GGRB21H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Medicinal Plants, Moral Economy, Geoffrey Scoones
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Eesb15 lecture 5 - emergence of political ecology. Many useful insights from political ecology draw from certain theoretical frameworks addressing people-nature interactions: Common property theory: commons are not res nullius, but res communes, and have rules and regulations about use and management. Marxist political economy: no explanation of environmental change is complete without serious attention to who profits from changes in control over resources and who takes what from whom. Peasant studies: chayanov (peasants for subsistence rather than profit); moral economy of the peasant and everyday forms of resistance (e. p. Moral economy: how peasants rationalize decision-making as sometimes it"s justifiable to exploit a resource. Everyday forms of resistance: alleviate stress from domination by resisting. Peasants resist in order to overcome hegemony. Feminist development studies: human-environmental interactions and processes are gendered. Men interfere in the livelihoods of women. Critical environmental history: offers political ecologists a powerful model to understand environmental change over time.
