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"The way such marginalised people make use of natural resources, rural space and the built environment in urban contexts still affected strongly by the power relations under which they struggle to survive and raise their families." B. Wisner

"Activist political ecology also includes practice and study of resistance to these power relations: efforts to 'bend' the universe in the direction of justice...these days is called 'transformation' (Pelling, 2010)." - B. Wisner

"[political ecology]...is an applied - even proactive - interdisciplinary study of society and earth that focuses on political, economic, and social power relations (as well as violence - structural and overt - and coercion) up and down a continuum of scales from global to local (Wisner, 1993)."

"In Mozambique I learned that when theory (that is, policy based on ideology) is applied from the 'top down' with no space for 'bottom up' agency, voice and spontaneity by ordinary people, trouble is the result..." B. Wisner

"Third, political ecology is characterized by a normative political commitment to social justice and political change...Political ecologists thus seek not just to explain social and environmental processes, but to construct an alternative understanding of them, with an orientation toward social justice and radical politics."