Michael

Michael Watts

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American geographer

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Michael Watts
Earth Sciences
#169
World Rank
#359
Historical Rank
#73
USA Rank
Geography
#41
World Rank
#91
Historical Rank
#10
USA Rank
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According to Wikipedia, Michael J. Watts is Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He retired in 2016. He is a leading critical intellectual figure of the academic left. His first book, Silent Violence:Food, Famine and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria , is considered a pioneering work in political ecology. Other published works include Reworking Modernity: Capitalisms and Symbolic Discontent , Liberation Ecologies , The Hettner Lectures: Geographies of Violence , Violent Environments and the Curse of the Black Gold . Watts has also been an assistant editor of the award-winning New Encyclopedia of Africa and its predecessor, the Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara .

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