Critical political ecology

In this lecture on critical political ecology, Dr. Paige West traces the history of the theory and how it emerged from the study of isolated communities and their connections to external structures that impact their social lives. She defines political ecology as a critical approach that sees environmental change as caused by both natural and human structures, with differential impacts for individuals within those structures. She highlights the role that female academics have played in advancing political ecology as a theory and method, and then focuses on the influence and concepts from Foucault, including discourse, power, and discipline. She then draws on examples from her own work in Papua New Guinea to exemplify the ongoing use of the political ecology frame, starting with characterizing contemporary Papua New Guineans as connected to the outside world and continuing by exploring coffee commodity chains as one form of local-global relationships. She ends by discussing updated understandings of Marx’s ideas of accumulation and dispossession, suggests that there are both material and nonmaterial forms of these tendencies of modern global economic structures.
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[@kagillogly]

I love sharing this with my "Living in the Anthropocene" class (where we imagine different ways we might live in the future, based on anthropological data about different ways humans have lived in our entire history). And I love telling them that Paige is also super nice & funny & has crazy style sense! Thank you, Paige, for helping me to help my students adapt to a very frightening future.

[@commenthismofo]

I hit a wall getting my master thesis started. I'd lost hope in anthropology as a discipline. You made my day! Now I am certain I have the tools and motivation to go on! Thank you so much for your excellent presentation!

[@weareallbornmad410]

Best of luck! Let us know how things are for you these days?

[@commenthismofo]

@@weareallbornmad410 Well, hi there! This comment brought back memories 😅In the end, my master thesis became a fusion between many theoretical approaches, including political ecology. It went well and I got a B, which I am very satisfied with. Now I work at a university within the field of anthropology. 😄

[@weareallbornmad410]

@@commenthismofo Cool! I honestly didn't expect an answer, thanks for taking the time to respond :)) Also, can you tell me just a bit about this job you do? If things go well I'll graduate with Phd this year, I want what you have... Oh, I forgot - gratulations! Sounds like it wasn't an easy road for you, all the more impressive and worthwhile that you made it :)

[@commenthismofo]

Working as a research assistant :)

[@dantexkv9983]

It’s great to see I decided to go back to school and go in this field

[@PoetaGuerrera]

What a great talk. I love Paige West. She's brilliant.

[@lushaliu2997]

Me too also hit a wall about political ecology and dr Paige has explained it so clearly and made me understood a lot better! Thank you for such informative content

[@my_realm]

Excellent background and insight!

[@margarethumphrey8975]

Very inspiring introduction on the concept of political ecology. I will be starting a Unit module on this concept tomorrow and this is a very good way to inspire me on the module. I am a PhD Student at the University of Bristol UK. Thank you Prof P. West.

[@asrozax]

The main point of this lecture is in 29:15, excellent explanation btw..

[@dhrubabijayag.c.3882]

She is excellent.Her presentation is awesome.

[@mangodistrict]

Excellent lecture!!

[@raphaelc2093]

👏👏👏

[@peterkhanbanypieny9179]

Please don't hesitate to send me pdfs of your lectures later.

[@nataliaflorian2257]

Nice explanation, though I got distracted by the guy checking his Facebook at 28:16 ...

[@pauleembal]

So do I!

[@camilo.t.sanchez.6102]

Ecologi@Politic@Amazoni@ Amazon political ecology, Ecologia politica amazonica

[@corinnaspickermann2550]

is that a thing to pursui (?) to "do something" for the Amazonas?