User:Jasonwsmoore/World-ecology

World-ecology is a paradigm that views historical change as the co-production of humans with the rest of nature. Not a "theory of the world" but rather a framework for theorizing historical change, the world-ecology perspective challenges the conventional division of the world into "Nature" (ecologies without humans) and "Society" (humans without ecologies). Building on environmentalist, Marxist, and feminist thought, the world-ecology perspective seeks to translate the idea that humans are a part of nature into new methods, concepts, and narratives of world-historical change. In this alternative, the history of capitalism -- including the crises of the 21st century -- is not the history of an "economic" system alone, but of capitalism "as a way of organizing nature." Arguing against economic, technological, and environmental determinisms, world-ecology arguments experiment with new stories of capitalism as unified and uneven system of power, capital, and nature -- in which each moment decisively shapes the others.

Key writers in the world-ecology perspective include Sharae Deckard, Jason W. Moore, Michael Niblett, Kerstin Oloff, and Christian Parenti.