Harold A Perkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 978098 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harold A Perkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harold A |
| FAMILY NAME | Perkins |
| SIGNATURE | PERKINS H A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6838-2859 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 354 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Sacrifice Zones
No universal definition for a sacrifice zone exists, but it is a label commonly applied to irreparably polluted communities across a variety of geographical contexts. Much work remains, however, to understand the conceptual and material import of sacrifice zones. To sacrifice means giving something up now for the promise of something better in the future, but who makes the decision to sacrifice, who or what gets sacrificed, and toward what end, a…
Struggle for Recognitional Justice: Cartographic-Affective Resistance to a Proposed Compressor Station in Buckingham County, Virginia
The Problem: In 2014, Dominion Energy proposed a large compressor station in Buckingham County, Virginia to pressurize its Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Dominion and regulators presented demographic data that erased African Americans living near the compressor site in the community of Union Hill, to circumvent environmental justice concerns during the permitting process. Theoretical Framing: The erasure of African Americans in Union Hill for the const…
Killing One Trout to Save Another: A Hegemonic Political Ecology with Its Biopolitical Basis in Yellowstone's Native Fish Conservation Plan
Yellowstone National Park implements a native fish conservation plan to control translocated trout species competing with native cutthroat trout. Under the plan, millions of lake trout are removed from Yellowstone Lake and park streams are poisoned to eradicate other translocated trout species. Killing trout introduced by officials decades earlier is a significant reversal in fisheries management. This article employs a biopolitical analysis of d…
Malign and benign neglect: A local food system and the myth of sustainable redevelopment in Appalachia Ohio
Neoliberalism and the Environment
Neoliberalism is the predominant philosophy by which capitalist globalization is coordinated, justified, and extended. It emphasizes market expansion through the rollback of Keynesian state intervention in the developed world and through profit‐oriented development initiatives and structural adjustment programs in lesser‐developed contexts. The deployment of neoliberal principles around the world has consequences for the environment and the peopl…
Environmental Justice in Appalachia: Procedural Inequities in the Mine Permitting Process in Southeast Ohio
This paper examines the permitting process for a coal strip mine in Southeastern Ohio using a distributive and procedural environmental justice framework. A permit application to mine Joy Hollow, a site in rural Athens County, was submitted to the Ohio Division of Mineral Resources Management in 2011. The permit applicant promised the mine would bring jobs and environmental restoration to the Appalachian region already damaged by previous rounds …
Consent to Neoliberal Hegemony through Coercive Urban Environmental Governance
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin was renowned for its investment in 6,000 hectares of public parks. However, park system budgets were slashed, its unionized work force diminished and its infrastructure required hundreds of millions of dollars in repairs. How did this transition occur? This article uses Antonio Gramsci's work on the integral state to argue capital interests and middle-class property owners are ideologically opposed to raising taxes to …
Gramsci in green: Neoliberal hegemony through urban forestry and the potential for a political ecology of praxis
Capital, Subsistence, and Lakeside Violence
The tranquil setting in the North Woods of Wisconsin and Minnesota obscures a centuries-old history of resource conflict between indigenous Ojibwe people and whites. The subsistence activities of the Ojibwe, including hunting and fishing, have been restricted by whites to ever-smaller geographies in part to bolster capitalist extractive industries and tourist economies. Only recently have the Ojibwe successfully reasserted their treaty rights to …
Getting Beyond the Plastinated Political Economy of “Late Modern Cannibalism” 1
Green Spaces of Self-Interest Within Shared Urban Governance
Municipal governments in Western Europe and the United States historically built and programmed public, urban park spaces to promote citizenship in accord with middle class values. In many cities these decades-old green spaces have recently fallen into disrepair as fiscally austere governments cut parks budgets. Shared governance for green space is a new solution to parks disinvestment whereby responsibility for their upkeep is redistributed amon…
Out from the (Green) shadow? Neoliberal hegemony through the market logic of shared urban environmental governance
Turning Feral Spaces into Trendy Places: A Coffee House in Every Park
Dynamic modes of political economic regulation impact provision for the parks system in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Green spaces during Milwaukee's first liberal era consisted mostly of private properties accessible only to the city's elite and/or to those willing to pay a fee to drink in its boisterous bier gartens. Collective open space investment at the turn of the 19th century signaled the beginning of a second, decades-long era of Keynesian state …
Failing to Grow "Their" Own Justice? The Co-Production of Racial/Gendered Labor and Milwaukee's Urban Forest
Little attention is paid to the ways that labor market inequalities within urban institutions enforce governance regimes that (re)produce urban environmental unevenness. Milwaukee's Bureau of Forestry is one such institution that has historically been dependent on state-sanctioned labor market inequalities to perpetuate an explicitly White/male regime of environmental governance and production. Historically, the Bureau's management employed and p…
City and Environment. Christopher G. Boone and Ali Modares
Denaturalizing Ecological Politics: Alienation from Nature from Rousseau to the Frankfurt School and Beyond. by Andrew Biro
Biro, Andrew , Denaturalizing Ecological Politics: Alienation from Nature from Rousseau to the Frankfurt School and Beyond. Toronto , Canada : University of Toronto Press , 2005 . 250 pp . ISBN 0-8020-3794-1 ( paperback ). It is disheartening to read little within and without academia critically addressing the subject of human alienation from nature, given the multiplicity of environmental challenges seemingly the result of “unsustainable” human …
Ecologies of actor-networks and (non)social labor within the urban political economies of nature
Manifestations of Contradiction: Lakes within the Production/Consumption Dialectic
Much emphasis within Marxist political ecology has focused on the social production of nature. Less attention, however, has been paid to the ways in which an emergent, material nature is an actor in the dialectic of its own appropriation. This paper examines the attempt to capitalize, under simultaneous processes of production and consumption, two proximate yet different Minnesota lakes. Lakes Elysian and Frances represent biophysical nature as p…
The Political Ecology of Uneven Urban Green Space: The Impact of Political Economy on Race and Ethnicity in Producing Environmental Inequality in Milwaukee
This article investigates the role of urban political economy, private-public property relations, and race and ethnicity in the social production of Milwaukee's urban forest. By integrating urban-forest canopy-cover data from aerial photography, United States Census data, and qualitative data collected through in-depth interviews, this analysis suggests that there is an inequitable distribution of urban canopy cover within Milwaukee. Since urban …
Scalar dialectics in green: Urban Private Property and the Contradictions of the Neoliberalization of Nature
Walking through Milwaukee's affluent Eastside, it is difficult to imagine that the presence of its well-maintained trees has been produced by anything but decidedly local processes. However, it is
Inequitable access to urban reforestation: The impact of urban political economy on housing tenure and urban forests
Rio Plus Ten: Politics, Poverty and the Environment
The Structured Essays in English Social History
The Political Ecology of Uneven Urban Green Space: The Impact of Political Economy on Race and Ethnicity in Producing Environmental Inequality in Milwaukee
This article investigates the role of urban political economy, private-public property relations, and race and ethnicity in the social production of Milwaukee's urban forest. By integrating urban-forest canopy-cover data from aerial photography, United States Census data, and qualitative data collected through in-depth interviews, this analysis suggests that there is an inequitable distribution of urban canopy cover within Milwaukee. Since urban …
Scalar dialectics in green: Urban Private Property and the Contradictions of the Neoliberalization of Nature
Walking through Milwaukee's affluent Eastside, it is difficult to imagine that the presence of its well-maintained trees has been produced by anything but decidedly local processes. However, it is
Ecologies of actor-networks and (non)social labor within the urban political economies of nature
Gramsci in green: Neoliberal hegemony through urban forestry and the potential for a political ecology of praxis
Inequitable access to urban reforestation: The impact of urban political economy on housing tenure and urban forests
Out from the (Green) shadow? Neoliberal hegemony through the market logic of shared urban environmental governance
Green Spaces of Self-Interest Within Shared Urban Governance
Municipal governments in Western Europe and the United States historically built and programmed public, urban park spaces to promote citizenship in accord with middle class values. In many cities these decades-old green spaces have recently fallen into disrepair as fiscally austere governments cut parks budgets. Shared governance for green space is a new solution to parks disinvestment whereby responsibility for their upkeep is redistributed amon…
Failing to Grow "Their" Own Justice? The Co-Production of Racial/Gendered Labor and Milwaukee's Urban Forest
Little attention is paid to the ways that labor market inequalities within urban institutions enforce governance regimes that (re)produce urban environmental unevenness. Milwaukee's Bureau of Forestry is one such institution that has historically been dependent on state-sanctioned labor market inequalities to perpetuate an explicitly White/male regime of environmental governance and production. Historically, the Bureau's management employed and p…
Consent to Neoliberal Hegemony through Coercive Urban Environmental Governance
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin was renowned for its investment in 6,000 hectares of public parks. However, park system budgets were slashed, its unionized work force diminished and its infrastructure required hundreds of millions of dollars in repairs. How did this transition occur? This article uses Antonio Gramsci's work on the integral state to argue capital interests and middle-class property owners are ideologically opposed to raising taxes to …
Turning Feral Spaces into Trendy Places: A Coffee House in Every Park
Dynamic modes of political economic regulation impact provision for the parks system in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Green spaces during Milwaukee's first liberal era consisted mostly of private properties accessible only to the city's elite and/or to those willing to pay a fee to drink in its boisterous bier gartens. Collective open space investment at the turn of the 19th century signaled the beginning of a second, decades-long era of Keynesian state …
Killing One Trout to Save Another: A Hegemonic Political Ecology with Its Biopolitical Basis in Yellowstone's Native Fish Conservation Plan
Yellowstone National Park implements a native fish conservation plan to control translocated trout species competing with native cutthroat trout. Under the plan, millions of lake trout are removed from Yellowstone Lake and park streams are poisoned to eradicate other translocated trout species. Killing trout introduced by officials decades earlier is a significant reversal in fisheries management. This article employs a biopolitical analysis of d…
Manifestations of Contradiction: Lakes within the Production/Consumption Dialectic
Much emphasis within Marxist political ecology has focused on the social production of nature. Less attention, however, has been paid to the ways in which an emergent, material nature is an actor in the dialectic of its own appropriation. This paper examines the attempt to capitalize, under simultaneous processes of production and consumption, two proximate yet different Minnesota lakes. Lakes Elysian and Frances represent biophysical nature as p…
Malign and benign neglect: A local food system and the myth of sustainable redevelopment in Appalachia Ohio
City and Environment. Christopher G. Boone and Ali Modares
The Structured Essays in English Social History
Inequitable access to urban reforestation: The impact of urban political economy on housing tenure and urban forests
Rio Plus Ten: Politics, Poverty and the Environment
Scalar dialectics in green: Urban Private Property and the Contradictions of the Neoliberalization of Nature
Walking through Milwaukee's affluent Eastside, it is difficult to imagine that the presence of its well-maintained trees has been produced by anything but decidedly local processes. However, it is
Manifestations of Contradiction: Lakes within the Production/Consumption Dialectic
Much emphasis within Marxist political ecology has focused on the social production of nature. Less attention, however, has been paid to the ways in which an emergent, material nature is an actor in the dialectic of its own appropriation. This paper examines the attempt to capitalize, under simultaneous processes of production and consumption, two proximate yet different Minnesota lakes. Lakes Elysian and Frances represent biophysical nature as p…
The Political Ecology of Uneven Urban Green Space: The Impact of Political Economy on Race and Ethnicity in Producing Environmental Inequality in Milwaukee
This article investigates the role of urban political economy, private-public property relations, and race and ethnicity in the social production of Milwaukee's urban forest. By integrating urban-forest canopy-cover data from aerial photography, United States Census data, and qualitative data collected through in-depth interviews, this analysis suggests that there is an inequitable distribution of urban canopy cover within Milwaukee. Since urban …
Failing to Grow "Their" Own Justice? The Co-Production of Racial/Gendered Labor and Milwaukee's Urban Forest
Little attention is paid to the ways that labor market inequalities within urban institutions enforce governance regimes that (re)produce urban environmental unevenness. Milwaukee's Bureau of Forestry is one such institution that has historically been dependent on state-sanctioned labor market inequalities to perpetuate an explicitly White/male regime of environmental governance and production. Historically, the Bureau's management employed and p…
City and Environment. Christopher G. Boone and Ali Modares
Denaturalizing Ecological Politics: Alienation from Nature from Rousseau to the Frankfurt School and Beyond. by Andrew Biro
Biro, Andrew , Denaturalizing Ecological Politics: Alienation from Nature from Rousseau to the Frankfurt School and Beyond. Toronto , Canada : University of Toronto Press , 2005 . 250 pp . ISBN 0-8020-3794-1 ( paperback ). It is disheartening to read little within and without academia critically addressing the subject of human alienation from nature, given the multiplicity of environmental challenges seemingly the result of “unsustainable” human …
Ecologies of actor-networks and (non)social labor within the urban political economies of nature
Out from the (Green) shadow? Neoliberal hegemony through the market logic of shared urban environmental governance
Turning Feral Spaces into Trendy Places: A Coffee House in Every Park
Dynamic modes of political economic regulation impact provision for the parks system in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Green spaces during Milwaukee's first liberal era consisted mostly of private properties accessible only to the city's elite and/or to those willing to pay a fee to drink in its boisterous bier gartens. Collective open space investment at the turn of the 19th century signaled the beginning of a second, decades-long era of Keynesian state …
Capital, Subsistence, and Lakeside Violence
The tranquil setting in the North Woods of Wisconsin and Minnesota obscures a centuries-old history of resource conflict between indigenous Ojibwe people and whites. The subsistence activities of the Ojibwe, including hunting and fishing, have been restricted by whites to ever-smaller geographies in part to bolster capitalist extractive industries and tourist economies. Only recently have the Ojibwe successfully reasserted their treaty rights to …
Getting Beyond the Plastinated Political Economy of “Late Modern Cannibalism” 1
Green Spaces of Self-Interest Within Shared Urban Governance
Municipal governments in Western Europe and the United States historically built and programmed public, urban park spaces to promote citizenship in accord with middle class values. In many cities these decades-old green spaces have recently fallen into disrepair as fiscally austere governments cut parks budgets. Shared governance for green space is a new solution to parks disinvestment whereby responsibility for their upkeep is redistributed amon…
Gramsci in green: Neoliberal hegemony through urban forestry and the potential for a political ecology of praxis
Consent to Neoliberal Hegemony through Coercive Urban Environmental Governance
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin was renowned for its investment in 6,000 hectares of public parks. However, park system budgets were slashed, its unionized work force diminished and its infrastructure required hundreds of millions of dollars in repairs. How did this transition occur? This article uses Antonio Gramsci's work on the integral state to argue capital interests and middle-class property owners are ideologically opposed to raising taxes to …
Environmental Justice in Appalachia: Procedural Inequities in the Mine Permitting Process in Southeast Ohio
This paper examines the permitting process for a coal strip mine in Southeastern Ohio using a distributive and procedural environmental justice framework. A permit application to mine Joy Hollow, a site in rural Athens County, was submitted to the Ohio Division of Mineral Resources Management in 2011. The permit applicant promised the mine would bring jobs and environmental restoration to the Appalachian region already damaged by previous rounds …
Neoliberalism and the Environment
Neoliberalism is the predominant philosophy by which capitalist globalization is coordinated, justified, and extended. It emphasizes market expansion through the rollback of Keynesian state intervention in the developed world and through profit‐oriented development initiatives and structural adjustment programs in lesser‐developed contexts. The deployment of neoliberal principles around the world has consequences for the environment and the peopl…
Malign and benign neglect: A local food system and the myth of sustainable redevelopment in Appalachia Ohio
Killing One Trout to Save Another: A Hegemonic Political Ecology with Its Biopolitical Basis in Yellowstone's Native Fish Conservation Plan
Yellowstone National Park implements a native fish conservation plan to control translocated trout species competing with native cutthroat trout. Under the plan, millions of lake trout are removed from Yellowstone Lake and park streams are poisoned to eradicate other translocated trout species. Killing trout introduced by officials decades earlier is a significant reversal in fisheries management. This article employs a biopolitical analysis of d…
Struggle for Recognitional Justice: Cartographic-Affective Resistance to a Proposed Compressor Station in Buckingham County, Virginia
The Problem: In 2014, Dominion Energy proposed a large compressor station in Buckingham County, Virginia to pressurize its Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Dominion and regulators presented demographic data that erased African Americans living near the compressor site in the community of Union Hill, to circumvent environmental justice concerns during the permitting process. Theoretical Framing: The erasure of African Americans in Union Hill for the const…
Sacrifice Zones
No universal definition for a sacrifice zone exists, but it is a label commonly applied to irreparably polluted communities across a variety of geographical contexts. Much work remains, however, to understand the conceptual and material import of sacrifice zones. To sacrifice means giving something up now for the promise of something better in the future, but who makes the decision to sacrifice, who or what gets sacrificed, and toward what end, a…
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