Events

JASON MOORE
Origins of the Ecological Crisis
March 6, 3:00 PM
Goldwin Smith, Lewis Auditorium

Jason W. Moore is Research Fellow in the Department of Social and Economic Geography, Lund University, and Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His essays on globalization, the history of capitalism, and environmental history have appeared in Theory & Society, Antipode, Review, Organization & Environment, Monthly Review, Science & Society, and Critical Sociology. In 2004, he was awarded the Alice Hamilton Prize of the American Society for Environmental History, and in 2002, the Distinguished Scholarship Award for Best Articles, by the Political Economy of the World-System Section of the American Sociological Association. He is presently completing a book on the world environmental history of the rise of capitalism, 1300-1800.

Sponsored by the Departments of Development Sociology and City & Regional Planning; Cosponsored by The Polson Institute for Global Development and The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

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