World-Ecology workshop on capitalism, nature, and historical method,
26 September 2015
World-Ecology Research Network will organize a one-day workshop on capitalism, nature, and historical method at the University of Helsinki on 26 September 2015.
The workshop is intended for researchers, and focuses on “method” in a Wallersteinian sense: bounding time, space, and nature in historical capitalism (including climate change and other environmental-social changes). World-ecology is a perspective that asks scholars to move beyond “Nature” and “Society,” to understand how nature, power, and wealth co-evolved within, and are produced by, the web of life. The workshop is interdisciplinary, and will be of particular interest to scholars and students in World-politics, Geography, Anthropology, History, Sociology, Economics, Area and Cultural Studies, Environmental Studies, Rural and Agrarian Studies, and the natural sciences, who seek new analytical tools.
Place: Fabianinkatu 33 – Main building, Auditorium XIII
Workshop schedule:
9.15-11.00 Workshop on the papers people have submitted, receiving commenting on them by Jason Moore and the participants.
12.15-14 Open lecture, “Capitalism in the Web of Life,” by Jason W. Moore, based on his new book with the same title (see: http://www.versobooks.com/books/1924-capitalism-in-the-web-of-life).
14-16 Open discussion focused on post-Cartesian method in the human and natural sciences. Participants will have access to the introduction and first chapter of Capitalism in the Web of Life.
The workshop is organized by Markus Kröger (University of Helsinki) and Jason W. Moore (University of Binghamton), for further details and inquiries, please contact: markus.kroger@helsinki.fi.
For registration, including details on submitting your working paper for commenting, and getting the reading package, please contact: tero.toivanen@helsinki.fi. The working papers should be submitted by 10 September. Participants in the last part of the workshop are expected to have read the readings. Participation is open for all the sessions or any single one of them - no registration needed for participation in the open lecture.
The World-Ecology Research Network is a global community of scholars committed to the dialectical analysis of humanity-in-nature.
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Key texts in the world-ecology perspective can be found here: www.academia.edu/People/World-Ecology.
Details: the working papers should no more than 10.000 words long. In the call, 1) "historical" does not mean "in the past" but includes "contemporary history" or "the present as history"; 2) papers should "engage" world-ecological arguments in some specific sense ("engagement"
does not require agreement, of course); and 3) papers should be committed to moving beyond the Nature/Society binary, and that "moving beyond" can be interpreted broadly.
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