Capitalism Nature Socialism is an international red-green journal of theory and politics published by the Taylor and Francis Group. Key CNS themes are the dialectics of human and natural history; labor and land; workplace struggles and community struggles; economics and ecology; and the politics of ecology and ecology of politics. The journal is especially concerned to join (and relate) discourses on labor, ecology, feminist and community movements; and on radical democracy and human rights. Launched in 1988 by the Santa Cruz-based Center for Political Ecology and edited by James O’Connor and Barbara Laurence, in 2008 editorship of the journal moved to Joel Kovel, and is currently edited by Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro. Published four times a year, selected content is available on this CPE site, and the full back issue list is available on line through Taylor and Francis Group.
CNS online hosts a community of red-green scholars and activists whose web-essays, reports on activist work, artwork, and other publishable endeavor aims to foster and facilitate critical debates on timely issues of environment and radical politics—feminists, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, anti-racist, anti-imperialist politics. Contributions from scholars, intellectuals and activists from all over the world are invited.
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Democracy and Ecology Book Series ~ A Guilford Book Series Published in Conjunction with the Center for Political Ecology ~ James O’Connor, series editor.
Is Capitalism Sustainable?: Political Economy and the Politics of Ecology – Edited by Martin O’Connor, 1994. “Is Capitalism Sustainable? is, to my knowledge, the first comprehensive analytical effort to make all the relevant connections.” — Douglas F. Dowd
Green Production: Toward an Environmental Rationality – by Enrique Leff, 1995.
“You can disagree with some (or many) of theses of Enrique Leff’s book. What cannot be denied is that Green Production is one of the most serious contributions to the contemporary debate on political ecology worldwide.”– Victor Toledo
The Greening of Marxism – Edited by Ted Benton, 1996.
“As we prepare to enter the 21st century we need, more than ever, to understand the political and economic roots of environmental problems. This book — written by an international array of scholars — helps us to understand these roots”. — Michael Redclift
Minding Nature : The Philosophers of Ecology – Edited by David Macauley, 1996.
“It is good to have these great philosophers cast, as they so rarely are, in a clear ecological light. It helps not only to understand their work in a fresh new way but to realize how, in a sense, all important philosophy in this age can best be seen as a branch of the study of nature itself.” — Kirkpatrick Sale
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CNS/CPE Pamphlet/Occasional Paper Series
Pamphlet 1 – Conference Papers on Capitalism and Nature by James O’Connor – 40 pp
Pamphlet 2 – Dominant Constructions of Women and Nature in Social Science Literature by Brinda Rao – 27 pp
Pamphlet 3 – Atmospheric Destruction and Human Survival by Kenneth Neill Cameron – 34 pp
Pamphlet 4 – The Limits of Environmentalism Without Class: Lessons From the Ancient Forest Struggle of the Pacific Northwest (order from co-publisher Monthly Review Press) by John Bellamy Foster – 30 pp
Pamphlet 5 – Murray Bookchin: Nature’s Prophet (includes “Negating Bookchin” by Joel Kovel and “Ecology and Anthropology in the Works of Murray Bookchin”
by Alan Rudy) – 68 pp
Occasional Paper 1 – The Second Contradiction of Capitalism: Debates – 60 pp
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CNS/CPE Local Ecological History Series
Video – The Nature of Construction and Construction of Nature in Fall Creek, Felton, California, 1860-1992 by James O’Connor and Barbara Laurence -29 min.
LEH Pamphlet 1 – Three Ways to Think About the Ecological History of Monterey Bay
by James O’Connor – 27 pp
LEH Book – Good Liberals and Great Blue Herons: Land, Labor and Politics in Pajaro Valley – 160 pp by Frank Bardacke –