Nature, Raw Materials, and Political Economy, Volume 10 (Research in Rural Sociology and Development)

Cover......Page 1
Nature, Raw Materials, and Political Economy......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
List of Contributors......Page 10
Editorial Advisory Board......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
The Political Economy of Nature and the Concept of Rent......Page 15
Commodity-Based Analysis and Linkage Theory......Page 21
The Contributions of this volume to the Political Economy of Nature and Raw Materials......Page 26
Future Directions for Research......Page 30
References......Page 32
Introduction......Page 36
Matter, Space, and the Logic of Production......Page 38
Matter, Space, Technology, and Trade: Building a Model of Globalization......Page 39
How Modern Social Scientific Analysis Neglects Space and Nature......Page 44
How Earlier Analyses of Local Materio-Spatial Configurations can Enhance Contemporary Analyses of Globalization......Page 49
Innis's Materio-Spatial Explanations of Canada's Economic History......Page 52
Conclusion: Raw Materials, Economic Ascent, and Underdevelopment in the Production of Globalization......Page 55
References......Page 56
Introduction......Page 58
The ‘‘Political Sociologization’’ of Sociology and Environmental Sociology......Page 61
The Paradoxes of Early American Environmental Sociology......Page 62
Theoretical and Empirical Paradoxes and the Future Agenda for Environmental Sociology......Page 66
Concluding Remarks......Page 73
Notes......Page 74
References......Page 75
For a Sociology of ’Socionature’: Ontology and the Commodity-Based Approach......Page 78
Introduction......Page 79
Advantages of Ant for the Sociology of Socionature......Page 81
The Transformation of Sociology's Object of Inquiry......Page 83
Asymmetrical Interrelation of Nature and Society......Page 84
’Socionature’ and the Co-construction of Nature and Society......Page 85
Addressing Challenges to a Sociology of Socionature: Bunker's Commodity-Based Approach and Conjoint Constitution......Page 88
The Agency of Nature......Page 89
Intentionality and Humanism......Page 92
Linking the ’Local’ and the ’Global’ in Theory......Page 94
Periodization of Socionatural Change......Page 96
Conclusion......Page 97
Notes......Page 98
References......Page 101
Introduction......Page 106
Social Time, Human Behavior, and Environmental Outcomes......Page 107
Temporal Grains and Temporal Fallacies......Page 110
Time, Uncertainty, and the Burden of Proof......Page 111
Hierarchies of Social Time......Page 113
Hierarchies of Ecological Time......Page 114
Socio-Ecological Hierarchies and Deforestation......Page 117
Conclusion......Page 121
Notes......Page 122
References......Page 123
Introduction: Hegemony and Accumulation......Page 126
Arrighi's Cycles of Accumulation......Page 128
Bunker's Materio-Spatial Model of Ascent......Page 133
Return to Crisis Theory......Page 141
Hegemony and Local Change......Page 145
Notes......Page 148
References......Page 149
Introduction......Page 154
Global Economic Restructuring and Commodity Chains......Page 157
Bringing in Bunker: Extraction and Transport of Raw Materials......Page 162
References......Page 168
Sunk Costs, Resource Extractive Industries, and Development Outcomes......Page 172
Introduction......Page 173
What are Sunk Costs?......Page 175
Physical Characteristics of Investment......Page 176
Investment Specificity and Remoteness......Page 177
Transaction Costs......Page 178
Extractive Industries and Sunk Costs......Page 179
Investments in Extractive Industries: Specific, Remote and Lumpy......Page 180
Sunk Investments, Industry Organization, and Development Outcomes......Page 182
Sunk Costs and Strategic Behavior in Extractive Industries......Page 183
Sunk Costs, Uncertainty, and Investment in Extractive Industries......Page 187
Sunk Costs and the Structural Evolution of the Economy......Page 189
Sunk Costs and Path Dependency in Extractive Industries......Page 190
Sunk Costs and Dutch Disease Effects in Extractive Economies......Page 191
Policy and Research Implications for Extractive Industries with Sunk Costs......Page 194
Notes......Page 196
References......Page 197
Japan's Economic Ascent and its Extraction of Wealth from its Raw Materials Peripheries......Page 200
Introduction......Page 201
New Historical Materialism and Generative Sectors......Page 203
Steel and Midas in Japan......Page 205
Ships, Shipbuilding, and The Midas......Page 210
Creating and Extracting Wealth from Japan's Raw Materials Peripheries......Page 213
Conclusion......Page 215
References......Page 217
A Perpetual Extractive Frontier? The History of Offshore Petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico......Page 222
Introduction......Page 223
The Bunkerian Framework......Page 224
The Physical Aspects of Offshore Petroleum Extraction in the GOM......Page 226
From Wetlands to Open Water......Page 229
The Contradictions of Offshore Expansion in the 1960s......Page 231
The ‘‘Bright Spot’’ Era......Page 233
The Area-Wide Leasing System......Page 235
The Limits and Constraints on Offshore Development in the GOM......Page 236
Notes......Page 239
References......Page 240
Commodity Frontier as Contested Periphery: The Fur Trade in Iroquoia, New York and Canada, 1664–1754......Page 244
Introduction: Fur as Commodity Frontier, Commodity Frontier as Contested Periphery......Page 245
Geopolitics vs. Markets in Colonial New York's Fur Trade, 1664–1754......Page 248
French and Iroquois Expansion, English Restructuring, 1664–1689......Page 250
Core Conflict, Iroquois Defeat, and Beaver Shortage/Glut, 1689–1701......Page 255
French ‘‘Fur Trade Imperialism,’’ English Fur Mercantilism, Iroquois Neutralism, 1701–1730S......Page 257
From Contested Periphery Toward Peripheral People between Hegemonic Rivals, 1730S–1754......Page 260
Notes......Page 262
References......Page 263
Extraction, Gender and Neoliberalism in the Western Amazon......Page 266
Introduction: The Extractive Question and Amazon Development......Page 267
Extraction and Stagnation: Revanchist Drag or Sustainable Development?......Page 269
The Labor Question in Extraction......Page 270
Invisibility and Women......Page 274
From Demonization to Deliverance: The New Narrative of Extraction......Page 276
From Modernization to Neoliberal Development......Page 279
The Castanha Projects: Trouble in Paradise #1: The Factory......Page 280
Trouble in Paradise #2: Decentralized Production......Page 282
Structure of Income and Labor Deployment......Page 285
The Gender Division of Labor on the Seringal......Page 286
Decentralized Production and the Rural Economy......Page 287
The Opportunity Costs of Labor in Rural Areas......Page 288
Mini and Domestic Nut Production......Page 289
The Social Implications of Rural Decentralization and Differentiation......Page 290
The Decentralized Model and its Future......Page 291
The Urban Social Impact......Page 292
The Cost of Labor......Page 294
Conclusion......Page 295
References......Page 296
Material Process and Industrial Architecture: Innovation on The Cuban Sugar Frontier, 1818–1857......Page 300
Introduction......Page 301
Sugar Making as Material Process......Page 304
The Model Sugar Plantation, 1750–1815......Page 306
Cuba: Technological Innovation and the Sugar Frontier......Page 312
Conclusion......Page 318
References......Page 319
World-Systems in the Biogeosphere: Three Thousand Years of Urbanization, Empire Formation and Climate Change......Page 324
Introduction......Page 325
Spatially Bounding World-Systems......Page 327
World-System Cycles: Rise-and-Fall and Pulsations......Page 332
Synchronization of Empires, Cities and Demographic Waves......Page 335
The Moran Effect in Population Ecology......Page 339
A Comprehensive Model of the Causes of Inter-Regional Synchrony......Page 340
Notes......Page 341
References......Page 343
Coffee, Revolution, and Democracy in Central America......Page 346
Introduction......Page 347
Theories of Democracy: Moore and the Transition School......Page 348
The Moore Model and Central America......Page 351
Democracy through Socialist Revolution: The Case of El Salvador......Page 352
The Absent Bourgeois Revolution in Costa Rica......Page 355
Bourgeois Revolutionaries in a Socialist Revolution: The Case of Nicaragua......Page 356
Conclusions: Revolution and Democracy......Page 358
References......Page 361
Peasants, Planters, and the Predatory State: Export Diversification in the Dominican Republic, 1970–2000......Page 366
Introduction......Page 367
The Social and Ecological Roots of Export Diversification......Page 369
Comparative Regional Performance......Page 373
Discussion......Page 378
Notes......Page 380
References......Page 381
Selling the River: Gendered Experiences of Resource Extraction and Development in Lesotho......Page 386
Introduction......Page 387
Lesotho......Page 388
Lesotho Highlands Water Project......Page 390
Development in Lesotho......Page 391
Large Dams as Development......Page 392
Dams and Development......Page 394
Gender and Development......Page 395
Research Methods......Page 396
Gendered Experiences of Resource Extraction and Development......Page 397
Compensation and Value......Page 398
Reorganization of Resources......Page 399
Nutritional Costs......Page 401
Increased Reliance on Cash......Page 402
Loss of Pastoral Lands......Page 403
Conclusion......Page 404
Notes......Page 405
References......Page 406