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Environmental Crises and the Metabolic Rift in World-Historical Perspective
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This article proposes a new theoretical framework to study the dialectic of capital and nature over the longue duree of world capitalism. The author proposes that today’s global ecological crisis has its roots in the transition to capitalism during the long sixteenth century. The emergence of capitalism marked not only a decisive shift in the arenas of politics, economy, and society, but a fundamental reorganization of world ecology, characterized by a “metabolic rift,” a progressively deepening rupture in the nutrient cycling between the country and the city. Building upon the historical political economy of Marx, Foster, Arrighi, and Wallerstein, the author proposes a new research agenda organized around the concept of systemic cycles of agro-ecological transformation. This agenda aims at discerning the ways in which capitalism’s relationship to nature developed discontinuously over time as recurrent ecological crises have formed a decisive moment of world capitalist crisis, forcing successive waves of restructuring over long historical time..
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- Authors
- Moore, J. W.
- Venue
- Organization & Environment
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2000-06
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 123-157
- ISSN
- 1086-0266 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-7417
- OpenAlex
- W2149022830
- Cited by
- 309
- References
- 103
- FWCI
- 9.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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