ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the dominant political ecology in world politics. Political ecology is a term that is so broad and ambiguous it is immediately confusing. However, the term is redeemable if we think of political ecology as a field of study and contemplation with several concerns, and not a term that refers to a single concrete idea any more than people would for a term like political science or sociology. The social sciences in political ecology contemplate the human condition in ecology and have been involved with studies of human evolution, community development, and metabolism. Latour's political ecology forces us to examine the world in more complicated ways than the Enlightenment model where an objectified nature is counter-posed to the social, but offers a full universe and more relationships. Latour argues that political ecology up to this point has been reinforcing the bicameral constitution of Western politics, and therefore will not contribute to emancipation.
