9 Symbolic Action and Soil Fertility: Political Ecology and the Transformation of Space and Place in Tonga

2020 ◽  
pp. 154-173
Author(s):  
Charles J. Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Soil Fertility ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Symbolic Action

WITHDRAWN: A critical political ecology of soil fertility in the Malian cotton zone

Geoforum ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tor A. Benjaminsen ◽  
Shivcharn S. Dhillion ◽  
Jens B. Aune
Keyword(s):  
Soil Fertility ◽  
Political Ecology

scholarly journals Political ecology of movement: trekking and territoriality among the Kayapó

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Laura Zanotti
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
General Pattern ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
The Past ◽  
Territorial Control

One key strand of political ecology inquiry draws attention to different scalar aspects of territorial control and environmental governance, especially as they relate to inequity, power, and marginality in the rural South. Simultaneously, in the past several decades scholars have argued for a more meaningful engagement with space and place, as global forces of capitalism and geographies of difference make and unmake places in surprising and often violent ways. In this article, I interweave political ecology and anthropology of space and place approaches to territorial practices in the Brazilian Amazon to demonstrate how multiscalar politics of territorial retention and use are layered alongside local, spatial practices. In the Brazilian Amazon, indigenous rights are closely linked to the territorial demarcation and protection of federally defined Indigenous Lands. To that end, a general pattern has been observed across Amazonia that colonization and state-making agendas regarding territorial control have coincided to an increased sedentism of indigenous peoples. This narrative elides the present and ongoing importance local ideas about territories and place have for indigenous communities. Ethnographic data from research with the Kayapó, an indigenous group in Brazil, is presented to draw attention to the complexities of the local responses to the past several decades of change that have resulted in a federally defined territorial homeland and shifting spatial practices within those lands. The Kayapó response is a particularly well-suited case study for this type of analysis, as the tribe is known ethnographically for their fissioning and trekking patterns. I show that movement, mobility, and travel still figure into everyday practices in meaningful ways. While far from homogenous, movement through the landscape is part of responding to current demands to their ways of life. I also argue that travel also affirms the Kayapó notions of knowing (kukradjà), beauty (mê), and strength (tycht).Keywords: political ecology, Amazonia, travel, territoriality, space and place

scholarly journals Making Outer Space Intimate: Familiar Scales and Strange Sites (Panel, AAA 2015)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. Oman-Reagan ◽  
Kira Turner
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Interstellar Space ◽  
Space Tourism ◽  
Tourism Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site ◽  
Intimate Encounters

Building on anthropology’s attunement to multiple registers of inquiry, this panel finds intimate engagements with outer space in studies of: the imaginaries of astronomical image making; the politics of otherworldly analog and simulation science; views from the ground and views from space in climate science; the inscription of interstellar space as a site of travel, communication, and speculation; indigenous people’s cosmologies, spaceport construction, and space tourism; and ontologies of space debris in locales both proximate and remote to spacecraft launch sites. These intimate encounters with space shift the cosmos from something remote ‘out there’ into a familiar locale with attendant earthly consequences from awe and hope to conflict and danger. At stake is an understanding of how our activity in space increasingly shapes the ways we imagine and plan for human futures both on and off planet Earth.Keywords: Geography, Archaeology, Space, Interstellar, Tourism Studies, Technology, Climate Change, Space and Place, Political Ecology, Environmental Studies, History of Science, Astrobiology, Exoplanets, STS, Astrophysics, Astronomy, Anthropocene, Science and Technology StudiesPlease cite as:Oman-Reagan, Michael P. and Kira Turner. 2015. Making Outer Space Intimate: Familiar Scales and Strange Sites. Paper session reviewed by General Anthropology Division. 114th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association; Denver, Colorado. 18-22 November.

Political Ecology and the Yield Transformation

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Perkins
Keyword(s):  
Soil Fertility ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Agricultural Science ◽  
Wildlife Habitat ◽  
Scientific Change ◽  
Cereal Crops ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Natural Ecosystems ◽  
Small Minority

Something quite remarkable happened during the past century, and especially since 1950. Yields rose dramatically in the basic cereal crops such as wheat, rice, and maize, and in other crops as well. Casual inquiry to an agricultural expert about the source of the increase is likely to bring a response such as, “Well, farmers now use better plant varieties and more fertilizer than they used to, so the yields went up.” At the simplest level, this response is perfectly adequate and true. Better varieties and more fertilizer have made it possible to get larger harvests from the same plot of ground. Unfortunately, the simple answer immediately provokes yet further questions: How did farmers obtain the new and better plant varieties? Why did they use more fertilizer? When did farmers start changing their practices? Where? Why? Who helped them? The last question quickly leads the inquiry into the realm of agricultural science, because scientists enabled farmers to change their practices. Especially important were plant breeders and soil fertility experts. Thus a new realm of questions is opened: How did scientists discover the methods for higher yields? When did they do their research? Where? Why? Who paid for the research? Why? What is the significance of this scientific change? These questions seem simple, but agriculture is a tricky topic to address. It generates an inordinate number of paradoxes, puzzles, and ironies, which makes answering the queries difficult. Consider, for example, just a few: . . . Agriculture was once the place where the vast majority of human beings worked and lived, but now it increasingly provides a place for only a small minority of people. Agriculture’s harvests are the only source from which most people obtain enough food to stay alive, but few nonfarmers understand or care about its workings. Agriculture is often considered to be a landscape that is alive, verdant, lush, and redolent of wholesome naturalness, but in reality it represents the complete destruction, indeed obliteration, of natural ecosystems and wildlife habitat. . . .

A critical political ecology of cotton and soil fertility in Mali

Geoforum ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 647-656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tor A. Benjaminsen ◽  
Jens B. Aune ◽  
Daouda Sidibé
Keyword(s):  
Soil Fertility ◽  
Political Ecology

Symbolic Action Theory: Reducing Psychological Ethnocentrism

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (8) ◽  
pp. 748-749
Author(s):  
Harry C. Triandis
Keyword(s):  
Action Theory ◽  
Symbolic Action

K-MEANS CLUSTERING ALGORITHM BASED CLASSIFICATION OF SOIL FERTILITY IN NORTH WEST NIGERIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 780-787
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Hassan Hayatu ◽  
Abdullahi Mohammed ◽  
Barroon Ahmad Isma’eel ◽  
Sahabi Yusuf Ali
Keyword(s):  
Soil Fertility ◽  
Crop Yield ◽  
Clustering Algorithm ◽  
Soil Samples ◽  
North West ◽  
R Programming ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Northwest Region ◽  
The Relationship

Soil fertility determines a plant's development process that guarantees food sufficiency and the security of lives and properties through bumper harvests. The fertility of soil varies according to regions, thereby determining the type of crops to be planted. However, there is no repository or any source of information about the fertility of the soil in any region in Nigeria especially the Northwest of the country. The only available information is soil samples with their attributes which gives little or no information to the average farmer. This has affected crop yield in all the regions, more particularly the Northwest region, thus resulting in lower food production.  Therefore, this study is aimed at classifying soil data based on their fertility in the Northwest region of Nigeria using R programming. Data were obtained from the department of soil science from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. The data contain 400 soil samples containing 13 attributes. The relationship between soil attributes was observed based on the data. K-means clustering algorithm was employed in analyzing soil fertility clusters. Four clusters were identified with cluster 1 having the highest fertility, followed by 2 and the fertility decreases with an increasing number of clusters. The identification of the most fertile clusters will guide farmers on where best to concentrate on when planting their crops in order to improve productivity and crop yield.

COUNTING TOTAL BACTERIA IN LAND ORGANIC WASTE HOUSEHOLD AND LAND INORGANIC WITH TOTAL PLATE COUNT METHOD (TPC)

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-91
Author(s):  
Ekamaida Ekamaida
Keyword(s):  
Soil Fertility ◽  
Bacterial Population ◽  
Organic Soil ◽  
Biological Properties ◽  
Plate Count ◽  
Bacterial Populations ◽  
Fertility Data ◽  
Plate Count Method ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Total Bacteria

The soil fertility aspect is characterized by the good biological properties of the soil. One important element of the soil biological properties is the bacterial population present in it. This research was conducted in the laboratory of Microbiology University of Malikussaleh in the May until June 2016. This study aims to determine the number of bacterial populations in soil organic and inorganic so that can be used as an indicator to know the level of soil fertility. Data analysis was done by T-Test that is by comparing the mean of observation parameter to each soil sample. The sampling method used is a composite method, which combines 9 of soil samples taken from 9 sample points on the same plot diagonally both on organic soil and inorganic soil. The results showed the highest bacterial population was found in total organic soil cfu 180500000 and total inorganic soil cfu 62.500.000

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