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Can I add some self-promotion too?..... Smith, A (2011) "The Transition Town Network: A Review of Current Evolutions and Renaissance" Social Movement Studies Vol. 10(1) pp. 99-105 Smith, A (2011) "Community-led urban transitions and resilience: performing Transition Towns in a city" in Bulkeley, H et al eds. (2011) Cities and Low Carbon Transitions. Routledge. London. Chapter 11 pp159-177 Also, in terms of Political Ecology- I like work by Simon Dalby, Paul Robbins and Neil Carter- happy to send fuller references if required. ************************************************************************** Dr Amanda Smith Senior Lecturer in International Studies Programme Leader for MA Human Security and Environmental Change School of Art and Humanities Nottingham Trent University Clifton Campus Nottingham NG11 8NS Tel: 0115 8486303 email: [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: North, Peter [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 07 October 2011 13:11 Subject: Re: Transition Movement and Political Ecology These might help, at the risk of self promotion: North, P 2011: "The politics of climate activism in the UK: a social movement analysis", in Environment and Planning A, vol 43/7 pp 1581-1598. North, P: 2010: "Eco-Localisation as a progressive response to peak oil and climate change - a sympathetic critique" in Geoforum, vol 41/4 pp 585-594. Pete Peter North Department of Geography School for Environmental Sciences University of Liverpool 0151 794 2849 Building the Low Carbon Economy on Merseyside www.lowcarbonliverpool.com www.liv.ac.uk/geography/research/lowcarboneconomy/index.htm Local Money http://greenbooks.co.uk/store/local-money-p-320.html?osCsid=53cafffb104745d08678d499c824626e ________________________________________ From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Christos Zografos [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 06 October 2011 23:34 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Transition Movement and Political Ecology hi Nick Some people question the Transition Town movement as a somehow 'reformist' initiative which does not go as far as challenging global capitalism, which they see as a main, root cause of the degradation of those social (e.g. solidarity), economic (e.g. mutualism, co-operation) and environmental (e.g. agro-ecology, etc.) values that Transition Towns try to re-establish. I'm a bit sceptical myself about this criticism, I feel it has parallels to late 19th and early 20th century heated debates within the anarchist movement re: value of confrontational action versus value of creating alternatives on the margins (for an excellent description of this see the intro of Geogre Woodcock's classic book 'Anarchism'), which of course do seem to persist in today's socio-environmental justice social movements as well. Personally, I kind of think that both things are useful but then again I may be a reformist myself (!) who knows (I don't!), so if you are interested on the criticism you may want to check the work of Ted Trainer (for a reply from the Transition Towns perspective I just found this: http://transitionculture.org/2009/09/08/responding-to-ted-trainers-friendly-criticism-of-transition/) As for your second question, you may want to check the Intro of a new book by Peets, Robbins, and Watts called 'Global political ecology', which was published only this year and which I feel summarises the field in a great way (I'm talking about the Intro chapter). The book also has a section of four (I think) chapters that look at issues of security from a political ecology perspective although I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for. As regards security, another one I would of course suggest is Simon Dalby's book 'Security and Environmental Change' (2009) hope this helps all the best christos On 7 October 2011 11:48, Nicholas James <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: Dear Critters, I have the opportunity later this month to pose a question or two to Rob Hopkins of the Transition Town Movement. I haven't followed this 'academically' but would like some suggestions for questions and perhaps a critical paper or two. Secondly, I am planning on delivering four undergraduate lectures on 'political ecology'. Are there any relatively recent papers, chapters or books covering the challenge set by Peet and Watts in 2004? Sub-topics include: Risk and Security in Environmental Studies, Geography of Energy Security, Geography of Water Security, and Deforestation Around the World. Many thanks in advance Nick -- Christos Zografos Postdoctoral Research Fellow Research Coordinator CLICO FP7 SSH ICTA, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ETSE QC/3107 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain tel: +34 93 586 8260 skype: czografos http://www.eco2bcn.es/people_postdocs.html DISCLAIMER: This email is intended solely for the addressee. It may contain private and confidential information. If you are not the intended addressee, please take no action based on it nor show a copy to anyone. In this case, please reply to this email to highlight the error. Opinions and information in this email that do not relate to the official business of Nottingham Trent University shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by the University. Nottingham Trent University has taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are virus-free, but we do advise that the recipient should check that the email and its attachments are actually virus free. 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