Capitalist Natures in Five Orientations

Collard, Rosemary‐Claire; Dempsey, Jessica

doi:10.1080/10455752.2016.1202294

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“…While it is beyond the scope of this paper to offer a thorough discussion on the broader implications of this trend for human populations that are devalued, we agree withCollard and Dempsey's (2017a; argument that devaluation serves the interests of patriarchy, racism and colonialism. It can be argued that the convergence of extractive and conservation interests sustains groups of different genders, identities, races, species, y © the one hand, smallholder producers are displaced from their land, criminalised for their livelihoods or even killed if they live in countries where shoot-to-kill anti-poaching policies y © the other hand, large-scale industrial extraction is permitted to continue despite its clear and proven links to environmental degradation and climate…”

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Fixing extraction through conservation: On crises, fixes and the production of shared value and threat

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Bersaglio

Sneyd

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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We are currently witnessing a global trend of intensifying and deepening relationships between extractive companies and biodiversity conservation organisations that warrants closer scrutiny. Although existing literature has established that these two sectors often share the same space and rely on similar logics, it is increasingly common to find biodiversity conservation being carried out through partnerships between extractive and conservation actors. In this article, we explore what this cooperation achieves for both sectors. Using illustrative examples of extractive-conservation collaboration across sub-Saharan Africa, we argue that new entanglements between extractive and conservation actors are motivated by multiple purposes. First, partnering with conservation actors serves as a spatial and socio-ecological fix for extractive companies in response to multiple crises that threaten the sector's productivity. Second, new forms of collaboration between extractive and conservation actors create pathways for both sectors to produce new value from nature. For the extractive sector, creating new value from nature works as a further fix to capitalist crises whereas, for the conservation sector, producing value through nature amounts to new opportunities for capital accumulation. Importantly, working together to produce shared value from nature within and beyond extractive concessions secures both sectors' control over the means of production. Theoretically, our analysis links literature on value in capitalist nature with that on spatial and socio-ecological fixes.

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Fixing extraction through conservation: On crises, fixes and the production of shared value and threat

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Sneyd

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…Though Flint inhabitants are potential prisoners, they are still city residents, and thus we need to more fully understand their relationship to capital. Collard and Dempsey (2016) have developed a typology that describes how various forms of nature are valued by capital. Though their schema centers on nonhuman nature, it is helpful in understanding Flint.…”

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“…"The Underground" refers to both human and nonhuman nature that perform services for capital but which are not recognized or valued. Examples include unpaid domestic work or ecosystem services (Collard and Dempsey, 2016). I argue that Flint is performing unpaid labor for capital by preparing the larger society for increased struggles over basic reproduction, including such necessities as water.…”

Section: The Urban Fiscal Crisis and Racial Capitalismmentioning

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Flint, Environmental Racism, and Racial Capitalism

Pulido

2016

Capitalism Nature Socialism

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“…Those in the last category are quintessentially Foucault's biopolitical others, “let to die” because they are not waged workers nor have the insurance mechanisms of the “mass, consumer societies” (Duffield ). Collard and Dempsey (forthcoming) extend this rapprochement to suggest additional orientations to lives (both human and animal), further distinguishing those who provide social reproductive labor that is useful to capitalism but is unwaged, and those who are threats to capitalist production and biosecurity who are made to die. Theorizing how such surplus populations came to be, Li () posits that they are often subjects of incomplete primitive accumulation.…”

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Lives Versus Livelihoods? Deepening the Regulatory Debates on Soil Fumigants in California's Strawberry Industry

Guthman

2016

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Soil fumigants have been critical to the California strawberry industry's success, but they are also highly toxic to farmworkers and nearby residents. This article traces recent regulatory debates over restrictions on their use which were cast as a contest of lives and livelihoods: activists emphasized the danger of the chemicals while industry emphasized their necessity. Activists' claims were typical of environmental justice battles that focus on disproportionate toxic exposure to marginalized populations, but I problematize that they downplayed industry concern with farmworker jobs. Drawing on Marx, Foucault and recent literature on surplus populations and disposability, I suggest that the analytical separation of lives and livelihoods is complicit in the making of disposable workers such as California farmworkers. Strategically, upholding the separation was a missed opportunity to leverage the strawberry industry's new-found concern with farmworker employment and push for measures that protect current and future farmworker health. Résumé: Fumigantes de la tierra han sido críticos para el éxito de la industria de la fresa de California, pero también son altamente tóxicos para los trabajadores agrícolas y los residentes cercanos. Este artículo describe los recientes debates reglamentarios sobre restricciones en su uso, que fueron emitidos como un concurso de vidas y medios de vida: activistas hicieron hincapié en el peligro de los productos químicos, mientras que la industria hizo hincapié en su necesidad. Demandas de los activistas eran típicas de las batallas de justicia ambiental que se centran en la exposición tóxica desproporcionada a las poblaciones marginadas, pero problematizo que despiden la preocupación de la industria con puestos de trabajo de los trabajadores agrícolas. Sobre la base de Marx, Foucault y literatura reciente sobre las poblaciones excedentes y disponibilidad de acceso, yo sugiero que la separación analítica de la vida y el sustento es cómplice en la fabricación de los trabajadores desechables, tales como los trabajadores agrícolas de California. Estratégicamente, la defensa de la separación fue una oportunidad perdida para aprovechar la recién descubierta preocupación de la industria de la fresa con el empleo de los trabajadores agrícolas y impulsó medidas que protejan la salud de los trabajadores agrícolas actuales y futuras.

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Capitalist Natures in Five Orientations

Cited by 80 publications

References 41 publications

Fixing extraction through conservation: On crises, fixes and the production of shared value and threat

Fixing extraction through conservation: On crises, fixes and the production of shared value and threat

Flint, Environmental Racism, and Racial Capitalism

Lives Versus Livelihoods? Deepening the Regulatory Debates on Soil Fumigants in California's Strawberry Industry

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