Arturo Escobar

Alf Hornborg

James Greenberg

Michael Dove

Andrew Gardner

Mette Brodgen

Hanne Svarstad

Anne Ferguson

Charles Stevens

Josiah Heyman

Fiona Mackenzie

William Derman

Environmental issues have become increasingly prominent in local struggles, national debates, and international policies. In response, scholars are paying more attention to conventional politics and to more broadly defined relations of power and difference in the interactions between human groups and their biophysical environments. Such issues are at the heart of the relatively new interdisciplinary field of political ecology, forged at the intersection of political economy and cultural ecology. This volume provides a toolkit of vital concepts and a set of research models and analytic frameworks for researchers at all levels. The two opening chapters trace rich traditions of thought and practice that inform current approaches to political ecology. They point to the entangled relationship between humans, politics, economies, and environments at the dawn of the twenty-first century and address challenges that scholars face in navigating the blurring boundaries among relevant fields of enquiry. The twelve case studies that follow demonstrate ways that culture and politics serve to mediate human-environmental relationships in specific ecological and geographical contexts. Taken together, they describe uses of and conflicts over resources including land, water, soil, trees, biodiversity, money, knowledge, and information; they exemplify wide-ranging ecological settings including deserts, coasts, rainforests, high mountains, and modern cities; and they explore sites located around the world, from Canada to Tonga and cyberspace.

Political Ecology Across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups

A tribute to the prolific director offers commentary on all nineteen of his feature films and features hundreds of still photographs and behind-the-scenes images.

Roman Polanski: A Retrospective

Chock full of the behind-the-scenes stories about how the fantastic movie was made, this book details how Mike Myers created the role he was born to play, how costume designer Rita Ryack spent months trying to find the right look for the most recognizable hat in the world, and how a sleepy California town was turned into a magical Main Street. Buttressed by full-color photographs, this guidebook reveals many other secrets to the blockbuster The Cat in the Hat.

Cat in the Hat

James Greenberg

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