Nature, raw materials, and political economy / edited by Paul S. Ciccantell, David A. Smith, Gay Seidman.

Includes bibliographical references.

The papers in this volume push the study of the multifaceted nature-society relationship and the socioeconomic consequences of human dependence on nature forward in a variety of areas. In the first section, "Theoretical Foundations", the five chapters lay out theoretical models for examining the nature-society relationship. The chapters examine the roles of material process, space, and time in shaping social processes of economic ascent and long term hegemonic change, as well as the role of the analysis of raw materials in environmental sociology. In the second section, "Commodities, Extraction and Frontiers", a series of case studies covering a range of industries, locations and historical periods present a variety of applications of the political economy of natural resources to critical issues regarding commodities, extraction and frontiers. The case study industries include oil, steel, transport, furs, sugar and Brazil nuts, and the chapters examine regions in Latin America, North America, and Asia. In the third section, "Connecting Political and Economic Change", four chapters focus on the relationship between raw materials, economic change, and socioeconomic change. These chapters examine long term economic and political change and the relationship between political and economic change in Latin America and Africa.

Cover -- Nature, Raw Materials, and Political Economy -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Editorial Advisory Board -- Nature, Raw Materials, and Political Economy: An Introduction -- Introduction -- The Political Economy of Nature and the Concept of Rent -- Commodity-Based Analysis and Linkage Theory -- The Contributions of this volume to the Political Economy of Nature and Raw Materials -- Future Directions for Research -- References -- Part I: Theoretical Foundations -- Matter, Space, Time, and Technology: How Local Process Drives Global Systems -- Introduction -- Matter, Space, and the Logic of Production -- Matter, Space, Technology, and Trade: Building a Model of Globalization -- How Modern Social Scientific Analysis Neglects Space and Nature -- How Earlier Analyses of Local Materio-Spatial Configurations can Enhance Contemporary Analyses of Globalization -- Innis's Materio-Spatial Explanations of Canada's Economic History -- Conclusion: Raw Materials, Economic Ascent, and Underdevelopment in the Production of Globalization -- Notes -- References -- Environmental Sociology's Theoretical and Empirical Paradoxes -- Introduction -- The ''Political Sociologization'' of Sociology and Environmental Sociology -- The Paradoxes of Early American Environmental Sociology -- Theoretical and Empirical Paradoxes and the Future Agenda for Environmental Sociology -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- For a Sociology of 'Socionature': Ontology and the Commodity-Based Approach -- Introduction -- Advantages of Ant for the Sociology of Socionature -- The Transformation of Sociology's Object of Inquiry -- Asymmetrical Interrelation of Nature and Society -- 'Socionature' and the Co-construction of Nature and Society -- Addressing Challenges to a Sociology of Socionature: Bunker's Commodity-Based Approach and Conjoint Constitution -- The Agency of Nature -- Intentionality and Humanism -- Linking the 'Local' and the 'Global' in Theory -- Periodization of Socionatural Change -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Keeping Time: Temporal Hierarchies in Socio-Ecological Systems -- Introduction -- Social Time, Human Behavior, and Environmental Outcomes -- Temporal Grains and Temporal Fallacies -- Time, Uncertainty, and the Burden of Proof -- Hierarchies of Social Time -- Hierarchies of Ecological Time -- Socio-Ecological Hierarchies and Deforestation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Cycles of Accumulation, Crisis, Materials, and Space: Can Different Theories of Change be Reconciled? -- Introduction: Hegemony and Accumulation -- Arrighi's Cycles of Accumulation -- Bunker's Materio-Spatial Model of Ascent -- Return to Crisis Theory -- Hegemony and Local Change -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Commodities, Extraction and Frontiers -- Starting at the Beginning: Extractive Economies as the Unexamined Origins of Global Commodity Chains -- Introduction.

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