About Dianne Rocheleau
Dianne Rocheleau is a Professor of Geography at Clark University. She is a feminist political ecologist who has worked on emergent ecologies including humans and other beings, and their artifacts, technologies, and territories. She has studied with, for, and about social movements and rural people’s ecologies of resistance in farmlands, forests, and regional agroforests in the Dominican Republic, Kenya, Mexico, and the United States. She has coauthored and coedited four books: Feminist Political Ecology (1996); Gender, Environment, and Development in Kenya (1995); Power, Process, and Participation: Tools for Change (1995); and Agroforestry in Dryland Africa (1988). She is also coeditor with Arturo Escobar of the Duke University Press series New Ecologies for the 21st Century.
The popular understanding of culture in mid-twentieth-century America and Europe was arguably the symphony orchestra, the ballet, the art museum, and a “national” white, elite etiquette dictating, and explaining, how people should behave. Since the mid-1960s, we have witnessed the production and recognition of a proliferation of “cultures” and “multiculturalisms” within popular culture and informal political and economic institutions. Current usage is replete with compound cultures: counterculture; pop culture; office culture; indigenous culture; urban culture; peasant culture; global culture; “mainstream” culture; and “other-cultures.”