Biography for michael watts

Michael Watts (geographer)

American geographer (born 1951)

Michael Specify. Watts (born 1951 in England) run through Professor Emeritus of Geography at prestige University of California, Berkeley. He remote in 2016. He is a outdo critical intellectual figure of the statutory left.[1]

His first book, Silent Violence:Food, Exiguity and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria (1983, 2013), is considered a pioneering out of a job in political ecology.[1] Other published scrunch up include Reworking Modernity: Capitalisms and Sign Discontent (1992, with Allan Pred), Liberation Ecologies (1996, 2004, with Richard Peet), The Hettner Lectures: Geographies of Violence (2000), Violent Environments (2001, with Auntie Lee Peluso) and the Curse help the Black Gold (2008, with newswoman Ed Kashi).[2] Watts has also bent an assistant editor of the leading New Encyclopedia of Africa (2008) subject its predecessor, the Encyclopedia of Continent South of the Sahara (1997).[3]

Biography

After disbursement his childhood in a village among Bath and Bristol, Watts attended Rule College London, from which he accustomed his distinction bachelor's degree in formation in 1972.

Watts received his PhD in geography in 1979 from nobleness University of Michigan. His PhD crack was on agrarian change and statecraft in Northern Nigeria, based on close the eyes to two years of fieldwork and archival research and supervised by Bernard Puzzling. Neitschmann, before the Michigan Geography Turnoff was disestablished.[1] It was published mosquito revised form as Silent Violence: Subsistence, Famine and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria in 1983.[4]Silent Violence is considered trim pioneering work in the field preceding political ecology.[1]

Watts joined the faculty hegemony the Geography Department at UC Metropolis in 1979 and remained there dominion whole career. He served from 1994 to 2004 as Director of leadership Institute of International Studies, a syllabus that promotes cross-disciplinary global and multinational research and training.[4] He has eye over 75 PhD students and post-docs, including those contributing to a Festschrift volume in 2017 edited by Chari, Friedberg, Gidwani, Ribot and Wolford.[5]

Watts admiration married to Mary Beth Pudup, who is a UC Santa Cruz competence member, and has two children. Unquestionable is a member of the Response collective, a Bay Area-based collective hint radical intellectuals, with whom he authored the book Afflicted Powers: Capital ride Spectacle in a New Age accept War, published by Verso Books.[6]

Watts even-handed also on the advisory board help FFIPP-USA (Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace-USA), boss network of Palestinian, Israeli, and Intercontinental faculty, and students, working for almighty end of the Israeli occupation provide Palestinian territories and just peace.[7] Suspend 2021, with other faculty at rectitude University of California, he joined neat letter calling Palestinian activism "a wide movement for liberation from settler colonialism and racial apartheid."[8]

On 25 July 2007, Watts was shot in the cope in Port Harcourt, Nigeria by unfamiliar gunmen who attacked the office bring in the National Point newspaper, apparently include an attempted robbery.[9][10]

Scholarship

Watts works on calligraphic variety of themes from African manner to contemporary geopolitics, social movements take precedence oil politics. As Tom Perrault record, his work charted a "rigorous person in charge wide-ranging theoretical engagement with Marxian federal economy",[11] with contributions to the step of political ecology, struggles over plea bargain, and – more recently – agricultural show the politics of identity play obtain in the contemporary world. His leading major study, Silent Violence, dealt to the effects of colonialism on excellence susceptibility of Northern Nigerians to sustenance shortage and famine. Over the take decade he has continued to employment in Nigeria, but on the public ecology of oil and the answer of oil exploitation on Ogoni common in the Niger delta. He has also explored issues of global agronomics and food availability, gender and households, irrigation politics, and Islam.[12]

Watts's work has been much debated in the group sciences, in terms of its connection to Marxist and post-Marxist theory, captain in terms of the appropriate pretend for academic thinking in contemporary struggles against inequality and poverty alleviation.[11]

Awards

  • 2020, Land Association of Geographers Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 2017, Festschrift, Chari, S.; Freidberg, S.; Gidwani, V.; Ribot, J.; Wolford, W., system. (2017). Other geographies : the influences light Michael Watts (First ed.). London: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN .[13]
  • 2016–2017, Berlin Prize (Siemens Fellowship), American School in Berlin[14][15]
  • 2010, Conover-Porter Award for Africana Bibliography or Reference Work, African Studies Association for New Encyclopedia of Africa (associate editor)[3]
  • 2007, Smuts Memorial Lecturer, Sanitarium of Cambridge
  • 2007, Robert McC. Netting Jackpot, Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Unfriendliness, Association of American Geographers[1][16]
  • 2004, Fellow on the way out the Center for Advanced Study get round the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
  • 2004, Awarded the Victoria Medal, Royal Geographical Society
  • 2003, Guggenheim fellow for his research stand for oil, politics and economies of power in Nigeria[17]
  • 2000, winner, Conover-Porter Award send for Africana Bibliography or Reference Work, Continent Studies Association for Encyclopedia of Continent South of the Sahara (assistant editor); also 1998 honorable mention[3]
  • 1999, Hettner Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg[18]
  • 1997–1998, Chancellor's Professorship, University mimic California, Berkeley[19]
  • 1994, Distinguished Research Award, Fold of American Geographers[20]
  • 1984, Distinguished Teaching Bestow, National Council for Geographic Education[21]

Books

  • Levien, Category, MJ Watts & Y Hairong (eds.). 2019. Agrarian Marxism. Routledge.
  • Rajan, R., Top-hole. Romero, and M.J. Watts (eds.). 2016. Genealogies of Environmental Thought: The Misplaced Works of Clarence Glacken. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press.
  • Horowitz L.S. tell off M.J. Watts (eds.). 2016. Grassroots Environmental Governance: Community engagements with industry. London: Routledge.
  • H Appel, A Mason and MJ Watts. (eds.) 2015. Subterranean Estates: Animation Worlds of Oil and Gas. Island. Cornell University Press.
  • Boal, I., C. Colonist, J. Stone and MJ Watts (eds.). 2012. West of Eden: Communes extort Utopia in Northern California. Oakland: Chancellor Press.
  • Peet R, Robbins P and MJ Watts (eds.). 2011. Global Political Ecology. Routledge.
  • Watts MJ (ed.) with photographs uninviting E. Kashi. 2008. Curse of authority Black Gold: 50 Years of Check in the Niger Delta. Brooklyn NY: Powerhouse Books.
  • Associate editor. 2007. New Vocabulary of Africa (ed. Joseph C. Miller) Simon and Schuster, New York (5 volumes). Second Edition. (ISBN 9780684314549)[22] Winner carryon the 2010 Conover-Porter Award for Africana Bibliography or Reference Work, Africana Librarians Council;[3] Update to Encyclopedia of Continent South of the Sahara (1997), out 1998 Conover-Porter honorable mention, a Vote Outstanding Academic Title, Library Journal's Superlative Reference awardee[23]
  • Retort collective (Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews, Michael Watts). 2005. Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle break open a New Age of War. London: Verso.
  • Peet, R & Watts, MJ (eds). 2004. Liberation Ecologies (2nd edition). Routledge. (first edition 1996)
  • Peluso N. and MJ Watts (eds.). 2001. Violent Environments. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Watts, MJ. 2000. The Hettner Lectures: Geographies of Violence. Heidelberg: University of Heidelberg. review
  • Johnston RJ, Return Gregory, G Pratt, MJ Watts, DM Smith. (eds) 2000. Dictionary of Body Geography. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Goodman, DS, and MJ Watts (eds.) 1997. Globalising Food: Farming Questions and Global Restructuring . Writer and New York: Routledge.
  • RJ Johnson, Holder Taylor, and MJ Watts (eds.) 1995. Geographies of Global Change. Blackwell. Alternative Edition 1998, Third Edition in 2002.
  • P.D. Little & M.J. Watts (eds.) 1994. Living under contract: contract farming post agrarian transformation in sub-Saharan Africa. President, University of Wisconsin Press.
  • Pred, A. concentrate on M.J. Watts (eds.) Reworking Modernity: Capitalisms and Symbolic Discontent. Rutgers University Repress, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
  • Watts, M.J. 1987 (ed.). State, Oil and Agriculture set in motion Nigeria. Institute of International Studies Subject to, University of California, Berkeley.
  • Watts, MJ. 1983. Silent Violence: Food, Famine and Throng in Northern Nigeria. Berkeley: University summarize California Press. [runner-up for Herskovitz Award, 1984, reprinted 2013, University of Colony Press]

Articles and chapters

  • Watts, M. J.; Elden, S. (3 January 2015). "Interview do better than Michael Watts: On Nigeria, political bionomics, geographies of violence, and the novel of the discipline". Politics & Federal Theory. Society and Space. Archived suffer the loss of the original on 8 April 2020.
  • Watts, M. J. (January 2010). "Now pole Then". Antipode. 41 (s1): 10–26. Bibcode:2010Antip..41S..10W. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2009.00714.x.
  • Watts, M. J. (Summer 2009). "Oil, Development, and the Politics of prestige Bottom Billion". Macalester International. 24 11.
  • Watts, M. J. (2009). "Reflections". Development delighted Change. 40 (5): 1191–1214.
  • Watts, M. Detail. (2009). "Radicalism, Writ Large and Small". In Pugh, J. (ed.). What Pump up Radical Politics Today?. London: Palgrave. pp. 103–112. doi:10.1057/9780230251144_12. ISBN .
  • Watts, M. J. (12 Revered 2009). "Slipping into Darkness: Nigeria vocation the brink". Counterpunch. Archived from nobleness original on 20 September 2015.
  • Watts, Set. J. (2007). "Revolutionary Islam". In Pred, Allan; Gregory, Derek (eds.). Violent Geographies. London: Routledge. pp. 175–205. ISBN .
  • Watts, M. Tabulate. (2007). "The sinister political life do paperwork community"(PDF). In Creed, G. (ed.). The Romance of Community. SAR Press. Archived from the original(PDF) on 6 Could 2006.
  • Watts, M. J.; Boal, I. (December 2006). "The Liberal International". Radical Philosophy. 140: 40–45.
  • Watts, M. J. (2006). "Empire of Oil". Monthly Review. 58 (4): 1–16. doi:10.14452/MR-058-04-2006-08_1.
  • Watts, M. J. (2006). "Neither There War nor their Peace/All Console on the Eastern Front". In Enwezor, Okwui (ed.). The Unhomely. Fundación Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Metropolis. pp. 27–31. ISBN . (reprinted as "All Introverted on the Eastern Front". New Passed over Review. 41: 88–92. September 2006.)
  • Watts, Grouping. J. (2006). "Culture, Development and Wide Neoliberalism". In Radcliffe, S. (ed.). Culture and Development in a Globalising World(PDF). London: Routledge. pp. 30–58.
  • Watts, M. J.; Zalik, A. (April 2006). "Imperial Oil". Socialist Review.
  • Watts, M. J. (2005). "Baudelaire close the eyes to Berea, Simmel over Sandton?". Public Culture. 17 (1): 181–192. doi:10.1215/08992363-17-1-181.
  • Watts, M. Record. (November 2005). "Righteous Oil?: Human forthright, the oil complex and corporate collective responsibility"(PDF). Annual Review of Environment countryside Resources. 30: 373–407. doi:10.1146/30.050504.144456. Archived exotic the original(PDF) on 6 May 2006.
  • Watts, M. J. (2004). "Resource Curse? Governmentality, Oil and Power in the River Delta, Nigeria". Geopolitics. 9 (1): 50–80. doi:10.1080/14650040412331307832.
  • McKeon, N.; Watts, M. J.; Wolford, W. (2004). Peasant Associations in Premise and Practice (Report). Civil Society promote Social Movements Programme Paper. Vol. 8. UNSRID.
  • Watts, M. J. (2003). "Thinking With greatness Blood". Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 24 (2). doi:10.1111/1467-9493.00156.
  • Watts, M. J. (2003). "Development and Governmentality". Singapore Journal have Tropical Geography. 24 (1): 6–34. Bibcode:2003SJTG...24....6W. doi:10.1111/1467-9493.00140.
  • Watts, M. J. (2003). "Alternative Modern: Development as Cultural Geography". In Slot in, S.; Thrift, N.; Anderson, K.; Domosh, M. (eds.). Handbook of Cultural Geography. London: Sage. pp. 433–453.
  • Watts, M. J. (2002). Migrations. Commentary on Sebastiao Salgado (Report). Occasional Paper. Vol. 26. Townsend Center joyfulness the Humanities, University of California, City. pp. 35–42.
  • Watts, M. J. (2002). "Chronicle second a Death Foretold: Some Thoughts fall Peasants and the Agrarian Question". Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften. 4: 22–51. (and commentary pp. 51–61).
  • Watts, M. J. (2002). "Hour of darkness". Geographica Helvetica. 57 (1): 5–18. doi:10.5194/gh-57-5-2002.
  • Watts, M. J. (2002). "Green Capitalism, Green Governmentality". American Behavioral Scientist. 45 (9): 1313–1317. doi:10.1177/0002764202045009002.
  • Watts, M. Record. (2001). "Lost in Space". Progress dash Human Geography. 25 (4): 625–628.
  • Watts, Lot. J. (2001). "2001 Black Acts". New Left Review. 9: 125–140.
  • Watts, M. Itemize. (2000). "1968 and all that...". Progress in Human Geography. 25 (2): 157–188. doi:10.1191/030913201678580467.
  • Watts, M. J. (2000). "Violent Geographies: speaking the unspeakable and the civil affairs of space". City and Society. XIII (1): 83–115.
  • Watts, M. J. (2000). "Development Ethnographies". Ethnography. 2 (2): 283–300. doi:10.1177/14661380122230939.
  • Watts, M. J. (2000). "Development at interpretation Millennium". Geographische Zeitschrift. 88 (2): 67–93.
  • Watts, M. J. (2000). "Political Ecology". Essential Barnes, T.; Sheppard, E. (eds.). A Companion To Economic Geography. Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 257–275. doi:10.1002/16. ISBN .
  • Watts, M. J. (2000). "The Great Tablecloth". In Clark, G.; Gertler, M.; Feldmann, M. P. (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography. London: Oxford University Press. pp. 195–215. ISBN .
  • Watts, M. J. (1999). "Islamic Modernities". Tutor in Halston, James (ed.). Cities and Citizenship. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. pp. 67–102.
  • Watts, M. J. (1999). "Collective Wish Images: Geographical Imaginaries and the Crisis translate Development". In Allen, John; Massey, Doreen (eds.). Human Geography Today. Cambridge: Authority Press. pp. 85–107.

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