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| An influential definition of political ecology is | An influential definition of political ecology is | ||
| - | > the constantly shifting dialectic between society and land-based resources, and also within classes and groups within society itself. (Blaikie 1987, 17; see also Watts 1983) | + | //"...the constantly shifting dialectic between society and land-based resources, and also within classes and groups within society itself" |
| + | ==== Political ecology derives inspiration from Wolf in multiple ways ==== | ||
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| ===== Revisiting the world-picture ===== | ===== Revisiting the world-picture ===== | ||
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| * Blue lakes and oceans, green and brown landscapes | * Blue lakes and oceans, green and brown landscapes | ||
| - | Wolf calls on us to abandon the assumption of isolate social systems, but political ecology isolates human communities in another sense on a separate map layer. | + | Wolf calls on us to abandon the assumption of isolate social systems, but political ecology isolates human communities in another sense---on a separate map layer. |
| ===== Nature and culture are characters in a modernist metanarrative ===== | ===== Nature and culture are characters in a modernist metanarrative ===== | ||
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| * The individual was once mastered by external forces, but now is its own master. | * The individual was once mastered by external forces, but now is its own master. | ||
| - | Similarly, stories of social progress depict a society moving from tradition, stasis, and dependence to mastery of itself * Animals depend on nature; humans | + | Similarly, stories of social progress depict a society moving from tradition, stasis, and dependence to mastery of itself |
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| + | * Animals depend on nature | ||
| + | * Humans | ||
| + | * Modern | ||
| ===== “We have never been modern” ===== | ===== “We have never been modern” ===== | ||
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| Watts, Michael J. 1983. //Silent Violence: Food, Famine, and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria//. Berkeley: University of California Press. | Watts, Michael J. 1983. //Silent Violence: Food, Famine, and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria//. Berkeley: University of California Press. | ||
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| + | Wolf, Eric R. 1982. //Europe and the People Without History.// Berkeley: University of California Press. | ||
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