Co-founder/director of the Center for Political Ecology and Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. From 1988 to 1993 James O’Connor served as Editor-in-Chief of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Journal of Socialist Ecology. James O’Connor’s publications have had a major impact on the thinking of the generation of red-green scholar advocates who came of age in the 1970s and 1980s. His red-green synthesis continues to resonate, stimulate debate, and prompt new thinking, especially in light of resurgent attention to the relationship between capitalism, environmental degradation, and global crises.
Jim O’Connor email: cns [at] ucsc.edu
Oft-cited publications
First edition St. Martins Press 1972, revised 4th printing Transaction 2009.
Blackwell, 1987.
Blackwell, 1984.
Major articles
“What is Environmental History? Why Environmental History“ Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 8(2) June 1997.
“On the Two Contradictions of Capitalism,” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 2(3), 1991
“Introduction: The Political Economy of Ecology” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 3(1), 1989.
Capitalism, Nature, Socialism a theoretical introduction Capitalism Nature Socialism 1(1) 1988:11-38.
A Dialogue on Socialism and Ecology: A debate by James O’ Connor and Takis Fotopoulos