Ecology and Power Struggles Over Land and Material Resources in the Past, Present and Future

Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives on Historical Political Ecology 1. Accumulation: Land as a Medium of Domination 2. Techno-Fix: Ecological Rifts and Capital Shifts 3. Empire: The Comparative Study of Imperialism 4. Islands: Ecologically Unequal Exchange and Landesque Capital 5. Guano: The Global Metabolic Rift and the Fertilizer Trade 6. Fleece: Imperial Metabolism in the Pre-Columbian Andes 7. Slaves: Inequality and Sustainable Agriculture in Pre-Colonial West Africa 8. Steam: Nineteenth-Century Mechanization and the Power of Capital 9. Ivory: Socio-ecological Consequences of the East African Ivory Trade 10. Lawns: Botanical Garden Design as Colonial Domination Part 2: Struggles over Material Resources in the Modern World 11. Footprints: The Division of Nations and Nature 12. Water: Irrigation and Resilience in the Tanzanian Highlands 13. Meat: The New Geopolitics of Food 14. Trees: Conflicts Between Pastoralists, Loggers and Conservationists in the Himalayas 15. Grass: From Local Pastures to Global Energy Markets in Eastern Tanzania 16. Forests: Capital Accumulation, Climate Change, and Crises in Chile and Sweden 17. Jatropha: A Magic Bullet Filled with Oil 18. Atoms: Nuclear Estrangement from Chernobyl to India 19. Safflower: Liberalisation or Participation in a Tanzanian Village 20. Land-Claims: Racialized Environmental Struggles in Latin America 21. Smoke: Cooking, Coughing and Collective Action in Kenya 22. Sugarcane: Agrofuels and Conflicting Land Uses in Brazil