Includes bibliographical references and index.

Liberating political ecology / Michael Watts and Richard Peet -- The political ecology of famine : the origins of the Third World / Mike Davis -- Invisible forests : the political ecology of forest resurgence in El Salvador / Susanna B. Hecht -- Environmental discourses on soil degradation in Bolivia : sustainability and the search for socioenvironmental "middle ground" / Karl S. Zimmerer -- Purity and pollution : racial degradation and environmental anxieties / Jake Kosek -- Eco-governmentality and other transnational practices of a "green" World Bank / Michael Goldman -- Nature-state-territory : toward a critical theorization of conversation enclosures / Roderick P. Neumann -- Water, markets, and embedded institutions in Western India / Navroz K. Dubash -- Transition environments : ecological and social challenges to post-socialist industrial development / Dara O'Rourke -- Violent environments : petroleum conflict and the political ecology of rule in the Niger Delta, Nigeria / Michael Watts -- Gender and class power in agroforestry systems : case studies from Indonesia and West Africa / Richard A. Schroeder and Krisnawati Suryanata -- Gender conflict in Gambian wetlands / Judith Carney -- Environment, indigeneity and transnationalism / Tania Murray Li -- From Chipko to Uttaranchal : the environment of protest and development in the Indian Himalaya / Haripriya Rangan -- Movements and modernizations, markets and municipalities : indigenous federations in rural Ecuador / Anthony Bebbington -- Industrial pollution and social movements in Thailand / Tim Forsyth.