Ben Marley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1370541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Marley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Marley |
| SIGNATURE | BEN MARLEY |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From War on Poverty to War on Coal: Nature, capital, and work in Appalachia
The world-ecological framework has recently made innovations in the field of environmental and historical sociology. World-ecology seeks to transcend modernity’s dualism of nature and society in favor of humanity in nature. This paper seeks to contribute to the world-ecology framework by incorporating economic theories of development as a capital-state environment-making project. In doing so, I reveal the centrality of the role of experts in the …
A World-Ecological Perspective on Socio-Ecological Transformation in the Appalachian Coal Industry
This article discusses the exhaustion of socio-ecological relations in the coalfields of West Virginia. We use the term socio-ecological to signify "the interwoven character and the indispensable unity of social and natural life" (Araghi 2009: 115). In particular we use classic literatures on labor history in the coalfields of central Appalachia and contemporary studies of mountaintop removal to think about phases of socio-ecological relations of…
Mining Away the Company-town
The technologies of mass extraction common in contemporary mining radically transformed local ecological and social systems. With the development of mountaintop removal coal mining in central Appal
Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War, by Thomas G. Andrews
Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War, by Thomas G. Andrews, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2008, 1+370 pp., $18.95 (paper), ISBN: 9780674046917 In Killing for Coal
From War on Poverty to War on Coal: Nature, capital, and work in Appalachia
The world-ecological framework has recently made innovations in the field of environmental and historical sociology. World-ecology seeks to transcend modernity’s dualism of nature and society in favor of humanity in nature. This paper seeks to contribute to the world-ecology framework by incorporating economic theories of development as a capital-state environment-making project. In doing so, I reveal the centrality of the role of experts in the …
A World-Ecological Perspective on Socio-Ecological Transformation in the Appalachian Coal Industry
This article discusses the exhaustion of socio-ecological relations in the coalfields of West Virginia. We use the term socio-ecological to signify "the interwoven character and the indispensable unity of social and natural life" (Araghi 2009: 115). In particular we use classic literatures on labor history in the coalfields of central Appalachia and contemporary studies of mountaintop removal to think about phases of socio-ecological relations of…
Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War, by Thomas G. Andrews
Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War, by Thomas G. Andrews, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2008, 1+370 pp., $18.95 (paper), ISBN: 9780674046917 In Killing for Coal
A World-Ecological Perspective on Socio-Ecological Transformation in the Appalachian Coal Industry
This article discusses the exhaustion of socio-ecological relations in the coalfields of West Virginia. We use the term socio-ecological to signify "the interwoven character and the indispensable unity of social and natural life" (Araghi 2009: 115). In particular we use classic literatures on labor history in the coalfields of central Appalachia and contemporary studies of mountaintop removal to think about phases of socio-ecological relations of…
Mining Away the Company-town
The technologies of mass extraction common in contemporary mining radically transformed local ecological and social systems. With the development of mountaintop removal coal mining in central Appal
From War on Poverty to War on Coal: Nature, capital, and work in Appalachia
The world-ecological framework has recently made innovations in the field of environmental and historical sociology. World-ecology seeks to transcend modernity’s dualism of nature and society in favor of humanity in nature. This paper seeks to contribute to the world-ecology framework by incorporating economic theories of development as a capital-state environment-making project. In doing so, I reveal the centrality of the role of experts in the …
American Environmental and Regional History (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Coal (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Appalachia (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works)