Includes bibliographical references and index.

Liberating political ecology / Michael Watts and Richard Peet -- The political ecology of famine : the origins of the Third World / Mike Da vis -- Invisible forests : the political ecology of forest resurgence i n El Salvador / Susanna B. Hecht -- Environmental discourses on soil de gradation in Bolivia : sustainability and the search for socioenvironme ntal "middle ground" / Karl S. Zimmerer -- Purity and pollution : racia l degradation and environmental anxieties / Jake Kosek -- Eco-governmen tality and other transnational practices of a "green" World Bank / Mich ael Goldman -- Nature-state-territory : toward a critical theorization of conversation enclosures / Roderick P. Neumann -- Water, markets, and embedded institutions in Western India / Navroz K. Dubash -- Transitio n environments : ecological and social challenges to post-socialist ind ustrial development / Dara O'Rourke -- Violent environments : petroleum conflict and the political ecology of rule in the Niger Delta, Nigeria / Michael Watts -- Gender and class power in agroforestry systems : ca se studies from Indonesia and West Africa / Richard A. Schroeder and Kr isnawati Suryanata -- Gender conflict in Gambian wetlands / Judith Carn ey -- Environment, indigeneity and transnationalism / Tania Murray Li - - From Chipko to Uttaranchal : the environment of protest and developme nt in the Indian Himalaya / Haripriya Rangan -- Movements and moderniza tions, markets and municipalities : indigenous federations in rural Ecu ador / Anthony Bebbington -- Industrial pollution and social movements in Thailand / Tim Forsyth.