John Bellamy Foster
John Bellamy Foster | |
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Seattle, Washington | |
Education | Evergreen State College, B.A., 1975 Ph.D., 1984 |
Occupation(s) | Professor, Editor |
Employer | University of Oregon |
Known for | Marxist writings |
Title | Professor of Sociology |
Board member of | Monthly Review Foundation |
Awards | Deutscher Memorial Prize (2020)[1] |
Website | johnbellamyfoster |
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John Bellamy Foster (born August 19, 1953) is an American
Early life
Foster was active in the
In 1976, he moved to Canada and entered the political science graduate program at York University in Toronto. He submitted his 1979 paper, The United States and Monopoly Capital: The Issue of Excess Capacity, to Paul Sweezy of Monthly Review. He also was published in journals such as The Quarterly Journal of Economics and Science & Society, and, in 1986, published The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism: An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy, based on his Ph.D. dissertation.[6]
Foster was hired in 1985 as a Visiting Member of the Faculty at The Evergreen State College. One year later he took a position as assistant professor of sociology at the University of Oregon, and became a full professor of sociology in 2000. In 1989 he became a director of the Monthly Review Foundation Board and a member of the editorial committee of Monthly Review.[7]
Monthly Review
Foster published his first article for Monthly Review, "Is Monopoly Capital an Illusion?", while in graduate school in 1981. He became a director of the Monthly Review Foundation Board and a member of the Monthly Review editorial committee in 1989. Along with Robert McChesney, who had since their days at Evergreen College become a leading scholar of the political economy of the media, Foster joined Paul Sweezy and Harry Magdoff as a co-editor of Monthly Review in 2000. Two years later, he became president of the Monthly Review Foundation.
After Paul Sweezy's death in 2004, Robert McChesney's resignation as co-editor (while remaining on the board), and Harry Magdoff's death in 2006, Foster was left as sole editor of the magazine.
Work
Foster's initial research centered on Marxian political economies and theories of capitalist development, with a focus on Paul Sweezy and Paul Baran's theory of monopoly. This was reflected in Foster's early book The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism and the coedited volume (with Henryk Szlajfer), The Faltering Economy: The Problem of Accumulation under Monopoly Capitalism.[6][8]
In the late 1980s, Foster turned toward issues of ecology. He focused on the relationship between the global environmental crisis and the crisis in the capitalist economy, while stressing the imperative for a sustainable, socialist alternative. During this period he published The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment; his article "Marx's Theory of Metabolic Rift" in the
As editor of
Foster's book The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology (2020) won the Deutscher Memorial Prize for that year. In the book, 'Foster explores how socialist analysts and materialist scientists of various stamps, first in Britain, then the United States, from William Morris and Friedrich Engels to Joseph Needham, Rachel Carson, and Stephen Jay Gould, sought to develop a dialectical naturalism, rooted in a critique of capitalism.'[17]
Bibliography
- The Vulnerable Planet (1999)
- Marx's Ecology (2000)
- Ecology Against Capitalism (2002)
- The Ecological Revolution (2009)
- The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism (2014)
- Foster, J.B., B. Clark, and R. York (2010) The Ecological Rift
- Foster, J.B. and R.W. McChesney (2012) The Endless Crisis
- Foster, J.B. and P. Burkett (2016) Marx and the Earth [18]
- Trump in the White House: Tragedy and Farce (2017)[19]
- The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology (2020)
- Capitalism in the Anthropocene: Ecological Ruin or Ecological Revolution (2022)
Articles, lectures, and interviews
- 1999. Marx's theory of metabolic rift: classical foundations for environmental sociology. American Journal of Sociology 105(2):366-405. DOI: 10.1086/210315
- 2016. Marxism in the Anthropocene: dialectical rifts on the Left. International Critical Thought 6(3):393-421. DOI: 10.1080/21598282.2016.1197787
See also
References
- ^ "The Deutscher Memorial Prize". Archived from the original on 2020-12-01.
- St. James Press. June 8, 2012. Gale Document Number: GALE|K1649567701. Retrieved 2013-01-21 – via fee, Fairfax County Public Library. Gale Biography In Context(subscription required)
- Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale. February 17, 2012. Gale Document Number: GALE|H1000119139. Retrieved 2013-01-21 – via fee, Fairfax County Public Library. Gale Biography In Context. (subscription required)
- ^ The Planetary Emergency with Brett Clark, Monthly Review
- ^ University of Oregon, Department of Sociology. "Faculty Homepage". Archived from the original on 2012-04-27.
- ^ a b Foster, John Bellamy (1986). The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism. New York: Monthly Review Press.
- ISBN 978-0773449008.
- ^ Foster, John Bellamy; Szlajfer, Henryk (1984). The Faltering Economy. New York: Monthly Review Press.
- ^ Foster, John Bellamy (1999). The Vulnerable Planet. New York: Monthly Review Press.
- S2CID 53608115.
- ^ "Marxist Sociology Award Recipient History". American Sociological Association. November 5, 2010.
- ^ Foster, John Bellamy (2002). Ecology Against Capitalism. New York: Monthly Review Press.
- ^ Foster, John Bellamy (2006). Naked Imperialism. New York: Monthly Review Press.
- ^ Foster, John Bellamy; Magdoff, Fred (2009). The Great Financial Crisis. New York: Monthly Review Press.
- ^ Foster, John Bellamy; McChesney, Robert (2012). The Endless Crisis. New York: Monthly Review Press.
- ^ Foster, John Bellamy; Clark, Brett; York, Richard (2008). Critique of Intelligent Design. New York: Monthly Review Press.
- ^ Foster, John Bellamy (20 May 2020). "Monthly Review | The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology". Monthly Review. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
- ISBN 9789004288799– via brill.com.
- ^ McChesney, Robert W. (11 October 2017). "Trump in the White House: Tragedy and Farce". Monthly Review.
External links
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Official US Policy: We Can ‘Win’ a Nuclear War on YouTube |
Further reading
- Krakow, Morgan (April 17, 2017). "Blacklisted: The Fight For Freedom of Expression on Campus". Ethos Magazine. 9 (2): 22–25. Archived from the original on August 1, 2017. Retrieved April 22, 2017.