Raymond L Bryant
Biographic Data
| ID | 188934 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raymond L Bryant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raymond L |
| FAMILY NAME | Bryant |
| SIGNATURE | BRYANT R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 834 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Cultural and Human Ecological Resilience at Early Bronze Age Bat
The Bat landscape of northwestern Oman is one of intermittent archaeological remains and varied ecological conditions. The site has been a center for human activity since the Neolithic, most famously attested by the Early Bronze Age tombs, towers, and settlement of the UNESCO World Heritage zone. This paper presents recent research conducted by the Bat Archaeological Project in reconstructing the site’s third millennium BC cultural landscape and …
Nongovernmental Organizations in Environmental Struggles
Why are nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) so successful in today’s world? How do they empower themselves? This insightful book provides important new perspectives on the strategic thinking of NGOs, the way they identify themselves, and how they behave. Raymond L. Bryant develops a novel theoretical perspective around the concept of moral capital and assesses that concept through in-depth case studies of NGOs in the Philippines. The book’s focu…
The International Handbook of Political Ecology
The International Handbook features chapters by leading scholars from around the world in a unique collection exploring the multi-disciplinary field of political ecology. This landmark volume canvasses key developments, topics, issues, debates and concepts showcasing how political ecologists today address pressing social and environmental concerns. Introductory chapters provide an overview of political ecology and the Handbook. Remaining chapters…
Branding natural resources
This paper explores the branding of natural resources using a case study of teak. While scholars write about brands and branding as well as natural resources, few of them connect the two, let alone trace geographical and historical patterns of development. Yet studying the intersection of brands, natural resources, geography and history yields rich insights about how both brands and natural resources have come to be defined. Rejecting narrow unde…
Bringing the other into political ecology
For all its vitality political ecology often appears to be a project in which work by Anglo‐Americans in particular, if it is not privileged, certainly predominates. This trend reflects wider language and intellectual tendencies in human geography and the social sciences that distort the development of the field by downplaying or obscuring the contributions of many non‐Anglo‐Americans and by naturalizing Anglo‐American assumptions at the heart of…
Other political ecologies
Conceptualising ‘shadow landscape’ in political ecology and rural studies
Born to Be Wild? Non-governmental Organisations, Politics and the Environment
The ways in which non-governmental organisations (NGOs) pursue environmental agendas via political processes have been a subject of growing interest to geographers, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists. This article examines how and why that interest has grown by assessing selected different approaches to the study of NGOs, environments and politics that characterise such research. Against a backdrop of growing debate over the u…
The Fourth Circle
La política ecológica y la gestión ambiental en un mundo en desarrollo
Este artículo aborda diversos aspectos clave de la gestión ambiental en el mundo en desarrollo desde la perspectiva de la ecología política. Comienza con un breve repaso de la evolución de la ecología política. Posteriormente se abordan dos casos de estudio en el Sudeste de Asia con el fin de explorar espacios de confrontación y espacios de cooperación que aglutinan elementos clave de la historia y la actualidad de la gestión ambiental en el mund…
A pioneering reputation
The social dynamics of deforestation in the Philippines
Doing “Good” in the Philippines
This chapter presents a selective outline of the history of Philippine nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), drawing on diverse secondary sources and fieldwork insights. The two NGOs featured are reform-minded in orientation and broadly national in ambition, if not in territorial reach, have distinctive patterns of development, and should not be viewed as representative of Philippine NGOs. The Philippine Association For Intercultural Development …
Third World Political Ecology
An effective response to contemporary environmental problems demands an approach that integrates political, economic and ecological issues. Third World Political Ecology provides an introduction to an exciting new research field that aims to develop an integrated understanding of the political economy of environmental change in the Third World. The authors review the historical development of the field, explain what is distinctive about Third Wor…
Nongovernmental Organizations in Environmental Struggles
Focusing on the Philippines, Bryant explores the perceptions of NGOs as moral and altruistic and how such perceptions can translate into social power. He examines the ambiguous qualities of NGO strategising and the possibilities for NGOs to achieve political goals as moral leaders
Consuming narratives
This paper examines how political ecology themes of tropical conservation and social justice become representational practices underpinning ‘alternative’ consumption in the North. The notion of commodity culture is adopted to understand the ambiguous rationalities and ethical assumptions of two sets of consumption practices. The first case considers Edenic myth‐making used to assimilate concerns over tropical deforestation in the South to consump…
Ethics in Political Ecology
False Prophets? Mutant NGOs and Philippine Environmentalism
Nongovernmental organization (NGO) popularity has led to the emergence of NGO-like organizations Oat seek to acquire a stake in that popularity. Mutant NGOs are established for ostensibly moral and altruistic purposes but their main purpose is primarily to promote the political and economic interests of sponsors. This essay explains the nature and function of these impostors and considers the possible benefits accruing to affiliated elites in the…
Non-Governmental Organizations and Governmentality
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are playing an increasingly important role in the process Foucault called ‘governmentality’. Drawing on the Foucauldian literature, this paper uses a case study of biodiversity conservation as well as indigenous people's ancestral domain in the Philippines to show how two quite different NGO-led conservation agendas nonetheless share a common underlying purpose: persuading indigenous people to internalize sta…
Explaining State‐Environmental NGO Relations in the Philippines and Indonesia
This paper explains how the notion of “critical engagement” has been a popular basis for NGO‐state relations in the Philippines and Indonesia. It has been used, moreover, in both liberal democratic (post‐1985 Philippines) and authoritarian (late 1960s to late 1990s Indonesia) political regimes. For both states and reform‐minded NGOs, critical engagement has represented a flexible means by which to pursue assorted political, economic and social en…
Politicized moral geographies
Power, knowledge and political ecology in the third world
Political ecology examines the political dynamics surrounding material and discursive struggles over the environment in the third world. The role of unequal power relations in constituting a politicized environment is a central theme. Particular attention is given to the ways in which conflict over access to environmental resources is linked to systems of political and economic control first elaborated during the colonial era. Studies emphasize t…
Rethinking environmental management
The field of environmental management developed as a technocentric problem-solving initiative, providing ‘practical’ assistance to state officials involved in environmental management. Since the field was largely associated with what state officials and associated experts ‘dO', little effort was devoted to understanding the political, economic or cultural forces conditioning the process of environmental management. The potentially significant con…
Environmental Change in Southeast Asia
Environmental Change in South-East Asia brings together scholars, journalists, consultants and NGO activists to explore the interaction of people, politics and ecology. Ostensibly green activities - plantation forestry, eco-tourism, hydro-electricity - are revealed as guises used by elites to promote their own political and economic interests. Highlighting fatal flaws in presently exclusive economic and ecological approaches, the authors stress t…
The Political Ecology of Forestry in Burma
Third World Political Ecology
An effective response to contemporary environmental problems demands an approach that integrates political, economic and ecological issues. Third World Political Ecology provides an introduction to an exciting new research field that aims to develop an integrated understanding of the political economy of environmental change in the Third World. The authors review the historical development of the field, explain what is distinctive about Third Wor…
Political ecology
Consuming narratives
This paper examines how political ecology themes of tropical conservation and social justice become representational practices underpinning ‘alternative’ consumption in the North. The notion of commodity culture is adopted to understand the ambiguous rationalities and ethical assumptions of two sets of consumption practices. The first case considers Edenic myth‐making used to assimilate concerns over tropical deforestation in the South to consump…
Non-Governmental Organizations and Governmentality
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are playing an increasingly important role in the process Foucault called ‘governmentality’. Drawing on the Foucauldian literature, this paper uses a case study of biodiversity conservation as well as indigenous people's ancestral domain in the Philippines to show how two quite different NGO-led conservation agendas nonetheless share a common underlying purpose: persuading indigenous people to internalize sta…
The Political Ecology of Forestry in Burma
Environmental Change in Southeast Asia
Environmental Change in South-East Asia brings together scholars, journalists, consultants and NGO activists to explore the interaction of people, politics and ecology. Ostensibly green activities - plantation forestry, eco-tourism, hydro-electricity - are revealed as guises used by elites to promote their own political and economic interests. Highlighting fatal flaws in presently exclusive economic and ecological approaches, the authors stress t…
Romancing Colonial Forestry
Recent research in political ecology highlights the central role played by the colonial state in tropical forest management, but little attention has been given as yet to the discursive representation of that role. This paper thus investigates the ways in which colonial foresters represented their work through books, articles and official reports. Using colonial Burma as a case study, the key elements of a discourse of 'forestry as progress' are …
Rethinking environmental management
The field of environmental management developed as a technocentric problem-solving initiative, providing ‘practical’ assistance to state officials involved in environmental management. Since the field was largely associated with what state officials and associated experts ‘dO', little effort was devoted to understanding the political, economic or cultural forces conditioning the process of environmental management. The potentially significant con…
Shifting the Cultivator
One of the most innovative aspects of forest policy in colonial Burma was the employment of shifting cultivators in order to create teak plantations. As developed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this system of plantation forestry represented an far-sighted attempt to establish teak production on a long-term basis. Indeed, its adaptation of what many colonial officials viewed as a destructive and primitive form of agriculture to m…
Politicized moral geographies
Beyond the impasse
In the context of a deepening impasse in Third World environmental research, this paper suggests that researchers should adopt a political ecology perspective to ensure that research addresses the political and economic issues that underlie the Third World's environmental problems. Since an understanding of unequal power relations is central to political ecology, the paper considers how questions of power influence human‐environmental interaction…
Nongovernmental Organizations in Environmental Struggles
Focusing on the Philippines, Bryant explores the perceptions of NGOs as moral and altruistic and how such perceptions can translate into social power. He examines the ambiguous qualities of NGO strategising and the possibilities for NGOs to achieve political goals as moral leaders
False Prophets? Mutant NGOs and Philippine Environmentalism
Nongovernmental organization (NGO) popularity has led to the emergence of NGO-like organizations Oat seek to acquire a stake in that popularity. Mutant NGOs are established for ostensibly moral and altruistic purposes but their main purpose is primarily to promote the political and economic interests of sponsors. This essay explains the nature and function of these impostors and considers the possible benefits accruing to affiliated elites in the…
Conceptualising ‘shadow landscape’ in political ecology and rural studies
Born to Be Wild? Non-governmental Organisations, Politics and the Environment
The ways in which non-governmental organisations (NGOs) pursue environmental agendas via political processes have been a subject of growing interest to geographers, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists. This article examines how and why that interest has grown by assessing selected different approaches to the study of NGOs, environments and politics that characterise such research. Against a backdrop of growing debate over the u…
Ethics in Political Ecology
Branding natural resources
This paper explores the branding of natural resources using a case study of teak. While scholars write about brands and branding as well as natural resources, few of them connect the two, let alone trace geographical and historical patterns of development. Yet studying the intersection of brands, natural resources, geography and history yields rich insights about how both brands and natural resources have come to be defined. Rejecting narrow unde…
The Greening of Burma
M sUCH has been written of late about the concept of sustainable development. The subject of growing conceptual and methodological debate, this all-encompassing concept has become established as the truism of our times.1 Defined notably by the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987 as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, the concept of sust…
Fighting over the forests
A pioneering reputation
Cultural and Human Ecological Resilience at Early Bronze Age Bat
The Bat landscape of northwestern Oman is one of intermittent archaeological remains and varied ecological conditions. The site has been a center for human activity since the Neolithic, most famously attested by the Early Bronze Age tombs, towers, and settlement of the UNESCO World Heritage zone. This paper presents recent research conducted by the Bat Archaeological Project in reconstructing the site’s third millennium BC cultural landscape and …
Political ecology
Fighting over the forests
Shifting the Cultivator
One of the most innovative aspects of forest policy in colonial Burma was the employment of shifting cultivators in order to create teak plantations. As developed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this system of plantation forestry represented an far-sighted attempt to establish teak production on a long-term basis. Indeed, its adaptation of what many colonial officials viewed as a destructive and primitive form of agriculture to m…
Logging the GlobeM. Patricia Marchak Montreal
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Romancing Colonial Forestry
Recent research in political ecology highlights the central role played by the colonial state in tropical forest management, but little attention has been given as yet to the discursive representation of that role. This paper thus investigates the ways in which colonial foresters represented their work through books, articles and official reports. Using colonial Burma as a case study, the key elements of a discourse of 'forestry as progress' are …
The Greening of Burma
M sUCH has been written of late about the concept of sustainable development. The subject of growing conceptual and methodological debate, this all-encompassing concept has become established as the truism of our times.1 Defined notably by the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987 as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, the concept of sust…
Beyond the impasse
In the context of a deepening impasse in Third World environmental research, this paper suggests that researchers should adopt a political ecology perspective to ensure that research addresses the political and economic issues that underlie the Third World's environmental problems. Since an understanding of unequal power relations is central to political ecology, the paper considers how questions of power influence human‐environmental interaction…
Power, knowledge and political ecology in the third world
Political ecology examines the political dynamics surrounding material and discursive struggles over the environment in the third world. The role of unequal power relations in constituting a politicized environment is a central theme. Particular attention is given to the ways in which conflict over access to environmental resources is linked to systems of political and economic control first elaborated during the colonial era. Studies emphasize t…
Rethinking environmental management
The field of environmental management developed as a technocentric problem-solving initiative, providing ‘practical’ assistance to state officials involved in environmental management. Since the field was largely associated with what state officials and associated experts ‘dO', little effort was devoted to understanding the political, economic or cultural forces conditioning the process of environmental management. The potentially significant con…
Environmental Change in Southeast Asia
Environmental Change in South-East Asia brings together scholars, journalists, consultants and NGO activists to explore the interaction of people, politics and ecology. Ostensibly green activities - plantation forestry, eco-tourism, hydro-electricity - are revealed as guises used by elites to promote their own political and economic interests. Highlighting fatal flaws in presently exclusive economic and ecological approaches, the authors stress t…
The Political Ecology of Forestry in Burma
Politicized moral geographies
Explaining State‐Environmental NGO Relations in the Philippines and Indonesia
This paper explains how the notion of “critical engagement” has been a popular basis for NGO‐state relations in the Philippines and Indonesia. It has been used, moreover, in both liberal democratic (post‐1985 Philippines) and authoritarian (late 1960s to late 1990s Indonesia) political regimes. For both states and reform‐minded NGOs, critical engagement has represented a flexible means by which to pursue assorted political, economic and social en…
False Prophets? Mutant NGOs and Philippine Environmentalism
Nongovernmental organization (NGO) popularity has led to the emergence of NGO-like organizations Oat seek to acquire a stake in that popularity. Mutant NGOs are established for ostensibly moral and altruistic purposes but their main purpose is primarily to promote the political and economic interests of sponsors. This essay explains the nature and function of these impostors and considers the possible benefits accruing to affiliated elites in the…
Non-Governmental Organizations and Governmentality
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are playing an increasingly important role in the process Foucault called ‘governmentality’. Drawing on the Foucauldian literature, this paper uses a case study of biodiversity conservation as well as indigenous people's ancestral domain in the Philippines to show how two quite different NGO-led conservation agendas nonetheless share a common underlying purpose: persuading indigenous people to internalize sta…
Consuming narratives
This paper examines how political ecology themes of tropical conservation and social justice become representational practices underpinning ‘alternative’ consumption in the North. The notion of commodity culture is adopted to understand the ambiguous rationalities and ethical assumptions of two sets of consumption practices. The first case considers Edenic myth‐making used to assimilate concerns over tropical deforestation in the South to consump…
Ethics in Political Ecology
Doing “Good” in the Philippines
This chapter presents a selective outline of the history of Philippine nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), drawing on diverse secondary sources and fieldwork insights. The two NGOs featured are reform-minded in orientation and broadly national in ambition, if not in territorial reach, have distinctive patterns of development, and should not be viewed as representative of Philippine NGOs. The Philippine Association For Intercultural Development …
Third World Political Ecology
An effective response to contemporary environmental problems demands an approach that integrates political, economic and ecological issues. Third World Political Ecology provides an introduction to an exciting new research field that aims to develop an integrated understanding of the political economy of environmental change in the Third World. The authors review the historical development of the field, explain what is distinctive about Third Wor…
Nongovernmental Organizations in Environmental Struggles
Focusing on the Philippines, Bryant explores the perceptions of NGOs as moral and altruistic and how such perceptions can translate into social power. He examines the ambiguous qualities of NGO strategising and the possibilities for NGOs to achieve political goals as moral leaders
The social dynamics of deforestation in the Philippines
A pioneering reputation
The Fourth Circle
La política ecológica y la gestión ambiental en un mundo en desarrollo
Este artículo aborda diversos aspectos clave de la gestión ambiental en el mundo en desarrollo desde la perspectiva de la ecología política. Comienza con un breve repaso de la evolución de la ecología política. Posteriormente se abordan dos casos de estudio en el Sudeste de Asia con el fin de explorar espacios de confrontación y espacios de cooperación que aglutinan elementos clave de la historia y la actualidad de la gestión ambiental en el mund…
Born to Be Wild? Non-governmental Organisations, Politics and the Environment
The ways in which non-governmental organisations (NGOs) pursue environmental agendas via political processes have been a subject of growing interest to geographers, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists. This article examines how and why that interest has grown by assessing selected different approaches to the study of NGOs, environments and politics that characterise such research. Against a backdrop of growing debate over the u…
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