Other geographies the influences of Michael Watts

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Series Editors' Preface vii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction: Other Geographies, in the work of Michael Watts 1Sharad Chari, Susanne Freidberg, Jesse Ribot, Wendy Wolford and Vinay Gidwani 1 Academic Journeys in the Black Atlantic: Gender, Work and Environmental Transformations 29Judith Carney 2 Getting Back to our Roots: Integrating Critical Physical and Social Science in the Early Work of Michael Watts 43Rebecca Lave 3 Binary Narratives of Capitalism and Climate Change: Dangers and Possibilities 55Lucy Jarosz 4 Aggregate Modernities: A Critical Natural History of Contemporary Algorithms 63Jake Kosek 5 Peanuts for Cashews? Agricultural Diversification and the Limits of Adaptability in Cote d'Ivoire 79Thomas J. Bassett and Moussa Kone 6 Life Itself Under Contract: A Biopolitics of Partnerships and Chemical Risk in California's Strawberry Industry 97Julie Guthman 7 Commoditization, Primitive Accumulation and the Spaces of Biodiversity Conservation 111Roderick P. Neumann 8 Stopping the Serengeti Road: Social Media and the Discursive Politics of Conservation in Tanzania 127Benjamin Gardner 9 Privatize Everything, Certify Everywhere: Academic Assessment and Value Transfers 143Tad Mutersbaugh 10 Oil, Indigeneity and Dispossession 157Joe Bryan 11 Frontiers: Remembering the Forgotten Lands 169Teo Ballve 12 Vibrancy of Refuse, Piety of Refusal: Infrastructures of Discard in Dakar 185Rosalind Fredericks 13 Reclamation, Displacement and Resiliency in Phnom Penh 199Erin Collins Index 215