{"product_id":"other-geographies-isbn-9781119184768","title":"Other Geographies","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn international group of distinguished scholars pay homage to and build on the work of one of the most influential thinkers of our time, Michael Watts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eShows how Michael Watts’ research, writings, teaching and mentoring have relentlessly pushed boundaries, transforming his chosen field of geography and beyond\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSpans an array of topics including the political economy and ecology of African societies, governmentality and territoriality in various Southern contexts, food security, cultural materialist expositions of capitalism, modernity and development across the postcolonial world\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBuilds on his legacy, exploring its theoretical, analytical, and empirical implications and proposing exciting new possibilities for further exploration in the tracks of Watts\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeries Editors’ Preface vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Other Geographies, in the work of Michael Watts\u003ci\u003e 1\u003cbr\u003eSharad Chari, Susanne Freidberg, Jesse Ribot, Wendy Wolford and Vinay Gidwani\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Academic Journeys in the Black Atlantic: Gender, Work and Environmental Transformations 29\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJudith Carney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Getting Back to our Roots: Integrating Critical Physical and Social Science in the Early Work of Michael Watts 43\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRebecca Lave\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Binary Narratives of Capitalism and Climate Change: Dangers and Possibilities 55\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLucy Jarosz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Aggregate Modernities: A Critical Natural History of Contemporary Algorithms 63\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJake Kosek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Peanuts for Cashews? Agricultural Diversification and the Limits of Adaptability in Côte d’Ivoire 79\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas J. Bassett and Moussa Koné\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Life Itself Under Contract: A Biopolitics of Partnerships and Chemical Risk in California’s Strawberry Industry 97\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJulie Guthman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Commoditization, Primitive Accumulation and the Spaces of Biodiversity Conservation 111\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoderick P. Neumann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Stopping the Serengeti Road: Social Media and the Discursive Politics of Conservation in Tanzania 127\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBenjamin Gardner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Privatize Everything, Certify Everywhere: Academic Assessment and Value Transfers 143\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTad Mutersbaugh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Oil, Indigeneity and Dispossession 157\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoe Bryan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Frontiers: Remembering the Forgotten Lands 169\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTeo Ballvé\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Vibrancy of Refuse, Piety of Refusal: Infrastructures of Discard in Dakar 185\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRosalind Fredericks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Reclamation, Displacement and Resiliency in Phnom Penh 199\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eErin Collins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eIndex 215\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eSharad Chari, PhD\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of California at Berkeley, and Visiting Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSusanne Freidberg, PhD\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVinay Gidwani, PhD\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Geography and Global Studies at the University of Minnesota. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJesse Ribot, PhD\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Geography, Anthropology and Natural Resources and Environmental Studies at the University of Illinois. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWendy Wolford, PhD\u003c\/strong\u003e is Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The essays in this book represent a sampling of Watts' UC Berkeley students' work across the four decades he served as professor, muse, and driving force for colleagues as well as students. The collection provides an entrée into this important scholar's broad-ranging and compelling legacy that branches out and extends, like a family tree, to distant continents and global institutions. How has Michael Watts shaped Political Ecology and other subfields of Critical Human Geography? Let us count the ways.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNancy Lee Peluso, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eProfessor of Society \u0026amp; Environment, University of California, Berkeley, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'This important volume is a testament to the range of scholarship inspired by Michael Watts as illustrated by the insightful contributions of his former students, who are major scholars in their own right. Together, their contributions form an exciting new contribution to political ecology and critical agrarian studies - each presenting new understandings while tracing their intellectual debt to Watts's work.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatt Turner,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eProfessor of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMichael Watts is one of the most influential geographers of our time. Over the past four decades his research, writings, teaching and mentoring have relentlessly pushed boundaries, transforming his chosen field of geography and profoundly influencing many others including political ecology, agrarian studies, the political economy of development, food and famine studies, African studies and the cultural and political economy of post-colonialism. This book builds on his legacy, exploring its theoretical, analytical, and empirical implications and proposing exciting new possibilities for further explorations in the key of Watts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBringing together essays by an international group of distinguished scholars, the essays featured in this book span an array of interrelated topics in the field including: the political economy and ecology of African societies; governmentality and territoriality in various Southern contexts; critiques of the \"resource curse\"; cultural materialist expositions of capitalism, modernity and development across the postcolonial world; extensions of the classical agrarian question in the late 20thand early 21st century; and persisting questions of food security, hunger and famine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book is essential reading for scholars of geography and all of the fields on which Michael Watts has drawn and on which his work has had an influence, including anthropology, history, development studies, political science, sociology, environmental studies, African studies and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘The essays in this book represent a sampling of Watts’ UC Berkeley students’ work across the four decades he served as professor, muse, and driving force for colleagues as well as students. The collection provides an entrée into this important scholar’s broad-ranging and compelling legacy that branches out and extends, like a family tree, to distant continents and global institutions. How has Michael Watts shaped Political Ecology and other subfields of Critical Human Geography? Let us count the ways.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNancy Lee Peluso, Professor of Society \u0026amp; Environment, University of California, Berkeley, USA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘This important volume is a testament to the range of scholarship inspired by Michael Watts as illustrated by the insightful contributions of his former students, who are major scholars in their own right. 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