Three Forms of Political Ecology

Tetreault, Darcy

doi:10.2979/ethicsenviro.22.2.01

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“…Escobar, 1996). Although this approach has not developed without conflict with marxist political ecology inspired approaches, there are now also other suggestions for combined epistemological frameworks based on ontological materialism and dialectical reasoning (Tetreault, 2017).…”

Section: Ii1 the Personal As Political: Emotions And Gendered Perfmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emotions, power, and environmental conflict: Expanding the ‘emotional turn’ in political ecology

González‐Hidalgo

Zografos

2019

Progress in Human Geography

106

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Building on the framework of emotional political ecology, we seek to expand ways of studying the relationships between emotion, power, and environmental conflict. Our review of work in feminist studies, human geography, social psychology, social movement theory, and social and cultural anthropology suggests the need for a theoretical framework that captures the psychological, more-than-human, collective, geographical, and personal-political dimensions that intersect subjectivities in environmental conflicts. We stress the need to explicitly consider ‘the political’ at stake when researching emotions in environmental conflicts, and develop a conceptual framework for facilitating nuanced conceptualisations and analyses of subjects and power in environmental conflicts.

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Section: Ii1 the Personal As Political: Emotions And Gendered Perfmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emotions, power, and environmental conflict: Expanding the ‘emotional turn’ in political ecology

González‐Hidalgo

Zografos

2019

Progress in Human Geography

106

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“…Interviewees were elite state and non-state actors who are integral to the blue economy and marine phosphate debates in Namibia. 6 This article positions itself under the third form of political ecology, as articulated by Tetreault (2017). It aims to analyse accumulation strategies with relation to Namibia's marine sphere, identifying who has control over this emerging site of extraction as well as the actors "involved in the institutional and discursive fields of power in which they operate" (Tetreault 2017: 18).…”

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Resource sovereignty and accumulation in the blue economy: the case of seabed mining in Namibia

Carver

2019

Journal of Political Ecology

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Following its global emergence, the blue economy agenda is now touted as a mechanism through which the Republic of Namibia can achieve long-term sustainable and equitable growth. In (re)defining the ocean, seabed mining has been central to these discussions. Drawing on fieldwork and semi-structured interviews undertaken with key actors in Namibia and South Africa, between 2016 and 2017, as well as recent policy debates and discourse surrounding the potential extraction of marine phosphate in Namibia this article critically examines the framing of the marine environment as an extractive space. The blue economy presents opportunities for new forms of capitalist accumulation and this has resulted in struggles over who can accumulate in the marine sphere. This article therefore analyses the emerging and competing claims to sovereignty over this "new" resource frontier, including by state and non-state actors, and identifies which actors have been included or excluded from the blue economy agenda. In discussing sovereignty over this frontier and resources therein, it undertakes a rigorous analysis of the complications created by the ocean as a three-dimensional, voluminous, "borderless" space.Key Words: Namibia, seabed mining, sovereignty, frontier, blue economy, EEZ

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“…Neo-Marxist scholars and environmentalists at that time sought to highlight the urgent need to analyse access to and control over resources from a class-differentiating perspective as a direct result of the inherent contradictions of capitalism. Political ecology was born out of an attempt to reconcile power, resource use and environmental sustainability (Forsyth, 2008; Greenberg and Park, 1994; Tetreault, 2017). However, approaches to political ecology have been contested and mutated over the years to reflect broader shifts in methodologies to environment-development debate.…”

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“…However, approaches to political ecology have been contested and mutated over the years to reflect broader shifts in methodologies to environment-development debate. Tetreault (2017) identifies two distinct epistemological and ontological strands of political ecology: materialist and post-structuralist perspectives.…”

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Political Ecology and Contours of Vulnerability to Water Insecurity in Semiarid North-Eastern Ghana

Dinko

Yaro

Kusimi

2018

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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Vulnerability to water insecurity in Ghana has often been characterised as a biophysical phenomenon that can be objectively solved using technical and rational approaches to manage water resources use and allocation – thus, making vulnerability to water security discourse politically neutral. Contesting this orthodoxy, this article shows the multiple mechanisms and structures that undergird vulnerability of households to water insecurity in semiarid Ghana. Vulnerability to water insecurity is often veiled in political and economic imbalances that constrain the choices of people in their daily water realities. We argue that a rigid fixation on the biophysical conceptualisation of water insecurity separates nature from society while simultaneously ignoring the lived insecurities resulting from the contours of power. Policy formulation based on this conceptualisation without addressing the access rights and differentiated vulnerabilities could be misleading while yielding minimal impact.

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Three Forms of Political Ecology

Cited by 27 publications

References 24 publications

Emotions, power, and environmental conflict: Expanding the ‘emotional turn’ in political ecology

Emotions, power, and environmental conflict: Expanding the ‘emotional turn’ in political ecology

Resource sovereignty and accumulation in the blue economy: the case of seabed mining in Namibia

Political Ecology and Contours of Vulnerability to Water Insecurity in Semiarid North-Eastern Ghana

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