Nature, raw materials, and political economy
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Nature, raw materials, and political economy
(Research in rural sociology and development, v. 10)
Emerald, c2005
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Nature, raw materials and political economy
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 examining the nature-society relationship. The chapters examine the roles of material process, space, and time in shaping social processes of economic ascent and long term hegemonic change, as well as the role of the analysis of raw materials in environmental sociology. In the second section, "Commodities, Extraction and Frontiers", a series of case studies covering a range of industries, locations and historical periods present a variety of applications of the political economy of natural resources to critical issues regarding commodities, extraction and frontiers.The case study industries include oil, steel, transport, furs, sugar and Brazil nuts, and the chapters examine regions in Latin America, North America, and Asia. In the third section, "Connecting Political and Economic Change", four chapters focus on the relationship between raw materials, economic change, and socioeconomic change. These chapters examine long term economic and political change and the relationship between political and economic change in Latin America and Africa.
Table of Contents
Nature, Raw Materials, and Political Economy: An Introduction. Theoretical Foundations. Matter, Space, Time, and Technology: How Local Process Drives Global Systems. Environmental Sociology's Theoretical and Empirical Paradoxes. For a Sociology of 'Socionature': Ontology and the Commodity-Based Approach. Keeping Time: Temporal Hierarchies in Socio-Ecological Systems. Cycles of Accumulation, Crisis, Materials and Space: Can Different Theories of Change be Reconciled? Commodities, Extraction and Frontiers. Starting at the beginning: Extractive Economies as the Unexamined Origins of Global Commodity Chains. Sunk Costs, Resource Extractive Industries, and Development Outcomes. Japan's Economic Ascent and its Extraction of Wealth from its Raw Materials Peripheries. A Perceptual Extractive Frontier? The History of Offshore Petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico. Commodity Frontier as Contested Periphery: The Fur Trade in Iroquoia, New York and Canada, 1664-1754. Extraction, Gender and Neoliberalism in the Western Amazon. Material Process and Industrial Architecture: Innovation on the Cuban Sugar Frontier, 1818-1857. Connecting Political and Economic Change. World-Systems in the Biogeosphere: Three Thousand Years of Urbanization, Empire Foundation and Climate Change. Coffee, Revolution and Democracy in Central America. Peasants, Planters, and the Predatory State: Export Diversification in the Dominican Republic, 1970-2000. Selling the River: Gendered Experiences of Resource Extraction and Development in Lesotho.
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