Contentious Geographies: Environmental Knowledge, Meaning, Scale

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Contents: Foreword Preface Contentious geographies: environmental knowledge, meaning, scale, Michael K. Goodman, Maxwell T. Boykoff and Kyle T. Evered Part 1 Translating Contentious Environmental Knowledge and Science: The contentious world of Jared Diamond's Collapse, Tim Forsyth Fight semantic drift!? Mass media coverage of anthropogenic climate change, Maxwell T. Boykoff Whose scarcity? The hydrosocial cycle and the changing waterscape of La Ligua river basin, Chile, Jessica Budds. Part 2 Conflicting and Shifting Environmental Knowledges, Livelihoods, and Power: 'Environmentality' in Rajasthan's groundwater sector: divergent environmental knowledges and subjectivities, Trevor L. Birkenholtz Discursive spearpoints: contentious interventions in Amazonian indigenous environments, Logan A. Hennessy. Part 3 Environmental Movements: Contested (Re)Scaling of Knowledges, Problems and Narratives: Confronting invisibility: reconstructing scale in California's pesticide drift conflict, Jill Harrison Scale and narrative in the struggle for environment and livelihood in Vieques, Puerto Rico, Karen Schmelzkopf Making local places GE-free in California's contentious geographies of genetic pollution and coexistence, Dustin Mulvaney. Part 4 Contested Production of Environmental Science, Law, and Knowledge: Regional power and the power of the region: resisting dam removal in the Pacific Northwest, Eve Vogel Law of regions: mining legislation and the construction of East and West, Johanna Haas. Part 5 Fraught Spatial Technologies and Knowledge Construction: Mapping boundaries, shifting power: the socio-ethical dimensions of participatory mapping, Jefferson Fox, Krisnawati Suryanata, Peter Hershock and Albertus Hadi Pramono Competing and conflicting social constructions of 'land' in South Africa: the case of and implications for land reform, Brent McCusker Index.