Power, Profit, and Prometheanism, Part I

Method, Ideology, and the Violence of the Civilizing Project

Authors

  • Jason W. Moore Binghamton University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2022.1140

Author Biography

Jason W. Moore, Binghamton University

Jason W. Moore is a historical geographer and environmental historian at Binghamton University, USA, where he is professor of sociology. He is author or editor of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso 2015), Anthropocene or Capitalocene? (PM Press 2016), and with Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (University of California Press 2017). He is co-coordinator of the World-Ecology Research Network. Many of essays, in English and nearly two dozen other languages, can be found on his website, https://jasonwmoore.com/. He can be reached at jwmoore@binghamton.edu.

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Published

2022-08-25

How to Cite

Moore, J. W. (2022). Power, Profit, and Prometheanism, Part I: Method, Ideology, and the Violence of the Civilizing Project. Journal of World-Systems Research, 28(2), 415–426. https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2022.1140