socio-Ecological Assemblages. 7.Valuing nature: Constructing ‘value’ and representing interests in environmental decision-making. 8.Enumerating Nature: Engaging Environmental Science and Data within Critical Nature-Society Scholarship. Section III: Capital, Colonialism, and Political Economy. 9.Globalizing Nature: Long-standing structures and contemporary processes. 10.Monetizing Nature: From Resource-Making to Financialization. 11.Protecting Nature: Political Ecologies of Conservation through the lens of Peace Parks. 12.Degrading Nature: Production and the Hidden Ecology of Capital. 13.Consuming nature: From the politics of purchasing to the politics of ingestion. Section IV: Political Ecologies of Identities, Difference and Justice. 14.Engaging Nature: Public Political Ecology for Transformative Climate Justice. 15.Gendering Nature: From Ecofeminism to Feminist Political Ecology. 16.Racializing nature: The Place of Race in Environmental Imaginaries and Histories. 17.Embodying Nature: De-centering and re-centering bodies as socio-nature. 18.Unruly Nature: Non-human intractability and multispecies endurance.