Readings and Key Dates for
Social Theories of the Environment
Reconfiguring the
Sociology-Environment Relationship
Friday, January
23..........................................................Catton and
Dunlap (PDF); Buttel (PDF)
Wednesday, January
28.........................................................Molotch
(PDF); von Werlhof
(PDF)
Friday, January
30............................................................................York,
Rosa, and Dietz (PDF)
Neo-Malthusianism
Wednesday, February
4............................................................... Catton
(PDF); Hoffmann
(PDF)
Reconsidering the Tragedy of the
Commons
Friday, February
6...................................................................................................
Hardin
(PDF)
Wednesday, February
11................................................................................Neves-Graca
(PDF)
Risk and the Environment
Friday, February
13................................................................................Rosa
(Website); Beck
(PDF)
Wednesday, February
18..................................................................................
First Papers Due
Neo-and Contemporary-Marxist
Formulations—Ecological Marxism’s Several
Faces
Friday, February
20......................................................................
Foster (PDF); O’Connor
(PDF)
Wednesday, February 25.................................. Schnaiberg and
Gould, Prefaces and Chapters 1-2
Friday, February
27..............................................................
Schnaiberg and Gould, Chapters 3-6
Wednesday, March
4.......................................................... Schnaiberg
and Gould, Chapters 7-10
Friday, March
6........................................................................
Gould,
Pellow, Schnaiberg (PDF)
March 7-15
...........................................................................................................
Spring Break
Ecological Anarchism
Wednesday, March
18.................................................................................................Best
(PDF)
Friday, March
20................................................................................Tokar
(PDF); Shantz (PDF)
Socially Constructing Nature
Wednesday, March
25......................................................... Braun and
Castree, Chapters 1 and 2
Friday, March
27..................................................................
Braun and Castree, Chapters 4 and 6
Wednesday, April
1.............................................................. Braun
and Castree, Chapters 8 and 9
Friday, April
3...............................................................................
Braun and Castree, Chapter 11
Wednesday, April
8.......................................................................
Braun and Castree, Chapter 12
Friday, April
10..............................................................................
Haraway (PDF); Soper (PDF)
Wednesday, April
15.....................................................................................Second
Papers Due
Ecological Modernization
Friday, April
17..................................................................................
Mol and Spaargaren
(PDF)
Wednesday, April
22.........................................................................................Scheinberg
(PDF)
Friday, April
24...........................................................................................York
and Rosa (PDF)
Futures for Environmental Sociology
Wednesday, April
29................................................................................................
Buttel
(PDF)
FINAL(THIRD) PAPERS WILL BE DUE BY
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6 AT NOON.