THE RISE AND FALL OF
CHEAP NATURES
CALL FOR PAPERS
Paper session: The Rise and Fall of Cheap Natures
For the Annual meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, San Francisco, 29 March-3 April 2016
Capitalism’s greatest strength – and the source of its most
pressing problems today – has been its capacity to create Cheap Natures: labor,
food, energy, and raw materials. That capacity is now in question. In these
sessions, we explore the manifold geographies of environmental change and
capital accumulation through state-, imperial-, and capital-centered projects
to appropriate natures – including human natures – as cheaply as possible.
These explorations may engage the creation – or destruction
– of Cheap Natures across the spectrum of scalar and geographical emphases:
regions of the Global South and Global North, from the body to the biosphere.
We welcome papers encompassing (but not limited to) historical and contemporary
transformations of social reproduction, commodity frontiers, hegemonic
projects, scientific regimes, imperial power, and capital accumulation on a
world-scale.
We especially welcome proposals that seek to transcend
Nature/Society dualisms in the pursuit of new syntheses of “ecological” and
“capitalist” crisis.
Deadline 16 November.
Contact: Jay
Bolthouse (jebbolt@gmail.com) and Christopher Cox (crc42@uw.edu).
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