Terrestrial Transformations

Acknowledgments Introduction Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg Chapter 1. The Anthropocene and other noxious concepts Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg Chapter 2. The Political Ecology of Climate Change James B. Greenberg and Thomas K. Park Chapter 3. Digital Sensing and Human-Environment Relationships in the Face of Climate Variability in Senegal and Mauritania Thomas K. Park, Aminata Niang and Mamadou Baro Chapter 4. The Political Ecology of Languagelessness of the Southwest North American Region: Case Studies in the Linguistic Commoditization of Mexican Origin People Carlos Velez-Ibanez Chapter 5. Political Ecology of Guitars and their Tonewoods James B. Greenberg Chapter 6. Indigenous responses to colonialism in an island state: a geopolitical ecology of Kanaky-New Caledonia Simon Batterbury, Severine Bouard, and Matthias Kowasch Chapter 7. An Everyday Politics of Access: The Political Ecology of Infrastructure in Cape Town's Informal Settlements Angela Storey Chapter 8. Land Tenure Issues and Socio-Political Challenges in Mauritania Mamadou Baro Chapter 9. Complicity and Resistance in the Indigenous Amazon: Economia Indigena Under Siege Alaka Wali Chapter 10. Dolphin Hunters or Dolphin Saviors: Cultural Identity Choices Under Intensifying Sea Level Rise, Cash-Dependence, and a New Eco-Christian Conservation Sarah Keen Meltzoff Chapter 11. When Pachamama is Left Hungry: Healing and Misfortune in the Atacama Desert Anita Carrasco Chapter 12. Place Matters: Tracking Coastal Restoration after the Deepwater Horizon Diane Austin and Victoria Phaneuf Chapter 13. Practicing Political Ecology in the New Restoration Economy Ravic P. Nijbroek Chapter 14. Nature conservation and the ambiguous human-nature relationship Ylva Uggla Chapter 15. Hope and Possibility for Transformation in Ordinary Acts of Well-Being on a Bicycle-Pedestrian Trail Lisa L. Gezon Conclusion James B. Greenberg, Thomas K. Park, Simon Batterbury, Casey Walsh, Edward Liebow References Index About the Editors & Contributors