A short piece I wrote for Climate & Capitalism on this age-old debate between Marxism and populationism
was just published. It offers a brief overview of the Marxist critique
of Malthus's original argument and their contemporary Green
permutations. The main thesis is that this ideology misrepresents social
and ecological problems, and thereby promotes solutions that exacerbate
the underlying contradictions of which these problems are symptoms
13 April 2018
Has (even Marxist) political ecology really transcended the metabolic rift?
A brief article advocating for stronger engagement with the concept of metabolic rift in political ecology that I authored together with several colleagues was just published in Geoforum. In this article, we address several of the criticisms of metabolic-rift scholarship that have been made in political ecology by explicating some basic aspects of the concept's underlying materialist dialectic and contrasting this with some of the predominant post-modernist theorization in political ecology. The article details are provided below.
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