Scott Prudham
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Prudham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Prudham |
| SIGNATURE | PRUDHAM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1003 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Planetary Improvement: Cleantech Entrepreneurship and the Contradictions of Green Capitalism
Jesse Goldstein. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. 232 pp., figures, index. $25.00 paper (ISBN 9780262535076).We are delighted to introduce this forum on Jesse Goldstein's Planetary Improvement: Clea
The Socioecological Fix: Fixed Capital, Metabolism, and Hegemony
This article, the second of two, argues that conceptualizing the socioecological fix involves understanding how fixed capital, as a produced production force, can transform the socioecological conditions and forces of production while also securing the hegemony of particular social hierarchies, power relations, and institutions. We stress that fixed capital is inherently political-ecological in its constitution and how it shapes socioecological p…
The Metabolism of Socioecological Fixes: Capital Switching, Spatial Fixes, and the Production of Nature
In this article, and the companion piece that follows, we develop an account of the socioecological fix. Our concern is to explore the ways in which crises of capitalist overaccumulation might be displaced through spatial fixes that result in the production of nature. We review Harvey's theory of the spatial fix, with emphasis on his model of capital switching, noting that the socioecological implications of the diversion of fixed capital into th…
Towards the socio-ecological fix
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by SAGE
Men and Things: Karl Polanyi, Primitive Accumulation, and Their Relevance to a Radical Green Political Economy
Now is an important moment to be thinking and talking about a critical and normative green political economy. Whether via attempts to develop effective and socially just climate policies at multiple scales of governance [including REDD (reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation) schemes], or to develop proliferating and controversial neoliberal instruments for dealing with undesirable environmental change, environmental governance, an…
Introduction: Uneven Development 25 Years On: Space, Nature and the Geographies of Capitalism
This article, along with this special symposium, engages with the lasting significance of Neil Smith's Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space 25 years after its publication. Few books have made such productive contributions to expanding the horizons of political economy, particularly the spatiality of political economy, as has Uneven Development. This introductory article explores some of these aspects of the book's sign…
Pimping Climate Change: Richard Branson, Global Warming, and the Performance of Green Capitalism
On 21 September 2006 UK über-entrepreneur and Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson pledged approximately £1.6 billion, the equivalent of all the profits from Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Trains for the next ten years, to fighting climate change. Since then, Branson has restated his commitment to action on global warming, including investment in technologies for sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. In this paper, I critically examine an…
Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural Consequences
Conclusion to the book Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural Consequences, edited by Nik Heynen, James McCarthy, Scott Prudham, and Paul Robbins.
The Fictions of Autonomous Invention: Accumulation by Dispossession, Commodification and Life Patents in Canada
In 2002 the Canadian Supreme Court ruled to deny Harvard College a whole organism patent over the oncomouse. In 2004, the same court ruled that Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser had violated Monsanto patents covering GM canola. Both decisions rejected whole organism patents, running counter to US precedents. Yet both, nevertheless, consolidate private claims to life as patentable inventions, and critics claim, with some support from Justices in the…
Sustaining Sustained Yield: Class, Politics, and Post-War Forest Regulation in British Columbia
In British Columbia, Canada, industrial sustained-yield forest regulation was embraced together with a system of forest tenures governing private access to public forest lands in the mid-19408. This approach has underpinned forest exploitation and regulation ever since, despite sometimes significant reforms over the years. Yet this approach to forest policy has also come under fire in recent years because of pervasive signs of economic, social, a…
Poisoning the well: Neoliberalism and the contamination of municipal water in Walkerton, Ontario
Neoliberal nature and the nature of neoliberalism
Taming Trees: Capital, Science, and Nature in Pacific Slope Tree Improvement
This article traces the emergence of industrial tree improvement along the Pacific Slope of western Oregon and Washington. Anxieties about timber famine in the United States prompted research on forest genetics and Douglas-fir provenance as far back as 1913, while diminishing supplies of old-growth timber resources in this region led to tree improvement—systematic tree breeding to enhance commercially attractive characteristics—on an industrial s…
The Battles in Seattle: Microgeographies of Resistance and the Challenge of Building Alternative Futures
Neoliberal nature and the nature of neoliberalism
The Metabolism of Socioecological Fixes: Capital Switching, Spatial Fixes, and the Production of Nature
In this article, and the companion piece that follows, we develop an account of the socioecological fix. Our concern is to explore the ways in which crises of capitalist overaccumulation might be displaced through spatial fixes that result in the production of nature. We review Harvey's theory of the spatial fix, with emphasis on his model of capital switching, noting that the socioecological implications of the diversion of fixed capital into th…
Poisoning the well: Neoliberalism and the contamination of municipal water in Walkerton, Ontario
The Socioecological Fix: Fixed Capital, Metabolism, and Hegemony
This article, the second of two, argues that conceptualizing the socioecological fix involves understanding how fixed capital, as a produced production force, can transform the socioecological conditions and forces of production while also securing the hegemony of particular social hierarchies, power relations, and institutions. We stress that fixed capital is inherently political-ecological in its constitution and how it shapes socioecological p…
Towards the socio-ecological fix
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by SAGE
Pimping Climate Change: Richard Branson, Global Warming, and the Performance of Green Capitalism
On 21 September 2006 UK über-entrepreneur and Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson pledged approximately £1.6 billion, the equivalent of all the profits from Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Trains for the next ten years, to fighting climate change. Since then, Branson has restated his commitment to action on global warming, including investment in technologies for sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. In this paper, I critically examine an…
Sustaining Sustained Yield: Class, Politics, and Post-War Forest Regulation in British Columbia
In British Columbia, Canada, industrial sustained-yield forest regulation was embraced together with a system of forest tenures governing private access to public forest lands in the mid-19408. This approach has underpinned forest exploitation and regulation ever since, despite sometimes significant reforms over the years. Yet this approach to forest policy has also come under fire in recent years because of pervasive signs of economic, social, a…
Taming Trees: Capital, Science, and Nature in Pacific Slope Tree Improvement
This article traces the emergence of industrial tree improvement along the Pacific Slope of western Oregon and Washington. Anxieties about timber famine in the United States prompted research on forest genetics and Douglas-fir provenance as far back as 1913, while diminishing supplies of old-growth timber resources in this region led to tree improvement—systematic tree breeding to enhance commercially attractive characteristics—on an industrial s…
The Fictions of Autonomous Invention: Accumulation by Dispossession, Commodification and Life Patents in Canada
In 2002 the Canadian Supreme Court ruled to deny Harvard College a whole organism patent over the oncomouse. In 2004, the same court ruled that Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser had violated Monsanto patents covering GM canola. Both decisions rejected whole organism patents, running counter to US precedents. Yet both, nevertheless, consolidate private claims to life as patentable inventions, and critics claim, with some support from Justices in the…
The Battles in Seattle: Microgeographies of Resistance and the Challenge of Building Alternative Futures
Men and Things: Karl Polanyi, Primitive Accumulation, and Their Relevance to a Radical Green Political Economy
Now is an important moment to be thinking and talking about a critical and normative green political economy. Whether via attempts to develop effective and socially just climate policies at multiple scales of governance [including REDD (reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation) schemes], or to develop proliferating and controversial neoliberal instruments for dealing with undesirable environmental change, environmental governance, an…
Planetary Improvement: Cleantech Entrepreneurship and the Contradictions of Green Capitalism
Jesse Goldstein. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. 232 pp., figures, index. $25.00 paper (ISBN 9780262535076).We are delighted to introduce this forum on Jesse Goldstein's Planetary Improvement: Clea
Introduction: Uneven Development 25 Years On: Space, Nature and the Geographies of Capitalism
This article, along with this special symposium, engages with the lasting significance of Neil Smith's Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space 25 years after its publication. Few books have made such productive contributions to expanding the horizons of political economy, particularly the spatiality of political economy, as has Uneven Development. This introductory article explores some of these aspects of the book's sign…
The Battles in Seattle: Microgeographies of Resistance and the Challenge of Building Alternative Futures
Taming Trees: Capital, Science, and Nature in Pacific Slope Tree Improvement
This article traces the emergence of industrial tree improvement along the Pacific Slope of western Oregon and Washington. Anxieties about timber famine in the United States prompted research on forest genetics and Douglas-fir provenance as far back as 1913, while diminishing supplies of old-growth timber resources in this region led to tree improvement—systematic tree breeding to enhance commercially attractive characteristics—on an industrial s…
Poisoning the well: Neoliberalism and the contamination of municipal water in Walkerton, Ontario
Neoliberal nature and the nature of neoliberalism
Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural Consequences
Conclusion to the book Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural Consequences, edited by Nik Heynen, James McCarthy, Scott Prudham, and Paul Robbins.
The Fictions of Autonomous Invention: Accumulation by Dispossession, Commodification and Life Patents in Canada
In 2002 the Canadian Supreme Court ruled to deny Harvard College a whole organism patent over the oncomouse. In 2004, the same court ruled that Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser had violated Monsanto patents covering GM canola. Both decisions rejected whole organism patents, running counter to US precedents. Yet both, nevertheless, consolidate private claims to life as patentable inventions, and critics claim, with some support from Justices in the…
Sustaining Sustained Yield: Class, Politics, and Post-War Forest Regulation in British Columbia
In British Columbia, Canada, industrial sustained-yield forest regulation was embraced together with a system of forest tenures governing private access to public forest lands in the mid-19408. This approach has underpinned forest exploitation and regulation ever since, despite sometimes significant reforms over the years. Yet this approach to forest policy has also come under fire in recent years because of pervasive signs of economic, social, a…
Pimping Climate Change: Richard Branson, Global Warming, and the Performance of Green Capitalism
On 21 September 2006 UK über-entrepreneur and Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson pledged approximately £1.6 billion, the equivalent of all the profits from Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Trains for the next ten years, to fighting climate change. Since then, Branson has restated his commitment to action on global warming, including investment in technologies for sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. In this paper, I critically examine an…
Introduction: Uneven Development 25 Years On: Space, Nature and the Geographies of Capitalism
This article, along with this special symposium, engages with the lasting significance of Neil Smith's Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space 25 years after its publication. Few books have made such productive contributions to expanding the horizons of political economy, particularly the spatiality of political economy, as has Uneven Development. This introductory article explores some of these aspects of the book's sign…
Men and Things: Karl Polanyi, Primitive Accumulation, and Their Relevance to a Radical Green Political Economy
Now is an important moment to be thinking and talking about a critical and normative green political economy. Whether via attempts to develop effective and socially just climate policies at multiple scales of governance [including REDD (reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation) schemes], or to develop proliferating and controversial neoliberal instruments for dealing with undesirable environmental change, environmental governance, an…
Towards the socio-ecological fix
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by SAGE
The Metabolism of Socioecological Fixes: Capital Switching, Spatial Fixes, and the Production of Nature
In this article, and the companion piece that follows, we develop an account of the socioecological fix. Our concern is to explore the ways in which crises of capitalist overaccumulation might be displaced through spatial fixes that result in the production of nature. We review Harvey's theory of the spatial fix, with emphasis on his model of capital switching, noting that the socioecological implications of the diversion of fixed capital into th…
The Socioecological Fix: Fixed Capital, Metabolism, and Hegemony
This article, the second of two, argues that conceptualizing the socioecological fix involves understanding how fixed capital, as a produced production force, can transform the socioecological conditions and forces of production while also securing the hegemony of particular social hierarchies, power relations, and institutions. We stress that fixed capital is inherently political-ecological in its constitution and how it shapes socioecological p…
Planetary Improvement: Cleantech Entrepreneurship and the Contradictions of Green Capitalism
Jesse Goldstein. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. 232 pp., figures, index. $25.00 paper (ISBN 9780262535076).We are delighted to introduce this forum on Jesse Goldstein's Planetary Improvement: Clea
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