From GIMENEZ_M@gold.colorado.edu Mon Jan 17 21:10:21 1994 Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 21:11:29 -0600 (MDT) From: "Martha E. Gimenez (303) 492-7080" Subject: Martha E. Gimenez. Name: Martha E. Gimenez Work: Department of Sociology University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, Colorado 80309 Phone: 303-492-7080 Fax: 303-492-5105 I have been at this university since 1973. Theory is my major area of intellectual concern. Within this broad area, I specialize in marxist theory, feminist theory, and selected aspects of population theory. In my work, I have sought to expand the theoretical and methodological contributions of Marxism into the theoretical investigation of gender inequality, domestic labor, the effects of the new reproductive technologies, U.S. racial/ethnic politics, and the determinants of population structures and process within capitalism. My current work is about the connections between class and identity politics, issues of multiculturalism and the use of culture, gender, age, race and ethnicity as metaphors or code words for class. From shiner@andromeda.tamu.edu Tue Jan 18 06:56:33 1994 From: shiner@andromeda.tamu.edu (War is the domain of the small penis) Subject: Derek Kalahar. Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 07:56:26 -0600 (CST) My name is Derek Kalahar, I'm a first year grad student at texas a&m (notorious progressive university that it is). I am interested in technology political sociology, complex organizations and marxist sociology. I've never really posted before so let me say now that I find the discourse here entertaining and stimulating. -- **************************************************************************** Derek Kalahar | Texas A&M Department of Sociology Shiner@andromeda.tamu.edu | -but all these opinions are mine!! **************************************************************************** From @JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU:CHRISCD@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU Tue Jan 18 08:23:50 1994 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 94 10:14:13 EST From: chris chase-dunn Subject: Chris Chase-Dunn. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel. 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu I study the modern world-system in order to figure out how to build a global socialist society. I also study earlier smaller world-systems in order to understand how modes of production become transformed. Recent books are _Global Formation_ (Blackwell, 1989) and _Core/Periphery Relations in Precapitalist Worlds_ [with Tom Hall](Westview, 1991). I am very interested in possible future hegemonic rivalry among core powers and the rise of the world state. From @QUCDN.QUEENSU.CA:PURDYR@QUCDN.QUEENSU.CA Tue Jan 18 08:52:58 1994 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 94 10:38:27 EST From: Sean Purdy Subject: Sean Purdy. Name: Sean Purdy School/Work: PhD student/Instructor, Department of History, Queen's University Kingston Ontario Canada Phone: (h) 613-531-8954 (w) 545-2150 Fax: 613-545-6298 My academic work centres on the history of the welfare state with special reference to housing. I've published several articles on the political economy of housing in Canada and on theories of urban political economy. The PhDthesis I'm working on is a social history of Regent Park in Toronto, Canada's oldest and largest public housing venture. My research involves the oral testimony of tenants and project officials. A colleague, Adam Givertz, and I are also currently working on a study of "The Past on Prime Time: Canadian Historians and Television News" which looks at what passes for the past on public affairs television. We've undertaken a lengthy survey of every historian who studies Canada and plowed through many hours of television archives. As a revolutionary socialist (member of the International Socialists) I'm particularly interested in any aspect of Marxist theory and politics, the history of the socialist movement and current progressive politics. I'm also Associate Editor of left history, an interdisciplinary refereed journal of historical inquiry and debate. From RROSS@vax.clarku.edu Tue Jan 18 09:05:20 1994 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 11:04 EST From: "ROBERT J.S. (BOB) ROSS, CHAIR OF SOCIOLOGY" Subject: Robert J.S. (Bob) Ross. NAME: Robert J.S. (Bob) Ross Work: Prof. of Sociology Department of Sociology Clark University 950 Main St. Worcester, MA 01610 Phone: 508 793 7376, 7243 FAX: 508 793 8816 At Clark since 1973, my teaching has been diverse but focussed on urban and political sociology. My work for the last ten years has focussed on changing structural variants of capitalism, especially the power implications of the internationalization of production. This was embodied in Ross and Trachte (1990) Global Cpaitalism, and a variety of articles including some on Massachusetts. During the eighties I extended my practice as an organizer to that of policy adviser and speech writer, and most recently had a cable TV talk show. Planning sabbatical for 94- 95, I'd be interested in invitations from colleagues to speak or visit. I hope to do some writing on the implications of socialist collapse, on current conceptions of capitalism, on urban fiscal stress, and environmental strategy. But the priority is finding an agent for my unpublished novels. From R0553@VMCMS.CSUOHIO.EDU Tue Jan 18 10:11:07 1994 From: R0553@VMCMS.CSUOHIO.EDU Date: Tue, 18 Jan 94 12:03:28 EST Subject: Peter Meiksins. Peter Meiksins Department of Sociology Associate Professor Cleveland State University Cleveland, OH 44115 Phone: 216-687-4518 Fax: 216-687-9314 I've been teaching at Cleveland State since 1991; before that I taught at SUNY-Geneseo for 10 years. My research has been mostly on class and the workplace. I have a long-standing interest in the rise and significance of the new middle class in capitalist societies. More recently, I've been focusing on technical workers, especially engineers; I'm interested in their ideologies as well as in their role in the workplace. At the moment, I'm starting up a project with Peter Whalley at Loyola of Chicago on flexible and contingent work among technical workers. We're going to look at the dynamics of the labor market for such employees, as well as the consequences of contingency for both domestic and career issues. From THALL@DEPAUW.EDU Tue Jan 18 11:52:32 1994 Date: 18 Jan 1994 13:55:22 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Hall Subject: Thomas D. Hall. Professor Thomas D. Hall Department of Sociology & Anthropology DePauw University Greencastle, IN 46135-0037 TEL: 317-658-4519 FAX: 317-658-4177 (due local arrangements SLOWER than snail mail!) internet: thall@depauw.edu I was University of Oklahoma for 6 yrs, here at DePauw for 5, in the early 70s I taught at Navajo Community College--the first Native American run college in the US (there are now over 25 tribal colleges). My interests include American Indians, especially in the American Southwest, ethnicity, and world- systems. All three come together in the study of frontiers and the relations between state and nonstate societies. Books are _Social Change in the Southwest, 1350-1880 (Kansas, 1989), _Core/Periphery Relations in Precapitalist Worlds_ [with Chris Chase-Dunn] (Westview, 1991), we are currently completing _Rise & Demise: Comparing World-Systems_ (Westview). My strongest activist interst is preservation of Native Peoples. I study the past to understand the present and improve the future: a fool's errand, but lots of fun. From VALERIE@maine.maine.edu Tue Jan 18 12:50:42 1994 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 13:09:43 -0500 (EST) From: VALERIE%MAINE.BITNET@vaxf.Colorado.EDU (Valerie J. Carter) Subject: Valerie J. Carter. Name: Valerie J. Carter Institution: Department of Sociology 5728 Fernald Hall University of Maine Orono ME 04469-5728 Telephone: (207) 581-2395 EMail: Bitnet: VALERIE @ Maine Internet: VALERIE @ Maine.Maine.edu I have been an assistant professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Maine since 1986. My primary interests are in the areas of women and work, workplace and labor issues, race and ethnicity, social class analysis, socialist and feminist theory, and gender. My published work has focused on the effects of office automation on clerical workers. Currently I am very interested in studying displaced workers (especially women workers), social change in the workplace and the economy (e.g., workplace democracy), and the social construction of race/ethnicity. I also have interests in occupational health and safety, and in the sociology of disabilities. As the parent of a child with autism and other neurological disabilities, I have learned a lot about the educational/medical systems, societal stigma attached to people with disabilities, the lack of support for families, children and parents, and the social construction of "normality." My decision to place my son in a nearby small group home has forced me to analyze and theorize about mothering and parenting. Finally, it has also been very enlightening to learn how the reward systems of universities are still very much based on patriarchal models and unstated assumptions regarding how faculty set their priorities and use their time and energy. From @WVNVM.WVNET.EDU:DCURRY@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU Tue Jan 18 14:49:14 1994 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 15:59:27 -0500 (EST) From: "Curry, Glen" Subject: G. David Curry. Name: G. David Curry Work: Department of Sociology & Anthropology West Virginia University Box 6326 Morgantown, West Virginia 26506 Phone: 304-293-3569 Fax: 304-293-3619 I have been here since 1989 and will be moving to the University of Missouri - St. Louis next fall. My areas of specialization are sociology of violence and quantitative methodology. I was active in Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and still serve on the national office staff for VVAW and am a member of Vietnam Veterans of America. I served as the statistical expert for several major southern voting rights and race discrimination cases. I am currently working on a book on quantitative applications in the social sciences for the General Hall Series, and have several large grants to study the U.S. reaction to gang related crime and what kinds of programs can really reduce crime in U.S. communities. From jlgulick@cats.ucsc.edu Tue Jan 18 15:14:42 1994 From: jlgulick@cats.ucsc.edu Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 14:14:35 -0800 Subject: John L. Gulick. Name: John L. Gulick Sociology Graduate Program Stevenson College U. Cal. - Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Phone: (408) 438-6803 Telnet: jlgulick@cats.ucsc.edu I am a third-year graduate student at UCSC polishing up my Master's Thesis intending to take a short break to do research/policy work and activism. My Master's Thesis is a critical reconstruction on much of the recent writing on the "disappearance of public space" -- I situate the phenomenon in relation to globalization of all three circuits of capital, and especially investigate the dynamic between global city formation/gentrification in the North, and export-oriented production/ land dispossession in the South. My first academic passion I call "eco- Marxist sociology of the built environment" -- how the social relations of capitalism govern the production of the built environment, how the built environment as "fixed capital" mediates stages of capitalist development, and how crisis fits into this dialectical process. I am also interested in stages of capitalist development, household forms, and personality formation (with an emphasis on late capitalism and narcissism), and also in epistemology and the social sciences. I sit on the Santa Cruz editorial board of the red-green journal _Capitalism, Nature, Socialism_; I am a research associate in the "technology, regions, and innovation" cluster of the Center for the Study of Global Transformations; and I am the Graduate Student Employees Association delegate to the local Central Labor Council. In the future I would like to do research on globalization, the material power of producers of the built environment to mess with the circuits of capital, and possibilities for international labor organizing. From scamp@access.digex.net Tue Jan 18 17:52:48 1994 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 19:40:42 -0500 (EST) From: Camp Subject: Scott D. Camp. Name: Scott D. Camp Address: Office of Research and Evaluation Federal Bureau of Prisons NALC Building, Room 202 320 First Street NW Washington, DC 20534 Phone: (202)724-3118 I am a social science research analyst working for the federal government (US). I am interested in organizational theory, stratification, and similar types of issues. I am particularly interested in labor unions and the experiences of unions and labor in general in responding to the changing economy. I try to integrate aspects of resource mobilization theory (ala Tilly) in trying to understand the responses of workers to economic change. I am also increasingly interested in gender issues pertaining to work (paid and unpaid). I worked for a couple of years as a volunteer organizer in an attempt (unsuccessful) to organize office workers at Penn State. From ss45@cornell.edu Wed Jan 19 07:49:55 1994 Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 09:56:50 -0600 From: ss45@cornell.edu (Saumitra SenGupta) Subject: Saumitra SenGupta. Name: Saumitra SenGupta Work: Department of Human Service Studies N132 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 Phone: (607) 256 1715 Fax: (607) 255 4071 Bitnet: DIWX@CORNELLA Internet: ss45@Cornell.edu I am Ph.D. candidate hoping to graduate this Spring. My area of interest is research methodology within the context of program evaluation. I am particularly interested in looking at program effectiveness at an individual level using a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods. The way I like to express it is "Quantitative method with qualitative thinking". I am also interested at a broader level in current debates among the different schools of thought on ontology and epistemology. From twright@orion.it.luc.edu Wed Jan 19 10:43:16 1994 From: twright@orion.it.luc.edu (Talmadge Wright) Subject: Talmadge Wright. Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 11:40:32 -0600 (CST) NAME: Talmadge Wright WORK: Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology Loyola University Chicago 6525 N. Sheridan Rd. Chicago, Illinois 60626 PHONE: (312)508-3451 FAX: (312)508-3646 This is my third year at Loyola as Assistant Professor. My research in recent years has centered around the issue of collective empowerment (as opposed to individual empowerment) of homeless street populations. I have worked in Orange County, California developing a group called the Homeless Action Project, which was replicated with the addition of students, homeless and community activists in alliance in San Jose, California. That group called the Student-Homeless Alliance was active in contesting the City of San Jose's redevelopment policies. I have written these experiences up and am now concluding research on a set of Chicago encampments called "Tranquility City." My main areas of research at this time are: social movements, homelessness, theories of social space, and redevelopment. I also teach in the area of mass media and popular culture and have done extensive past research on what I call Marketing Culture. This material will resurface in the future. My future goals are to integrate the insights gathered on Marketing Culture and pleasure space with the desolation of marginalized spaces and actively resisting homeless populations. From rspear@sookit.Jpl.Nasa.Gov Wed Jan 19 15:09:05 1994 Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 14:00:10 -0800 (PST) From: Richard Spear Subject: Richard Spear. i am an engineering supervisor at jet propulsion laboratory, a caltech managed nasa facility in pasadena, california. i guess i'm in the minority on psn, not being an academic. i have a ba in sociology from california state university, northridge and am finishing an ma in anthropology from the same institution. i will also be taking an ma in sociology, beginning next year. i am interested in organizational theory and in the effects of "new" management practices (total quality) upon the workforce. marxist analysis helps to understand the thrust, direction and possible outcomes of these new policies. richard rspear@sookit.jpl.nasa.gov all disclaimers apply From @UKCC.UKY.EDU:JHANN00@UKCC.UKY.EDU Wed Jan 19 17:37:31 1994 Date: Wed, 19 Jan 94 16:06:41 EST From: John Hannum Subject: John B. Hannum. John B. Hannum Academic Affiliation: Rural Sociology Department College of Agriculture University of Kentucky Mailing Address: Director of Graduate Studies English Department 1215 Patterson Office Tower Lexington, KY 40506-0027 TEL: 606-257-7006 FAX: 606-323-1072 After graduating from the University of Georgia with a BA in journalism, served for three years as a journalist at the Tehran Journal in Tehran, Iran. Developed an interest in *development*, so joined Peace Corps, served three years in Chad ('76-'79), then joined USAID as a contractor, serving in Sudan until 1985, when I went to the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague and got an MA in Development Studies, with a concentration in Agricultural Policy. Came to Kentucky in 1987 to work with Milt Coughenour, Larry Busch and Bill Lacy. My research interest at that time was on the social implications of Plant Breeder's Rights, later enlarging into bio-technology. Working with Larry Burmeister, I developed an interest in the "state" and agricultural policy. My major field of interest is currently the adoption/ diffusion of the "American Complex" of crops into central Africa in the mid 18th century and its implications for standard adoption/diffusion models -- in fact this is my dissertation topic. I spent part of 1988 in Sudan doing research on agricultural administration (not surprising, I used to work there at the Agricultural Research Corporation), and 90-91 in Zaire, until we were ordered to leave. I've done some relatively interesting (to me) work here in Kentucky on alternative crops to tobacco (there aren't any) and nationally for the Soil Conservation Service on social obstacles to implementation of the 1985 and 1990 Farm Bills. I suppose I'm a classical sort of rural sociologist, in the pattern of Bonnanno, Mooney, Gary Green, Lou Swanson, etc: I take a class based analysis as my departure point for explaining change in rural areas and in rural policy. I'm also interested in farming systems and their integration into the world system, as well as the organizational ecology of technological change. I've always worked on "soft money", so when we ran out I took an administrative position in the English Department. Hope to complete my Post Hole Digger in December. I'm a member of the Rural History Association and was one of the first members of the "Critical Theory Group" of the Rural Sociological Society. Also listowner of the Rural Sociology Net, RURSOC-L@UKCC.UKY.EDU From kosmas@gl.umbc.edu Wed Jan 19 19:18:40 1994 From: "Mr. Kosmas Pentakalos" Subject: Kosmas I. Pentakalos. Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 21:18:34 -0500 (EST) NAME: Kosmas Ioannis Pentakalos Work: Quantitative Research Consultant M.A. Candidate Dept. of Applied Sociology University of Maryland Graduate School at Baltimore 5201 Wilkens Ave. Baltimore, Md 21228 Phone: 410-788-6703 E-Mail: KOSMAS@UMBC.BITNET kosmas@umbc.edu kosmas@superhighway.com I have lost most of my interest for sociology and my faith in sociologists. I am simply trying to make money and draw power out of the field so I can accomplish what I desire. My only true interests, that may be of importance to the field of sociology, are drawn through a struggle for global social change. Not for the improvement of humanity, but for me to enjoy a better material and social environmnet. Therefore, I expect this improvement to be rather radical, so I may have a chance, within my lifespan, to see this change and accept it, partially, as my own success. Of course this radical change may take place easily through substantial funding of my project. If anyone would possibly like to assist in this process, my account number is: First National Bank of Maryland: # 171-0700-7-5 God bless you all! Peace! ............b.a.m.n........ From PAINTER%BINGVAXA.BITNET@vaxf.Colorado.EDU Thu Jan 20 08:30:22 1994 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 10:30 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Painter Subject: Michael Painter. Senior Research Associate and Program Director Institute for Development Anthropology, and Adjunct Associate Research Professor SUNY-Binghamton Institute for Development Anthropology 99 Collier Street, P.O. Box 2207 Binghamton, NY 13902-2207 Tel. 607-772-6244; FAX 607-773-8993; EMAIL painter@bingvaxa.bitnet My general interests are in the areas of political economy and agrarian change, and the use of history in anthropological theory. I have extensive research experience on food and agriculture and land degradation in Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador. Recent work includes a volume co-edited with William H. Durham entitled THE SOCIAL CAUSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION IN LATIN AMERICA. My current research focuses on rural production relations and patterns of capital accumulation in Bolivia, the relation- ships among class, ethnicity and gender in rural social movements, and social conflicts associated with the establishment and maintenance of protected areas in Latin America. Regards, Michael Painter From GSUSSMAN%EMERSON.BITNET@vaxf.Colorado.EDU Thu Jan 20 17:09:48 1994 From: GSUSSMAN%EMERSON.BITNET@vaxf.Colorado.EDU Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 19:02 -0500 (EST) Subject: Gerry Sussman. Social Sciences Emerson College 100 Beacon St. Boston, MA 02116 617-578-8769/8755 for messages Fax: 6175788509 Email: gsussman@emerson.bitnet I am an associate prof. at Emerson College in the Social Sciences Division. My main teaching and research interests are in political economy and the political economy of communication technology and infrastructure. My first book was Transnational Communications: Wiring the Third World (with John Lent) and is a series of chapters using case studies of the impact of communication technology in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America. Book is by Sage (1991). Currently working on Communication, Technology & Politics, a textbook on the social history of electronic communications, a critique of technological determinism, issues in the "Information Society" and the new int'l div. of labor. Another book on case studies on the Int'l Div. of Labor in int'l communications. Looking for contributors here. Especially on S. Korea, Japan, India and Mexico. From KARP@vms.cis.pitt.edu Fri Jan 21 07:14:09 1994 From: KARP@vms.cis.pitt.edu Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 09:13 EST Subject: Mike-Frank G. Epitropoulos. Department of Sociology University of Pittsburgh FQ 2J21 Pittsburgh, PA 15210 Tel. 412.481.40.36 Fax. 412.648.27.99 email karp@vms.cis.pitt.edu email2: mfest@vms.cis.pitt.edu As a believer in A social science or A political economy, I endorse a multidisciplinary approach (whatever combination(s) they may be) to the study of society and social phenomena. My background includes an "honors" degree in (ba) in economics, and an MPIA (Master's of Public and International Affairs) specializing in international economic policy. It was out of the frustrations brought on by the many and constricting "assumptions" and "ceteris peribus" of neo- classical economic training, and the very (VERY) narrow range of "allowable" ideas that led me to sociology. In particular, my interests are ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY -- which to me necessarily implies Stratification, Marxist Class Analysis, and the Sociology of Development; SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, and some CULTURAL sociology. Development; SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, and some CULTURAL sociology. I do not like what I see in the "professionalization" of young sociologists (i.e. the "hoops and politics"), but realize that this is the "reality" we have to face. I would like to see progressive forces shake the contemporary stigma, and take the "mainstream" head on ON THEIR OWN TURF...We CAN do this. Our problems are many, and access to people outside of the academy is a big one, for it is "Joe Six-Pack and Sally Sorority" that make up a lot of "society". Finally, I hope to be able to contribute to making the world a better place to live (idealism?) and for now my "sphere" is the classroom, and my "society" (audience) are my students>... From r.palat@auclkand.ac.nz Sun Apr 10 15:51:41 1994 Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 15:50:12 +22305931 (MDT) From: r.palat@auclkand.ac.nz Subject: Ravi Arvind Palat. Ravi Arvind Palat Department of Sociology University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 Auckland NEW ZEALAND Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 5313 FAX: +64-9-373-7439 E-Mail: R.Palat@auclkand.ac.nz Currently Lecturer in Sociology (from July 1993:' Previously, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies, Univ. of Hawaii (1989-93); Research interests: world-systems analysis, sociology of colonialism, historical sociology; editor, Pacific-Asia and the Future of the World-System (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993). Current projects: excavating the future of area studies in a post-American world, myth of an impending Pacific century, rethinking 18th century Indian history From PSY_TS@vax1.utulsa.edu Sun Apr 10 15:57:56 1994 Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 15:56:20 +22305931 (MDT) From: PSY_TS@vax1.utulsa.edu Subject: Tod Sloan. Name: Tod Sloan Work: Dept of Psychology, University of Tulsa Phone: 918-631-2748 E-Mail: PSY_TS@vax1.utulsa.edu I trained as a personality psychologist at Michigan and have been a professor here since 1982. I have worked on ideological aspects of personal decisions, roles for critical psychology in the Third World (Latin America, in particular), and issues in life history research. I'm just finishing up a book that tries to fill in some gaps in Habermas's thesis on the colonization of the lifeworld, esp. the question of how it is that the intrusion of cognitive-instrumental rationality into lifeworld reproduction processes could produce psychopathology such as narcissism and depression. From clyder!wpc@gn.apc.org Sun Apr 10 16:01:34 1994 Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 16:00:09 +22305931 (MDT) From: clyder!wpc@gn.apc.org Subject: Paul Cockshott. Paul Cockshott, born 1952 in Edinburgh Scotland. Trained in Economics at Manchester University, but got a bad degree due to concentration of political activities. Worked as school teacher until fired for union activities. Retrained in computer science, worked for ICL in their main Manchester factory later specialising in the design of database computers. Now a lecturer in computer science at Strathclyde University. Politically active since school, in various ultra left groups, more recently in the Workers Party of Scotland. In late 80s played initiating role in the establishment of the Anti Poll Tax Union in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Main theoretical interests: The economics of socialism The nature of democracy The social structure of the Greco-Roman world Computer Architecture Data compression The relationship between physics and information Application of information technology to socialist planning -------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Cockshott , WPS, PO Box 1125, Glasgow, G44 5UF Phone: 041 637 2927 wpc@clyder.gn.apc.org wpc@cs.strath.ac.uk clyder!wpc@gn.apc.org (FOR PSN) From JFOSTER@oregon.uoregon.edu Mon May 9 16:45:48 1994 Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 16:45:43 -0600 (MDT) From: John Foster Subject: John Foster. Dear PSNers, Some time ago a request was made for personal introductions of participants on the list. I have been on the net for a while but have not sent a message before. My passion at present is environmental sociology/environmental political economy. I have just published a book with Monthly Review Press entitled The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment. It is 160 pages long and includes the following chapters: 1. The Ecological Crisis. 2. Ecological Conditions Before the Industrial Revolution. 3. The Environment at the Time of the Industrial Revolution. 4. Expansion and Conservation. 5. The Vulnerable Planet. 6. The Socialzation of Nature. I am a member of the editorial board of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism and a member of the Monthly Review Foundation Board. I belong to both the Marxist Sociolgical Theory and Environment and Technology sections of the ASA. Much of my work is still in political economy and Marxist theory. I would like to know if there are any people in PSN who are particularly interested in the environment as a central new area for sociological theory. I would like nothing more than to see people take up this issue and its centrality for progressive sociology of all types. If there is no response I will recede once more into the background. In Solidarity, John Bellamy Foster, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon JFOSTER@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU