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Ragnhild Overå, Jon Pedersen, Nitin Rai, Rick Rohde, Espen Sjaastad, Silje
Skuland, David Tumusiime, Mats Widgren and Poul Wisborg.
In addition, we are grateful to other colleagues who have commented on various
draft papers that have been integrated in this book in different ways and who in
meetings and discussions helped us formulate some of the ideas we present here. In
particular, we would like to thank Dan Brockington, Jill T. Buseth, Frances Cleaver,
Denis Gautier, Jens Friis Lund, Synne Movik, Christine Noe, Paul Robbins, Jesse
Ribot and Teklehaymanot Weldemichel.
We are indebted to Per Robstad at Universitetsforlaget who was instrumental in
facilitating the Norwegian editions. Rachael Ballard and Joanna O’Neill at Palgrave Macmillan have been helpful throughout the process from the first lunch
meeting to discuss ideas to patiently guide us through the final details of the manuscript format.
We also thank our daughter Eline Benjaminsen, who is a photographer. She
critically engaged with our use of photos and had clear ideas about what to use and
not to use. She also took the photo on the cover, which is a product of photogrammetry from her project ‘Footprints in the Valley’. In addition, she helped us keep
track of all the references.
Over the years, we have also enjoyed and benefitted from numerous discussions
and exchanges of ideas with students at our universities—the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and Oslo Metropolitan University. Teaching engaged students
was one of the main inspirations for writing this textbook.
We are grateful to all the scholars who contribute to the growing field of political ecology, and we hope that this book will inspire new readers and contributors.
We all find much inspirational energy within the international political ecology
network POLLEN (7 https://politicalecologynetwork. org/welcome/). This is a
network not only with many impressive academics, but also with great collegiality,
a friendly but also critical (!) atmosphere, and with shared commitments to solidarity, social justice and environmental sustainability.
Last but not least, we are thankful to all the farmers and pastoralists, and other
experts on livelihoods and environmental change in various rural settings that we
have learned from over many years. Without their knowledge and insights, we
would not have been able to write this book.
We both are responsible for the book at large and all chapters. Parts of the book
build on research we have conducted together, but much of it is based on research
each of us has conducted separately. Hanne has written most of 7 Chap. 1, while
Tor has written most of 7 Chaps. 2 and 4. 7 Chaps. 3, 5 and 6 are mainly written
by Hanne, while 7 Chaps. 7, 8, 9 and 10 are mainly written by Tor.
Tor A. Benjaminsen
Oslo, Norway
Hanne Svarstad
Oslo, Norway
August 2020
Preface and Acknowledgements
Ragnhild Overå, Jon Pedersen, Nitin Rai, Rick Rohde, Espen Sjaastad, Silje
Skuland, David Tumusiime, Mats Widgren and Poul Wisborg.
In addition, we are grateful to other colleagues who have commented on various
draft papers that have been integrated in this book in different ways and who in
meetings and discussions helped us formulate some of the ideas we present here. In
particular, we would like to thank Dan Brockington, Jill T. Buseth, Frances Cleaver,
Denis Gautier, Jens Friis Lund, Synne Movik, Christine Noe, Paul Robbins, Jesse
Ribot and Teklehaymanot Weldemichel.
We are indebted to Per Robstad at Universitetsforlaget who was instrumental in
facilitating the Norwegian editions. Rachael Ballard and Joanna O’Neill at Palgrave Macmillan have been helpful throughout the process from the first lunch
meeting to discuss ideas to patiently guide us through the final details of the manuscript format.
We also thank our daughter Eline Benjaminsen, who is a photographer. She
critically engaged with our use of photos and had clear ideas about what to use and
not to use. She also took the photo on the cover, which is a product of photogrammetry from her project ‘Footprints in the Valley’. In addition, she helped us keep
track of all the references.
Over the years, we have also enjoyed and benefitted from numerous discussions
and exchanges of ideas with students at our universities—the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and Oslo Metropolitan University. Teaching engaged students
was one of the main inspirations for writing this textbook.
We are grateful to all the scholars who contribute to the growing field of political ecology, and we hope that this book will inspire new readers and contributors.
We all find much inspirational energy within the international political ecology
network POLLEN (7 https://politicalecologynetwork. org/welcome/). This is a
network not only with many impressive academics, but also with great collegiality,
a friendly but also critical (!) atmosphere, and with shared commitments to solidarity, social justice and environmental sustainability.
Last but not least, we are thankful to all the farmers and pastoralists, and other
experts on livelihoods and environmental change in various rural settings that we
have learned from over many years. Without their knowledge and insights, we
would not have been able to write this book.
We both are responsible for the book at large and all chapters. Parts of the book
build on research we have conducted together, but much of it is based on research
each of us has conducted separately. Hanne has written most of 7 Chap. 1, while
Tor has written most of 7 Chaps. 2 and 4. 7 Chaps. 3, 5 and 6 are mainly written
by Hanne, while 7 Chaps. 7, 8, 9 and 10 are mainly written by Tor.
Tor A. Benjaminsen
Oslo, Norway
Hanne Svarstad
Oslo, Norway
August 2020
Preface and Acknowledgements