Reimagining Political Ecology is a state of the art collection of ethnographies grounded is political ecology. When political ecology first emerged as a distinct field in the early 1970's, it was rooted in the neo-Marxism of world system theory. This collection showcases second-generation political ecology, which retains the marxist interest in capitalism as a global structure but which is also heavily influenced by poststructuralism, feminism, practice theory, and cultural studies. As these essays illustrate, contemporary political ecology moves beyond binary thinking, focussing instead on the interchanges between nature and culture, the symbolic and the material, and the local and the global.