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Nature, raw materials, and political economy /

The papers in this volume push the study of the multifaceted nature-society relationship and the socioeconomic consequences of human dependence on nature forward in a variety of areas. In the first section, "Theoretical Foundations", the five chapters lay out theoretical models for examini...

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Други автори: Ciccantell, Paul S., 1965-, Smith, David A., Seidman, G.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier JAI, 2005.
Издание: 1st ed.
Серия: Research in rural sociology and development ; v. 10.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Nature, raw materials, and political economy.
Съдържание:
  • Cover
  • Nature, Raw Materials, and Political Economy
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Editorial Advisory Board
  • Nature, Raw Materials, and Political Economy: An Introduction
  • Introduction
  • The Political Economy of Nature and the Concept of Rent
  • Commodity-Based Analysis and Linkage Theory
  • The Contributions of this volume to the Political Economy of Nature and Raw Materials
  • Future Directions for Research
  • References
  • Part I: Theoretical Foundations
  • Matter, Space, Time, and Technology: How Local Process Drives Global Systems
  • Introduction
  • Matter, Space, and the Logic of Production
  • Matter, Space, Technology, and Trade: Building a Model of Globalization
  • How Modern Social Scientific Analysis Neglects Space and Nature
  • How Earlier Analyses of Local Materio-Spatial Configurations can Enhance Contemporary Analyses of Globalization
  • Innis's Materio-Spatial Explanations of Canada's Economic History
  • Conclusion: Raw Materials, Economic Ascent, and Underdevelopment in the Production of Globalization
  • Notes
  • References
  • Environmental Sociology's Theoretical and Empirical Paradoxes
  • Introduction
  • The ''Political Sociologization'' of Sociology and Environmental Sociology
  • The Paradoxes of Early American Environmental Sociology
  • Theoretical and Empirical Paradoxes and the Future Agenda for Environmental Sociology
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • For a Sociology of 'Socionature': Ontology and the Commodity-Based Approach
  • Introduction
  • Advantages of Ant for the Sociology of Socionature
  • The Transformation of Sociology's Object of Inquiry
  • Asymmetrical Interrelation of Nature and Society
  • 'Socionature' and the Co-construction of Nature and Society
  • Addressing Challenges to a Sociology of Socionature: Bunker's Commodity-Based Approach and Conjoint Constitution
  • The Agency of Nature
  • Intentionality and Humanism
  • Linking the 'Local' and the 'Global' in Theory
  • Periodization of Socionatural Change
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Keeping Time: Temporal Hierarchies in Socio-Ecological Systems
  • Introduction
  • Social Time, Human Behavior, and Environmental Outcomes
  • Temporal Grains and Temporal Fallacies
  • Time, Uncertainty, and the Burden of Proof
  • Hierarchies of Social Time
  • Hierarchies of Ecological Time
  • Socio-Ecological Hierarchies and Deforestation
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Cycles of Accumulation, Crisis, Materials, and Space: Can Different Theories of Change be Reconciled?
  • Introduction: Hegemony and Accumulation
  • Arrighi's Cycles of Accumulation
  • Bunker's Materio-Spatial Model of Ascent
  • Return to Crisis Theory
  • Hegemony and Local Change
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part II: Commodities, Extraction and Frontiers
  • Starting at the Beginning: Extractive Economies as the Unexamined Origins of Global Commodity Chains
  • Introduction.