John Bellamy Foster
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John Bellamy Foster, né le , est un professeur de sociologie de l'université de l'Oregon. Il est également rédacteur en chef, puis directeur de la Monthly Review. Ses écrits se concentrent sur l'économie politique du capitalisme et la crise économique, l'écologie et la crise écologique, et la théorie marxiste. Il est connu du public français depuis avec son essai Marx écologiste aux éditions Amsterdam.
Il a publié plus d'une centaine d'articles, rédigé plus d'une douzaine de livres et plus d'une centaine de compte rendu de conférence. Il a été l'invité de conférences partout dans le monde[réf. nécessaire]. Il a reçu de nombreux prix et distinctions[Lesquels ?]. Son travail est publié dans au moins vingt-cinq langues[réf. nécessaire]. Depuis l'éclatement de la grande crise financière en 2008, Foster est sollicité par des universitaires, des militants, les médias et le public en général[réf. nécessaire] à la suite de ses précédents écrits visionnaires sur la crise à venir.
Foster collabore souvent avec Robert W. McChesney. Plus récemment, il a coécrit avec McChesney The Endless Crisis: How Monopoly-Finance Capital Produces Stagnation and Upheaval from the USA to Chine, disponible dans Monthly Review en automne 2012.
Ses autres livres récents sont The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences and What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism (avec Fred Magdoff), The Ecological Rift and Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present (Brett Clark et Richard York), et The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet. Foster coécrit également avec Paul Burkett, Michael Dawson, Hannah Holleman, R. Jamil Jonna, et Harry Magdoff.
Bibliographie
Essais
Traduction française
- Avec Fred Magdoff, Ce que tout écologiste doit savoir à propos du capitalisme, 2017, Éditions Critiques
- Marx écologiste, 2011, Éditions Amsterdam[1]
Sans traduction francophone
- The Endless Crisis: How Monopoly-Finance Capital Produces Stagnation and Upheaval from the USA to China avec Robert W. McChesney, 2012
- What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism: A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment avec Fred Magdoff, 2011
- The Ecological Rift: Capitalism's War on the Earth avec Brett Clark et Richard York, 2010
- The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet 2009
- The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences avec Fred Magdoff, 2009
- Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present avec Brett Clark et Richard York, 2008
- Naked Imperialism: The U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance 2006
- Pox Americana: Exposing the American Empire coédité avec Robert McChesney, 2004
- Ecology Against Capitalism 2002
- Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature 2000
- Hungry For Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment coédité avec Fred Magdoff et Fred Buttel, 1999
- The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment 1999, 2de édition.
- In Defense of History: Marxism and the Postmodern Agenda coédité avec Ellen Meiksins Wood, 1996
- Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution coédité avec Ellen Meiksins Wood et Robert W. McChesney, 1998
- The Faltering Economy: The Problem of Accumulation under Monopoly Capitalism coédité avec Henryk Szlajfer, 1984
Articles
Many additional pieces are available on the Monthly Review website.
- "Weber and the Environment: Classical Foundations for a Post-exemptionalist Sociology," coauthored with Hannah Holleman, American Journal of Sociology, vol. 117, no. 6 (May 2012), pp. 1625–73.
- "Marx's Ecology in the 21st Century," coauthored with Brett Clark, World Review of Political Economy, vol. 1, no. 1 (mars 2010), pp. 142–56.
- “The Midas Effect: A Critique of Climate Change Economics,” coauthored with Brett Clark and Richard York, Development and Change, vol. 40, no. 6 (November 2009), pp. 1085–96.
- “Ecological Imperialism and the Global Metabolic Rift: Unequal Exchange and the Guano/Nitrates Trade,” coauthored with Brett Clark, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, vol. 50, no. 3-4 (2009), pp. 311–34.
- “The Sociology of Ecology: Ecological Organicism versus Ecosystem Ecology in the Social Construction of Ecological Science, 1926-1935,” coauthored with Brett Clark, Organization & Environment, vol. 21, no. 3 (September 2008), pp. 311–52.
- “The Podolinsky Myth: An Obituary; An Introduction to ‘Human Labour and Unity of Force' by Sergei Podolinsky,” coauthored with Paul Burkett, Historical Materialism, no. 16 (2008), pp. 115–61.
- “Classical Marxism and the Second Law of Thermodynamics: Marx/Engels, the Heat Death of the Universe Theory, and the Origins of Ecological Economics,” coauthored with Paul Burkett, Organization and Environment, vol. 21, no. 1 (mars 2008), pp. 1–35.
- “The Critique of Intelligent Design: Epicurus, Marx, Darwin and Freud and the Materialist Defense of Science,” coauthored with Brett Clark and Richard York, Theory and Society, vol. 36 (décembre 2007), pp. 515–46.
- “The Environmental Conditions of the Working Class: An Introduction to Selections from Frederick Engels' The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844,” coauthored with Brett Clark, Organization & Environment, vol. 19, no. 3 (septembre 2006), pp. 375–88.
- “Metabolism, Energy, and Entropy in Marx's Critique of Political Economy: Beyond the Podolinsky Myth,” coauthored with Paul Burkett, Theory and Society, vol. 35, no. 1 (February 2006), pp. 109–56.
- “The Treadmill of Accumulation: Schnaiberg's Environment and Marxian Political Economy,” Organization and Environment, vol. 18, no. 1 (mars 2005), pp. 7–18.
- “Ecological Economics and Classical Marxism: Podolinsky's ‘Socialism and the Unity of Physical Forces' and the Responses of Marx and Engels,” coauthored with Paul Burkett, Organization and Environment, vol. 17, no. 1 (mars 2004), 28 pp. 32–60.
- “Land, the Color Line and the Quest of the Silver Fleece: An Introduction to W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk and The Quest of the Silver Fleece (selections),” coauthored with Brett Clark, Organization and Environment, vol. 16, no. 4 (December 2003), pp. 459–69.
- "Marx's Ecology in Historical Perspective," International Socialism, no. 97 (Autumn 2002), pp. 71–86.
- "Hellen Keller and the Touch of Nature: An Introduction to Keller's The World I live In (Selections),” coauthored with Brett Clark, Organization and Environment, vol. 15, no. 3 (September 2002), pp. 278–84.
- "Marx and the Dialectic of Orgainc/Inorganic Relations: A Rejoinder to Salleh and Clark," coauthored with Paul Burkett, Organization and Environment, vol. 14, no. 4 (December 2001), pp. 451–62.
- “William Stanley Jevons and The Coal Question : An Introduction to Jevons' ‘Of the Economy of Fuel',” coauthored with Brett Clark, Organization and Environment, vol. 14, no. 1 (March 2001), pp. 93–98.
- ”The Dialectic of Organic/Inorganic Relations: Marx and the Hegelian Philosophy of Nature,” coauthored with Paul Burkett, Organization and Environment, vol. 13, no. 4 (December 2000), pp. 403–25.
- “E. Ray Lankester, Ecological Materialist: Introduction to ‘The Effacement of Nature by Man,” Organization and Environment, vol. 13, no. 2 (June 2000), pp. 233–35.
- “Marx's Theory of Metabolic Rift: Classical Foundations for Environmental Sociology,” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 105, no. 2 (September 1999), pp. 366–405.
- “Contradictions in the Universalization of Capitalism,” Monthly Review, vol. 50, no. 11 (April 1999), pp. 29–39.
- ”The Age of Planetary Crisis: The Unsustainable Development of Capitalism” (in special issue on “The Future of Capitalism”), Review of Radical Political Economics, vol. 29, no. 4 (Fall 1997), pp. 113–42.
- ”The Crisis of the Earth: Marx's Theory of Ecological Sustainability as a Nature-Imposed Necessity for Human Production,” Organization and Environment, vol. 10, no. 3 (September 1997), pp. 280–97.
- ”The Long Stagnation and the Class Struggle,” Journal of Economic Issues, vol. 31, no. 2 (juin 1997), pp. 445–51.
- "Market Fetishism and the Attack on Social Reason: A Comment on Hayek, Polanyi and Wainwright," Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, vol. 6, no. 4 (December 1995), pp. 101–107.
- "The Limits of Environmentalism Without Class: Lessons from the Ancient Forest Crisis of the Pacific Northwest," Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, vol. 4, no. 1 (mars 1993), pp. 11– 41.
- "The Absolute General Law of Environmental Degradation Under Capitalism," Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, vol. 3, no. 3 (September 1992), pp. 77–82.
- "Crises Lasting for Decades," Science & Society, vol. 54, no. 1 (Spring 1990), pp. 73–81.
- "Monopoly Capital Theory and Stagflation," Review of Radical Political Economics, vol. 17, nos. 1 and 2 (printemps et été 1985), pp. 221–25.
- "Sources of Instability in the U.S. Political Economy and Empire," Science & Society, vol. XLIX, no. 2 (été 1985), pp. 167–193.
- "The Political Economy of Joseph Schumpeter: A Theory of Capitalist Development and Decline," Studies in Political Economy, no. 15 (Fall 1984), pp. 5–42.
- "Understanding the Significance of the Great Depression," Studies in Political Economy, no. 11 (été 1983), pp. 177–196.
- "Theories of Capitalist Transformation: Critical Notes on the Comparison of Marx and Schumpeter," Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. XCVIII, no. 2 (mai 1983), pp. 327–33l.
Chapitres des essais collectifs
- “Marx's Ecology and its Historical Significance,” in Michael Redclift and Graham Woodgate, ed., International Handbook of Environmental Sociology, second edition (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2010), 106-20. (Revised, updated, and expanded version “Marx's Ecology in Historical Perspective—see under major non-peer reviewed scholarly articles above.)
- “The Financialization of Wealth and the Crisis of 2007-2009,” coauthored with Hannah Holleman, in Henry Veltmeyer, ed., Imperialism, Crisis and Class Struggle: The Enduring Verities and Contemporary Face of Capitalism—Essays in Honour of James Petras (London: Brill, 2010), pp. 163–73.
- "Paul Alexander Baran 1910-1964" in Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists, edited by Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer (Brookfield, Vermont: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1992), pp. 22–29.
- "Liberal Practicality and the U.S. Left," in Ralph Miliband, Leo Panitch and John Saville, ed. The Retreat of the Intellectuals: Socialist Register, 1990 (London: Merlin Press, 1990), pp. 265–89.
- "The Uncoupling of the World Order: A Survey of Global Crisis Theories," in Mark Gottdiener and Nikos Kominos, ed. Capitalist Development and Crisis Theory: Accumulation, Regulation and Spatial Restructuring (London: Macmillan Press, 1989), pp. 99–122.
- "What is Stagnation?" in Robert Cherry, et al., ed. The Imperiled Economy: Macroeconomics from a Left Perspective (New York: Union for Radical Political Economics, 1987), pp. 59–70.
En anglais
- John Bellamy Foster's Faculty Homepage at the University of Oregon
- Monthly Review website
- Bill Moyers Must-Read Money & Politics Book List
- Interview with John Bellamy Foster, Frontline magazine, 2006
- The Monthly Review Story by Robert W. McChesney
- John Bellamy Foster discusses his book Naked Imperialism with C.S. Soong on the KPFA radio program Against the Grain September 19, 2006 (link to audio download)
- John Bellamy Foster speaking at the Climate Change Social Change Conference - Sydney , Australia April 2008 (audio)
- Interview, Online Journal, February 27, 2009
- John Bellamy Foster, address at the Climate Change I Social Change Conference on Capitalism and Climate Change, Sydney, April 11, 2008
- Review of The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet by Simon Butler
- The Vulnerable Planet Fifteen Years Later by John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review, November 2009
- VIDEO: John Bellamy Foster - The Crisis of Capital: Economy, Ecology and Empire, lecture delivered at the Econvergence Conference in Portland, Oregon, on October 2, 2009
En français
- John Bellamy Foster, Bonnes feuilles de Marx écologiste, Contretemps, (original en 2002)
Références
- Jean-Marie Haribey, « La portée écologiste de l'œuvre de Marx », Actuel Marx, no 52, , p. 121 à 129 (lire en ligne).
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- Universitaire américain du XXe siècle
- Universitaire américain du XXIe siècle
- Sociologue américain
- Essayiste ou théoricien marxiste
- Étudiant de l'Université York
- Professeur à l'université d'Oregon
- Naissance en août 1953
- Naissance à Seattle
- Socialiste américain
- Rédacteur en chef
- Étudiant de l'Evergreen State College
- Professeur de sociologie