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[BOOK] Liberation ecologies: environment, development, social movements

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R Peet… - 2004 - books.google.com
At the beginning of the 21st century, the environment and the future of development continue
to be issues of crucial importance. Most explanations of environmental crisis emphasize the
role of population growth, thus focusing their attention on the poor. By comparison, ...
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[BOOK] Silent violence: food, famine and peasantry in northern Nigeria

M Watts - 1983 - mendeley.com
Abstract Suggests" analysis of the qualitative aspects of the entire system of production,
most especially the social relations of production"(15). This understanding of local history is
necessarily predicated on an understanding of the larger world economy that tempers or ...
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The space of vulnerability: the causal structure of hunger and famine

MJ Watts… - Progress in human geography, 1993 - mendeley.com
(1993) Watts, Bohle. Progress in Human Geography. Read by researchers in: 64% Social
Sciences, 18% Environmental Sciences. Explores the relationships among poverty, hunger, &
famine in the context of the locally & historically specific configuration that defines a "space of ...
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Concepts, misconceptions and alternative conceptions: changing perspectives in science education

JK Gilbert… - 1983 - Taylor & Francis
Since the early 1970's there has emerged, on a world-wide basis, a strong interest in
research into content-and context-dependent learning in science. Starting with individual
papers eg Doran (1972), the pace has quickened through the production of theses eg ...
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[BOOK] Teaching economics to undergraduates: Alternatives to chalk and talk

WE Becker… - 1999 - books.google.com
Teaching Economics to Undergraduates deserves a prominent spot on the bookshelves of
all economists who are interested in improving the effectiveness of their teaching, especially
those with important undergraduate teaching responsibilities. Following an introductory ...
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Climate change and social vulnerability:: Toward a sociology and geography of food insecurity

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HG Bohle, TE Downing… - Global Environmental Change, 1994 - Elsevier
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[BOOK] Globalising food: agrarian questions and global restructuring

D Goodman… - 1997 - books.google.com
In an increasingly global world, societies are being provisioned from a bewildering array of
sources as new countries and new food commodities are drawn into international markets.
Globalising Food provides an innovative contribution to the area of political economy of ...
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[BOOK] Violent environments

NL Peluso… - 2001 - books.google.com
Do environmental problems and processes produce violence? Current US policy about
environmental conflict and scholarly work on environmental security assume direct causal
links between population growth, resource scarcity, and violence. This belief, a staple of ...
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[BOOK] Reworking modernity: Capitalisms and symbolic discontent

AR Pred… - 1992 - books.google.com
The authors of Reworking Modernity see capitalism in terms of distinctive forms of
accumulation and periodic crises or moments of creative destruction. The history of
capitalism is expressed both through historically and geographically specific ...
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Reconfiguring the rural or fording the divide?: Capitalist restructuring and the global agro‐food system

D Goodman… - The Journal of Peasant Studies, 1994 - Taylor & Francis
Recent analyses of the restructuring of the agro‐food system draw uncritically on the
industrial restructuring literature, notably regulation theory and Fordism/post‐Fordism
debates on capitalist transition. We question the extension of this periodisation and ...
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Introduction: development theory and environment in an age of market triumphalism

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R Peet… - Economic Geography, 1993 - JSTOR
Driven by the momentous political and economic changes of the 1980s and by apocalyptic
visions of impending global ecological crisis, the environmental question has returned with a
vengeance (Turner et al. 1990; World Bank 1992). With the return of the repressed, the ...
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Chalk and talk: A national survey on teaching undergraduate economics

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WE Becker… - The American Economic Review, 1996 - JSTOR
Reports on the desirable goals and characteristics of economics programs, and reforms
proposed to attain such programs (eg, W. Lee Hansen, 1991; Hirschel Kasper et al., 1991),
have ignored the issue of how economics is to be taught. That is surprising because ...
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Manufacturing dissent: work, gender and the politics of meaning in a peasant society

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J Carney… - Africa, 1990 - Cambridge Univ Press
[A]s men and women transform raw material into useful things, they also reproduce particular
social relations as well as an experience of those relations. [Alongside the organization of work
. . . there are apparatuses of production which regulate production relations. . . . [Yet] as ...
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[CITATION] On the poverty of theory: natural hazards research in context

M Watts - … of calamity from the viewpoint of …, 1983 - Allen & Unwin, Boston, MA, USA
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Life under contract: contract farming, agrarian restructuring, and flexible accumulation.

MJ Watts, PD Little - Living under contract: contract farming and …, 1994 - cabdirect.org
Contract production in agriculture is a common occurrence on North American and Western
European agrarian landscapes, but over the last twenty years or so it has also come to represent
a fast-growing and much-touted form of agro-industrialization for Third World states trapped ...
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Development and governmentality

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M Watts - Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The subjectivity of individuals, the so-called speakers and hearers of political discourse, who
actually, or even ideally, populate a state, needs to be understood in terms of enunciative
modalities-the statuses, sites, and positions-of their existence as political subjects. ...
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Agrarian questions

M Watts… - Globalising food: Agrarian questions and …, 1997 - books.google.com
In 1974, the World Food Conference was held in Rome amidst growing anxiety over food
availability and food prices. Poor weather and unprecedented US grain sales to the Soviet
Union radically tightened the world wheat market, prompting apocalyptic predictions of ...
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Disciplining women? Rice, mechanization, and the evolution of Mandinka gender relations in Senegambia

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J Carney… - Signs, 1991 - JSTOR
In her pivotal book, Women's Role in Economic Development, Ester Boserup emphasized
the fundamental ways in which women's work varied cross-culturally. Drawing largely on
materials derived from African agriculture, she was the first to note the prevalence in Africa ...
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Teaching economics at the start of the 21st century: Still chalk-and-talk

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WE Becker… - The American economic review, 2001 - JSTOR
In spring 2000, we conducted a national survey of academic economists to determine how
economics is taught in four different types of undergraduate courses (Principles,
Intermediate Theory, Statistics and Econometrics, and other upper-division courses) at ...
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[CITATION] The agrarian question in Africa: debating the crisis

MJ Watts - Progress in Human Geography, 1989 - phg.sagepub.com
Page 1. The agrarian question in Africa: debating the crisis1 by Michael J. Watts The crisis consists
precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great
variety of morbid symptoms appear (Antonio Gramsci, Pri.son notebooks) . ...
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Marxism, culture, and political ecology. Environmental struggles in Zimbabwe's Eastern Highlands.

DS Moore, R Peet, M Watts - Liberation ecologies: environment, …, 1996 - cabdirect.org
Abstract An examination is presented of conflicts over access to environmental resources
and land in the Kaerezi area of Nyanga District, eastern Zimbabwe. Using a Gramscian
metaphor for environmental resources, Nyanga's landscape is seen as a materially and ...
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Teaching methods in US undergraduate economics courses

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WE Becker… - The Journal of Economic Education, 2001 - Heldref Publications
In 1995 and 2000, the authors surveyed academic economists in the United States to
establish how economics is taught in four types of undergraduate courses. The authors
report overall findings from the 2000 survey and compare these results with the aggregate ...
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[CITATION] Development I: power, knowledge, discursive practice

MJ Watts - Progress in Human Geography, 1993 - phg.sagepub.com
Page 1. 257- Development I: power, knowledge, discursive practice* Michael J. Watts Department
of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA *This is the first of three
articles on development, each organized loosely around thematic issues. ...
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How departments of economics evaluate teaching

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WE Becker… - The American Economic Review, 1999 - JSTOR
In this paper, we report findings from a national survey of economics departments
concerning the use of student evaluations of teaching (SET) and alternative or
supplementary means of evaluating teaching, such as peer review. The use of SET ...
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[BOOK] Political ecology

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M Watts - 2000 - Wiley Online Library
I want to begin by trawling through this week's newspapers, beginning with the occupation
by a militant youth wing of the Istekiri people of a number of Chevron oil flow-stations in the
Nigerian Niger Delta. Over the last five years, increasingly militant ethnic minorities ...
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[CITATION] Force and motion

R Gunstone, M Watts - Children's …, 1985 - Open University Press Milton …
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Locating the political in political ecology: An introduction

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S Paulson, LL Gezon… - Human Organization, 2003 - SFAA
Recent debates within political ecology have motivated new field. In the introduction to this
special issue, we vital challenges faced today, and present a new set of studies that respond
to these concerns. We conceptualize power as a social relation built on the asymmetrical ...
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Teaching tools: Teaching methods in undergraduate economics

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WE Becker… - Economic Inquiry, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
Lectures have long been the dominant pedagogical approach in undergraduate economics
courses, but they are certainly no longer the exclusive approach. Much of the recent soul-
searching in the discipline, dealing with the desirable characteristics of economics ...
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A study of schoolchildren's alternative frameworks of the concept of force

DM Watts - European journal of science education, 1983 - Taylor & Francis
A number of recent reports have highlighted the substantive aspects of children's thinking
concerning concepts in science. This welcome change of emphasis, away from the
exclusive concern for pupils' logical reasoning, towards the substance of their conceptual ...
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Resource curse? Governmentality, oil and power in the Niger Delta, Nigeria

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M Watts - Geopolitics, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
What might it mean to say that resources, and resource-dependency, have consequences
for the conduct of politics? This article explores the research conducted under the sign of
resource politics associated with the work of Michael Ross, Paul Collier and others ...
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Hunger, famine and the space of vulnerability

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MJ Watts… - Geojournal, 1993 - Springer
Page 1. GeoJournal 30.2 117-125 © 1993 (June) by Kluwer Academic Publishers 117 Hunger,
Famine and the Space of Vulnerability ') Watts, Michael 1, Prof. Dr., University of California,
Department of Geography, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Bohle, Hans G., Prof. ...
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[CITATION] Silent violence

M Watts - Food, famine & peasantry in northern Nigeria …, 1983
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Students' conceptions of ideas in mechanics

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JK Gilbert, DM Watts… - Physics Education, 1982 - iopscience.iop.org
This innovative new feature generates a list of articles' also read'by other users based on
them reading the original article. Article abstracts citations and references are all considered
and weighted accordingly. We hope that this will help you find relevant papers for your ...
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Anthropological Studies in Hazardous Environments: Past Trends and New Horizons [and Comments and Reply]

WI Torry, WA Anderson, D Bain, HJ Otway… - Current …, 1979 - JSTOR
Losses arising from natural disasters continue to mount world-wide, though the most
alarming social and economic dislocations are occurring in developing countries. How
effectively social institutions protect against and adjust to catastrophic events is an issue ...
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The chicken industry and postwar American capitalism

W Boyd… - Globalising food: agrarian questions and …, 1997 - books.google.com
[T] he food system is subject to two forces—that of a highly flexible demand organized
according to the just in time system by modern retailing, and an industrial supply which must
deal with a strongly inelastic upstream agricultural production. This inelasticity is… caused ...
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Space for everything (a commentary)

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MJ Watts - Cultural Anthropology, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
Page 1. Space for Everything (A Commentary) Michael J. Watts Department of
Geography University of California, Berkeley As we confront an economic and political
integration on the scale of the planet . . . shall we be, intimately ...
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The principles courses revisited

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M Watts… - The American Economic Review, 1989 - JSTOR
In this paper we consider several factors affecting performance in principles of economics
courses that have received little or no previous attention in the economic education
literature. While these variables reflect a diverse group of factors, they have all become ...
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Petro-violence: Community, extraction, and political ecology of a mythic commodity

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M Watts - Violent environments, 2001 - books.google.com
I want to offer some thoughts on the violence that so often attends particular sorts of resource
extraction and, quite specifically, the extraction of petroleum—arguably the most important
resource of the twentieth century. In exploring what I shall call petro-violence, my purpose ...
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[BOOK] Drought, environment and food security: some reflections on peasants, pastoralists and commoditization in dryland West Africa

M Watts - 1987 - books.google.com
Famine has been represented to us in the United States almost daily over the last year. One
such representation appeared in the New York Times Magazine (17 November 1985): a
photograph of one particular moment of agony and human suffering in an Ethiopian relief ...
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[CITATION] Silent Violence: Food

M Watts - Famine and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria (Berkeley, …, 1983
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Antinomies of community: some thoughts on geography, resources and empire

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MJ Watts - Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
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Entitlements or empowerment? Famine and starvation in Africa

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M Watts - Review of African Political Economy, 1991 - Taylor & Francis
Famine and the crisis of African development have become inseparably linked in popular
writing. Visual images of starvation are the icons of African failure, yet they have a dispelling
quality accusing everyone and no one. This article reviews recent research on the genesis ...
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Enigmas in school science: students' conceptions for scientifically associated words

DM Watts… - Research in Science & Technological …, 1983 - Taylor & Francis
For many youngsters school science is an obscure activity, full of statements by teachers
and text books which are difficult to render meaningful and worthwhile. The consequence is
that many abandon the study of science at the earliest opportunity. The current proposal to ...
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[CITATION] Commodities

M Watts - Introducing human geographies, 1999 - Arnold London
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[CITATION] State, oil, and agriculture in Nigeria

M Watts - 1987 - agris.fao.org
Go to AGRIS search. Research series (1987). State, oil, and agriculture in Nigeria. Watts, Michael.
Publisher, Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley (USA). Date of
publication, 1987. AGRIS Categories, Agricultural economics and policies. ...
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Liberating political ecology

M Watts… - Liberation ecologies: environment, …, 2004 - books.google.com
We begin by recalling some recent stories, distinguished more than anything by their
ubiquity and familiarity. First, the occupation by a militant youth wing of the Istekiri people of
a number of Chevron oil flow-stations in the Nigerian Niger Delta. Over the last five years, ...
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[CITATION] Development II: the privatization of everything?

M Watts - Progress in Human Geography, 1994 - phg.sagepub.com
On 1 January 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) sent trade
barriers tumbling in Mexico, Canada and the USA, a guerrilla group was seizing half-a-
dozen towns in Chiapas, southern Mexico. Mr Salinas's neoliberal economic policies had ...
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[PDF] Convergent interests: US energy security and the 'securing'of Nigerian democracy

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P Lubeck, MJ Watts… - International Policy Report, 2007 - ciponline.org
Page 1. 1 REPORT INTERNATIONAL POLICY A Publication of the Center for International
Policy CONVERGENT INTERESTS: US Energy Security and the “Securing” of Nigerian
Democracy By Paul M. Lubeck, Michael J. Watts and Ronnie Lipschutz ...
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Mapping meaning, denoting difference, imagining identity: dialectical images and postmodern geographies

MJ Watts - Geografiska Annaler. Series B. Human Geography, 1991 - JSTOR
Page 1. MAPPING MEANING, DENOTING DIFFERENCE, IMAGINING IDENTITY:
DIALECTICAL IMAGES AND POSTMODERN GEOGRAPHIES 1 By Michael J. Watts.
Watts, MJ, 1991: Mapping Meaning, Denoting Difference ...
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[CITATION] Development III: the global agrofood system and late twentieth-century development (or Kautsky redux)

M Watts - Progress in Human Geography, 1996 - phg.sagepub.com
What [agriculture] is spared from overseas competition [it] is threatened by industrial
development at home. The transformation of agricultural production into industrial
production is still in its infancy.[But] bold prophets, namely those chemists gifted with an ...
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Righteous oil? Human rights, the oil complex, and corporate social responsibility

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MJ Watts - Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour., 2005 - annualreviews.org
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[CITATION] Idioms of land and labor: Producing politics and rice in Senegambia

M Watts… - 1990 - Institute of International Studies, …
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Contested communities, malignant markets, and gilded governance: justice, resource extraction, and conservation in the tropics

MJ Watts - People, plants, and justice: The politics of nature …, 2000 - books.google.com
Page 41. CHAPTER 1 Contested Communities, Malignant Markets, and Gilded
Governance: Justice, Resource Extraction, and Conservation in the Tropics MichaelJ.
Watts The poor and forsaken are still condemned to lie in ...
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Instructor effects and their determinants in precollege economic education

W Bosshardt… - Journal of Economic Education, 1990 - JSTOR
Many studies of student understanding and/or learning of economics at the precollege level have
investigated or controlled for such factors as teacher training in economics, in both traditional
undergraduate courses and in-service workshops for practicing teachers (Highsmith ...
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Comparing student and instructor evaluations of teaching

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W Bosshardt… - The Journal of Economic Education, 2001 - Heldref Publications
Most economics departments use end-of-term student evaluations of teaching, but the
relationship between instructors' assessments of their own teaching and their students'
assessments is unknown. The background survey for the nationally normed Test of ...
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[CITATION] Black gold, white heat: state violence, local resistance and the national question in Nigeria

M Watts - Geographies of resistance, 1997 - Routledge London
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Student conceptions of light: a case study

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DM Watts - Physics Education, 1985 - iopscience.iop.org
This innovative new feature generates a list of articles' also read'by other users based on
them reading the original article. Article abstracts citations and references are all considered
and weighted accordingly. We hope that this will help you find relevant papers for your ...
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How instructors make a difference: Panel data estimates from principles of economics courses

M Watts… - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1991 - JSTOR
Differences in student learning associated with different instructors in three types of
principles of economics courses are estimated using a fixed-and random-effects
specification for an educational production function. Results show a wide variance in ...
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Development ethnographies

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M Watts - Ethnography, 2001 - eth.sagepub.com
At the end of October 2000, I attended a small seminar organized by the World Bank on
social capital. 1 The meteoric rise and institutionalization of social capital within the Bank,
one of the most important multilateral regulatory institutions, is an intriguing issue in itself- ...
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[CITATION] The Dissenters, Volume I: From the Reformation to the French Revolution

MR Watts - 1978 - lavoisier.fr
Livre: The dissenters: volume i: from the reformation to
the french revolution WATTS Michael R.
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Petro-insurgency or criminal syndicate? Conflict & violence in the Niger Delta

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M Watts - Review of African Political Economy, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
The volatility of world oil markets, and the grumbling of American consumers over rising gas
and heating oil prices over the last year, has highlighted a number of key trends in world oil
markets: the rapidly growing demand for oil by China and India, the questionable status of ...
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A little more than chalk and talk: Results from a third national survey of teaching methods in undergraduate economics courses

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M Watts… - The Journal of Economic Education, 2008 - Heldref Publications
In 1995, 2000, and 2005, the authors surveyed US academic economists to investigate how
economics is taught in four different types of undergraduate courses at postsecondary
institutions. They especially looked for any changes in teaching methods that occurred ...
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Islamic modernities? Citizenship, civil society and Islamism in a Nigerian city

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M Watts - Public Culture, 1996 - Duke Univ Press
Perhaps the feeling that secular beliefs are rationally superior to religious ones is based on
the belief that religious convictions are more rigid. But there is no decisive evidence for this.
Religious traditions have undergone the most radical transformations over time. Divine ...
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[CITATION] Nature as artifice, nature as artifact: development, environment and modernity in the late twentieth century

M Watts - 1996 - Institute of International Studies, …
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Towards a theory of liberation ecology

M Watts… - Liberation ecologies: Environment, …, 1996 - books.google.com
Liberation ecology integrates critical approaches to political economy with notions derived
from poststructural philosophy. The quest is to understand the ways human practice
transforms the Earth and the ways in which environmental practices, institutions, and ...
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Research in economic education: Five new initiatives

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MK Salemi, JJ Siegfried, K Sosin… - The American Economic …, 2001 - JSTOR
Research is essential for improvement in teaching and learning economics. William E.
Becker et al.(1991) called for new research on the relative merits of multiple-choice and
essay tests, on the lasting effects of course work in economics, and on the effects of ...
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Case studies from Indonesia and West Africa

R Schroeder, K Suryanata, R Peet… - Liberation ecologies: …, 1996 - books.google.com
Agroforestry systems are widely touted for their prodigious capacities. From a production
standpoint, intercropping trees with underlying crops can fix nitrogen and improve nutrient
cycling, enhance chemical and physical soil properties, add green manure, conserve ...
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Oil as money: The devil's excrement and the spectacle of black gold

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MJ Watts - Reading Economic Geography, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
Page 1. Chapter 13 Oil as Money: The Devil's Excrement and the Spectacle of Black
Gold Michael J. Watts Introduction Gold which the devil gives his paramours turns
into excrement after his departure. (Freud, 1955, p. 174) ...
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[PDF] Empire of Oil

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M Watts - New Left Review, 2001 - uky.edu
In his 2006 State of the Union address, George Bush finally put into words what all previous
presidents could not bring themselves to utter in public: addiction. The United States, he
conceded, is “addicted” to oil—which is to say addicted to the car—and as a consequence ...
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Economics in literature and drama

M Watts… - Journal of Economic Education, 1989 - JSTOR
It has long been noted that although literature and drama, like language, function as institutions
in some ways separate from economic forces and conditions, they do play an important role in
shaping public opinion and standards on many economic issues.' In turn, economic ...
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The value of non‐participation in higher education

M Watts… - Journal of Education Policy, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
The drive to expand access to higher education (HE) in the UK assumes that it is a desirable
option that will benefit both the individual and his or her wider community. There is also an
assumption that low aspirations and low achievements present a barrier to increasing ...
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[CITATION] Coping with the market: uncertainty and food security among Hausa peasants

M Watts - Coping with uncertainty in food supply, 1988 - Clarendon Press Oxford
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[CITATION] The shock of modernity: petroleum, protest, and fast capitalism in an industrializing society

M Watts - Reworking Modernity: capitalisms and symbolic …, 1992 - Rutgers University Press
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[CITATION] Nature as artifice and artifact

M Watts - Remaking reality: Nature at the millennium, 1998
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[CITATION] Mapping identities: place, space, and community in an African city

M Watts - The geography of identity, 1996
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[CITATION] The demise of the moral economy: food and famine in a Sudano-Sahelian region in historical perspective

M Watts - Life before the drought. London: George Allen and …, 1984
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Teaching economics in the schools: A review of survey findings

W Walstad… - Journal of Economic Education, 1985 - JSTOR
The authors review and contrast the findings of a 1981 national survey of economic
education at the precollege level and 15 state surveys conducted at about the same time.
The picture that emerges is disturbing: instruction in economics tends to be minimal (or ...
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[CITATION] The Dissenters, 2 vols

MR Watts - Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978
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State, de-collectivisation and the agrarian question in Vietnam

MJ Watts - Theorising transition: the political economy of post- …, 1998 - books.google.com
Page 446. 20 RECOMBINANT CAPITALISM State, de-collectivisation and the
agrarian question in Vietnam Michael J. Watts There can be no comprehensive
and consistently radical transformation in other spheres while the ...
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[BOOK] The literary book of economics

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MW Watts - 2003 - acton.org
Page 1. Reviews 160 The Literary Book of Economics Michael Watts (Editor)
Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2003 (348 pages) I admit at the outset of this review
that I am a literature professor who crosses over into economics ...
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[CITATION] Brittle trade: a political economy of food supply in Kano

M Watts - 1987 - agris.fao.org
Go to AGRIS search. Brittle trade: a political economy of food supply in Kano. Watts, M. Publisher,
Indiana University Press, Bloomington (USA). Date of publication, 1987. AGRIS Categories, ...
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" Good Try, Mr. Paul": Populism and the Politics of African Land Use

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M Watts - African Studies Review, 1983 - JSTOR
Reading Paul Richards's excellent paper and, most particularly, the set of international
commentaries2 has been something of a salutary experience and, as I have now
discovered, has made my task wholly unenviable. There is, of course, something here for ...
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[CITATION] Using literature and drama in undergraduate economics courses

M Watts - Teaching economics to undergraduates: Alternatives to …, 1998 - questia.com
Teaching Economics to Undergraduates: Alternatives to Chalk and Talk Book by
William E. Becker, Michael Watts; 1998. Read Teaching Economics to Undergraduates:
Alternatives to Chalk and Talk at Questia library. Questia ...
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Thought experiments and physics education

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H Helm, J Gilbert… - Physics Education, 1985 - iopscience.iop.org
For pt. I see ibid., vol. 20, p. 124 (1985). In part I thought experiments (TES) were referred to
as experiments which, although easy to conceive of are either very difficult, very expensive
or even impossible to carry out. Their rule in physics was reviewed during an exposition of ...
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What students remember and say about college economics years later

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S Allgood, W Bosshardt, W Van Der Klaauw… - The American Economic …, 2004 - JSTOR
In his presidential address to the American Economic Association, George Stigler (1963)
offered the provocative hypothesis that students would retain very little knowledge from
principles courses in economics five years or more after taking the courses. The few ...
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Paradigms for inquiry

J Pickles… - Geography's inner worlds: Pervasive …, 1992 - books.google.com
Page 329. HAPTER Paradigms for Inquiry? John Pickles and Michael J. Watts O In
recent years geographers have been drawn into the debates about social life in other
social sciences, and they have rejected much of the disciplinary ...
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[CITATION] Reengineering tops CIO menu

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K Hayley, J Plewa… - Datamation, 1993
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A statewide assessment of precollege economic understanding and DEEP

M Watts - Journal of Economic Education, 1985 - JSTOR
Effects of various student, teacher, and school system characteristics on levels of student
economic understanding and learning during the 1982-83 school year are estimated using a
stratified random sample of schools from around the state of Indiana. Particular attention is ...
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HAZARDS AND CRISES: A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DROUGHT AND FAMINE IN NORTHERN NIGERIA*

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M Watts - Antipode, 1983 - Wiley Online Library
During the early 1970s much of the Sahel and northern Sudanic savannas of West Africa
was gripped by a devastating famine which had its origin in a run of drought years in the late
1960s. Prior to the exposure of widespread starvation and human suffering throughout ...
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[PDF] Petro-Violence: Some thoughts on community, extraction, and political ecology

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[CITATION] Collective wish images: Geographical imaginaries and the crisis of national development

MJ Watts - Human geography today, 1999
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[BOOK] Peasant associations in theory and practice

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N McKeon, M Watts, W Wolford… - 2004 - unrisd.org
A decade after Eric Hobsbawm's obituary to the “end of the peasantry”, in his book The Age
of Extremes, rural producers' organizations are at the forefront of mobilization against
globalization—the so-called anti-globalization “movement of movements”. From the ...
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Instructor effects in economics in elementary and junior high schools

W Bosshardt… - Journal of Economic Education, 1994 - JSTOR
Instructor effects in elementary and junior high classes are estimated in a panel data model
with data from the national norming samples for the National Council on Economic
Education's Test of Economic Knowledge and Basic Economics Test. Some teachers are ...
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[CITATION] Teaching economics: What was, is, and could be

WE Becker… - … to undergraduates: Alternatives to chalk and …, 1998 - questia.com
Teaching Economics to Undergraduates: Alternatives to Chalk and Talk Book by
William E. Becker, Michael Watts; 1998. Read Teaching Economics to Undergraduates:
Alternatives to Chalk and Talk at Questia library. Questia ...
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[CITATION] Deconstructing determinism

M Watts - Antipode, 1988
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A comparison of the views of economists, economic educators, teachers and journalists on economic issues

W Becker, W Walstad… - An international perspective on …, 1994 - books.google.com
One often-stated goal for economic education is to help people" think like economists." 1 But
what does that mean? Economists obviously do not think alike on all economic issues.
Sometimes dissension arises from different schools of economic thought, methods of ...
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[PDF] State, oil and accumulation: from boom to crisis

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M Watts - Society and Space, 1984 - environmentandplanning.com
Abstract. The sharp increase in crude petroleum prices during the 1970s had a startling
impact on state, economy, and society among oil producers. The meteoric growth of oil rents
not only enlarged and centralized the state itself but simultaneously internationalized and ...
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1968 and all that...

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M Watts - Progress in Human Geography, 2001 - phg.sagepub.com
Abstract The year 1968 was a global insurrection but the geography of its genesis and of its
legacies remains poorly understood. In relation to the outpouring of work critical of the
events of the sixties, and of 1968 in particular, by commentators on the political right and ...
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Politics, ecologies, genealogies

S Paulson, LL Gezon, M Watts… - … Spaces, Scales and …, 2005 - books.google.com
Louring the past two decades, the field of political ecology has advanced through research,
analysis, and applied practice across disciplines that include anthropology, biology,
geography, philosophy of science, and political science. Scholars working with political ...
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Peasants and flexible accumulation in the Third World: producing under contract

M Watts - Economic and Political Weekly, 1992 - JSTOR
Contract production is deeply rooted in the soil of advanced capitalist agriculture but also
represents an expanding and much touted mode of agro-industrial integration in the third
world. In spite of the enduring nature of the classical agrarian exports such as sugar, tea, ...
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