Mauricio Betancourt
Biographic Data
| ID | 165398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mauricio Betancourt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mauricio |
| FAMILY NAME | Betancourt |
| SIGNATURE | BETANCOURT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington and Lee University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9470-0056 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From anti-reflexive politicization to anti-reflexive policies: The emergence of renewable exclusion zones in United States environmental policy
Renewable energy investment and development are necessary, if insufficient, parts of any climate policy agenda. Scaling up renewable energy projects to the level needed to impact greenhouse gas emissions, particularly wind and solar projects, takes up large amounts of space. As such, the rural United States may be uniquely positioned to benefit from an energy transition because of its plethora of land well-suited to host large-scale solar and win…
From metabolic rift to food sovereignty: Strengthening the socioecological justice struggle in food systems
The metabolic rift concept highlights capitalism’s disruption of socioecological metabolism, extracting soil nutrients from rural areas for urban consumption and discarding them as waste. Partly in response, La Vía Campesina promotes food sovereignty, asserting communities’ rights to govern their food systems justly and sustainably. Its six pillars foster local production and resource circulation, offering a concrete path to repair the metabolic …
To Struggle: A Review of Marcello Musto's 'The Last Years of Karl Marx
Mauricio Betancourt reviews Marcello Musto's The Last Years of Karl Marx. In the book, Betancourt finds a detailed portrait of Marx's rarely examined later years, revealing a man who, despite personal tragedy and failing health, remained a vigorous intellectual and scholar through the end of his life
Appraising Sociological Approaches to Ecologically Unequal Exchange: Theoretical Considerations and Quantitative Consequences
Ecologically unequal exchange has enjoyed several decades of rich theoretical and empirical scholarship. Quantitative assessments of the theory in sociology typically sample lower income nations to see whether more trading to high income nations contributes to environmental problems in the former. In this paper, we explore ecologically unequal exchange theory, as well as related traditions, to draw attention to how these theories develop relation…
The corporeal rift: From 19 th -Century guano diggers to the present
Guano and the Rise of the American Empire
Ecological imperialism refers to the center's robbery of nature from the periphery, emphasizing the ecological dimension of trade, often overshadowed by monetary concerns. Examining historical cases like the nineteenth-century guano trade between Peru and Europe reveals this dynamic, wherein the involvement of the United States has been often overlooked. Utilizing archival data from British, French, Peruvian, and U.S. sources, I demonstrate how g…
Chinese contract labor, the corporeal rift, and ecological imperialism in Peru's nineteenth-century guano boom
Building on the theory of ecological imperialism in the context of the Peruvian guano boom, this analysis explores the metabolic rift in the human relation to external nature and the corresponding corporeal rift in the destruction of human bodily existence. Guano capitalists robbed Peru of the manure deposited by seabirds, while British imperialism introduced a system of racialized expropriation (the 'coolie trade'), referred to by Karl Marx as '…
The effect of Cuban agroecology in mitigating the metabolic rift: A quantitative approach to Latin American food production
Chinese contract labor, the corporeal rift, and ecological imperialism in Peru's nineteenth-century guano boom
Building on the theory of ecological imperialism in the context of the Peruvian guano boom, this analysis explores the metabolic rift in the human relation to external nature and the corresponding corporeal rift in the destruction of human bodily existence. Guano capitalists robbed Peru of the manure deposited by seabirds, while British imperialism introduced a system of racialized expropriation (the 'coolie trade'), referred to by Karl Marx as '…
The effect of Cuban agroecology in mitigating the metabolic rift: A quantitative approach to Latin American food production
Appraising Sociological Approaches to Ecologically Unequal Exchange: Theoretical Considerations and Quantitative Consequences
Ecologically unequal exchange has enjoyed several decades of rich theoretical and empirical scholarship. Quantitative assessments of the theory in sociology typically sample lower income nations to see whether more trading to high income nations contributes to environmental problems in the former. In this paper, we explore ecologically unequal exchange theory, as well as related traditions, to draw attention to how these theories develop relation…
The corporeal rift: From 19 th -Century guano diggers to the present
Guano and the Rise of the American Empire
Ecological imperialism refers to the center's robbery of nature from the periphery, emphasizing the ecological dimension of trade, often overshadowed by monetary concerns. Examining historical cases like the nineteenth-century guano trade between Peru and Europe reveals this dynamic, wherein the involvement of the United States has been often overlooked. Utilizing archival data from British, French, Peruvian, and U.S. sources, I demonstrate how g…
The effect of Cuban agroecology in mitigating the metabolic rift: A quantitative approach to Latin American food production
Chinese contract labor, the corporeal rift, and ecological imperialism in Peru's nineteenth-century guano boom
Building on the theory of ecological imperialism in the context of the Peruvian guano boom, this analysis explores the metabolic rift in the human relation to external nature and the corresponding corporeal rift in the destruction of human bodily existence. Guano capitalists robbed Peru of the manure deposited by seabirds, while British imperialism introduced a system of racialized expropriation (the 'coolie trade'), referred to by Karl Marx as '…
To Struggle: A Review of Marcello Musto's 'The Last Years of Karl Marx
Mauricio Betancourt reviews Marcello Musto's The Last Years of Karl Marx. In the book, Betancourt finds a detailed portrait of Marx's rarely examined later years, revealing a man who, despite personal tragedy and failing health, remained a vigorous intellectual and scholar through the end of his life
Appraising Sociological Approaches to Ecologically Unequal Exchange: Theoretical Considerations and Quantitative Consequences
Ecologically unequal exchange has enjoyed several decades of rich theoretical and empirical scholarship. Quantitative assessments of the theory in sociology typically sample lower income nations to see whether more trading to high income nations contributes to environmental problems in the former. In this paper, we explore ecologically unequal exchange theory, as well as related traditions, to draw attention to how these theories develop relation…
The corporeal rift: From 19 th -Century guano diggers to the present
Guano and the Rise of the American Empire
Ecological imperialism refers to the center's robbery of nature from the periphery, emphasizing the ecological dimension of trade, often overshadowed by monetary concerns. Examining historical cases like the nineteenth-century guano trade between Peru and Europe reveals this dynamic, wherein the involvement of the United States has been often overlooked. Utilizing archival data from British, French, Peruvian, and U.S. sources, I demonstrate how g…
From anti-reflexive politicization to anti-reflexive policies: The emergence of renewable exclusion zones in United States environmental policy
Renewable energy investment and development are necessary, if insufficient, parts of any climate policy agenda. Scaling up renewable energy projects to the level needed to impact greenhouse gas emissions, particularly wind and solar projects, takes up large amounts of space. As such, the rural United States may be uniquely positioned to benefit from an energy transition because of its plethora of land well-suited to host large-scale solar and win…
From metabolic rift to food sovereignty: Strengthening the socioecological justice struggle in food systems
The metabolic rift concept highlights capitalism’s disruption of socioecological metabolism, extracting soil nutrients from rural areas for urban consumption and discarding them as waste. Partly in response, La Vía Campesina promotes food sovereignty, asserting communities’ rights to govern their food systems justly and sustainably. Its six pillars foster local production and resource circulation, offering a concrete path to repair the metabolic …
History (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Guano (3 works) · History (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (2 works)