Capitalism's Ecologies: Culture, Power, and Crisis in the 21st Century, Paperback

Ours is an era of planetary crisis. As scholars, activists, and citizens seek to make sense of our uncertain times, the limits of conventional environmental thinking have become clear. Rather than see "Society" and "Nature" as separate, Capitalism's Ecologies illuminates how environmental and social change are intimately entwined. Contributors engage capitalism not as a social system independent of nature, but as a world-ecology of power, culture, and capital that flows through the web of life. In this rethinking, capitalism makes nature--and nature makes capitalism. Across successive essays, emergent and established scholars explore themes of colonialism, culture, race, gender, agriculture, literature, and waste to reveal capitalism's varied organizations of humans and the rest of nature. Capitalism's Ecologies asks readers to consider new ways of thinking about social and environmental crises, how they fit together, and what we might do about them.

About the Author:

Jason W. Moore is associate professor of sociology at Binghamton University. He is author of Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital and editor of Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism. Sharae Deckard is a lecturer in the School of English, University College Dublin. She is the author of Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization and coauthor of Combined and Uneven Development. Diana C. Gildea is a PhD candidate in human geography at Lund University. She is currently completing a dissertation on food, poverty, and capital in the neoliberal era. Michael Niblett is assistant professor of modern world literature in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He is author of The Caribbean Novel since 1945.