Richard Levins
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 769472 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard Levins |
| PRENOMES | Richard |
| SOBRENOME | Levins |
| ASSINATURA | LEVINS R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Harvard University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 79 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 154 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 79 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1968 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Ecology and Liberation
Class Science and Scientific Truth
Cuba
From Rebel to Revolutionary
Solidarity and Criticism on Cuba
Cuba’s Fidelity to the Earth
The Dialectics of Political Practice
Indo-Semitic Hymn to the Earth
A View from the Trough
Imperialism is Bad for Your Health
Science in Cuba and Puerto Rico
The Struggle for Ecological Agriculture in Cuba
When Science Fails Us
Is Capitalism a Disease
Toward an Integrated Epidemiology
The Navy vs. Human Ecology
Reflections on Spirituality and Science
Agricultural Ecology
Toward a Gentle, Thought-intensive Technology
A New Economy of Knowledge
buy this issue The March/April 2016 issue of Foreign Affairs , published by the Council on Foreign Relations, is devoted in large part to the topic of economic stagnation. The editorial by Jonathan Tepperman, the journal's managing editor, declares: "Today, with China slumping, energy prices collapsing, and nervous consumers sitting on their hands, growth has ground to a halt almost everywhere, and economists, investors, and ordinary citizens are…
Living the Eleventh Thesis
When I was a boy I always assumed that I would grow up to be both a scientist and a Red. Rather than face a problem of combining activism and scholarship, I would have had a very difficult time trying to separate them.... Before I could read, my grandfather read to me from Bad Bishop Brown's Science and History for Girls and Boys . My grandfather believed that at a minimum every socialist worker should be familiar with cosmology, evolution, and h…
The Road to Wholeness in Medicine and Public Health
Doctors make mistakes. Mistakes kill people. We have developed methods to catch and reduce individual, momentary and idiosyncratic errors. But none of it helps to correct the shared biases of whole communities of scientists or practitioners. This article is concerned with these errors, conceptual errors that afflict a whole science or discipline. The big errors that have affected both science and policy fall into several kinds: errors of fragment…
Social and land use composition determinants of health
Continuing Sources of Marxism
In 1913 Lenin identified three intellectual sources of Marxism: German philosophy, English political economy, and French utopian socialism—each in turn created in the social conditions of their societies. But the process did not end there. Marxism continues to grow and to learn from the most advanced, liberating ideas of each period. (It is also influenced in negative ways, narrowing its horizons and getting dragged along by fashion in times of d…
How to Visit a Socialist Country
Travelers from the United States to Cuba cross more than ninety miles of sea: they cross decades of history. They may be limited to one suitcase, but they carry trunks full of ideological baggage, including biases about Cuba, beliefs about communists, commitments as to what a good society should be like, and a collection of conventional poli-sci formulas about power, government, and human behavior...Members of delegations usually have planned iti…
Organism and environment
The agrarian question and class contradictions in South Africa
The article first considers two dominant approaches to black rural social formations in South Africa, those of neo-classical populism and radical political economy, examining their ideology and politics as well as their theoretical inadequacies. The major part of the article then provides a general interpretation of the theory and politics of the agrarian question in Marxism, which has strategic implications for the current phase of national demo…
How Cuba is going ecological
1This paper was prepared for the Latin American Studies Association meetings, October 6–10, 2004
Variability and Vulnerability at the Ecological Level
Objectives. We examined variability in disease rates to gain understanding of the complex interactions between contextual socioeconomic factors and health. Methods. We compared mortality rates between New York and California counties in the lowest and highest quartiles of socioeconomic status (SES), assessed rate variability between counties for various outcomes, and examined correlations between outcomes’ sensitivity to SES and their variability…
The politics of land reform in South Africa after apartheid
1996). The politics of land reform in South Africa after apartheid: Perspectives, problems, prospects. The Journal of Peasant Studies: Vol. 23, The Agrarian Question in South Africa, pp. 93-119
The internal and external in explanatory theories
(1998). The internal and external in explanatory theories. Science as Culture: Vol. 7, Natural Contradictions, pp. 557-582
Ten Propositions on Science and Antiscience
Au-dela de la diversite de la pensee marxiste de la science et au-dela de son opposition a la conception capitaliste de la science europeenne et nord-americaine, l'A. souligne l'objectivite de la connaissance scientifique en tant qu'elle represente le progres du genre humain. Denoncant les aspects reductionnistes de la science moderne, l'A. revendique l'ouverture de la science aux exclus par un processus de democratisation
Is Capitalism A Disease? The Crisis of US Public Health
Readers will note that this article is nearly twice the length of the normal MR piece, but because of the importance of the subject we are publishing it in its entirety. The text is based on a talk given by the author at the Brecht Forum in New York. -Eds. The scientific tradition of the "West," of Europe and North America, has had its greatest success when it has dealt with what we have come to think of as the central questions of scientific inq…
The biological and the social
1997). The biological and the social. Capitalism Nature Socialism: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 89-92
Dialectics and reductionism in ecology
Why Programs Fail
Several generations of development programs have left the gap between rich and poor countries wider than ever. Decades of aid and foreign investment have extracted many times more wealth than they bring in. Seventeen years after the Earth Summit at Rio, carbon dioxide continues to increase. The non-proliferation treaty has left us with more nukes, more countries possessing nukes, more sophisticated nuclear weapons, more willingness to use them. T…
Holism and reductionism in ecology
1994). Holism and reductionism in ecology. Capitalism Nature Socialism: Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 33-40
The struggle for ecological agriculture in Cuba∗
Social and land use composition determinants of health
Evolutionary psychology
The ecological transformation of Cuba
Contract farming in Swaziland
Swaziland's Fourth National Development Plan advocates the development of outgrower schemes based on the example of Vuvulane Irrigated Farms as an alternative strategy for rural development (Swaziland government 1985:309). If this recommendation were to be adopted as agricultural policy, it would necessitate land reform in the areas where these schemes are to be established. This is because of the existing division in land ownership between Swazi…
Schmalhausen's law
The end of natural history
Peasants speak
Science and Progress
In the third world, the view of "science" as unqualified progress is expressed in developmentalism, the view that progress takes place along a single axis from less developed to more developed, and therefore that the task of the revolutionary society is to proceed as quickly as possible along that axis of progress to overtake the advanced countries. The consequence of this view is the rapid reproduction of the worst features of world (capitalist)…
The Road to Wholeness in Medicine and Public Health
Doctors make mistakes. Mistakes kill people. We have developed methods to catch and reduce individual, momentary and idiosyncratic errors. But none of it helps to correct the shared biases of whole communities of scientists or practitioners. This article is concerned with these errors, conceptual errors that afflict a whole science or discipline. The big errors that have affected both science and policy fall into several kinds: errors of fragment…
Living the 11th Thesis
When I was a boy I always assumed that I would grow up to be both a scientist and a Red. Rather than face a problem of combining activism and scholarship, I would have had a very difficult time trying to separate them.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Stephen Jay Gould—What Does It Mean To Be a Radical
Let the numbers speak
Although it is often claimed that statistical techniques are ways of letting the objective data speak for themselves, in both the contrast and correlational modes of statistical inference, all the real work is done by the a priori decisions imported into the analysis—which categories are to be used to create contrasting populations, which categories are to be measured, which categories are to be held constant while others are compared, and which …
Evolution in Changing Environments
Professor Levins, one of the leading explorers in the field of integrated population biology, considers the mutual interpenetration and joint evolution of organism and environment, occurring on several levels at once. Physiological and behavioral adaptations to short-term fluctuations of the environment condition the responses of populations to long-term changes and geographic gradients. These in turn affect the way species divide the environment…
On Making Socialism Scientific
Evolution in Changing Environments
Dialectics and reductionism in ecology
Puerto Rico
Religion and the Left
While shaving every morning, my father used to sing Joe Hill's anti-clerical song about the "long-haired preachers" who When asked about something to eat/ They would answer in voices so sweet,/ "You will eat, bye and bye/ In that glorious land above the sky/ Way up high./ Work and pray, live on hay,/ You'll get pie in the sky, when you die."/ That's a lie.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are…
The Dialectical Biologist
A Science of Our Own
Before I learned to read, my grandfather, Abraham Sackman, read to me from Bad Bishop Brown's Science and History for Girls and Boys. The linking of science and history in the same book did not seem at all strange to us. For me, it was all part of an exciting finding-out about the way the world worked. My grandfather, more self-consciously, believed that a minimum education for a socialist worker must include cosmology, evolution, and history. An…
Science and Progress
In the third world, the view of "science" as unqualified progress is expressed in developmentalism, the view that progress takes place along a single axis from less developed to more developed, and therefore that the task of the revolutionary society is to proceed as quickly as possible along that axis of progress to overtake the advanced countries. The consequence of this view is the rapid reproduction of the worst features of world (capitalist)…
Contract farming in Swaziland
Swaziland's Fourth National Development Plan advocates the development of outgrower schemes based on the example of Vuvulane Irrigated Farms as an alternative strategy for rural development (Swaziland government 1985:309). If this recommendation were to be adopted as agricultural policy, it would necessitate land reform in the areas where these schemes are to be established. This is because of the existing division in land ownership between Swazi…
The agrarian question and class contradictions in South Africa
The article first considers two dominant approaches to black rural social formations in South Africa, those of neo-classical populism and radical political economy, examining their ideology and politics as well as their theoretical inadequacies. The major part of the article then provides a general interpretation of the theory and politics of the agrarian question in Marxism, which has strategic implications for the current phase of national demo…
Toward the Renewal of Science
Reply to Catherine Belsey and Jonathan Goldberg
ATHERINE BELSEY'S RESPONSE is limited to Discovery No. 2, with which I had not associated her, and it turns out that our views on the subject are not so far apart. Most of her argument in fact is concerned with qualifying my case against this discovery rather than trying to refute it. She points out that some plays in this period are not illusionist, which is certainly true, although she could have chosen better example, such as Dekker's The Whor…
Unthinkable Thoughts in the New Historicizing of English Renaissance Drama
themselves in terms of their opposition to what they regard as antihistorical bias of New Criticism, which they usually refer to as formalism. But they also take some pains to distinguish their approach from that of older historical critics, such as E. M. W. Tillyard and Lily Bess Campbell, who preceded New Criticism (which in turn defined itself through its opposition to them). These older critics practiced what I call ideas-of-the-time approach…
The struggle for ecological agriculture in Cuba∗
Animals have a complex nature
Books reviewed
Richard Werbner, Tears of the Dead: the Social Biography of an African Family (Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 1991), xi, 211pp, £30 Norma J. Kriger, Zimbabwe's Guerrilla War: Peasant Voices (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1992), x, 303pp, £35 K. Spink, Black Sash: the Beginning of a Bridge in South Africa (Methuen: London, 1991), xvi, 336pp, £14.99 Vernon February, The Afrikaners of South Africa (Kegan Paul International: London a…
The ecological transformation of Cuba
Holism and reductionism in ecology
1994). Holism and reductionism in ecology. Capitalism Nature Socialism: Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 33-40
A View from the Trough
We are now living in the trough between two great waves of revolutionary struggle. The first wave began in 1848 and ended in defeat with the fall of Moscow. The second wave is still incubating. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the East European bloc was a tragic defeat for all of us, not because these regimes were models of the society we want but because they and the political movements influenced by them were the focus of the first world-wi…
The politics of land reform in South Africa after apartheid
1996). The politics of land reform in South Africa after apartheid: Perspectives, problems, prospects. The Journal of Peasant Studies: Vol. 23, The Agrarian Question in South Africa, pp. 93-119
The end of natural history
The return of old diseases and the appearance of new ones
False dichotomies
Despite the fact that the experiential perspective has had a profound impact on the way we view leisure behaviour, experiential matters have been renounced for being overtly subjective. As a corollary, experiential matters have been castigated for their inability to offer concrete criteria for leisure policy and the provisions of services. This paper argues that this dismissal of experiential matters is based on an overinflated dichotomy – the fa…
Ten Propositions on Science and Antiscience
Au-dela de la diversite de la pensee marxiste de la science et au-dela de son opposition a la conception capitaliste de la science europeenne et nord-americaine, l'A. souligne l'objectivite de la connaissance scientifique en tant qu'elle represente le progres du genre humain. Denoncant les aspects reductionnistes de la science moderne, l'A. revendique l'ouverture de la science aux exclus par un processus de democratisation
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