Dawn of the Capitalocene: Jason Moore (on campus and live streamed)
Thursday, May 17, 2018
6:00 PM-8:00 PM
Dawn of the Capitalocene: Power, Nature, and Capital in the Early Modern Atlantic, 1452-1793
Jason W. Moore is author or editor, most recently, of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso, 2015), Capitalocene o Antropocene? (Ombre Corte, 2017), Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism (PM Press, 2016), and, with Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (University of California Press, 2017).
His books and essays on environmental history, capitalism, and social theory have been widely recognized, including the Alice Hamilton Prize of the American Society for Environmental History (2003), the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Section on the Political Economy of the World-System (American Sociological Association, 2002 for articles, and 2015 for Web of Life), and the Byres and Bernstein Prize in Agrarian Change (2011). He is chair (2017-18) of the Political Economy of the World-System Section (ASA), and coordinates the World-Ecology Research Network.
Jason W. Moore is an environmental historian and historical geographer at Binghamton University, where he is associate professor of sociology.
Contact Information
Gabriel Rocha
215-895-2463
gar56@drexel.edu
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Location
Drexel University
Pearlstein Learning Center
Market Street btw 32nd/33rd Sts
3230 Market Street, Room 101,
Philadelphia, PA 19104
PAT Ceremony and refreshments at 6 pm
Lecture begins at 6:20 PM
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