Dr. Jason W. Moore: The Web of Life

In this episode, I speak to Dr. Jason W. Moore. Jason is an environmental historian and historical geographer at Binghamton University, where he is professor of sociology and leads the World-Ecology Research Collective. He 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 coordinates the World-Ecology Research Network. He can be reached at: [email protected]. In this episode, we explore Jason's research and what it has to say to our contemporary social situation. There is a lot to wrestle with here including the history of capitalism, our modern alienation(s) and the hopeful vision of a connective, relational web of life.  Website: https://jasonwmoore.com Twitter: @oikeios https://twitter.com/oikeios Google Scholar Academia.edu Researchgate.net