Liberation ecologies

Abstract

“shifting cultivation can be socially and culturally rational” (158) What about when it's ecologically rational, too? Again, how do we negotiate the tension between the political and the ecological in political ecology? How do we weigh each with respect to the other, and does it even make sense to make the distinction? Might a broader understanding of ecology encompass it all? Overall questioning of 'rationality' as criterion for understanding of valorizing cultural practices, land use, etc.