Nature, raw materials, and political economy

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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