Jason W. Moore

Professor at the Department of Sociology, Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, Binghamton University; Coordinator of the World-Ecology Research Network

Date: 14:00-16:00, Friday, 17 May 2019

Born in January, 1971. As a distinguished environmental historian and historical geographer, Moore obtained his master degree in history from University of California, Santa Cruz (1997) and Ph.D. degree in geography from University of California, Berkeley (2007). Before 2012, he successively worked in the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2006-2008), Lund University (2008-2010), Umeå University (2010-2012). Now, he is a professor of sociology at Binghamton University. Meanwhile, he is adjunct faculty at York University in Toronto (2016-2019). Moore’s teaching and research fields cover political ecology, agro-food studies, historical geography, social and spatial theory, environmental history, environmental humanities, political economy, world history, neoliberalism. His recent works include Capitalism in the Web of Life (2015), Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism (2016), and, with Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (2017). His books and essays on environmental history, capitalism, and social theory have been widely recognized, including the Alice Hamilton Prize of the American Society for Environmental History (2003), the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Section on the Political Economy of the World-System (American Sociological Association, 2002 for articles, and 2015 for Web of Life), and the Byres and Bernstein Prize in Agrarian Change (2011). He coordinates the World-Ecology Research Network.