Raymond Clausen
Biographic Data
| ID | 158608 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raymond Clausen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raymond |
| FAMILY NAME | Clausen |
| SIGNATURE | CLAUSEN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fort Lewis College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3520-9360 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Relational Teaching and Just Energy Transitions
The transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources is shifting the landscape of energy projects and associated mining for critical minerals. New solar farms, wind farms, lithium mines, and the like have been proposed, permitted, or constructed around the world. How these projects intersect with environmental justice creates new spaces for contestation and collaboration. This case study focuses on a National Science Foundation-supported project…
Diné-centered research reframes the Gold King Mine Spill
Development of a Culturally Anchored Qualitative Approach to Conduct and Analyze Focus Group Narratives Collected in Diné (Navajo) Communities to Understand the Impacts of the Gold King Mine Spill of …
The Gold King Mine Spill (Spill) occurred in August 2015 upstream from Silverton, Colorado and released three million gallons of contaminated water into the Animas River, a tributary to the San Juan River that flows across the Navajo Nation. Using principles of community-engaged research, the Gold King Mine Spill Diné Exposure Project co-developed a culturally anchored approach to conduct focus groups and analyze narratives collected in three Din…
The Need for Ecological Restoration
Scholars, scientists, politicians, and others are moved to write about climate change for a variety of reasons, including scientific advance, political influence, and public education. For the late Del Weston, the reason was clearly love—for people and for the earth.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
The Tragedy of the Commodity
Capitalism and the Commodification of Salmon
On February 25, 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) closed the public comment period for the environmental assessment of the AquAdvantage Salmon. Their review of the first genetically modified animal for human consumption concluded with a "finding of no significant impact." Numerous fishermen, consumer safety advocates, public health officials, ecologists, and risk assessment experts submitted comments that directly challenged this …
Listen to Your Gut
When confronted with any big decision in life, I hear my mom's voice telling me to listen to my gut. This has worked for personal adventures ranging from backpacking to parenting, even though at times it can be hard to quiet the social noise that prevents us from "hearing" what our instincts have to say. In Greed to Green, Charles Derber explores a new twist on the familiar "listen to your gut" adage by framing climate change inaction as the coll…
The Tragedy of the Commodity and the Farce of AquAdvantage Salmon(R)
The US Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve AquAdvantage Salmon as the first genetically modified animal for human consumption. The genetic modifications allow the proprietary fish to grow at a rate twice as fast as a wild salmon, leading to greater 'efficiency' in terms of reduced costs and reduced time to market. This article provides an analysis of the ways in which AquAdvantage Salmon exemplifies capitalist market forces contro…
The Tragedy of the Commodity
This article develops a critique of the tragedy of the commons theory that is frequently applied to explain fisheries decline. In its place the authors offer the tragedy of the commodity as an alternative framework that better explains resource overexploitation and environmental degradation. They use a political economic analysis to discuss the social and ecological transformations that have occurred in the Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishery, wit…
Time to Pay the Piper
Ariel Salleh, ed., Eco-Sufficiency and Global Justice: Women Write Political Ecology (New York: Pluto Press, 2009), 324 pages, $34.00, paperback.In 2001, Wilma Dunaway wrote that the "tentacles of the world-system are entwined around the bodies of women." Yet her literary analysis revealed a profound silence about the role of women in reproductive labor, subsistence households, and commodity chain analysis. Dunaway characterized this omission as,…
The Oceanic Crisis
The world ocean covers approximately 70 percent of the earth. It has been an integral part of human history, providing food and ecological services. Yet conservation efforts and concerns with environmental degradation have mostly focused on terrestrial issues. Marine scientists and oceanographers have recently made remarkable discoveries in regard to the intricacies of marine food webs and the richness of oceanic biodiversity. However, the excite…
Global biodiversity decline of marine and freshwater fish
Offshore Aquaculture
Over the past decade, offshore aquaculture has gained significant momentum as a global and, in particular, a U.S. seafood development strategy. Issues surrounding property rights, environmental impacts, and the social desirability of offshore aquaculture are inadequately addressed by policymakers and aquaculture specialists. This review essay describes offshore aquaculture's place in the development of industrial fish farming and the policy issue…
Healing the Rift
As John Bellamy Foster explained in "The Ecology of Destruction" (Monthly Review, February 2007), Marx explored the ecological contradictions of capitalist society as they were revealed in the nineteenth century with the help of the two concepts of metabolic rift and metabolic restoration. The metabolic rift describes how the logic of accumulation severs basic processes of natural reproduction leading to the deterioration of ecological sustainabi…
The Metabolic Rift and Marine Ecology
This article develops a theoretical foundation for understanding the human influence on the oceans and the resulting oceanic crisis as it relates to the depletion of fish stock and the expansion of aquaculture. Drawing on environmental sociology and insights from the historical materialist tradition, the authors study the nature-society dialectic as it relates to human interactions with the ocean for the capture of fish. We extend Marx’s concept …
Out of Sight and Out of Mind
In the July–August 2003 issue of Monthly Review (titled "Imperialism Now") a number of compelling articles brought into clear focus the rapidly-emerging reconfiguration of U.S. global domination. As John Bellamy Foster noted in his lead essay, "The New Age of Imperialism," the current reshaping of the world under capitalism is indicative of a "systematic reality arising from the very nature of capitalist development." Within this new systematic d…
The Three-Chord Trick
Music
The Ethnomusicology Committee of the Royal Anthropological Institute
On the 11th June, 1953, at a Council meeting of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland it was proposed appoint a committee to consider what action should be taken for the encouragement of this branch of anthropology (ethnomusicology). The Council agreed to the proposal and appointed the following to form a committee to examine ways of promoting the scientific study of tribal music: Dr. Dake, Mr. Blacking, Mr. Braunholtz,…
The Tragedy of the Commodity
Global biodiversity decline of marine and freshwater fish
Healing the Rift
As John Bellamy Foster explained in "The Ecology of Destruction" (Monthly Review, February 2007), Marx explored the ecological contradictions of capitalist society as they were revealed in the nineteenth century with the help of the two concepts of metabolic rift and metabolic restoration. The metabolic rift describes how the logic of accumulation severs basic processes of natural reproduction leading to the deterioration of ecological sustainabi…
The Tragedy of the Commodity and the Farce of AquAdvantage Salmon(R)
The US Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve AquAdvantage Salmon as the first genetically modified animal for human consumption. The genetic modifications allow the proprietary fish to grow at a rate twice as fast as a wild salmon, leading to greater 'efficiency' in terms of reduced costs and reduced time to market. This article provides an analysis of the ways in which AquAdvantage Salmon exemplifies capitalist market forces contro…
Offshore Aquaculture
Over the past decade, offshore aquaculture has gained significant momentum as a global and, in particular, a U.S. seafood development strategy. Issues surrounding property rights, environmental impacts, and the social desirability of offshore aquaculture are inadequately addressed by policymakers and aquaculture specialists. This review essay describes offshore aquaculture's place in the development of industrial fish farming and the policy issue…
The Oceanic Crisis
The world ocean covers approximately 70 percent of the earth. It has been an integral part of human history, providing food and ecological services. Yet conservation efforts and concerns with environmental degradation have mostly focused on terrestrial issues. Marine scientists and oceanographers have recently made remarkable discoveries in regard to the intricacies of marine food webs and the richness of oceanic biodiversity. However, the excite…
The Ethnomusicology Committee of the Royal Anthropological Institute
On the 11th June, 1953, at a Council meeting of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland it was proposed appoint a committee to consider what action should be taken for the encouragement of this branch of anthropology (ethnomusicology). The Council agreed to the proposal and appointed the following to form a committee to examine ways of promoting the scientific study of tribal music: Dr. Dake, Mr. Blacking, Mr. Braunholtz,…
Music
The Three-Chord Trick
The Metabolic Rift and Marine Ecology
This article develops a theoretical foundation for understanding the human influence on the oceans and the resulting oceanic crisis as it relates to the depletion of fish stock and the expansion of aquaculture. Drawing on environmental sociology and insights from the historical materialist tradition, the authors study the nature-society dialectic as it relates to human interactions with the ocean for the capture of fish. We extend Marx’s concept …
Out of Sight and Out of Mind
In the July–August 2003 issue of Monthly Review (titled "Imperialism Now") a number of compelling articles brought into clear focus the rapidly-emerging reconfiguration of U.S. global domination. As John Bellamy Foster noted in his lead essay, "The New Age of Imperialism," the current reshaping of the world under capitalism is indicative of a "systematic reality arising from the very nature of capitalist development." Within this new systematic d…
Offshore Aquaculture
Over the past decade, offshore aquaculture has gained significant momentum as a global and, in particular, a U.S. seafood development strategy. Issues surrounding property rights, environmental impacts, and the social desirability of offshore aquaculture are inadequately addressed by policymakers and aquaculture specialists. This review essay describes offshore aquaculture's place in the development of industrial fish farming and the policy issue…
Healing the Rift
As John Bellamy Foster explained in "The Ecology of Destruction" (Monthly Review, February 2007), Marx explored the ecological contradictions of capitalist society as they were revealed in the nineteenth century with the help of the two concepts of metabolic rift and metabolic restoration. The metabolic rift describes how the logic of accumulation severs basic processes of natural reproduction leading to the deterioration of ecological sustainabi…
The Oceanic Crisis
The world ocean covers approximately 70 percent of the earth. It has been an integral part of human history, providing food and ecological services. Yet conservation efforts and concerns with environmental degradation have mostly focused on terrestrial issues. Marine scientists and oceanographers have recently made remarkable discoveries in regard to the intricacies of marine food webs and the richness of oceanic biodiversity. However, the excite…
Global biodiversity decline of marine and freshwater fish
Time to Pay the Piper
Ariel Salleh, ed., Eco-Sufficiency and Global Justice: Women Write Political Ecology (New York: Pluto Press, 2009), 324 pages, $34.00, paperback.In 2001, Wilma Dunaway wrote that the "tentacles of the world-system are entwined around the bodies of women." Yet her literary analysis revealed a profound silence about the role of women in reproductive labor, subsistence households, and commodity chain analysis. Dunaway characterized this omission as,…
The Tragedy of the Commodity
This article develops a critique of the tragedy of the commons theory that is frequently applied to explain fisheries decline. In its place the authors offer the tragedy of the commodity as an alternative framework that better explains resource overexploitation and environmental degradation. They use a political economic analysis to discuss the social and ecological transformations that have occurred in the Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishery, wit…
The Tragedy of the Commodity and the Farce of AquAdvantage Salmon(R)
The US Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve AquAdvantage Salmon as the first genetically modified animal for human consumption. The genetic modifications allow the proprietary fish to grow at a rate twice as fast as a wild salmon, leading to greater 'efficiency' in terms of reduced costs and reduced time to market. This article provides an analysis of the ways in which AquAdvantage Salmon exemplifies capitalist market forces contro…
Listen to Your Gut
When confronted with any big decision in life, I hear my mom's voice telling me to listen to my gut. This has worked for personal adventures ranging from backpacking to parenting, even though at times it can be hard to quiet the social noise that prevents us from "hearing" what our instincts have to say. In Greed to Green, Charles Derber explores a new twist on the familiar "listen to your gut" adage by framing climate change inaction as the coll…
Capitalism and the Commodification of Salmon
On February 25, 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) closed the public comment period for the environmental assessment of the AquAdvantage Salmon. Their review of the first genetically modified animal for human consumption concluded with a "finding of no significant impact." Numerous fishermen, consumer safety advocates, public health officials, ecologists, and risk assessment experts submitted comments that directly challenged this …
The Tragedy of the Commodity
The Need for Ecological Restoration
Scholars, scientists, politicians, and others are moved to write about climate change for a variety of reasons, including scientific advance, political influence, and public education. For the late Del Weston, the reason was clearly love—for people and for the earth.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Development of a Culturally Anchored Qualitative Approach to Conduct and Analyze Focus Group Narratives Collected in Diné (Navajo) Communities to Understand the Impacts of the Gold King Mine Spill of …
The Gold King Mine Spill (Spill) occurred in August 2015 upstream from Silverton, Colorado and released three million gallons of contaminated water into the Animas River, a tributary to the San Juan River that flows across the Navajo Nation. Using principles of community-engaged research, the Gold King Mine Spill Diné Exposure Project co-developed a culturally anchored approach to conduct focus groups and analyze narratives collected in three Din…
Diné-centered research reframes the Gold King Mine Spill
Relational Teaching and Just Energy Transitions
The transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources is shifting the landscape of energy projects and associated mining for critical minerals. New solar farms, wind farms, lithium mines, and the like have been proposed, permitted, or constructed around the world. How these projects intersect with environmental justice creates new spaces for contestation and collaboration. This case study focuses on a National Science Foundation-supported project…
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