Land Degradation and Society

Blaikie, Piers; Brookfield, Harold

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“…As political ecology is interested in interconnected nature-society relations, a "political ecology of health assists in explicating the links between social and environmental systems" (King 2010: 50). Political ecology, more broadly, seeks to understand relationships between nature and society through a political economy lens (Blaikie and Brookfield 1987). Thus, political ecology considers dimensions such as power, property, nature, and knowledge to explain changes in socionatural relationships in concrete political economic settings.…”

Section: Political Ecologies Of Healthmentioning

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Cleansing public nature: landscapes of homelessness, health, and displacement

Rose

2017

Journal of Political Ecology

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This article engages directly with a group of individuals who reside in and among the margins of an urban municipal park, through a 16-month critical ethnography. Facing abject poverty, threats from law enforcement, and trials of living outdoors, these 'Hillside residents' cite the local health department as a primary source of potential displacement from the place they call home. 'Health', in this context, references three interconnected features of contemporary urban homelessness: the material interactions associated with living outdoors, the litter that occasionally accumulates in the area, and human solid waste. Health also has specific discursive constructions on the Hillside, where the individuals living there are presented as unclean, particularly vis-à-vis the 'natural' unbuilt world in which they live. A logic of sanitizing the unclean means that 'cleaning' moves beyond the material imposition of humans on nature, or nature on humans. Instead, cleaning speaks to a societal problem: a need to cleanse society of unwanted social detritus, to create a healthy society. 'Cleanliness' creates an optimum, healthy urban experience to facilitate the transactions of contemporary consumer and financial capitalism, providing a new and central facet of global neoliberal restructuring, having particularly devastating effects for the lowest classes. Political ecology is leveraged to consider the roles of material and discursive cleanliness as an agent of health in the social reproduction of capitalism, creating natures and subjects that further support it. Key words: urban homelessness, cleanliness, political ecology of health RésuméCet article s'adresse directement à un groupe d'individus qui résident dans et dans les marges d'un parc municipal urbain, à travers une étude ethnographique de 16 mois. Face à la pauvreté abjecte, aux menaces de l'application de la loi et aux procès de vivre à l'extérieur, ces «résidents de Hillside» citent le département de santé de la commune comme l'agence principale chargée de les déplacer de leur domicile dans le parc. Dans ce contexte, la «santé» se présente sous trois aspects interreliés de l'itinérance urbaine contemporaine: les interactions matérielles associées à la vie à l'extérieur, les ordures qui s'accumulent parfois dans la région et les déchets solides humains. La santé est également représentée d'une certaine manière sur la Colline, où les individus qui y vivent sont présentés comme sales, en particulier vis-à-vis du monde «naturel» non construit dans lequel ils vivent. Une logique de désinfection de l'impur signifie que le «nettoyage» se déplace au-delà de l'imposition matérielle des humains sur la nature, ou la nature sur les humains. Au lieu de cela, le nettoyage parle d'un problème sociétal: le besoin de nettoyer la société des détritus sociaux indésirables, de créer une société saine. «Propreté» crée une expérience urbaine optimale et saine pour faciliter les transactions du capitalisme contemporain des consommateurs et du capital financier, apportant une nouv...

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Section: Political Ecologies Of Healthmentioning

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Cleansing public nature: landscapes of homelessness, health, and displacement

Rose

2017

Journal of Political Ecology

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“…Boserup fue criticada por no incorporar en su análisis otros factores sociales y económicos, así como por tener una visión un tanto optimista de las crisis ecológicas. Igualmente, algunos autores como Pichón (1996, p. 346;Blaikie y Brookfield, 1987) sostienen que el modelo de Boserup se asemeja a un tubo de pasta de dientes: se presiona en un extremo y en el otro no emerge la innovación tecnológica sino la deforestación o la degradación.…”

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Procesos políticos y estructurales de la deforestación en la Amazonía: el caso de Tena, Ecuador (2014)

Torre¹,

Anda²,

Garland³

2017

EYD

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“…From this perspective, there is little acknowledgement of the relationship between social organization and impacts of that disaster on the society. This approach, as well as the more contemporary "vulnerability as hazard of place" (Blaikie and Brookfield 1987;Cutter 2006;Degg 1993;Longhurst 1995), are problematic as they fail to acknowledge the extent to which biophysical risk, distribution of hazards, and distribution of people in hazardous areas and events dump sites, toxic industrial facility sites, e-waste, oil spills, and food contamination (Faber 1998;Hobson 2004;Wehr 2011). are also driven and shaped by the same underlying social inequalities that influence social vulnerability in disasters.…”

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A Bridge to Challenging Environmental Inequality: Intersectionality, Environmental Justice, and Disaster Vulnerability

2017

STR

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Land Degradation and Society

Cited by 503 publications

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Cleansing public nature: landscapes of homelessness, health, and displacement

Cleansing public nature: landscapes of homelessness, health, and displacement

Procesos políticos y estructurales de la deforestación en la Amazonía: el caso de Tena, Ecuador (2014)

A Bridge to Challenging Environmental Inequality: Intersectionality, Environmental Justice, and Disaster Vulnerability

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