Other Geographies [electronic resource] : The Influences of Michael Watts.

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Title Page ; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Notes on Contributors; Other Geographies, in the Work of Michael Watts; Chapter 1 Academic Journeys in the Black Atlantic: Gender, Work and Environmental Transformations; Gender and Agrarian Transitions; African Rice and Knowledge Systems in the Americas; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 2 Getting Back to our Roots: Integrating Critical Physical and Social Science in the Early Work of Michael Watts; Introduction; Early Political Ecology and the Integration of Critical Social and Physical Science

The Post-Structural Turn New Engagements: Critical Physical Geography; Conclusions; Notes; References; Chapter 3 Binary Narratives of Capitalism and Climate Change: Dangers and Possibilities; Silent Violence: The Persistence of Hunger and Famine; Binaries in Cultural Narratives of People and Nature; Binaries in This Changes Everything; References; Chapter 4 Aggregate Modernities: A Critical Natural History of Contemporary Algorithms; A Critical Natural History and the Algorithm; The California Meeting; The Making of the Aggregate Bee; Conclusion; Notes; References

Chapter 5 Peanuts for Cashews? Agricultural Diversification and the Limits of Adaptability in Côte d'IvoireIntroduction ; Peasants, Capital and the State: The political economy of maladaptation; Expanding the Portfolio: Agricultural diversification and adaptive capacity; The Expansion of Cashew Cultivation in Côte d'Ivoire; Production and Market Relations of Cotton and Cashews; Market Structures and Producer Prices in the Cashew Economy; Peasant Commodity Production and Exchange; State Taxation; Conclusion; Notes; References

Chapter 6 Life Itself Under Contract: A Biopolitics of Partnerships and Chemical Risk in California's Strawberry IndustryWatts and the Agrarian Question; From Sharecropping to Partnering in California's Strawberry Industry; Toward a Biopolitics of Contract Farming; Notes; References; Chapter 7 Commoditization, Primitive Accumulation and the Spaces of Biodiversity Conservation; The Argument; The Location; Ivory; Rubber; Beeswax; Displacement; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 8 Stopping the Serengeti Road: Social Media and the Discursive Politics of Conservation in Tanzania

Power, Meaning and Knowledge: Michael Watts and Political EcologyIntroduction; The Serengeti Road; 'Worldwide Opposition' and Scientific Expertise; 'If we can't save the Serengeti, what can we save?'; The Knowledge/Practice of Conservation; The Serengeti Shall not Die; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 9 Privatize Everything, Certify Everywhere: Academic Assessment and Value Transfers; Certify Everywhere; Pipes and Tubes; Transferring Value Across Frontiers; Semiotics of Rent Extraction; Assessments, Performance and Governance; Conclusion; Notes; References

Chapter 10 Oil, Indigeneity and Dispossession