Wed 3.13.13 | Alienated from Nature?
It's a claim that has wide resonance on the left: we humans are alienated from nature, with profound consequences both for the way we think and for the health of the planet. But what if Steven Vogel is...
View ArticleWed 6.19.13 | Left Forum Voices
Joel Kovel, Terisa Turner, Tadzio Müller, and Kanya D'Almeida spoke at this year's Left Forum gathering, held in early June in New York City. Kovel, Turner, and D'Almeida participated in a session...
View ArticleTues 8.27.13 | Machines, Capital, Ecology
What are technology and the proliferation of workplace machinery doing to the labor process, and to the workers themselves? And what's the relationship between capitalist production and environmental...
View ArticleMon 9.16.13 | Alienated from Nature?
It's a claim that has wide resonance on the left: we humans are alienated from nature, with profound consequences both for the way we think and for the health of the planet. But what if Steven Vogel is...
View ArticleMon 4.21.14 | Reclus's Radical Vision
Elisée Reclus was a social geographer and anarchist who, according to John Clark, introduced a strongly ecological dimension to anarchist thinking. Clark describes the various forms of domination that...
View ArticleWed 6.18.14 | Mapping the Golden State
What do California's myriad social and environmental issues tell us about capitalism itself? Quite a bit, according to Richard Walker. In a new altlas, the Marxist geographer explores the contours of...
View ArticleTues 7.01.14 | Age of Humans or Age of Capital?
The effects of human-generated climate change have become ever visible, from droughts to raging wildfires to floods and superstorms. So are we now living in a new geological epoch? Jason W. Moore...
View ArticleTues 7.08.14 | The End of Cheap Nature?
As a trip to the supermarket will bear out, food prices are on the rise. We know the implications of higher food costs for ourselves and especially for the poor, but what about for capitalism itself?...
View ArticleTues 9.23.14 | Ecological Crises: The Long View
Are we humans preordained to create ecological crises? Environmental geographer Ruth DeFries argues that our past is neither the story of complete catastrophe nor techno-utopia. She traces our...
View ArticleMon 11.10.14 | African Americans and the Environment
Why are African Americans missing from our collective imagery of the environment and environmentalism? Cultural geographer Carolyn Finney discusses both the history of African Americans and nature --...
View ArticleMon 12.29.14 | Reclus's Radical Vision
Elisée Reclus was a social geographer and anarchist who, according to John Clark, introduced a strongly ecological dimension to anarchist thinking. Clark describes the various forms of domination that...
View ArticleTues 2.17.15 | Race, Class, and Hurricanes
Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy have been recent reminders of the power of massive storms to not only inundate cities and change landscapes, but to reshape or reinforce existing class and racial...
View ArticleTues 3.03.15 | In Defense of the Neolithic
Are we, as a species, at war with nature? We might think so, given the ways that our planet has been ecologically ravaged. But has it always been that way? Have we, since at least the dawn of settled...
View ArticleMon 3.23.15 | Age of Humans or Age of Capital?
The effects of human-generated climate change have become ever visible, from droughts to raging wildfires to floods and superstorms. So are we now living in a new geological epoch? Jason W. Moore...
View ArticleWed 3.25.15 | The End of Cheap Nature?
As a trip to the supermarket will bear out, food prices are on the rise. We know the implications of higher food costs for ourselves and especially for the poor, but what about for capitalism itself?...
View ArticleTues 4.21.15 | African Americans and the Environment
Why are African Americans missing from our collective imagery of the environment and environmentalism? Cultural geographer Carolyn Finney discusses both the history of African Americans and nature --...
View ArticleTues 4.28.15 | Heidegger, the Personal, and the Political
We often act in isolation, or feel like we do. According to Scott Cameron, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger emphasized the social meaning and significance of individual actions. Cameron uses...
View ArticleMon 5.25.15 | Is Overpopulation the Culprit?
Too few resources, too many people. That's the received wisdom in most of the environmental movement, mainstream or radical. But can that assumption withstand close scrutiny? Not according to...
View ArticleTues 9.23.14 | Ecological Crises: The Long View
Are we humans preordained to create ecological crises? Environmental geographer Ruth DeFries argues that our past is neither the story of complete catastrophe nor techno-utopia. She traces our...
View ArticleMon 11.10.14 | African Americans and the Environment
Why are African Americans missing from our collective imagery of the environment and environmentalism? Cultural geographer Carolyn Finney discusses both the history of African Americans and nature --...
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