Literature List LU0093 (Version: 1/9/2026)
This literature list is subject to be completed with other materials. Please refer to the Canvas page that will be open four weeks before the course start.
**Week 4****5 – Introduction & **Theorising Natural Resources Governance PART 1
Lecture**: Introduction to Natural Resource Governance: key questions and debates**
**Obligatory readings: **
Valdivia, G., Himley, M., & Havice, E. (2021). Critical resource geography: An introduction. In The Routledge handbook of critical resource geography (pp. 1-20). Routledge.
Bridge, G., & Perreault, T. (2009). Environmental governance. A companion to environmental geography, 475-497.
**Week 4****6 – **Theorising Natural Resources Governance PART 2
Lecture: Theorising resource governance: Political economy
**Obligatory reading: **
Kallis, G. and E. Swyngedouw, Do Bees Produce Value? A Conversation Between an Ecological Economist and a Marxist Geographer. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2018. 29(3): p. 36-50 10.1080/10455752.2017.1315830.
**Additional suggested readings: **
Arsel, M. (2023). Climate change and class conflict in the Anthropocene: sink or swim together? The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50(1), 67–95. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2022.2113390
Lecture: Theorising resource governance: Political Ecology
**Obligatory reading: **
Robbins, P. Political ecology: A critical Introduction. Read chapters 1-4 (read chapters from edition 2 or 3)
**Additional suggested readings: **
Garcia, A., et al., Power in resilience and resilience's power in climate change scholarship. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.762(e762) https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.762.
Mikulewicz, M., Thwarting adaptation’s potential? A critique of resilience and climate-resilient development. Geoforum, 2019. 104: p. 267-282 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.05.010.
Bonds, A., Refusing resilience: the racialization of risk and resilience. Urban Geography, 2018. 39(8): p. 1285-1291 10.1080/02723638.2018.1462968.
Forsyth, T., Is resilience to climate change socially inclusive? Investigating theories of change processes in Myanmar. World Development, 2018. 111: p. 13-26 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.06.023.
**Lecture: **Heterodox moves towards meaningful engagements with political ecology on natural resource governance
**Obligatory reading: **
Pritchard, R., Sauls, L. A., Oldekop, J. A., Kiwango, W. A., & Brockington, D. (2022). Data justice and biodiversity conservation. Conservation Biology, 36, e13919. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13919
**Additional suggested readings: **
Hamilton, R.T.V., Ramcilovic-Suominen, S. From hegemony-reinforcing to hegemony-transcending transformations: horizons of possibility and strategies of escape. Sustain Sci18, 737–748 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01257-1
Juliano, T., Malagutti Fassina, J. Buck Silva, C.I., Vasconcelos Andrade, F. A., de Souza Leão Neto, (2023). Conviviality and sustainability: Case studies on the governance of natural resources in Brazil. Ambient. Soc. 26. https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-4422asoc2022022r1vu2023L4OA
**Week 4****7 – **Theorising Natural Resources Governance PART 3
Lecture: Theorising resource governance dilemmas: Property, territory and socio-environmental relations
**Obligatory readings: **
Sikor, T., & Lund, C. (2009). Access and property: a question of power and authority. Development and change, 40(1), 1-22.
Neumann, R.P. (2004). Nature-State-Territory: Towards a critical theorization of conservation enclosures. In: Peet, R. and Watts, M. (Eds.), Liberation ecologies: environment, development, social movements, 2nd ed. London: Routledge.
**Additional suggested readings: **
Blomley, N. (2016). The territory of property. Progress in human geography, 40(5), 593-609.
Lecture: Indigenous environmental governance: conflicts over resource governance in Sápmi
**Obligatory reading: **
Arora-Jonsson, S. and A. Stiernström, Towards a green transition: A post- and decolonial analysis of the green state of Sweden, in Decolonial Sweden, M.F. MacEachrane, L, Editor. 2024, forthcoming, Routledge: New York.
**Additional suggested readings: **
Joks, S., L. Østmo, and J. Law, Verbing meahcci: Living Sámi lands. The Sociological Review, 2020. 68(2): p. 305-321 10.1177/0038026120905473.
Kuokkanen, R., At the intersection of Arctic indigenous governance and extractive industries: A survey of three cases. The Extractive Industries and Society, 2019. 6(1): p. 15-21 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2018.08.011.
Lecture: Theorising resource governance: Intersectionality, feminist and queer perspectives
**Obligatory reading: **
Read, A. Kramsky, Y. End of a Cis-Hetero Discipline? Strategies for a Queer Political Ecology. /2026) In the New Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology. Routledge.
**Additional suggested readings: **
Sultana, F. (2020). Political ecology 1: From margins to center. Progress in Human Geography, 45(1). doi:10.1177/0309132520936751
Zaragocin, S. (2019). Gendered Geographies of Elimination: Decolonial Feminist Geographies in Latin American Settler Contexts. Antipode, 51(1), 373-392. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12454
Daggett, C., Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire. Millennium, 2018. 47(1): p. 25-44 10.1177/0305829818775817.
Gonda, N. (2019). Re-politicizing the gender and climate change debate: The potential of feminist political ecology to engage with power in action in adaptation policies and projects in Nicaragua. Geoforum, 106, 87-96. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.07.020
**Week 4****8 – **Institutions and governance across scales
Lecture: State Governance and Beyond
**Obligatory readings: **
Parenti, C. (2015). The Environment Making State: Territory, Nature, and Value. Antipode, 47, pp. 829―848.
Bridge, G. (2014). Resource geographies II: The resource-state nexus. Progress in Human Geography, 38(1), 118-130.
**Additional suggested readings: **
Harris, L. M. (2012). State as socionatural effect: Variable and emergent geographies of the state in southeastern Turkey. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 32(1), 25-39.
Lecture: Community forestry in Nepal: Evolution, institutional mechanisms, achievements and emerging challenges
**Obligatory reading: **
Ojha, H., Persha, L. and Chhatre, A. 2009. *Community forestry in Nepal: a policy innovation for local livelihoods. Vol. 913. *International Food Policy Research Institute.
**Additional suggested reading: **
Poudyal, B. H, Khatri, D.B., Paudel, D., Marquardt, K., and Khatri, S. 2023. "Examining forest transition and collective action in Nepal’s community forestry." *Land Use Policy 134: 106872. *
Lecture: Climate Governance: scale and the micropolitics of climate accounting
**Obligatory reading: ** TBC
Lecture: Climate Governance: carbon capture
**Obligatory reading: **
Hickel J. (2020). Quantifying national responsibility for climate breakdown: an equality-based attribution approach for carbon dioxide emissions in excess of the planetary boundary The Lancet Planetary Health, 4, e399-e404
**Additional suggested reading: **
McMullin, B., Price, P., Jones, M.B. et al. Assessing negative carbon dioxide emissions from the perspective of a national “fair share” of the remaining global carbon budget. Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change 25, 579–602 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-019-09881-6
**Week 4****9 – **Selected Debates PART 1
Lecture: Governing Land and Agrarian Change
**Obligatory reading: **
Peluso, N. and Lund, C. (2011). New frontiers of land control. The journal of Peasant Studies 38(4), 667–681.
Braun, B. (2002). The intemperate rainforest: nature, culture, and power on Canada's west coast. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. Chapter 1.
**Additional suggested readings: **.
Andreasson, S. (2006). Stand and deliver: Private Property and the politics of global dispossession. Political Studies, 54(1), 3-22.
Lecture: Energy Justice
Obligatory reading:
Dunlap, A. and C. Tornel, An insurrection in energy research: a dialogue between Carlos Tornel and Alexander Dunlap on energy justice, capitalist warfare & decolonization. Globalizations, 2023 10.1080/14747731.2023.2204543.
**Additional suggested readings: **
Dunlap, A., Decolonizing energy justice: Identity politics, attachment to land, and warfare. Progress in Human Geography, 2023 10.1177/03091325221149553.
Gonda, N., Democratizing energy justice: Rethinking energy justice in authoritarian times. Progress in Environmental Geography, 2025 https://doi.org/10.1177/27539687251342264.
Gonda, N. and P.J. Bori, Energy justice without democracy? Energy transitions in the era of right-wing authoritarianism in Hungary. Energy Research & Social Science, 2025 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104325.
Heffron, R.J. and D. McCauley, The concept of energy justice across the disciplines. Energy Policy, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2017.03.018.
Sovacool, B.K. and M.H. Dworkin, Energy justice: Conceptual insights and practical applications. Applied Energy, 2015 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.01.002.
Lecture: Decolonial Perspectives on Environmental Governance
**Obligatory readings: **
Dhillon, J. (2022). Indigenous resurgence: Decolonialization and movements for environmental justice. Berghahn Books.
Rosén, L. 2025. Indigenous knowledges in CES thinking: How invisible forest beings can inform more equitable science. In The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Ecosystem Services. Routledge.
**Week 50 – **Selected Debates PART 2
Lecture: Far-right authoritarianism and the environment
**Obligatory readings: **
McCarthy, J. (2019). Authoritarianism, populism, and the environment: Comparative experiences, insights, and perspectives. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 109(2), 301-313. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2018.1554393
Obligatory podcast (4 episodes).
Fields of Power (2025) by Cook, I,. Gonda, N. Bori, P.J. on most podcasting platforms but also here:
https://www.arc2020.eu/podcast-fields-of-power-episode-1-of-farms-fortune/
https://www.arc2020.eu/podcast-fields-of-power-episode-2-the-land-grab-chronicles/
https://www.arc2020.eu/podcast-fields-of-power-episode-3-fear-and-loathing-in-hungary/
https://www.arc2020.eu/podcast-fields-of-power-episode-4-land-democracy/
**Additional suggested reading: **
Forchtner, B., Climate change and the far right. WIREs Climate Change, 2019. 10(5): p. e604 https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.604.
Loftus, A. (2019). Political ecology III: Who are ‘the people’? Progress in Human Geography, 44(5), 981-990. doi:10.1177/0309132519884632
Lecture: Collective action & water governance: the male-out migration, water commons and collective action
**Obligatory reading: **
Leder, S., van der Geest, K., Upadhyaya, R., Adhikari, Y., Büttner, M. (2024): “Rural out-migration and water governance: Gender and social relations mediate and sustain irrigation systems in Nepal” World Development 177. 106544.
Lecture: More-than-human relations
**Obligatory reading: **
Blaser, M. (2026). Why Political Ontology is Not About the NonHuman, but what haunts it. In: The New Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology. Routledge.
**Additional suggested readings: **
Margulies, J. (2026). More-Than-Human Political Ecologies as a Matter of Care. In: The New Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology. Routledge.
Week 51 – Resistance and Transformative Governance
Lecture: Resistance, transformation and prefiguration
**Obligatory readings: **
Naegler, L., ‘Goldman-Sachs doesn’t care if you raise chicken’: the challenges of resistant prefiguration. Social Movement Studies, 2018. 17(5): p. 507-523 https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2018.1495074.
Andreucci, D., et al., Energy sovereignty from below: Visions and practices of socioecological transformation in Puerto Rico and Catalonia. Human Geography. 0(0): p. 19427786251317182 10.1177/19427786251317182.
**Additional suggested reading: **
Scoones, I., et al., Transformations to sustainability: combining structural, systemic and enabling approaches. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2019.12.004
Abu‐Lughod, L., The romance of resistance: Tracing transformations of power through Bedouin women. American Ethnologist, 1990. 17(1): p. 41-55,
Caretta, M.A. and S. Zaragocin, Women’s resistance against the extractive industry: embodied and water dimensions. Human Geography, 2020. 13(1): p. 3-5 10.1177/1942778620910893.
Hope, J., Conservation in the Pluriverse: Anti-capitalist struggle, knowledge from resistance and the ‘repoliticisation of nature’ in the TIPNIS, Bolivia. Geoforum, 2021. 124: p. 217-225 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.04.006.
Vargas Falla, A.M., E. Brink, and E. Boyd, Quiet resistance speaks: A global literature review of the politics of popular resistance to climate adaptation interventions. World Development, 2024. 177: p. 106530 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106530.
Vela-Almeida, D., et al., Imagining Plural Territories of Life A Feminist Reading of Resistance in the Socio-Territorial Movements in Ecuador. Journal of Latin American Geography, 2020. 19(2): p. 265-287, https://www.jstor.org/stable/48619132
Zaragocin, S., Challenging anglocentric feminist geography from Latin American feminist debates on territoriality, in Feminist geography unbound: Discomfort, bodies, and prefigured futures, M.H. Banu Gökariksel, Christopher Neubert, Sara Smith, Editor. 2021, West Virginia University press: Morgantown, WV. p. 235-252,
Gonda, N., & Bori, P. J. (2023). Rural politics in undemocratic times: Exploring the emancipatory potential of small rural initiatives in authoritarian Hungary. Geoforum, 143, 1-13. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103766
Lecture: Resistance to AI for the environment
Obligatory readings: TBC
