Peter A Walker
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 218512 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter A Walker |
| NOMBRES | Peter A |
| APELLIDO | Walker |
| FIRMA | WALKER P A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oregon |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 473 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Ecologia política
Quanta diferença prática a ecologia política realmente faz? Quais poderiam ser os obstáculos para uma ecologia política mais construtivamente comprometida - para uma ecologia política mais plenamente política? Estas são questões que este artigo levanta de forma breve, mas não tem a pretensão de responder de nenhuma maneira substancial. Antes, espera-se e acredita-se que estas questões serão minuciosamente discutidas em encontros futuros
Ecologia política
O envolvimento limitado da ecologia política com a pesquisa social e ambiental mais ampla, com o discurso e com os conteúdos da política pode refletir, em parte, a fraqueza geral do envolvimento público por parte da disciplina da geografia como um todo (MURPHY, 2005). No entanto, como um campo de estudos que emergiu em grande medida das críticas aos conteúdos das políticas e deve uma grande parte de sua genealogia intelectual aos campos de estudo…
Contestations Over "Tradition" and "Culture" in a Time of Aids
In Malawi, the distress and unease caused by rising numbers of deaths and chronic illness due to HIV infection have led people to search for explanations. Here, we describe two particular "turns to culture." Zomba villagers over two decades have come to link AIDS with kanyera, an indigenous illness syndrome. In contrast, the public media, government, and donors blame "promiscuity" and "cultural practices" for HIV infection. The resulting stigmati…
Striving for normality in a time of Aids in Malawi
Drawing on a twenty-year study, we examine the effects of HIV-related illness and death on villagers in Malawi during 2006. Contrary to unidimensional images of an AIDS disaster, we found people striving for normality - trying to control the abnormal circumstances of the rising toll of HIV-related illness and death. Just over 40% of the sample households had experienced at least one death (certainly or probably) related to HIV, but only about 10%…
Political ecology
To political ecologists today, it might seem odd – ridiculous perhaps – to ask whether political ecology is sufficiently political. It has been the better part of two decades since Michael Watts complained that the dominant expressions of political ecology of the 1980s displayed ‘a remarkable lack of politics . . . There is almost no sense of contest, struggle, and conflict and how the rough and tumble of everyday life’ shapes human relations wit…
From Enslavement to Environmentalism
Hughes, David McDermott , From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a Southern African Frontier . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2006 . xvii + 285 pp. ISBN 0-295-98590-9 (hardback) . Ex Africa semper aliquid novi. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Why do conservation and development projects so often fail miserably in Africa? The more things change, the more this depressingly familiar question remains the same. Yet, ou…
Making Sense in Time
Political ecology
Political ecology
Collaboration Derailed
Collaborative natural resource management (CNRM) is often portrayed as a way to find “win–win” solutions that move “beyond ” bitter adversarial politics. Research on failures of CNRM emphasizes institutional and procedural barriers. In contrast, using a study of a failed CNRM program in Nevada County, California, we emphasize the role of intracommunity politics. We build on work by Few (2001) Few, R. 2001. Containment and counter-containment: Pla…
Whose Vision? Conspiracy Theory and Land-Use Planning in Nevada County, California
In this paper we examine the role of claims of global conspiracy in undermining a local environmental planning process known as Natural Heritage 2020 (NH 2020) in Nevada County, California. County officials intended NH 2020 to mitigate the environmental impacts of rapid growth in this gentrifying rural community. This program illustrates the increasing use by land-use planners of landscape-scale approaches derived from conservation biology to pro…
Reconsidering 'regional' political ecologies
Political ecology has recently seen a long-overdue movement toward studies of environmental conflicts in advanced capitalist societies, far from the rural African, Latin American, and Asian societies that constitute the great majority of studies in the field. This shift has raised questions about the commonalities and differences between 'first-world' and 'third-world' political ecologies - questions that present broader challenges and opportunit…
Maps, Metaphors, and Meanings
Recent studies have begun to closely examine social and cultural perceptions of spatial relationships, with particular attention to contests over boundaries. Counter mapping has emerged as a technique to represent local claims, but this approach creates tension between efforts to empower social groups and recognition that Western cartographic methods may inadequately represent complex socio-spatial ideas among non-Western peoples. Specifically, w…
Maps, Metaphors, and Meanings
Recent studies have examined social and cultural perceptions of spatial relationships, with particular attention to contests over boundaries.'Counter-mapping' offers a technique to defend local rights in these contests.However, this approach may inadequately represent certain complex socio-spatial ideas.Specifically, whereas recent studies emphasize contests over the legitimacy or location of boundaries, the case studies from Malawi in this paper…
Democracy and environment
A Microcomputer Facility for Teaching Digital Control System Design
A low cost microcomputer control facility for the teaching of computer control theory to final year undergraduates is described. The teaching objectives are the need to offer direct "hands-on" experience of operating an on-line digital computer control system and the provision of a versatile method of studying the efficacy of a range of different computer control algorithms, thus allowing theoretical concepts to be more immediately related to a r…
Political ecology
Reconsidering 'regional' political ecologies
Political ecology has recently seen a long-overdue movement toward studies of environmental conflicts in advanced capitalist societies, far from the rural African, Latin American, and Asian societies that constitute the great majority of studies in the field. This shift has raised questions about the commonalities and differences between 'first-world' and 'third-world' political ecologies - questions that present broader challenges and opportunit…
Whose Vision? Conspiracy Theory and Land-Use Planning in Nevada County, California
In this paper we examine the role of claims of global conspiracy in undermining a local environmental planning process known as Natural Heritage 2020 (NH 2020) in Nevada County, California. County officials intended NH 2020 to mitigate the environmental impacts of rapid growth in this gentrifying rural community. This program illustrates the increasing use by land-use planners of landscape-scale approaches derived from conservation biology to pro…
Collaboration Derailed
Collaborative natural resource management (CNRM) is often portrayed as a way to find “win–win” solutions that move “beyond ” bitter adversarial politics. Research on failures of CNRM emphasizes institutional and procedural barriers. In contrast, using a study of a failed CNRM program in Nevada County, California, we emphasize the role of intracommunity politics. We build on work by Few (2001) Few, R. 2001. Containment and counter-containment: Pla…
Political ecology
To political ecologists today, it might seem odd – ridiculous perhaps – to ask whether political ecology is sufficiently political. It has been the better part of two decades since Michael Watts complained that the dominant expressions of political ecology of the 1980s displayed ‘a remarkable lack of politics . . . There is almost no sense of contest, struggle, and conflict and how the rough and tumble of everyday life’ shapes human relations wit…
Political ecology
Maps, Metaphors, and Meanings
Recent studies have examined social and cultural perceptions of spatial relationships, with particular attention to contests over boundaries.'Counter-mapping' offers a technique to defend local rights in these contests.However, this approach may inadequately represent certain complex socio-spatial ideas.Specifically, whereas recent studies emphasize contests over the legitimacy or location of boundaries, the case studies from Malawi in this paper…
Striving for normality in a time of Aids in Malawi
Drawing on a twenty-year study, we examine the effects of HIV-related illness and death on villagers in Malawi during 2006. Contrary to unidimensional images of an AIDS disaster, we found people striving for normality - trying to control the abnormal circumstances of the rising toll of HIV-related illness and death. Just over 40% of the sample households had experienced at least one death (certainly or probably) related to HIV, but only about 10%…
Democracy and environment
Contestations Over "Tradition" and "Culture" in a Time of Aids
In Malawi, the distress and unease caused by rising numbers of deaths and chronic illness due to HIV infection have led people to search for explanations. Here, we describe two particular "turns to culture." Zomba villagers over two decades have come to link AIDS with kanyera, an indigenous illness syndrome. In contrast, the public media, government, and donors blame "promiscuity" and "cultural practices" for HIV infection. The resulting stigmati…
Making Sense in Time
Maps, Metaphors, and Meanings
Recent studies have begun to closely examine social and cultural perceptions of spatial relationships, with particular attention to contests over boundaries. Counter mapping has emerged as a technique to represent local claims, but this approach creates tension between efforts to empower social groups and recognition that Western cartographic methods may inadequately represent complex socio-spatial ideas among non-Western peoples. Specifically, w…
A Microcomputer Facility for Teaching Digital Control System Design
A low cost microcomputer control facility for the teaching of computer control theory to final year undergraduates is described. The teaching objectives are the need to offer direct "hands-on" experience of operating an on-line digital computer control system and the provision of a versatile method of studying the efficacy of a range of different computer control algorithms, thus allowing theoretical concepts to be more immediately related to a r…
Democracy and environment
Maps, Metaphors, and Meanings
Recent studies have begun to closely examine social and cultural perceptions of spatial relationships, with particular attention to contests over boundaries. Counter mapping has emerged as a technique to represent local claims, but this approach creates tension between efforts to empower social groups and recognition that Western cartographic methods may inadequately represent complex socio-spatial ideas among non-Western peoples. Specifically, w…
Maps, Metaphors, and Meanings
Recent studies have examined social and cultural perceptions of spatial relationships, with particular attention to contests over boundaries.'Counter-mapping' offers a technique to defend local rights in these contests.However, this approach may inadequately represent certain complex socio-spatial ideas.Specifically, whereas recent studies emphasize contests over the legitimacy or location of boundaries, the case studies from Malawi in this paper…
Reconsidering 'regional' political ecologies
Political ecology has recently seen a long-overdue movement toward studies of environmental conflicts in advanced capitalist societies, far from the rural African, Latin American, and Asian societies that constitute the great majority of studies in the field. This shift has raised questions about the commonalities and differences between 'first-world' and 'third-world' political ecologies - questions that present broader challenges and opportunit…
Collaboration Derailed
Collaborative natural resource management (CNRM) is often portrayed as a way to find “win–win” solutions that move “beyond ” bitter adversarial politics. Research on failures of CNRM emphasizes institutional and procedural barriers. In contrast, using a study of a failed CNRM program in Nevada County, California, we emphasize the role of intracommunity politics. We build on work by Few (2001) Few, R. 2001. Containment and counter-containment: Pla…
Whose Vision? Conspiracy Theory and Land-Use Planning in Nevada County, California
In this paper we examine the role of claims of global conspiracy in undermining a local environmental planning process known as Natural Heritage 2020 (NH 2020) in Nevada County, California. County officials intended NH 2020 to mitigate the environmental impacts of rapid growth in this gentrifying rural community. This program illustrates the increasing use by land-use planners of landscape-scale approaches derived from conservation biology to pro…
Political ecology
Political ecology
Political ecology
To political ecologists today, it might seem odd – ridiculous perhaps – to ask whether political ecology is sufficiently political. It has been the better part of two decades since Michael Watts complained that the dominant expressions of political ecology of the 1980s displayed ‘a remarkable lack of politics . . . There is almost no sense of contest, struggle, and conflict and how the rough and tumble of everyday life’ shapes human relations wit…
From Enslavement to Environmentalism
Hughes, David McDermott , From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a Southern African Frontier . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2006 . xvii + 285 pp. ISBN 0-295-98590-9 (hardback) . Ex Africa semper aliquid novi. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Why do conservation and development projects so often fail miserably in Africa? The more things change, the more this depressingly familiar question remains the same. Yet, ou…
Making Sense in Time
Striving for normality in a time of Aids in Malawi
Drawing on a twenty-year study, we examine the effects of HIV-related illness and death on villagers in Malawi during 2006. Contrary to unidimensional images of an AIDS disaster, we found people striving for normality - trying to control the abnormal circumstances of the rising toll of HIV-related illness and death. Just over 40% of the sample households had experienced at least one death (certainly or probably) related to HIV, but only about 10%…
Contestations Over "Tradition" and "Culture" in a Time of Aids
In Malawi, the distress and unease caused by rising numbers of deaths and chronic illness due to HIV infection have led people to search for explanations. Here, we describe two particular "turns to culture." Zomba villagers over two decades have come to link AIDS with kanyera, an indigenous illness syndrome. In contrast, the public media, government, and donors blame "promiscuity" and "cultural practices" for HIV infection. The resulting stigmati…
Ecologia política
O envolvimento limitado da ecologia política com a pesquisa social e ambiental mais ampla, com o discurso e com os conteúdos da política pode refletir, em parte, a fraqueza geral do envolvimento público por parte da disciplina da geografia como um todo (MURPHY, 2005). No entanto, como um campo de estudos que emergiu em grande medida das críticas aos conteúdos das políticas e deve uma grande parte de sua genealogia intelectual aos campos de estudo…
Ecologia política
Quanta diferença prática a ecologia política realmente faz? Quais poderiam ser os obstáculos para uma ecologia política mais construtivamente comprometida - para uma ecologia política mais plenamente política? Estas são questões que este artigo levanta de forma breve, mas não tem a pretensão de responder de nenhuma maneira substancial. Antes, espera-se e acredita-se que estas questões serão minuciosamente discutidas em encontros futuros
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