Doing Political Ecology

Since its inception, the field of political ecology has served as a critical hub for inclusive and transformative environmental inquiry. Doing Political Ecology offers a distinctive entry point into this ever-growing field and argues that our scholarly ＂foundations,＂ today more than ever, comprise a cross-cutting latticework of research approaches and concepts.

This volume brings together 28 leading scholars from a range of backgrounds and geographies, with contributions organized into 18 analytical lenses that highlight different approaches to critical environmental research and ＂ways of seeing＂ nature-society interactions. The book’s contributors engage the breadth and depth of the field, recognizing a variety of roots and genealogies, and give ample voice to these rich and complementary lineages. This inclusive presentation of the field allows diverse theoretical and empirical approaches to intermingle in novel ways. Readers will emerge with a wide-ranging understanding of political ecology and will attain a diverse toolkit for evaluating human-environment interactions.

Each chapter astutely grounds key methodological, theoretical, topical, and conceptual approaches that animate a range of influential, cutting-edge, and complementary ways of ＂doing＂ political ecology.

Gregory L. Simon is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Denver. He has held positions at ETH Zurich, Stanford University, University of Colorado Boulder, and UCLA. His research examines the development and governance of social-environmental risks and vulnerabilities.

Kelly Kay is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her PhD from Clark University and has held academic appointments at UC Berkeley and The London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research is concerned with the political economy of the environment.