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.