An international group of distinguished scholars pay homage to and build on the work of one of the most influential thinkers of our time, Michael Watts. Shows how Michael Watts research, writings, teaching and mentoring have relentlessly pushed boundaries, transforming his chosen field of geography and beyond Spans an array of topics including the political economy and ecology of African societies, governmentality and territoriality in various Southern contexts, food security, cultural materialist expositions of capitalism, modernity and development across the postcolonial world Builds on his legacy, exploring its theoretical, analytical, and empirical implications and proposing exciting new possibilities for further exploration in the tracks of Watts

An international group of distinguished scholars pay homage to and build on the work of one of the most influential thinkers of our time, Michael Watts.* Shows how Michael Watts' research, writings, teaching and mentoring have relentlessly pushed boundaries, transforming his chosen field of geography and beyond* Spans an array of topics including the political economy and ecology of African societies, governmentality and territoriality in various Southern contexts, food security, cultural materialist expositions of capitalism, modernity and development across the postcolonial world* Builds on his legacy, exploring its theoretical, analytical, and empirical implications and proposing exciting new possibilities for further exploration in the tracks of Watts

Series Editors' Preface viiNotes on Contributors ixIntroduction: Other Geographies, in the work of Michael Watts 1Sharad Chari, Susanne Freidberg, Jesse Ribot, Wendy Wolford and Vinay Gidwani1 Academic Journeys in the Black Atlantic: Gender, Work and Environmental Transformations 29Judith Carney2 Getting Back to our Roots: Integrating Critical Physical and Social Science in the Early Work of Michael Watts 43Rebecca Lave3 Binary Narratives of Capitalism and Climate Change: Dangers and Possibilities 55Lucy Jarosz4 Aggregate Modernities: A Critical Natural History of Contemporary Algorithms 63Jake Kosek5 Peanuts for Cashews? Agricultural Diversification and the Limits of Adaptability in Côte d'Ivoire 79Thomas J. Bassett and Moussa Koné6 Life Itself Under Contract: A Biopolitics of Partnerships and Chemical Risk in California's Strawberry Industry 97Julie Guthman7 Commoditization, Primitive Accumulation and the Spaces of Biodiversity Conservation 111Roderick P. Neumann8 Stopping the Serengeti Road: Social Media and the Discursive Politics of Conservation in Tanzania 127Benjamin Gardner9 Privatize Everything, Certify Everywhere: Academic Assessment and Value Transfers 143Tad Mutersbaugh10 Oil, Indigeneity and Dispossession 157Joe Bryan11 Frontiers: Remembering the Forgotten Lands 169Teo Ballvé12 Vibrancy of Refuse, Piety of Refusal: Infrastructures of Discard in Dakar 185Rosalind Fredericks13 Reclamation, Displacement and Resiliency in Phnom Penh 199Erin CollinsIndex 215