R SOC 555
Advances in Environmental Sociology
Winter 2018
Readings
- Gross, Matthias. 2001. Unexpected Interactions: Georg Simmel and the Observation of Nature. Journal of Classical Sociology 1(3): 395-414
- Kaup, Brent Z. 2015. Markets, Nature, and Society: Embedding Economic & Environmental Sociology. Sociological Theory 33(3): 280-296. van Koppen, Kris. 2017. Incorporating nature in environmental sociology: a critique of Bhaskar and Latour, and a proposal. Environmental Sociology 3(3): 173-185
- Abbott, Owen. 2016. Posthumanist Perspectives and the Chernobyl Disaster: Dances of Agency, Temporal Emergence, and Disaster Risk Management. International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 34(2: 231-249
- MacDonald, Dennis W. 2011. Beyond the Group: The Implications of Roderick D. McKenzie’s Human Ecology for Reconceptualizing Society and the Social. Nature and Culture 6(3): 263-284. Fischer-Kowalski, Marina and Christof Amann. 2001. Beyond IPAT and Kuznets Curves: Globalization as a Vital Factor in Analysing the Environmental Impact of Socio-Economic Metabolism. Population and Environment 23(1): 4-47
- York, Richard and Philip Mancus. 2009. Critical Human Ecology: Historical Materialism and Natural Laws. Sociological Theory 27(2): 122-149. McLaughlin, Paul. 2012. The Second Darwinian Revolution: Steps Toward a New Evolutionary Environmental Sociology. Nature and Culture 7(3): 231-258
- Foster, John Bellamy. 1999. Marx's Theory of Metabolic Rift: Classical Foundations for Environmental Sociology. American Journal of Sociology 105(2): 366-405
- Clark, Brett and John Bellamy Foster. 2009. Ecological Imperialism and the Global Metabolic Rift: Unequal Exchange and the Guano/Nitrates Trade. International Journal of Comparative Sociology 50(3–4): 311–334
- Huber, Matthew T. 2017. Value, Nature, and Labor: A Defense of Marx. Capitalism Nature Socialism 28(1): 39-52
- Holleman, Hannah. 2017. De-naturalizing ecological disaster: colonialism, racism and the global Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Journal of Peasant Studies 44(1): 234-260
- Bunker, Stephen. 1984. Modes of extraction, unequal exchange, and the progressive underdevelopment of an extreme periphery: The Brazilian Amazon, 1600-1980. American Journal of Sociology 89(5): 1017-1064
- Ciccantel, Paul and David A. Smith. 2009. Rethinking Global Commodity Chains: Integrating
- Extraction, Transport, and Manufacturing. International Journal of Comparative Sociology 50(3–4): 361–384
- Roberts, Timmons J. and Peter E. Grimes. 2002.World System Theory and the environment: Toward a new synthesis. In Dunlap, Riley, Frederick H. Buttel and Peter Dickens (eds.), Sociological Theory and the Environment. Rowman and Littlefield. [distributed in class]
- Rudel, Thomas K., J. Timmons Roberts and JoAnn Carmin. 2011. Political Economy of the Environment. Annual Review of Sociology 37: 221-238
- Frickel, Scott and William R. Freudenburg. 1996. Mining the Past: Historical Context and the Changing Implications of Natural Resource Extraction. Social Problems 43(4): 444-466
- Jorgenson, Andrew. 2012. The sociology of ecologically unequal exchange and carbon dioxide emissions, 1960–2005. Social Science Research 41: 242-252
- Spaargaren, Gert and Arthur P.J. Mol. 1992. Sociology, environment, and modernity: Ecological modernization as a theory of social change. Society and Natural Resources 5(4): 323-344
- Frank, David John, Ann Hironaka and Evan Schofer. 2000. The nation-state and the natural environment over the twentieth century. American Sociological Review 65: 96-116
- Mol, Arthur P.J. 2010. Sustainability as global attractor: the greening of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Global Networks 10(4): 510-528
- Janicke, Martin and Stefan Lindeman. 2010. Governing environmental innovations. Environmental Politics 19(1): 127-141
- Szigeti, Cecilia, Gergely Toth and Daniel Robert Szabo. 2017. Decoupling – shifts in ecological footprint intensity of nations in the last decade. Ecological Indicators 72: 111-117. McLaughlin, Paul. 2012b. Ecological Modernization in Evolutionary Perspective. Organization and Environment 25(2): 178–196
- Latour, Bruno. 2008. A textbook case revisited—Knowledge as a mode of existence. Pp. 83-112 in
- Hackett, Edward J. et al. Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, 3rd Ed. MIT Press
- Haraway, Donna. 1988. Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. Feminist Studies 14(3): 575-599
- Jasanoff, Sheila S. 1987. Contested Boundaries in Policy-Relevant Science. Social Studies of Science 17(2): 195-230
- Hess, David J. 2011. Bourdieu and Science and Technology Studies: Toward a Reflexive Sociology. Minerva 49: 333-348
- Carey, Mark, M. Jackson, Alessandro Antonello and Jaclyn Rushing. 2016. Glaciers, gender, and science: A feminist glaciology framework for global environmental change research. Progress in Human Geography 40(6): 770–793
- Gunderson, Ryan. 2017. Environmental Knowledge, Technology, and Values: Reconstructing Max Scheler’s Phenomenological Environmental Sociology. Human Studies 40: 401-419
- Latour, Bruno. 2005. Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory. Oxford Univ. Press. pp 21-25; 63-86
- Adam, Barbara. 1992. Modern Times: The technology connection and its implications for social theory. Time and Society 1(2): 175-191
- Bakker, Karen and Gavin Bridge. 2006. Material worlds? Resource geographies and the ‘matter of nature.’ Progress in Human Geography 30(1): 5-27
- Murdoch, Jonathan. 2001. Ecologising Sociology: Actor-Network Theory, Co-construction and the Problem of Human Exemptionalism. Sociology 35(1): 111-133
- Pellizzoni, Luigi. 2016. Catching up with things? Environmental sociology and the material turn in social theory. Environmental Sociology 2(4): 312-321
- Reckwitz, Andreas. 2002. Toward a Theory of Social Practices: A Development in Culturalist Theorizing. European Journal of Social Theory 5: 243-263
- Shove, Elizabeth and Gordon Walker 2014. What Is Energy For? Social Practice and Energy Demand
- Theory, Culture and Society 31(5): 41-58
- Urry, John. 2004. The ‘System’ of Automobility. Theory, Culture & Society 21(4/5): 25-39
- Heisserer, Barbara and Henrike Rau. 2017. Capturing the consumption of distance? A practice- theoretical investigation of everyday travel. Journal of Consumer Culture 17(3): 579-599
- Verhofstadt, E. et al. 2016. Linking individuals' ecological footprint to their subjective well-being. Ecological Economics 127: 80-89
- Davidson, Debra J. and William R. Freudenburg. 1996. Gender and environmental risk concerns: A review and analysis of available research. Environment and Behavior 28(3): 302-339
- Gaard, Greta. 2001. Women, water, energy: An ecofeminist approach. Organization & Environment 14(2): 157-172
- O’Shaughnessy, Sara and Emily Huddart Kennedy. 2010. Relational activism: Reimagining women’s environmental work as cultural change. Canadian Journal of Sociology 35(4): 551-572
- Kennedy, Emily Huddart and Liz Dzialo. 2015. Locating gender in environmental sociology. Sociology Compass 9/10: 920-929
- Bauhardt, Christine. 2013. Rethinking gender and nature from a material(ist) perspective: Feminist economics, queer ecologies and resource politics. European Journal of Women’s Studies 20(4): 361–
- Beck, Ulrich. 1989. On the way to the industrial risk-society? Outline of an argument. Thesis Eleven 23: 86-103
- Beck, Ulrich, Wolfgang Bonss and Christoph Lau. 2003. The Theory of Reflexive Modernization Problematic, Hypotheses and Research Programme. Theory, Culture & Society 20(2): 1–
- Beamish, Thomas. 2000. Accumulating Trouble: Complex Organization, a Culture of Silence, and a Secret Spill. Social Problems 47(4): 473-498
- Cable, Sherry, Thomas E. Shriver and Tamara L. Mix. 2008. Risk Society and Contested Illness: The Case of Nuclear Weapons Workers. American Sociological Review 73: 380-401. O’Brien, Karen. 2012. Global environmental change II: From adaptation to deliberate transformation. Progress in Human Geography 36(5): 667–676
- Bullard, Robert E. and Beverly Wright. 2012. The Wrong Complexion for Protection: How the Government Response to Disaster Endangers African American Communities. Introduction and Chapter
- Hooks, Gregory and Chad L. Smith. 2004. The Treadmill of Destruction: National Sacrifice Areas and Native Americans. American Sociological Review 69(4): 558-575
- Elliott, James R. and Scott Frickel. 2013. The Historical Nature of Cities: A Study of Urbanization and Hazardous Waste Accumulation. American Sociological Review 78(4): 521-543
- Jorgenson, Andrew. 2015. Inequality and the carbon intensity of human well-being. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 5(3): 277-282
- Eriksen, Siri H. and Karen Obrien. 2007. Vulnerability, poverty and the need for sustainable adaptation measures. Climate Policy 7: 337-352
- Oreskes, Naomi and Eric M. Conway. 2013. The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future. Daedalus 142(1): 40-59
- Gunderson, Lance and Carl Folke. 2005. Resilience—now more than ever. Ecology and Society 10(2):
- Davidson, Debra J. 2010. The applicability of the concept of resilience to social systems: Some sources of optimism and nagging doubts. Society and Natural Resources 23: 1135-1149
- Clarke, Bruce. 2017. Rethinking Gaia: Stengers, Latour, Margulis. Theory, Culture & Society 34(4): 3–
- Norgaard, Kari M. 2017. The sociological imagination in a time of climate change. Global and Planetary Change doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.09.018
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- R SOC 555: Advances in Environmental Sociology · Reading-list link; contents not retrieved ↗
- 2018-Winter-R-SOC-555-LECTURE-B1 ↗2018
- Partial automated extraction.