Disrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania

by Marco Armiero How many times have we repeated to each other that there is a need, an urgent need, for a political ecology of post-socialist countries? Thereby, we should warmly welcome Stefan Dorondel's insightful ethnographic research on two villages in post-socialist Romania: Disrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania (Bergham Press, …

Nancy Peluso on Maids and other Mobile Subjects: Remaking Forests and Agrarian Environments in Indonesia

By Nancy Peluso* Reflections on the everyday dimensions of landscape production, agrarian transformation and the movement of capital that take place through the migrations and mobilities of landless women from the mountains of East Java. This text is an abridged version of the keynote lecture given by Nancy Peluso at the Undisciplined Environments conference, organised …

Landscape politics of ‘swiftlet farming’ in George Town, Malaysia

by Creighton Conolly --- This post originally appeared on Season 3 of the LSE Cities Blog 'Urban Vignettes' on October 27th, 2014. --- Since September last year I have been conducting fieldwork for my doctoral research on urban birds' nest harvesting (or ‘swiftlet farming’) in Malaysian cities – a fiercely debated topic in the country …