"Political ecologists have helped configure the fields of environmental governance and environmental justice. This thoughtful, insight-filled collection helps readers rethink some of the main concerns of political ecology. Organized in complementary counterpoint, the essays use evidence from around the world to make fundamental contributions toward a reconsideration of nature/culture relationships. Scholars from both disciplinary and interdisciplinary formations will discover the need to consult and use this volume."--Arun Agrawal, author of "Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects"

About the Series ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction / Reimagining Political Ecology Culture/Power/History/Nature / Aletta Biersack 3
Beyond Modernist Ecologies
Equilibrium Theory and Interdisciplinary Borrowing: A Comparison of Old and New Ecological Anthropologies / Michael R. Dove 43
Nature and Society in the Age of Postmodernity / Gisli Palsson 70
Constructing and Appropriating Nature
Ecopolitics through Ethnography: The Cultures of Finland’s Forest-Nature / Eeva Berglund 97
The Political Ecology of Fisheries in the Upper Gulf of California / James B. Greenberg 121
“But the Young Men Don’t Want to Farm Any More”: Political Ecology and Consumer Culture in Belize / Richard Wilk 149
Properties of Nature, Properties of Culture: Ownership, Recognition, and the Politics of Nature in a Papua New Guinea Society / Joel Robbins 171
Ethnographies of Nature
Progress of the Victims: Political Ecology in the Peruvian Amazon / Soren Hvalkof 195
Red River, Green War: The Politics of Place Along the Porgera River / Aletta Biersack 233
Between Politics and Poetics: Narratives of Dispossession in Sarawak, East Malaysia / J. Peter Brosius 281
Between Nature and Culture
Rappaport’s Rose: Structure, Agency, and Historical Contingency in Ecological Anthropology / J. Stephen Lansing, John Schoenfelder, and Vernon Scarborough 325
Works Cited 359
Contributors 407
Index 409

Aletta Biersack and James B. Greenberg, eds.