Toward a Sociology of Biodiversity Loss
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7101833 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jordan Fox Besek (0000-0001-6704-6095, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, corresponding author), Richard York (0000-0002-0890-5803, University of Oregon) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 239-254 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Currents (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2329-4965 • E-ISSN: 2329-4973 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2329496518815867 |
| OpenAlex | W2902266432 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 67 |
Social processes are setting in motion a crisis of global biodiversity loss, yet those who study social processes are largely absent from discussions about this crisis. Recognizing that developing a single general sociological theory of the causes and consequences of biodiversity loss is infeasible, the purpose of this article is to engage a wide array of sociological traditions that, whether or not they have thus far incorporated environmental problems, focus on theoretical issues that we believe must be confronted if a sociological conversation about the global crisis of biodiversity is to take place. These traditions include those in environmental sociology, relational sociology, the sociology and geography of scale, and historical sociology. We, where necessary, redirect aspects of these traditions to incorporate nonhuman actors, more general biophysical processes, and the longue durée of evolutionary time. We then illustrate our perspective by detailing the spread of Kudzu, an invasive species that is having a significant impact on biodiversity in the American southeast. Our overall goal is to initiate a broad sociological exploration, one unhampered by subdisciplinary boundaries, into why and how human social processes are setting in motion an increasing rate of global biodiversity loss
Biodiversity · Biology · Environmental ethics · Environmental sociology · Epistemology · Social science · Sociological imagination · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Ecology
Neoliberalism, World-System Position, and Biodiversity Loss
Sub-disciplining science in sociology
The Anthophilic rift
Community water system privatization and the water access crisis
A plant by any other name
Sociological Animal Studies Courses Are More Effective Than Human-Centered Sociology Courses in Enhancing Empathy
Slow Violence and theGas Peeditin Neoliberal India
Constructing Environmental Compliance
Science in action
Developmental Plasticity and Evolution
The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts and Terms
How Many Species Are There on Earth and in the Ocean?
Accelerated modern human–induced species losses
Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems
Capitalism in the web of life
Aspects of Scientific Explanation and Other Essays
Lie Of The Land
World System, Anthropogenic, and Ecological Threats to Bird and Mammal Species
The Dynamics of Radicalization
Climate Change and Society
Global Supply Chains of Coltan
Reassembling the Social
From fringe to core? The integration of environmental sociology
Crossing the ‘great divide’ in practice
Ecological Modernization and Its Critics
Beyond the Square Wheel
Beyond minerals
Coupled Human and Natural Systems
Choking on Modernity
Introducing the Ecological Explosion
Ecologically Unequal Exchange, World Polity, and Biodiversity Loss
Explaining Social Processes
An invitation to reflexive sociology
Charles Tilly and the Practice of Contentious Politics
The Nation-State and the Natural Environment over the Twentieth Century
Footprints on the Earth
Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World
Toward a More Eventful Environmental Sociology
Logics of History
Transcending General Linear Reality
Unequal Ecological Exchange and Environmental Degradation
Social and Environmental Influences on Endangered Species
From Causes to Events
Political Economy of the Environment
Marxism, Positivism, and Scientific Sociology
Critical Human Ecology
Are the Economy and the Environment Decoupling? A Comparative International Study, 1960-2005
How Do People Transform Landscapes? A Sociological Perspective on Suburban Sprawl and Tropical Deforestation
Manifesto for a Relational Sociology
To Explain Political Processes
A Theory of Structure
De-naturalizing ecological disaster
Global biodiversity decline of marine and freshwater fish
Historical events as transformations of structures
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |