Revisiting Connections Between Capital and Nature I

The Importance of Labour

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ID3833830
AuthorsPeter Somerville (0000-0002-4213-7211, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lincoln College of Social Sciences, Lincoln, UK, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume32
Issue1
Pages56-67
Publication date2021-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCapitalism Nature Socialism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1045-5752 • E-ISSN: 1548-3290
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10455752.2020.1797845
OpenAlexW2992946349
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited37

This paper reconsiders Marx’s theory of capital in the light of more recent discussions of the relationship between capital and nature. It points out how this theory continues to be misrepresented and misunderstood by a number of scholars, and argues that one reason for such failings is a tendency to neglect the role of labour in mediating this relationship. Further, the paper reviews literature relating to the value of nature, primitive accumulation, natural capital and the production of nature, in order to show the importance of the concept of labour and the limitations of approaches that do not recognize that importance

Capital (architecture · Economic capital · Economics · Epistemology · Means of production · Natural (archaeology · Natural capital · Neglect · Neoclassical economics · Order (exchange · Positive economics · Social capital · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · History · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychology · Water Governance and Infrastructure

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