Violent Environments
Contributors: Nancy Lee Peluso (Editor); Michael Watts (Editor)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: September 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780801438714
Subjects: Political science & theory; Sociology - General; History & Theory - General; Economic policy; Violence; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Natural resources; Development - Sustainable Development; Sociology - Social Theory; Economic aspects; General; Environmental protection
First sentence: In his enormously influential Atlantic Monthly essay, "The Coming Anarchy: How Scarcity, Crime, Overpopulation, and Disease are Rapidly Destroying the Social Fabric of Our Planet, "journalist Robert Kaplan conjured up a surreal picture of an African continent in the throes of an apocalyptic crisis: overpopulated, undernourished, and driven to barbaric acts of violence by irrational spirit power.