Revitalizing the Production of Nature Thesis: A Gramscian Turn

TY - JOUR

T1 - Revitalizing the Production of Nature Thesis

T2 - A Gramscian Turn

AU - Ekers, Michael

AU - Loftus, Alex

PY - 2013/4

Y1 - 2013/4

N2 - This paper revisits the central ontological claim in the production of nature thesis, Neil Smith’s proposition that labour is at the heart of the mutual co-production of nature and society. Surveying Smith’s work and others, we argue that there is a danger of losing the embodied, historically and geographically specific practices that are so central to the making of natures. Turning to the work of Antonio Gramsci, we find crucial resources that enable a historicized and geographically contextualized understanding of the making of natures.

AB - This paper revisits the central ontological claim in the production of nature thesis, Neil Smith’s proposition that labour is at the heart of the mutual co-production of nature and society. Surveying Smith’s work and others, we argue that there is a danger of losing the embodied, historically and geographically specific practices that are so central to the making of natures. Turning to the work of Antonio Gramsci, we find crucial resources that enable a historicized and geographically contextualized understanding of the making of natures.

U2 - 10.1177/0309132512448831

DO - 10.1177/0309132512448831

M3 - Article

SN - 0309-1325

VL - 37

SP - 234

EP - 252

JO - Progress in Human Geography

JF - Progress in Human Geography

IS - 2

M1 - N/A

ER -