Course Outline -- Week 2

ER 290-8
Environmental Sociology

David A. Sonnenfeld, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley

Spring 2000

Wk 2 – Marx: Structures of Accumulation & the Environment

Bunker, Stephen G. and Paul Ciccantell. 1999. "Economic Ascent and the Global Environment: World-Systems Theory and the New Historical Materialism," pp. xx-xx in Goldfrank, et al., eds., Ecology and the World-System

Dickens, Peter, "Beyond Sociology: Marxism and the Environment," pp. 179-194 in Redclift and Woodgate, eds., International Handbook of Environmental Sociology

Foster, John Bellamy. 1999. "Marx's Theory of Metabolic Rift: Classical Foundations for Environmental Sociology," American Journal of Sociology,105(2):366-405 (RR)

O’Connor, James, "Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Theoretical Introduction," ch. 31 in Dryzek and Schlosberg, eds., Debating the Earth

Schnaiberg, "The Expansion of Production: Capital, Labor and State Roles" ch. 5  (pp. 205-273) in The Environment (V)

Bunker, Stephen G. 1984. "Modes of Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Progressive Underdevelopment of an Extreme Periphery," American Journal of Sociology 89:1017-1064 [online] Available: <http://www.jstor.org>

Burkett, Marx and Nature (V)

 

Buttel, Frederick H. and William L. Flinn. 1977. "The Interdependence of Rural and Urban Environmental Problems in Advanced Capitalist Societies," Sociologia Ruralis 17:255-279 (RR)

Dickens, Society and Nature (V)

Dickens, Reconstructing Nature

Goldman, ed. Privatizing Nature

Macpherson, ed., Property

J. O’Connor, Natural Causes (V)

Polanyi, The Great Transformation

Rose, Property and Persuasion

N. Smith, Uneven Development (V)