Brent Z Kaup
Biographic Data
| ID | 1521353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brent Z Kaup |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brent Z |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaup |
| SIGNATURE | KAUP B Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | William & Mary |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0503-0412 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 156 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease
Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease
All That Remains Is Man and Mosquito
Locking-in white-nose syndrome? The limits of the endangered species act & non-charismatic megafauna
White-nose syndrome is a deadly pathogenic fungus that has killed millions of bats. In this article, we ask why, despite a well-coordinated response and a relatively steady federal funding stream, WNS has continued to spread with lethal results? To answer this question, we bring together the tools of political ecologists studying health and diseases with social scientific observations on the impacts of lock-ins on social change. We argue that whi…
Pathogenic Metabolisms: A Rift and the Zika Virus in Mato Grosso, Brazil
The Zika virus in Brazil is often portrayed as emerging in and more severely inflicting the country’s impoverished coastal urban areas. However, the virus also impacted residents in wealthier and more rural areas. To understand how the Zika virus moved to seemingly less likely places, I bring political ecological approaches to health and disease into conversation with scholarly accounts of metabolic rifts. Making an incorporated comparison of the…
Individualized environments, individual cures: An examination of Lyme disease activism in Virginia
Doctors, patients, and public health professionals widely recognize that certain physical environments are more conducive to the emergence and spread of Lyme disease. However, ecological solutions to the spread of the disease are rarely pursued. Drawing on interviews with Lyme activists, politicians, and state and local administrators dealing with Lyme disease related issues as well as an analysis of Lyme disease legislation in the state of Virgi…
The making of Lyme disease: A political ecology of ticks and tick-borne illness in Virginia
Scholars often attribute the increases in the incidence of tick-borne diseases to anthropogenic factors such as climate change and shifting land use patterns. However, they tend to overlook the politics and economics underpinning such factors and, in turn, what is necessary to change them. To remedy these problems, I take a political ecological approach to understand why and when anthropogenic changes, such as sub- and ex-urban development, facil…
Cycles of resource nationalism: Hegemonic struggle and the incorporation of Bolivia and Indonesia
Scholars often see resource nationalism as either a strategy to protect national interests or an opportunistic tactic to take advantage of capitalist market upswings. However, resource nationalism is not solely a strategy for an oppressed or disadvantaged group to gain power or glean a greater share of a nation’s resource wealth. Examining the extractive peripheries of Bolivia and Indonesia at two distinct temporal junctures, we demonstrate how g…
Coalition of injustice? Bodies, business, and the biosphere in struggles against unwanted land uses
Scholars of environmental injustice have pushed to see beyond the spatial distribution of environmental harms in studies of unwanted land uses. Building upon this work, this article examines how the complex geographies of environmental injustice play out in a coalition to prevent the construction of a coal-fired power plant in Surry County, Virginia. While spatially dispersed coalitions of negatively affected actors can strengthen efforts to prev…
Markets, Nature, and Society: Embedding Economic & Environmental Sociology
Social scientists have drawn on theories of embeddedness to explain the different ways legal, political, and cultural frameworks shape markets. Often overlooked, however, is how the materiality of nature also structures markets. In this article, I suggest that neo-Polanyian scholars, and economic sociologists more generally, should better engage in a historical sociology of concept formation to problematize the human exemptionalist paradigm their…
Reiterated problem solving in neoliberal and counter-neoliberal shifts: The case of Bolivia's hydrocarbon sector
Divergent Paths of Counter-Neoliberalization: Materiality and the Labor Process in Bolivia's Natural Resource Sectors
Social scientists have often focused upon how transnational corporations and elites mold socioeconomic organization and change in an era of neoliberal globalization. Often overlooked, however, are the active roles played by labor and nature in the construction of contemporary forms of capitalism. Examining the case of Bolivia, this paper explores how the laborers and natures in the country's two dominant economic sectors-hydrocarbons and minerals…
In Spaces of Marginalization: Dispossession, Incorporation, and Resistance in Bolivia
Recent scholarship conceptualizing primitive accumulation as an ongoing process in global capitalism has noted the difficulties faced in bringing struggles against exploitation and dispossession together. While some scholars suggest that an 'organic link" exists between these conflicts. they have yet to clearly specify the conditions and mechanisms through which such a link can form. Examining cases in Bolivia at the turn of the twenty-first cent…
Transnational class formation and spatialities of power: The case of elite competition in Bolivia
In this article, I argue that the neoliberal and counter-neoliberal transitions in Bolivia secured the power of transnational capital within the country. In the 1980s and 1990s, Bolivia's mining elite used neoliberal strategies to undermine the interests of the country's agricultural elite and pursued a marriage of convenience with transnational capital that allowed both to enter state-monopolized spaces of investment in mutually beneficial ways.…
Market Justice: Political Economic Struggle in Bolivia
Market Justice explores the challenges for the new global left as it seeks to construct alternative means of societal organization. Focusing on Bolivia, Brent Z. Kaup examines a testing ground of neoliberal and counter-neoliberal policies and an exemplar of bottom-up globalization. Kaup argues that radical shifts towards and away from free market economic trajectories are not merely shaped by battles between transnational actors and local populat…
A Neoliberal Nationalization: The Constraints on Natural-Gas-Led Development in Bolivia
Moving from a neoliberal ideological testing ground to part of the purported new wave of Latin American socialism, the current Bolivian state has attempted to exercise greater control over its number-one-grossing export-its natural gas-and use the sector's profits to drive its program of socioeconomic change. While the state has been able to increase the government's take of the country's hydrocarbon rents, its ability to use its natural gas and …
Negotiating through nature: The resistant materiality and materiality of resistance in Bolivia’s natural gas sector
The Reflexive Producer: The Influence of Farmer Knowledge Upon the Use of Bt Corn
This paper examines the influence of farmer knowledge upon decision making processes. Drawing upon the sociological debates around the ideas of reflexive modernity and biotechnology as well as from classic adoption and diffusion studies, I explore the influences upon farmers' use of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) corn. Utilizing survey data gathered from corn farmers in Minnesota and Wisconsin, I argue that farmers are 'reflexive' actors who activel…
Negotiating through nature: The resistant materiality and materiality of resistance in Bolivia’s natural gas sector
A Neoliberal Nationalization: The Constraints on Natural-Gas-Led Development in Bolivia
Moving from a neoliberal ideological testing ground to part of the purported new wave of Latin American socialism, the current Bolivian state has attempted to exercise greater control over its number-one-grossing export-its natural gas-and use the sector's profits to drive its program of socioeconomic change. While the state has been able to increase the government's take of the country's hydrocarbon rents, its ability to use its natural gas and …
Cycles of resource nationalism: Hegemonic struggle and the incorporation of Bolivia and Indonesia
Scholars often see resource nationalism as either a strategy to protect national interests or an opportunistic tactic to take advantage of capitalist market upswings. However, resource nationalism is not solely a strategy for an oppressed or disadvantaged group to gain power or glean a greater share of a nation’s resource wealth. Examining the extractive peripheries of Bolivia and Indonesia at two distinct temporal junctures, we demonstrate how g…
Markets, Nature, and Society: Embedding Economic & Environmental Sociology
Social scientists have drawn on theories of embeddedness to explain the different ways legal, political, and cultural frameworks shape markets. Often overlooked, however, is how the materiality of nature also structures markets. In this article, I suggest that neo-Polanyian scholars, and economic sociologists more generally, should better engage in a historical sociology of concept formation to problematize the human exemptionalist paradigm their…
The Reflexive Producer: The Influence of Farmer Knowledge Upon the Use of Bt Corn
This paper examines the influence of farmer knowledge upon decision making processes. Drawing upon the sociological debates around the ideas of reflexive modernity and biotechnology as well as from classic adoption and diffusion studies, I explore the influences upon farmers' use of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) corn. Utilizing survey data gathered from corn farmers in Minnesota and Wisconsin, I argue that farmers are 'reflexive' actors who activel…
Divergent Paths of Counter-Neoliberalization: Materiality and the Labor Process in Bolivia's Natural Resource Sectors
Social scientists have often focused upon how transnational corporations and elites mold socioeconomic organization and change in an era of neoliberal globalization. Often overlooked, however, are the active roles played by labor and nature in the construction of contemporary forms of capitalism. Examining the case of Bolivia, this paper explores how the laborers and natures in the country's two dominant economic sectors-hydrocarbons and minerals…
Pathogenic Metabolisms: A Rift and the Zika Virus in Mato Grosso, Brazil
The Zika virus in Brazil is often portrayed as emerging in and more severely inflicting the country’s impoverished coastal urban areas. However, the virus also impacted residents in wealthier and more rural areas. To understand how the Zika virus moved to seemingly less likely places, I bring political ecological approaches to health and disease into conversation with scholarly accounts of metabolic rifts. Making an incorporated comparison of the…
Transnational class formation and spatialities of power: The case of elite competition in Bolivia
In this article, I argue that the neoliberal and counter-neoliberal transitions in Bolivia secured the power of transnational capital within the country. In the 1980s and 1990s, Bolivia's mining elite used neoliberal strategies to undermine the interests of the country's agricultural elite and pursued a marriage of convenience with transnational capital that allowed both to enter state-monopolized spaces of investment in mutually beneficial ways.…
In Spaces of Marginalization: Dispossession, Incorporation, and Resistance in Bolivia
Recent scholarship conceptualizing primitive accumulation as an ongoing process in global capitalism has noted the difficulties faced in bringing struggles against exploitation and dispossession together. While some scholars suggest that an 'organic link" exists between these conflicts. they have yet to clearly specify the conditions and mechanisms through which such a link can form. Examining cases in Bolivia at the turn of the twenty-first cent…
The making of Lyme disease: A political ecology of ticks and tick-borne illness in Virginia
Scholars often attribute the increases in the incidence of tick-borne diseases to anthropogenic factors such as climate change and shifting land use patterns. However, they tend to overlook the politics and economics underpinning such factors and, in turn, what is necessary to change them. To remedy these problems, I take a political ecological approach to understand why and when anthropogenic changes, such as sub- and ex-urban development, facil…
Reiterated problem solving in neoliberal and counter-neoliberal shifts: The case of Bolivia's hydrocarbon sector
Negotiating through nature: The resistant materiality and materiality of resistance in Bolivia’s natural gas sector
The Reflexive Producer: The Influence of Farmer Knowledge Upon the Use of Bt Corn
This paper examines the influence of farmer knowledge upon decision making processes. Drawing upon the sociological debates around the ideas of reflexive modernity and biotechnology as well as from classic adoption and diffusion studies, I explore the influences upon farmers' use of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) corn. Utilizing survey data gathered from corn farmers in Minnesota and Wisconsin, I argue that farmers are 'reflexive' actors who activel…
A Neoliberal Nationalization: The Constraints on Natural-Gas-Led Development in Bolivia
Moving from a neoliberal ideological testing ground to part of the purported new wave of Latin American socialism, the current Bolivian state has attempted to exercise greater control over its number-one-grossing export-its natural gas-and use the sector's profits to drive its program of socioeconomic change. While the state has been able to increase the government's take of the country's hydrocarbon rents, its ability to use its natural gas and …
Market Justice: Political Economic Struggle in Bolivia
Market Justice explores the challenges for the new global left as it seeks to construct alternative means of societal organization. Focusing on Bolivia, Brent Z. Kaup examines a testing ground of neoliberal and counter-neoliberal policies and an exemplar of bottom-up globalization. Kaup argues that radical shifts towards and away from free market economic trajectories are not merely shaped by battles between transnational actors and local populat…
In Spaces of Marginalization: Dispossession, Incorporation, and Resistance in Bolivia
Recent scholarship conceptualizing primitive accumulation as an ongoing process in global capitalism has noted the difficulties faced in bringing struggles against exploitation and dispossession together. While some scholars suggest that an 'organic link" exists between these conflicts. they have yet to clearly specify the conditions and mechanisms through which such a link can form. Examining cases in Bolivia at the turn of the twenty-first cent…
Transnational class formation and spatialities of power: The case of elite competition in Bolivia
In this article, I argue that the neoliberal and counter-neoliberal transitions in Bolivia secured the power of transnational capital within the country. In the 1980s and 1990s, Bolivia's mining elite used neoliberal strategies to undermine the interests of the country's agricultural elite and pursued a marriage of convenience with transnational capital that allowed both to enter state-monopolized spaces of investment in mutually beneficial ways.…
Divergent Paths of Counter-Neoliberalization: Materiality and the Labor Process in Bolivia's Natural Resource Sectors
Social scientists have often focused upon how transnational corporations and elites mold socioeconomic organization and change in an era of neoliberal globalization. Often overlooked, however, are the active roles played by labor and nature in the construction of contemporary forms of capitalism. Examining the case of Bolivia, this paper explores how the laborers and natures in the country's two dominant economic sectors-hydrocarbons and minerals…
Markets, Nature, and Society: Embedding Economic & Environmental Sociology
Social scientists have drawn on theories of embeddedness to explain the different ways legal, political, and cultural frameworks shape markets. Often overlooked, however, is how the materiality of nature also structures markets. In this article, I suggest that neo-Polanyian scholars, and economic sociologists more generally, should better engage in a historical sociology of concept formation to problematize the human exemptionalist paradigm their…
Reiterated problem solving in neoliberal and counter-neoliberal shifts: The case of Bolivia's hydrocarbon sector
Coalition of injustice? Bodies, business, and the biosphere in struggles against unwanted land uses
Scholars of environmental injustice have pushed to see beyond the spatial distribution of environmental harms in studies of unwanted land uses. Building upon this work, this article examines how the complex geographies of environmental injustice play out in a coalition to prevent the construction of a coal-fired power plant in Surry County, Virginia. While spatially dispersed coalitions of negatively affected actors can strengthen efforts to prev…
Cycles of resource nationalism: Hegemonic struggle and the incorporation of Bolivia and Indonesia
Scholars often see resource nationalism as either a strategy to protect national interests or an opportunistic tactic to take advantage of capitalist market upswings. However, resource nationalism is not solely a strategy for an oppressed or disadvantaged group to gain power or glean a greater share of a nation’s resource wealth. Examining the extractive peripheries of Bolivia and Indonesia at two distinct temporal junctures, we demonstrate how g…
The making of Lyme disease: A political ecology of ticks and tick-borne illness in Virginia
Scholars often attribute the increases in the incidence of tick-borne diseases to anthropogenic factors such as climate change and shifting land use patterns. However, they tend to overlook the politics and economics underpinning such factors and, in turn, what is necessary to change them. To remedy these problems, I take a political ecological approach to understand why and when anthropogenic changes, such as sub- and ex-urban development, facil…
Pathogenic Metabolisms: A Rift and the Zika Virus in Mato Grosso, Brazil
The Zika virus in Brazil is often portrayed as emerging in and more severely inflicting the country’s impoverished coastal urban areas. However, the virus also impacted residents in wealthier and more rural areas. To understand how the Zika virus moved to seemingly less likely places, I bring political ecological approaches to health and disease into conversation with scholarly accounts of metabolic rifts. Making an incorporated comparison of the…
Individualized environments, individual cures: An examination of Lyme disease activism in Virginia
Doctors, patients, and public health professionals widely recognize that certain physical environments are more conducive to the emergence and spread of Lyme disease. However, ecological solutions to the spread of the disease are rarely pursued. Drawing on interviews with Lyme activists, politicians, and state and local administrators dealing with Lyme disease related issues as well as an analysis of Lyme disease legislation in the state of Virgi…
Locking-in white-nose syndrome? The limits of the endangered species act & non-charismatic megafauna
White-nose syndrome is a deadly pathogenic fungus that has killed millions of bats. In this article, we ask why, despite a well-coordinated response and a relatively steady federal funding stream, WNS has continued to spread with lethal results? To answer this question, we bring together the tools of political ecologists studying health and diseases with social scientific observations on the impacts of lock-ins on social change. We argue that whi…
The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease
Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease
All That Remains Is Man and Mosquito
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