Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-442) and index.
Contents:
Violent environments / Nancy Lee Peluso and Michael Watts -- Will the circle be unbroken? A critique of the project on environment, population, and security / Betsy Hartmann -- Are "forest" wars in Africa resource conflicts? The case of Sierra Leone / Paul Richards -- Territory, custom, and the cultural politics of ethnic war in west Kalimantan, Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso and Emily Harwell -- States of nature and environmental enclosures in the American west / James McCarthy -- Damaging crops: sabotage, social memory, and the new genetic enclosures / Iain A. Boal -- Between a ranch and a hard place: violence, scarcity, and meaning in Chiapas, Mexico / Aaron Bobrow-Strain -- Petro-violence: community, extraction, and political ecology of a mythic commodity / Michael Watts -- International dimensions of conflict over natural and environmental resources / James Fairhead -- Invisible spaces, violent places: Cold War nuclear and militarized landscapes / Valerie Kuletz -- Violence, environment, and industrial shrimp farming / Susan C. Stonich and Peter Vandergeest -- Victims of "friendly fire" at Russia's nuclear weapons sites / Paula Garb and Galina Komarova -- Disciplining peasants in Tanzania: from state violence to self-surveillance in wildlife conservation / Roderick P. Neumann -- Beyond the bounds? Violence at the margins of new legal geographies / Nandini Sundar -- Written on the body, written on the land: violence and environmental struggles in central India / Amita Baviskar -- Toward a metaphysic of environmental violence: the case of the Bhopal gas disaster / S. Ravi Rajan
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