GEOS2121 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Counterargument, Land Tenure, Commodity Market
17 Aug 2018
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Political ecology: a critical introduction (p. 1-5, 11-20) Introduction (p. 1-5) (slum) agbogbloshie neighbourhood of accra, ghana. Violent ecologies of inequality in terms of the environment: smell of trash, smoke, waterway filled with sewage. Ecology of this scene is rotted in a far-ranging politics of waste disposal, with unquestionably grim implications for local environments and residents. Informally constituted local labour systems and institutions of redistribution. Chapter 1: political vs. apolitical ecologies (p. 11-20) Nature = wilderness with variety of flora and fauna (cid:374)ature of (cid:862)(cid:449)ild(cid:863) afri(cid:272)a. Human population = bad for the environment due to the declining numbers of flora and fauna + habitat destruction. Wildlife crisis in east africa is more political and economic than demographic! The migration of the wildebeest and its concomitant implications for grasslands and lions, therefore, does not occur outside the influences of a broader political economy.
