Amber Huff
University of Sussex
25 Papers
62 Citations
Amber Huff is an academic researcher from University of Sussex. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social support & Politics. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 22 publications. Previous affiliations of Amber Huff include Philippine Institute for Development Studies & University of Georgia.
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Papers
The New Politics and Geographies of Scarcity
TL;DR: The authors examine the dynamics and the "work" of the new cross-scalar scarcity politics in sustaining elite and capitalist power through justifying resource acquisitions and enclosures, large-scale policy reforms in the name of "austerity" and intensification of extraction whilst politically side-stepping more thorny politics of (re)distribution, mis-appropriation, dispossession and social justice.
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Resource warfare, pacification and the spectacle of ‘green’ development: Logics of violence in engineering extraction in southern Madagascar
Amber Huff,Yvonne Orengo +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore strategies "from above" in relation to the establishment and operation of the Rio Tinto QIT-Madagascar Minerals (QMM) ilmenite mine in southeast Madagascar.
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When the Wealthy Are Poor: Poverty Explanations and Local Perspectives in Southwestern Madagascar
TL;DR: The authors used focus groups to elicit a "folk model" of poverty from Masikoro, Vezo, and Mikea people in rural southwestern Madagascar and then placed this model in dialogue with four social science models: economic growth, substantivism, mode of production, and livelihoods.
Frictitious commodities: Virtuality, virtue and value in the carbon economy of repair:
Amber Huff
- 04 Jun 2021
TL;DR: The notion of nature is being commodified in carbon markets, and why does it matter? How are carbon commodities and ecologies of repair co-produced through carbon forestry as mentioned in this paper.
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Weathering the 'Long Wounded Year': Livelihoods, Nutrition and Changing Political Ecologies in the Mikea Forest Region, Madagascar
TL;DR: In this paper, a landscape framework is proposed to understand variation in nutritional status, a locally and analytically salient manifestation of livelihood vulnerability, observed among Mikea people living in three communities in rural southwestern Madagascar in 2009.
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