Political Ecologies of Displacement

Rebecca Elmhirst

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-47178-1_3

Political Ecologies of Displacement

Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Chapter › peer-review

Abstract

This chapter charts the ways political ecology approaches have been applied in analysing and challenging displacement across a range of socio-political and ecological contexts. It considers the contribution made by materialist political ecology in challenging positivist and behavioural science-inspired analyses of displacement, hazard and risk before turning to analyses that also draw on poststructuralist concepts to examine displacements associated with the governance of commodified nature through technical fixes that rework society-nature relationships, in practices such as infrastructure development, conservation and environmental restoration. The chapter concludes by considering the knowledge politics that make displacement appear as a ‘natural’ outcome, and which explore the messy and embodied politics of resistance that challenge its inevitability.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Handbook of Displacement
Editors	Peter Adey, Janet Bowstead, Katherine Brickell, Vandana Desai, Mike Dolton, Alastair Pinkerton, Ayesha Siddiqi
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	3
Pages	55-65
Number of pages	10
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030471781
ISBN (Print)	9783030471774
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47178-1_3
Publication status	Published - 12 Dec 2020

Keywords

political ecology
displacement
human geography

Access to Document

10.1007/978-3-030-47178-1_3

Cite this

@inbook{6042a8e1e067407c8348a5194f5274b6,

title = "Political Ecologies of Displacement",

abstract = "This chapter charts the ways political ecology approaches have been applied in analysing and challenging displacement across a range of socio-political and ecological contexts. It considers the contribution made by materialist political ecology in challenging positivist and behavioural science-inspired analyses of displacement, hazard and risk before turning to analyses that also draw on poststructuralist concepts to examine displacements associated with the governance of commodified nature through technical fixes that rework society-nature relationships, in practices such as infrastructure development, conservation and environmental restoration. The chapter concludes by considering the knowledge politics that make displacement appear as a {\textquoteleft}natural{\textquoteright} outcome, and which explore the messy and embodied politics of resistance that challenge its inevitability.",

keywords = "political ecology, displacement, human geography",

author = "Rebecca Elmhirst",

year = "2020",

month = dec,

day = "12",

doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-47178-1_3",

language = "English",

isbn = "9783030471774",

pages = "55--65",

editor = "Peter Adey and Janet Bowstead and Katherine Brickell and Vandana Desai and Mike Dolton and Alastair Pinkerton and Ayesha Siddiqi",

booktitle = "The Handbook of Displacement",

publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",

edition = "1st",

}

TY - CHAP

T1 - Political Ecologies of Displacement

AU - Elmhirst, Rebecca

PY - 2020/12/12

Y1 - 2020/12/12

N2 - This chapter charts the ways political ecology approaches have been applied in analysing and challenging displacement across a range of socio-political and ecological contexts. It considers the contribution made by materialist political ecology in challenging positivist and behavioural science-inspired analyses of displacement, hazard and risk before turning to analyses that also draw on poststructuralist concepts to examine displacements associated with the governance of commodified nature through technical fixes that rework society-nature relationships, in practices such as infrastructure development, conservation and environmental restoration. The chapter concludes by considering the knowledge politics that make displacement appear as a ‘natural’ outcome, and which explore the messy and embodied politics of resistance that challenge its inevitability.

AB - This chapter charts the ways political ecology approaches have been applied in analysing and challenging displacement across a range of socio-political and ecological contexts. It considers the contribution made by materialist political ecology in challenging positivist and behavioural science-inspired analyses of displacement, hazard and risk before turning to analyses that also draw on poststructuralist concepts to examine displacements associated with the governance of commodified nature through technical fixes that rework society-nature relationships, in practices such as infrastructure development, conservation and environmental restoration. The chapter concludes by considering the knowledge politics that make displacement appear as a ‘natural’ outcome, and which explore the messy and embodied politics of resistance that challenge its inevitability.

KW - political ecology

KW - displacement

KW - human geography

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-47178-1_3

DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-47178-1_3

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9783030471774

SP - 55

EP - 65

BT - The Handbook of Displacement

A2 - Adey, Peter

A2 - Bowstead, Janet

A2 - Brickell, Katherine

A2 - Desai, Vandana

A2 - Dolton, Mike

A2 - Pinkerton, Alastair

A2 - Siddiqi, Ayesha

PB - Palgrave Macmillan

CY - Cham

ER -

Political Ecologies of Displacement

Abstract

Keywords

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Cite this