Status Updates From Political Ecology Across Sp...

"In the alternative political ecology of social movements, formerly marginal sites, such as local communities and social groups, come to be seen as emergent centers of innovation and alternative worlds." - Arturo Escobar and Susan Paulson

"Raymond L. Bryant (2000), for example, urges us to turn away from framing environmental debates in terms of material struggle toward a focus on struggles over the social construction of environmental knowledge (see Brosius 1999)" - Michael R. Dove

"So in addition to analyzing social, ecological, and political dimensions of productive practice and exchange, we need to examine the forms of knowledge and value that motivate and inform them." - Susan Paulson

"Contemporary political ecology is well served by both quantitative and qualitative data and by the various methodologies required to obtain these forms of information to explain and contextualize the complexities of human-environment relations."

"Political ecology's critique, then, is not against consumption per se. Rather, it suggests that the arrangements by which we produce daily life matter profoundly."

"...'the phrase 'political ecology' combines the concerns of ecology and a broadly defined political economy. Together this encompasses the constantly shifting dialectic between society and land-based resources, and also within classes and groups within society itself...' (17)" - Piers Blaikie and Harold Brookfield (1987)