Updated regularly (27 August, 2024). See also In Translation, and my blog: jasonwmoore.wordpress.com.
2024. The Fear and the Fix: Environmentalism Serves the Powerful, The Baffler (15 May).
This love affair with science, technology, and law has failed to put the brakes on the biospheric crisis. In fact, it has only contributed to the fundamental problem, failing to confront the unprecedented centralization of economic and political power that has brought us to the brink of ecological collapse. Environmentalism has become a cause for reform-minded tinkerers who imagine eco-alternatives and fixes of every kind—save those that would wrest power from the few and democratize the web of life.
2022. Struggles for Dignity in the Web of Life: Capital, Waste and the Violence of Cheap Nature. Preface to the Spanish translation of Jaume Franquesa, Power Struggles: Dignity, Value & the Renewable Energy Frontier in Spain (Madrid: Errata Naturae, 2023; 2018 original, Indiana University Press).
2022. Global Capitalism in the Great Implosion: From Planetary Superexploitation to Planetary Socialism? Foreword to William I. Robinson, Can Global Capitalism Endure? (PM Press).
2019. The Capitalocene and Planetary Justice. Maize 6, 49-54.
2018. Slaveship Earth: The World-Historical Imagination in the Age of Climate Crisis, PEWS NEWS: Newsletter of the Political Economy of the World-System Section, American Sociological Association (Spring), 1-4.
2018. How the Chicken Nugget became the True Symbol of Our Era, with Raj Patel, The Guardian (8 May).
2017. Unearthing the Capitalocene: Towards a Reparations Ecology, with Raj Patel, Roar 7, 16-27.
Weighing the injustices of centuries of exploitation can resacralize human relations within the web of life. Redistributing care, land and work so that everyone has a chance to contribute to the improvement of their lives and to that of the ecology around them can undo the violence of abstraction that capitalism makes us perform every day. We term this vision “reparation ecology” and offer it as a way to see history as well as the future, a practice and a commitment to equality and reimagined relations for humans in the web of life.
2017. Value in the Web of Life, or, Why World History Matters to Geography, Dialogues in Human Geography 7(3), 236-330.
2015. Endless Accumulation,Endless (Unpaid) Work?, Occupied Times (29 April).
2008. Ecological Crises and the Agrarian Question in World-Historical Perspective, Monthly Review 60(6), 54-63.
2001. Marx’s Ecology and the Environmental History of World Capitalism, Capitalism Nature Socialism 12(3), 134-139.
2000. Marx and the Historical Ecology of Capital Accumulation on a World
Scale: A Comment on Hornborg, Journal of World-Systems Analysis 6(1), 133-138.