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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION Coalitions and Practices: Imagining Communities -- PART I REVIEW ARTICLES -- 1. Women and Resettlement -- 2. Women's Studies and Developing Countries: Focus on Asia -- PART II TREND REPORT -- 3. Research Frontiers at the Nexus of Gender, Environment, and Development: Linking Household, Community, and Ecosystem -- PART III FORUM: WOMEN AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL IDENTITY -- 4. Women, Revolution, and National Identity in the Middle East -- 5. Building Socialism with Chinese Characteristics -- 6. The "Woman Question" and National Identity: Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia -- 7. South Africa: Constructing a Nation, Restructuring Gender -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.

Environmental issues have become increasingly prominent in local struggles, national debates, and international policies. In response, scholars are paying more attention to conventional politics and to more broadly defined relations of power and difference in the interactions between human groups and their biophysical environments. Such issues are at the heart of the relatively new interdisciplinary field of political ecology, forged at the intersection of political economy and cultural ecology. This volume provides a toolkit of vital concepts and a set of research models and analytic