1st Edition

The Political Ecology of Agrofuels

280 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the political ecology of agrofuels as an encompassing socio-spatial transformation process consisting of a series of changing contexts, political reconfigurations, and the restructuring of social and labour relations. It includes conceptual chapters as well as case studies from different world regions (North America, Europe, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, Asia) and levels... Read more

1. An introduction to the political ecology of agrofuels 2. The political ecology of agrofuels   3. Territory, scale and networks 4. The gendered political ecology of agrofuels expansion   5. Bridging the gap with agrofuels 6. Agrofuels and the Food Regime 7. Agrofuels and land rights in Africa 8. The discursive and material flexibility of Jatropha curcas
9. Social-environmental conflicts and agrofuel crops 10. Green grabbing 11. Transnational Space and workers struggles 12. Agrofuel networks 13. US agrofuels in times of crisis   14. Immunization by neoliberalization

Biography

Kristina Dietz is post-doc research fellow at the International Research Network on Interdependent Inequalities in Latin America, Berlin, Germany.



Bettina Engels is deputy assistant professor for Development Politics and Politics of Africa at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.



Oliver Pye teaches Southeast Asian studies at Bonn University, Germany.



Achim Brunnengräber is Associate Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.