Roberto J Ortiz
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4195076 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Roberto J Ortiz |
| PRENOMES | Roberto J |
| SOBRENOME | Ortiz |
| ASSINATURA | ORTIZ R J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | California State University, Long Beach |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7131-9762 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Collapse and Transformation? Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Energy Crisis of “Showcase” Peripheries in World-Ecological Perspective
The rise of oil-fueled accumulation in the global North produced an energy regime that by the mid-twentieth century was being extended to the semiperipheral and peripheral zones of the world-system. There it took the form of petroleum-driven development. This is especially the case for peripheral “showcases” in the Caribbean region. In the context of the Cold War, these two islands became opposing models of global South development—Puerto Rico’s …
Spatial Competition and Unevenness in Global Capitalism
Critical studies of globalization seek to unmask how this stage of capitalist history reshapes patterns of uneven development around the world. While globalization can reproduce long-standing patterns of North-South unequal exchange, in this paper, I focus on how capital mobility and competition contribute to uneven development. Drawing primarily on Neil Smith's theory of uneven development, I offer a theoretical discussion of how capital's capac…
Weathering the Crisis
This article unpacks the relational nexus between financialization and energy—in this case oil—that shaped the 1970s world-economic crisis and that is again central in the convergence between climate change and accumulation crises. Focusing on these critical moments when profitable opportunities for capital narrow and the world-system enters a period of turbulence, I explain the ways in which energy and finance have been central in crisis formati…
Oil-Fueled Accumulation in Late Capitalism
Capitalist development since the 1940s has been fueled by global oil extraction. Cheap oil was the core energy input in the post–World War II expansion. By the 1970s, the limits of this oil-fueled accumulation regime began to appear. During that decade, a series of oil price hikes combined with other sources of tension to form a deep accumulation crisis. The crisis of the 1970s showed the effects that a strategic circulating capital—in this case,…
Financialization, Climate Change, and the Future of the Capitalist World-Ecology
This article takes Kim Stanley Robinson’s science fiction as a point of departure for a series of reflections on the trajectory of the capitalist world-ecology. It argues that his novel New York 2140 provides an interesting description of financialized accumulation in the age of climate change. The novel provides a representation of what is arguably the most insurmountable contradiction of late capitalism: while climate change continues to cement…
Agro-Industrialization, Petrodollar Illusions and the Transformation of the Capitalist World Economy in the 1970s
A transformation of world capitalism took place during the 1970s. Profitability decline in core countries was compounded by an increase in world oil prices connected to the rise of OPEC's oil rent. In this context, a fraction of the Latin American semiperiphery rose in industrial prominence but ultimately collapsed. A combination of recycled petrodollars and an agrarian transformation underwrote this semiperipheral agro-industrial rise. By 1982, …
Aristocratic Rebellion
The late 19th struggle for artistic freedom in the capitalist world-system put the artist in a contradictory position. This contradiction is particularly relevant for writers of the periphery. Freedom or autonomy to pursue purely intellectual projects required a certain aristocratic defense of the value of art. At the same time, however, artists and intellectuals did confront structural subordination: they belonged, as Pierre Bourdieu explained, …
Oil-Fueled Accumulation in Late Capitalism
Capitalist development since the 1940s has been fueled by global oil extraction. Cheap oil was the core energy input in the post–World War II expansion. By the 1970s, the limits of this oil-fueled accumulation regime began to appear. During that decade, a series of oil price hikes combined with other sources of tension to form a deep accumulation crisis. The crisis of the 1970s showed the effects that a strategic circulating capital—in this case,…
Agro-Industrialization, Petrodollar Illusions and the Transformation of the Capitalist World Economy in the 1970s
A transformation of world capitalism took place during the 1970s. Profitability decline in core countries was compounded by an increase in world oil prices connected to the rise of OPEC's oil rent. In this context, a fraction of the Latin American semiperiphery rose in industrial prominence but ultimately collapsed. A combination of recycled petrodollars and an agrarian transformation underwrote this semiperipheral agro-industrial rise. By 1982, …
Weathering the Crisis
This article unpacks the relational nexus between financialization and energy—in this case oil—that shaped the 1970s world-economic crisis and that is again central in the convergence between climate change and accumulation crises. Focusing on these critical moments when profitable opportunities for capital narrow and the world-system enters a period of turbulence, I explain the ways in which energy and finance have been central in crisis formati…
Financialization, Climate Change, and the Future of the Capitalist World-Ecology
This article takes Kim Stanley Robinson’s science fiction as a point of departure for a series of reflections on the trajectory of the capitalist world-ecology. It argues that his novel New York 2140 provides an interesting description of financialized accumulation in the age of climate change. The novel provides a representation of what is arguably the most insurmountable contradiction of late capitalism: while climate change continues to cement…
Aristocratic Rebellion
The late 19th struggle for artistic freedom in the capitalist world-system put the artist in a contradictory position. This contradiction is particularly relevant for writers of the periphery. Freedom or autonomy to pursue purely intellectual projects required a certain aristocratic defense of the value of art. At the same time, however, artists and intellectuals did confront structural subordination: they belonged, as Pierre Bourdieu explained, …
Agro-Industrialization, Petrodollar Illusions and the Transformation of the Capitalist World Economy in the 1970s
A transformation of world capitalism took place during the 1970s. Profitability decline in core countries was compounded by an increase in world oil prices connected to the rise of OPEC's oil rent. In this context, a fraction of the Latin American semiperiphery rose in industrial prominence but ultimately collapsed. A combination of recycled petrodollars and an agrarian transformation underwrote this semiperipheral agro-industrial rise. By 1982, …
Oil-Fueled Accumulation in Late Capitalism
Capitalist development since the 1940s has been fueled by global oil extraction. Cheap oil was the core energy input in the post–World War II expansion. By the 1970s, the limits of this oil-fueled accumulation regime began to appear. During that decade, a series of oil price hikes combined with other sources of tension to form a deep accumulation crisis. The crisis of the 1970s showed the effects that a strategic circulating capital—in this case,…
Financialization, Climate Change, and the Future of the Capitalist World-Ecology
This article takes Kim Stanley Robinson’s science fiction as a point of departure for a series of reflections on the trajectory of the capitalist world-ecology. It argues that his novel New York 2140 provides an interesting description of financialized accumulation in the age of climate change. The novel provides a representation of what is arguably the most insurmountable contradiction of late capitalism: while climate change continues to cement…
Weathering the Crisis
This article unpacks the relational nexus between financialization and energy—in this case oil—that shaped the 1970s world-economic crisis and that is again central in the convergence between climate change and accumulation crises. Focusing on these critical moments when profitable opportunities for capital narrow and the world-system enters a period of turbulence, I explain the ways in which energy and finance have been central in crisis formati…
Collapse and Transformation? Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Energy Crisis of “Showcase” Peripheries in World-Ecological Perspective
The rise of oil-fueled accumulation in the global North produced an energy regime that by the mid-twentieth century was being extended to the semiperipheral and peripheral zones of the world-system. There it took the form of petroleum-driven development. This is especially the case for peripheral “showcases” in the Caribbean region. In the context of the Cold War, these two islands became opposing models of global South development—Puerto Rico’s …
Spatial Competition and Unevenness in Global Capitalism
Critical studies of globalization seek to unmask how this stage of capitalist history reshapes patterns of uneven development around the world. While globalization can reproduce long-standing patterns of North-South unequal exchange, in this paper, I focus on how capital mobility and competition contribute to uneven development. Drawing primarily on Neil Smith's theory of uneven development, I offer a theoretical discussion of how capital's capac…
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