The New Calculus of Bedouin Pastoralism in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The New Calculus of Bedouin Pastoralism in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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沙特阿拉伯王国贝都因牧业的新计算
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2003
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A. Gardner
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A. Gardner
最近的辩论挑战了政治生态的基础。一个重要的批评，来自工作的维达和他的同事，促进了具体问题，生态和实证的方法来分析环境变化的原因。然而，他们对“事件”的关注似乎与早期对过程的关注不一致。利用贝都因人在沙特阿拉伯的案例研究，我认为，这项研究的重点，科威特石油火灾和正在进行的荒漠化过程中的关键生态事件，提供穷人的人与环境的关系隔离。如果我们承认科威特石油大火是一个环境事件，或者更确切地说，是一个从时间上向后和空间上向外工作的出发点，那么很明显，这些事件最好被理解为一个复杂的决定网络中的节点，或者是一个相互关联的过程网络中的节点。这是一张向外延伸到全球经济潮起潮落的网络，一张保持在内部的网络.
Recent debates have challenged the very foundation of political ecology. One important critique, stemming from the work of Vayda and his associates, promotes a problem-specific, ecological, and positivistic approach to the analysis of the causes of environmental change. Their focus on the “event,” however, is seemingly at odds with earlier concerns with process. Utilizing a case study of the Bedouin people in Saudi Arabia, I argue that the key ecological events upon which this research focuses, the Kuwaiti oil fires and the ongoing process of desertification, provide poor isolates of the human-environment relationship. If we accept the Kuwaiti oil fires as an environmental event, or better, as a point of departure for working backward in time and outward in space, it becomes evident that these events are best comprehended as nodes in a complex web of determination, or nodes in a web of interlinked processes. It is a web that reaches outward to the ebb and flow of the global economy, one that remains insep...