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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier JAI,
2005.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Research in rural sociology and development ;
v. 10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.