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Against Hybridism: Why We Need to Distinguish between Nature and Society, Now More than Ever

Malm, Andreas·2019·Historical Materialism
DOI 10.1163/1569206x-00001610
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It is fashionable to argue that nature and society are obsolete categories. The two, we are told, can no longer be distinguished from one another; continuing loyalty to the 'binary' of the natural and the social blinds us to the logic of current ecological crises. This article outlines an argument for the opposite position: now more than ever – particularly in our rapidly warming world – we need to sift out the social components from the natural, if we wish to understand the crises and retain the possibility of intervening in them. Tracing the current of hybridism to the writings of Bruno Latour, this article ends with a critique of the foremost proponent of a hybridism in Marxist garb: Jason W. Moore. Against his theories, it suggests that historical materialism is a form of property dualism that distinguishes between social and natural relations while considering them equally material in substance. That is also the analytical premise of ecological class hatred, the flames of which ecological Marxism seeks to fan.

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Authors
Malm, A.
Affiliations
Lund University (SE)
Corresponding author
Malm, Andreas
Venue
Historical Materialism
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Published
2019-07-08
Volume
27
Issue
2
Pages
156-187
ISSN
  • 1465-4466 (ISSN-L)
  • 1569-206X
DOI
10.1163/1569206x-00001610
OpenAlex
W2794395060
Semantic Scholar
d8e264e2f580f6a5f75087cb2db8ec4fc25f789c
Cited by
68
References
97
Citations by year
2026: 12 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 3
FWCI
8.29
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Historical Materialism (publishedVersion)
  • Lund University Publications (Lund University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Economy and Marxism
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Marxism and Critical Theory
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
Keywords
nature and society, hybridity, environmental crisis, Bruno Latour, Jason W. Moore, property dualism, ecological Marxism, climate change, relations of production

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