Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. CFP: URBAN ECOLOGICAL POWER IN THE CAPITALOCENE: PLANETARY URBANIZATION, DEFENSIVE URBANISM, AND THE RIGHT TO THE CITY, Paper session CFP for the Third annual conference of the World-Ecology Research Network, https://worldecologynetwork.wordpress.com/world-ecology-2017-binghamton-usa/. He writes frequently on the history of capitalism in Europe, Latin America, and the United States, from the long 16th century to the neoliberal era. Papers might take up critiques of “green” gentrification and/or displacement now arising in a variety of urban contexts (e.g. Link to full conference CFP: https://worldecologynetwork.wordpress.com/world-ecology-2017-binghamton-usa/, 21-22 July 2017, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY. Far from limited to resource and energy question, recent extractivisms have linked up with manifold forms of land grabbing and cash-crop agriculture to create new agrarian questions of survival and justice in an era of runaway climate change. Verso: London. We invite papers on the widest range of topics addressing the new extractivism, its political economy and political ecology, and movements against extractivist projects. – Representations of extractivism, class, and capital, – Environmental histories of resource and energy extraction, – Imperialism and the Search for Cheap Natures, – Labor movements and the labor process in extractive sectors, – The feminist political economy and political ecology of extraction. Where and when do we find the origins of today’s planetary crisis? CFP: Problematizing Water, Food and Energy Crises in the Global South: From Anthropocene to Capitalocene (Fachsitzungen Leitthema 5„Natur und Gesellschaft“, LT5-FS15). Critics argue that the concept is flawed, remaining caught in a deeply entrenched human-nature dualism, and discounting the real source of today’s global crises: capitalism. Recent research on climate retrofitting suggests profound divides emerging between cities and sectors that can and cannot afford to go green, and potentially to profit from that greening in new real estate-led accumulation strategies (Knuth 2016, Rydin 2016). Central to this task is an analysis of the capitalist state, which “appropriates nature for capital directly by force; during conquest, enclosure and the creation of functional property rights; and indirectly by its development of landscape and its infrastructure.” (Parenti, 2014).
Studies World-Ecology, World Systems Analysis, and Political Ecology.
Interview with Ivana Perić. Born on January 12, 1984 in Johnson Hodson and Marvin 2010). It also points to the hierarchies of power around divisions that are racially, ethnically, sexually, and ecologically inscribed, as highlighted in Indigenous struggles for sovereign land rights and climate justice activism. Expressed variously in cities globally, from eco-city construction to “green” slum removal to climate retrofitting, densification, and resilience initiatives, these imagined solutions propagate a common fallacy: that getting urban form “right” can resolve profound problems of capitalist accumulation (e.g. Commodity frontiers have been central to acquiring the Four Cheaps – food, labor power, energy and raw materials – on which every great wave of capital accumulation rode (Moore 2015, 53-4). His research has been recognized with the Braverman Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (1999), Bernstein and Byres Prize in Agrarian Studies (2011), Distinguished Scholarship Award for the American Sociological Association’s Political Economy of the World-System Section (2002, and 2011 honorable mention), and Alice Hamilton Prize of the American Society for Environmental History (2004). Proposals from artists and activists are encouraged.
21-22 July 2017, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY. This process, aptly termed “global depeasantization” by Farshad Araghi (1995, 2009), has been traversed by variegated forms of violence and brutal dispossession. Paper session CFP for the Third annual conference of the World-Ecology Research Network: ‘Women, Nature, and Colonies’: Power, Reproduction, and Unpaid Work/Energy in the Capitalist World-Ecology. In this panel we hope to connect these place-based material transformations to world-ecological moments and shifts. Jason W. Moore is associate professor of sociology at Binghamton University, and coordinator of the World-Ecology Research Network. Jason W. Moore teaches World History and World-Ecology at Binghamton University and is Coordinator of the World-Ecology Research Network.
Please submit your abstract through the conference website before March 31, 2017. A Response” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 40.1:164-180, Jason W. Moore He writes frequently on the history of capitalism in Europe, Latin America, and the United States, from the long 16th century to the neoliberal era. The water, food and energy crises have been the most apparent of these crises globally, and particularly in the Global South. Taking the critique a step further, Moore (2015) argues that capitalism, rather than working upon nature, works through nature: it is a way of organizing nature. Arguing that capitalism develops not only through economic process but by cultural and territorial conquests, Moore shows how the modern world was forged in a peculiar – and destructive – relation of work and energy.
Bulldozers that raze whole villages to the ground in geographies of resource extraction; death squads that exterminate peasant communities in order to make way for speculative investment; predatory forms of lending that trigger suicide epidemics among indebted farmers; and state crackdowns delivered in the form of rampant militarization, are but a few of the ways in which ‘the explosion of the urban’ extends the discipline of capital across the countryside. __________2011.
At the latest since 2008, we have lived in an era of proclaimed “converging crises”, signalling that humanity has reached a tipping point in its relationship with nature. – Global extractive industries and their politics. We further welcome papers that emphasize the key role played by the localized knowledge and practices in both enabling and disrupting the cheap nature regimes of capital. And commodity frontiers move successively, from one place to the next, marked by booms and busts due to the ecological contradictions of expanded commodity production.
In doing so, this panel seeks to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue on the concept of commodity frontiers. ** Submit inquiries and/or paper titles and abstracts (of approx. In Moore’s (2011, 2010a, 2010b) terms, commodity frontiers are specific places of expanded commodity production, backed by territorial power. Planetary Utopias, Capitalist Dystopias explores the tension between the historical limits of the possible and the “impossible” projects of planetary justice. This panel will bring together expertise from different disciplines (geographers, historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists …) on recent and historical frontier-making processes in specific periods in the rise of global capitalism and across different parts of the world.
Araghi, Farshad. The aim of this panel is to discuss the crises of water, food and energy in the Global South viewed through the dialectic of humanity-in-nature in the age of the Capitalocene. __________2010b.
Jason W. Moore, Binghamton University, Sociology Department, Faculty Member. What is the relation between racializing cultural practices and racializing technological practices? Recognizing that no tradition or discipline holds all the answers, the Network cultivates a diversity of perspectives on humans in the web of life – past, present, and future. The Environment Making State: Territory, Nature, and Value. Routledge, New York. We are happy to work with artists and activists to develop creative ways to present their work in ways that may differ from conventional academic presentations. Commodity frontiers provide a lens on places in world-ecology: on how capital accumulates in nature and how nature works through processes of capital accumulation. The full significance of this phenomenon, however, cannot be fully grasped without understanding an even larger world-historical transformation: the systematic assault on agrarian modes of existence that accelerated sharply after 1945, and again since the 1970s, reaching its pinnacle in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. Parenti, C. (2014). Second, in prioritizing networked infrastructures and metabolisms, urban political ecology’s approaches to urban climate (re)development have chronically neglected housing, neighborhoods, downtowns, and other constitutive “bounded” spaces (Edwards and Bulkeley 2015, Knuth 2016) – geographies nonetheless of central importance for urban political economists, feminists, and other critical urban scholars and activists globally. Antipode, 829-848.
In Kay, Cristóbal; Akram-Lodhi; A. Haroon (eds). Third annual conference of the World-Ecology Research Network By addressing these questions in contemporary and historical perspectives, drawing on expertise from different disciplines (geography, sociology, history and anthropology, among others), we seek to better understand how the state and capitalism produce a historical nature and are produced through their metabolic relation with it, and how alternatives to this process are being formulated. 2009. These efforts often arose in anti-urban renewal organizing, sweat equity, and other unpaid labor sunk into the urban fabric by the urban poor, working class, and community organizations. Called “extractivism” by scholars and activists, resource extraction in the 21st century has assumed new prominence in an era of unusually high commodity prices and the widespread questioning of fossil fuel infrastructures. London; New York: Verso. These forms of story-telling and world-making are increasingly necessary in the twenty-first century. Voices have become louder in recent years advocating the declaration of a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene.