Other Geographies: The Influences of Michael Watts (Antipode Book Series) - Hardcover

`The essays in this book represent a sampling of Watts' UC Berkeley students' work across the four decades he served as professor, muse, and driving force for colleagues as well as students. The collection provides an entree into this important scholar's broad-ranging and compelling legacy that branches out and extends, like a family tree, to distant continents and global institutions. How has Michael Watts shaped Political Ecology and other subfields of Critical Human Geography? Let us count the ways.' Nancy Lee Peluso, Professor of Society & Environment, University of California, Berkeley, USA `This important volume is a testament to the range of scholarship inspired by Michael Watts as illustrated by the insightful contributions of his former students, who are major scholars in their own right. Together, their contributions form an exciting new contribution to political ecology and critical agrarian studies - each presenting new understandings while tracing their intellectual debt to Watts's work.' Matt Turner, Professor of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

An international group of distinguished scholars pay homage to and build on the work of one of the most influential thinkers of our time, Michael Watts. * Shows how Michael Watts research, writings, teaching and mentoring have relentlessly pushed boundaries, transforming his chosen field of geography and beyond * Spans an array of topics including the political economy and ecology of African societies, governmentality and territoriality in various Southern contexts, food security, cultural materialist expositions of capitalism, modernity and development across the postcolonial world * Builds on his legacy, exploring its theoretical, analytical, and empirical implications and proposing exciting new possibilities for further exploration in the tracks of Watts