Environmental Governance in a Populist/Authoritarian Era
This volume explores the many and deep connections between the widespread rise of authoritarian leaders and populist politics in recent years, and the domain of environmental politics and governance how environments are known, valued, and managed; for whose benefit; and with what outcomes.
The volume is explicitly international in scope and comparative in design, emphasizing both the differences and commonalties to be seen among contemporary authoritarian and populist political formations and their relations to environmental governance. Prominent themes include the historical roots of and precedents for environmental governance in authoritarian and populist contexts; the relationships between populism and authoritarianism and extractivism and resource nationalism; environmental politics as an arena for questions of security and citizenship; racialization and environmental politics; the politics of environmental science and knowledge; and progressive political alternatives. In each domain, using rich case studies, contributors analyse what differences it makes when environmental governance takes place in authoritarian and populist political contexts.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
James McCarthy is a Professor in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, Worcester, USA. His work analyses the interactions of political economy and environmental politics. He has published three major edited volumes and over 50 articles and chapters. His current research explores the relationships between climate change, renewable energy, and the future of capitalism.
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The chapters in this book were originally published in Annals of the American Association of Geographers, volume 109, issue 2 (March 2019). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Authoritarianism, Populism, and the Environment: Comparative Experiences, Insights, and Perspectives
James McCarthy
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, volume 109, issue 2 (March 2019) pp. 301313
Authoritarian Environmental Governance: Insights from the Past Century
Robert Wilson
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, volume 109, issue 2 (March 2019) pp. 314323
Deadly Environmental Governance: Authoritarianism, Eco-populism, and the Repression of Environmental and Land Defenders
Nick Middeldorp and Philippe Le Billon
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, volume 109, issue 2 (March 2019) pp. 324337
Neoliberalizing Authoritarian Environmental Governance in (Post) Socialist Laos
Miles Kenney-Lazar
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, volume 109, issue 2 (March 2019) pp. 338348
The Speculative Petro-State: Volatile Oil Prices and Resource Populism in Ecuador
Angus Lyall and Gabriela Valdivia
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, volume 109, issue 2 (March 2019) pp. 349360
Contradictions of Populism and Resource Extraction: Examining the Intersection of Resource Nationalism and Accumulation by Dispossession in Mongolia
Orhon Myadar and Sara Jackson
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, volume 109, issue 2 (March 2019) pp. 361370
Bringing Back the Mines and a Way of Life: Populism and the Politics of Extraction
Erik Kojola
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, volume 109, issue 2 (March 2019) pp. 371381
Emotional Environments of Energy Extraction in Russia
Jessica K. Graybill
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, volume 109, issue 2 (March 2019) pp. 382394
U.S. Farm Policy as Fraught Populism: Tracing the Scalar Tensions of Nationalist Agricultural Governance
Garrett Graddy-Lovelace
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, volume 109, issue 2 (March 2019) pp. 395411
The State, Sewers, and Security: How Does the Egyptian State Reframe Environmental Disasters as Terrorist Threats?
Mohammed Rafi Arefin
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, volume 109, issue 2 (March 2019) pp. 412421
Sequestering a River: The Political Ecology of the Dead Ergene River and Neoliberal Urbanization in Todays Turkey
Eda Acara
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, volume 109, issue 2 (March 2019) pp. 422433
Return the Lake to the People: Populist Political Rhetoric and the Fate of a Resource Frontier in the Philippines
Kristian Saguin
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, volume 109, issue 2 (March 2019) pp. 434442
Fishing for Power: Incursions of the Ugandan Authoritarian State
Anne J. Kantel
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, volume 109, issue 2 (March 2019) pp. 443455
From the Heavens to the Markets: Governing Agricultural Drought under Chinese Fragmented Authoritarianism
Afton Clarke-Sather
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, volume 109, issue 2 (March 2019) pp. 456464
Electricity-Centered Clientelism and the Contradictions of Private Solar Microgrids in India
Jonathan N. Balls and Harry W. Fischer
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, volume 109, issue 2 (March 2019) pp. 465475
Dreams and Migration in South Koreas Border Region: Landscape Change and Environmental Impacts
Heejun Chang, Sunhak Bae, and Kyunghyun Park
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, volume 109, issue 2 (March 2019) pp. 476491
