Readings for Wed. 2/28

I've posted two readings in the "files" section of the google groups page. The first is a very short (4-pg) piece from a recent theme issue of American Anthropologist on Hurricane Katrina. I think it will be a nice follow-up to our discussion of vulnerability last week. Perhaps we can tackle the question of how to decrease vulnerability as New Orleans rebuilds. Is it possible considering the current political-economic situation in the city?

The second piece is a chapter scanned from a recent volume on Urban Political Ecology that explores food justice issues. In addition to being an interesting piece intellectually, I think it can spur further discussion on political ecology as an activist tool. Maybe we can talk about Heynen's "activist scholarship".

Hope to see many of you at 3 Roots - 9:00 am, Wed. 2/28!

Colten, C. E. (2006). Vulnerability and place: Flat land and uneven risk in new orleans. American Anthropologist, 108(4), 731-734.

Heynen, N. C. (2006). Justice of eating in the city: The political ecology of urban hunger. In N. C. Heynen, M. Kaika & E. Swyngedouw (Eds.), In the nature of cities: Urban political ecology and the politics of urban metabolism (pp. 129-142)Routledge.

Another reading for Tuesday

Dont' worry Nels, I can't figure out how to post on the blog either! So I posted another article for Tuesday's meeting in the google website. So we will be discussing the article on "Power" that Nels posted, and the Pelling (1999) articles " The Political Ecology of Flood Hazard in Urban Guyana”, Geoforum 30(3).

Allen on Power

I scanned a book chapter, an article titled "Power" by John Allen. It is a more in depth and sophisticated take (I think) on power compared to Peterson's last week (we can perhaps revisit this on Tuesday). Thad is going to send out a more empirical article this weekend I think (so it's not so heavy on theory again). This is from the book A Companion to Political Geography (2003), edited by Mitchell and Toal and put out by Blackwell. If you did not get an email from me that had the attachment, please email me and I will send the attachment to you (nels@asu.edu). I can't figure out how to attach it onto the blog.
Nels

Readings for Wed.- 3 roots

With all the GELSS stuff I completely forgot that I was supposed to send out articles. I will give it another shot next week and apologize. In the meantime, let's take a look at two articles Thad and Bethany posted earlier for Wednesday.

Peterson, Gary (2000). "Political ecology and ecological resilience: an integration of human and ecological dynamics." Ecological Economics 35(3): 323-336.

Keil RProgress report - Urban political ecologyURBAN GEOGRAPHY 26 (7): 640-651 OCT-NOV 2005

We can focus on the Peterson piece since "resilience" is something we have not yet discussed, and if we have time get to the progress report.

Readings for 2/6

Tuesday, 2/6, 5pm @ Casey Moore's

In addition to the Brownlow piece posted by Kate below, we'll read and discuss the following (also posted on google groups):

Walker, Peter (2006). "Political ecology: where is the policy?" Progress in Human Geography 30(3): 382-395.

Political Ecology and Resilience

Here is a very interested article on political ecology and resilience. While we won't read it next week (the other articles seem like a better follow up to recent discussions), I suggest that we read this sometime soon! (This is also posted as a pdf on google groups.)

Peterson, Gary (2000). "Political ecology and ecological resilience: an integration of human and ecological dynamics." Ecological Economics 35(3): 323-336.

More on social control and urban landscapes

I stumbled upon this while looking for something else, but I think it builds nicely on our discussion of different means for social control. It's from the same issue of Geoforum as the articles Bethany posted below.

Alec Brownlow, "An Archaeology of Fear and Environmental Change in Philadelphia", Geoforum 37(2), March 2006

Cool stuff!