Books Written or Edited by GSG Faculty and Special Issues of Journals since 2000
This page brings together books that the School’s faculty members have published since 2000, and is an indication of the creativity, breadth of interest and productivity of our faculty. Of course, our research outputs include far more than books: we also write articles, create GIS software, prepare popular publications and much else. Our books, however, mark an important collective contribution to our discipline and to social and environmental sciences more generally. We take this contribution very seriously.
Books
Industrias Extractivas, Conflicto Social y Dinamicas Institutionales en la Region Andina
Anthony Bebbington (ed.) Lima:
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos/Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales, 2013 (English Version: Social Conflict, Economic Development and the Extractive Industry: Evidence from South America. Routledge, 2011).
NOTE:
This book is based on the premise that the expansion of extractive industries in Latin America, and especially in the Andean and Amazonian regions, is occurring on such a scale, and with such velocity, that it is transforming societies, political economies and the territories in which this investment is taking place. Combining case studies and comparative analyses of the interactions among States, companies, NGOs, peasantries and indigenous populations the book asks whether and under what circumstances socio-environmental conflicts over the extaction of natural resources can actually lead to progressive changes in the institutions through which the natural resource industries are governed. The book is particularly relevant for those with an interest in improving the regulation of resource extraction and in reconciling national strategies for economic development with the needs and concerns of those communities and people most directly affected by the extraction of minerals, oil and natural gas.
Global Political Ecology
Edited by Richard Peet, Clark University,
Paul
Robbins (Ph.D., Clark '96), University of Arizona, and Michael Watts, University
of California, Berkeley Published by Routledge, London and New York, 2011
NOTE: This edited volume, Global Political Ecology, is critical book that
links the political economy of global capitalism with the political ecology of a
series of environmental crises and failed attempts at environmental policies.
The editors wrote a long introduction, drawing on their recent published work,
as with Peet and Watts, Liberation Ecologies (two editions), Robbins, Political
Ecology, and Peluso and Watts Violent Environments. This introduction lays out
an explanation of recent trends and crises in terms of political economy,
defines the shape and direction of the field of political ecology and explains
key concepts and themes to be found throughout. The main body of the book
consists of the following sections:
I Food, Health and the Body: Political Ecology of Sustainability
II. Capital’s Margins: Political Ecology of Waste, Displacement and the Slum
World
III Risk, Certification and Markets: Political Ecology of
Environmental Governance
IV War, Militarism and Insurgency: Political Ecology of Security
Mineria,
Movimientos Sociales y Respuestas Campesinas: una ecología política de
transformaciones territoriales. Anthony Bebbington (ed.)Lima:
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos/Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales, 2007,
reprinted with new introduction, 2011 ("Mining, Social Movements and Peasant
Responses: a political ecology of territorial transformations")
publisher's link.
NOTE: The rapid rise of extractive industries (mining, oil, gas) has been one of
the most significant political ecology transformations to have occurred in Latin
America since the mid-1990s. Until recently, however, this phenomenon
received little research attention. This book – among the earliest
academic texts to address extractive industries in the Andean region - combines
concepts from political ecology, economic geography and social movements
research to analyze the human environmental effects of the expansion of large
scale mining in Latin America. The chapters focus on the diverse forms of
social mobilization that have emerged in response to this expansion and the
nature of the socio-environmental conflicts that have accompanied this
expansion. The authors explore the ways in which these phenomena have
fundamentally changed the territories and countries in which they occur. Contributions are based on research in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Guatemala.
Key
Concepts in Economic Geography
Written by Yuko Aoyama, James Murphy, Clark University, and
Susan Hanson, Clark University, Distinguished Professor, Emerita.
Published by Sage , Los Angeles, London, Singapore, New Dehli and Washington DC,
2011.
NOTE: Key Concepts in Economic Geography is a new kind of textbook that
forms part of an innovative set of companion texts for the Human Geography
sub-disciplines. Organized around 20 short essays, Key Concepts in Economic
Geography provides a cutting edge introduction to the central concepts that
define contemporary research in Economic Geography.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Key Agents in Economic Geography
Labour, Firm, State
Key Drivers of Economic Change
Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Accessibility
Industries and Regions in Economic Change
Industrial Location, Industrial Clusters, Regional Disparity,
Post-Fordism
Global Economic Geographies
Core-Periphery, Globalization, Circuits of Capital, Global
Value Chains
Socio-Cultural Contexts of Economic Change
Culture, Gender, Institutions, Embeddedness, Networks
Emerging Themes in Economic Geography
Knowledge Economy, Financialization,Consumption,
Sustainable Development
Cultural Encounters with the Environment: Enduring and Evolving Geographic
Themes.
Editd by Alexander B. Murphy and Douglas Johnson, Clark
University with the assistance of Viola Haarmann, Published by Rowman &
Littlefield, Maryland and Oxford, 2000.
NOTE: In this fresh and original view of contemporary geography,
distinguished scholars consider the role of four traditional themes in the "new
cultural geography." They explore the interplay between the evolution of
particular biophysical niches and the activities of the culture groups that
inhabit them; the diffusion of cultural traits; the establishment of definition
of culture areas; and the distinctive mix of geographical characteristics that
gives places their special character in relation to one another.
10 Geographic Ideas that Changed the World
Edited by Susan Hanson, Clark University, Distinguished Professor
Emerita Published by Rutgers University Press, New Jersey, Paperback,
2001.
NOTE: When geographic ideas change the world in our heads, the impact can be
read on the ground and in our lives. In these thought-provoking, witty essays,
some of America's most distinguished geographers explore the ten geographic
ideas that have literally changed the world and the way we think and act. They
tackle ideas that impose shape on the world, ideas that mold our understanding
of the natural environment, and ideas that establish relationships between
people and places. Every one of these ideas has had - and continues to
have - deep effect on the way we understand the world and our place in it.