Ecology and Power : Struggles Over Land and Material Resources in the Past, Present and Future (Hardcover)

Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives on Historical Political Ecology  1. Accumulation: Land as a Medium of Domination  2. Techno-Fix: Ecological Rifts and Capital Shifts  3. Empire: The Comparative Study of Imperialism  4. Islands: Ecologically Unequal Exchange and Landesque Capital  5. Guano: The Global Metabolic Rift and the Fertilizer Trade  6. Fleece: Imperial Metabolism in the Pre-Columbian Andes  7. Slaves: Inequality and Sustainable Agriculture in Pre-Colonial West Africa  8. Steam: Nineteenth-Century Mechanization and the Power of Capital  9. Ivory: Socio-ecological Consequences of the East African Ivory Trade  10. Lawns: Botanical Garden Design as Colonial Domination  Part 2: Struggles over Material Resources in the Modern World  11. Footprints: The Division of Nations and Nature  12. Water: Irrigation and Resilience in the Tanzanian Highlands  13. Meat: The New Geopolitics of Food  14. Trees: Conflicts Between Pastoralists, Loggers and Conservationists in the Himalayas  15. Grass: From Local Pastures to Global Energy Markets in Eastern Tanzania  16. Forests: Capital Accumulation, Climate Change, and Crises in Chile and Sweden  17. Jatropha: A Magic Bullet Filled with Oil  18. Atoms: Nuclear Estrangement from Chernobyl to India  19. Safflower: Liberalisation or Participation in a Tanzanian Village  20. Land-Claims: Racialized Environmental Struggles in Latin America  21. Smoke: Cooking, Coughing and Collective Action in Kenya  22. Sugarcane: Agrofuels and Conflicting Land Uses in Brazil