Acknowledgments
Introduction
Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg
Chapter 1. The Anthropocene and other noxious concepts
Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg
Chapter 2. The Political Ecology of Climate Change
James B. Greenberg and Thomas K. Park
Chapter 3. Digital Sensing and Human-Environment Relationships in the Face of Climate Variability in Senegal and Mauritania
Thomas K. Park, Aminata Niang and Mamadou Baro
Chapter 4. The Political Ecology of Languagelessness of the Southwest North American Region: Case Studies in the Linguistic Commoditization of Mexican Origin People
Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez
Chapter 5. Political Ecology of Guitars and their Tonewoods
James B. Greenberg
Chapter 6. Indigenous responses to colonialism in an island state: a geopolitical ecology of Kanaky-New Caledonia
Simon Batterbury, Séverine Bouard, and Matthias Kowasch
Chapter 7. An Everyday Politics of Access: The Political Ecology of Infrastructure in Cape Town’s Informal Settlements
Angela Storey
Chapter 8. Land Tenure Issues and Socio-Political Challenges in Mauritania
Mamadou Baro
Chapter 9. Complicity and Resistance in the Indigenous Amazon: Economia Indigena Under Siege
Alaka Wali
Chapter 10. Dolphin Hunters or Dolphin Saviors: Cultural Identity Choices Under Intensifying Sea Level Rise, Cash-Dependence, and a New Eco-Christian Conservation
Sarah Keen Meltzoff
Chapter 11. When Pachamama is Left Hungry: Healing and Misfortune in the Atacama Desert
Anita Carrasco
Chapter 12. Place Matters: Tracking Coastal Restoration after the Deepwater Horizon
Diane Austin and Victoria Phaneuf
Chapter 13. Practicing Political Ecology in the New Restoration Economy
Ravic P. Nijbroek
Chapter 14. Nature conservation and the ambiguous human-nature relationship
Ylva Uggla
Chapter 15. Hope and Possibility for Transformation in Ordinary Acts of Well-Being on a Bicycle-Pedestrian Trail
Lisa L. Gezon
Conclusion
James B. Greenberg, Thomas K. Park, Simon Batterbury, Casey Walsh, Edward Liebow
References
Index
About the Editors & Contributors