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TY - CHAP
T1 - Watts, M. J.
AU - Batterbury, S.
PY - 2009/1/1
Y1 - 2009/1/1
N2 - Michael Watts is an internationally renowned human geographer based at Berkeley. He has applied Marxist theory to the analysis of agrarian societies, notably in Nigeria, where he developed social and historical explanations of food insecurity and famines that, he argued, resulted primarily from a disruption of community solidarity by decades of colonialism. Instrumental in the development of political ecology, he has worked on a variety of resource conflicts, notably over oil, placing them in the emergence and form of contemporary capitalism.
AB - Michael Watts is an internationally renowned human geographer based at Berkeley. He has applied Marxist theory to the analysis of agrarian societies, notably in Nigeria, where he developed social and historical explanations of food insecurity and famines that, he argued, resulted primarily from a disruption of community solidarity by decades of colonialism. Instrumental in the development of political ecology, he has worked on a variety of resource conflicts, notably over oil, placing them in the emergence and form of contemporary capitalism.
KW - Agrarian change
KW - Famine
KW - Nigeria
KW - Oil
KW - Peasants
KW - Political ecology
KW - Political economy
KW - Resource conflicts
U2 - 10.1016/B978-008044910-4.00652-0
DO - 10.1016/B978-008044910-4.00652-0
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85069587528
SN - 9780080449111
SP - 222
EP - 223
BT - International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
PB - Elsevier Inc.
ER -