Jesse Goldstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673917 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jesse Goldstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jesse |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldstein |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDSTEIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Critical University Sustainability Studies
This article places university sustainability within broader literatures of critical and abolitionist university studies to understand how it depoliticizes environmental action and dispels more radical possibilities from students, faculty, staff, and non‐university organizations. We situate university sustainability historically through an examination of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)'s self‐repo…
The Theatre of Entrepreneurship
How do colleges teach students to be entrepreneurial? For three years, we observed young entrepreneurs, most of them students at Virginia Commonwealth University. Drawing from interviews with 57 students and recent graduates and observations of entrepreneurship-related events, we argue that entrepreneurial training encourages students to embrace a future-oriented and relational form of human capital. This speculative self (1) requires a performed…
Planetary Improvement
Planetary Improvement
Jesse Goldstein's "Planetary Improvement: Cleantech Entrepreneurship and the Contradictions of Green Capitalism" examines the rise of an environmentalist discourse that seeks to save the planet *through* capitalism, rather than *from* it. Focusing on early-stage cleantech entrepreneurs in New York City, Goldstein uses ethnographic research to analyze the complex politics of technological innovation and the widespread investment-both financial and…
Green Keynesianism
Since the global financial crisis of 2007/8, proliferating calls for a Keynesian Green New Deal have cast the publicly (and environmentally) minded state as a necessary driver of technological innovation and social transformation, while, vice versa, innovation has moved to political centre-stage. The history and genesis of this particular Green Keynesian paradigm illustrate that some of its most high-profile proponents selectively and problematic…
Interference Archive
Biomimetic Futures
The growing field of biomimicry promises to supplant modern industry's energy-intensive models of engineering with a mode of production more sensitively attuned to nonhuman life and matter. This article considers the revolutionary potentials created by biomimicry's more-than-human collectives and their limitations. Although biomimicry gestures toward a radical reontologization of and repoliticization of production, we argue that it remains subjec…
Biomimicry
Advocates of biomimicry encourage a new industrial paradigm that ostensibly leaves behind the crude violence of Francis Bacon, the domination of nature-as-machine, and a history of toxic production processes that have given rise to a present and coming climate crisis. As part of a broader trend towards the conceptualization and development of a 'bioeconomy', we argue here that biomimicry produces 'nature' in new ways. At face value, these new app…
Appropriate Technocracies? Green Capitalist Discourses and Post Capitalist Desires
Occuprint
Terra Economica
This essay provides an analysis of the “dirty” history and geography of enclosure, as both an instance of primitive accumulation and a production of nature. Specifically, I reconsider the English enclosures as a struggle over the land‐use designation of “waste”. Whereas both open fields and common waste lands were an essential and valuable part of the common right economy, advocates of enclosure came to see these same lands as wasted commons; lan…
Ecofeminism in Theory and Praxis
Phoebe Godfrey's recent article in Capitalism Nature Socialism tells the story of Diane Wilson, a fisherwoman and mother whose transformation into an anti-capitalist resister demonstrates connectio
Terra Economica
This essay provides an analysis of the “dirty” history and geography of enclosure, as both an instance of primitive accumulation and a production of nature. Specifically, I reconsider the English enclosures as a struggle over the land‐use designation of “waste”. Whereas both open fields and common waste lands were an essential and valuable part of the common right economy, advocates of enclosure came to see these same lands as wasted commons; lan…
Biomimicry
Advocates of biomimicry encourage a new industrial paradigm that ostensibly leaves behind the crude violence of Francis Bacon, the domination of nature-as-machine, and a history of toxic production processes that have given rise to a present and coming climate crisis. As part of a broader trend towards the conceptualization and development of a 'bioeconomy', we argue here that biomimicry produces 'nature' in new ways. At face value, these new app…
Planetary Improvement
Jesse Goldstein's "Planetary Improvement: Cleantech Entrepreneurship and the Contradictions of Green Capitalism" examines the rise of an environmentalist discourse that seeks to save the planet *through* capitalism, rather than *from* it. Focusing on early-stage cleantech entrepreneurs in New York City, Goldstein uses ethnographic research to analyze the complex politics of technological innovation and the widespread investment-both financial and…
Biomimetic Futures
The growing field of biomimicry promises to supplant modern industry's energy-intensive models of engineering with a mode of production more sensitively attuned to nonhuman life and matter. This article considers the revolutionary potentials created by biomimicry's more-than-human collectives and their limitations. Although biomimicry gestures toward a radical reontologization of and repoliticization of production, we argue that it remains subjec…
Green Keynesianism
Since the global financial crisis of 2007/8, proliferating calls for a Keynesian Green New Deal have cast the publicly (and environmentally) minded state as a necessary driver of technological innovation and social transformation, while, vice versa, innovation has moved to political centre-stage. The history and genesis of this particular Green Keynesian paradigm illustrate that some of its most high-profile proponents selectively and problematic…
Interference Archive
Appropriate Technocracies? Green Capitalist Discourses and Post Capitalist Desires
Occuprint
The Theatre of Entrepreneurship
How do colleges teach students to be entrepreneurial? For three years, we observed young entrepreneurs, most of them students at Virginia Commonwealth University. Drawing from interviews with 57 students and recent graduates and observations of entrepreneurship-related events, we argue that entrepreneurial training encourages students to embrace a future-oriented and relational form of human capital. This speculative self (1) requires a performed…
Ecofeminism in Theory and Praxis
Phoebe Godfrey's recent article in Capitalism Nature Socialism tells the story of Diane Wilson, a fisherwoman and mother whose transformation into an anti-capitalist resister demonstrates connectio
Ecofeminism in Theory and Praxis
Phoebe Godfrey's recent article in Capitalism Nature Socialism tells the story of Diane Wilson, a fisherwoman and mother whose transformation into an anti-capitalist resister demonstrates connectio
Occuprint
Terra Economica
This essay provides an analysis of the “dirty” history and geography of enclosure, as both an instance of primitive accumulation and a production of nature. Specifically, I reconsider the English enclosures as a struggle over the land‐use designation of “waste”. Whereas both open fields and common waste lands were an essential and valuable part of the common right economy, advocates of enclosure came to see these same lands as wasted commons; lan…
Appropriate Technocracies? Green Capitalist Discourses and Post Capitalist Desires
Interference Archive
Biomimetic Futures
The growing field of biomimicry promises to supplant modern industry's energy-intensive models of engineering with a mode of production more sensitively attuned to nonhuman life and matter. This article considers the revolutionary potentials created by biomimicry's more-than-human collectives and their limitations. Although biomimicry gestures toward a radical reontologization of and repoliticization of production, we argue that it remains subjec…
Biomimicry
Advocates of biomimicry encourage a new industrial paradigm that ostensibly leaves behind the crude violence of Francis Bacon, the domination of nature-as-machine, and a history of toxic production processes that have given rise to a present and coming climate crisis. As part of a broader trend towards the conceptualization and development of a 'bioeconomy', we argue here that biomimicry produces 'nature' in new ways. At face value, these new app…
Green Keynesianism
Since the global financial crisis of 2007/8, proliferating calls for a Keynesian Green New Deal have cast the publicly (and environmentally) minded state as a necessary driver of technological innovation and social transformation, while, vice versa, innovation has moved to political centre-stage. The history and genesis of this particular Green Keynesian paradigm illustrate that some of its most high-profile proponents selectively and problematic…
Planetary Improvement
Planetary Improvement
Jesse Goldstein's "Planetary Improvement: Cleantech Entrepreneurship and the Contradictions of Green Capitalism" examines the rise of an environmentalist discourse that seeks to save the planet *through* capitalism, rather than *from* it. Focusing on early-stage cleantech entrepreneurs in New York City, Goldstein uses ethnographic research to analyze the complex politics of technological innovation and the widespread investment-both financial and…
The Theatre of Entrepreneurship
How do colleges teach students to be entrepreneurial? For three years, we observed young entrepreneurs, most of them students at Virginia Commonwealth University. Drawing from interviews with 57 students and recent graduates and observations of entrepreneurship-related events, we argue that entrepreneurial training encourages students to embrace a future-oriented and relational form of human capital. This speculative self (1) requires a performed…
Critical University Sustainability Studies
This article places university sustainability within broader literatures of critical and abolitionist university studies to understand how it depoliticizes environmental action and dispels more radical possibilities from students, faculty, staff, and non‐university organizations. We situate university sustainability historically through an examination of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)'s self‐repo…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Capitalism (4 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works)