Political ecology II: Whither the state?
Political ecology II: Whither the state?
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DOI：
10.1177/0309132518803421
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发表时间：
2018-09
影响因子：
7.1
通讯作者：
A. Loftus
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作者：
A. Loftus
无论如何概念化，与国家相关的制度和关系显然对政治生态研究至关重要。环境政策是通过国家机构制定的，土地和资源的产权是通过法律的框架和与国家形式相关联的垄断力量来实施的。然而，政治生态学家有时与国家的概念化有一种不安的关系，导致对政治生态理论的充分性反复出现的问题。在过去的15年里，这些问题导致了与政治地理学对话的呼吁，最近，与关键的地缘政治学对话。在这第二份进展报告中，我回顾了最近关于国家的政治生态理论，指出了一系列与国家形成和获得某些影响的过程、关系和斗争相关的共同关注点。最后，当涉及到对国家权力进行更抽象解释的不加批判的对话时，我将提出一个警告。
However conceptualised, the institutions and relations associated with the state are clearly crucial to political ecological research. Environmental policies are enacted through state institutions, and property rights over land and resources are enforced by the legal framework and monopoly power associated with the state form. Nevertheless, political ecologists have sometimes had an uneasy relationship with conceptualisations of the state, leading to recurring questions over the adequacy of political ecological theorisations. Over the last decade and a half such questions have led to a call for dialogues with political geography and, more recently, with critical geopolitics. In this second progress report, I review recent political ecological theorisations of the state, pointing to a set of shared concerns associated with the processes, relations and struggles through which states are brought into being and acquire certain effects. I will conclude with a note of caution when it comes to an uncritical dialogue with more abstract interpretations of state power.