False Antitheses? Marxism, Nature and Actor‐Networks
@article{Castree2002FalseAM, title={False Antitheses? Marxism, Nature and Actor‐Networks}, author={Noel Castree}, journal={Antipode}, year={2002}, volume={34}, pages={111-146} }
This paper stages an encounter between two critical approaches that have been central to the recent ?greening? of left geography. The theoretical and normative claims of the first approach, eco-Marxism, have been subject to sometimes biting criticism from advocates of the second approach, actor-network theory (ANT). Taking a nonorthodox Marxist perspective, I argue that the ANT critique of political economy approaches to nature is overstated and only partly defensible. By distinguishing between…
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