ECOP3015 / 6108
Marxist ecology Part I
Updated weekly schedule…
• Week 8: Marxist ecology Part I
• Week 9: Marxist ecology Part II
• Week 10: Ecofeminism Part I
• Week 11: Ecofeminism Part II (incl. 30 min case study workshop)
• Week 12: Racial capitalism, colonialism and environmental justice
• Week 13: Climate finance
Question
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrterqgh1o
Lecture plan:
Marxist ecology
Introduction
External conception
of nature
Universal conception
of nature
“The ideology of
nature” - Smith
The production
of nature
Marx’s labour
theory of value
Marx,
labour
and
nature
Marx, value
and nature
Appropriation
and exploitation
James
O’Connor:
The second
contradiction
of capitalism
The Four Cheaps
(Moore)
The metabolic
rift
Conclusions
Collective reading exercise
In your groups, read the abstract and short introduction for this week’s
assigned reading by Matt Huber, ‘Value, Nature and Labour: A Defense of
Marx’. Then carefully read the section on the thesis assigned to your group.
Each group will:
a) identify,
b) explain, and
c) critically reflect on 1 of the 5 arguments (‘theses’) Huber makes in the
paper.