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2700:2022:12 [2022/05/16 18:37] – [Human ecology and political ecology] Ryan Schram (admin)2700:2022:12 [2022/05/16 18:42] (current) – [Revisiting the world-picture] Ryan Schram (admin)
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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(Blaikie 1987, 17; see also Watts 1983).//
  
 ==== Political ecology derives inspiration from Wolf in multiple ways ==== ==== Political ecology derives inspiration from Wolf in multiple ways ====
  
-**“[T]he world of humankind constitutes a manifold, a totality of interconnected processes….”** (Wolf 1984, 3) +//"[T]he __world of humankind__ constitutes a manifold, a totality of interconnected processes…(Wolf 1984, 3).// 
 ===== 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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 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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