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SOCI 450: Environmental Sociology Report a Broken Link

Unit 1

Required Readings

Foster, John Bellamy, “Marx’s Theory of Metabolic Rift: Classical Foundations for Environmental Sociology,” The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 105, No. 2, September 1999, pp. 366-405.
Goldman, Michael and Rachel A. Schurman, “Closing the ‘Great Divide’: New Social Theory on Society and Nature,” Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 26, 2000, pp. 563-584.
Murphy, Joseph, “Ecological Modernisation,” Geoforum, Vol. 31, No. 1, 2000, pp. 1-8.
Supplementary Materials

Recommended Websites
Green Economics
and

http://www.greeneconomics.net/
Thomas Berry, Cultural Historian and Geologian, Dies at 94.
Kennedy Jr., Robert F., “Crimes Against Nature,” Rolling Stone, December 11, 2003.
Ecological footprint calculators:
or

http://www.myfootprint.org/

or

http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/
Bullard, Robert D., Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality, Boulder: Westview Press, 1990.
Jay, Dru Oja, “Can Pew's Charity be Trusted? US foundations give millions to Canadian environmental groups,” The Dominion, November 25, 2007.
or

http://oilsandstruth.org/can-pew039s-charity-be-trusted
Jhally, Sut, “Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse,” in Anderson, Robin and Lance Strate (eds.), Critical Studies in Media Commercialism, New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 27-39.
UN News Service, “United Nations adopts Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples,” United Nations News Centre, 13 September 2007.
How to Boil a Frog
“Agrofuels” Campaign of the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada videos.
“Fuelling Destruction in Latin America” by Friends of the Earth, 2008.
Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report
CBC, “An alternative economic model,” CBC News, April 23, 2007.
Energy sovereignty videos:
The Oakland Institute’s “Voice from Africa” Report:
La Via Campesina
The Greenbelt Movement

Unit 2

Required Readings
Charman, Karen, “Ecuador First to Grant Nature Constitutional Rights,” Capitalism Nature Socialism, Vol. 19, No. 4, December 2008, pp. 131-132.

Unit 3

Required Readings
Charman, Karen, “False Starts and False Solutions: Current Approaches in Dealing with Climate Change,” Capitalism Nature Socialism, Vol. 19, No. 3, September 2008, pp. 29-47.
Bond, Patrick, “The State of the Global Carbon Trade Debate,” Capitalism Nature Socialism, Vol. 19, No. 4, December 2008, pp. 89-106.

Unit 5

Required Readings
Altieri, Miguel A., “Small farms as a planetary ecological asset: Five key reasons why we should support the revitalization of small farms in the Global South,” Food First, Posted May 9th, 2008.